Happily installing nearly anything through apt4rpm, as you point out, is unusual because a) most people running rpm-based distros don't have apt4rpm and b) the small number of packages ready for grabbing via apt4rpm. chicken and egg, unfortunately;)
Someone's set of directions for installing dvd::rip on Red Hat 8.0 involved apt4rpm, which is how I heard of it -- those directions were written because it happened in that case that the right packages *were* in place on the freshrpms site.
Since then, I have idly installed some other things from freshrpms, in some cases just to show people how wonderful apt is. apt-get install whateverIwant and BOOM.
If there's one aspect of huffy elitism in the computer world which I'd like to see disappear, its the install machismo that says (and I am almost quoting here) "if you can't figure out how to install software X, you are an IDIOT!" Apt (and from the sound of it, autopackage will as well) skips the chest beating phase:) Software that goes on with a simple polite request -- that's what I like.
Good luck, hopefully you'll achieve v1.0 this year!
Me, too re: Cinelerra -- does nothing but crash on my machine. Now, it's true I have no computer anywhere close to its listed processor requirements, but still, I had hoped to at least see it crawl along;) Evidently it is useful to some people -- I'm just not one of them;) What I look forward to is video-manipulation so simple that even I can use it without screaming.
I hope / think you're right that when gstreamer stabilizes, my ideal world will be just a little bit closer.
Would be nice if Red Hat or other Linux distro maker would hire Avery Lee to make a Linux version of VirtualDub!
My step-brother (more than "computer literate" but not someone who likes to spend *all* his time tweaking his computers) told me at Thanksgiving that he's finally been mostly converted from Windows to Linux by Red Hat 8.0. He's a good example of how good 2002 has been, even with the crunch that some companies are going through.
Red Hat and Mandrake (which I name only because they seem to be the most visible in non-specialist stores) both produce distros which are relatively sane to install, and come with far (*far*) more extra-Operating System software included than the obvious conventional competitors do.
Which brings on an optimstic rant:
The included software with the usual distros varies a lot, by category and in quality. Saying that RH8 has x-jillion packages, though, is nice for exploring, but not helpful when the one thing a potential user would like to use is not among the x-jillion.
If Red Hat, or debian, or lycoris, or *any* distribution of [Linux + GNU utilities] were to come with an video editing app with ease of use approaching iMovie... well, that is what would impress me most about the coming year in software. And I'd certainly count such an app being developed and made available via apt / apt4rpm;)
I think that Windows now comes with a video editing app as well. When will plugging in a firewire video camera for dumping footage in order to do simple, cut-and-paste scene rearrangment be as easy as it is under Mac OS? Hats off to the developers of Cinelerra, Kino, etc, but what I'd like to see is something like "Cinelerra Lite" , or perhaps "Cinelerra Ultralight";)
Such a beast would have to be simple, reliable, fast, pleasant, and with the ability to save to VCD/SVCD for DVD-player compatibility, and to DiVX;) or other free video format for long play. Wouldn't it be nice to have a complete toolkit for making low-budget video production using all free software?
This would also be a cool way to show off / play with the capabilities of Xiph's in-progress video format, eh? Eh, eh?!
(iMovie, though a well-made app and IMO sufficient reason for non Mac users to try out the Mac OS, does not make it easy -- and is it even possible? -- to create VCDs or DiVX;) disks.) I'd love for someone to point me to a tutorial indicating otherwise:) This is not hypothetical -- I'd like to start converting family videos to digital format, editing down to reasonable / watchable lengths. Right now, this means I'm thinking of spending more than I'd ideally want to on a large external drive for my iBook, just for that one reason.
All in all, thanks to the distro makers and application developers who have made GNU/Linux so much more accessible and friendly. Hope you have a good year!
timothy
both books have elements of it, but ...
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Diamond Age is the right reference here. Haven't read it in a while, but there are some memorable orgy scenes, where data (and more) is being... passed along between processors.
I think there are competing ideas / ideals here between portabilty and functionality.
given certain circumstances, I'd much rather have a real laptop for the same reasons you name -- screen, storage, battery, drives...
