Run regsvr32/u shmedia.dll to turn off video preview. Works beautifully. XP was designed when most people had little digicam clips of a few megs on their machines, so MS thought that parsing them wasn't a bad idea. BTW, it doesn't just thumbnail the clip, it gets the total playtime and resolution as well, which is what is slowing down your system.
Cool, I'm quoting your comment because it should be scored higher than 0.
But something has to create that multiple paths linking. It doesn't just automagically happen.
Not quite automatically, but if the ID3 info is already in the.mp3 files, the hard work is already done. Just put each file in a directory, "$artist/$album/$title" - or whatever you want, though this particular heirarchy seems very natural to me. But you could additionally (or instead) make another heirarchy grouping things by genre, or whatever.
Of course, in practice different.mp3 files will use slightly different spelling or punctuation for artist, album, or title, so the fully automatic way doesn't give very nice results. This is where iTunes fails, too.
And you sure DO need a "specialized program"...you need a file browser that understands that hard linking file system.
Under Linux (and I suppose all Unix, including Darwin?), all "normal" directory entries are (hard) links. (I know Windows "shortcuts" are screwed up bigtime though.)
Look, I don't really mean to dis' Apple. Organizing mp3's by their ID3 tags is a natural (in fact downright commonsense) thing to do, and most users probably do prefer it.
I just think people sometimes don't appreciate that filenames are an example of this gee-whizzy "metadata" stuff, and that this particular example of metadata is quite flexible and extremely well supported.
Theoretically corporations are people -- so why should "they" not be subject to the equivalent of life imprisonment (or the death penalty, depending on the jurisdiction)?
The intention is good, but IMHO the Corporate Death Penalty is based on a false assumption - that corporations really are people. They aren't, regardless of the law. Corporations don't have feelings or free will, so putting them to death is no deterrent if all the principals just move on to other opportunities (while the lower level workers, who had little say in the first place, are hit much harder).
No, I think the solution is to reconsider the conception of the corporation as a person, and its role as legal scapegoat. Let's see some accountability for the real people behind the corporate misdeeds.
What evidence do you have that the gas companies are price fixing? That gas is expensive? It's a finite resource in high demand. Welcome to the way economics works.
By "the way economics works," I hope you don't just mean fair market forces like supply and demand.
First, a lot of oil comes from OPEC, which is (openly) a cartel. They have well-publicized meetings every few months to fix oil prices.
Then there are the brokers and refiners. We have audio tapes of Enron execs laughing as they caused California's energy crisis of a few years ago by needlessly shutting down suppliers, in order to drive prices through the roof.
Then there's geopolitics. i.e. invading Iraq and then declaring Frace won't be getting any of the oil because they're uncooperative, then getting mad when we discover they weren't obeying our Oil For Food program.
I'm not saying basic economics is irrelevant, but let's not pretend Econ 101 is the real world either.
So, they're feeling pressure from MacOS X. Good. Very good.
Perhaps, but Microsoft's biggest competitor is itself. What amazing new filesystem or word processor features will they come up with next? None? Oh, well I don't need to shell out $2M to upgrade my enterprise, do I? As of June 04 (google's last report on client OSes), XP was still having trouble wiping out 2000 and 98(!).
Longhorn doesn't just show you an icon for a document, for example, but rather an itsy-bitsy picture of the first page.
This is closely related to an XP bug that drives me nuts. I'm generating video files tens of gigabytes large, and when I open a directory containing such a file with the Windows Explorer, it crashes after a few moments, I believe because it's generating an iconic image of the first frame. At some point I managed to turn the preview off and all was well, but now it has reappeared.
Are we now going to digress into a discussion about how making the most money proves you're the "best"? Because that would be Microsoft, with it's allegedly bright-but-rulebound "Mensa" attitude.
I'm not sure what it says about the laws governing our markets, that gobbling up innovative startups and milking the cash cows is the most profitable way to go. Or maybe it's simply a law of nature. Big companies are not wild and crazy. At a gaming conference I heard a high-up from Sony openly declare that fresh, original ideas would have to be tested by smaller players first before Sony would touch them.
