could -one- of you browser whippersnappers please add a 'save browser state/restore browser state' function to whatever the browser de jour happens to be?
i want a browser that will remember its state between sessions. if i close the 15 windows i've got open, i want them all back again, same site, same position, when i re-open it again!
sheesh. 15 years of web-browsing, and we're still begging for the most rudimentary, fundamental, web-browsing-workflow features to be implemented, while the rest of the 'web scientists' go off into RFC and NIH land...
(apologies if there is actually a 'browser' thats capable of maintaining state information between sessions. please inform me if it'll run on OSX...)
If I had an RTG, even if it were low powered, I'd change my lifestyle and get rid of all electronic/electric components that I couldn't use with it, and replace it with ones that I could.
Most of my stuff is 12v or lower, 1mA... wouldn't that be acceptable, or is it lower than that?
Didn't one land in the Mariana Trench, or something, and its still there?
I seem to remember reading something about that, once, a long time ago, but I can't recall all of the specifics. Some bathosphere was built specifically for the purpose of going down there and retreiving it, but ended up getting used for Ocean Sciences instead... or something...
Whatever. Pretty interesting stuff. Too bad we can't all have RTG's to get ourselves off the grid, eh?;)
Seems to me a mini-JVM would be good for this application, sitting in between the transport layer and the application.
Actually, come to think of it, why hasn't this been thought of before?! SO OBVIOUS!!
Ah well. I'm now happy that after all this time, I've finally come to understand that in fact there is a use for Java after all...
(j/k, don't slay me!)
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There are a lot of projects out there, and even a lot of promising ones, but there are few areas that open source content creation apps are on par with their commercial counterparts today, unfortunately (well, as I see it).
Ah, but the point is there is work being done, and progress is being made.
It may not be commercial movement, but it is movement.
(Well, when I first saw the word "plaugerist" I instantly thought that all Linux developers are disease spreaders. Ew. We're a plague everybody, a PLAGUE!)
No, you fool. So governments never accept binaries as an installation method again, and only use source that has been vetted and security-checked for holes, trojans, etc.
Still will happen (holes and trojans in source), but at least it won't happen quite so easily. The whole point of this CIA story was just how easy it was for them to blow up the Soviet pipelines...
And then maybe an OSS game engine that can keep improving
Whats wrong with the Blender game engine? Honest question, I don't actually know much about it (I'm an audio hacker, not a graphics hacker) but I seem to remember there being much hooplah being made about Blenders' gaming capabilities.
Is this engine not good enough for 3D games on Linux, or has it just not received enough attention?
But it just sounded like the way you were framing it, it was an answer to the problem of Audacity not being a sampler, nor a DAW.
Regardless though, the division between DAW and Audio Sample Editor is a good one - I think its good to have smaller, lighter tools for things like editing... and that said, I know that you can integrate Audacity with Ardour if you prefer to use it for your edits, which is a really nice capability.
Linux Audio apps may not have the ProTools, or the Cubases, but hell. There is some *freakin'* nice audio hacking going on in Linux land...
For that, though, you've got tons of options in Linux. Specimen, for example, is a great sampler for Linux. JACK-friendly too, which means you can run it alongside Ardour or Audacity or whatever, and away you go...
These two apps alone prove that Linux is as ready for Audio applications development as any other, and Audacity proves that its possible to do it in a way that caters to -all- platforms.
Gonna be an interesting year for Audio apps in Linux land this year, I think... Very interesting.
... that to protect us from gangs and thugs and criminals, we have to employ gangs and thugs and criminals.
And don't just say "because, thats the way it is".
Whenever I hear about tactics like this from the very government that is supposed to represent 'higher values', I'm reminded that government is The Perfect Con.
Either way, the discovery of life on Mars would do a lot to give us a kick in the ass back home on Earth. Maybe it'd be a good thing, maybe it won't, but at some point... I hope we find out.
That statement, that money is useless, and that only humans assign values to goods and services, is a rejection of the economic monetary system, regardless of whether you like it or not.
No. It is not. Money -doesn't do anything- unless humans put a value on it.
You're still missing the point, which is that human values are -arbitrary- but they are HUMAN VALUES and its only Human Beings which make money worth anything.
The money system is only a 'system' because humans say it is, together. The stock market is nothing more than mass agreement on a grand scale, about how much something is 'worth' to other people.
At the end of the day, if you decided you wanted to go live off the land somewhere, you still could do that. Its up to you. And, actually, its feasible in quite comfortable ways. Money won't get in the way of that.
Did I say I was rejecting "Western Society"'s system of cash? No, I didn't... I said Western Society is what has produced the viewpoint that "only cash gets you places", "cash is all that matters", "there is nothing else of any value in the world".
That you can't see that, especially when its pointed out to you, belies your own ignorance.
There are other things in life, of waaaay more value than money, which require no money at all to enjoy. It is human beings who put values on things - including money. That is all.
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could -one- of you browser whippersnappers please add a 'save browser state/restore browser state' function to whatever the browser de jour happens to be?
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i want a browser that will remember its state between sessions. if i close the 15 windows i've got open, i want them all back again, same site, same position, when i re-open it again!
sheesh. 15 years of web-browsing, and we're still begging for the most rudimentary, fundamental, web-browsing-workflow features to be implemented, while the rest of the 'web scientists' go off into RFC and NIH land
(apologies if there is actually a 'browser' thats capable of maintaining state information between sessions. please inform me if it'll run on OSX
They only exist to do one thing, and one thing only: waste a persons time.
Change that, and you'll have a hit.
cool, thanks for the recommendation ... downloading the unit-e albums now!
