Recent content by threesixty

I was watching Black HawK Down on Sunday so I think I've got a bit carried away !!! ;)

mmm.. I dont understand M$'s train of thought. AAC is a free standard, WMA is a microsoft standard. Microsoft have encouraged(or forced?) companies to adopt this standard for years, that is the only reason there are 40 players on the market that use wma and 1 that uses AAC. AAC is a better...

Apple dont make any money out of the itune store. They make their money from ipods. Other download stores will find it very difficult to compete with apple because they're no sound business reason to sell downloads on their own. Hence their lacklustre "toe in the water" approach before Apple did...

This whole thing is disturbing. I understand how a lot of people on this site must be overjoyed at Bill getting hit so badly but the implications for this are a bit worrying.. Software development is a risky field to apply patent laws to, because quite often there is only one convienient way...

“Sounds like mainframes and termianls to me ... which were substituted by the Internet: information distribution, instead of aggregation. It is!! The difference is we are in 2003 and technology is so powerful now that the old concept actually makes sense. Have u noticed that while...

The fact that for some people this new way of delivering software may be slow etc.. is irrelevant. The software companies wont care about such a small detail. Just like Apple didn’t care that OS X was generally a bad experience for most people for 2 years. Apple thought that in the long run...

The NC (network computer) is bound to happen. You cant stop it, within the next 5 yrs it will be a major part of computing. Every major software and hardware company is positioning themselves for it. What do you think .NET is about? What do you think all this wireless Centrino stuff is for...

I've got a g4 mac (10.2.6) connected to a Windows XP machine using a standard 2-way ethernet cable. I have got itunes to add all the music files in my Xp machine to its music library without copying the whole files (saves time, drive space etc..). When the Xp machine is off Itunes wont start...

I think your all missing the point. Microsoft are essentially a software company that make money selling Window's operating systems. They dont care whether your running XP on Intel, Apple or Sun box as long as your running XP. The Mac is just another piece of hardware that can run XP. Why...

Posted by krinkle cut..,. “ I'm late to this thread, but I just had to respond to this. You'd rather NOT optimise code and pray for faster hardware? That's the solution? Doesn't that seem a little cyclical to you? Develop sloppy software so I can develop new technologies that need newer...

As a developer, I find there’s a fine line between optimising code for increased speed and completely wasting your time. Problems that you overcome by spending 6 months optimising something can be solved by the client just upgrading their computer. That 6 months could have been spent...

"Sometimes I'm tired of all the bloat in a program I'll never use. If a team of two guys made a super awesome program that is light, simple, fast, and fun to use, it could beat Microsoft's version easily." Listen mate, the days of lone programmers making big apps like Word, Photoshop, Pro...

Sometimes I wish computing could still be that small cosy group in the early eighties where everything was done for love. But It isnt. Software is so complicated now, users expect so much which means everything costs MONEY!! Therefore every company in the business is there there to make MONEY...

I agree with the original post. Big companies like Microsoft , Adobe etc ... actively turn a blind eye to piracy as long as its not on a corporate level (i.e. businesses running pirated software). People who use pirated software while they have no money and are students etc.. are more likely...