Actually, you can do this with any file type on the system. Queries can run by the typical filename, date, size, etc. Or they can be run on file attributes.
I have a rather large collection of pictures from car shows I've been to. In BeOS I labelled each picture with year, make, the show I saw it at, etc. I could find all pictures of Advance Design Chevy pickups by doing a search for all Chevrolet trucks between 1947 and 1954. In a matter of seconds, I have a window with all of those files.
Of course, I would perform this search by hitting Alt-F, then selecting the options in the "Query" window. Select your file type from a list, then select the attributes you want to search on and the values you want it to find and it goes to it.
I really miss those features of BeOS now that I'm using a Mac as my workstation. I hear a lot of "just use the tags on your MP3s" but there were so many other applications for the attributes that there just isn't a good replacement for.
Everybody has forgotten my favorite, or maybe that's my least favorite - they get lost! I have so many cables around for so many different things, and they all look alike when coiled and wire tied. I have no clue where my $70 PDA to Cell Phone cable is at the moment, and I wanted it this afternoon!
Not to mention that I have plenty of things to carry on me already, and some of those wires get kind of bulky, so I end up trying to keep it in the vehicle I'm using most. Hence my current situation... it was between vehicles, left in the house for a week or so, and POOF! Gone.
My Tungsten|T supports BlueTooth, but my phone doesn't.:-( The price of BlueTooth phones was quite high when I got my service, and nobody knew what it even was at the time. (Maybe they still don't.)
And for those who say, "Just get a PDA phone," they're nuts! I buy a PDA for its PDA features, and a phone for its phone features. I don't want one that compromises on both.
The two features I find the most important in a text editor are FTP and tabbed editing. I often find that I have 10 windows open for one project, and a couple of windows for another project that a customer called me about and I'm waiting for a call back... gets to be a mess! (Especially when two of them are the same filename from a different site.)
Having a separate window for each project I have open, then tabs for the individual files, would be absolutely perfect! Heck, I'd even pay the $250 ($225) to get that CD if it were the only way to get it. It's that valueable to me.
Of course, the FTP features wouldn't mean much if Apple fixed their built-in FTP. The BBEdit FTP features are weak anyway - I can't even make a new folder in the browser. And I find that saving a file can be dreadfully slow sometimes, where Transmit can upload in the blink of an eye.
I like BBEdit overall, though I tend to find the interface to be a little clumsy. It has some very useful text editing features, like zapping gremlins, hard wrapping text, changing case, etc. Things that every text editor should have.
Imagine the size of the video card and its heat sink and fans on that 3D monitor! A video card for a single array of pixels can be pretty impressive these days - now we're rendering a matrix of pixels.
Seems like resolution would have to be low for this to be introduced. If you take 1024x768 and make it, say 256 layers thick (since it seems that there would have to be spacing between each later) - that's 200 million pixels to manage! And the memory required for color depth! My goodness!
Seems like a good thing for the entertainment business to prototype, though. Shall we get the Futurliners going again, GM?
So, a couple of thoughts...
What about the angle of the 3D monitor? A modern LCD is pretty good, but you still lose some color and/or clarity at an angle. Now you're adding depth and possibly a gap between layers. Seems like you'll have to be perfectly straight on in order to see things right. And when you are, you are looking down at some pixels (when you look at the bottom of the screen). How will the depth/gap be handled there?
For the car application... what about sun light? My LCD monitor on my notebook is useless in the sun. Now we make them transparent and put them on a windshield?
Can we handle some color depth issues with "overprinting"? If our color depth were only two, for the sake of the example, maybe yellow and blue, could we get green by displaying yellow on one layer and blue on the next layer?
I guess we won't see these for a while! I want to see a demo/prototype on a Futurliner, though.:-)
Run your domain through a free online DynDNS service to your G4, then use Apache to proxypass it to.Mac. Then you get the automatic page design and such at the click of a button, and get to use your own domain.
I suppose you could consider rasterizing vector images to be "rendering". Any rasterizing could be considered a form of rendering. I did this several times today with some EPS files - took forever! Several minutes each.
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Actually, you can do this with any file type on the system. Queries can run by the typical filename, date, size, etc. Or they can be run on file attributes.
