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Comment Re:I have to ask (Score 2, Interesting) 640

by ozonepriest on Saturday January 10, 2009 @05:29PM (#26401643) Attached to: USAF Seeks Air Force One Replacement

Totally off topic point here. You're not wrong that the American President has more power than a prime minister in a parliamentary system in absolute terms. However the prime minister of Canada (for instance) has in relative terms way more capability to get things done than the American President does. For example, if the Canadian PM has a majority government and wants a piece of legislation passed, he or she goes to the cabinet, solicits advice, gets the Department of Justice to write a bill, and 99% of the time that draft is made law within a year. The American President doesn't have anywhere near that kind of power.

iTunes On OS X Finally Has Competition 668

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 06, 2008 @06:34PM from the file-managers-that-also-play-music dept.

mallumax writes "The truth is, iTunes is an average music player. Though the UI is simple and good like most Apple products, it has lagged in features compared to music players available on Linux and Windows. A feature as basic as monitoring a folder and adding the latest music files to the library is unavailable in iTunes. There are no plugins or themes. Despite the many faults, many of us continued to use iTunes because of the lack of options available. But today the wait is finally over. Not one, but two music players have become credible contenders. Songbird: An open source music player which has been in the works for more than 2 years has finally released its 1.0 Release Candidate builds. The team behind Songbird has members who previously developed for both Winamp and the Yahoo Music Engine. It has support for extensions and themes ('feathers' in Songbird parlance). Amarok: The undisputed champion among Linux music players is finally coming to OS X, thanks to KDE 4 being ported there. Amarok developer Leo Franchi has been able to run a Amarok on OS X natively. So we can expect a reasonably stable Amarok to hit OS X in a few months' time. Hopefully these players will gain traction among OS X users, which will finally force Apple to either step up in terms of features or open up iTunes for extensions."

Comment Re:Point being? (Score 2, Informative) 148

by ozonepriest on Saturday May 24, 2008 @03:01PM (#23530206) Attached to: Patriot Act Dampening Cloud Computing?

Funny you mention Lockheed Martin: they're one of the companies we have a problem with. See this wikipedia article and search for "Lockheed."

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