There are many audio equivalents to goatse. I might be into wireless music swapping were it not for the fact that I could count on all of my associates sending me the same crap I can hear on any clearchannel station.
Wireless music swapping promises me nothing more than clearchannel without the ads (which isn't much better). The entire feature as envisioned by hundereds, if not thousands, of ecstatic individuals is entirely asinine to me.
".PNG may be the format of choice for geeks worldwide, but I've always thought it was worthless."
Try taking screenshots of open applications, or a shell.
PNG will beat out GIF every freaking time, with no loss in image quality (no artifacts, no reduction in color depth) and still stomp any JPEG of comparable quality.
It is, perhaps, the best image format for very accurate images. It has a size that competes with JPG and GIF, with the added benefit of an alpha channel. This alpha channel feature is greatly aided by the accuracy of the PNG format, because we can do some interesting transparency effects that wouldn't be possible with JPG and GIF without visible artifacts.
With 24-bit color, alpha channels, and no visible artifacts, it becomes the defacto way for geeks to distribute images that would be used on anything more complicated than Internet Explorer rendered markup.
This isn't to say that your opinion on its usability for your purposes is unfounded. I'd hardly dispute that. You just said you didn't understand why geeks would love it so much and I wanted to give you a few reasons they do.
The Matrix did some things really well. And I mean really well.
Some things were even ('No') better (*Gasp*) than Lord of the Rings ('He didn't just say that!').
Keep in mind I'm not saying that Matrix is better, there were just aspects better executed, and I'm sure plenty will (anxiously) agree that there were aspects which are worse.
However let's look at both. They're fictional war movies. Thus they both have two sides to the same story. Now here's my problem with the LotR trilogy:
We've got the bad guys, and the good guys. That's it! That's all of it. Here's a bunch of different races aligned with evil, and here's a bunch of races aligned with good, and they have to battle and we're left to wonder who's going to win.
Deep.
Anyhow, then we have the Matrix trilogy. And here's the eff'ing beauty of the Matrix trilogy. We have two sides to this war. One side, properly depicted during the birth to be "evil." And one side, properly depicted during the birth to be "good." However they're not good and evil, and this is revealed over the course of the trilogy. They're different sides, different opinions. Both sides are doing what is best for themselves.
We learn ultimately that both sides want the same thing. Neo, Morpheus, the Oracle, the Architect, every control built within the Matrix, every breath exhaled by an occupant of Zion. It's all been building for centuries up to the point of the last movie. Every freaking piece of the puzzle was trying desperately to complete the puzzle. And it wasn't until one individual (no, not neo, smith) decided to mess the puzzle up, that we finally saw the end.
That's the beautiful thing about Matrix vs LotR (the movies) in this respect. You can track everything back throughout every movie and it's all attempting to contribute to peace. Every bullet fired, every step taken, every flight, every fall, every love and betrayal. Every-freaking thing coming together. Everything being resolved in the end.
Smith told us how Matrix was beating LotR ever since Reloaded. Over and over he said it, "Purpose."
It was covered on slashdot back in 2001, but it's so cool for streamable media.
I guess there's guis for it, but who cares! If it's streamable media (audio/video) then you can take it from anywhere (internet, hard disk, line input, cd player) do anything to it (volume normalization, decoding, encoding, anything you have a plug-in for) and put it anywhere (internet, hard disk, line out).
"...still kind of a shoddy platform for everyday usage due to a number of conflicting desktop standards, graphical toolkits..."
True, yes. If it makes you feel any better, my passion is interfaces and I'm learning as best as I can to program so that, perhaps, I'll one day be able to assist in giving linux the best interface amongst its competitors. I suspect (or hope) there are others like me that know what needs to change, but just don't know how to go about changing it (yet).
How would you go about modifying, say, a desktop environment to look more polished, professional, and user friendly? What kind of (programming) knowledge is required to do that? Once you've got the know-how, how do you convince back-end-obsessed developers to change their interface? Because it's become quite clear that very little open-source software benefits from the open-source development model, interface-wise. IOW, it's not often you see a patch submitted that fixes an ugly icon, or reorganizes a cryptic form layout, etc.
