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The music industry succeeds only in finding new ways to screw up."The drawbacks to the industry's singles strategy were on full display following Sept. 11, when Enya, Alan Jackson, James Taylor and Neil Young all released songs that either directly addressed the terrorist attacks, or tapped into the country's deeply felt need for healing. The songs demonstrated how pop music, perhaps more than any other mainstream art form, can effectively, and quickly, enter our collective conscience. Yet, in an illustration of how the music industry too often treats its customers, none was released as a single in a timely fashion, leaving consumers with no way of purchasing the songs, since they didn't appear on current album releases either." .< 1:32:49 AM  >Scot Hacker reviews Mac OS X.  [Scripting News]
A huge article by the man who wrote "The BeOS Bible". I had the BeOS on my Mac at work. It didn't look as pretty as OS X but baby it was fast. We Mac freaks are happy to have people like this on our side. What a rush. .< 1:30:25 AM >Xerox wins Palm handwriting case. That will be several million dollars, please [The Register] Ouch. Did everything start at Xerox? .< 1:25:18 AM >Apple releases OS X 10.1.2. [mac.scripting.com] Maybe I'll be able to sync my Palm via irda now? Lots of great little tweaks by the looks of things. It's a 30 MB download. It's times like this that I really miss having access to the high speed connection we have at work. This would come down in a minute (no exagerration!) in off peak times. .< 1:07:41 AM >Music industry in the pits!. Record sales are down, no one's seeing concerts, no one's advertising on radio and the stars are revolting! [Salon.com] Yup. Things are lookin' grim all around. Time for a major shakeout. .< 1:03:35 AM >The Essential Subroutines AppleScript Guidebook Module has been updated for OS X. (Via MacScripter.net.) [mac.scripting.com] Bookmark for later reference. .< 12:54:36 AM >OSNews.com: MacOSX Week: Omnigroup Interview. “Cocoa is not just an amazing toolkit, it offers a new way of approaching programming. It’s so easy to create the basic shell of a program you can literally do it in a couple minutes, and then you can take that shell and just start painting in features. It’s every programmer’s dream: the combination of rapid application development with the speed and reliability of a mature toolkit.” (Via Stepwise.) [mac.scripting.com] Attracting developers is a good thing. Pretty exciting for the future of the platform. .< 12:49:40 AM >MS settlement: "mockery" of class action [MacNN] But we all knew that . . . .< 12:47:07 AM >Apple promises a 'revolutionary' new product Wheeeeee! .< 12:41:01 AM >Huge WinXP sales don't save planet after all. That was one we made up earlier... [The Register] Not doing nearly as well as they'd hoped . . . or hyped! |
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