hm... it's just that your nickname gives the impression you're a bigbrother nutcase
the point I'm trying to make is that when u say I consider a high degree of privacy necessary for a free society you're linking privacy of an individual to a society. The two are indeed inseparable, but it's a two edged sword : to preserve presonal privacy, indeed you sacrifice some freedom at the level of society (e.g. society can not spy on you). On the other hand, to preserve freedom as a society, you sometimes have to sacrifice personal privacy. (e.g. to make a safe society on the highway, you need a drivers licence)
many people tilt that balance waaaaaay to their personal side.
That's all I was trying to say... i think... dunno.. it's late. arch screw this... as long as you USA flippos stay out of my yard, you can do all u like.
but without ID you are more likely to be arrested, held and questioned than when you are without ID
I don't know where you are from, but where I live, I'm simply not likely to be arrested ! IMHO, that's what it is all about ! The USA has created a totally paranoid society where everyone is afraid of everything, including their privacy (or the potential losing of it). Apart from the times where I'm on slashdot, I rarely, if ever, feel threatened, watched upon, or being deprived in anyway of my privacy. Therefore, I have no problem with ID cards or whatever that supposedly "tracks" me.
I also find it ironic how many peeps constantly nitpick over their rights where I often have the impression that their private life is often a carbon copy of TV shows and coorporate propaganda/commercials. A lot of people consider their privacy insanely important. I know that my privacy is hardly interesting for anyone. Just a population statistic. Many are confusing freedom with privacy.
If the powers that be want to trample your privacy, my guess is that they'd just have to sneak it into sitcoms where it is considered appropriate by the sitcom characters, and bingo, half of america goes wild over RFIDs and stuff.
Big enthousiast thumbs up for privacy ! (okay, that last line was over it)
way back, my first job... only 2 programmers, me and another guy who worked from home over a 9600baud modem. We had no CVS or anything like it(we were noob).
The "bug" in question was merely him and me modifying the same file every other day. I used i,j,k,z for iterator variables. He had the habit of using i,j,k,m. The file had 2 functions, one with a parameter z, the other with a parameter m.
I guess you can figure out how horrible such things can get. It took weeks before we figured out it was a naming issue.
Its something like having a lot of cables under the table
It's all about the weight of your PC, dude, the weight ! The amount of cable is sooooo yesterday !
that is useful only of those multiple cards are IN THE SAME MACHINE. In the cluster case, those cards are spread over multiple computers, requiring that you transfer the rendered result over the network to the "master" video card which sends it to the monitor. I seriously doubt the efficiency of such a solution for realtime display.
for any represantation, you need only 1 graphics card : the one the monitor is attached to. Parallelizing realtime display-only stuff is not much good since you'd lose to much time in data transmission.
So they could equip one G5 with a radeon9800 and let that one display the results. No need to buy another 1099 Radeons.
Windows Media Player rates songs automatically and builds playlists based on your listening patterns
dude, have u used it ????????
I tried it several times, and god-knows-why,but the ratings WMP was assigning were total bollocks. One of the first indications the system is flawed, is that it had ratings of songs before I had played them (don't asky me how or why. I never figured it out either). Second, it seems fucks up regularly with multple versions of the same song (I used to be a PinkFoyd fanatic, and have 14 bootleg versions of 'CwtAE'. WMP seems incapable of distinguishing them). And finally Media Player is a freaking shit app. I can not play a movie while a CD is running. I could live with it if it would simply pauze the CD, but no : the CD window closes and the movie starts. After that, it's up to me to remember what song the CD was at. Sorry pal, but a system that can't even do that does not get my confidence in rating song quality.
you're right. For movies, such a FileSystem would be cool. In any case better than what we have now. The same holds for music offcourse. But that's why i have iTunes.... I can imagine similar software (iFlix ?) for movie archiving exists or will be released in the future...
