Are they still committed to breaking one of Gimp's best features: "Intelligent Save" ? (Inferring file type based on extension)
Splitting "File > Export" and "File > Save" is counter-intuitive; it's not DWIMish, and I guarantee more people will be frustrated that the Save dialog box is "broken" when they try to save a JPG and end up with an XCF file instead. "File > Export" reeks of being Designed By Developers, rather than actually taking user behavior into account.
(And stealing the keystroke for "Fit In Window" is just adding insult to injury...)
So the way I read this is: if you sample just a teeny bit of a song (the hook from "It Takes Two", e.g.) you're infringing -- or you have to pay out the wazoo to get the sample cleared -- but if you include enough of the material to claim "Commentary", then [they'd argue] you're clear.
vmplayer (or Xen, or VirtualBox, or...) would get my vote.
Integrate the hypervisor into the motherboard and run whatever OS(es) you desire. If the mobo could suspend/resume the OS itself, it would make "instant on" a lot less painless -- and you could dual-boot without having to actually shutdown in the middle.
I'm hoping this is simply the first [well, second if you count iTunes] of many iApps that Apple will release for Windows.
One word: iChat. iChat for Windows would be the oft-fantasized Video Phone; people would use it and it would 'Just Work'.
And once people start seeing that Apple software -- iMovie, Keynote, etc. -- works just like (nay, better than) their previous Windows counterparts, they won't be as afraid to switch ships.
It's silly to say Apple is "stupid" for expanding into the larger market. If you can run the full suite of Apple iApps on Windows on Boot Camp on your Apple Hardware, that's pretty much the Holy Grail for most folks...
I've had identical HDDs, bought at the same time, set up for RAID1 mirroring, and both died at the same time -- within hours of each other, overnight, without any time to swap out the failed disk!
So now I've gotten into the habit of setting up two 500GB disks, partition them the same, and rsync(1) from the master to the backup periodically. [Run out of cron four times a day, e.g.] The second disk does far less work, therefore it shouldn't fail as quickly.
Ideally, I'd love to be able to incorporate revisioning (and/or snapshotting) on the second disk -- basically use it as a journal to track deltas, and cycle backwards through transactions as necessary to do point-in-time recovery.
I'm guessing this is along the lines of what Apple has in mind with the "Time Machine" feature in Leopard.
Does anyone know when to look for this meteor shower in Sydney, Australia? Meteor showers aren't like eclipses; they're not better on one part of the Earth than another. (Well, they're better on the "non-cloudy" parts, but that's beside the point!)
Meteor showers are a result of the Earth -- the WHOLE Earth -- passing through a cloud of dust. The key isn't WHERE you are, but HOW MUCH LIGHT you can eliminate.
When the moon is out, it drowns things out, so the suggested times are merely indications of when the moon and sun (obviously) are hidden from view.
More succinctly:
If the experiment confirms your hypothesis, it's a "measurement".
If the experiment refutes your hypothesis, it's called a "discovery".
--:- Dabe
Linksys is an example of a company which apparently DOESN'T want its hardware to be purchased by DIY-ers.
Witness the Series 5 and Series 6 WRT54G routers; they stripped down the NVRAM to emasculate their equipment to the point that it's no longer desirable for general applications.
A better analogy, IMHO, is in the automotive industry: so many people were "ricing" out their Honda Civics that Toyota said, "How can we compete with that?" and introduced the Scion -- with a *TON* of aftermarket kits.
If Apple is going to continue to be a hardware company, then by all means it makes sense for them to say, "Here's an affordable, attractive set-top appliance... Do with it what you please."
I'd love to see them merge the &Apple;TV [sic] and the Mac Mini into one product -- much like they combined the iPod Mini+Nano -- a general purpose WLAN device, with aftermarket adapters for connecting to Composite, Component, S-Video, VGA, DVI, HDMI, or whatever new L-M-N-O-P interface comes out next year. A Core Duo chip is more than capable enough for decoding A/V streams; a 120GB 2-1/2" HDD is big enough to hold a hundred compressed movies, and 802.11n is fast enough to stream HDTV from one room to another.
I'd be shocked if they couldn't put together something like that for the same cost as an XBOX 360...
More fun was taking a two-pack -- with a full-size cube and a keychain mini-cube -- giving the mini-cube to a friend to mix up, then arranging the full-sized cube to match the scrambled one.
