I'm taking a guess here in that it's also entirely possible (and likely) in certain departments at Citi that plain text emails are being sent around the office with account numbers, unencrypted PINs, etc. It's even possible there are Excel sheets full of these sitting across shared folders on Windows.
I'm 28 and I grew up playing the Intellivision II before the NES came out. No gray hairs naturally yet, but watching what MTV has become today gives me a few.
My parents were (are?) more hip than I was. Getting that shiny gold cartridge for Christmas was the first I ever seen or heard of Zelda, and it was like getting a Wonka golden ticket.
I remember taping pieces of notebook paper together and drawing the overhead map across several sheets with my colored map pencils. I also remember my parents using it to beat the game. It was like the only video game they played besides all the games for the Atari 2600 my grandparents had.
Companies have started to realize they can "lock in" customers by vertically integrating hardware and software (and DRM). In the past, this didn't work because there was always an alternative that you could switch to.
Microsoft Word Processor. Microsoft Spreadsheet. Microsoft Small Office Database. Microsoft Email Reader. Microsoft Presentation.
That last one is funny to me because "PowerPoint" has almost become vernacular for giving a presentation at the office. "Hey Bob, how did your PowerPoint presentation go yesterday?" "Fine Steve, except someone kept coughing and laughing during my PowerPoint."
When I went from cassette tapes to CDs back around 1992 or so, I repurchased a few of those albums I had on cassette so I could listen to them in my CD player. I also have my parents' collection of vinyl records from the 1970s. However, if and when I want to dust off my dad's old Doobie Brothers and Chicago albums, I don't warm up the turntable, I dig up the tracks on iTunes.
Amazon already has relationships with the music industry and they are "established" enough to be a credible (in the eyes of the industry) alternative. Remember, Jobs and the music industry don't exactly see eye-2-eye on issues like pricing. I bet the music industry execs are chomping at the bit to play with someone who will bow more to their desires in order to establish a foothold.
This I can't wait to see. Amazon is already going to be playing catch up competing against iTunes as it is, they're really going to have a tough time if they want to charge more than $.99 a track.
We built ENIAC in a room that was 30 feet by 50 feet, at the Moore School in West Philadelphia on the first floor.
And on the second floor, we have a room 10 feet by 15 feet where we built the ENIAC Mini, which of course since it doesn't have a teletype, punch card reader or mouse, is more affordable.
Smart Shuffle might have something to do with it
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In the current Windows version of iTunes (6.0.2.23), in Preferences there is a tab for Playback. And in there is a section for Smart Shuffle.
The first control is a 3-setting slider for "more likely, random, less likely". The description below says "Smart shuffle allows you to control how likely you are to hear multiple songs in a row by the same artist or from the same album."
Below that are three radio boxes, labled Shuffle: ( ) Songs ( ) Albums ( ) Groupings.
Is it possible that this 100 scale rating system might be more fine grained to take these Smart Shuffle user settings into account? Perhaps that might be why it isn't simply the integers 0-5./didnt rtfa
itunes is itself slow, installs a bunch of helper apps on my Windows computers that aren't very helpful since I don't have an ipod
You must be speaking of the single "helper app", namely iTunesHelper.exe, which is little more than an iTunes bootstrap, much like the one Microsoft Office has/had. If iTunes is slow for you, perhaps your computer doesn't meet the minimum requirements for iTunes.
, and it uses a bunch of non-native UI elements that don't behave quite the same way as the Windows equivalents.
That's because, being OS X UI elements, they work better.
The all-important library feature that seems to be the main cause for sucking at the itunes-cock doesn't appear useful to me. I don't know why.
Well that is definitely a fair and convincing argument.
Maybe because I use a sensible system for identifying my music files using the filesystem?
Is that system you use an improvement on the Artist/Album/Trackname system that iTunes uses?
Or maybe because classical music doesn't lend itself as well to what I see as the overly simplistic and under-customizable identifiers itunes has?
I have a few classical tracks in my library. What identifiers are too simplistic or missing to properly categorize this music?
Regardless, the itunes library didn't do anything I couldn't do five other ways, without using itunes, and the Songbird version is no different.
I'm curious to know what method you use to duplicate the iTunes Library's Smart Playlist feature.
itunes can rip music, something I've done with cdex for a while. itunes isn't as good at it as cdex, which lets me choose my codec and even my file naming scheme. It can make my organization for me, if I let it.
Are you sure you've ever looked closely in the Preferences settings for iTunes? It doesn't sound like you have.
itunes can play music, too? Meh. So can XMMS. So can WinAmp, Foobar, VLC or, hell, PowerDVD. I have m3u playlists. They work fine.
M3U playlists? Are you serious? Do you still use ICQ too?
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I'm taking a guess here in that it's also entirely possible (and likely) in certain departments at Citi that plain text emails are being sent around the office with account numbers, unencrypted PINs, etc. It's even possible there are Excel sheets full of these sitting across shared folders on Windows.
Yikes.
Well, I bought one the week it came out and it made my life better. :P
I must be out of the loop... when was nVidia toppled by ATI?
I'm 28 and I grew up playing the Intellivision II before the NES came out. No gray hairs naturally yet, but watching what MTV has become today gives me a few.
Has been, and still is (I just checked), wholly dependent on ActiveX and IE.
Try to listen to any Launchcast station on music.yahoo.com in Firefox and you get this:
Error
Sorry, we do not support Netscape on the Windows platform.