IMHO, for music & movies (and probably more) you need a special application to view your content. In which case it seems far more logical to incorporate the metadata stuff in that app, rather than in the FS where it would become a redundant weight that will hardly be used.
How many other categories can u come up with ? If I quickly inspect my own homedir, I have a bunch of mp3s (viewed in iTunes) 5 or 6 iMovie made videos and my iPhoto library (which has metadata support that I can't force myself to use simply because I don't want to spend the time) and my mail. All these are categorized by specific apps
All the rest are mainly.doc,.xls,.cpp files that don't need categorisation.
Honestly : I see little advantages in a specialised storage system for those 50-100 files that I won't categorize anyway, since I can find them visually in my 3-level folder hierarchy.
Another argument to prove you right is the "rate this song" options in iTunes. With that feature, one can assign 1 to 5 stars to a song so that later, you can quickly select your favourites. Such system is flawed in 2 ways:
- I have yet to encounter anyone who uses it exhaustively. Most folks rate a few dozen songs. I have a library with 9000 mp3s and sure as hell I'm not going to spend a whole week rating them.
- I have yet to encounter someone who uses it consistently. Today I might consider Chris Isaak a 4star song since I'm in a depressed mood and it's raining outside. Tomorrow the weather might be beautifull and I mod him down to 2 stars cause he's a bloody negative wanker.
This is offcourse iTunes specific, but it shows that the assignment of metadata is far far far more complex than the methods to search/organize the stuff, which is what the "Storage" software above is about.
As an extra complication : consider that my metadata might not match someone elses. For instance if I were to label a mail "message from my brother", the same content would be "message from my son" for my father !
The fact that metadata based filesystems are not on our desktop is perhaps more to the fact that it's not a valid solution for data on desktop computers. Maybe, just maybe this is not due to MS squashing Be, as someone else was karmawhoring above.
Microsoft just making sure that they secure themselves another generation of coders/admins/users?
No. If they wanted that, they would build a school in India (next to the condoms factory:-). Its just a PR stunt IMHO. MS Can throw 50M$ at anything they want. Hell, that's just a million XBoxes sold at 50$ loss.
doh ? And who says the tide in the US is to anyones interest ouside the US ? For all I care, DRM can be enforced on everything in the US, as long as Europe sticks to its senses. In fact, that's what it's going to with US vs Asia. No way that Asia is ever going to DRM stuff that's intenede for bigbucks flowing to the US.
And just maybe, that's where your only hope lies : Europe & Asia NOT DRMing and exporting to a black US market. Remember that US alcohol fiasco some 80-70 years ago ? You guys are geniusses at fucking over consumers whilst creating a market for the mob.
Call me a troll, but if you're honest you'll admit that US politics holds world record in screwing its own people while trying to control the world market.
err.. if you start counting, go all the way, and count the budgets spent in hollywood vs. the budgets spent in gamestudios. Hollywood HAS to pump out a dozen hits every season to keep the machinery running. It's a dinosaur that has to stay alive because it feeds the homes of a few 10.000 people.
That, plus the fact that most folks go see a movie just once, whereas some games... well... you're the counting freak...
after seeing hot grits like this, I'm now convicing my wife that I should go high-altitude balooning asap. If only I could explain the mandatory difference in male and female costumes
hopefully ?
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The US is going to institute a national health care program for Iraq, a nationalized educational system for iraq, govt controlled water and power monopolies for Iraq, anonymous surfing for the Iranians.
Em... that's what they promise. Wake up and smell the cofee, dude. If iraq is ever gonna get such stuff, they'll have to stamp it out themselves. And if the US is ever gonna build it, it will be for the powers that be (i.e. the US oil buddies), not for the ordinary people. ALL aid-oranisations agree on the fact that for your above criteria iraq is worse off under US control than under Saddams control.
hmm.. if the gov starts 'sponsoring' (I read that as 'directing') privacy organisation, I can not imagine anonymizer being allowed to ditch logfiles. Imho this is yeat-another-echelon-app.
