"Ultimately I'd like to have "groups" of bookmarks and be able to synch particular groups between systems."
Well, each "group" should have a different Google login. Ultimately this account for the type of security you want that separates home and work bookmarks.
My 5 year old has been playing gameboy, came cube and now DS games starting at the age of a year and a half. I have bought him games that he stopped playing after 20 minutes of opening it up. He told me this is the best game he has ever played. He loves it. He keeps telling everyone about it. How's that for real world feedback? So far, he loves how he can play as Luigi the most. He figured out stuff like new moves and new features on his own without any instruction or help which amazes me. Once, while in DC, we stopped at a mall booth selling one of those 30-in-one game controllers. He played SMB 1 for the first time (after playing SMB 3 on gameboy for a while). Within 5 minutes, he had a crowd of people watching him, whispering to each other about how well he played. People were amazed he had never played that Mario version before. Its scary how good he is at these games. And he has a one hour cap per day!
One main problem is that open source projects that are meant for the average person need an average person as a mian contributor to UI and functionality.
That said CMS do a lot so there will always be a lot of stuff int he admin interface. If you want something easy with great documentation, then pay for it. This way the company you are paying can afford to make it easier to use.
Or just pay one of the developers of the CMS to set it all up for you. I am sure they would love to get some cash as a result of their efforts and who better to customize it for you.
svideo can go about 200 feet. You would have to cable tie some audio cable and I do not know the limits to regular crappy rca audio cable. You could always setup some wireless speakers and not deal with audio cables.
you are right on about pictures. I am a pulic insurance adjuster (an adjuster that fights insurance companies to maximize claims for insureds) and insurance companies only pay 1 dollar per picture. Those of you who still do film cameras, keep your film in a safety deposit box. You will thank me later.
who decided that a free album was appropriate compensation? How about the cost to archive all important files and reinstall the afflicted OS at the very least. They could forgo the time lost without a shitted on computer
Take it from me, they find games to play. Last generation Imacs came with some cool, 3D marble game and a chess game. Never mind that they still find ways to waste time with Itunes, even when its not connected to the internet...They have also found games that run locally and do not need an admin password to install.
I will not believe that the pro apps work well as long as they run using Rossetta.
All I know is that today I used Compressor to turn a 2.5 hour full res quicktime into an mpeg-4. Usually it would be on a dual proc g5 with 4 gigs or ram and it would take almost two hours. On a dual proc xserve hooked up to a RAID 5 xraid via fiber, it took 34 minutes. 34 MINUTES! I was beside myself. I can't wait for my quad core g5 to get in next week so I can see how fast I can encode for the air and for web with that. Screw distributing the rendering over the network, 34 minutes is nothing. I can't wait to throw a dvd to see how handbrake works with the quad core via fiber.
I really think that the disk i/o must be a HUGE contributing factor. And you know what, my 17" powerbook with 2 gigs of ram shows handbrake running at about 24 frames per second with about 7 other applications running in the foreground.
We bought 10 imac s for our fcp lab last year. According to our rep, nothing should hold us back from the purchase...until we decided we needed the machines to expand (to accomodate for fiber cards). Now the imacs will be used for internet only. They will be useless in our workflow...
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Apple doesn't mind spaming me through my itunes account regularly. I don't mind that they do that in conjuction with the data they collect on me. But if you are going to "communicate" regularly with me, then have the decency to give me some warnings that my free songs are about to go up on smoke. Its not their fault, its just that they are douche bags for not letting me know.
Actually, I was suprised at first and then realized that I get an Apple Itunes email quite often. It mad me mad that they can email me every couple days with "featured music" and offers and not remind me that they were expiring. I felt more like they found the pepsi points and confiscated them.
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Apple isn't stupid and neither am I. They might not be actively processing the data they are collecting, but they would be absolutely stupid not to keep it for purposes they might not have moved forward with yet. ITunes usage is an absolute gold mine of marketing data. If someone thinks they aren't tracking the data, at least writing it to a db, then they are delusional. I would keep the data and if one were smart, they would too.
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I use Little Snitch on OS X which monitors applications trying to go out over the network and asks what I want to do about it before it will let the app do its thing. From what I can see, Itunes uses port 80 to do its thing. With Little Snitch I could make a rule to not let Itunes do this, but this would disable the itunes store. Not that I use it anyway after they expired all of my free pepsi points without warning...