However, I'd also like a way to have a computer with me at all times, for the same reasons that people go wild about wearable computers -- I'd like to have it as a (and these are just for instances...)
- walkman - notebook - address list - to-do-list - camera (even if that takes a little camera dongle) - calculator - book (lots of gutenberg texts loaded on), - micro-TiVo (a few episodes of A&E's occasional Nero Wolf movies in DivX;), say) - voice recorder - GPS and map holder
And I want this magic device to be hand-sized, not cost to much, and use readily replaceable rechargeable batteries, AA for instance.
Sure, that might make it a jack of all trades / master of none, but being able to fit in a pocket would go a long way toward earning forgiveness.
A lot of these things are taken care even by current Palm OS devices or those little pocket PCs, but not all, and certainly not perfectly.
Yes, I've heard about these, but I think they're even further out of my price range than the microdrives are...
hmmm, checking pricewatch, I find a lowball offer of $142 for brand-unspecified 512MB CF card, which is really much better than I thought they were right now. Of course, prices tend to get non-linear toward the edges, and there are no listings for 1GB CF cards as of right now on pricewatch.
a 10GB CF card would be nice; I hope that SD and MM cards don't displace CD cards before that can happen...
they recently ran a little article praising Mozilla, as noted on mozillazine.org
I understand that they have added slightly less coy naked people, too, but Playboy has always been a relatively well-rounded magazine, in fact considerably less horn-dog oriented than things like "Maxim," it's just that the women in Playboy aren't wearing clothing.
This would be great on airplanes / in the car / anywhere a full-size laptop is overkill or just awkward.
However, as the review here points out, it doesn't have much storage space of either variety. I guess the ideal I'm hankering for would be something like this Zaurus (small, protected screen, built-in QWERTY keyboard) and the yet-unreleased OQO.
*Even* if it was only used as a small gaming / music / movie machine (a tiny all-media device), it would be very nice, if only there was more room on there. That it's also a nice computer for other things, even better -- if there was more room:)
(And Yes, microdrives can carry a fair amount, but a) they're quote expensive and b) maybe the bad apples get more news, but there seem to be a lot of complaints re: reliability. An ipod-size 10 or 20GB drive, that would be something, could carry several movies, days worth of audio, important files you don't want lost when the burglars invade your unoccupied home, etc.)
"So the next time you see the X used in Christmas instead of Christ, instead of being upset and feeling like it is an effort to take Christ out of Christmas, be reminded of early Christians trying to worship their Savior and later by people trying to speed up the process of making more copies of the scriptures."
That's a quote from this webpage: http://www.of-worth.com/ea/Christmas.htm
I found it with this google search: http://www.google.com/search?q=xmas%20abb reviation %20respect&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0 &ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
and the other top choices are intersting as well; in summary, "X" for Christ is an ancient tradition which need imply no disrespect. It doesn't mean that people don't use "Xmas" flippantly nowadays, but that has little to do with how many letters they use to spell it.
Small thing first: The DMCA is lame, in particular as it applies to decrypting DVDs. I don't boycott DVDs, but I do point out to people how easy it is nowadays to become a felon for watching one's own (purchased) disks.
The idea that people should have black-and-white attitudes something as complex and ambiguous as Big Entertainment is a far more annoying meme than anything having to do with SOVIET RUSSIA.
A lot of things in life are messy -- life itself is messy. This government of this country (the U.S.) has done some reprehensible things, promulgated some things I think are evil. It's also managed to be, on the whole, far better than any other government I can think of. Doubtless Your Mileage Varies, but take it as an example rather than a statement I expect you to specifically agree with. What I'm calling Big Entertainment is such a broad group that dismissing (or uncritically lauding) the entire industry is sort of pointless.
The RIAA / MPAA are lobbying groups which exist to buy and exploit any advantage they can for their own little industry, because they know that the U.S. (the the world's) mixed economy allows, even encourages, the creation of loopholes and stumbling blocks through sometimes arcane and subtle means, not to mention kick-in-the-head means. The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state and all that. They did *not* invent the system, no matter how cynically (or sincerely) they participate in it.
