What's the point of me installing UbuntuStudio if there's no support for my RT-X100 video editing card? No real-time effects. No hardware encoding. Perhaps no DV grabbing either.
Until hardware suppliers ship Linux drivers (with all the interoperability issues of standardising drives for so many things) its pointless. I'm sticking to Windows for my video editing and music mixing. Linux for everything else though...
'Tagging' is when you put a mark on someone else's property... Hence maybe tagging is what other people do to your content (as here on slashdot) whereas labelling is what you do to your gmail messages... uh, maybe.
Maybe google just think tagging sounds like graffiti-talk...
I just RTFA and apparently the biggest problem is whether you type your tags as "Windows Vista","Piece Of Crap" or Windows_Vista,Piece_Of_Crap or WindowsVista,PieceOfCrap, so that people who put tags on D.e.li.cio.us might get confused when putting tags on technofarti.com. Spaces? Quotes? Delimeters? Oh my. What shall we do.
Basically, people are too dumb/lazy/stupid to read a one-line description of how to format their tags. How confusing can it be? You just show people how to do it in the form, e.g.
Tags [ ] (eg dogs, "border collies", barking)
or
Tags [ ] (eg dogs,border_collies,barking)
or
Tags [ ] (eg dogs,borderCollies,barking)
Now, do we need a standard, OR do we need people to be able to read instructions? Note that one of these choices is a specific, set-in-stone piece of information, the other is a general piece of advice that people would do well to follow for most of their lives (although being able to read instructions is no guarantee that following them is a good idea).
Funny definition of 'safe mode'. I'd get the main antenna pointing at the earth, the battery radiator pointing away from the sun, and the computer going 'what do I do know, smarty earthlings?' and waiting for a command.
Maybe NASA's 'safe mode' just put 'safe mode' in the corners of all the returned images and did them in 8-bit colour...
"Why not just use a system that isn't triggered until your death certificate becomes available."
Such as? Maybe you can leave a sealed note with whoever has your will, saying 'in the event of my death please visit this web page', then give a URL, username, and password, the visiting of which causes a server-side script to run and delete all your pr0n, hate-mail your boss, put your low-numbered slashdot account up on ebay for the benefit of your next of kin, and so on.
Of course you'd have to make sure that URL was secured....
Preventing this kind of thing...
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You have to make sure your support logging system helps your techies as well as your management and customers. How do they keep track of what they are working on at the moment? Our previous system was a whiteboard and a bunch of marker pens. Now we have RT - our techies can prioritise, file, log comments, keep a FAQ - big benefits to them. The advantages to management and customers are also many-fold.
If your call-logging system isnt benefiting your support staff then maybe something is wrong with your call-logging system...
If I've got a simple task to do (eg the text-file-of-URLS example) then I knock it up in shell script. By the time that simple task has feature-creeped up to more than 20 lines I start to wish I'd written it in Perl. So I rewrite. By the time that Perl script has crept up to more than 200 lines I start to wish it was written in Python. So I rewrite. By the time that Python script has crept up to 2000 lines I start to wish I'd farmed the job out to a team of programmers, and I give up caring what language its written in and make them do it as a web service. Then I write a small shell script to call their web service. When that shell script has feature-creeped up to more than 20 lines...
This fact will now be used by the rich to stop anyone with more than $2,200 complaining about poverty: "You're richer than most! Stop whining and get back down the pit!"
Running on Windows, Virtual Dub (Free) will let you take movie files and clip them whilst re-encoding the audio or video and resizing and filtering them too.
Of course this is only news because its a Linux IT project failing. There are so many over-budget, behind-schedule public-sector IT projects involving non-Linux systems that they dont make the headlines any more.
Oh, except the new UK Health Service IT system which has just gone waaaay over budget....
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I bet there's a big landfill site somewhere near Google HQ, but its probably really low resolution in Google Earth...
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What's the point of me installing UbuntuStudio if there's no support for my RT-X100 video editing card? No real-time effects. No hardware encoding. Perhaps no DV grabbing either.
Until hardware suppliers ship Linux drivers (with all the interoperability issues of standardising drives for so many things) its pointless. I'm sticking to Windows for my video editing and music mixing. Linux for everything else though...