I work with long form video. I have a dual proc, dual core at work and a 17" powerbook fpr home and travel. I regularly have to edit and encode 1 hour, 2 hour plus programs and the quicktimes are generally about 10 to 20 gigs and more. The encoded program stream mpegs for broadcast playback are much smaller. I have to regularly transfer files over our gig-e network and filled up my powerbook's 100 gig drive two-thirds full with apps and supporting files. I HAVE to use a firewire drive for protability. Then I have to transfer them to and from our SAN (which my and other workstations are connected to by fiber). Transfering a large file is faster with firewire 800 as opposed to 400.
I think the new intel based notebooks are lacking 800 to diferentiate the initial product offering from the current maxed out powerbooks. Never mind that FCP wont work on it for the next 6 months anyway. Plus Intel is all about USB...
My latest external Firewire drives offer both firewire 400 and 800 ports. The 800 is noticably faster. I use it with FCP and DVD Studio Pro along with After Effects...
We spend an average of 250K on Apple a year. They cater quite well to me too. My carton of free 30 gig video ipods are on a fed ex truck outside of Boston right now.
i think another question is does anyone use Dish TV.
That said, anyone who is not driving can use this. Kids, the wife, you when your wife is driving, yes on the train, plane, lunch hour, ect.
There is also content that a driver could bring that is more audio centric like talk shows, local news, espn where the content is visual but still has valuable audio...
He actually lost me at his praise for I-Robot, which I saw the otherday. The movie was a good movie in itself, but in terms of making a movie from a book and retaining the intent of the original author, well... lets just say that Asimov is rolling around in his grave.
But I do see his point about being able to create a storyline and mood so that we care about the characters and not just the story line. I guess in the same way that I-Robot is still a good movie even without Asimov's brilliance, Full House and Friends are good series regardless of its surface content. Friends was sucessfull becuase people could relate to the characters, not becuase we can always relate to the storyline.
I play no limit holdem at least 3 times a week, cash games with about 300 in chips on the table at a given point. I go to Foxwoods when I get a chance and am up about 3K over the past three months.
ONLINE POKER IS BULLSHIT
I think playing against people you can't see, especially with most people playing free chips is bullshit. They have no concept of what they are betting. 90% of everyone out there who plays online absolutely destroys any advice you could get from a book. I don't do local free tournaments either. All of it destroys your ability to play for real money. I have a couple of friends qho still play online with real money. They do ok. But when they play with real people, they suck. Ever notice when you play online, almost every hand has someone sucking out? (sucking out is when someone with crappy cards stays in and wins when you had a great hand all along.)
Poker is great, but poker with live humans, cigar smoke and liquor is WAY WAY better. People are still playing, just not in a dark room alone.
This is if you paste Word HTML into Dreamweaver HTML.
It is better to copy and paste the text into Dreamweaver and then do you quick formatting using Dreamweaver. There is still shit HTML in Dreamweaver after using the "clean up MS HTML" command...
DV Rack is definitely cool and works well as a field recorder. I have recorded the program out from toaster shoot using up to 8 cameras and I have yet to run into a problem. I use a dv camera that can do analog to digital pass through to get my live feed into my PC laptop. You can even pick an AVI for Premiere, or Quicktime for FCP and not have to do rendering once you bring it into your timeline.
We also have an FS-2, an FS-1, and an FS-4 and dv rack is great if you don't have the funds for dedicated equiptment. It can help if your laptop has more than one dv port (get an expansion via your PCMCIA if need be) so you can transfer your 2 gig files from your laptop if you have to do long form stuff. I did a 3 day, 30 hour telethon with my laptop, a Lacie drive and DV Rack without problems. We used the recording to quickly encode to MPEG2 for our videoserver to playout over Comcast and to grab clips for promos for the next year.
One thing, make sure you use it is bit as I found DV Rack's protection scheme caused some grey hairs when it kept asking for activation when I was on site and ready to go live without an internet connection and Serious Magic wasn't open on the weekend...
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"Ultimately I'd like to have "groups" of bookmarks and be able to synch particular groups between systems."
Well, each "group" should have a different Google login. Ultimately this account for the type of security you want that separates home and work bookmarks.