There'd be nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, but all of us geeks with a quirky sense of humor would die laughing our asses off. It would be as if God is Monty Python.
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Harsh, but deserved. The first thing I did was pull the php file onto the win-php executable as was suggested in a comment above. Once I looked at the source (or more specifically, looked at the names of the libraries) it became quite apparent what was going on here. Give a fledgling programmer a break though, m'kay? So I made a mistake, it's not like slashdot is the source for technical accuracy, or as this story demonstrates, journalistic accuracy.
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At least it let me know about the useful ffi extension. If it wasn't for this cute demo, I'd have never come across this.
Well, I was just asking him because he seemed have some special way, but I think he just made use of the angif library, which can be made to take an interesting approach(from a traditional gif perspective) at writing gifs.
I like your way better though, it's far more inventive.
Here's an example of a 24-bit gif made with the angif library:
http://phil.ipal.org/tc.html
So I see. Well that's good to know. I never invested the time to look into real honeypots, as I don't really have a network of computers lying around.
I thought the big draw on honeypots was that they were supposed to look like a single, easily-compromised, and thus desirable system when there were real hackers trying to break into the network. I had no idea it could tackle worms pinging random hosts as well.
So it would seem that a darknet is essentially redundant to a very customized honeypot, correct?
It's like a honeypot, except designed to catch worms, rather than live hacking attempts. Hell this could be extended with fake entries in a corporate address book to monitor worms that spread via e-mail communication.
I like the idea, and wish I had the corporate status to consider an implementation at my company.
You're thinking of FOLEDs and SOLEDs. Flexible Organic LEDs, and Stacked Organic LEDs.
FOLEDs use the nature of Organic LEDs to make a more versatile viewing surface. One that can be rolled and contorted as much as, say, a thin sheet of plastic. I do not, however, reccomend trying to bend it.
SOLEDs use the transparency of Organic LEDs to stack red green and blue on top of each other. This gives every single pixel the entire range of color, thereby tripling the resolution for any given display surface. When this hits the market a 15" SOLED display will be more desirable than a 21" LCD display.
No offense, but this sounds very much like the product of some automated troll post generator, or something.
Have a look through the feature sets between ATI, nVidia and DirectX9 - nVidia supports the barest of minimums to work with DirectX9 written games.
Have you ever written something to a specification? If you meet the requirements, you're in. There is no "If you really want to impress us, implement this too," crap in a spec.
No wonder Carmack shunned nVidia
So much wrong with that, I don't know where to start.
He didn't shun NVidia.
He isn't using DirectX 9 for video applications.
Doom III has been developed more for NVidia than it has for ATI (fair or not) for numerous reasons, some are contract/politics others are driver support reasons.
There has to be a time when they support the games, instead of just paying for a prissy ad at the start of a game.
What on Earth are you talking about?! You mean the Nvidia splashscreen? The one that's easily disabled from the driver's settings menu? Do you mean people pay to see that?! Make some sense!
Indeed. Photoshop has gotten a lot of attention, and it's payed off.
And let me just say that, as a graphics editor, I find myself using GIMP more and more. I still, easily, use PS quite a bit more than the GIMP. However, GIMP continues to pile on desirable features, and at the very least, I am compelled to save all my final works using GIMP's superior compression for JPEG, and PNG (and probably more).
Even though I love my photoshop, I hope to one day see it replaced with GIMP or another Free Software (RMS' definition) solution.
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I'm very intrigued to see how your Search Philosophy works out. I hope I can contribute in the near future.
Well, it is possible I'm infected, but there's been no adverse effects of it if I am. No increase in network traffic, no bizarre entries on the task manager, no registry oddities...
...and above all, no crashes or lack of responsiveness.
Slashdot Mirror
ls | less
why do you need to explicitly state the "less" part?
Why do you need to explicitely state the "less" part? Why don't you just use the scroll lock?
There are many audio equivalents to goatse. I might be into wireless music swapping were it not for the fact that I could count on all of my associates sending me the same crap I can hear on any clearchannel station.