The actually creative parts of the particular companies on whose behalf the *AA groups lobby do some interesting and sometimes very good things -- and unless you think that Peter Jackson secretly rubs his palms at night thinking of how he can disadvantage you through his filmmaking, you probably agree that the current Military/Industrial Film Complex leaves the door open to create at least *some* satisfying, interesting works. I happen to like certain filmmakers (like Whit Stillman) whose works I've purchased on DVD. If they were available for direct download for a small fee, Sure, I'd rather pay less, get more, vote more directly with my dollars -- who wouldn't? Right now, I like the fact that I can (finally) watch "Barcelona," and that the movie got made in the first place. That's the side of the equation that people sometimes forget about when they disparage the truly bad parts of the entertainment establishment -- that they *like* some of what it produces, even when it's packaged as being anti-establishment.
On the other hand, if you truly don't like annoying cartel / guild-based "evil corporate" influence on your entertainment life, you can move to a place where there is none... and you might want to move back soon:) ASCAP, Harry Fox and others are just as sickening as the **AAs of the world, and have been for much longer.
Mentifex mentioned some cool-sounding books, and wrote:
This brand-new November-2002 open-source artificial intelligence resource book needs to be reviewed here on Slashdot.
Then review it (and / or the other books you mention!:)
Read the book review guidelines, write a review somewhere between 800 and 1200 words, choose "book reviews" as your section of choice on the submissions page...
We love getting book reviews!
timothy
I passed by it several times, on someone else's TV
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... and thought it made school seem a little less boring by comparison.
Slow-moving, dull. At least that's the impression I got by seeing about 15 minutes apiece of several episodes. Time wasted.
I know there were others, but that's definitely the game I had in mind.
Had no idea there was so much info regarding jogwheels / spinners out there.
And I think I may be misusing terminology anyhow; some people have insisted to me that the silly controls which snap back to a given center point also jogwheels, which seems wrong to me... those controls are better than the controls on the terrible remote control for my television (and most consumer electronics' remotes), but that's not high praise.
well-weighted, machined edge, free-spinning, finger-friendly, LED illuminated, multi-purpose jogwheels.
The Griffin powermate is a cool-looking device (I just ordered one, have not yet had a chance to play with it), and I hope will meet that description pretty well -- I am curious (and pessimistic, but willing to wait) about its free-spinny-ness... I want something I can give a spin, have it keep going for a while, and have it stop (within reason) only when I drop my fingers again to arrest the spin.
I'd prefer a spinning jog wheel to a mouse wheel for the same things that mouse wheels are used for right now.
More importantly, I'd like a jogwheel for both playing and editing sound and video. In Mplayer, for instance, rather than the arrow keys + space bar (though those are fine), I'd rather be able to tap a jogwheel for pause / play, roll it forward for fast motion, roll it backwards for backwards fast motion, etc.
I'd like the GIMP to be jog-wheel improved, too, so any operations which have a slider could be activated by the jogwheel instead.
Multiple reconfigurable jogwheels would make video editing more fun, too -- say, one for standard audio track volume, one for added voice over or music track, one for moving around in the video stream itself. (For which a real video mixing board would be nice too, but less useful for other things).
Another example of using several jogwheels might be this (and I'm thinking of the way the powermate works, as I understand it -- there's the wheel itself of course, and a single "button" which is to say that the whole assembly acts like a mouse button when pressed down):
In Mozilla, have a triplet set up for 1) scroll up / down current page; button might 2) sroll sideways through all open tabs 3) open and scroll down the bookmarks file
Idea: For all these things, a small and bright LCD display on the base of the wheel would be cool, so it's easy to keep track of its current function.
Also, playing breakout-style games with a mouse is just lame" Think jogwheel = atari paddle:)
Are there any truly suprelative jogwheels I should know about? A few old video games had good ones, but I don't remember their names...
I've finally played with a few of these (in stores), found the shape pretty neat, felt optimistic that the hinges on the models I saw were durable enough for a reasonable lifespan. (The Toshibas' hinge esp.)
Prices are still around $2,000 (with a few costing less by a few hundred, and others costing more like $3,000), so I wonder -- how much of that is novelty surcharge, and how much is because of complexities inherent to the swiveling hinge and pen-screen?
