Dynamic range compression is exactly what I want, but I want it to be something I can turn on and off.
You're in luck, this can be done in software. Install the K-Lite Codec Pack Standard. Open your movie in Media Player Classic. Go to "View->Options->External Filters", click Add Filter and add a "Compressor". Rightclick the blue "FFa" systray icon, click "FFDShow audio decoder", enable "Volume" on the left, and in those volume settings enable "Normalize". Voila, quiet parts are louder and loud parts are quieter.
The Foundation Trilogy is an adolescent - intellectual's - fantasy of backstage manipulation and control that plays out on the grandest of scales. "But who guards the guards?"
Hi, what you said bothers me because I can't quite understand it.
This is so beautiful. It might be the first web service I truly, really like.
It's in the right place at the right time. People, me included, love clicking "upvote" buttons all day long, because they like to show appreciation and it gives them a feeling of power. How much more meaningful this becomes when there's money attached! It will feel great to "flatter" people with some of your money, while never bothering to keep track of "how much you spend" (stressful, anyone will tell you), as it's a constant that you've decided you want to give out to the world for a month.
I don't know about you guys, but this fits my mental model of donations better than anything before. I think it'll catch on, because both providers and consumers will love it. We will move to a web with less crap. Maybe even reverse Sturgeon's law.
Couple of years back I tried to build my dad a cheap wordprocessing machine. I got a pentium II, 64MB RAM-type one, put Ubuntu with fluxbox and Abiword on it. Boot time: 4 minutes. Time to usable Abiword: 2 minutes. Probably spent most of that swapping in and out. Then the UI was _crawling_. My dad quipped that "wow, Linux must be for rich people".
So I had to swap that with a Win98, Word97 setup and suddenly it was flying.
When this sort of box was the state of art, Ubuntu didn't exist, and AbiWord was just starting out. Can't blame them they didn't care to make their product fast enough - after all, devs just use nice new machines, right?
On an old box Linux might be great for VIM but that's not all everyone needs:)
Now you've got me dreamin'...
I would so love a crappy but dirt cheap machine.
$5 for a Pentium II, 32MB RAM laptop with ethernet:)
Put Firefox 1 and Windows 98 on it, and I'd get a few, if only to play NFS2 and chat on skype:)
I'm thankful that they put text underneath the icons so I can tell WTF the icon is for, but the text makes the icon redundant.
OK, fifteen pages of complainers who have no idea about HCI now... let me give you a clue.
Icons are beneficial in all interfaces - menus, file managers, toolbars, you name it. They let you find what you're looking for faster. The human brain is optimized to recognize and analyze colors and shapes. When you're confronted with a menu of 10 programs, research shows you find yours more easily by looking for the circular blue-and-red icon than the words "Mozilla Firefox".
Factors in icon design include:
- A clear shape. Firefox is a circle, VS is an infinity symbol, Notepad is a rectangular notebook, and Word is a W in a square.
- Evocative colors. A red cross means delete, a green tick means confirm, yellow-black strips mean security, gray means utility application
- A unique, simple, recognizable design. Your brain sees it a few times and henceforth only looks for the icon, because it's less strain than reading the text.
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I am a free slashdotter. I will not be modded, blogged, DRM'd, patented, podcasted or RFID'd. My life is my own.
This is such a horrifically annoying statement.
Fry is nerdy now? o_O
Better features like what?
I'm playing Quake 3 on my Intel GMA 4500 onboard video, at the highest settings. Getting 90 fps.
Had he patented it, it would've expired in a couple of years and all would be the same. What's your point?
Umm... I had deja vu.
http://xkcd.com/350/ :)
I found them incredible, especially the second one. Rarely does music relax me this much, make me so cheery. And I'm picky about my music.
I definitely find it more enjoyable than most of Mozart, though not all of him (25th Symphony...)
Oops, that was me.
It can be done on the fly.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1553928&cid=31208856
Dynamic range compression is exactly what I want, but I want it to be something I can turn on and off.
