If you're going to host a blog for five years, why not upgrade to hosting it yourself?
Why host it yourself if using existing services works so well? Sure, the guy might change stance now, but until this point I doubt that he thought anyone would be so reckless and careless in how they approached copyright enforcement, especially when the guy had permission. The more extremist copyright holders try to stamp down, the more people will realise there is a force out there out of control. Sure there are plenty of people flaunting copyright, but every case has to be looked at on a individual basis otherwise its no better shutting down a whole city just because a few people were breaking the law.
I have been given projects of this nature and the best approach is to document what is obvious and then use bug fixing as a way in to the code. While it won't give you a complete picture, it should help you understand what is immediately important, and serve as guide posts for knowing more in the future. Generally I try not to spend too much time trying to understand everything, since its a waste of time, unless that knowledge is guaranteed to serve you - sometimes the client just wants it be tweaked once in a while, so it probably is not worth the time if you can't charge them for it.
To sum up: give yourself a general picture and then concentrate on the details only when it matters.
Now you mention it, the information from the iPhone could be useful for correctly placing a photo in an application such as Google Earth. You would know what angle the camera was in, what direction it was pointing and given the fact its a fixed zoom how line everything up. You could then even use a temporal guide to view evolution of the location over time, given multiple photos.
Really?? Outlook 2007 does of course have that functionality, as well as that same ability to set itself up automatically. Perhaps your Outlook was set up before your company moved you over to Exchange 2007, which made the automated setup possible.
Thanks for the correction. Yes it had been setup by the company previously, but for internal connections only, though I hadn't been able to find any explanations how to do this in Outlook 2007. This is what led me to the incorrect conclusion. If you have any links that explain how to do this, then it would be very much appreciated.
Pardon the uninitiated, but with 10.6 supporting Exchange Mail and Calendar with setup time of about 2 seconds (to enter your email and password), why does one need Outlook?
The incredible thing is that is true. I brought my Mac to work, then specified my company e-mail address and password and it simply asked me to specify my account name, since this was not the same as my e-mail address prefix. In doing so it discovered the mail server (internal and external), the calendar server and the contact directory. With this configuration in place I can even read my work e-mail from home, which is something I can't fathom how to do with the Outlook 2007. BTW for anyone with an iPhone or iPod Touch, this approach works there too.
Obligatory: "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." or to adjust the wording to the context: "The more you tighten your grip, Copyright holders, the more trackers will slip through your fingers."
You can rate me whatever you want, since if it triggers a decent or insightful comeback, then its been beneficial.
I suppose the issue I really have is that NASA was once considered a prize jewel in our drive towards the future. Today I am not sure what to believe its place is, between budget cuts, brain drain and politics that effect its general direction.
The real solution, IMHO, to future space exploration is finding a decent space vehicle. Such as vehicle needs to be able to be able return to orbit in a matter of days and require the least man-hours possible to return to orbit. Not depending on expensive contractors would also be beneficial. Once this problem is solved (this is by no means easy), getting to the moon becomes easier and more realistic. One advantage private companies have over a government funded organization, is that they are generally protected from political decisions and therefore can concentrate on a more long term plan, on the condition that the investors don't expect an immediate return.
The other thing we need to do is ensure we don't lose the knowledge that we spent the last 40 years accumulating, since this would force us to relearn import stuff and allow other nations to gain an advantage over us. If we are talking international cooperation, then maybe we should be looking into licensing foreign technology if that is what it takes to keep NASA in space at less cost. Russia and Europe both have examples of technology that is shown to be working and can fulfill the short-medium term of access to space.
I say let him go and let China do something with the plans if they so wish. Its not as if the shuttle program is continuing after this last flight or that NASA is going to do anything useful with the plans, other than let them gather dust or get lost. They don't have much of a budget anymore to even create a suitable replacement at this point. As a fan of the shuttle (despite the cost issues), it would be nice to see someone wasting their money on keeping the dream alive.
I know this is probably not a popular viewpoint in the USA, but I just want someone to get us to the moon again, somehow in my lifetime.
Very few people trust the Democrats, and especially the Obama administration, to get it right.