My 5 year old has been playing gameboy, came cube and now DS games starting at the age of a year and a half. I have bought him games that he stopped playing after 20 minutes of opening it up. He told me this is the best game he has ever played. He loves it. He keeps telling everyone about it. How's that for real world feedback? So far, he loves how he can play as Luigi the most. He figured out stuff like new moves and new features on his own without any instruction or help which amazes me. Once, while in DC, we stopped at a mall booth selling one of those 30-in-one game controllers. He played SMB 1 for the first time (after playing SMB 3 on gameboy for a while). Within 5 minutes, he had a crowd of people watching him, whispering to each other about how well he played. People were amazed he had never played that Mario version before. Its scary how good he is at these games. And he has a one hour cap per day!
I use ARD 2.x with PCs with VNC installed all the time. Works great!
Wordpress has about 2 percent of the functionality of most CMS. So how would you propose to dumb down administration by 98 percent?
One main problem is that open source projects that are meant for the average person need an average person as a mian contributor to UI and functionality.
That said CMS do a lot so there will always be a lot of stuff int he admin interface. If you want something easy with great documentation, then pay for it. This way the company you are paying can afford to make it easier to use.
Or just pay one of the developers of the CMS to set it all up for you. I am sure they would love to get some cash as a result of their efforts and who better to customize it for you.
svideo can go about 200 feet. You would have to cable tie some audio cable and I do not know the limits to regular crappy rca audio cable. You could always setup some wireless speakers and not deal with audio cables.
you are right on about pictures. I am a pulic insurance adjuster (an adjuster that fights insurance companies to maximize claims for insureds) and insurance companies only pay 1 dollar per picture. Those of you who still do film cameras, keep your film in a safety deposit box. You will thank me later.
who decided that a free album was appropriate compensation? How about the cost to archive all important files and reinstall the afflicted OS at the very least. They could forgo the time lost without a shitted on computer
It takes less time to watch a movie than rip it.
Take it from me, they find games to play. Last generation Imacs came with some cool, 3D marble game and a chess game. Never mind that they still find ways to waste time with Itunes, even when its not connected to the internet...They have also found games that run locally and do not need an admin password to install.
I will not believe that the pro apps work well as long as they run using Rossetta.
All I know is that today I used Compressor to turn a 2.5 hour full res quicktime into an mpeg-4. Usually it would be on a dual proc g5 with 4 gigs or ram and it would take almost two hours. On a dual proc xserve hooked up to a RAID 5 xraid via fiber, it took 34 minutes. 34 MINUTES! I was beside myself. I can't wait for my quad core g5 to get in next week so I can see how fast I can encode for the air and for web with that. Screw distributing the rendering over the network, 34 minutes is nothing. I can't wait to throw a dvd to see how handbrake works with the quad core via fiber.
I really think that the disk i/o must be a HUGE contributing factor. And you know what, my 17" powerbook with 2 gigs of ram shows handbrake running at about 24 frames per second with about 7 other applications running in the foreground.
We bought 10 imac s for our fcp lab last year. According to our rep, nothing should hold us back from the purchase...until we decided we needed the machines to expand (to accomodate for fiber cards). Now the imacs will be used for internet only. They will be useless in our workflow...
Apple doesn't mind spaming me through my itunes account regularly. I don't mind that they do that in conjuction with the data they collect on me. But if you are going to "communicate" regularly with me, then have the decency to give me some warnings that my free songs are about to go up on smoke. Its not their fault, its just that they are douche bags for not letting me know.
Actually, I was suprised at first and then realized that I get an Apple Itunes email quite often. It mad me mad that they can email me every couple days with "featured music" and offers and not remind me that they were expiring. I felt more like they found the pepsi points and confiscated them.
Apple isn't stupid and neither am I. They might not be actively processing the data they are collecting, but they would be absolutely stupid not to keep it for purposes they might not have moved forward with yet. ITunes usage is an absolute gold mine of marketing data. If someone thinks they aren't tracking the data, at least writing it to a db, then they are delusional. I would keep the data and if one were smart, they would too.
