Well, some facial recognition software is capable of telling apart faces/identifying one individual. I think iPhoto does it, for one thing. If that's not feasible, you could simply do the trick for the first person to enter the room, and try to track him/her as long as possible (allowing for a certain amount of time where the face is not detected). Still a nice alternative or a fallback if that IR jewelry isn't available.
Nope, wrong Lightworks. Apparently, there's Lightworks the NLE software (now being open sourced), and Lightworks the rendering software (which you linked to).
There's really no need to close the IDE. I often use Eclipse, and so far it has always handled things well when I tell it to "Refresh" the project. Sure, it needs to regenerate some static source analysis data, but that's not easily avoidable. Of course, if you interface with the revision control system from within the IDE, it's even easier. Dunno how good the git integration is for Eclipse and other IDEs, though.
What, you mean with the mouse? Are you kidding? Well, I assume there's a way to invoke that with the keyboard, as well. I'm usually a pretty mouse heavy user, but not when I'm coding.
I don't know about "just opening it", but you can simply select Import -- Existing Project into Workspace and that's that. This has never been an issue for me with all kinds of projects (some of them rather large). A workspace is just a set of projects; I think many IDEs have a concept like that. If you don't want to bother with it, you can simply have one workspace for all projects with no real downside, that's what I do at home.
That said, setting up the development environment for a legacy project can be anything but mundane. You need to have all the dependencies available, deal with version changes, have the compiler settings in place. Project files help a lot with that.
Eh, at least 12 to 18 months or so ago I had no difficulty getting a cheap 24" 16:10 display. I bought a BenQ, but I think just about every manufacturer offered one. Maybe it's more difficult these days. I ended up replacing it with a Dell UltraSharp anyway because the TN panels in cheap displays are just terrible. They're really inexpensive, though, I think I paid two times as much for the Dell as I spent on the BenQ.
Fuck that. Cars enter an intersection until the light goes red, as a pedestrian I'm doing the same. I'm not gonna look at the countdown and calculate if I am gonna make it by the time it hits zero. I sometimes have to wait for turning cars to clear the crossing, they can do me the same courtesy. Outrageous pedestrian lights are one of my pet peeves. Seems like all the crossings are designed with nothing but cars in mind. There's one light with a traffic island in the middle which is simply impossible to cross in one go (without "walking" the red light). And many others where I can just cross it, but anyone who isn't a fast walker hasn't got a chance. And mind you, I'm talking about a very urban environment here.
As a kid, there sometimes were signals a hundred or two hundred meters before the traffic light, which told you roughly how fast you should ideally go to catch the next light green. Worked really well, both for catching a light before it went yellow and for catching a light that just switched to green. That also meant that driving faster than the signal often didn't do you any good, which helped slow down speeding drivers, too.
The only Flatron W2243S I could is the W2243S-PF which is a 22" wide screen with the standard 1920x1080 (ie 1080p) res. I couldn't find any display with a native 1980x1200, any references to that res I could find were typos. 1920x1200 is the standard resolution of most current 24" displays, which use the standard wide aspect ratio of 16:10. 4:3 is becoming rare these days and it's essentially goen from the low-end market, where 16:9 models are increasingly popular; but I think 16:10 is currently the most widely used/sold aspect ratio.
For one, I never addressed the issue of them looking for porn. I only addressed accidental running across it, like with mistyped domain names being redirected to unwanted sites.
You said "surfing porn". Sounds like a whole lot of mistyping going on.
Exactly! But there is no shortage of apps. The iPhone market is too large and wealthy to ignore.
Developers have a choice: develop natively for iPhone OS, develop cross-platform (or natively) for other systems, or they might just do both*. Apple is betting many devs will either do both, or they'll drop the other platforms. Given how juicy a target iPhone OS is, particularly for commercial development, that's a fairly safe bet.
And I have to agree that the average native application is of higher quality than the average cross-platform application; some examples to the contrary notwithstanding. This has been my experience on platforms -- for instance, Picasa (ported via winelib) is one of the better photo management apps for Linux, but the interface and integration is terrible. Many Java apps on my phone (Nokia 5800XM) suck compared to the native ones; and in fact having a touch screen phone makes using a lot of cross platform apps almost impossible. It's difficult to design a (phone) app in a way that it's polished on all platforms -- heck it's difficult enough to do it if the only difference is the screen resolution.