Also, the fact that 'the company' agreed probably means they agree to a whole bunch of other terms to, which might include log-access to non-iranian surfers.
I hope this is true ! (no troll!)
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IMHO, the only way for SMTP to be replaced by something secure & authenticated (a la whitelists) is if the current system goes belly up in the most insane, painful and costly way imaginable. I wish it wasn't so, but reasoning, debate and research have proven useless to convince the powers that be that something needs to be done. MASSIVE, huge spamming, unstoppable is a way that will costs billions without doing any physical harm. If that doesnt trigger change, nothing will.
it's not the price that's holding me back (I'm considering a dual xeon for some serious SGML crunching) but rather the question of "what's the added value of 64bit for me here ?"
I'm doing fine with my 3GB Ram. 6 would be nice, but so far I can stay out of thrashland at safe distance. So the potential speed gain would be minimal. Since it's an 1.4GB ASCII sgml, I don't need 64 bit numbers either...
Honestly : there's no reason for me right now to go 64bit, and I consider myself a high-end desktop user. I can imagine the low to middle end having even fewer reasons, given the uncertainty of 64 future right now.
its configurability seems very nice indeed. iTunes AAC support seems to be working allready according to macosxhints.
The one thing I'm a bit worrie dabout is how to integrate it aestethically with my stereo. It definitely won't fit as an extra module. I assume it does not have its own amplifier ?
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hm... it's just that your nickname gives the impression you're a bigbrother nutcase
the point I'm trying to make is that when u say I consider a high degree of privacy necessary for a free society you're linking privacy of an individual to a society. The two are indeed inseparable, but it's a two edged sword : to preserve presonal privacy, indeed you sacrifice some freedom at the level of society (e.g. society can not spy on you). On the other hand, to preserve freedom as a society, you sometimes have to sacrifice personal privacy. (e.g. to make a safe society on the highway, you need a drivers licence)
many people tilt that balance waaaaaay to their personal side.
That's all I was trying to say... i think... dunno.. it's late. arch screw this... as long as you USA flippos stay out of my yard, you can do all u like.
but without ID you are more likely to be arrested, held and questioned than when you are without ID
I don't know where you are from, but where I live, I'm simply not likely to be arrested !
IMHO, that's what it is all about ! The USA has created a totally paranoid society where everyone is afraid of everything, including their privacy (or the potential losing of it). Apart from the times where I'm on slashdot, I rarely, if ever, feel threatened, watched upon, or being deprived in anyway of my privacy. Therefore, I have no problem with ID cards or whatever that supposedly "tracks" me.
Would I be posting to /. if I had a camera behind me?
Would you be posting differently if you had an ID card in your pocket, even though that card is in NO way related to your slashdot account ?
There's a difference between being spied upon and being identifieable. Stop being paranoid
Exactly my feelings.
I also find it ironic how many peeps constantly nitpick over their rights where I often have the impression that their private life is often a carbon copy of TV shows and coorporate propaganda/commercials.
A lot of people consider their privacy insanely important. I know that my privacy is hardly interesting for anyone. Just a population statistic. Many are confusing freedom with privacy.
If the powers that be want to trample your privacy, my guess is that they'd just have to sneak it into sitcoms where it is considered appropriate by the sitcom characters, and bingo, half of america goes wild over RFIDs and stuff.
Big enthousiast thumbs up for privacy !
(okay, that last line was over it)
way back, my first job... only 2 programmers, me and another guy who worked from home over a 9600baud modem. We had no CVS or anything like it(we were noob).
The "bug" in question was merely him and me modifying the same file every other day. I used i,j,k,z for iterator variables. He had the habit of using i,j,k,m. The file had 2 functions, one with a parameter z, the other with a parameter m.
I guess you can figure out how horrible such things can get. It took weeks before we figured out it was a naming issue.
