Comments on: Wonky but free http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/02/25/wonky-but-free/ John D. Cook Thu, 23 May 2013 10:27:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Josh http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/02/25/wonky-but-free/comment-page-1/#comment-874 Josh Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:45:39 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=13005#comment-874 Seems like an engineered problem, or a blogpost that wanted to be written.

While reading this, I was thinking, “What exactly is the issue with exporting from iTunes or iPhoto?” iTunes, you can simply drag the files out. iPhoto is simply a directly structure, it’s not an ‘opaque’ database.

Seems like the author was digging pretty hard to find an issue here where there wasn’t really one.

To be perfectly open, I am an Apple user. I’m writing this on a Macbook Pro. I don’t believe that this has skewed my opinion, but I may be incorrect.

]]> By: John http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/02/25/wonky-but-free/comment-page-1/#comment-873 John Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:58:37 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=13005#comment-873 Kyle: Thanks. Typo fixed.

Canageek: LaTeX is one of the examples I had in mind.

Ease of debugging is not at all apparent when you compare two systems. If you’d never seen a word processor before and compared Word and LaTeX, Word would be stunning. You’d have to use it a while before you ran into a situation where Word, for no apparent reason, steadfastly refuses to do what you ask and you’re absolutely helpless to do anything about it.

]]> By: Canageek http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/02/25/wonky-but-free/comment-page-1/#comment-872 Canageek Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:50:40 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=13005#comment-872 Wonky but free sounds like LaTeX: Far more work to learn, but far, far more powerful then Word once you finish, and far faster to write a complex document in it, once you get good at it.

]]> By: Chris Morgan http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/02/25/wonky-but-free/comment-page-1/#comment-871 Chris Morgan Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:48:04 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=13005#comment-871 This article brings up some interesting topics, but isn’t very insightful about some of them. Getting photos out of iPhoto and music out of iTunes is simple in both cases. It sets up a false dichotomy of owning a Mac and being clueless and lazy vs. owning a Linux box and having to do a lot of work. You have to look after your stuff no matter what platform. I have both Linux machines and Macs and I like both for different purposes.

]]> By: Mike http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/02/25/wonky-but-free/comment-page-1/#comment-870 Mike Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:32:11 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=13005#comment-870 cheers to that.

]]> By: Kyle http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2013/02/25/wonky-but-free/comment-page-1/#comment-869 Kyle Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:59:52 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/?p=13005#comment-869 “[M]ortgaged by future” is the phrase that got me.

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