I would hope that Apple is rolling up the recent work on Xquartz so that X11 actually works. The Xquartz devs echo this hope, but don't seem to know anything.
You could probably make an Objective-C to C translator, sure, but the language is not the problem as the compiler is free. Mac OS X has tons of proprietary API to re-implement as well.
And Free Software compliant hardware equals best possible experience - since it will all then work out of the box, with bugs fixed and improvements steadily coming, because you don't need to depend on some third party for everything.
Oh, the Free Software community doesn't count as a third party?
The saddest thing I ever did see Was a woodpocker peckin' on a plastic tree. I looked at him, he looked at me, and said, "Things ain't as sweet as they used to be."
Erm, perhaps I'm being a little stupid here but in each room, or carried upon your person, you will presumably need some kind of appliance (web client?) that can access the central server over wireless so you can select tracks, turn it on and off, etc.? That still entails having an appliance to do that.
Well, for this purpose Sonos sells a wireless control panel. In this case, instead of expensive satellite computers, you could have longer speaker cables to different areas.
And I hate to say this but unless you live in a particularly big (or sound-proofed) house, playing music simultaneously in more than one room is a bit pointless due to overhearing.
I don't think so. If I'm upstairs and listening to music, I certainly can't hear my wife listening to the stereo downstairs.
And doesn't this therefore negate the need for an iPod which is designed to be carried around with you in whichever room, or other place, you go to?
Maybe it does, but why would this be a problem for the manufacturer. They're not worried about cannibalizing the Pod market because they don't make them. Besides, who listens to headphones in the house? Granted, you could buy multiple iPod speaker units, I suppose. In any case, this unit wouldn't do shit for the car, or the office, or the train, or the bus, or the walk, or the gym, etc. etc.
it's difficult to come up with another word for an RSS feed of audio files.
No it's not! "audioblog"! Although that incorporates another word that everyone hates. And a podcast may or may not be related to an actual weblog. Well, crap.
On the other hand, the fact that DRM makes something like this necessary is truly infuriating.
It's convenient because you can buy one computer and one sound card and have music in three rooms, instead of buying multiple computers or really expensive Sonos appliances.
Yes, but that doesn't match the hype, which got to the level of "we're looking at a whole new social movement here and someday podcasting will be as ubuquitous as LiveJournal and Myspace".
Well, if they believe people are infringing on their patents now they need to sue now, otherwise later when they decide it's worth suing for, they might get reminded that if they didn't defend their position early on, it's all over.
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Besides, does anyone really enjoy swapping discs in and out in order to play varying tunes?
People like the Singstar series just fine.
There's always good music. Some years you just need to dig a little deeper than radio.
while you're quoting wikipedia-isms.
Yes, but this way you can do those mashups that the kids like these days.
You could theoretically embed this in a web page where one would use maps now.
I fixed Spaces by not enabling it :)
I would hope that Apple is rolling up the recent work on Xquartz so that X11 actually works. The Xquartz devs echo this hope, but don't seem to know anything.
Yeah, it's funny that a community composed of millions has people who have opposite viewpoints.
Agreed, there are people who will take ANYTHING on freecycle
Hein? Last.fm is not primarily a music streaming site though.
sorry everybody!
You could probably make an Objective-C to C translator, sure, but the language is not the problem as the compiler is free. Mac OS X has tons of proprietary API to re-implement as well.
And Free Software compliant hardware equals best possible experience - since it will all then work out of the box, with bugs fixed and improvements steadily coming, because you don't need to depend on some third party for everything.
Oh, the Free Software community doesn't count as a third party?
I don't think a user with an IQ of pi would have such an easy time.
They will use Markov chains which may end up sounding more intelligent than many forum denizens. Fark, Free Republic, LGF, etc. won't even notice.
It's worked in Mac OS for a pretty long time.
No no no, that's Bruce Schneier!
The saddest thing I ever did see
Was a woodpocker peckin' on a plastic tree.
I looked at him, he looked at me,
and said, "Things ain't as sweet as they used to be."
-Shel Silverstein
Erm, perhaps I'm being a little stupid here but in each room, or carried upon your person, you will presumably need some kind of appliance (web client?) that can access the central server over wireless so you can select tracks, turn it on and off, etc.? That still entails having an appliance to do that.
Well, for this purpose Sonos sells a wireless control panel. In this case, instead of expensive satellite computers, you could have longer speaker cables to different areas.
And I hate to say this but unless you live in a particularly big (or sound-proofed) house, playing music simultaneously in more than one room is a bit pointless due to overhearing.
I don't think so. If I'm upstairs and listening to music, I certainly can't hear my wife listening to the stereo downstairs.
And doesn't this therefore negate the need for an iPod which is designed to be carried around with you in whichever room, or other place, you go to?
Maybe it does, but why would this be a problem for the manufacturer. They're not worried about cannibalizing the Pod market because they don't make them. Besides, who listens to headphones in the house? Granted, you could buy multiple iPod speaker units, I suppose. In any case, this unit wouldn't do shit for the car, or the office, or the train, or the bus, or the walk, or the gym, etc. etc.
it's difficult to come up with another word for an RSS feed of audio files.
No it's not! "audioblog"! Although that incorporates another word that everyone hates. And a podcast may or may not be related to an actual weblog. Well, crap.
You misunderstand. "Collateral damage" means they want to kill your whole family too.
On the other hand, the fact that DRM makes something like this necessary is truly infuriating.
It's convenient because you can buy one computer and one sound card and have music in three rooms, instead of buying multiple computers or really expensive Sonos appliances.
Yes, but that doesn't match the hype, which got to the level of "we're looking at a whole new social movement here and someday podcasting will be as ubuquitous as LiveJournal and Myspace".
I think Dodgeball already tried to integrate with Upcoming.
Well, if they believe people are infringing on their patents now they need to sue now, otherwise later when they decide it's worth suing for, they might get reminded that if they didn't defend their position early on, it's all over.
Eh? You're thinking of trademarks.
you get to choose exactly one candidate for each job
Not necessarily true. City and town council elections can be handled so that you can vote for n out of n+m candidates, for example.