Like any (otherwise interesting but expensive) product, there's a price at which I would say "Hey, sure, I'll risk that!"...
What's your try-it-out price? And when do you think these tablets will cross it?
I bought a string (20 lights) of red LEDs, each in a little red plastic ball, for $5 (half off regular price of $10) at Walmart last year, has worked pretty well since then. Powered by C batteries, also has a DC input of I think 3v. It's cheap / chintzy (battery case is weak, not quite to the needs-tape stage), but still a nice way to add red lights to my car or wherever.
I called a few distributors, hoping that I'd be able to get a better price if I bought more LED lights at once.
Short answer is, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
In any quantity that a regular person would buy (as opposed to, say, someone in charge of site purchases for Disney World), you're not going to get a discount, is the long answer. (I'd like to hear contrary evidence, but that is the received wisdom so far.)
I'm not going to buy more than 10 boxes, though. I figure 10 boxes (at $20 a pop) is already really pushing it, but I don't want them for "Christmas lights" exactly -- I want them as general string lights which I might happen to use during the winter holidays borrowed from the No. European pagans, but will also set up in my room etc.
I remember when the great thing about cable was the absence of commericals, movies running their entire length etc. (At least, that was the rumor -- my household didn't get cable until far later).
But it's like buying the Sunday paper -- the ads subsidize the (fairly low) cover price. Cable TV would cost more (or very well could) if they didn't also get funding from ads. (And Premium channels that *do* run uninterrupted movies are one example...)
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This is a neat site, probably mentioned in other comments but a quick scan does no reveal, so ...
scitoys.com is a nifty site with a lot of hands-on science experiments.
timothy
Happily installing nearly anything through apt4rpm, as you point out, is unusual because a) most people running rpm-based distros don't have apt4rpm and b) the small number of packages ready for grabbing via apt4rpm. chicken and egg, unfortunately ;)
:) Software that goes on with a simple polite request -- that's what I like.
Someone's set of directions for installing dvd::rip on Red Hat 8.0 involved apt4rpm, which is how I heard of it -- those directions were written because it happened in that case that the right packages *were* in place on the freshrpms site.
Since then, I have idly installed some other things from freshrpms, in some cases just to show people how wonderful apt is. apt-get install whateverIwant and BOOM.
If there's one aspect of huffy elitism in the computer world which I'd like to see disappear, its the install machismo that says (and I am almost quoting here) "if you can't figure out how to install software X, you are an IDIOT!" Apt (and from the sound of it, autopackage will as well) skips the chest beating phase
Good luck, hopefully you'll achieve v1.0 this year!
timothy
Me, too re: Cinelerra -- does nothing but crash on my machine. Now, it's true I have no computer anywhere close to its listed processor requirements, but still, I had hoped to at least see it crawl along ;) Evidently it is useful to some people -- I'm just not one of them ;) What I look forward to is video-manipulation so simple that even I can use it without screaming.
I hope / think you're right that when gstreamer stabilizes, my ideal world will be just a little bit closer.
Would be nice if Red Hat or other Linux distro maker would hire Avery Lee to make a Linux version of VirtualDub!
timothy
It just sucks less than some of the other options.
:) Or the BSD section?
;)
OS X sucks, too. But if you want to see at least *some* BSD/Darwin/non-Linux things, why not see apple.slashdot.org?
Now, Yes, this was a silly troll, but Hey
Have a good 2003!
timothy
My step-brother (more than "computer literate" but not someone who likes to spend *all* his time tweaking his computers) told me at Thanksgiving that he's finally been mostly converted from Windows to Linux by Red Hat 8.0. He's a good example of how good 2002 has been, even with the crunch that some companies are going through.
... well, that is what would impress me most about the coming year in software. And I'd certainly count such an app being developed and made available via apt / apt4rpm ;)
;)
:) This is not hypothetical -- I'd like to start converting family videos to digital format, editing down to reasonable / watchable lengths. Right now, this means I'm thinking of spending more than I'd ideally want to on a large external drive for my iBook, just for that one reason.
Red Hat and Mandrake (which I name only because they seem to be the most visible in non-specialist stores) both produce distros which are relatively sane to install, and come with far (*far*) more extra-Operating System software included than the obvious conventional competitors do.