Medicare and Medicaid are atrocious money pits; Obamacare would make it much, much worse without solving the real problems. Yet another wealth transfer/entitlement program is not what the country needs or can afford now.
This may be the case, but who can we trust to get it right? Is a partially good solution better than no solution at all? I come from a belief that everything is about balance, and helping out the less fortunate actually helps the more fortunate. What I mean by that is that even if I pay for my healthcare, providing the basic support for those who get excluded or treated unfairly by private healthcare helps avoid people having to steal or use other dishonest ways to find the necessary funding. By reducing crime here actually helps me by reducing the chance of getting mugged to help someone pay for healthcare they wouldn't have otherwise got. The balance is about finding ways to prevent the 'low-end' of society being too bad, yet providing just the right incentives to not ask for government hand outs at every turn.
... to a mobile device, without using Flash. Go on, try it. I'm waiting.
In that case I imagining the existence of solutions for the iPhone that do just that. France24, YouTube and StreamToMe being three examples. I can concede there is room for improvement, but there are solutions, if the installed customer base is of interest to you.
Lets you have a bunch of audio and subtitle tracks in a single file, meaning your DVD or Blu Ray rips can have subtitling or audio commentaries embedded right in the file.
MPEG4 can do that just fine - I have MEPG4 files that do have multiple audio and video tracks. It is really a matter of whether the player supports that functionality. VLC supports MPEG4 files with multiple subtitles and audio tracks.
Coming from a country where we have public and private health care, I can't seem to understand why people are so against it in the USA. Worse yet, it appears that the people who it would benefit seem to be against it!? Can someone explain to me the issues?
It seems to do mostly with the ability to use more audio codecs in MKV, and more subtitle formats. In theory MP4 is just as extensible there, but in practice few players understand IDs for anything but the "official" codecs - which do not include e.g. AC3.
This sounds like a player limitation, rather than a container limitation. If people want to make an open source codec and allow people to add it to the favourite player, then I wonder whether there is anything lost by sticking to MPEG4. BTW on the subtitle side, Subler is a tool that might be worth porting to other platforms.
In contrast, doing the same trick for Theora means that those who care about pure FOSS can have it that way (FOSS server, FOSS client, and no patent fees), while people at large who don't know the world outside IE can still have access to all that content.
However, the technical inferiority of Theora is a serious counter-argument to that.
Not only that, this is not a solution that works out of the box. If it doesn't work out of the box, then it won't find itself added to all boxes, especially for company desktops.
Forgetting the codecs for two seconds, what does the MKV container have going for it over the MPEG4 container? Why would I want to use it over MPEG4, assuming the codec I want to use is available for both containers?
In many ways whether they are 'rip-offs' doesn't matter in this context. What matters is that infighting at Microsoft prevented them from leveraging these technologies and actually making a product that people want. If Balmer really wanted to change this culture of infighting, then he has everything to do so, the problem he either doesn't care or doesn't want do what is needed.
Microsoft has plenty of potential, but it needs to put these smart minds in place and tell them that its not the department that counts, but the company. Everyone within the company should take the ideas within the company and use them to do something useful.
When you look at the Harper government in Canada, and their stance to keep their hands in the ground with regards to environmental policy, you will have to wonder. Sure the country spends a third of the year below 0C, but you have to wonder whether there is nothing that can be done as he claims. Heck, investing in environmental friendly technologies would help create new industry sectors and even potentially provide new exportable technologies. If he was so in the pocket of Alberta's oil sands, then maybe something would happen.
Reading this article makes me wonder if at least the hand brake is still a mechanical component? I would hate for the electronics to fail and suddenly find myself with no way to stop the car. I wonder how much consideration has been given to fail-safes in this move to more electronics for essential control of the vehicle, especially in cases of poor maintenance?
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If you're going to host a blog for five years, why not upgrade to hosting it yourself?