If one of the lead kernel developers took the Linux Kernel, and created a new project called 'Linux 2.8', that wouldn't necessarily mean that the new project is 'Linux 2.8'.
I think that's what Linus does with every new kernel version. He and many others are adding new features to successive versions of the 2.6 kernel, while others stay back maintaining and upgrading 2.4. Does that mean the Linux kernel is "forked"? By the technical definition, yes. Does it mean Linux is fragmented and features aren't backported into 2.4? No.
In short.... why am I even writing this? I'm an fvwm user.
I think the benchmark for comparison should be whatever else you can get at a similar price.
Dual processor motherboards and CPUs were never priced to make them attractive for widespread use, whereas dual core chips supposedly will be. We shall see.
No, don't! My experience is that newer kernels work better on old hardware than old kernels do, because new kernels are more responsive. The newer kernels have preemption and faster scheduling.
Obviously his point was that current attempts at desktop search don't accomplish that objective. You say they do. But neither of you gives any rationale.
Here are some things an ideal desktop search could retrieve:
1) pictures, based on a spoken description ("that picture of me with the big fish I caught")
2) songs, by humming a bar or a line of lyrics (not necessarily the title).
3) files, situationally ("that presentation I gave in Memphis" or "the version of the proposal I sent to Jim")
4) files, semantically ("the PowerPoint system diagram that shows data flow")
I'd say there's a lot currently lacking. Metadata isn't much of a solution; it's just a place to put the answers you think you might want later. Organization into folders is no different than any other kind of metadata; it is a tagging of the file for easier retrieval later.
I'm not too worried. A semiconductor fab costs billions, but but testing RAM it produces is relatively easy. If the fabs stop testing, there will always be somebody to buy the RAM, test it, put their sticker on it, and sell it for a few extra bucks.
Still, this is useful information, because it means many of us will not want to simply buy the cheapest stuff on Pricewatch any more.
The MPAA's machines get flagged as bad, and nobody downloads from them. When the MPAA starts changing IPs, the users mark narrowly defined ranges as bad.
You don't do it by IP numbers, but instead with public/private key pairs.
Your argument is irrelevant, because what you say applies equally to all taxes. All taxes amount to taking away money from somebody.
Given that the govt. is spending money, it has to come from somebody, so the question is which tax is the least worst... property tax? Estate tax? Income tax? You have to choose one. I say, estate tax, because the injustice of taking from the dead is less than taking from the living.
Even if you argue to reduce spending so there are less taxes overall, there will still be some tax, so the question of whose money to take is still there.
You know what kind of tax I actually like? Estate (i.e. inheritance) taxes. Too bad for me, the House voted to permanantly end the estate tax today.
Since tax money has to come from somewhere, why not take it from the dead? You can't take it with you, anyways.
Their descendants will miss the money, but so what? Inheritance is the most unfair, un-earned income imaginable. Removing the estate tax just means people who actually earn their own money must cough up that much more.
Somebody who inherits $10M and dies leaving $9M is a much bigger drain on society than somebody who interhits nothing and dies with $40K of unpaid credit card debt - to the tune of $960K.
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It would also be a large taxpayer expense.
Bull. It costs much more for the IRS to print and process a paper return than an online one, and if there were an official, taxpayer-supported IRS filing site, many more people would e-file.
I don't know what you're saying about everybody writing their own tax preparation software, but an official IRS site could certainly prevent fraud at least as well as paper forms or TurboTax etc.
This is a case of purposeful government waste in order to create a market for some companies. Like if I started printing my own paper tax forms, charging $10 for them, then lobbied Congress to stop the IRS from printing tax forms because it was "competing with private industry."
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You wouldn't, by any chance, be a childless know-it-all, would you?