Which brings on an optimstic rant:
The included software with the usual distros varies a lot, by category and in quality. Saying that RH8 has x-jillion packages, though, is nice for exploring, but not helpful when the one thing a potential user would like to use is not among the x-jillion.
If Red Hat, or debian, or lycoris, or *any* distribution of [Linux + GNU utilities] were to come with an video editing app with ease of use approaching iMovie
I think that Windows now comes with a video editing app as well. When will plugging in a firewire video camera for dumping footage in order to do simple, cut-and-paste scene rearrangment be as easy as it is under Mac OS? Hats off to the developers of Cinelerra, Kino, etc, but what I'd like to see is something like "Cinelerra Lite" , or perhaps "Cinelerra Ultralight"
Such a beast would have to be simple, reliable, fast, pleasant, and with the ability to save to VCD/SVCD for DVD-player compatibility, and to DiVX;) or other free video format for long play. Wouldn't it be nice to have a complete toolkit for making low-budget video production using all free software?
This would also be a cool way to show off / play with the capabilities of Xiph's in-progress video format, eh? Eh, eh?!
(iMovie, though a well-made app and IMO sufficient reason for non Mac users to try out the Mac OS, does not make it easy -- and is it even possible? -- to create VCDs or DiVX;) disks.) I'd love for someone to point me to a tutorial indicating otherwise
All in all, thanks to the distro makers and application developers who have made GNU/Linux so much more accessible and friendly. Hope you have a good year!
timothy
Diamond Age is the right reference here. Haven't read it in a while, but there are some memorable orgy scenes, where data (and more) is being ... passed along between processors.
timothy
I think there are competing ideas / ideals here between portabilty and functionality.
...
...)
given certain circumstances, I'd much rather have a real laptop for the same reasons you name -- screen, storage, battery, drives
However, I'd also like a way to have a computer with me at all times, for the same reasons that people go wild about wearable computers -- I'd like to have it as a (and these are just for instances
- walkman
- notebook
- address list
- to-do-list
- camera (even if that takes a little camera dongle)
- calculator
- book (lots of gutenberg texts loaded on),
- micro-TiVo (a few episodes of A&E's occasional Nero Wolf movies in DivX;), say)
- voice recorder
- GPS and map holder
And I want this magic device to be hand-sized, not cost to much, and use readily replaceable rechargeable batteries, AA for instance.
Sure, that might make it a jack of all trades / master of none, but being able to fit in a pocket would go a long way toward earning forgiveness.
A lot of these things are taken care even by current Palm OS devices or those little pocket PCs, but not all, and certainly not perfectly.
timothy
Yes, I've heard about these, but I think they're even further out of my price range than the microdrives are ...
...
hmmm, checking pricewatch, I find a lowball offer of $142 for brand-unspecified 512MB CF card, which is really much better than I thought they were right now. Of course, prices tend to get non-linear toward the edges, and there are no listings for 1GB CF cards as of right now on pricewatch.
a 10GB CF card would be nice; I hope that SD and MM cards don't displace CD cards before that can happen
timothy
they recently ran a little article praising Mozilla, as noted on mozillazine.org
I understand that they have added slightly less coy naked people, too, but Playboy has always been a relatively well-rounded magazine, in fact considerably less horn-dog oriented than things like "Maxim," it's just that the women in Playboy aren't wearing clothing.
timothy
(Both RAM and hard drive space, that is.)
:)
This would be great on airplanes / in the car / anywhere a full-size laptop is overkill or just awkward.
However, as the review here points out, it doesn't have much storage space of either variety. I guess the ideal I'm hankering for would be something like this Zaurus (small, protected screen, built-in QWERTY keyboard) and the yet-unreleased OQO.
