There is an order to the folders but not to tags. In your example, there would be no difference between the paths/images/me/2012-11-20 and me/2012-11-20/images or me/images/2012-11-20.
If you add a parent/child relationship to your tags, you might as well just stick with folders. Typically, file name extensions could be used as a simple tagging system for searches. We just need smarter apps that don't tie their data files to particular extensions.
Google should consider each of those excerpts as advertisements of the news articles. Then, they should turn around and charge the news organizations for them.
That advertisement fee should cover the cost of the copyright plus the administration costs of managing those fees. That way the news companies would end up paying more to Google than Google pays them back.
I was just looking at the maps app and noticed that when you're zoomed in far enough to see the streets, one section in my city, Calgary, are covered by clouds! The clouds and their shadows completely obscure the view of the homes and streets. Practically the whole community of Rundle is missing.
The big difference is that you can only buy apps directly on your Android device so Google Play knows what you have. The iTunes store on my devices also exclude items that won't work with the device I'm buying with.
But if you're using iTunes on the desktop, how is it supposed to know which device of yours you're getting the app for? You could have 15 devices registered, some which would work, others that wouldn't. Every app on the store though lists the required hardware and OS version.
The way I see it is that this is a direct cost of business that Google must recover. The snippet really is an advertisement of the article they are pointing to. That snippet is what the user uses to make the decision to click the link.
If the publisher wants that snippet shown, Google can charge them a nice monthly fee for advertising the article. Or they can opt out and have their article shown without the snippet or not at all.
Of course, Google is going to have to hire many new people to manage this administrative cost, so the fee they charge the publishers is going to be higher than the copyright fee they're being forced to pay. Add to that some profit factor and they win!
I didn't want to do anything so complicated, especially if I have to type the names over and over. So I decided to just use single letters of the alphabet. Nothing's easier than typing a share when the host is only a single letter long! Eg. "\\a\c$".
And to make it even easier to organize, IP addresses match the letter number. A is.1, B is.2, etc.
It wouldn't work for a business, but for home, why make it any harder than needed?
Actually, the current version of WinDVD does 2D to 3D conversion in real time. And it supports red/cyan glasses or real 3D TV's.
It's not perfect, but it's neat for the odd movie.
It's one thing for the guy running a web server to keep logs for 18 months. That's probably easy given cheap disk and compression. But the web site host is not an ISP. They could be anybody, and they're probably not going to record logs if they have material they want to hide.
It would be impossible for an ISP to record all traffic though. I have a 100 Mbit/s connection to the internet now. Can they possible write a record to disk of every connection I make over HTTP? How about NNTP, SMTP, etc. Then, multiply that across tens of thousands of users at today's broadband speeds. It just can't be done!
For an analogy, have someone hop on a subway train and record in a notebook every time one person speaks to another person. Then, assume there are 200 people on each subway car, multiplied by 200 cars, multiplied by hundreds of cities... You'd exhaust the worlds paper supply in a week!
At best, they should be able to give a warrant to an ISP to record a specific IP address for a period of time just like a normal wire tap would happen.
It seems that governments are using the term Terrorist more and more often to get bad laws introduced because they know that no one would accept them otherwise. Maybe it's time we started using the term as well to make them feel uncomfortable about letting these absurd patent cases happen.
These patent trolls should be referred to with a new term like Software Terrorists. The term does fit since they are using fear and intimidation to scare and coerce small time and other developers from providing real innovation in the software industry. The fear of high legal fees, unreasonably high penalties, and loss of years of honest work can be devastating. Especially in a case like this where the patent bomb went off after 10 years of work!
I don't believe the patent laws will ever change as they are now since there is too much money to be lost by lawyers, politicians, and the trolling companies. We need to start using harsher language to make them look like the dangerous thing they are in the public's eye.
I'm not sure when it happened, but a lot of sites like NetFlix started doing these side-ways scrolling interfaces and it's just annoying and difficult to navigate.
The web is a vertical medium and pages should be designed around that. For the web browser, I'd love NetFlix to just give me a simple list with a thumbnail on the left, description on the right, and 500 entries to quickly scroll through with the mouse wheel before needing the next page. This would even work great on touch devices.
Then, give me an option to tag titles as favourites so I can quickly find them again if I'm using the PS3/X-Box.
The typical Android phone is in the $600 or more price range without a contract. Why would you think a 7" or 9" device will or should be any cheaper? Good PDA devices in the past have also been over $500 in most cases.
I have an iPad and probably wouldn't consider moving to any Android device that wasn't in the same price range. I don't want a cheap piece of garbage like we've been seeing so far in the Android line up. I want a device that has quality components and those do cost more.
I've already lost a software RAID setup when Linux wouldn't let me put it back together again. A friend of mine also lost his RAID setup on Windows a couple years ago. Also, a mirrored RAID doesn't prevent you from losing data when you accidentally delete that folder of your favorite photos.
I now keep the drives separate and setup a simple nightly batch file to robocopy the files from one drive to the backup directory on the other. It's even better if you can put the second drive in a different PC. This allows me to decide which files are important to me and only do backups of them. That leaves all the rest of the free space on the two drives for more volatile content (stuff I don't care about if I lose). It also gives me time to get a file or directory back if I accidentally remove it. I've done that numerous times when Vista first came out and it didn't move the focus to the right hand side of the explorer window.
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There is an order to the folders but not to tags. In your example, there would be no difference between the paths /images/me/2012-11-20 and me/2012-11-20/images or me/images/2012-11-20.