Of course, in practice different .mp3 files will use slightly different spelling or punctuation for artist, album, or title, so the fully automatic way doesn't give very nice results. This is where iTunes fails, too.
Under Linux (and I suppose all Unix, including Darwin?), all "normal" directory entries are (hard) links. (I know Windows "shortcuts" are screwed up bigtime though.)Look, I don't really mean to dis' Apple. Organizing mp3's by their ID3 tags is a natural (in fact downright commonsense) thing to do, and most users probably do prefer it.
I just think people sometimes don't appreciate that filenames are an example of this gee-whizzy "metadata" stuff, and that this particular example of metadata is quite flexible and extremely well supported.
No, I think the solution is to reconsider the conception of the corporation as a person, and its role as legal scapegoat. Let's see some accountability for the real people behind the corporate misdeeds.
First, a lot of oil comes from OPEC, which is (openly) a cartel. They have well-publicized meetings every few months to fix oil prices.
Then there are the brokers and refiners. We have audio tapes of Enron execs laughing as they caused California's energy crisis of a few years ago by needlessly shutting down suppliers, in order to drive prices through the roof.
Then there's geopolitics. i.e. invading Iraq and then declaring Frace won't be getting any of the oil because they're uncooperative, then getting mad when we discover they weren't obeying our Oil For Food program.
I'm not saying basic economics is irrelevant, but let's not pretend Econ 101 is the real world either.
Eh? My perception is the opposite. RAM prices seem to have hardly budged in a year, which is strange.
Better how? Filenames are nothing if not searchable metadata. As a bonus they're also hierarchal.
I'm not sure what it says about the laws governing our markets, that gobbling up innovative startups and milking the cash cows is the most profitable way to go. Or maybe it's simply a law of nature. Big companies are not wild and crazy. At a gaming conference I heard a high-up from Sony openly declare that fresh, original ideas would have to be tested by smaller players first before Sony would touch them.
Analogies don't prove anything.
In short.... why am I even writing this? I'm an fvwm user.
Dual processor motherboards and CPUs were never priced to make them attractive for widespread use, whereas dual core chips supposedly will be. We shall see.
Here are some things an ideal desktop search could retrieve:
1) pictures, based on a spoken description ("that picture of me with the big fish I caught")
2) songs, by humming a bar or a line of lyrics (not necessarily the title).
3) files, situationally ("that presentation I gave in Memphis" or "the version of the proposal I sent to Jim")
4) files, semantically ("the PowerPoint system diagram that shows data flow")
I'd say there's a lot currently lacking. Metadata isn't much of a solution; it's just a place to put the answers you think you might want later. Organization into folders is no different than any other kind of metadata; it is a tagging of the file for easier retrieval later.
Still, this is useful information, because it means many of us will not want to simply buy the cheapest stuff on Pricewatch any more.
People I know with Sony subnotebooks also claim mad battery life, like 8 hours continuous.
Given that the govt. is spending money, it has to come from somebody, so the question is which tax is the least worst... property tax? Estate tax? Income tax? You have to choose one. I say, estate tax, because the injustice of taking from the dead is less than taking from the living.
Even if you argue to reduce spending so there are less taxes overall, there will still be some tax, so the question of whose money to take is still there.
Since tax money has to come from somewhere, why not take it from the dead? You can't take it with you, anyways.
Their descendants will miss the money, but so what? Inheritance is the most unfair, un-earned income imaginable. Removing the estate tax just means people who actually earn their own money must cough up that much more.
Somebody who inherits $10M and dies leaving $9M is a much bigger drain on society than somebody who interhits nothing and dies with $40K of unpaid credit card debt - to the tune of $960K.
I don't know what you're saying about everybody writing their own tax preparation software, but an official IRS site could certainly prevent fraud at least as well as paper forms or TurboTax etc.
This is a case of purposeful government waste in order to create a market for some companies. Like if I started printing my own paper tax forms, charging $10 for them, then lobbied Congress to stop the IRS from printing tax forms because it was "competing with private industry."