*Even* if it was only used as a small gaming / music / movie machine (a tiny all-media device), it would be very nice, if only there was more room on there. That it's also a nice computer for other things, even better -- if there was more room
(And Yes, microdrives can carry a fair amount, but a) they're quote expensive and b) maybe the bad apples get more news, but there seem to be a lot of complaints re: reliability. An ipod-size 10 or 20GB drive, that would be something, could carry several movies, days worth of audio, important files you don't want lost when the burglars invade your unoccupied home, etc.)
timothy
"So the next time you see the X used in Christmas instead of Christ, instead of being upset and feeling like it is an effort to take Christ out of Christmas, be reminded of early Christians trying to worship their Savior and later by people trying to speed up the process of making more copies of the scriptures."
b reviation %20respect&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0 &ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
That's a quote from this webpage: http://www.of-worth.com/ea/Christmas.htm
I found it with this google search:
http://www.google.com/search?q=xmas%20ab
and the other top choices are intersting as well; in summary, "X" for Christ is an ancient tradition which need imply no disrespect. It doesn't mean that people don't use "Xmas" flippantly nowadays, but that has little to do with how many letters they use to spell it.
timothy
Small thing first: The DMCA is lame, in particular as it applies to decrypting DVDs. I don't boycott DVDs, but I do point out to people how easy it is nowadays to become a felon for watching one's own (purchased) disks.
... and you might want to move back soon :) ASCAP, Harry Fox and others are just as sickening as the **AAs of the world, and have been for much longer.
The idea that people should have black-and-white attitudes something as complex and ambiguous as Big Entertainment is a far more annoying meme than anything having to do with SOVIET RUSSIA.
A lot of things in life are messy -- life itself is messy. This government of this country (the U.S.) has done some reprehensible things, promulgated some things I think are evil. It's also managed to be, on the whole, far better than any other government I can think of. Doubtless Your Mileage Varies, but take it as an example rather than a statement I expect you to specifically agree with. What I'm calling Big Entertainment is such a broad group that dismissing (or uncritically lauding) the entire industry is sort of pointless.
The RIAA / MPAA are lobbying groups which exist to buy and exploit any advantage they can for their own little industry, because they know that the U.S. (the the world's) mixed economy allows, even encourages, the creation of loopholes and stumbling blocks through sometimes arcane and subtle means, not to mention kick-in-the-head means. The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state and all that. They did *not* invent the system, no matter how cynically (or sincerely) they participate in it.
The actually creative parts of the particular companies on whose behalf the *AA groups lobby do some interesting and sometimes very good things -- and unless you think that Peter Jackson secretly rubs his palms at night thinking of how he can disadvantage you through his filmmaking, you probably agree that the current Military/Industrial Film Complex leaves the door open to create at least *some* satisfying, interesting works. I happen to like certain filmmakers (like Whit Stillman) whose works I've purchased on DVD. If they were available for direct download for a small fee, Sure, I'd rather pay less, get more, vote more directly with my dollars -- who wouldn't? Right now, I like the fact that I can (finally) watch "Barcelona," and that the movie got made in the first place. That's the side of the equation that people sometimes forget about when they disparage the truly bad parts of the entertainment establishment -- that they *like* some of what it produces, even when it's packaged as being anti-establishment.
On the other hand, if you truly don't like annoying cartel / guild-based "evil corporate" influence on your entertainment life, you can move to a place where there is none
timothy
Then review it (and / or the other books you mention! :)
Read the book review guidelines, write a review somewhere between 800 and 1200 words, choose "book reviews" as your section of choice on the submissions page ...
We love getting book reviews!
timothy
... and thought it made school seem a little less boring by comparison.
Slow-moving, dull. At least that's the impression I got by seeing about 15 minutes apiece of several episodes. Time wasted.
timothy
I know there were others, but that's definitely the game I had in mind.
... those controls are better than the controls on the terrible remote control for my television (and most consumer electronics' remotes), but that's not high praise.
Had no idea there was so much info regarding jogwheels / spinners out there.
And I think I may be misusing terminology anyhow; some people have insisted to me that the silly controls which snap back to a given center point also jogwheels, which seems wrong to me
timothy
well-weighted, machined edge, free-spinning, finger-friendly, LED illuminated, multi-purpose jogwheels.
... I want something I can give a spin, have it keep going for a while, and have it stop (within reason) only when I drop my fingers again to arrest the spin.
:)
...
The Griffin powermate is a cool-looking device (I just ordered one, have not yet had a chance to play with it), and I hope will meet that description pretty well -- I am curious (and pessimistic, but willing to wait) about its free-spinny-ness
I'd prefer a spinning jog wheel to a mouse wheel for the same things that mouse wheels are used for right now.