It was harder because you couldn't tell what needed to be done at a glance (Normally, if a side was all blue except for two, you knew what you needed to do. This way you actually had to keep comparing over and over, and thinking about "Okay... This corner has to be blue, yellow, and red. Now where *IS* the blue, yellow, and red corner?")
I used to carry around a Rubik's Cube in the car.
When I got to one red light, I'd mix it up. Then when I got to the next red light, I'd solve it. It usually took two red lights for me to finish, though -- probably about a minute total.
Contrast that to the seventeen-jillion Linux distros out there; I hardly think folks can complain about being confused by the overwhelming multitude (NOT!) of BSD derivatives.
Seriously, though. I like to tell people BSD stands for "Better Stripped Down" 'cuz if you need a small server, running on commodity (read: "used") hardware, BSD will serve you very well.
You don't want your firewall running OOo, or come standard with seven different mail readers. Lean and mean, that's BSD's selling point.
You're using a lightweight protocol (RSS) to pass around small bits of data (.TORRENT)
Using Enclosures isn't the way to do it -- rather, you should be including that content in-line.
But "linking" to a shared resource is a lot more like what the "Enclosure" tag was meant to be. In effect, if you replace the "http:" with "torrent:" your Enclosures would be that much more efficient.
What you're *NOT* doing is sending creating ".torrent" files of RSS content. What would be the point? All that XML is short-lived; it's designed to exist only until a new version appears, which could be any minute. You wouldn't want to have to build up SEEDS of FEEDS for a quickly-changing blog or news site. Only for persistent online storage.
For those of you thinking that this is a way of distributing RSS feeds via BitTorrent, think again - the feeds are distributed normally, and this doesn't let existing feed readers do anything new with BitTorrent, they'll still be downloading both the feeds and the external resources though HTTP.
But when your RSS Feed can reference its own ".torrent", couldn't your news aggre-reader automatically hand that off to a BitTorrent engine underneath?
The perfect world: LiveCDs with Lots of RAM and no permanent storage. Boot; connects; listens; shares. And as soon as you unplug it, it's memory is wiped. (It would take considerable forensics to retrieve, that's for sure...):- D
Isn't this everybody praises BitTorrent, and flaunts their DL/UL speeds?
My peak was 480KB/s down, 207KB/s up (That's ~3.5Mbps x ~1.7Mbps)
Thanks to Verizon's FIOS (Fiber To The Premesis), I've seen BitTorrent speeds up into the ~700 range. I guess as more people fetch Slackware 10.2, this number will increase (but by then, I'll have finished downloading it, and will only be seeding.)
Right now I'm connected to 36 / ~300 systems online. I'm *SURE* that bottom number should go up...
I know FIOS can handle more; I have enough bandwidth to support downloading multiple CDs at the same time, without having them slow each other down. Yummm...
If listing lines which WEREN'T in the film counts as {SPOILERS!}, then consider yourself warned.
That said, I was pleased with the movie. I consider it 55% faithful to the book -- the majority of the movie did parallel the story, with an acceptable amount of artistic license thrown in.
I was *VERY* sadly disappointed that the entry for Earth ("Harmless") wasn't mentioned *AT ALL!*
They sort of did a quick nod to the fact that Ford was on Earth to research more details, but they didn't even get to make the "Mostly Harmless" reference. *THAT* my friends is blasphemy!
(It'd be like saying "Kids will think it funnier if we use 69 instead of 42!")
Other lines which are sorely absent:
Guide: "[Earthlings] still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
Arthur: "It's times like this I wish I'd listened to what my mother used to say." Ford: "What'd she used to say?" Arthur: "I don't know, I never listened..."
Guide: "[Earthlings] concern themselves primarily with the moving of small green pieces of paper, which is ironic because in general, the pieces of paper aren't concerned at all." [paraphrasing]
[In the pub, speaking of teleportation] Ford: "It feels kind of like being drunk." Arthur: "What's so bad about that?" Ford: "Try asking a glass of water."
[In the Heart of Gold] Ford: "Arthur, there's an infinite number of monkeys out here and they'd like a word with you about this script they've come up with."
I'm glad they kept Slartibartfast saying "Late as in the late Dentarthurdent" but they didn't even mention the usefulness of having a towel if you're ever in peril of being eaten by the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal!
Nor did they acknowledge the Peril Sensitive Sunglasses. *Shrug* I can understand why that gag got dropped, though.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but was the giant girl Ford was talking to supposed to be the Triple Breasted Whore of [... Ack, I've forgetten where she was from!]