You're in luck, this can be done in software. Install the K-Lite Codec Pack Standard. Open your movie in Media Player Classic. Go to "View->Options->External Filters", click Add Filter and add a "Compressor". Rightclick the blue "FFa" systray icon, click "FFDShow audio decoder", enable "Volume" on the left, and in those volume settings enable "Normalize". Voila, quiet parts are louder and loud parts are quieter.
NATIONAL DEBT is ~$130,000 per US home and growing $10,000/yr.
So what? It's not like that makes anyone poorer.
The Foundation Trilogy is an adolescent - intellectual's - fantasy of backstage manipulation and control that plays out on the grandest of scales. "But who guards the guards?"
Hi, what you said bothers me because I can't quite understand it.
Adolescent? Intellectual? Hmm? Could you explain?
This is so beautiful. It might be the first web service I truly, really like. It's in the right place at the right time. People, me included, love clicking "upvote" buttons all day long, because they like to show appreciation and it gives them a feeling of power. How much more meaningful this becomes when there's money attached! It will feel great to "flatter" people with some of your money, while never bothering to keep track of "how much you spend" (stressful, anyone will tell you), as it's a constant that you've decided you want to give out to the world for a month.
I don't know about you guys, but this fits my mental model of donations better than anything before. I think it'll catch on, because both providers and consumers will love it. We will move to a web with less crap. Maybe even reverse Sturgeon's law.
Murder for instance is illegal not because of someone's morals, but because it infringes on the freedom of the victim.
Thanks, I found that somewhat eye-opening.
No, it's not obligatory.
Look, I love xkcd as much as everybody else, but stop pasting it everywhere, that cheapens it.
Oh, you'd think so, wouldn't you?
:)
Couple of years back I tried to build my dad a cheap wordprocessing machine. I got a pentium II, 64MB RAM-type one, put Ubuntu with fluxbox and Abiword on it. Boot time: 4 minutes. Time to usable Abiword: 2 minutes. Probably spent most of that swapping in and out. Then the UI was _crawling_. My dad quipped that "wow, Linux must be for rich people".
So I had to swap that with a Win98, Word97 setup and suddenly it was flying.
When this sort of box was the state of art, Ubuntu didn't exist, and AbiWord was just starting out. Can't blame them they didn't care to make their product fast enough - after all, devs just use nice new machines, right?
On an old box Linux might be great for VIM but that's not all everyone needs
Now you've got me dreamin'... :) :)
I would so love a crappy but dirt cheap machine. $5 for a Pentium II, 32MB RAM laptop with ethernet
Put Firefox 1 and Windows 98 on it, and I'd get a few, if only to play NFS2 and chat on skype
How much faster would my internet access get if all spam were to cease?
You need to read the original from end to end then :)
The app is well named, "internet explorer" is descriptive enough.
And Firefox is a bad name? How about Chrome, Excel, Opera and Skype?
Names are not supposed to be descriptive, although sometimes it helps. They're supposed to be catchy, short and easy to pronounce/spell.
I'm thankful that they put text underneath the icons so I can tell WTF the icon is for, but the text makes the icon redundant.
OK, fifteen pages of complainers who have no idea about HCI now... let me give you a clue.
Icons are beneficial in all interfaces - menus, file managers, toolbars, you name it. They let you find what you're looking for faster. The human brain is optimized to recognize and analyze colors and shapes. When you're confronted with a menu of 10 programs, research shows you find yours more easily by looking for the circular blue-and-red icon than the words "Mozilla Firefox".
Factors in icon design include:
- A clear shape. Firefox is a circle, VS is an infinity symbol, Notepad is a rectangular notebook, and Word is a W in a square.
- Evocative colors. A red cross means delete, a green tick means confirm, yellow-black strips mean security, gray means utility application
- A unique, simple, recognizable design. Your brain sees it a few times and henceforth only looks for the icon, because it's less strain than reading the text.
If you don't trust me, perhaps you'll believe:
Microsoft
Apple
Monkey fur is closer in color to black human skin than to white human skin. If you don't realize that, well...
Ah. Being from Eastern Europe, I didn't know that, really interesting. I thought all christians interpret Genesis literally, I know my dad does.
Er, what? The Catholic Church doesn't believe in creationism? Care to elaborate?