Oh I see what you're saying. That would be pretty nifty for simple searches. But in my experience my smart folder searches are a lot more detailed than a couple keywords and would be hard to put in one line.
They did it. It's done. It's called Spotlight. I no longer remotely care where my files go (except for the/Users/ legacy directory.
Metadata rules my system. Files are tagged in every way I can think of. If I think of more ways, I add more data. My files can now be arbitrarily combined, sorted, diffused, grouped, ranked, browsed, and displayed.
I now think of my files as bits of light in the fog. Spotlight swirls them around and collects them into patterns that I dictate. If I find a pattern useful, then I save it for later reference. If a saved pattern is no longer needed, the pattern is removed and the dots swirl back into the ether.
Hard folders or directories now feel clunky and antique. I feel limited and constrained by them, but they are in some cases still unfortunately necessary. (I can't combine all of my web pages into a flat folder for example.) But for almost all of my files and projects, smart folders provide all the organization that I need; be it a loose collection of files or a tightly constrained selection of multiple levels of metadata.
Well then how do you know what folder to browse in eh?
Exactly, an arbitrary designation.
I have (using Spotlight) my files all tagged with meta data now and I can more easily browse through them than ever before. All word docs from the past two weeks? All word docs from the past month related to Project X? All Office docs from forever related to Project X and Project Y? That pdf with the specs for Project Z? All files downloaded in the past week? All movie files downloaded from the web in the past month? All email attachments received from foo@bar.com? All DVD rip files? All ripped episodes of Family Guy from Season One? Futurama from Season Three? Simpsons from Seasons 3-5?
In my home directory, smart folders rule the day. Almost everything is in a gigantic flat directory and sorted by comments and other metadata as I arbitrarily need.
I think this Wired article is a little behind, eh?
I use spotlight as an app launcher and it works very well. Type in a few characters of the app name and then hit command+enter. Command pops the selection down to the top hit, which is always the app for me.
I trimmed my dock down to almost nothing thanks to this.
Smart folders go off of arbitary metadata. I use spotlight comments in much the same way I use gmail labels. Some file belongs to a particular group? Add a keyword (label) to it to indicate that.
I am going folderless as we speak. Look back in my comment history for a long post about how spotlight and smart folders have changed my computer use for the better.
Exactly, impotent leaders led by the nose by a paper thin ploy for power.
My only explanation is that he was using the force to manipulate the senate en masse, as he would later use the force to increase the fighting ability of his military.
Because we were talking about footbinding somewhat within the context of the topic and not castration.
BTW, you wouldn't choose; your gender would choose for you. If you were a female noble: footbinding. Male noble son with no chance to inherit, no aptitude at the civil exams, and no desire to join the military: castation.
BTW, castration wasn't means of advancing in the government. It was a way out of the ghetto but not into government service, it allowed you to become a palace servant, not to advise or rule. The career of the ruling classes was merit based on the exams.
Really? You wouldn't find it very tempting to dedicate your life to causing pain to those that blew up your loved ones? Civilian casualties are more than a sad statistic.
Funny, Buddhists hope for freedom from the "real" world and much of their meditative training is supposed to help break the perception of this real world.
Obiwan shouldn't have even told Owen and Beru who the child was. Even if they insisted that they wouldn't take in a strange baby he could have said that he was Annakin's son but they had a Naboo marriage and they take the name of the mother so he's Luke Amidala or whatever.
Besides, if Owen wasn't too keen on Luke's father wouldn't he also want Luke's last name as far from possible to his true name?
If Obiwan was watching over Luke (as Yoda told him and he apparently did) then wouldn't he kind of notice that Luke's last name was indeed Skywalker? He could've taken Luke to the other side of the backwater planet if 1) he felt that Luke's chance of discovery was greater with his true family and 2) Tantooine was truly a safe place to be. He didn't seem too surprised when he heard Luke calling himself Skywalker. Obiwan wasn't like, "Oh man, they've been calling you Skywalker for 18 years and I didn't know it in spite of our plan to hide you from your father until the time was right!? Crap!"
BTW, when was the time going to be right? Why not have Obiwan give little Luke some Jedi lessons while he was growing up on Tantooine to prepare him to fight two of the most powerful dark Jedi ever rather than a few sage lessons from Yoda?
He was clearly referring to the real Star Wars (i.e. Eps 4-6). But even with the horrible horrible 1-3, that's all you got? One dude to answer one of the criticisms?
What about the whole, Star Wars universe is simplistic Good vs. Nazi Evil and such?
Or then, yes, were the Chinese, whose idea of beauty was more centred around crippled feet. A woman was apparently dead sexy for them if, before anything else, her feet were crippled to the point of barely being able to walk.
Only the nobility. The bound feet were a symbol of status, as in I don't need to walk because my servants will walk for me.
That kind of thing didn't fly in the real world because everyone worked, including the women. The vast majority had the same perception of beauty as most of history, i.e. non-anorexic healthy women.