Why host it yourself if using existing services works so well? Sure, the guy might change stance now, but until this point I doubt that he thought anyone would be so reckless and careless in how they approached copyright enforcement, especially when the guy had permission. The more extremist copyright holders try to stamp down, the more people will realise there is a force out there out of control. Sure there are plenty of people flaunting copyright, but every case has to be looked at on a individual basis otherwise its no better shutting down a whole city just because a few people were breaking the law.
I have been given projects of this nature and the best approach is to document what is obvious and then use bug fixing as a way in to the code. While it won't give you a complete picture, it should help you understand what is immediately important, and serve as guide posts for knowing more in the future. Generally I try not to spend too much time trying to understand everything, since its a waste of time, unless that knowledge is guaranteed to serve you - sometimes the client just wants it be tweaked once in a while, so it probably is not worth the time if you can't charge them for it.
To sum up: give yourself a general picture and then concentrate on the details only when it matters.
Now you mention it, the information from the iPhone could be useful for correctly placing a photo in an application such as Google Earth. You would know what angle the camera was in, what direction it was pointing and given the fact its a fixed zoom how line everything up. You could then even use a temporal guide to view evolution of the location over time, given multiple photos.
Turns out removing the account and recreating it discovered all the missing settings. Thanks.
Really?? Outlook 2007 does of course have that functionality, as well as that same ability to set itself up automatically. Perhaps your Outlook was set up before your company moved you over to Exchange 2007, which made the automated setup possible.
Thanks for the correction. Yes it had been setup by the company previously, but for internal connections only, though I hadn't been able to find any explanations how to do this in Outlook 2007. This is what led me to the incorrect conclusion. If you have any links that explain how to do this, then it would be very much appreciated.
Pardon the uninitiated, but with 10.6 supporting Exchange Mail and Calendar with setup time of about 2 seconds (to enter your email and password), why does one need Outlook?
The incredible thing is that is true. I brought my Mac to work, then specified my company e-mail address and password and it simply asked me to specify my account name, since this was not the same as my e-mail address prefix. In doing so it discovered the mail server (internal and external), the calendar server and the contact directory. With this configuration in place I can even read my work e-mail from home, which is something I can't fathom how to do with the Outlook 2007. BTW for anyone with an iPhone or iPod Touch, this approach works there too.
Obligatory: "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." or to adjust the wording to the context: "The more you tighten your grip, Copyright holders, the more trackers will slip through your fingers."
You can rate me whatever you want, since if it triggers a decent or insightful comeback, then its been beneficial.
I suppose the issue I really have is that NASA was once considered a prize jewel in our drive towards the future. Today I am not sure what to believe its place is, between budget cuts, brain drain and politics that effect its general direction.
The real solution, IMHO, to future space exploration is finding a decent space vehicle. Such as vehicle needs to be able to be able return to orbit in a matter of days and require the least man-hours possible to return to orbit. Not depending on expensive contractors would also be beneficial. Once this problem is solved (this is by no means easy), getting to the moon becomes easier and more realistic. One advantage private companies have over a government funded organization, is that they are generally protected from political decisions and therefore can concentrate on a more long term plan, on the condition that the investors don't expect an immediate return.
The other thing we need to do is ensure we don't lose the knowledge that we spent the last 40 years accumulating, since this would force us to relearn import stuff and allow other nations to gain an advantage over us. If we are talking international cooperation, then maybe we should be looking into licensing foreign technology if that is what it takes to keep NASA in space at less cost. Russia and Europe both have examples of technology that is shown to be working and can fulfill the short-medium term of access to space.
I say let him go and let China do something with the plans if they so wish. Its not as if the shuttle program is continuing after this last flight or that NASA is going to do anything useful with the plans, other than let them gather dust or get lost. They don't have much of a budget anymore to even create a suitable replacement at this point. As a fan of the shuttle (despite the cost issues), it would be nice to see someone wasting their money on keeping the dream alive.
I know this is probably not a popular viewpoint in the USA, but I just want someone to get us to the moon again, somehow in my lifetime.
Those were the guys who said to check Amazon.
Any they call themselves geniuses - oh well.
Hmmm, I can hit it from my DROID...
This not the DROID you are looking for.
Try these guys: http://www.apple.com/retail/lenoxsquare/ if they can't help, then I am not sure who can?