More importantly, I'd like a jogwheel for both playing and editing sound and video. In Mplayer, for instance, rather than the arrow keys + space bar (though those are fine), I'd rather be able to tap a jogwheel for pause / play, roll it forward for fast motion, roll it backwards for backwards fast motion, etc.
I'd like the GIMP to be jog-wheel improved, too, so any operations which have a slider could be activated by the jogwheel instead.
Multiple reconfigurable jogwheels would make video editing more fun, too -- say, one for standard audio track volume, one for added voice over or music track, one for moving around in the video stream itself. (For which a real video mixing board would be nice too, but less useful for other things).
Another example of using several jogwheels might be this (and I'm thinking of the way the powermate works, as I understand it -- there's the wheel itself of course, and a single "button" which is to say that the whole assembly acts like a mouse button when pressed down):
In Mozilla, have a triplet set up for
1) scroll up / down current page; button might
2) sroll sideways through all open tabs
3) open and scroll down the bookmarks file
Idea: For all these things, a small and bright LCD display on the base of the wheel would be cool, so it's easy to keep track of its current function.
Also, playing breakout-style games with a mouse is just lame" Think jogwheel = atari paddle
Are there any truly suprelative jogwheels I should know about? A few old video games had good ones, but I don't remember their names
timothy
I've finally played with a few of these (in stores), found the shape pretty neat, felt optimistic that the hinges on the models I saw were durable enough for a reasonable lifespan. (The Toshibas' hinge esp.)
...
Prices are still around $2,000 (with a few costing less by a few hundred, and others costing more like $3,000), so I wonder -- how much of that is novelty surcharge, and how much is because of complexities inherent to the swiveling hinge and pen-screen?
Like any (otherwise interesting but expensive) product, there's a price at which I would say "Hey, sure, I'll risk that!"
What's your try-it-out price? And when do you think these tablets will cross it?
timothy
I hit search and started counting, multiplying by 30, looks like I missed a page between the first and the last.
:)
Thanks for the correction
timothy
this seems like a good way to have one's water returned to the tribe, and one's non-water turned into corpse powder with which to harm one's enemies.
timothy
Mononoke:
:))
Can you clairify whether those strings need a wall wart, or if (like the foreverbright ones) they just plug into a wall directly?
(Also, white would be nice
timothy
I bought a string (20 lights) of red LEDs, each in a little red plastic ball, for $5 (half off regular price of $10) at Walmart last year, has worked pretty well since then. Powered by C batteries, also has a DC input of I think 3v. It's cheap / chintzy (battery case is weak, not quite to the needs-tape stage), but still a nice way to add red lights to my car or wherever.
timothy
I called a few distributors, hoping that I'd be able to get a better price if I bought more LED lights at once.
Short answer is, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.
In any quantity that a regular person would buy (as opposed to, say, someone in charge of site purchases for Disney World), you're not going to get a discount, is the long answer. (I'd like to hear contrary evidence, but that is the received wisdom so far.)
I'm not going to buy more than 10 boxes, though. I figure 10 boxes (at $20 a pop) is already really pushing it, but I don't want them for "Christmas lights" exactly -- I want them as general string lights which I might happen to use during the winter holidays borrowed from the No. European pagans, but will also set up in my room etc.
timothy
If you know of any, I'd like to know who manufactures them. I am hoping to find just that, but so far I have not found any based on LEDs.
timothy
... is to maintain a residence in Florida and live down there in the sun for much of the year, which is what Roblimo does.
;)
Of course, if he lived in the Dakotas, he'd probably write the same story more for the reason you're suggesting
FL: low taxes, high sun, all the swampland you can eat.
timothy
I remember when the great thing about cable was the absence of commericals, movies running their entire length etc. (At least, that was the rumor -- my household didn't get cable until far later).
...)
But it's like buying the Sunday paper -- the ads subsidize the (fairly low) cover price. Cable TV would cost more (or very well could) if they didn't also get funding from ads. (And Premium channels that *do* run uninterrupted movies are one example
timothy