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The iPad aims to be revolutionary. It's the antithesis of MS Surface; rather than making a giant, amazing computer than no-one can buy, they're building a general purpose, weak, underwhelming computer.

In other words, if you want an iPod Touch, you want an iPod Touch. Not an iPad.

I stuff my face with skittles until I'm sick, grab some water, and jump straight into documentation + source editing.

It's buggy and crashes often. i.e. each time I close iTunes, the iTunes process starts eating up one of my cores and won't shut down. I have to kill it through the Task Manager. Not to talk that it crashes about every 10th time I use it and the only things I've been doing is sync my iPod Touch and transfer apps. I've tried maybe 4-5 to play music and one of those 4-5 times it crashed. I think it also froze once when I tried clearing the music library. And it doesn't keep track of music changes properly. i.e. I have once folder added to the music library, but it never updates the library regardless of new or removed music.

1) blizzard has an ipod what
2) Oh, yeah. I forgot how much it can suck on Windows. But that does seem a tad extreme.

I sadly have to use iTunes because of my iPhone, and ot sucks. That whole synch stuff annoys me, really.
For videos, though, I use media player classic. Yes, I use a media player that has just one file which is a few kb big. It does everything I need and doesn't really take any space.

What are our complaints? It's definitely not great, but I never get (other than the whole bloat thing) why people "hate" it. I'm just wondering, I'm nowhere near stupid enough to argue that Apple knows how to make decent music player software.

Wind Driving Dogs - Chad VanGaalen

ga I'm getting sick of Itunes and its crappyness. it won't play an entire album, no, it plays the first song in the album and stops. and if you tell it to play the next song it plays THAT ONE SONG and stops.  if there was something else that could siync my Ipd correctly I would use it

Turn on loop. I play all of my music by album.

holmesian induction, damn it.

the human mind can learn any and all facts under any and all situations, provided the right prior knowledge.

in other words, i just learn.

Bright Mouths - Electric President

I like System V, personally.

As for Linux's Pros and Cons:
+ The core software is magnificently done. There are freaks at work there. The kernel itself is incredibly stable and versatile, and the GNU software surrounding it is very professionally done, too. Despite what you may think of OSS, the GNU/Linux guys really know what they're doing.
+ Versatility. Versatility. There's no limit to what you can do, literally. While most people can't take advantage of the fact that it's open-source, there's a huge amount of software built around GNU/Linux that you can get for free and modify to your heart's desire.
+ Predictability. None of the software is done at the last minute by some overworked coder who has an entire project to himself. Almost everything undergoes serious peer review, and everything makes sense once you learn the basics.
+ Package management. You can't get much easier than

sudo apt-get install <program name>

- Lack of professional software beyond the core. Everything on top is buggy and ugly as Hell.
- Lack of hardware support. There's only so much that people can do in their spare time for free.
- Lack of a unified development platform. While it's not hard to write software that will predictably run on Ubuntu/SuSE/&c., it's very hard to write software that will work beautifully across all installations in comparison to Windows and Mac (OS X has the clear advantage here, standardization is huge on the platform. There are almost no "crap apps" that do their function but annoy the Hell out of you doing it)

I hope this was nice and balanced. I felt like Linux deserved some love.

I dont see the logic in a decimal comma, surely thats only meant to be used for thousands and millions like 9,999,999... The people like us 'silly europeans' would be confused when you say 9,999 is actually 9.999 

For writing, I stand by this as the proper form:

1 234 567.89

which should read as one-million, two-hundred and thirty-four thousand, five-hundred and sixty-seven and eighty-nine hundredths.

See us British would write that as 1,234,567.89

I'm American. We do, too. I prefer 1 234 567.89, though. The commas are used for readability. Spaces work just as well.

wrong forum, cat.

I dont see the logic in a decimal comma, surely thats only meant to be used for thousands and millions like 9,999,999... The people like us 'silly europeans' would be confused when you say 9,999 is actually 9.999  

For writing, I stand by this as the proper form:

1 234 567.89

which should read as one-million, two-hundred and thirty-four thousand, five-hundred and sixty-seven and eighty-nine hundredths.

In programming you never use a decimal comma. You ALWAYS use a decimal dot.

silly europeans, not following america's vastly superior lead :V

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How about a Chaos Project Championship when the games are released? That'd be epic.
People could fight each other online and the winner preceeds and stuff.

I think you mean 'continue'

or "proceeds"

Longfellow is right.
Typing on an iPhone isn't easy D:

I'm actually really used to it now. I can get 40w/min without much trouble and almost no errors now. Still can't "touch type," though.

This might be a n00b question, but why not use OpenGL? Unless I'm wrong SDL doesn't support hardware acceleration. It might not be as cross-platform compatible as SDL, but it's still better than DirectX anyway.

SDL supports using OpenGL under the hood, which basically leaves the SDL as an input/audio/windowing library.

How about a Chaos Project Championship when the games are released? That'd be epic.
People could fight each other online and the winner preceeds and stuff.

I think you mean 'continue'

or "proceeds"

my english teacher used dante as an example of what kind of author you might be referencing in your "research paper." most people were doing ufos or nirvana.

i laughed, and no-one understood why.

I'll see if my friend is interested in competing mercilessly slaughtering you all. He used to be a god at this stuff.

so RGame is for Mac?

At the moment, it's the only version there is. I'll be making an SDL version soon, though, which should compile on Linux and Windows as well.

EDIT: Huh, SDL 1.2.14 isn't building for me. Odd. This _might_ indicate a setback, but I've also got Kubuntu and Windows installs available, so I guess I'll just use those for SDL development instead.