If you add a parent/child relationship to your tags, you might as well just stick with folders. Typically, file name extensions could be used as a simple tagging system for searches. We just need smarter apps that don't tie their data files to particular extensions.
Google should consider each of those excerpts as advertisements of the news articles. Then, they should turn around and charge the news organizations for them.
That advertisement fee should cover the cost of the copyright plus the administration costs of managing those fees. That way the news companies would end up paying more to Google than Google pays them back.
I was just looking at the maps app and noticed that when you're zoomed in far enough to see the streets, one section in my city, Calgary, are covered by clouds! The clouds and their shadows completely obscure the view of the homes and streets. Practically the whole community of Rundle is missing.
The big difference is that you can only buy apps directly on your Android device so Google Play knows what you have. The iTunes store on my devices also exclude items that won't work with the device I'm buying with.
But if you're using iTunes on the desktop, how is it supposed to know which device of yours you're getting the app for? You could have 15 devices registered, some which would work, others that wouldn't. Every app on the store though lists the required hardware and OS version.
That Firefox one gets me all the time too in the menus and toolbars. Content always seemed fine for me.
Disable "Use hardware acceleration when available" in Options, Advanced, General tab.
The way I see it is that this is a direct cost of business that Google must recover. The snippet really is an advertisement of the article they are pointing to. That snippet is what the user uses to make the decision to click the link.
If the publisher wants that snippet shown, Google can charge them a nice monthly fee for advertising the article. Or they can opt out and have their article shown without the snippet or not at all.
Of course, Google is going to have to hire many new people to manage this administrative cost, so the fee they charge the publishers is going to be higher than the copyright fee they're being forced to pay. Add to that some profit factor and they win!
I didn't want to do anything so complicated, especially if I have to type the names over and over. So I decided to just use single letters of the alphabet. Nothing's easier than typing a share when the host is only a single letter long! Eg. "\\a\c$".
And to make it even easier to organize, IP addresses match the letter number. A is .1, B is .2, etc.
It wouldn't work for a business, but for home, why make it any harder than needed?
Actually, the current version of WinDVD does 2D to 3D conversion in real time. And it supports red/cyan glasses or real 3D TV's. It's not perfect, but it's neat for the odd movie.
It's one thing for the guy running a web server to keep logs for 18 months. That's probably easy given cheap disk and compression. But the web site host is not an ISP. They could be anybody, and they're probably not going to record logs if they have material they want to hide.
It would be impossible for an ISP to record all traffic though. I have a 100 Mbit/s connection to the internet now. Can they possible write a record to disk of every connection I make over HTTP? How about NNTP, SMTP, etc. Then, multiply that across tens of thousands of users at today's broadband speeds. It just can't be done!
For an analogy, have someone hop on a subway train and record in a notebook every time one person speaks to another person. Then, assume there are 200 people on each subway car, multiplied by 200 cars, multiplied by hundreds of cities... You'd exhaust the worlds paper supply in a week!
At best, they should be able to give a warrant to an ISP to record a specific IP address for a period of time just like a normal wire tap would happen.
It seems that governments are using the term Terrorist more and more often to get bad laws introduced because they know that no one would accept them otherwise. Maybe it's time we started using the term as well to make them feel uncomfortable about letting these absurd patent cases happen.
These patent trolls should be referred to with a new term like Software Terrorists. The term does fit since they are using fear and intimidation to scare and coerce small time and other developers from providing real innovation in the software industry. The fear of high legal fees, unreasonably high penalties, and loss of years of honest work can be devastating. Especially in a case like this where the patent bomb went off after 10 years of work!
I don't believe the patent laws will ever change as they are now since there is too much money to be lost by lawyers, politicians, and the trolling companies. We need to start using harsher language to make them look like the dangerous thing they are in the public's eye.
I'm not sure when it happened, but a lot of sites like NetFlix started doing these side-ways scrolling interfaces and it's just annoying and difficult to navigate.
The web is a vertical medium and pages should be designed around that. For the web browser, I'd love NetFlix to just give me a simple list with a thumbnail on the left, description on the right, and 500 entries to quickly scroll through with the mouse wheel before needing the next page. This would even work great on touch devices.
Then, give me an option to tag titles as favourites so I can quickly find them again if I'm using the PS3/X-Box.
Maybe he's not holding it right. Oh wait, wrong thread!
The typical Android phone is in the $600 or more price range without a contract. Why would you think a 7" or 9" device will or should be any cheaper? Good PDA devices in the past have also been over $500 in most cases. I have an iPad and probably wouldn't consider moving to any Android device that wasn't in the same price range. I don't want a cheap piece of garbage like we've been seeing so far in the Android line up. I want a device that has quality components and those do cost more.
I've already lost a software RAID setup when Linux wouldn't let me put it back together again. A friend of mine also lost his RAID setup on Windows a couple years ago. Also, a mirrored RAID doesn't prevent you from losing data when you accidentally delete that folder of your favorite photos.
I now keep the drives separate and setup a simple nightly batch file to robocopy the files from one drive to the backup directory on the other. It's even better if you can put the second drive in a different PC. This allows me to decide which files are important to me and only do backups of them. That leaves all the rest of the free space on the two drives for more volatile content (stuff I don't care about if I lose). It also gives me time to get a file or directory back if I accidentally remove it. I've done that numerous times when Vista first came out and it didn't move the focus to the right hand side of the explorer window.