Error Code 25 - 0
My parents were (are?) more hip than I was. Getting that shiny gold cartridge for Christmas was the first I ever seen or heard of Zelda, and it was like getting a Wonka golden ticket.
I remember taping pieces of notebook paper together and drawing the overhead map across several sheets with my colored map pencils. I also remember my parents using it to beat the game. It was like the only video game they played besides all the games for the Atari 2600 my grandparents had.
The controller alone is enough to make me ditch my PS2 for the Revolution. And I haven't owned a Nintendo anything since the original NES.
Yes I remember this. I also remember still having lockups after this. I even invested in Stardock's Process Commander to help with this.
Was it? I was a Warp 4 beta tester and even after the final release, I still had PM lockups.
I'm pretty sure this tradition continues... (yikes)
Companies have started to realize they can "lock in" customers by vertically integrating hardware and software (and DRM). In the past, this didn't work because there was always an alternative that you could switch to.
:)
Was this before or after OS/2 died?
Microsoft may want to change their name to Microhard.
Hmm, programs named after what they do...
Microsoft Word Processor.
Microsoft Spreadsheet.
Microsoft Small Office Database.
Microsoft Email Reader.
Microsoft Presentation.
That last one is funny to me because "PowerPoint" has almost become vernacular for giving a presentation at the office. "Hey Bob, how did your PowerPoint presentation go yesterday?" "Fine Steve, except someone kept coughing and laughing during my PowerPoint."
When I went from cassette tapes to CDs back around 1992 or so, I repurchased a few of those albums I had on cassette so I could listen to them in my CD player. I also have my parents' collection of vinyl records from the 1970s. However, if and when I want to dust off my dad's old Doobie Brothers and Chicago albums, I don't warm up the turntable, I dig up the tracks on iTunes.
It isn't really that different than it has been.
Amazon already has relationships with the music industry and they are "established" enough to be a credible (in the eyes of the industry) alternative. Remember, Jobs and the music industry don't exactly see eye-2-eye on issues like pricing. I bet the music industry execs are chomping at the bit to play with someone who will bow more to their desires in order to establish a foothold.
This I can't wait to see. Amazon is already going to be playing catch up competing against iTunes as it is, they're really going to have a tough time if they want to charge more than $.99 a track.
Well that's easy to explain, dark rooms weren't invented for a few centuries later when photography became more popular.
I found a ISO link to download it.. html
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/KSCAWtwine
I don't see a torrent anywhere.
He might have also been the first guy to go on a date inside a computer.
We built ENIAC in a room that was 30 feet by 50 feet, at the Moore School in West Philadelphia on the first floor.
And on the second floor, we have a room 10 feet by 15 feet where we built the ENIAC Mini, which of course since it doesn't have a teletype, punch card reader or mouse, is more affordable.
In the current Windows version of iTunes (6.0.2.23), in Preferences there is a tab for Playback. And in there is a section for Smart Shuffle.
/didnt rtfa
The first control is a 3-setting slider for "more likely, random, less likely". The description below says "Smart shuffle allows you to control how likely you are to hear multiple songs in a row by the same artist or from the same album."
Below that are three radio boxes, labled Shuffle: ( ) Songs ( ) Albums ( ) Groupings.
Is it possible that this 100 scale rating system might be more fine grained to take these Smart Shuffle user settings into account? Perhaps that might be why it isn't simply the integers 0-5.
"And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of men who, above all else, desire powerbooks...err MacBook Pros."
Sorry, Romy already invented PostIts.
itunes is itself slow, installs a bunch of helper apps on my Windows computers that aren't very helpful since I don't have an ipod
You must be speaking of the single "helper app", namely iTunesHelper.exe, which is little more than an iTunes bootstrap, much like the one Microsoft Office has/had. If iTunes is slow for you, perhaps your computer doesn't meet the minimum requirements for iTunes.
, and it uses a bunch of non-native UI elements that don't behave quite the same way as the Windows equivalents.
That's because, being OS X UI elements, they work better.
The all-important library feature that seems to be the main cause for sucking at the itunes-cock doesn't appear useful to me. I don't know why.
Well that is definitely a fair and convincing argument.
Maybe because I use a sensible system for identifying my music files using the filesystem?
Is that system you use an improvement on the Artist/Album/Trackname system that iTunes uses?
Or maybe because classical music doesn't lend itself as well to what I see as the overly simplistic and under-customizable identifiers itunes has?
I have a few classical tracks in my library. What identifiers are too simplistic or missing to properly categorize this music?
Regardless, the itunes library didn't do anything I couldn't do five other ways, without using itunes, and the Songbird version is no different.
I'm curious to know what method you use to duplicate the iTunes Library's Smart Playlist feature.
itunes can rip music, something I've done with cdex for a while. itunes isn't as good at it as cdex, which lets me choose my codec and even my file naming scheme. It can make my organization for me, if I let it.
Are you sure you've ever looked closely in the Preferences settings for iTunes? It doesn't sound like you have.
itunes can play music, too? Meh. So can XMMS. So can WinAmp, Foobar, VLC or, hell, PowerDVD. I have m3u playlists. They work fine.
M3U playlists? Are you serious? Do you still use ICQ too?
Maybe Songbird should incorporate customizable SQL queries when they copy the Smart Playlist feature.
I'm sure that would gain a few geeky fans.
If you like Songbird instead of iTunes, may I interest you in all these Rolex-y watches I have here in my jacket?