It makes sense up to the point where you're paying to remove artificial restrictions. Sharing files with an unlimited number of computers is the natural order of things, once you have more than one.
0 makes sense. Unlimited makes sense. 5 is just arbitrary, and it's more effort to restrict it to 5 than it is to allow no limit.
Looks great! Firefox under Linux. Dunno what the others are complaining about, but I didn't even realize they made the switch until reading the comments about it above.
Ah, nevermind, I see. If you go to "create your own" it starts from the one in the link. I'd love to see variations on it by others. Kind of a melodic open-source project, if you will.
I remember around last year or so, Best Buy was running some brilliant advertisements in theatres that served as the "please switch off your cell phone" notice. They stuck them seamlessly at the end of the previews, and the first thirty seconds or so were entirely indistinguishable from just another movie preview. The "preview" was always about something in the "movie" where silence was essential (i.e. a nuclear submarine running silent, hunters tracking a herd of beasts during the last months before winter), and a phone would ring at the worst time, and the characters would react to it. It was great advertising, because you'd invariably get drawn into the preview (oftentimes, even if you'd seen it before, you'd still get fooled!), only to be yanked back out with the cell phone and a good laugh. Unfortunatley, none of the movies I've seen this year has had those anymore. >8(
I agree; I stumbled upon that site yesterday--just AFTER I had finished installing Enlightenment CVS for the first time in about 6 months to see where they're at.
And where are they? It's there, it's usable, and I'm loving it. Obviously, it is also still in-development, but aside from the total lack of configurability by GUI or textfile--nearly everything must be configured via obscure, undocumented enlightenment_remote commands (thank goodness for the included zsh completion script!)--once you've managed to configure it, it's completely usable. I was extremely impressed, and will be back to using Enlightenment from here on out.
For those of you who prefer it, another thing I found right after installing was this great page, which has binaries and source rpms of CVS snapshots, and includes apt and yum repositories! Very nice! I wrote a script to install the whole she-bang from CVS a long time ago, but this would be an even easier way to keep tabs on the development progress, if you use a distro that supports rpm.
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Personal recommendations:
I like the engage launcher/tray better than the default ibar. You can enable it as a module with these commands:
$ enlightenment_remote -module-unload ibar (not essential, but having both is rather redundant) $ enlightenment_remote -module-load engage $ enlightenment_remote -module-enable engage
I also edited the data/themes/module/images/bg_[hv].png files in the engage source before compiling to be completely transparent (instead of 65% opaque) to remove the (in my opinion) ugly background rectangle on my engage bar. I think get-e.org had another solution for this which involved editing the module.ecj file, instead, which probably would have been easier had I known to do it before I did the install. >8)
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Legally, they can put whatever the heck kind of restrictions they want on their license.
Legally, you don't have to shell out your money for the 'privilege' of using their product.
The market takes care of the rest.
It makes sense up to the point where you're paying to remove artificial restrictions. Sharing files with an unlimited number of computers is the natural order of things, once you have more than one.
0 makes sense. Unlimited makes sense. 5 is just arbitrary, and it's more effort to restrict it to 5 than it is to allow no limit.
This guy seems to have done a masterful job of making his page impossible to mirror properly. >8\
Greetings! Stay awhile, and listen!
Bleh. I modded this flamebait on accident. The mod system needs to have an undo button. :/
And it does, as you so have so aptly demonstrated. >8)
(posting in a thread that you've moderated causes all of your moderations in the thread to be wiped)
Thankfully, they do. And yes, it is quite nice.
wtf
I guess I need to learn how to dodge rocket launchers better.
I think I'd be more concerned about the rockets, myself. They do that thing where they explode and take your limbs off and stuff. Ouch.
That file downloads some 20051029.smil, which has the file rtsp://archivemedia.publicradio.org/5559/kpcc/news /shows/latw/2005/10/20051029_latw.rm in it. This one can be fed to mplayer.
About the skill-testing question.
Oopsie, DVD power cord fell out again.
That is all.
Looks great! Firefox under Linux. Dunno what the others are complaining about, but I didn't even realize they made the switch until reading the comments about it above.
Ah, nevermind, I see. If you go to "create your own" it starts from the one in the link. I'd love to see variations on it by others. Kind of a melodic open-source project, if you will.
Here's mine >8)
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http://tones.wolfram.com/id/Ge9y3BYq2uasToZXknwS8
Hmm..interesting, you don't get to modify if you use that link.
He's searching for a decent scanner, not scanning for a decent searcher. >8)
>>OOffice need's a gammar checker
>Looks like you need one too. That would be needs, not need's.
(Score:-1, WHOOSH!)
Found a link to the "Submarine" commercial from the advertising firm that made it:
http://www.identity-arts.com/submarine45-1.wmv
I remember around last year or so, Best Buy was running some brilliant advertisements in theatres that served as the "please switch off your cell phone" notice. They stuck them seamlessly at the end of the previews, and the first thirty seconds or so were entirely indistinguishable from just another movie preview. The "preview" was always about something in the "movie" where silence was essential (i.e. a nuclear submarine running silent, hunters tracking a herd of beasts during the last months before winter), and a phone would ring at the worst time, and the characters would react to it. It was great advertising, because you'd invariably get drawn into the preview (oftentimes, even if you'd seen it before, you'd still get fooled!), only to be yanked back out with the cell phone and a good laugh. Unfortunatley, none of the movies I've seen this year has had those anymore. >8(
And where are they? It's there, it's usable, and I'm loving it. Obviously, it is also still in-development, but aside from the total lack of configurability by GUI or textfile--nearly everything must be configured via obscure, undocumented enlightenment_remote commands (thank goodness for the included zsh completion script!)--once you've managed to configure it, it's completely usable. I was extremely impressed, and will be back to using Enlightenment from here on out.
For those of you who prefer it, another thing I found right after installing was this great page, which has binaries and source rpms of CVS snapshots, and includes apt and yum repositories! Very nice! I wrote a script to install the whole she-bang from CVS a long time ago, but this would be an even easier way to keep tabs on the development progress, if you use a distro that supports rpm.
----
Personal recommendations:
I like the engage launcher/tray better than the default ibar. You can enable it as a module with these commands:I also edited the data/themes/module/images/bg_[hv].png files in the engage source before compiling to be completely transparent (instead of 65% opaque) to remove the (in my opinion) ugly background rectangle on my engage bar. I think get-e.org had another solution for this which involved editing the module.ecj file, instead, which probably would have been easier had I known to do it before I did the install. >8)
Can you imagine hovering over your TV to watch Japan versus Brazil in the finals of the World Cup ...
Haha yes. I read that and thought, "oh, well this settles it. It's definitely a fake."
I imagine we'll see Holodecks before Japanese WC finals teams.
Hey, that explains why the statue I won hasn't arrived yet. They're using her in that display booth!
I think we have just witnessed the greatest Slashdot comment in history.
(This text inserted to bypass the lameass filter)
Maybe that's why? >8)
Check this link for statistics (with sources) - some 30 million people in the US itself experience some level of hunger.
They should really stop taking those polls right before lunch.