A few weeks ago, I centralized all my MP3s on my external hard drive. It seemed the only plausible way of dealing with file management and my iPod. The process lasted several days, but I finally got ’most everything categorized, sorted, and deposited on my external.
Now, however, whenever I start iTunes, the application assumes that it has ready access to my main library — and when I’m not at my external drive, iTunes figures all those files are lost somewhere. The next time I connect to my hard drive, iTunes doesn’ seem to see the files it had thought “lost” earlier.
So now, I’m just dealing with the annoying library system and waiting for Apple to iron out their implementation of iTunes’ file organizing capacities. But when the day comes that one can easily just choose which library one wants to work from (without the annoying assumption that a particular ur-library will always be accessible), I’ll be an enthusiastic early adopter.
Posted by AKMA at June 28, 2003 03:56 PM | TrackBackSeth Roby graduated in May of 2003 with a double major in English and Computer Science, the Macintosh part of a three-person Macintosh, Linux, and Windows graduating triumvirate.
Posted by: Ebotte at January 13, 2004 12:07 PMThe most basic duality that exists with variables is how the programmer sees them in a totally different way than the computer does. When you're typing away in Project Builder, your variables are normal words smashed together, like software titles from the 80s. You deal with them on this level, moving them around and passing them back and forth.
Posted by: Fulk at January 13, 2004 12:07 PMFor this program, it was a bit of overkill. It's a lot of overkill, actually. There's usually no need to store integers in the Heap, unless you're making a whole lot of them. But even in this simpler form, it gives us a little bit more flexibility than we had before, in that we can create and destroy variables as we need, without having to worry about the Stack. It also demonstrates a new variable type, the pointer, which you will use extensively throughout your programming. And it is a pattern that is ubiquitous in Cocoa, so it is a pattern you will need to understand, even though Cocoa makes it much more transparent than it is here.
Posted by: Barnard at January 13, 2004 12:07 PM