Not the OP, but not all ARMs are created equal after all. Obviously the CPU frequency is different, though that's true for the iPhone OS platform as well. But some quick research (this page is pretty nice for pulling up CPU details) shows no less than five different CPUs* in Android devices. Not sure how large the differences are in practice, but for instance the Snapdragon supports the ARMv7 instruction set, three are ARMv6. One is ARMv5. Some seem to have specialized coprocessors, others don't.
I've also been using tree style tabs on the left, but on a 24" wide display with plenty of vertical spare space. It's nice because the tab titles don't get overly abbreviated even with many tabs, because the tree illustrates the relationship (and enables you to close a whole bunch of tabs at once) and because more vertical space is always good, even at 1920x1200. It also combines well with tab scrolling, ie. using mouse wheel + RMB to switch between tabs, something I've been addicted to since Opera 5 or so.
That said, I wouldn't use it on a netbook because they use up a lot more screen area than normal tabs, even if it's "less valuable" area on the left side. Maybe with auto-hide, but that's just annoying. I'm also not sure if it'd make for a sane default, because many people use just a few tabs, which would mean a lot of wasted gray space with tree style tabs. OTOH, come to think of it, with less than 5 or 6 tabs (depending on the resolution) you could actually display a thumbnail of the page in the left hand area. It's a gimmick, but less so than the current feature of many browsers to display a thumbnail on hovering the tab.
Also, I wish there was some way to drop/dock tabs to the bottom in the tree style tabs area. That'd let you organise your tabs, e.g. constantly open tabs like webmail (or/....) and the more regular browsing tabs.
Most people will be able to understand the principle, though many of my relative would have stopped listening when you started going off about the hosts file and "editors". I think many people will also promptly forget what you explained to them after a few hours or days, because it's just not relevant or relatable information to them.
The concept of phone numbers has been driven home repeatedly for a long time: it's what you dial when you want to reach someone. Even these days, you usually have to enter the number once in the address book. IP addresses? Not so much.
Oh ok. That's what I was referring to in the first place, I think the file properties is an odd place for changing the default associations (since it is not a property of one specific file). And for the sake of convenience there ought to be a checkbox in the Open with dialog that makes the selection into the default association. I agree that changing the default association should be an explicit choice.
Hm. When I select Open With -- Other Application... from the context menu, the interface does say "Open X and other files of type Y with". But the actual file association (as configurable in the file properties) isn't changed, and double clicking still opens the file in the old application. So that would seem to be a bug. (Ubuntu 9.10)
or you can right-click on a particular file and set the program you want to use for that exact file type (it's in properties, under Open With)
I always thought that was an odd place. File association is a system property and not a property of an individual file (unless you want only that one file to be opened with a particular app). At least there should be an "Always open with this" checkbox in the Open with... dialog. Preferred Application doesn't really do it either because it's very broad; I'd either replace it altogether or at least include an "Advanced" dialog.
As long as it's related to file management, the resource namespace abstraction seems sensible. I like being able to access FTP using the file manager and it's useful to do the same with all kinds of file management protocols, ie SFTP, WebDAV, etc. HTML rendering shouldn't be part of it, though, and apparently it isn't, in Gnome.
You're still missing the point. The typical display these days is an LCD (any kind of LCD). Compared to things like eInk or OLEDs, which have totally different viewing characteristics, any kind of LCD is typical. To make a trite car analogy, when somebody is asking you whether you drove to Kentucket in a solar car or a rocket propelled one, you might answer that you drove in a typical car, even if it's a Delorean.
And while TN is more frequent (possibly more than 10x more frequent these days), it's not like IPS is some kind of groundbreaking, completely different technology, it's just a different panel that has better viewing angles. Like I said, using a TN panel would have been absurd for a media consumption tablet, particularly one that's supposed to be used in both orientations. Not that that's stopping other companies from doing it, but coming from someone like Apple, who maintains an image of erring on the side of quality rather than price, it would have been absurd.
And as I said, many very high quality displays (even new models) still seem to come with CCFL backlights last time I checked. But I agree that it does make a lot of sense for mobile usage, which is why many manufacturers use it these days.
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Well, some facial recognition software is capable of telling apart faces/identifying one individual. I think iPhoto does it, for one thing. If that's not feasible, you could simply do the trick for the first person to enter the room, and try to track him/her as long as possible (allowing for a certain amount of time where the face is not detected). Still a nice alternative or a fallback if that IR jewelry isn't available.