Its something like having a lot of cables under the table
It's all about the weight of your PC, dude, the weight ! The amount of cable is sooooo yesterday !
that is useful only of those multiple cards are IN THE SAME MACHINE. In the cluster case, those cards are spread over multiple computers, requiring that you transfer the rendered result over the network to the "master" video card which sends it to the monitor. I seriously doubt the efficiency of such a solution for realtime display.
for any represantation, you need only 1 graphics card : the one the monitor is attached to. Parallelizing realtime display-only stuff is not much good since you'd lose to much time in data transmission.
So they could equip one G5 with a radeon9800 and let that one display the results. No need to buy another 1099 Radeons.
now where's that frog ...
umpf... okay, I'll bite
,but the ratings WMP was assigning were total bollocks. One of the first indications the system is flawed, is that it had ratings of songs before I had played them (don't asky me how or why. I never figured it out either). Second, it seems fucks up regularly with multple versions of the same song (I used to be a PinkFoyd fanatic, and have 14 bootleg versions of 'CwtAE'. WMP seems incapable of distinguishing them). And finally Media Player is a freaking shit app. I can not play a movie while a CD is running. I could live with it if it would simply pauze the CD, but no : the CD window closes and the movie starts. After that, it's up to me to remember what song the CD was at. Sorry pal, but a system that can't even do that does not get my confidence in rating song quality.
Windows Media Player rates songs automatically and builds playlists based on your listening patterns
dude, have u used it ????????
I tried it several times, and god-knows-why
you're right. For movies, such a FileSystem would be cool. In any case better than what we have now. The same holds for music offcourse. But that's why i have iTunes.... I can imagine similar software (iFlix ?) for movie archiving exists or will be released in the future...
.doc, .xls, .cpp files that don't need categorisation.
IMHO, for music & movies (and probably more) you need a special application to view your content. In which case it seems far more logical to incorporate the metadata stuff in that app, rather than in the FS where it would become a redundant weight that will hardly be used.
How many other categories can u come up with ? If I quickly inspect my own homedir, I have a bunch of mp3s (viewed in iTunes) 5 or 6 iMovie made videos and my iPhoto library (which has metadata support that I can't force myself to use simply because I don't want to spend the time) and my mail. All these are categorized by specific apps
All the rest are mainly
Honestly : I see little advantages in a specialised storage system for those 50-100 files that I won't categorize anyway, since I can find them visually in my 3-level folder hierarchy.
Very true and insightful !
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Another argument to prove you right is the "rate this song" options in iTunes. With that feature, one can assign 1 to 5 stars to a song so that later, you can quickly select your favourites. Such system is flawed in 2 ways
- I have yet to encounter anyone who uses it exhaustively. Most folks rate a few dozen songs. I have a library with 9000 mp3s and sure as hell I'm not going to spend a whole week rating them.
- I have yet to encounter someone who uses it consistently. Today I might consider Chris Isaak a 4star song since I'm in a depressed mood and it's raining outside. Tomorrow the weather might be beautifull and I mod him down to 2 stars cause he's a bloody negative wanker.
This is offcourse iTunes specific, but it shows that the assignment of metadata is far far far more complex than the methods to search/organize the stuff, which is what the "Storage" software above is about.
As an extra complication : consider that my metadata might not match someone elses. For instance if I were to label a mail "message from my brother", the same content would be "message from my son" for my father !
The fact that metadata based filesystems are not on our desktop is perhaps more to the fact that it's not a valid solution for data on desktop computers. Maybe, just maybe this is not due to MS squashing Be, as someone else was karmawhoring above.
Microsoft just making sure that they secure themselves another generation of coders/admins/users?
:-). Its just a PR stunt IMHO. MS Can throw 50M$ at anything they want. Hell, that's just a million XBoxes sold at 50$ loss.
No. If they wanted that, they would build a school in India (next to the condoms factory
doh ? And who says the tide in the US is to anyones interest ouside the US ? For all I care, DRM can be enforced on everything in the US, as long as Europe sticks to its senses. In fact, that's what it's going to with US vs Asia. No way that Asia is ever going to DRM stuff that's intenede for bigbucks flowing to the US.
