You're mostly right. But there are still dupes in it, which is made obvious by the fact that the 30-second-previews not only sound the same, but also have the exact same starting point.
So for "Heaven's door", you get about 8 dupes...
Actually, if a song is on several albums, it appears several times. Example: A query for "heaven's door" results in 21 results, but it's only 5 versions of the same song (Guns, Clapton, Dylan, Crawford, Wyclef).
So, while it's better, the result is still cluttered.
Actually, the Music service (you need iTunes for this and click on the "Music Store" link) gives me a lot of "504 cannot load page" errors right now. I cannot browse pages and stuff... Well, I stick with Weblisten - all big name artists, download as many mp3s as you want, one flat fee of $30 per month:-D
If you have ever filmed the front of a remote control with a camcorder, you know that the infrared LED can be seen pulsating when you press buttons. This leads to the conclusion that the CCDs inside camcorder catch a broader spectrum of light than the human eye does.
So I don't know how this cinema solution works, but if a friend asked me to equip his cinema against "pirates", I would just install a infrared strobe light somewhere - job nicely done.
WiFi is a bad choice for voice communication. The upside is that it is free (after the initial investitions).
GSM allows companies to have their own internal phone network and selectively allow workers with a correct sim card to use this internal system. The company doesn't has to pay anything, and people get to carry around their normal cellphones. If you have a Nokia phone, maybe you have wondered what this "closed user group" feature means - that's what it means.
Often, these companies outsource the creation of the voice network to a normal cellphone company, and pay them a flat fee for all internal voice communication. A organisation that uses this system is CERN, and they work together with the swiss operator Swisscom. You can find a bit of inside information here.
If Apple needs to spend $6 Billion to avert being overlooked just in *one single industry*, then they are doing some serious things incorrectly. Remember, there is also a *film* industry that might lock Apple out - should Apple spend another $6 billion there, too?
If a company needs to spend so much to keep things compatible, the company does something wrong in the first place. Don't ask me what, but this can't be the right way.
Actually, it's SHIFT, CTRL, ALT and CMD that you can hold while clicking. Plus you can combine them. Which results in 15 ways to do an Apple mouse click.
So I guess you did not expect that Apple has actually a 15-button mouse:-)
I see. What I ask myself now is "wouldn't it be easier if an application could tell the OS how much interactivity it expects, and the OS then performs accordingly?"
You might say "this solution works with all existing apps" and "no interfaces is more elegant".
But when it comes down to extreme situations (many interactive apps on a slow system), this would be better, wouldn't it?
This sounds too much like some crazy conspiracy. Answer me this simple question: Why did the US not take control of the Iraq oil fields after the gulf war?
If you don't care about WiFi and can live with a cable-connection in the plane, Lufthansa will provide you with internet access for transatlantic flights right now.
The question remains: Why are cellphones forbidden while WiFi is obviously allowed in planes? Don't we all remember the englishman that got jailed for using his cell?
I always thought that combining the setup of Everything2 and a massive amout of blogs would create something great. This is a step in this direction. Is there anybody else agreeing that combining E2 with Waypath would make the best reference source ever?
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I'm using OS X for half a year now, after having used previous Mac OS's for nearly 15 years. Having said that, I think I can comment a bit about these "sluggishness problems".
Mac OS X is definitely less responsive that OS9 in some respects, but they can be (and will most likely will be) fixed in a future version. Here are some ideas: - Bringing up a printer dialog on Chimera 0.6 (G4/400) takes roughly 10 seconds. During this time, the OS calculates what it should display, inluding looking for printers, before it shows the dialog. When it is done thinking about it, it finally displays the dialog. During the waiting, you can use other apps, you can sometimes even use other windows of the same app, but you can't interact with your current window. A possible improvement would be to just show the dialog so that the user has control over it again - even though it has not yet finished thinking about it. If there are elements that still need some calculation, show the element greyed out and display a "still calculating on this element" pic besides it
- Preview (the app that displays PDFs and pictures). When you press the down arrow for the next page, it take the app up to 5 seconds to display the next page. During this waiting time, there is no visual indication that the program has aknowledged your command, neither that it is actually busy, nor how long it will take this time. This can of course be easily changed by informing the user
- Finder: Bringing up an info dialog by pressing Cmd-I makes you wait for 2-3 seconds while the info dialog is internally built, then displayed at once. Again, this could be displayed immediately with some infos missing, after which the missing info is calculated and added.
- Resizing (my favorite:-) The old way in OS 9 was more responsive because it just displayed an outline when you dragged your mouse. As soon as you let it go, the resize was performed once. Even if this took a second, nobody would mind because during the time when the user wanted feedback ("how much will my window cover") the outline was instantaneous. The OS X way certainly looks nicer, but when you wait a second until the window is updated *while dragging with the mouse*, it doesn't feel responsive at all.
In europe, there exists a similar technology called RDS for "Radio Data System". It's on the air for about 10 years now and allows for these cool features since then: - Show the Station name in your radio display - Show what's playing - Certain stations are transmitted over several frequencies. RDS knows the alternative frequencies of your stations and automatically switches to the best frequency
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Then on the second page, they say that some sort of pre-processing is needed:
So I see no revolution here... it's just about indexing the phonemes of a audio stream and then searching these, right?
You're mostly right. But there are still dupes in it, which is made obvious by the fact that the 30-second-previews not only sound the same, but also have the exact same starting point. So for "Heaven's door", you get about 8 dupes...
