Comment Re:what does it DO? (Score 1) 115
That's an nVidia only API...
Comment Re:A gui that doesn't suck anus (Score 0, Offtopic) 865
feee yeah
This is insightful? If it is, I have no idea why...
Talking Web, Memory Aids, and Solar Phones In 5 Years 109
jbrodkin writes "A talking Web, solar technology embedded in windows and cell phones, and the end of forgetting will all come in the next five years, IBM predicts in its third annual Next Five in Five list, detailing innovations that could change our lives in the next half-decade. The other predictions: We will all have digital shopping assistants and, separately, 'crystal balls' to predict our future health.
If IBM is right, in five years we'll forget about keyboards and use our voices to surf the Web on solar-powered laptops. DNA profiles will predict our personal health risks, and we'll get automatic reminders to perform daily tasks, generated by digital recording and analysis of our conversations."
Comment Re:Basic feature? (Score 1) 668
Editing metadata is not something someone is going to spend the hours doing, especially at the pay rate ($0).
Admittedly this probably won't help you personally, as it relates to released music, but Musicbrainz Picard (downloadable here http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardDownload) does a pretty amazing job of tagging music files properly for you. It uses some kind of audio fingerprinting tech so it's basically encoding independant.
I recently bought an iPhone (and a Macbook Pro) and was faced with the reality that I wouldn't be able to use Amarok with the phone as I did my Rockboxed iPod Nano (sigh) and that my music would need to be tagged properly for iTunes to behave. Picard handles it nicely.
Of course, it doesn't allow my iPhone to play vorbis files (that was my primary music format), or make iTunes any less of a slug. But that's a different matter entirely...