And just maybe, that's where your only hope lies : Europe & Asia NOT DRMing and exporting to a black US market. Remember that US alcohol fiasco some 80-70 years ago ? You guys are geniusses at fucking over consumers whilst creating a market for the mob.
Call me a troll, but if you're honest you'll admit that US politics holds world record in screwing its own people while trying to control the world market.
Didn't they make the "Deer Hunter" games for those people?
:-)
..uh... fly over iraq and bomb... uh.. everything.
no, iraq attack is for those people
For the uninformed, it's a side-scrolling chopper game where you
in fact all you do is sidescroll and drop bombs nonstop since ammo is unlimited.
I still remember that game from 15 years go when I was playing it and my dad stood besides me shaking his head 'but what's the fun in that' ?
me looking at him 'duh ? fun ? now that you mention it...'
It was one of those games where you just couldn't stop yourself from continuing, even if you could do it with your eyes closed.
err.. if you start counting, go all the way, and count the budgets spent in hollywood vs. the budgets spent in gamestudios. Hollywood HAS to pump out a dozen hits every season to keep the machinery running. It's a dinosaur that has to stay alive because it feeds the homes of a few 10.000 people.
That, plus the fact that most folks go see a movie just once, whereas some games... well... you're the counting freak...
yeah, that's a funny one. Especially where they note :
Number of Potential Impacts = 2
So this sucker is gonna bounce back to hit us again !
eh ? Where you been living ? Daylight is a movie, dude. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise !
after seeing hot grits like this, I'm now convicing my wife that I should go high-altitude balooning asap. If only I could explain the mandatory difference in male and female costumes
hopefully we haven't posted these already
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I guess your own dogfood doesn't apply for
The US is going to institute a national health care program for Iraq, a nationalized educational system for iraq, govt controlled water and power monopolies for Iraq, anonymous surfing for the Iranians.
Em... that's what they promise. Wake up and smell the cofee, dude. If iraq is ever gonna get such stuff, they'll have to stamp it out themselves. And if the US is ever gonna build it, it will be for the powers that be (i.e. the US oil buddies), not for the ordinary people. ALL aid-oranisations agree on the fact that for your above criteria iraq is worse off under US control than under Saddams control.
hmm.. if the gov starts 'sponsoring' (I read that as 'directing') privacy organisation, I can not imagine anonymizer being allowed to ditch logfiles. Imho this is yeat-another-echelon-app.
Also, the fact that 'the company' agreed probably means they agree to a whole bunch of other terms to, which might include log-access to non-iranian surfers.
IMHO, the only way for SMTP to be replaced by something secure & authenticated (a la whitelists) is if the current system goes belly up in the most insane, painful and costly way imaginable. I wish it wasn't so, but reasoning, debate and research have proven useless to convince the powers that be that something needs to be done. MASSIVE, huge spamming, unstoppable is a way that will costs billions without doing any physical harm. If that doesnt trigger change, nothing will.
it's not the price that's holding me back (I'm considering a dual xeon for some serious SGML crunching) but rather the question of "what's the added value of 64bit for me here ?"
I'm doing fine with my 3GB Ram. 6 would be nice, but so far I can stay out of thrashland at safe distance. So the potential speed gain would be minimal. Since it's an 1.4GB ASCII sgml, I don't need 64 bit numbers either...
Honestly : there's no reason for me right now to go 64bit, and I consider myself a high-end desktop user. I can imagine the low to middle end having even fewer reasons, given the uncertainty of 64 future right now.
its configurability seems very nice indeed. iTunes AAC support seems to be working allready according to macosxhints.
The one thing I'm a bit worrie dabout is how to integrate it aestethically with my stereo. It definitely won't fit as an extra module. I assume it does not have its own amplifier ?