The omission of Vroomfondle and Magicthize was okay, but let me get this straight: Benji and Jeremy (the mice) were the same two people who built Deep Thought? And Arthur SMASHED THEM??!? What's up with that?!
Anyway, I do have to say I liked the movie, and I'll certainly buy the DVD, but I hope that some of the entries I long for are included in the additional material.
The "I know this great Restaurant at the End of the Universe" line at the end was a nice teaser for a sequel, but how will Marvin be "found" working as a valet?
For security, choose OpenBSD.
For portability, choose NetBSD.
For usability, choose FreeBSD.
About the only thing keeping me from playing with BSD is the lack of a single "entry point".
That's also the biggest strength -- different (*cough*) "distros" have different strengths and weaknesses. (You said it yourself, Linux has become "beige".)
If you want to breathe new life into an old Alpha you picked up online, NetBSD is the way to go. (Or if you have a handful of different architectures you would like to keep synced to a common source tree.)
If you want a lean, mean, server machine, you should opt for OpenBSD. [My preference.]
If you're looking to build a box to use on your desktop and start "fiddling" with, go with FreeBSD -- this is the likely first choice for 80% of the BSD population, and it sounds like what you're looking for.
(My other criteria is "If you need to run X, run FreeBSD" because it supports the most graphics cards & monitors.)
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Are they still committed to breaking one of Gimp's best features: "Intelligent Save" ? (Inferring file type based on extension)
Splitting "File > Export" and "File > Save" is counter-intuitive; it's not DWIMish, and I guarantee more people will be frustrated that the Save dialog box is "broken" when they try to save a JPG and end up with an XCF file instead. "File > Export" reeks of being Designed By Developers, rather than actually taking user behavior into account.
(And stealing the keystroke for "Fit In Window" is just adding insult to injury...)
Interesting...
So the way I read this is: if you sample just a teeny bit of a song (the hook from "It Takes Two", e.g.) you're infringing -- or you have to pay out the wazoo to get the sample cleared -- but if you include enough of the material to claim "Commentary", then [they'd argue] you're clear.
VERY interesting...
vmplayer (or Xen, or VirtualBox, or...) would get my vote.
Integrate the hypervisor into the motherboard and run whatever OS(es) you desire. If the mobo could suspend/resume the OS itself, it would make "instant on" a lot less painless -- and you could dual-boot without having to actually shutdown in the middle.
(You could also ask why not CGI::Application, POE, CGI::Prototype, or innumerable others... You're right, though, Catalyst is the most RoR-esque.)
Speaking of... If it's Ruby on Rails, shouldn't the equivalent be "Perl on Piles" or something? *Shrug*
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:- Dabe
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I'm hoping this is simply the first [well, second if you count iTunes] of many iApps that Apple will release for Windows.
:- Dabe
One word: iChat. iChat for Windows would be the oft-fantasized Video Phone; people would use it and it would 'Just Work'.
And once people start seeing that Apple software -- iMovie, Keynote, etc. -- works just like (nay, better than) their previous Windows counterparts, they won't be as afraid to switch ships.
It's silly to say Apple is "stupid" for expanding into the larger market. If you can run the full suite of Apple iApps on Windows on Boot Camp on your Apple Hardware, that's pretty much the Holy Grail for most folks...
--
So now I've gotten into the habit of setting up two 500GB disks, partition them the same, and rsync(1) from the master to the backup periodically. [Run out of cron four times a day, e.g.] The second disk does far less work, therefore it shouldn't fail as quickly.
Ideally, I'd love to be able to incorporate revisioning (and/or snapshotting) on the second disk -- basically use it as a journal to track deltas, and cycle backwards through transactions as necessary to do point-in-time recovery.
I'm guessing this is along the lines of what Apple has in mind with the "Time Machine" feature in Leopard.
--
Dabe
Meteor showers are a result of the Earth -- the WHOLE Earth -- passing through a cloud of dust. The key isn't WHERE you are, but HOW MUCH LIGHT you can eliminate.
When the moon is out, it drowns things out, so the suggested times are merely indications of when the moon and sun (obviously) are hidden from view.
--
More succinctly: If the experiment confirms your hypothesis, it's a "measurement". If the experiment refutes your hypothesis, it's called a "discovery". -- :- Dabe
Linksys is an example of a company which apparently DOESN'T want its hardware to be purchased by DIY-ers.
