Re: Genius or idiot savant?

2008-09-22 Thread Earle Martin
2008/9/22 Joshua Juran > On Sep 22, 2008, at 5:00 AM, Peter da Silva wrote: > >> Speaking of album artwork, they REALLY need a way to show the location of >> the downloaded album artwork file so I can clobber it when it has the wrong >> one. All my jazz podcasts are showing up with the album cove

Re: Genius or idiot savant?

2008-09-22 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Peter Corlett [2008-09-22 18:40]: > Did anybody seriously think that Apple would be any > different once they got their feet under the table? I am continuously puzzled that people attribute human characteristics to legal constructs like corporations. F.ex. I am completely convinced that very n

Re: Genius or idiot savant?

2008-09-22 Thread Peter Corlett
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 11:02:25PM +0930, Bill Page wrote: > Apple is becoming Microsoft. "becoming"? Did anybody seriously think that Apple would be any different once they got their feet under the table?

Re: Genius or idiot savant?

2008-09-22 Thread Michael G Schwern
Peter da Silva wrote: > Speaking of album artwork, they REALLY need a way to show the location > of the downloaded album artwork file so I can clobber it when it has the > wrong one. All my jazz podcasts are showing up with the album cover of > some BBC science show, and it's beginning to freak me

Re: Genius or idiot savant?

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Devers
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Peter da Silva wrote: > I used to use a social playlist system that worked with iTunes iLike? http://www.ilike.com/faq/ilike/ -- Chris Devers DO NOT LEAVE IT IS NOT REAL

Re: Genius or idiot savant?

2008-09-22 Thread Zach White
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Peter da Silva wrote: > OK, I can dig that Apple's new last.fm-style music recommendation system is > just starting up, so their Genius doesn't have as broad a musical taste as > me, but it doesn't even seem to reliably know about tracks that I *know* are > in the

Re: Genius or idiot savant?

2008-09-22 Thread Bill Page
Apple is becoming Microsoft.

Re: Genius or idiot savant?

2008-09-22 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 22, 2008, at 5:00 AM, Peter da Silva wrote: OK, I can dig that Apple's new last.fm-style music recommendation system is just starting up, so their Genius doesn't have as broad a musical taste as me, but it doesn't even seem to reliably know about tracks that I *know* are in the iTune

Genius or idiot savant?

2008-09-22 Thread Peter da Silva
OK, I can dig that Apple's new last.fm-style music recommendation system is just starting up, so their Genius doesn't have as broad a musical taste as me, but it doesn't even seem to reliably know about tracks that I *know* are in the iTunes store. And it's not that I don't have them tagged