Writing software is also art to some degree. Failure to recognize this leads to terrible software.

Nicely put.

Are you still talking about CD burning? The GP correctly pointed out that OSX can natively burn CDs without the need for a commercial CD-authoring suite like Toast.

Also, the way the music is organized on an iPod is totally separate from the way it is organized in iTunes. Your rant about the iPod not being a generic external storage volume is totally irrelevant to the merits of iTunes.

I shouldn't feed the trolls, but isn't it obvious that there is no need to inefficiently organize the files on a device's internal storage that are intended to be managed completely via a software application? Why put in the faster hardware and extra engineering effort required to do that? Clearly they did so in iTunes, which does store the files human-readably, because there is a greater need to interact with them outside of iTunes.

Huh, I always thought the purpose of including advanced math in CS coursework is to impart a high level of abstract problem-solving, and on a more practical level some experience with solving problems that occasionally fall under the purview of engineering—software and otherwise.

Because everything you are allowed to think, say and do are privileges granted to you by your generous and benevolent government.

It would be great for everyone to be compelled to conform to your secular ideals under threat of force wouldn't it? You are exactly like those you claim to be more enlightened than.

Certainly there are now more simple PDF readers out there, for instance OSX Preview can show basic PDFs, but there isn't really a drop-in replacement for Flash Player yet. There are competitors like Microsoft's own Silverlight, which they would love for you to use instead, and HTML5's impending <video> tag, but mainly you are stuck with Flash Player for many web sites out there.

It's even more absurd than that. He said if you make $50/hr you really make $16.70/hour. Unless hr is a new metric of time that I am unfamiliar with rather than an abbreviation for hour, his statement is absolute gibberish.

I might have written that comment a few years ago, but in recent history Firefox is seriously sluggish. My only allegiance to using it now stems from the extensions I am accustomed to now.

Sorry, should have also mentioned this, which is what SWFObject is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas#Workarounds.

These are the spawn of Satan that forced the whole web to change the way they embed Flash movies, among other things.

You're just one of the elitist geeks who doesn't get the appeal. Most of those things you mentioned were design decisions to limit the amount of complexity built into the system. It does what nearly everyone wants of a digital music player, does those things well, and makes them easy and approachable. Modding and computer enthusiast stuff may be your thing, but don't be so narrow-minded to think that is what matters to more than a small cadre of people on /.

Wow, as a geek you should have the most appreciation for Snow Leopard. It's the regular folks who Apple should worry about underwhelming.

Haha, this tired rant is still so funny. Thanks for making it yet again. Twit.

We only like to use it when it actually makes sense. Go figure.