These screen shots are for debugging plain and simple. All of the software I write which has a user interface has the ability to save screenshots at any point during execution so that I figure out what a user was doing that caused the program to crash. It saves about 100 screenshots and the starts erasing older ones as space gets filled.
I'm not sure how Apple uses these shots, if they do at all, but the ability to take screenshots is an invaluable tool for software debugging.
First, let me clarify, I only use iTunes for loading things onto my iPhone, not as a player because I believe the interface to be far inferior to other programs such as WinAMP or even WMP.
Also, I was comparing the software quality to RealPlayer, not necessarily the interface. At least I was actually able to install ReakPlayer back in the day. I am currently trying to install iTunes8 so I can update my phone firmware, but it goes into an infinite loop of install -> uninstall cycles. Been doing it for 30 minutes now and this is the 3rd time I've tried it. Fail.
I see a lot of this talk about how the OS should be able to prevent an application from killing the entire OS, which I completely agree with, but all of the comments act like Windows is the only OS that has this problem.
If that's the case, explain to me why many apps on my iPhone, which runs a version of OS X, will very often cause a complete OS crash and a hard reboot of the device. I agree that Windows has problems, but they aren't the only ones.
I think you have it backwards, people who use iTunes 7, like myself, obviously do not think that it sucks. It's the people who are unfamiliar with iTunes that, for right or wrong, will blame Apple.
Generally speaking of course.
And people who use iTunes like myself, realize what a horrible piece of shit it is. I dare say it is an even bigger pile of excrement than RealPlayer was. iTunes is by far the worst part about owning an iPhone, because I have no choice but to use it. Had I known about the evil that is iTunes on Windows, not to mention all of the many many firmware problems my iPhone has had, I never would have bought one in the first place.
By the way, I actually like OS X for the most part, but I can guarantee I will never buy another Apple product unless they do a total 180 on the quality of their support for non OS X users.
You should check out Ignosticism. Personally, I don't like any kind of classification about my beliefs, but this is probably the closest to describing my thought on the subject of God.
Oh and before anybody makes any remarks about Florida or the south let me clue you.
Very few people in Palm Beach county are from Florida or the south. It is New York south.
And this is exactly the problem. All of the dumbest people from other parts of the country go there to screw up elections and die.
The stereotypical conservative American doesn't really know a lot about unions and doesn't want to know - they're a tool of the devil and the same as communism and that's all you need to know and hate them.
I'm pretty far from the stereotypical conservative American of which you speak, though I have however had many dealings with unions and union employees. My previous job was in the A/V industry. Whenever I did work in union heavy towns, I was required to have a union babysitter to make sure I wasn't trying to take away someones job by plugging a cable into a wall. Seriously. The biggest problem however would be when I was out of town and under deadline, I was not able to work overtime because my union babysitter was required to go home at the 5 o'clock bell. I say required because they were usually perfectly willing to stay late and help me, but couldn't because of the union regulations.
My point is, I've seen many a hard working union employee before being screwed over by the guy that wanders around the job site all day playing with himself, yet making the same amount of money as him. Unions did have a place in our society at one time, but for the most part we have out grown them.
When a persons position in a company is no longer affected by the quality of their work, there is no longer a great incentive to maintain that quality. Pride in your work only goes so far. Not to mention, do you have any idea how hard it is to fire someone that is in a union. The bureaucracy is astounding.
Personally, I'm looking forward to this finally making it possible for me to be able to work from home. I can have a robot sitting in my office chair browsing Slashdot while pretending to work, being controlled by me from my house browsing Slashdot and pretending to work.
I'll work and get paid on my merit. If I don't like the work environment, I'll find a new position. There are plenty of opportunities if you have the skills.
Exactly. Unions mean that you get equal pay for unequal work. It's called Communism. Joe Bob thumb-up-his-ass makes the same as his most skilled and hardest working co-worker.
On the other hand, I could spend way more time on Slashdot while my co-workers picked up the slack for me.
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Fuck me, 2 minutes after I posted this a company wide email was sent out by our NOC informing everyone about our proxy servers new ad blocking feature enabled in order to reduce bandwidth usage. What a strange coincidence that this feature coincided with my install of chrome.
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Ok, I posted this up thread a bit but I'm very confused. I'm currently browsing with chrome and I don't see any ads. Obviously there is no setting for this. My regular browser is FF3 with Ad Block Plus installed, but it is not running. I have never installed any other 3rd party ad blocking software. Why am I the only one not seeing ads on any site whatsoever?
Can someone please explain to me why I am currently browsing slashdot and several other ad heavy sites with Chrome but somehow I am not seeing any banner or flash ads at the moment? Seriously, the only ads that are showing up are google's text ads.
