iPad 2

[coldfish]

While I'm not nec' interested in the iPad2, it's good to see the handheld/tablet segment finally getting some momentum in the industry. (This from the proud owner of an Atari LYNX, like Amiga another forgotten underdog of classic tech'.)

[klx300r]

I buy things that I 'need', not what I 'want' I suppose this goes against what a lot of people practice in this day and age.

hey dj! i know (like me) you WANT a X1000 but i know (like me) you don't NEED one;)

btw, I personally don't believe in tablets but if I were in the market I'd buy the new HP Palm TouchPad with WebOS as Palm/WebOS has always been my favourite PDA/smartphone OS

[bloodline]

Somebody lock this thread, this is an Amiga site. Until AROS runs on an iPad 2 I'm not interested.

There is an iOS port of AROS being worked on by Sonic... Though you will need to jailbreak your device in order to install it.

[gertsy]

Q.  If iPad and Apple are so cool how come Steve Jobs tucks his top into his jeans ?
He's just an ordinary geek...!

[lsmart]

Got zero experience in using it, but I believe you can design/draw an interface complete with buttons, listviews, add windows etc like you would do in something like VB or AVD.  The language is C++, perhaps it supports other languages as well.

Xcode (the former Interface Builder part) has a very polished editor. If you know what you are doing you can manage hundreds of options with no problems while maintaining a good overview. The concept of nib-files (basically deep fried gadgets, menus and windows, that your software doesn´t have to configure or even instantiate again) is a great idea. The language of choice is Objective C. The C++-bridge is there, but it´s clumsy like a Sidecar. Java support is somewhat defying the purpose, because you lose the cross-platform advantage and iPhone & iPad don´t support Java at all. XCode includes an iPod/iPhone/iPad-simulator that runs native Mac-code and libraries instead of the ones of the development target, which may lead to incompatibilities.

[lsmart]

Q.  If iPad and Apple are so cool how come Steve Jobs tucks his top into his jeans ?
He's just an ordinary geek...!

A geek indeed: Steve never selects his public outfit at random. Until 1998 he was wearing expensive and highly fashionable suits at all presentations. Steve figured in order to get the "Think Different" slogan to work and to re-adapt to the rainbow colored Apple-crowd he had to choose a style that was both visually appealing and orderly, as well as clearly distinctive from the elite he was hanging out with. Not too counter-culture, not too stylish, not too business-like.

I bet he tried 500 different styles and made thrice as many photographs before settling on his trademark turtleneck, which also happens to be a style he is very comfortable wearing, since he used to be a jeans & T-shirt-guy in the late 70s.

[ChaosLord]

So I decided I want to copy my music over to my ipad, and since..
a) it doesn't grasp neither ogg nor flac
b) does not allow me to just copy over files directly, like one can do on any other device
I decided to re-rip my CD collection of ... ah.. dunno, maybe 400 CDs or so, on my minimac. What's more natural than to use iTunes, it even does it automagically when CDDA is inserted. However, iTunes is also mindnumblingly dumb. So I have this old Basement Jaxx album, "The Singles", which have tracks that are by Basement Jaxx, but also quite a few that are Basement Jaxx featuring some other artist. What does iTunes do? It now thinks I have 6 albums called "The Singles", of which one is by an artist "Basement Jaxx", one is of an artist named "Basement Jaxx Feat. Kele le Roc" and so on. And not just that, it even has created directories in the filesystem like this as well. And it does this same crap with compilation albums, creating a total mess in the filesystem. And when I sync over to the iPad, the mess is recreated there. I find myself unable to listen to a complete album, as neither iTunes nor the iPod software seem to be aware that the collection of files are actually the same friggin' album.

So what am I doing wrong and how is this supposed to be user friendly?

Kolla Bear 4,  Bloodline Persia 0

[SKAN]

Yes, that's a sound argument, please share with us where you learnt to form such coherent and, dare I say, inspiring sentences.

Sure dude, quite easy. I learnt from Digiman.

[TheDaddy]

Just link your salary details straight to Steve Jobs' bank account

[nOw2]

So what am I doing wrong and how is this supposed to be user friendly?

Your audio meta data is wrong.

[countzero]

Your audio meta data is wrong.

Yes kolla, how dare you question the way laid fore you by holy Jobs?  Surely you must re organise all your music collection as he sees fit. You do not 'think different' enough, thats your problem.

[persia]

So having bad metadata gets you four points?

Kolla Bear 4,  Bloodline Persia 0

[bloodline]

:lol: Macs are derided for being too simple and user friendly... But as soon as you are required to adjust some metadata (easy enough to do if you right click on the the song selections), then all of a sudden the Mac is too difficult to use! Come on, we are Amiga users we shall not be overcome by a bit of power user work

[nicholas]

:lol: Macs are derided for being too simple and user friendly...

$?£>%^<&<%>>?£?@@@!!!!

After the 48hrs of of fiddling I've had to do to get E-UAE to work (By work I mean give more than "2.17 MIPS" rating in Sysinfo) that just isn't funny!

("sudo echo sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=536870912; sudo purge" before each run does the trick and no, putting the value in /etc/sysctl.conf AND/OR /etc/rc doesn't work.)

[kolla]

Metadata my ass - so just because meta data on what... is it CDDB this sorry excuse of a program is using ... is wrong, iTunes has to do it wrong too? Well, with all the screwed data on CDDB, that simply wont work, as I can tell already. And btw - it is not just a matter of changing the meta data, the file structure remains fubar even if I do so. And apart from manually moving the album dicretory into the "compilation" directory, how d I tell iTunes that this is a compilation album by changing meta data? Anyways, my point is that iTunes should already know this, as it is the program that rips the CD in the first place - I've never really stumbled on a ripping program that behaves this silly when it comes to this - heck, most programs even let _me_ decide how to organize my files as I see fit.

[nicholas]

Metadata my ass - so just because meta data on what... is it CDDB this sorry excuse of a program is using ... is wrong, iTunes has to do it wrong too? Well, with all the screwed data on CDDB, that simply wont work, as I can tell already. And btw - it is not just a matter of changing the meta data, the file structure remains fubar even if I do so. And apart from manually moving the album dicretory into the "compilation" directory, how d I tell iTunes that this is a compilation album by changing meta data? Anyways, my point is that iTunes should already know this, as it is the program that rips the CD in the first place - I've never really stumbled on a ripping program that behaves this silly when it comes to this - heck, most programs even let _me_ decide how to organize my files as I see fit.

Try changing the CDDB server address to http://cddb.musicbrainz.org

Much better quality of meta-data.

Wel, that's if his Royal Jobsness has decreed that you may choose which server to use.