Very few people trust the Democrats, and especially the Obama administration, to get it right.
Medicare and Medicaid are atrocious money pits; Obamacare would make it much, much worse without solving the real problems. Yet another wealth transfer/entitlement program is not what the country needs or can afford now.
This may be the case, but who can we trust to get it right? Is a partially good solution better than no solution at all? I come from a belief that everything is about balance, and helping out the less fortunate actually helps the more fortunate. What I mean by that is that even if I pay for my healthcare, providing the basic support for those who get excluded or treated unfairly by private healthcare helps avoid people having to steal or use other dishonest ways to find the necessary funding. By reducing crime here actually helps me by reducing the chance of getting mugged to help someone pay for healthcare they wouldn't have otherwise got. The balance is about finding ways to prevent the 'low-end' of society being too bad, yet providing just the right incentives to not ask for government hand outs at every turn.
... to a mobile device, without using Flash. Go on, try it. I'm waiting.
In that case I imagining the existence of solutions for the iPhone that do just that. France24, YouTube and StreamToMe being three examples. I can concede there is room for improvement, but there are solutions, if the installed customer base is of interest to you.
Lets you have a bunch of audio and subtitle tracks in a single file, meaning your DVD or Blu Ray rips can have subtitling or audio commentaries embedded right in the file.
MPEG4 can do that just fine - I have MEPG4 files that do have multiple audio and video tracks. It is really a matter of whether the player supports that functionality. VLC supports MPEG4 files with multiple subtitles and audio tracks.
Coming from a country where we have public and private health care, I can't seem to understand why people are so against it in the USA. Worse yet, it appears that the people who it would benefit seem to be against it!? Can someone explain to me the issues?
It seems to do mostly with the ability to use more audio codecs in MKV, and more subtitle formats. In theory MP4 is just as extensible there, but in practice few players understand IDs for anything but the "official" codecs - which do not include e.g. AC3.
This sounds like a player limitation, rather than a container limitation. If people want to make an open source codec and allow people to add it to the favourite player, then I wonder whether there is anything lost by sticking to MPEG4. BTW on the subtitle side, Subler is a tool that might be worth porting to other platforms.
In contrast, doing the same trick for Theora means that those who care about pure FOSS can have it that way (FOSS server, FOSS client, and no patent fees), while people at large who don't know the world outside IE can still have access to all that content.
However, the technical inferiority of Theora is a serious counter-argument to that.
Not only that, this is not a solution that works out of the box. If it doesn't work out of the box, then it won't find itself added to all boxes, especially for company desktops.
Forgetting the codecs for two seconds, what does the MKV container have going for it over the MPEG4 container? Why would I want to use it over MPEG4, assuming the codec I want to use is available for both containers?
Just join the club of anonymous, though be careful since the NSA will be calling you a terrorist ;)
In many ways whether they are 'rip-offs' doesn't matter in this context. What matters is that infighting at Microsoft prevented them from leveraging these technologies and actually making a product that people want. If Balmer really wanted to change this culture of infighting, then he has everything to do so, the problem he either doesn't care or doesn't want do what is needed.
Microsoft has plenty of potential, but it needs to put these smart minds in place and tell them that its not the department that counts, but the company. Everyone within the company should take the ideas within the company and use them to do something useful.
And if you send it by e-mail, make sure the bits are the right way up.
When you look at the Harper government in Canada, and their stance to keep their hands in the ground with regards to environmental policy, you will have to wonder. Sure the country spends a third of the year below 0C, but you have to wonder whether there is nothing that can be done as he claims. Heck, investing in environmental friendly technologies would help create new industry sectors and even potentially provide new exportable technologies. If he was so in the pocket of Alberta's oil sands, then maybe something would happen.
Reading this article makes me wonder if at least the hand brake is still a mechanical component? I would hate for the electronics to fail and suddenly find myself with no way to stop the car. I wonder how much consideration has been given to fail-safes in this move to more electronics for essential control of the vehicle, especially in cases of poor maintenance?
With bootcamp can windows be made to boot off an external drive?