:- Dabe
Witness the Series 5 and Series 6 WRT54G routers; they stripped down the NVRAM to emasculate their equipment to the point that it's no longer desirable for general applications.
A better analogy, IMHO, is in the automotive industry: so many people were "ricing" out their Honda Civics that Toyota said, "How can we compete with that?" and introduced the Scion -- with a *TON* of aftermarket kits.
If Apple is going to continue to be a hardware company, then by all means it makes sense for them to say, "Here's an affordable, attractive set-top appliance... Do with it what you please."
I'd love to see them merge the &Apple;TV [sic] and the Mac Mini into one product -- much like they combined the iPod Mini+Nano -- a general purpose WLAN device, with aftermarket adapters for connecting to Composite, Component, S-Video, VGA, DVI, HDMI, or whatever new L-M-N-O-P interface comes out next year. A Core Duo chip is more than capable enough for decoding A/V streams; a 120GB 2-1/2" HDD is big enough to hold a hundred compressed movies, and 802.11n is fast enough to stream HDTV from one room to another.
I'd be shocked if they couldn't put together something like that for the same cost as an XBOX 360...
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Stupid hint: space your disks at least one drive's width apart if possible.
:- Dabe
It seems obvious, but if you have three internal 3-1/2" bays, put your disks in slots #1 and #3 so there's some ventilation between them.
Kinda like urinal etiquette...
--
I got a football signed by Fran Tarkenton (he was CEO of one of the startup companies fielding a software generating workbench).
... than Need It and Not Have It.
"That's Incredible!"
(Boy am I showing my age...)
--
It's Better to Have It and Not Need It
And my Amiga 500 ran with only 512KB (with a 'K') of RAM.
Of course, serious users upgraded to a Fatter Agnus to get the full 1MB -- *AND* the battery-backed clock!
More fun was taking a two-pack -- with a full-size cube and a keychain mini-cube -- giving the mini-cube to a friend to mix up, then arranging the full-sized cube to match the scrambled one.
:- D
It was harder because you couldn't tell what needed to be done at a glance (Normally, if a side was all blue except for two, you knew what you needed to do. This way you actually had to keep comparing over and over, and thinking about "Okay... This corner has to be blue, yellow, and red. Now where *IS* the blue, yellow, and red corner?")
I used to carry around a Rubik's Cube in the car.
When I got to one red light, I'd mix it up. Then when I got to the next red light, I'd solve it. It usually took two red lights for me to finish, though -- probably about a minute total.
--
I find a hard time keeping track of all the *BSDs.
There are THREE (not counting DragonFly BSD)
OpenBSD = Secure
FreeBSD = Feature-Rich
NetBSD = Portable (54 Architectures?!)
Contrast that to the seventeen-jillion Linux distros out there; I hardly think folks can complain about being confused by the overwhelming multitude (NOT!) of BSD derivatives.
Seriously, though. I like to tell people BSD stands for "Better Stripped Down" 'cuz if you need a small server, running on commodity (read: "used") hardware, BSD will serve you very well.
You don't want your firewall running OOo, or come standard with seven different mail readers. Lean and mean, that's BSD's selling point.
Using Enclosures isn't the way to do it -- rather, you should be including that content in-line.
But "linking" to a shared resource is a lot more like what the "Enclosure" tag was meant to be. In effect, if you replace the "http:" with "torrent:" your Enclosures would be that much more efficient.
What you're *NOT* doing is sending creating ".torrent" files of RSS content. What would be the point? All that XML is short-lived; it's designed to exist only until a new version appears, which could be any minute. You wouldn't want to have to build up SEEDS of FEEDS for a quickly-changing blog or news site. Only for persistent online storage.
For those of you thinking that this is a way of distributing RSS feeds via BitTorrent, think again - the feeds are distributed normally, and this doesn't let existing feed readers do anything new with BitTorrent, they'll still be downloading both the feeds and the external resources though HTTP.
:- D
But when your RSS Feed can reference its own ".torrent", couldn't your news aggre-reader automatically hand that off to a BitTorrent engine underneath?
The perfect world: LiveCDs with Lots of RAM and no permanent storage. Boot; connects; listens; shares. And as soon as you unplug it, it's memory is wiped. (It would take considerable forensics to retrieve, that's for sure...)
Isn't this everybody praises BitTorrent, and flaunts their DL/UL speeds?