(can't find SSM, though i'll do a more extensive search when i get to work...)
If I had an RTG, even if it were low powered, I'd change my lifestyle and get rid of all electronic/electric components that I couldn't use with it, and replace it with ones that I could.
... wouldn't that be acceptable, or is it lower than that?
Most of my stuff is 12v or lower, 1mA
Is it possible that some of the comets we have floating around our Solar System are in fact the missing Martian oceans?
I wonder...
Didn't one land in the Mariana Trench, or something, and its still there?
... or something ...
;)
I seem to remember reading something about that, once, a long time ago, but I can't recall all of the specifics. Some bathosphere was built specifically for the purpose of going down there and retreiving it, but ended up getting used for Ocean Sciences instead
Whatever. Pretty interesting stuff. Too bad we can't all have RTG's to get ourselves off the grid, eh?
ummm ... what?
for sure, you mean? like, with certainty?
thats a lot of fossils.
Don't worry. I'm sure some smelly monks will come up with a money-making after-market refill service that'll rock ass.
... Profit!" kick ... but hey, in Soviet Russia, You Sniff Dog Butt!)
1. Invent smell-o-vision.
2. Put dogs on Internet.
3. ???
4. Get some monks to bottle ass refills.
5. Profit!!!
(Sorry, I'm lousy at the "???
i'm gonna score me some bitches!
Seems to me a mini-JVM would be good for this application, sitting in between the transport layer and the application.
Actually, come to think of it, why hasn't this been thought of before?! SO OBVIOUS!!
Ah well. I'm now happy that after all this time, I've finally come to understand that in fact there is a use for Java after all...
(j/k, don't slay me!)
There are a lot of projects out there, and even a lot of promising ones, but there are few areas that open source content creation apps are on par with their commercial counterparts today, unfortunately (well, as I see it).
Ah, but the point is there is work being done, and progress is being made.
It may not be commercial movement, but it is movement.
"care"?
(Well, when I first saw the word "plaugerist" I instantly thought that all Linux developers are disease spreaders. Ew. We're a plague everybody, a PLAGUE!)
No, you fool. So governments never accept binaries as an installation method again, and only use source that has been vetted and security-checked for holes, trojans, etc.
...
Still will happen (holes and trojans in source), but at least it won't happen quite so easily. The whole point of this CIA story was just how easy it was for them to blow up the Soviet pipelines
And then maybe an OSS game engine that can keep improving
Whats wrong with the Blender game engine? Honest question, I don't actually know much about it (I'm an audio hacker, not a graphics hacker) but I seem to remember there being much hooplah being made about Blenders' gaming capabilities.
Is this engine not good enough for 3D games on Linux, or has it just not received enough attention?
We do agree: Ardour rocks.
... and that said, I know that you can integrate Audacity with Ardour if you prefer to use it for your edits, which is a really nice capability.
But it just sounded like the way you were framing it, it was an answer to the problem of Audacity not being a sampler, nor a DAW.
Regardless though, the division between DAW and Audio Sample Editor is a good one - I think its good to have smaller, lighter tools for things like editing
Linux Audio apps may not have the ProTools, or the Cubases, but hell. There is some *freakin'* nice audio hacking going on in Linux land...
Duh, Ardour isn't a sampler, either.
...
For that, though, you've got tons of options in Linux. Specimen, for example, is a great sampler for Linux. JACK-friendly too, which means you can run it alongside Ardour or Audacity or whatever, and away you go
There's some great audio stuff happening in linux land lately. I'll give you the two examples I've been playing with today alone, for example:
... Very interesting.
GALAN - Graphical Audio Language
and
Specimen, MIDI sampler for Linux
These two apps alone prove that Linux is as ready for Audio applications development as any other, and Audacity proves that its possible to do it in a way that caters to -all- platforms.
Gonna be an interesting year for Audio apps in Linux land this year, I think
You mean "American Republic".
(There's no such thing as a democracy.)
If this doesn't prove the case for open source software, I don't know what will.
... at the very least.
Those Russkies should've broken out their debuggers on these binaries before putting them into operation
... that to protect us from gangs and thugs and criminals, we have to employ gangs and thugs and criminals.
And don't just say "because, thats the way it is".
Whenever I hear about tactics like this from the very government that is supposed to represent 'higher values', I'm reminded that government is The Perfect Con.
Interesting perspective.
... I hope we find out.
Either way, the discovery of life on Mars would do a lot to give us a kick in the ass back home on Earth. Maybe it'd be a good thing, maybe it won't, but at some point
Look, stop picking a fight, okay?
That statement, that money is useless, and that only humans assign values to goods and services, is a rejection of the economic monetary system, regardless of whether you like it or not.
No. It is not. Money -doesn't do anything- unless humans put a value on it.
You're still missing the point, which is that human values are -arbitrary- but they are HUMAN VALUES and its only Human Beings which make money worth anything.
The money system is only a 'system' because humans say it is, together. The stock market is nothing more than mass agreement on a grand scale, about how much something is 'worth' to other people.
At the end of the day, if you decided you wanted to go live off the land somewhere, you still could do that. Its up to you. And, actually, its feasible in quite comfortable ways. Money won't get in the way of that.
Did I say I was rejecting "Western Society"'s system of cash? No, I didn't
That you can't see that, especially when its pointed out to you, belies your own ignorance.
There are other things in life, of waaaay more value than money, which require no money at all to enjoy. It is human beings who put values on things - including money. That is all.
Now take your foot out of my ass.
no way. you're kidding.
Thanks ... thats fascinating. It really does look like some sort of shell or something 'organic' in nature.
Gonna be an interesting couple of months, with those MER's around.