Steve Jobs, the iPad, and cultural sugar water
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From: Wes Groleau on 5 Jul 2010 16:16 On 07-05-2010 15:58, Jochem Huhmann wrote: > someone used to horse carriages looking at a motor car and complaining > about the absurd thing that you hardly can harness a horse to and it's > much too heavy anyway with all the useless metal things under the hood. And how can the reins work with this stupid piece of glass between me and the horse? -- Wes Groleau Mexico Under Siege http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1534
From: nospam on 5 Jul 2010 18:03 In article <timstreater-E4471A.22594705072010(a)news.individual.net>, Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > I always thought Apple missed a trick with OS X. The file view I had > under classic MacOS was the right one - desktop at the top and then > volumes sitting on/under that. Eventually they gave us something > *looking* like that for OS X - but it's bastardised; one's desktop is > shown as sitting somewhere down the file system hierarchy rather than at > the top. They should have put an abstraction layer on top of the actual > filesystem to hide these aspects. what they did with finder in os x is awful. that's a rant for another day. :)
From: nospam on 5 Jul 2010 18:10 In article <timstreater-D43D8E.22471105072010(a)news.individual.net>, Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > How about if I want to arganise by composer? I don't have "songs" except > possibly those written by Schubert, and I'm not particularly bothered > which artist is performing the piece. there's a composer option in the ipod app (which is recent). however, the problem is that nobody at apple cares about music that isn't mainstream pop/rock. other genres, including classical, world and especially showtunes do *not* fit into the genre/artist/album hierarchy very well at all.
From: Wes Groleau on 5 Jul 2010 18:14 On 07-05-2010 17:59, Tim Streater wrote: > In essence this is what I'm getting at. But you'd have to modify apache, > and all the other things such as compilers etc which today assume a > standard unix filesystem - and then steal it away from the > user/developer in the way I described. OR, provide a wrapper API that uses the DB-style API to provide a traditional file system to apps that need it. and sigged: > "That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, > nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" -- Bill of Rights 1689 How about excessive bail-outs? :-) -- Wes Groleau Krashen vs. grammar? http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/WWW?itemid=114
From: Wes Groleau on 5 Jul 2010 18:16
On 07-05-2010 18:10, nospam wrote: > however, the problem is that nobody at apple cares about music that > isn't mainstream pop/rock. other genres, including classical, world and > especially showtunes do *not* fit into the genre/artist/album hierarchy > very well at all. That's because neither does the “market” or “audience” we've been saying the iThings are built for. -- Wes Groleau New numbers for next year http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1495 |