Stuff

We all know that technology is advancing. Such a statement is not disputed. But that makes me think about computer science, and the way that programming has evolved. Obviously, programming is much more powerful, and in certain cases, more intuitive that it was before. As my teacher told me, programming is a way of telling a computer what to do without sounding ambiguous. But will computers ever become 'smart' enough to circumvent the ambiguity of the human languages? If this could happen, anybody could program. It's just a thought, anyways. Regardless, it seems like we would always have to have a group of people that know the most basic of computer languages, because that is still what computers are based on.

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Music Mania

When I ask someone, "do you have an Ipod?" I mean, "do you have any mp3 music player? It's easy to admit, Apple products occupy a massive piece of the music player industry with iPods and iTunes, but there are other denominations out there. Chances are though, the answer to that question for a large percentage of the people is "yes". It's understandable that people have their own designated devices for all of their music, but it's also equally expected that they keep music on their smartphones.

Take me, for example. I have an iPod that a received as a present in middle school. I'm also the proud owner of a smartphone (which happens to be Windows), and everything is alright. Since I still have the iPod, I use it for all of music, which I download from iTunes. But the problem is, I can't copy the music I have on iTunes to anywhere else. I've tried to transfer my music from the iPod to my phone, but to no avail. Why do have to be so protective, iTunes? I bought your music, what more can you possibly want? I just wish there was a music management system that would allow to put my music on all of my devices, and by that I don't mean downloading some sketchy program from the internet. 

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