Wireless music swapping promises me nothing more than clearchannel without the ads (which isn't much better). The entire feature as envisioned by hundereds, if not thousands, of ecstatic individuals is entirely asinine to me.
Morpheus' understanding of the Matrix's purpose was that its primary use was for electricity.
He was mistaken come the second movie, the architect scoffs at the very idea that humans would be needed for electricity.
It's quite possible the Wachowski brothers did listen to the criticism.
PNG will beat out GIF every freaking time, with no loss in image quality (no artifacts, no reduction in color depth) and still stomp any JPEG of comparable quality.
It is, perhaps, the best image format for very accurate images. It has a size that competes with JPG and GIF, with the added benefit of an alpha channel. This alpha channel feature is greatly aided by the accuracy of the PNG format, because we can do some interesting transparency effects that wouldn't be possible with JPG and GIF without visible artifacts.
With 24-bit color, alpha channels, and no visible artifacts, it becomes the defacto way for geeks to distribute images that would be used on anything more complicated than Internet Explorer rendered markup.
This isn't to say that your opinion on its usability for your purposes is unfounded. I'd hardly dispute that. You just said you didn't understand why geeks would love it so much and I wanted to give you a few reasons they do.
The Matrix did some things really well. And I mean really well.
Some things were even ('No') better (*Gasp*) than Lord of the Rings ('He didn't just say that!').
Keep in mind I'm not saying that Matrix is better, there were just aspects better executed, and I'm sure plenty will (anxiously) agree that there were aspects which are worse.
However let's look at both. They're fictional war movies. Thus they both have two sides to the same story. Now here's my problem with the LotR trilogy:
We've got the bad guys, and the good guys. That's it! That's all of it. Here's a bunch of different races aligned with evil, and here's a bunch of races aligned with good, and they have to battle and we're left to wonder who's going to win.
Deep.
Anyhow, then we have the Matrix trilogy. And here's the eff'ing beauty of the Matrix trilogy. We have two sides to this war. One side, properly depicted during the birth to be "evil." And one side, properly depicted during the birth to be "good." However they're not good and evil, and this is revealed over the course of the trilogy. They're different sides, different opinions. Both sides are doing what is best for themselves.
We learn ultimately that both sides want the same thing. Neo, Morpheus, the Oracle, the Architect, every control built within the Matrix, every breath exhaled by an occupant of Zion. It's all been building for centuries up to the point of the last movie. Every freaking piece of the puzzle was trying desperately to complete the puzzle. And it wasn't until one individual (no, not neo, smith) decided to mess the puzzle up, that we finally saw the end.
That's the beautiful thing about Matrix vs LotR (the movies) in this respect. You can track everything back throughout every movie and it's all attempting to contribute to peace. Every bullet fired, every step taken, every flight, every fall, every love and betrayal. Every-freaking thing coming together. Everything being resolved in the end.
Smith told us how Matrix was beating LotR ever since Reloaded. Over and over he said it, "Purpose."
It was covered on slashdot back in 2001, but it's so cool for streamable media.
I guess there's guis for it, but who cares! If it's streamable media (audio/video) then you can take it from anywhere (internet, hard disk, line input, cd player) do anything to it (volume normalization, decoding, encoding, anything you have a plug-in for) and put it anywhere (internet, hard disk, line out).
I can't believe people don't rave about this!
I'm hoping this wiki will allow us to provide newbies what they need in a manner consistent with what they want.
Don't get me wrong. I see what you're saying. I respect it. I agree with it.
Your photo album is greater than 20GB?
Pardon the flame-bait, but: You must have a really crappy photo album.
"...still kind of a shoddy platform for everyday usage due to a number of conflicting desktop standards, graphical toolkits..."
True, yes. If it makes you feel any better, my passion is interfaces and I'm learning as best as I can to program so that, perhaps, I'll one day be able to assist in giving linux the best interface amongst its competitors. I suspect (or hope) there are others like me that know what needs to change, but just don't know how to go about changing it (yet).