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What a coincidence I just got a mail saying I won a cruise!
Nope, wrong Lightworks. Apparently, there's Lightworks the NLE software (now being open sourced), and Lightworks the rendering software (which you linked to).
There's really no need to close the IDE. I often use Eclipse, and so far it has always handled things well when I tell it to "Refresh" the project. Sure, it needs to regenerate some static source analysis data, but that's not easily avoidable. Of course, if you interface with the revision control system from within the IDE, it's even easier. Dunno how good the git integration is for Eclipse and other IDEs, though.
What, you mean with the mouse? Are you kidding? Well, I assume there's a way to invoke that with the keyboard, as well. I'm usually a pretty mouse heavy user, but not when I'm coding.
I don't know about "just opening it", but you can simply select Import -- Existing Project into Workspace and that's that. This has never been an issue for me with all kinds of projects (some of them rather large). A workspace is just a set of projects; I think many IDEs have a concept like that. If you don't want to bother with it, you can simply have one workspace for all projects with no real downside, that's what I do at home.
That said, setting up the development environment for a legacy project can be anything but mundane. You need to have all the dependencies available, deal with version changes, have the compiler settings in place. Project files help a lot with that.
Eh, at least 12 to 18 months or so ago I had no difficulty getting a cheap 24" 16:10 display. I bought a BenQ, but I think just about every manufacturer offered one. Maybe it's more difficult these days. I ended up replacing it with a Dell UltraSharp anyway because the TN panels in cheap displays are just terrible. They're really inexpensive, though, I think I paid two times as much for the Dell as I spent on the BenQ.
Yes! Finally a cause worth fighting for (one day a week). More slack! MORE SLACK!
Fuck that. Cars enter an intersection until the light goes red, as a pedestrian I'm doing the same. I'm not gonna look at the countdown and calculate if I am gonna make it by the time it hits zero. I sometimes have to wait for turning cars to clear the crossing, they can do me the same courtesy. Outrageous pedestrian lights are one of my pet peeves. Seems like all the crossings are designed with nothing but cars in mind. There's one light with a traffic island in the middle which is simply impossible to cross in one go (without "walking" the red light). And many others where I can just cross it, but anyone who isn't a fast walker hasn't got a chance. And mind you, I'm talking about a very urban environment here.
As a kid, there sometimes were signals a hundred or two hundred meters before the traffic light, which told you roughly how fast you should ideally go to catch the next light green. Worked really well, both for catching a light before it went yellow and for catching a light that just switched to green. That also meant that driving faster than the signal often didn't do you any good, which helped slow down speeding drivers, too.
The only Flatron W2243S I could is the W2243S-PF which is a 22" wide screen with the standard 1920x1080 (ie 1080p) res. I couldn't find any display with a native 1980x1200, any references to that res I could find were typos. 1920x1200 is the standard resolution of most current 24" displays, which use the standard wide aspect ratio of 16:10. 4:3 is becoming rare these days and it's essentially goen from the low-end market, where 16:9 models are increasingly popular; but I think 16:10 is currently the most widely used/sold aspect ratio.
For one, I never addressed the issue of them looking for porn. I only addressed accidental running across it, like with mistyped domain names being redirected to unwanted sites.
You said "surfing porn". Sounds like a whole lot of mistyping going on.
Exactly! But there is no shortage of apps. The iPhone market is too large and wealthy to ignore.
Developers have a choice: develop natively for iPhone OS, develop cross-platform (or natively) for other systems, or they might just do both*. Apple is betting many devs will either do both, or they'll drop the other platforms. Given how juicy a target iPhone OS is, particularly for commercial development, that's a fairly safe bet.
And I have to agree that the average native application is of higher quality than the average cross-platform application; some examples to the contrary notwithstanding. This has been my experience on platforms -- for instance, Picasa (ported via winelib) is one of the better photo management apps for Linux, but the interface and integration is terrible. Many Java apps on my phone (Nokia 5800XM) suck compared to the native ones; and in fact having a touch screen phone makes using a lot of cross platform apps almost impossible. It's difficult to design a (phone) app in a way that it's polished on all platforms -- heck it's difficult enough to do it if the only difference is the screen resolution.