(Back to the discussion) Perhaps I am odd, I sure don't mind looking at the anorexic models but that's as far as it goes. I wouldn't really want to be intimate with one I definitely wouldn't want one to bear my children. Except maybe Adriana Lima.
Well, if there's just the two species on the planet, and the Naboo don't have a standing army, why would the Gungans need one?
You are falling into the Star Wars (and Star Trek) problem of homogenizing an entire planet. We see partial bits of two cities on a planet and you derive a lot of sociological conclusions from that. The farther out you go with the little evidence we have, the less tenable your conclusions become.
How do we know the Naboo have no army? Why indeed would the Gungans want a standing army...maybe they know that even if the Naboo don't have an army, then the fact that the rest of the galaxy is just a lightjump away has something to do with it? Are the Naboo so shortsighted?
He need not speak for all of the society.... etc etc
I meant that your comment just paraphrased what the gungan leader said and passed it off as deep insight into their culture. The only indication we ever get that the gungans feel bad because they think the naboo think that they are superior is his little speech about "You nosa thinkin' yousa be betterin da gunguns".
So if their whole cultural relationship with the Naboo can be summed up by one leader's perception in one statement, then the Naboo have a very valid reason to feel superior. (I.E. the naboo would truly be superior because we have seen that their culture, relationships, development is more complex.)
Combined with Anakin no longer being called Skywalker, who would know?
The Emperor, apparently. Would you really go to all the trouble of saving the child of the second in command of the Evil Empire and not say, "Oh, call him Luke Bumpkin just for safety's sake ok?"
BTW, we know Osama Bin Laden because of over a dozen years of terrorism. Not just because of 9.11, right? Please tell me you at least know what his beef with the US is.
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Oh I see what you're saying. That would be pretty nifty for simple searches. But in my experience my smart folder searches are a lot more detailed than a couple keywords and would be hard to put in one line.
D'oh! You're right! The comments are independent for files and not centrally maintained.
Ok, so we aren't there yet. But closer, eh? The framework is there, now the central database can be implemented.
Sure it makes sense. So how are spotlight comments not fitting the bill? They pop right into your LABEL table.
It's a fast, logical way to group things that many people are not going to give up for a search or tag based system.
Or for people who can't visualize a new storage technique that has no easy real world equivalent.
They did it. It's done. It's called Spotlight. I no longer remotely care where my files go (except for the /Users/ legacy directory.
Metadata rules my system. Files are tagged in every way I can think of. If I think of more ways, I add more data. My files can now be arbitrarily combined, sorted, diffused, grouped, ranked, browsed, and displayed.
I now think of my files as bits of light in the fog. Spotlight swirls them around and collects them into patterns that I dictate. If I find a pattern useful, then I save it for later reference. If a saved pattern is no longer needed, the pattern is removed and the dots swirl back into the ether.
Hard folders or directories now feel clunky and antique. I feel limited and constrained by them, but they are in some cases still unfortunately necessary. (I can't combine all of my web pages into a flat folder for example.) But for almost all of my files and projects, smart folders provide all the organization that I need; be it a loose collection of files or a tightly constrained selection of multiple levels of metadata.
Well then how do you know what folder to browse in eh?
Exactly, an arbitrary designation.
I have (using Spotlight) my files all tagged with meta data now and I can more easily browse through them than ever before. All word docs from the past two weeks? All word docs from the past month related to Project X? All Office docs from forever related to Project X and Project Y? That pdf with the specs for Project Z? All files downloaded in the past week? All movie files downloaded from the web in the past month? All email attachments received from foo@bar.com? All DVD rip files? All ripped episodes of Family Guy from Season One? Futurama from Season Three? Simpsons from Seasons 3-5?
So easy.
...so that the first time you collect files based on certain metadata can be the last time you have to do so.
How is this not what a smart folder is already? You set the criteria once, and that is last time you set it.
In my home directory, smart folders rule the day. Almost everything is in a gigantic flat directory and sorted by comments and other metadata as I arbitrarily need.
I think this Wired article is a little behind, eh?
I use spotlight as an app launcher and it works very well. Type in a few characters of the app name and then hit command+enter. Command pops the selection down to the top hit, which is always the app for me.
I trimmed my dock down to almost nothing thanks to this.
No, I never liked QS. I don't know why either.
How are GMail's labels not metadata again?
Smart folders go off of arbitary metadata. I use spotlight comments in much the same way I use gmail labels. Some file belongs to a particular group? Add a keyword (label) to it to indicate that.
I am going folderless as we speak. Look back in my comment history for a long post about how spotlight and smart folders have changed my computer use for the better.
I've had some female friends who were frigid.
It's more common in women than in men, as is pain during intercourse.
Where are you getting that "more common" fact? Personal observation?
Pain during intercourse for women generally results from a lack of proper foreplay. (And no, I'm not talking backrubs.)
Exactly, impotent leaders led by the nose by a paper thin ploy for power.
My only explanation is that he was using the force to manipulate the senate en masse, as he would later use the force to increase the fighting ability of his military.
Because we were talking about footbinding somewhat within the context of the topic and not castration.