How would you go about modifying, say, a desktop environment to look more polished, professional, and user friendly? What kind of (programming) knowledge is required to do that? Once you've got the know-how, how do you convince back-end-obsessed developers to change their interface? Because it's become quite clear that very little open-source software benefits from the open-source development model, interface-wise. IOW, it's not often you see a patch submitted that fixes an ugly icon, or reorganizes a cryptic form layout, etc.
Woah, you win. Good job.
There'd be nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, but all of us geeks with a quirky sense of humor would die laughing our asses off. It would be as if God is Monty Python.
Harsh, but deserved. The first thing I did was pull the php file onto the win-php executable as was suggested in a comment above. Once I looked at the source (or more specifically, looked at the names of the libraries) it became quite apparent what was going on here. Give a fledgling programmer a break though, m'kay? So I made a mistake, it's not like slashdot is the source for technical accuracy, or as this story demonstrates, journalistic accuracy.
At least it let me know about the useful ffi extension. If it wasn't for this cute demo, I'd have never come across this.
No, that looks like a good 60 FPS to me. It drops if you increase the size of the window, and speeds up if you decrease the size of the window.
I'm looking at it right now. A very respectable demonstration of technical prowess, I'll tell you that.
Well, I was just asking him because he seemed have some special way, but I think he just made use of the angif library, which can be made to take an interesting approach(from a traditional gif perspective) at writing gifs. I like your way better though, it's far more inventive. Here's an example of a 24-bit gif made with the angif library: http://phil.ipal.org/tc.html
How do you do true color in GIF?
So I see. Well that's good to know. I never invested the time to look into real honeypots, as I don't really have a network of computers lying around.
I thought the big draw on honeypots was that they were supposed to look like a single, easily-compromised, and thus desirable system when there were real hackers trying to break into the network. I had no idea it could tackle worms pinging random hosts as well.
So it would seem that a darknet is essentially redundant to a very customized honeypot, correct?
It's like a honeypot, except designed to catch worms, rather than live hacking attempts. Hell this could be extended with fake entries in a corporate address book to monitor worms that spread via e-mail communication.
I like the idea, and wish I had the corporate status to consider an implementation at my company.
I'm more concerned about its ability to bare the load of 300m high SUVs.
Because then any Microsoft OS would crash when the user tuned into a radio station...
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...hey! Why don't they just set the evil bit?
You're thinking of FOLEDs and SOLEDs.
Flexible Organic LEDs, and Stacked Organic LEDs.
FOLEDs use the nature of Organic LEDs to make a more versatile viewing surface. One that can be rolled and contorted as much as, say, a thin sheet of plastic. I do not, however, reccomend trying to bend it.
SOLEDs use the transparency of Organic LEDs to stack red green and blue on top of each other. This gives every single pixel the entire range of color, thereby tripling the resolution for any given display surface. When this hits the market a 15" SOLED display will be more desirable than a 21" LCD display.
- He didn't shun NVidia.
- He isn't using DirectX 9 for video applications.
- Doom III has been developed more for NVidia than it has for ATI (fair or not) for numerous reasons, some are contract/politics others are driver support reasons.
What on Earth are you talking about?! You mean the Nvidia splashscreen? The one that's easily disabled from the driver's settings menu? Do you mean people pay to see that?! Make some sense!Indeed. Photoshop has gotten a lot of attention, and it's payed off.
And let me just say that, as a graphics editor, I find myself using GIMP more and more. I still, easily, use PS quite a bit more than the GIMP. However, GIMP continues to pile on desirable features, and at the very least, I am compelled to save all my final works using GIMP's superior compression for JPEG, and PNG (and probably more).
Even though I love my photoshop, I hope to one day see it replaced with GIMP or another Free Software (RMS' definition) solution.
I'm very intrigued to see how your Search Philosophy works out. I hope I can contribute in the near future.
Well, it is possible I'm infected, but there's been no adverse effects of it if I am. No increase in network traffic, no bizarre entries on the task manager, no registry oddities...
...and above all, no crashes or lack of responsiveness.