.erutangis
My peak was 480KB/s down, 207KB/s up (That's ~3.5Mbps x ~1.7Mbps)
Thanks to Verizon's FIOS (Fiber To The Premesis), I've seen BitTorrent speeds up into the ~700 range. I guess as more people fetch Slackware 10.2, this number will increase (but by then, I'll have finished downloading it, and will only be seeding.)
Right now I'm connected to 36 / ~300 systems online. I'm *SURE* that bottom number should go up...
I know FIOS can handle more; I have enough bandwidth to support downloading multiple CDs at the same time, without having them slow each other down. Yummm...
--
No, I'm not superstitious or nothing like that.... honest.
:- D
Don't you know it's Bad Luck to be superstitious?
(I'm only sub-stitious, myself, but I know some people who are HYPER-stitious...)
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A full 8% of the human race will slowly die without meat in their diet
:- D
A full 100% of all life on Earth will slowly die regardless of diet, exercise, enzymes, or legislative oversight.
Don't put it past the current Administration to declare "War on Death"; it'll be as effective as banning Phishing, Spyware, and File Sharing.
--
From TFA:
:- D.
"It was more smoke than fire but it did leave a burn mark on the cover."
Well there's the problem! He Let the Magic Smoke Out.
--
If listing lines which WEREN'T in the film counts as {SPOILERS!}, then consider yourself warned.
That said, I was pleased with the movie. I consider it 55% faithful to the book -- the majority of the movie did parallel the story, with an acceptable amount of artistic license thrown in.
I was *VERY* sadly disappointed that the entry for Earth ("Harmless") wasn't mentioned *AT ALL!*
They sort of did a quick nod to the fact that Ford was on Earth to research more details, but they didn't even get to make the "Mostly Harmless" reference. *THAT* my friends is blasphemy!
(It'd be like saying "Kids will think it funnier if we use 69 instead of 42!")
Other lines which are sorely absent:
Guide: "[Earthlings] still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea."
Arthur: "It's times like this I wish I'd listened to what my mother used to say."
Ford: "What'd she used to say?"
Arthur: "I don't know, I never listened..."
Guide: "[Earthlings] concern themselves primarily with the moving of small green pieces of paper, which is ironic because in general, the pieces of paper aren't concerned at all." [paraphrasing]
[In the pub, speaking of teleportation]
Ford: "It feels kind of like being drunk."
Arthur: "What's so bad about that?"
Ford: "Try asking a glass of water."
[In the Heart of Gold]
Ford: "Arthur, there's an infinite number of monkeys out here and they'd like a word with you about this script they've come up with."
I'm glad they kept Slartibartfast saying "Late as in the late Dentarthurdent" but they didn't even mention the usefulness of having a towel if you're ever in peril of being eaten by the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal!
Nor did they acknowledge the Peril Sensitive Sunglasses. *Shrug* I can understand why that gag got dropped, though.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but was the giant girl Ford was talking to supposed to be the Triple Breasted Whore of [... Ack, I've forgetten where she was from!]
The omission of Vroomfondle and Magicthize was okay, but let me get this straight: Benji and Jeremy (the mice) were the same two people who built Deep Thought? And Arthur SMASHED THEM??!? What's up with that?!
Anyway, I do have to say I liked the movie, and I'll certainly buy the DVD, but I hope that some of the entries I long for are included in the additional material.
The "I know this great Restaurant at the End of the Universe" line at the end was a nice teaser for a sequel, but how will Marvin be "found" working as a valet?
Here I was hoping it was POE, the Perl Object Environment.
But that'd be reinventing the Wheel...
(I slay me!)
The common mantra has always been:
For security, choose OpenBSD.
For portability, choose NetBSD.
For usability, choose FreeBSD.
About the only thing keeping me from playing with BSD is the lack of a single "entry point".
That's also the biggest strength -- different (*cough*) "distros" have different strengths and weaknesses. (You said it yourself, Linux has become "beige".)
If you want to breathe new life into an old Alpha you picked up online, NetBSD is the way to go. (Or if you have a handful of different architectures you would like to keep synced to a common source tree.)
If you want a lean, mean, server machine, you should opt for OpenBSD. [My preference.]
If you're looking to build a box to use on your desktop and start "fiddling" with, go with FreeBSD -- this is the likely first choice for 80% of the BSD population, and it sounds like what you're looking for.
(My other criteria is "If you need to run X, run FreeBSD" because it supports the most graphics cards & monitors.)