BTW, you wouldn't choose; your gender would choose for you. If you were a female noble: footbinding. Male noble son with no chance to inherit, no aptitude at the civil exams, and no desire to join the military: castation.
BTW, castration wasn't means of advancing in the government. It was a way out of the ghetto but not into government service, it allowed you to become a palace servant, not to advise or rule. The career of the ruling classes was merit based on the exams.
Really? You wouldn't find it very tempting to dedicate your life to causing pain to those that blew up your loved ones? Civilian casualties are more than a sad statistic.
Funny, Buddhists hope for freedom from the "real" world and much of their meditative training is supposed to help break the perception of this real world.
Funny, I thought that Panaka was saying that they had no army. Not that the Naboo as a planetwide culture had no army.
I'm surprised that they hadn't been conquered before, with the lack of an army and the impotence of the republic to protect its member planets.
Obiwan shouldn't have even told Owen and Beru who the child was. Even if they insisted that they wouldn't take in a strange baby he could have said that he was Annakin's son but they had a Naboo marriage and they take the name of the mother so he's Luke Amidala or whatever.
Besides, if Owen wasn't too keen on Luke's father wouldn't he also want Luke's last name as far from possible to his true name?
If Obiwan was watching over Luke (as Yoda told him and he apparently did) then wouldn't he kind of notice that Luke's last name was indeed Skywalker? He could've taken Luke to the other side of the backwater planet if 1) he felt that Luke's chance of discovery was greater with his true family and 2) Tantooine was truly a safe place to be. He didn't seem too surprised when he heard Luke calling himself Skywalker. Obiwan wasn't like, "Oh man, they've been calling you Skywalker for 18 years and I didn't know it in spite of our plan to hide you from your father until the time was right!? Crap!"
BTW, when was the time going to be right? Why not have Obiwan give little Luke some Jedi lessons while he was growing up on Tantooine to prepare him to fight two of the most powerful dark Jedi ever rather than a few sage lessons from Yoda?
He was clearly referring to the real Star Wars (i.e. Eps 4-6). But even with the horrible horrible 1-3, that's all you got? One dude to answer one of the criticisms?
What about the whole, Star Wars universe is simplistic Good vs. Nazi Evil and such?
Or then, yes, were the Chinese, whose idea of beauty was more centred around crippled feet. A woman was apparently dead sexy for them if, before anything else, her feet were crippled to the point of barely being able to walk.
Only the nobility. The bound feet were a symbol of status, as in I don't need to walk because my servants will walk for me.
That kind of thing didn't fly in the real world because everyone worked, including the women. The vast majority had the same perception of beauty as most of history, i.e. non-anorexic healthy women.
(Back to the discussion) Perhaps I am odd, I sure don't mind looking at the anorexic models but that's as far as it goes. I wouldn't really want to be intimate with one I definitely wouldn't want one to bear my children. Except maybe Adriana Lima.
Wow, if that post isn't indicitive of inexperience with women I don't know what is.
Women...may enjoy sex
May? MAY? Like it's an offchance possibility that they might enjoy the act? This boggles the mind. o_O
Get out some, eh? And stop using pseudo-science so much, it can be habit forming.
You misunderstand my comments, let me help.
... etc etc
Well, if there's just the two species on the planet, and the Naboo don't have a standing army, why would the Gungans need one?
You are falling into the Star Wars (and Star Trek) problem of homogenizing an entire planet. We see partial bits of two cities on a planet and you derive a lot of sociological conclusions from that. The farther out you go with the little evidence we have, the less tenable your conclusions become.
How do we know the Naboo have no army? Why indeed would the Gungans want a standing army...maybe they know that even if the Naboo don't have an army, then the fact that the rest of the galaxy is just a lightjump away has something to do with it? Are the Naboo so shortsighted?
He need not speak for all of the society.
I meant that your comment just paraphrased what the gungan leader said and passed it off as deep insight into their culture. The only indication we ever get that the gungans feel bad because they think the naboo think that they are superior is his little speech about "You nosa thinkin' yousa be betterin da gunguns".
So if their whole cultural relationship with the Naboo can be summed up by one leader's perception in one statement, then the Naboo have a very valid reason to feel superior. (I.E. the naboo would truly be superior because we have seen that their culture, relationships, development is more complex.)
Well now you mention the embassy bombings whereas before you seemed to be referring to the WTC. That's good.
Maybe this time we have our middle east meddling in a better state than it was in the 80s, but I doubt it.
It's hard to keep track of terrorists when we create so many so efficiently.
Uh huh. So who built this underwater city? Why would surface dwelling people want to live underwater? Did they decide the sun just wasn't all that?
Looks like you're out of salt. I hope you're still getting your iodine.
Combined with Anakin no longer being called Skywalker, who would know?
The Emperor, apparently. Would you really go to all the trouble of saving the child of the second in command of the Evil Empire and not say, "Oh, call him Luke Bumpkin just for safety's sake ok?"
BTW, we know Osama Bin Laden because of over a dozen years of terrorism. Not just because of 9.11, right? Please tell me you at least know what his beef with the US is.