The whole concept of 'Internet addiction' is pretty laughable, IMHO, and certainly using 'hours spent online per week' is completely useless from any scientific point of view.
Along with other good points in your post, I have to say I pretty much agree. Am I "online" 10 or more hours a day at the office (I'm a systems admin kind of guy) because I'm working with computer that eventually connect to the internet? How about my server at home? That's pretty much always on, so does that get me? Setting up a file transfer and walking off to cook dinner? There's a serious lack of usable definition here.
If so, why aren't these extended attributes being put to use for such a purpose? Or are they?
They are now. At least, I use them extensively. This metadata is also taken from files whose format supports them (for example, I think JPEG has a date and time field in the file itself - the metadata just has a link to that, same for MP3 author and title, etc).
There's a very easy way to programmatically access all of this too. It made life incredibly easy when I wanted to build a photo gallery on my web server, for example.
Are you on crack? People don't hesitate to hand their credit cards over to be carbon copied by pimply faced 17 year olds to make purchases at The Gap, why would they worry about SSL not being perfectly secure?
Because the news tells them daily how scary this big new internet is. They "know" they're much safer with what they've been doing for years.
I bet you show your receipt at the door at Fry's too...
Nope. I silently wish they'd so much as lay a finger on me as I walk by, occasionally muttering "no thanks." That's a winning ticket in the lawsuit lottery.
I think that at this point, it's obvious we need a "block javascript from this domain" extension or a "block javascript from this web folder" extension.
IE should easily be able to do it per domain. I think it's done this since 4.0. Just add the bad domain to your restricted list.
Here's a convenient link for those too lazy to Google for it: NukeAnything. Note, however, that this is a one-time nuke only; the object will be back the next time you view the page.
Something similar has been a part of my IE Stuff pack for a while now. I consider it invaluable.
some people find installers to be annoying and wish nobody uses them
Do you prefer to copy files to a random location on your hard drive and hope you don't need to do something like add info to the registry or register libraries? Get with the decade.
There's no malware associated with Flash, nor am I aware of a single active security exploit. Perhaps you could back up this assertion with some evidence?
Google for "flash remote exploit". I don't feel like doing your research for you.
And I'm going to trust statistics from a company whose sole purpose for existance is to lock you into their proprietary file formats by getting you to run their executables on your computer? Yeah right.
You're right and you're wrong. Quicktime is not a compression format. It's a file container architecture. Sorenson is a non-standard compression format. Sorenson looks beautiful and compresses well, but it is not widely supported.
Unfortunately this is one of my most common misstatements. You are, of course, entirely correct (well, I dunno about how sorenson looks as I refuse to use it, but the rest is golden), and thanks.
The process of getting footage into Xvid format isn't exactly straight forward.
You haven't looked around much have you? I installed the XVid codec (which needed to be packaged in a standard installer) and VDub (which also needed to be repackaged - one thing I hate about OSS is how these projects are so often left incomplete), and it works fine.
I occasionally use Wikipedia for something or other, generally when I click a link to an entry which someone has posted on their Web site. I've found that it's reliable for the most part, but when you run into something that's wrong, it's really wrong. And the threat of revert wars can keep many people (including me) from contributing at all.
That's about where I am on it. I used to actively contribute, write (small, out of the way) articles, but I got tired of my work being molested for someone's agenda, and threatened for not pandering to the trolls.
Publishers of commercial streams want to exclude people from downloading their streams. Unlike Windows Media Player and RealPlayer, MPEG-1 and Ogg (the most common containers for MP3 and Vorbis respectively) do not define a digital restrictions management layer. Thus, commercial publishers tend to shy away from MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. In addition, it is claimed that the MP3 royalty is greater than the Windows Media Player or RealPlayer royalty, and Ogg Vorbis doesn't have enough of an install base to be worth technicians' time.
I'm glad to see someone else using the correct expansion for DRM (hint for the rest: it's not about rights, it's about restrictions). But that doesn't stop me from recording any WM or RA stream that I want (though I have yet to find an RA stream worth the trouble). I can't believe that MP3 encoding would cost more than the others, though.
Oh, and can someone check the grandparent? It seems some clueless mods decided I was a troll. Thanks.
I kid you not--and I'm not trolling here. You can get Miranda to crash doing the most simple things. To me, it's an absolute kludge of a client right now, but it still kicks royal ass in many ways. I just hope that they seriously start getting on the development bandwagon.
Yeah, I know: if you want it done right, do it yourself; too bad I don't have the time or know-how to do so.
I've found that it crashes a lot less than trillian. And I use it daily, it's on most of the day.
Not open source, costs too much, tons of bloat, and still not finished (eg the UI still requires a cheap hack of a skin, and most dialogs don't respond to keyboard input).
It's happening. Slowly. Somewhat. Even over the past few years, I've noticed things slowly gravitating to either 5v or 12v. I think part of this has to do with the 12v lines used by hard drives (eg the mini-itx market is pushing htis), and the 5v is used by a lot of chipsets, apparently (since every decent PDA seems to run off 5v). So we might get there eventually.
Personally I think it would be great if 12vdc was the "standard" dc power supply, and you can easily get or make an adapter to turn it into 5v.
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The whole concept of 'Internet addiction' is pretty laughable, IMHO, and certainly using 'hours spent online per week' is completely useless from any scientific point of view.
Along with other good points in your post, I have to say I pretty much agree. Am I "online" 10 or more hours a day at the office (I'm a systems admin kind of guy) because I'm working with computer that eventually connect to the internet? How about my server at home? That's pretty much always on, so does that get me? Setting up a file transfer and walking off to cook dinner? There's a serious lack of usable definition here.