> it was EVERY ALBUM TRACK, listed only ONCE
Actually, if a song is on several albums, it appears several times. Example: A query for "heaven's door" results in 21 results, but it's only 5 versions of the same song (Guns, Clapton, Dylan, Crawford, Wyclef).
So, while it's better, the result is still cluttered.
Here's a nice overview of all these services: click!.
Actually, the Music service (you need iTunes for this and click on the "Music Store" link) gives me a lot of "504 cannot load page" errors right now. I cannot browse pages and stuff... Well, I stick with Weblisten - all big name artists, download as many mp3s as you want, one flat fee of $30 per month :-D
I don't know if it works, but it sounds interesting...
Not true: Bluespoon bluetooth headsets deliver 4 hours of talk time out of a complete package weighting under 10 grams. More info here.
If you have ever filmed the front of a remote control with a camcorder, you know that the infrared LED can be seen pulsating when you press buttons. This leads to the conclusion that the CCDs inside camcorder catch a broader spectrum of light than the human eye does.
So I don't know how this cinema solution works, but if a friend asked me to equip his cinema against "pirates", I would just install a infrared strobe light somewhere - job nicely done.
WiFi is a bad choice for voice communication. The upside is that it is free (after the initial investitions). GSM allows companies to have their own internal phone network and selectively allow workers with a correct sim card to use this internal system. The company doesn't has to pay anything, and people get to carry around their normal cellphones. If you have a Nokia phone, maybe you have wondered what this "closed user group" feature means - that's what it means. Often, these companies outsource the creation of the voice network to a normal cellphone company, and pay them a flat fee for all internal voice communication. A organisation that uses this system is CERN, and they work together with the swiss operator Swisscom. You can find a bit of inside information here.
Here's a bit more info: Don't Worry about THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN.
If Apple needs to spend $6 Billion to avert being overlooked just in *one single industry*, then they are doing some serious things incorrectly. Remember, there is also a *film* industry that might lock Apple out - should Apple spend another $6 billion there, too?
If a company needs to spend so much to keep things compatible, the company does something wrong in the first place. Don't ask me what, but this can't be the right way.
Actually, it's SHIFT, CTRL, ALT and CMD that you can hold while clicking. Plus you can combine them. Which results in 15 ways to do an Apple mouse click.
:-)
So I guess you did not expect that Apple has actually a 15-button mouse
I see. What I ask myself now is "wouldn't it be easier if an application could tell the OS how much interactivity it expects, and the OS then performs accordingly?" You might say "this solution works with all existing apps" and "no interfaces is more elegant". But when it comes down to extreme situations (many interactive apps on a slow system), this would be better, wouldn't it?
I never made a mathematics degree and I understood your explanation perfectly. Doesn't seem to be to difficult as a hypothesis now. Thanks a lot!
This sounds too much like some crazy conspiracy. Answer me this simple question: Why did the US not take control of the Iraq oil fields after the gulf war?
Another net mag closing its doors... where is micropayment that works and could help these alternative publications to survive?
Not much of a difference, me thinks...
The question remains: Why are cellphones forbidden while WiFi is obviously allowed in planes? Don't we all remember the englishman that got jailed for using his cell?
This is, of course, just the text version of a this fabulous cartoon.
Also, compare it to the Nokia Cardphone. Works with Linux, too :-)
I always thought that combining the setup of Everything2 and a massive amout of blogs would create something great. This is a step in this direction. Is there anybody else agreeing that combining E2 with Waypath would make the best reference source ever?
I'm using OS X for half a year now, after having used previous Mac OS's for nearly 15 years. Having said that, I think I can comment a bit about these "sluggishness problems".
:-) The old way in OS 9 was more responsive because it just displayed an outline when you dragged your mouse. As soon as you let it go, the resize was performed once. Even if this took a second, nobody would mind because during the time when the user wanted feedback ("how much will my window cover") the outline was instantaneous. The OS X way certainly looks nicer, but when you wait a second until the window is updated *while dragging with the mouse*, it doesn't feel responsive at all.
Mac OS X is definitely less responsive that OS9 in some respects, but they can be (and will most likely will be) fixed in a future version. Here are some ideas:
- Bringing up a printer dialog on Chimera 0.6 (G4/400) takes roughly 10 seconds. During this time, the OS calculates what it should display, inluding looking for printers, before it shows the dialog. When it is done thinking about it, it finally displays the dialog. During the waiting, you can use other apps, you can sometimes even use other windows of the same app, but you can't interact with your current window. A possible improvement would be to just show the dialog so that the user has control over it again - even though it has not yet finished thinking about it. If there are elements that still need some calculation, show the element greyed out and display a "still calculating on this element" pic besides it
- Preview (the app that displays PDFs and pictures). When you press the down arrow for the next page, it take the app up to 5 seconds to display the next page. During this waiting time, there is no visual indication that the program has aknowledged your command, neither that it is actually busy, nor how long it will take this time. This can of course be easily changed by informing the user
- Finder: Bringing up an info dialog by pressing Cmd-I makes you wait for 2-3 seconds while the info dialog is internally built, then displayed at once. Again, this could be displayed immediately with some infos missing, after which the missing info is calculated and added.
- Resizing (my favorite
Well, that's about it.
In europe, there exists a similar technology called RDS for "Radio Data System". It's on the air for about 10 years now and allows for these cool features since then:
- Show the Station name in your radio display
- Show what's playing
- Certain stations are transmitted over several frequencies. RDS knows the alternative frequencies of your stations and automatically switches to the best frequency
I've never heard of these two products, and googling both terms results in zero results. Can you elaborate further?