I have a rather large collection of pictures from car shows I've been to. In BeOS I labelled each picture with year, make, the show I saw it at, etc. I could find all pictures of Advance Design Chevy pickups by doing a search for all Chevrolet trucks between 1947 and 1954. In a matter of seconds, I have a window with all of those files.
Of course, I would perform this search by hitting Alt-F, then selecting the options in the "Query" window. Select your file type from a list, then select the attributes you want to search on and the values you want it to find and it goes to it.
I really miss those features of BeOS now that I'm using a Mac as my workstation. I hear a lot of "just use the tags on your MP3s" but there were so many other applications for the attributes that there just isn't a good replacement for.
Computers have almost done away with those, too! They really *are* plotting to take over the world!
Everybody has forgotten my favorite, or maybe that's my least favorite - they get lost! I have so many cables around for so many different things, and they all look alike when coiled and wire tied. I have no clue where my $70 PDA to Cell Phone cable is at the moment, and I wanted it this afternoon!
:-( The price of BlueTooth phones was quite high when I got my service, and nobody knew what it even was at the time. (Maybe they still don't.)
Not to mention that I have plenty of things to carry on me already, and some of those wires get kind of bulky, so I end up trying to keep it in the vehicle I'm using most. Hence my current situation... it was between vehicles, left in the house for a week or so, and POOF! Gone.
My Tungsten|T supports BlueTooth, but my phone doesn't.
And for those who say, "Just get a PDA phone," they're nuts! I buy a PDA for its PDA features, and a phone for its phone features. I don't want one that compromises on both.
Transmit has a similar feature, but I haven't looked into how it works yet. I think I'll have to take a look at that. Thanks for the tip!
:-(
Still no tabs, though.
The two features I find the most important in a text editor are FTP and tabbed editing. I often find that I have 10 windows open for one project, and a couple of windows for another project that a customer called me about and I'm waiting for a call back... gets to be a mess! (Especially when two of them are the same filename from a different site.)
Having a separate window for each project I have open, then tabs for the individual files, would be absolutely perfect! Heck, I'd even pay the $250 ($225) to get that CD if it were the only way to get it. It's that valueable to me.
Of course, the FTP features wouldn't mean much if Apple fixed their built-in FTP. The BBEdit FTP features are weak anyway - I can't even make a new folder in the browser. And I find that saving a file can be dreadfully slow sometimes, where Transmit can upload in the blink of an eye.
I like BBEdit overall, though I tend to find the interface to be a little clumsy. It has some very useful text editing features, like zapping gremlins, hard wrapping text, changing case, etc. Things that every text editor should have.
Rich
Imagine the size of the video card and its heat sink and fans on that 3D monitor! A video card for a single array of pixels can be pretty impressive these days - now we're rendering a matrix of pixels.
:-)
Seems like resolution would have to be low for this to be introduced. If you take 1024x768 and make it, say 256 layers thick (since it seems that there would have to be spacing between each later) - that's 200 million pixels to manage! And the memory required for color depth! My goodness!
Seems like a good thing for the entertainment business to prototype, though. Shall we get the Futurliners going again, GM?
So, a couple of thoughts...
What about the angle of the 3D monitor? A modern LCD is pretty good, but you still lose some color and/or clarity at an angle. Now you're adding depth and possibly a gap between layers. Seems like you'll have to be perfectly straight on in order to see things right. And when you are, you are looking down at some pixels (when you look at the bottom of the screen). How will the depth/gap be handled there?
For the car application... what about sun light? My LCD monitor on my notebook is useless in the sun. Now we make them transparent and put them on a windshield?
Can we handle some color depth issues with "overprinting"? If our color depth were only two, for the sake of the example, maybe yellow and blue, could we get green by displaying yellow on one layer and blue on the next layer?
I guess we won't see these for a while! I want to see a demo/prototype on a Futurliner, though.
Run your domain through a free online DynDNS service to your G4, then use Apache to proxypass it to .Mac. Then you get the automatic page design and such at the click of a button, and get to use your own domain.
I suppose you could consider rasterizing vector images to be "rendering". Any rasterizing could be considered a form of rendering. I did this several times today with some EPS files - took forever! Several minutes each.