'Tagging' is when you put a mark on someone else's property... Hence maybe tagging is what other people do to your content (as here on slashdot) whereas labelling is what you do to your gmail messages... uh, maybe.
Maybe google just think tagging sounds like graffiti-talk...
I just RTFA and apparently the biggest problem is whether you type your tags as "Windows Vista","Piece Of Crap" or Windows_Vista,Piece_Of_Crap or WindowsVista,PieceOfCrap, so that people who put tags on D.e.li.cio.us might get confused when putting tags on technofarti.com. Spaces? Quotes? Delimeters? Oh my. What shall we do.
Basically, people are too dumb/lazy/stupid to read a one-line description of how to format their tags. How confusing can it be? You just show people how to do it in the form, e.g.
Tags [ ] (eg dogs, "border collies", barking)
or
Tags [ ] (eg dogs,border_collies,barking)
or
Tags [ ] (eg dogs,borderCollies,barking)
Now, do we need a standard, OR do we need people to be able to read instructions? Note that one of these choices is a specific, set-in-stone piece of information, the other is a general piece of advice that people would do well to follow for most of their lives (although being able to read instructions is no guarantee that following them is a good idea).
Funny definition of 'safe mode'. I'd get the main antenna pointing at the earth, the battery radiator pointing away from the sun, and the computer going 'what do I do know, smarty earthlings?' and waiting for a command.
Maybe NASA's 'safe mode' just put 'safe mode' in the corners of all the returned images and did them in 8-bit colour...
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"Why not just use a system that isn't triggered until your death certificate becomes available."
Such as? Maybe you can leave a sealed note with whoever has your will, saying 'in the event of my death please visit this web page', then give a URL, username, and password, the visiting of which causes a server-side script to run and delete all your pr0n, hate-mail your boss, put your low-numbered slashdot account up on ebay for the benefit of your next of kin, and so on.
Of course you'd have to make sure that URL was secured....
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So stop buying Shimano stuff. Install some open source gears and a free software chain...
No, its much worse, this is it after four and a half billion years of evolution.
Just imagine the disturbance if they'd included IE7 in the list...
No! To make an earthquake-resistant internet you need to make it out of _stretchy_ tubes!
You have to make sure your support logging system helps your techies as well as your management and customers. How do they keep track of what they are working on at the moment? Our previous system was a whiteboard and a bunch of marker pens. Now we have RT - our techies can prioritise, file, log comments, keep a FAQ - big benefits to them. The advantages to management and customers are also many-fold.
If your call-logging system isnt benefiting your support staff then maybe something is wrong with your call-logging system...
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I'm sure Linus originally talked about World Domination as a joke. A funny. Everyone laughed. He didn't really mean it. ESR means it. And he has guns.
If I've got a simple task to do (eg the text-file-of-URLS example) then I knock it up in shell script. By the time that simple task has feature-creeped up to more than 20 lines I start to wish I'd written it in Perl. So I rewrite. By the time that Perl script has crept up to more than 200 lines I start to wish it was written in Python. So I rewrite. By the time that Python script has crept up to 2000 lines I start to wish I'd farmed the job out to a team of programmers, and I give up caring what language its written in and make them do it as a web service. Then I write a small shell script to call their web service. When that shell script has feature-creeped up to more than 20 lines...
And British sex offenders will have to register in Penistone. And Cockermouth.
Yes, they are real places.
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/so-i-marri ed-a-kernel-programmer
mmmm tasteless....
"50th percentile: $2,200 of assets"
This fact will now be used by the rich to stop anyone with more than $2,200 complaining about poverty: "You're richer than most! Stop whining and get back down the pit!"
Running on Windows, Virtual Dub (Free) will let you take movie files and clip them whilst re-encoding the audio or video and resizing and filtering them too.
Talk to a financial journalist. Not only will they have contacts at the bank, but the bank will fear them more than they fear you...
Of course this is only news because its a Linux IT project failing. There are so many over-budget, behind-schedule public-sector IT projects involving non-Linux systems that they dont make the headlines any more.
Oh, except the new UK Health Service IT system which has just gone waaaay over budget....
A wit once said there were two classes of travel, 'First Class', and 'With Children'.
...has been slash! slash! slash! slash! slash! dotted....
I'll just make the 'Making Of...' documentary of this...
"My normal approach is useless here"
http://www.xkcd.com/c55.html