So, why aren't H300 series players flying off the shelves like hot cakes? [..]
There's also no easy way to get music that will play on them across the internet.
iRiver H10, H320, H340, T10 and T30 players are all WMA compatible, meaning that they can be used with Yahoo Music or other WMA subscription services. Using my T30 with Yahoo is easy as pie; I plug in my T30, the Yahoo music software recognizes it and I drag songs or albums onto the device. Moreover one monthly fee (4.95 when I joined) gets me free access to their entire catalog. I've downloaded about 200 songs so far this month and they've all been on my T30. Maybe I'm mistaken, but wouldn't this cost me 200 bucks if I were using Itunes?
Saying ID is appropriate for a Social Science or Philosophy class, shows great contempt for those subjects. ID is junk, it doesn't belong in any class. Philosophy, like science, is based on logical reasoning, hence ID is not appropriate.
ID has been taught in Philosophy classes for hundreds of years. Philosophers call it the Argument from Design, and it is one of the standard arguments we discuss when considering arguments for and against the existence of God. It is certainly a logical (inductive) argument. It just isn't a scientific hypothesis.
My first thought on seeing msh was "Cool! it looks a lot like Python, only not quite as clean." My second was "Gee, a Python-based shell would be a good idea. I wonder if anybody's written one." Nice to see that someone has. Personally, though, I would have called it "PyShell".
The older I get, though, the harder it is to delve into new topics. It's not hard mentally, just emotionally. I'm tired of the latest new thing, and want my favorite old things to keep being cutting edge, which they may never again be.
There's a trick to this: pick as your favorite thing something that never was popular, so the stuff you use at work is always just a dim approximation of what you would really like to use. Then the new stuff, if you've picked your favorite properly (and assuming that there is at least some kind of half-blind, halting progress in the industry), should tend to be more like your favorite than the stuff you're currently using, so you'll always be inclined to investigate it.
don't tell me iTunes has 90% because it's just that good
Itunes has 90% of the market because they have more music than anybody else. That's the thing about the long tail. You have to have A LOT of stuff in order to capture that last 50% of the market. Example: Last night I was looking for Julie Miller on Yahoo (my service of choice because I'm cheap). Two songs. Itunes has her whole catalog, four CDs worth.
For a home studio, these apps + a SB Audigy are fine
Actually Audigy cards aren't well supported at all compared to many higher-end cards. The emu101K driver doesn't support front panel inputs, which are the only inputs on some audigys (e.g. my Audigy2zs). Sadly, I have to use windows for sound work.
But then, things like this come along and make me lose faith all over again. Come on guys who modded me down, can you really not come up with a rational response?
When confronted with blatant nonsense, the rational response is scorn. That's what you got. Why complain?
I got this far:
However, when it comes to software professionals, there is no such argument. Any software that they write, irrespective of whether it is during or outside normal working hours, legally belongs to their employer.
This is just flat wrong, at least in the US. Who owns what is governed by the contract you sign with your employer, and most employers write that contract in such a way that code you write on your own time, for projects unrelated to your job, belongs to you. They do this because, as a general rule, the broader the rights they try to assert, the less enforceable the contract becomes.
The problem is that MS strongly ties the language with the IDE.
That is, whenever C# (or Visual [anything] for that matter) gets new features, we have to buy a new version of Visual Studio to take advantage of it.
No you don't. I've been doing C# and VB.NET development for several months now, and I've never shelled out any money to MS for tools. All the compilers and runtimes are freely downloadable from MS, and there are several good free IDEs (one of them from Microsoft). Check out SharpDevelop for a really nice open source.NET IDE written in C#.
I'm not a big MS fan (I only grabbed the stuff because a job I was looking at wanted me to learn it), but these new C# features are extremely compelling.
C++ sucks because of poor design decisions made around features like multiple inheritance, not because of inherent problems with MI. Eiffel and Common Lisp both support MI without any of the blow-your-leg-off problems C++ introduces. Learn something other than Cxx/Java, it's a big world out there.
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iRiver H10, H320, H340, T10 and T30 players are all WMA compatible, meaning that they can be used with Yahoo Music or other WMA subscription services. Using my T30 with Yahoo is easy as pie; I plug in my T30, the Yahoo music software recognizes it and I drag songs or albums onto the device. Moreover one monthly fee (4.95 when I joined) gets me free access to their entire catalog. I've downloaded about 200 songs so far this month and they've all been on my T30. Maybe I'm mistaken, but wouldn't this cost me 200 bucks if I were using Itunes?
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ID has been taught in Philosophy classes for hundreds of years. Philosophers call it the Argument from Design, and it is one of the standard arguments we discuss when considering arguments for and against the existence of God. It is certainly a logical (inductive) argument. It just isn't a scientific hypothesis.
My first thought on seeing msh was "Cool! it looks a lot like Python, only not quite as clean." My second was "Gee, a Python-based shell would be a good idea. I wonder if anybody's written one." Nice to see that someone has. Personally, though, I would have called it "PyShell".
There's a trick to this: pick as your favorite thing something that never was popular, so the stuff you use at work is always just a dim approximation of what you would really like to use. Then the new stuff, if you've picked your favorite properly (and assuming that there is at least some kind of half-blind, halting progress in the industry), should tend to be more like your favorite than the stuff you're currently using, so you'll always be inclined to investigate it.
In other words, you've only ever learned one syntax. That's kind of sad.
Itunes has 90% of the market because they have more music than anybody else. That's the thing about the long tail. You have to have A LOT of stuff in order to capture that last 50% of the market. Example: Last night I was looking for Julie Miller on Yahoo (my service of choice because I'm cheap). Two songs. Itunes has her whole catalog, four CDs worth.
Actually Audigy cards aren't well supported at all compared to many higher-end cards. The emu101K driver doesn't support front panel inputs, which are the only inputs on some audigys (e.g. my Audigy2zs). Sadly, I have to use windows for sound work.
When confronted with blatant nonsense, the rational response is scorn. That's what you got. Why complain?
eom.
I got this far: However, when it comes to software professionals, there is no such argument. Any software that they write, irrespective of whether it is during or outside normal working hours, legally belongs to their employer. This is just flat wrong, at least in the US. Who owns what is governed by the contract you sign with your employer, and most employers write that contract in such a way that code you write on your own time, for projects unrelated to your job, belongs to you. They do this because, as a general rule, the broader the rights they try to assert, the less enforceable the contract becomes.
The problem is that MS strongly ties the language with the IDE. That is, whenever C# (or Visual [anything] for that matter) gets new features, we have to buy a new version of Visual Studio to take advantage of it. No you don't. I've been doing C# and VB.NET development for several months now, and I've never shelled out any money to MS for tools. All the compilers and runtimes are freely downloadable from MS, and there are several good free IDEs (one of them from Microsoft). Check out SharpDevelop for a really nice open source .NET IDE written in C#.
I'm not a big MS fan (I only grabbed the stuff because a job I was looking at wanted me to learn it), but these new C# features are extremely compelling.
C++ sucks because of poor design decisions made around features like multiple inheritance, not because of inherent problems with MI. Eiffel and Common Lisp both support MI without any of the blow-your-leg-off problems C++ introduces. Learn something other than Cxx/Java, it's a big world out there.