Not only that, but having watched the video, talk about a flamebait remark. The whole process REQUIRES "real" actors. They perform, are recorded and then the software analyses the video and allows the "animators" to transform the performance in various ways (replacing the human with a character for example). It's similar to motion capture only it doesn't require the performer to wear a suit or markers etc.
This technique requires real actors FACES. That face can then be transplanted onto any animated body which have already gotten very close to actual human realism. The point of this is to add another missing component to creating a fully realistic animation.
Alas, that is unfortunately the view of most of the world. It's perfectly fine for a doctor to prescribe severely addictive and mind altering drugs than may or may not treat a patients problem, but it is very taboo to prescribe a drug that has been studied and in use for centuries and is in fact well understood.
But are you saying people can be addicted to the 'effects' of marijuana without smoking it?...didn't think so.
Then your vast knowledge and life experience on the topic should definitely qualify you as an expert.
Psychological addiction doesn't require any specific drug. Someone that gets addicted to marijuana would be just as likely to get addicted to another substance or activity, illicit or otherwise.
Much like how you are obviously addicted to purveying your ignorance.
Have you ever smoked marijuana? If so, were you immediately hooked? Have you ever known anyone that has smoked marijuana recreationaly (meaning every once in a while) for several years and then needed it so bad they started sucking cock for it? I doubt it. The truth is that if I was forced to smoke weed 5 times a day for the next month, I could then stop and never smoke it again. You know why? Because the drug is not addictive and I don't happen to like the "high" that weed gives me. In fact, I would look forward to the day I was allowed to stop.
Frankly, your complete lack of understanding of the difference between physical and psychological addiction is astounding. Also, it is ignorance like yours which keeps a drug that is no more (maybe less) harmful than alcohol, and possibly beneficial to a great many people, illegal.
Agreed. The point I was making was that it is not addictive in the same way as a drug such as heroin is. Unlike an opiate, not all people will be affected because the addiction is not physical, it is psychological. I have known many people that have been addicted to marijuana. However, the weed was just a place holder. Had they not had access to weed, they would have found some other substance to take it's place in order to avoid reality, possibly something much more physically addictive and harmful.
The drug itself is not addictive. The effects of the drug are addictive. This is true of anything really. If it makes you feel better than you usually do, you can get addicted to it. This is the same reason that for some, even exercise can be addictive.
Luckily I do not suffer from that particular affliction.
Hell, the first 1.5 hrs of the opening was one of the most magnificent shows ever to put on the face of the earth.
I would agree. However, I will also add FUCK NBC for cutting to commercial every 5 minutes. I realize it is one big commercial venture, but this fucking with high art. It would be like adding commercials in the middle of Citizen Kane.
One of the greatest live shows I've ever seen interrupted by offers to save money on my car insurance. Tragic.
I know this is a very late post on this topic and no one will probably read it, but this is actually a tongue-in-cheek parody site. The summary linked to the wrong website. The website in the summary is a parody of the actual site at theflatearthsociety.net.
So even thought the article was linked incorrectly, these nut jobs do actually exist.
Most of us don't even have hidef TVs. Without a high definition television, BluRay is worthless.
My TV is forty two inches, flat screen, only five years old. I paid a thousand bucks for it, and I'm not planning on replacing it any time soon. By the time I need a new TV, BluRay will be obsolete.
And that's the problem. The people that don't see the large difference are the people that are trying to play Blu-Ray on a non-HD tv, or a crappy HD one. Not to mention that most people that buy the latest and greatest HD set have no idea how to properly configure it and just leave it on the manufacturers showroom (read horribly off) setting. I just bought a very good Sony SXRD rear projection to replace my 10 year old set and professionally calibrated it. (I used to be an Pro AV Engineer) I can tell you without hesitation that there is a significant difference between standard DVD and Blu-Ray, and in my opinion, worth the money. However, a standard DVD also looks very good on it as well, and is probably good enough for non videophiles such as myself.
And by the way, the TV was on closeout for $1300. You don't have to spend a lot of money to get a good HDTV unless you are trying to make a fashion statement with your new wall art.
The fuel filter on my car requires a $70 tool in order to remove it. The tool does absolutely nothing else, but if you try to remove it without the tool, you will most assuredly damage the metallic fuel line witch can cost upwards of $400 to replace.
But, as you stated, with modern cars the computer runs most of the systems in the car, from the accelerator to the blinker, so diagnosis is virtualy impossible without a proper scanner.
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These screen shots are for debugging plain and simple. All of the software I write which has a user interface has the ability to save screenshots at any point during execution so that I figure out what a user was doing that caused the program to crash. It saves about 100 screenshots and the starts erasing older ones as space gets filled.
