Re: Steve Jobs doesn't care about brown people

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From: =?iso-8859-1?b?U+liYXN0aWVu?= Aperghis-Tramoni
Subject: Re: Steve Jobs doesn't care about brown people
Date: 23:28 on 06 Nov 2005
Daniel Pittman <daniel@xxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:

> "A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis@xxx.xx> writes:
> > * David Champion <dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx> [2005-11-06 23:05]:
> >> Can any of us even begin to guess how many Josés are shown as
> >> Jose in IMD^H^H^HGracenote(tm)?  I'll stop with that.
> >
> > Please do not mention CDDB.
> >
> > Not even on this list.
>
> Oh, but why not?  Other than being produced before XML was hewn from
> SGML ^W stone ^W^W^W invented, it is pretty much the Aristotelian ideal
> form of hateful software.
>
> I mean, who wouldn't love a file format that sticks key information into
> the comments?  That fails to specify encodings?  That contains random
> crap in differing units without specifying what they mean, or are?

Hmm.. Aren't you confusing CDDB with ID3 here?
Granted, both are equally hateful in this regard :-)

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