If so, why aren't these extended attributes being put to use for such a purpose? Or are they?
They are now. At least, I use them extensively. This metadata is also taken from files whose format supports them (for example, I think JPEG has a date and time field in the file itself - the metadata just has a link to that, same for MP3 author and title, etc).
There's a very easy way to programmatically access all of this too. It made life incredibly easy when I wanted to build a photo gallery on my web server, for example.
Are you on crack? People don't hesitate to hand their credit cards over to be carbon copied by pimply faced 17 year olds to make purchases at The Gap, why would they worry about SSL not being perfectly secure?
Because the news tells them daily how scary this big new internet is. They "know" they're much safer with what they've been doing for years.
I bet you show your receipt at the door at Fry's too...
Nope. I silently wish they'd so much as lay a finger on me as I walk by, occasionally muttering "no thanks." That's a winning ticket in the lawsuit lottery.
I think that at this point, it's obvious we need a "block javascript from this domain" extension or a "block javascript from this web folder" extension.
IE should easily be able to do it per domain. I think it's done this since 4.0. Just add the bad domain to your restricted list.
Here's a convenient link for those too lazy to Google for it: NukeAnything. Note, however, that this is a one-time nuke only; the object will be back the next time you view the page.
Something similar has been a part of my IE Stuff pack for a while now. I consider it invaluable.
http://www.jordanmills.com/odds.asp
Complaints that Starbuck is now a girl
People wishing Starbuck was still a womanizer
I won't complain much about the being a girl part. She's actually pretty cute. But I definately find myself wishing she were still a womanizer.
some people find installers to be annoying and wish nobody uses them
Do you prefer to copy files to a random location on your hard drive and hope you don't need to do something like add info to the registry or register libraries? Get with the decade.
There's no malware associated with Flash, nor am I aware of a single active security exploit. Perhaps you could back up this assertion with some evidence?
Google for "flash remote exploit". I don't feel like doing your research for you.
And I'm going to trust statistics from a company whose sole purpose for existance is to lock you into their proprietary file formats by getting you to run their executables on your computer? Yeah right.
You're right and you're wrong. Quicktime is not a compression format. It's a file container architecture. Sorenson is a non-standard compression format. Sorenson looks beautiful and compresses well, but it is not widely supported.
Unfortunately this is one of my most common misstatements. You are, of course, entirely correct (well, I dunno about how sorenson looks as I refuse to use it, but the rest is golden), and thanks.
Why don't you deliver it in flv? There are a lot of flash players and flash is now supported in near all platforms.
Perhaps the rampant security exploits? Or the associated malware? Or maybe that it's not a standard and nobody really wants to install that crap?
Its annoying to users to make them have to download another player to play your content. Using native players is the best way to go.
And that's exactly why you should not use quicktime. Stick with a standard compression format that anyone can use in their player of choice.
The process of getting footage into Xvid format isn't exactly straight forward.
You haven't looked around much have you? I installed the XVid codec (which needed to be packaged in a standard installer) and VDub (which also needed to be repackaged - one thing I hate about OSS is how these projects are so often left incomplete), and it works fine.
But that would mean there's timely news on slashdot. That just doesn't happen.
I occasionally use Wikipedia for something or other, generally when I click a link to an entry which someone has posted on their Web site. I've found that it's reliable for the most part, but when you run into something that's wrong, it's really wrong. And the threat of revert wars can keep many people (including me) from contributing at all.
That's about where I am on it. I used to actively contribute, write (small, out of the way) articles, but I got tired of my work being molested for someone's agenda, and threatened for not pandering to the trolls.
Publishers of commercial streams want to exclude people from downloading their streams. Unlike Windows Media Player and RealPlayer, MPEG-1 and Ogg (the most common containers for MP3 and Vorbis respectively) do not define a digital restrictions management layer. Thus, commercial publishers tend to shy away from MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. In addition, it is claimed that the MP3 royalty is greater than the Windows Media Player or RealPlayer royalty, and Ogg Vorbis doesn't have enough of an install base to be worth technicians' time.
I'm glad to see someone else using the correct expansion for DRM (hint for the rest: it's not about rights, it's about restrictions). But that doesn't stop me from recording any WM or RA stream that I want (though I have yet to find an RA stream worth the trouble). I can't believe that MP3 encoding would cost more than the others, though.
Oh, and can someone check the grandparent? It seems some clueless mods decided I was a troll. Thanks.
Linksys isn't giving their product away. That point won't work here. I didn't say free anywhere.
Why not just stick with a standard format like MP3 or OGG?
It looks like that server just got hit by a meteorite. Oops.
The crash video one. Well, it had. I think it already crashed and burned.
I've found that it crashes a lot less than trillian. And I use it daily, it's on most of the day.
Not open source, costs too much, tons of bloat, and still not finished (eg the UI still requires a cheap hack of a skin, and most dialogs don't respond to keyboard input).
I'm far more impressed with miranda.
It's happening. Slowly. Somewhat. Even over the past few years, I've noticed things slowly gravitating to either 5v or 12v. I think part of this has to do with the 12v lines used by hard drives (eg the mini-itx market is pushing htis), and the 5v is used by a lot of chipsets, apparently (since every decent PDA seems to run off 5v). So we might get there eventually.
Personally I think it would be great if 12vdc was the "standard" dc power supply, and you can easily get or make an adapter to turn it into 5v.
I don't believe that will remove it. There are a few other effective ways though.
jeff?