I'm not sure how Apple uses these shots, if they do at all, but the ability to take screenshots is an invaluable tool for software debugging.
First, let me clarify, I only use iTunes for loading things onto my iPhone, not as a player because I believe the interface to be far inferior to other programs such as WinAMP or even WMP.
Also, I was comparing the software quality to RealPlayer, not necessarily the interface. At least I was actually able to install ReakPlayer back in the day. I am currently trying to install iTunes8 so I can update my phone firmware, but it goes into an infinite loop of install -> uninstall cycles. Been doing it for 30 minutes now and this is the 3rd time I've tried it. Fail.
I see a lot of this talk about how the OS should be able to prevent an application from killing the entire OS, which I completely agree with, but all of the comments act like Windows is the only OS that has this problem.
If that's the case, explain to me why many apps on my iPhone, which runs a version of OS X, will very often cause a complete OS crash and a hard reboot of the device. I agree that Windows has problems, but they aren't the only ones.
I think you have it backwards, people who use iTunes 7, like myself, obviously do not think that it sucks. It's the people who are unfamiliar with iTunes that, for right or wrong, will blame Apple. Generally speaking of course.
And people who use iTunes like myself, realize what a horrible piece of shit it is. I dare say it is an even bigger pile of excrement than RealPlayer was. iTunes is by far the worst part about owning an iPhone, because I have no choice but to use it. Had I known about the evil that is iTunes on Windows, not to mention all of the many many firmware problems my iPhone has had, I never would have bought one in the first place.
By the way, I actually like OS X for the most part, but I can guarantee I will never buy another Apple product unless they do a total 180 on the quality of their support for non OS X users.
You should check out Ignosticism. Personally, I don't like any kind of classification about my beliefs, but this is probably the closest to describing my thought on the subject of God.
Oh and before anybody makes any remarks about Florida or the south let me clue you.
Very few people in Palm Beach county are from Florida or the south. It is New York south.
And this is exactly the problem. All of the dumbest people from other parts of the country go there to screw up elections and die.
Thank you, AC, you have shown me the light. Henceforth, I shall be on the side of good. RIAA, count me among thy converted.
The stereotypical conservative American doesn't really know a lot about unions and doesn't want to know - they're a tool of the devil and the same as communism and that's all you need to know and hate them.
I'm pretty far from the stereotypical conservative American of which you speak, though I have however had many dealings with unions and union employees. My previous job was in the A/V industry. Whenever I did work in union heavy towns, I was required to have a union babysitter to make sure I wasn't trying to take away someones job by plugging a cable into a wall. Seriously. The biggest problem however would be when I was out of town and under deadline, I was not able to work overtime because my union babysitter was required to go home at the 5 o'clock bell. I say required because they were usually perfectly willing to stay late and help me, but couldn't because of the union regulations.
My point is, I've seen many a hard working union employee before being screwed over by the guy that wanders around the job site all day playing with himself, yet making the same amount of money as him. Unions did have a place in our society at one time, but for the most part we have out grown them.
When a persons position in a company is no longer affected by the quality of their work, there is no longer a great incentive to maintain that quality. Pride in your work only goes so far. Not to mention, do you have any idea how hard it is to fire someone that is in a union. The bureaucracy is astounding.
Personally, I'm looking forward to this finally making it possible for me to be able to work from home. I can have a robot sitting in my office chair browsing Slashdot while pretending to work, being controlled by me from my house browsing Slashdot and pretending to work.
I'll work and get paid on my merit. If I don't like the work environment, I'll find a new position. There are plenty of opportunities if you have the skills.
Exactly. Unions mean that you get equal pay for unequal work. It's called Communism. Joe Bob thumb-up-his-ass makes the same as his most skilled and hardest working co-worker.
On the other hand, I could spend way more time on Slashdot while my co-workers picked up the slack for me.
Fuck me, 2 minutes after I posted this a company wide email was sent out by our NOC informing everyone about our proxy servers new ad blocking feature enabled in order to reduce bandwidth usage. What a strange coincidence that this feature coincided with my install of chrome.
Ok, I posted this up thread a bit but I'm very confused. I'm currently browsing with chrome and I don't see any ads. Obviously there is no setting for this. My regular browser is FF3 with Ad Block Plus installed, but it is not running. I have never installed any other 3rd party ad blocking software. Why am I the only one not seeing ads on any site whatsoever?
Can someone please explain to me why I am currently browsing slashdot and several other ad heavy sites with Chrome but somehow I am not seeing any banner or flash ads at the moment? Seriously, the only ads that are showing up are google's text ads.