I use Little Snitch on OS X which monitors applications trying to go out over the network and asks what I want to do about it before it will let the app do its thing. From what I can see, Itunes uses port 80 to do its thing. With Little Snitch I could make a rule to not let Itunes do this, but this would disable the itunes store. Not that I use it anyway after they expired all of my free pepsi points without warning...
I work with long form video. I have a dual proc, dual core at work and a 17" powerbook fpr home and travel. I regularly have to edit and encode 1 hour, 2 hour plus programs and the quicktimes are generally about 10 to 20 gigs and more. The encoded program stream mpegs for broadcast playback are much smaller. I have to regularly transfer files over our gig-e network and filled up my powerbook's 100 gig drive two-thirds full with apps and supporting files. I HAVE to use a firewire drive for protability. Then I have to transfer them to and from our SAN (which my and other workstations are connected to by fiber). Transfering a large file is faster with firewire 800 as opposed to 400.
I think the new intel based notebooks are lacking 800 to diferentiate the initial product offering from the current maxed out powerbooks. Never mind that FCP wont work on it for the next 6 months anyway. Plus Intel is all about USB...
My latest external Firewire drives offer both firewire 400 and 800 ports. The 800 is noticably faster. I use it with FCP and DVD Studio Pro along with After Effects...
We spend an average of 250K on Apple a year. They cater quite well to me too. My carton of free 30 gig video ipods are on a fed ex truck outside of Boston right now.
Next time, give 4 weeks notice. ;)
it could just be On Demand from Comcast
On Demand is about 2.5 mbps
i think another question is does anyone use Dish TV.
That said, anyone who is not driving can use this. Kids, the wife, you when your wife is driving, yes on the train, plane, lunch hour, ect.
There is also content that a driver could bring that is more audio centric like talk shows, local news, espn where the content is visual but still has valuable audio...
He actually lost me at his praise for I-Robot, which I saw the otherday. The movie was a good movie in itself, but in terms of making a movie from a book and retaining the intent of the original author, well... lets just say that Asimov is rolling around in his grave.
But I do see his point about being able to create a storyline and mood so that we care about the characters and not just the story line. I guess in the same way that I-Robot is still a good movie even without Asimov's brilliance, Full House and Friends are good series regardless of its surface content. Friends was sucessfull becuase people could relate to the characters, not becuase we can always relate to the storyline.
I play no limit holdem at least 3 times a week, cash games with about 300 in chips on the table at a given point. I go to Foxwoods when I get a chance and am up about 3K over the past three months.
ONLINE POKER IS BULLSHIT
I think playing against people you can't see, especially with most people playing free chips is bullshit. They have no concept of what they are betting. 90% of everyone out there who plays online absolutely destroys any advice you could get from a book. I don't do local free tournaments either. All of it destroys your ability to play for real money. I have a couple of friends qho still play online with real money. They do ok. But when they play with real people, they suck. Ever notice when you play online, almost every hand has someone sucking out? (sucking out is when someone with crappy cards stays in and wins when you had a great hand all along.)
Poker is great, but poker with live humans, cigar smoke and liquor is WAY WAY better. People are still playing, just not in a dark room alone.
This is if you paste Word HTML into Dreamweaver HTML.
It is better to copy and paste the text into Dreamweaver and then do you quick formatting using Dreamweaver. There is still shit HTML in Dreamweaver after using the "clean up MS HTML" command...
DV Rack is definitely cool and works well as a field recorder. I have recorded the program out from toaster shoot using up to 8 cameras and I have yet to run into a problem. I use a dv camera that can do analog to digital pass through to get my live feed into my PC laptop. You can even pick an AVI for Premiere, or Quicktime for FCP and not have to do rendering once you bring it into your timeline.
We also have an FS-2, an FS-1, and an FS-4 and dv rack is great if you don't have the funds for dedicated equiptment. It can help if your laptop has more than one dv port (get an expansion via your PCMCIA if need be) so you can transfer your 2 gig files from your laptop if you have to do long form stuff. I did a 3 day, 30 hour telethon with my laptop, a Lacie drive and DV Rack without problems. We used the recording to quickly encode to MPEG2 for our videoserver to playout over Comcast and to grab clips for promos for the next year.
One thing, make sure you use it is bit as I found DV Rack's protection scheme caused some grey hairs when it kept asking for activation when I was on site and ready to go live without an internet connection and Serious Magic wasn't open on the weekend...