Not the OP, but not all ARMs are created equal after all. Obviously the CPU frequency is different, though that's true for the iPhone OS platform as well. But some quick research (this page is pretty nice for pulling up CPU details) shows no less than five different CPUs* in Android devices. Not sure how large the differences are in practice, but for instance the Snapdragon supports the ARMv7 instruction set, three are ARMv6. One is ARMv5. Some seem to have specialized coprocessors, others don't.
* Qualcomm Snapdragon, ESM7225, MSM7627, Samsung S3C6410, Marvell PXA310
I've also been using tree style tabs on the left, but on a 24" wide display with plenty of vertical spare space. It's nice because the tab titles don't get overly abbreviated even with many tabs, because the tree illustrates the relationship (and enables you to close a whole bunch of tabs at once) and because more vertical space is always good, even at 1920x1200. It also combines well with tab scrolling, ie. using mouse wheel + RMB to switch between tabs, something I've been addicted to since Opera 5 or so.
That said, I wouldn't use it on a netbook because they use up a lot more screen area than normal tabs, even if it's "less valuable" area on the left side. Maybe with auto-hide, but that's just annoying. I'm also not sure if it'd make for a sane default, because many people use just a few tabs, which would mean a lot of wasted gray space with tree style tabs. OTOH, come to think of it, with less than 5 or 6 tabs (depending on the resolution) you could actually display a thumbnail of the page in the left hand area. It's a gimmick, but less so than the current feature of many browsers to display a thumbnail on hovering the tab.
Also, I wish there was some way to drop/dock tabs to the bottom in the tree style tabs area. That'd let you organise your tabs, e.g. constantly open tabs like webmail (or /. ...) and the more regular browsing tabs.
Most people will be able to understand the principle, though many of my relative would have stopped listening when you started going off about the hosts file and "editors". I think many people will also promptly forget what you explained to them after a few hours or days, because it's just not relevant or relatable information to them.
The concept of phone numbers has been driven home repeatedly for a long time: it's what you dial when you want to reach someone. Even these days, you usually have to enter the number once in the address book. IP addresses? Not so much.
You pick up on a slightly misdirected interpunctuation (semicolon or even a colon would have been fine) but ignore the glaring grammar errors?
Anything is better than running Acrobat Reader, even if it doesn't accomplish the same purpose.
Oh ok. That's what I was referring to in the first place, I think the file properties is an odd place for changing the default associations (since it is not a property of one specific file). And for the sake of convenience there ought to be a checkbox in the Open with dialog that makes the selection into the default association. I agree that changing the default association should be an explicit choice.
Hm. When I select Open With -- Other Application... from the context menu, the interface does say "Open X and other files of type Y with". But the actual file association (as configurable in the file properties) isn't changed, and double clicking still opens the file in the old application. So that would seem to be a bug. (Ubuntu 9.10)
or you can right-click on a particular file and set the program you want to use for that exact file type (it's in properties, under Open With)
I always thought that was an odd place. File association is a system property and not a property of an individual file (unless you want only that one file to be opened with a particular app). At least there should be an "Always open with this" checkbox in the Open with... dialog. Preferred Application doesn't really do it either because it's very broad; I'd either replace it altogether or at least include an "Advanced" dialog.
As long as it's related to file management, the resource namespace abstraction seems sensible. I like being able to access FTP using the file manager and it's useful to do the same with all kinds of file management protocols, ie SFTP, WebDAV, etc. HTML rendering shouldn't be part of it, though, and apparently it isn't, in Gnome.
It is, and they've made a new and improved version called the GuruPlug with pretty awesome connectivity.
You're still missing the point. The typical display these days is an LCD (any kind of LCD). Compared to things like eInk or OLEDs, which have totally different viewing characteristics, any kind of LCD is typical. To make a trite car analogy, when somebody is asking you whether you drove to Kentucket in a solar car or a rocket propelled one, you might answer that you drove in a typical car, even if it's a Delorean.
And while TN is more frequent (possibly more than 10x more frequent these days), it's not like IPS is some kind of groundbreaking, completely different technology, it's just a different panel that has better viewing angles. Like I said, using a TN panel would have been absurd for a media consumption tablet, particularly one that's supposed to be used in both orientations. Not that that's stopping other companies from doing it, but coming from someone like Apple, who maintains an image of erring on the side of quality rather than price, it would have been absurd.
And as I said, many very high quality displays (even new models) still seem to come with CCFL backlights last time I checked. But I agree that it does make a lot of sense for mobile usage, which is why many manufacturers use it these days.