Not only that, but having watched the video, talk about a flamebait remark. The whole process REQUIRES "real" actors. They perform, are recorded and then the software analyses the video and allows the "animators" to transform the performance in various ways (replacing the human with a character for example). It's similar to motion capture only it doesn't require the performer to wear a suit or markers etc.
This technique requires real actors FACES. That face can then be transplanted onto any animated body which have already gotten very close to actual human realism. The point of this is to add another missing component to creating a fully realistic animation.
Alas, that is unfortunately the view of most of the world. It's perfectly fine for a doctor to prescribe severely addictive and mind altering drugs than may or may not treat a patients problem, but it is very taboo to prescribe a drug that has been studied and in use for centuries and is in fact well understood.
BTW, I did assume you were being sarcastic.
I never have, and never will, smoke anything.
But are you saying people can be addicted to the 'effects' of marijuana without smoking it? ...didn't think so.
Then your vast knowledge and life experience on the topic should definitely qualify you as an expert.
Psychological addiction doesn't require any specific drug. Someone that gets addicted to marijuana would be just as likely to get addicted to another substance or activity, illicit or otherwise.
Much like how you are obviously addicted to purveying your ignorance.
Have you ever smoked marijuana? If so, were you immediately hooked? Have you ever known anyone that has smoked marijuana recreationaly (meaning every once in a while) for several years and then needed it so bad they started sucking cock for it? I doubt it. The truth is that if I was forced to smoke weed 5 times a day for the next month, I could then stop and never smoke it again. You know why? Because the drug is not addictive and I don't happen to like the "high" that weed gives me. In fact, I would look forward to the day I was allowed to stop.
Frankly, your complete lack of understanding of the difference between physical and psychological addiction is astounding. Also, it is ignorance like yours which keeps a drug that is no more (maybe less) harmful than alcohol, and possibly beneficial to a great many people, illegal.
Agreed. The point I was making was that it is not addictive in the same way as a drug such as heroin is. Unlike an opiate, not all people will be affected because the addiction is not physical, it is psychological. I have known many people that have been addicted to marijuana. However, the weed was just a place holder. Had they not had access to weed, they would have found some other substance to take it's place in order to avoid reality, possibly something much more physically addictive and harmful.
The drug itself is not addictive. The effects of the drug are addictive. This is true of anything really. If it makes you feel better than you usually do, you can get addicted to it. This is the same reason that for some, even exercise can be addictive.
Luckily I do not suffer from that particular affliction.
And this would most likely be a valid reason to get a warrant to search the premises further. However, that is not what happened.
And IANAL so that may not even be good enough for a warrant.
Hell, the first 1.5 hrs of the opening was one of the most magnificent shows ever to put on the face of the earth.
I would agree. However, I will also add FUCK NBC for cutting to commercial every 5 minutes. I realize it is one big commercial venture, but this fucking with high art. It would be like adding commercials in the middle of Citizen Kane.
One of the greatest live shows I've ever seen interrupted by offers to save money on my car insurance. Tragic.
I know this is a very late post on this topic and no one will probably read it, but this is actually a tongue-in-cheek parody site. The summary linked to the wrong website. The website in the summary is a parody of the actual site at theflatearthsociety.net.
So even thought the article was linked incorrectly, these nut jobs do actually exist.
So probably not enough time to find the nearest woman and convince her you're a virgin
I'm sure you won't have to do much convincing.
Most of us don't even have hidef TVs. Without a high definition television, BluRay is worthless.
My TV is forty two inches, flat screen, only five years old. I paid a thousand bucks for it, and I'm not planning on replacing it any time soon. By the time I need a new TV, BluRay will be obsolete.
And that's the problem. The people that don't see the large difference are the people that are trying to play Blu-Ray on a non-HD tv, or a crappy HD one. Not to mention that most people that buy the latest and greatest HD set have no idea how to properly configure it and just leave it on the manufacturers showroom (read horribly off) setting. I just bought a very good Sony SXRD rear projection to replace my 10 year old set and professionally calibrated it. (I used to be an Pro AV Engineer) I can tell you without hesitation that there is a significant difference between standard DVD and Blu-Ray, and in my opinion, worth the money. However, a standard DVD also looks very good on it as well, and is probably good enough for non videophiles such as myself.
And by the way, the TV was on closeout for $1300. You don't have to spend a lot of money to get a good HDTV unless you are trying to make a fashion statement with your new wall art.
The fuel filter on my car requires a $70 tool in order to remove it. The tool does absolutely nothing else, but if you try to remove it without the tool, you will most assuredly damage the metallic fuel line witch can cost upwards of $400 to replace.
But, as you stated, with modern cars the computer runs most of the systems in the car, from the accelerator to the blinker, so diagnosis is virtualy impossible without a proper scanner.
Luckily, my dad is a mechanic.