But "transparent" is the more appropriate word as it specifically qualifies that scattering does not occur appreciably:
1 a (1) : having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly : PELLUCID (2) : allowing the passage of a specified form of radiation (as X rays or ultraviolet light) b : fine or sheer enough to be seen through : DIAPHANOUS
We should use precise terms when describing features. To the layman, they may be synonymous, but to the technical minded, "translucency" should be understood in the 1b sense (else why have sense 1b at all).
And using "transparency" lacks the ambiguity of "translucency", so if we in the field can use "transparency" consistently, then the ambiguity of "translucency" is lessened.
We must be precise when instructing our machines. When describing what our machines do to others, should we not also be precise? Especially to others in our field? (I know when I was trying to acquire some plastics for a project, I had to specify transparent red material or else I would end up with translucent(1b) material which was not suitable for the project.)
As to user interface, it could be something as simple as the last n windows (on a desktop) brought into focus remain in focus, provided they are still visible, and that unobscured windows remain in focus. An Expose'-like feature could allow for them to remain unobscured without affecting their preferred dimensions.
dd to a disk works if the destination volume is equal to or greater than the source volume size. The destination disk then has a partition table that doesn't reflect the drive's true capacity. (Much like formatting a 160 GB drive for only 128 GiB.) If the resulting drive is to become your volume for regular use, you can edit the partition table to allocate the rest of the disk as an empty partition and use that space for whatever purpose you have in mind.
Of course, then your next dd will need a drive of that size or bigger.
I, for one, welcome our new alpha-channel enabled translucent overlords.
It has translucency? I have yet to see that implemented. Everything I've seen so far is only varying levels of transparency. I'm only seeing alpha channel implemented, no options for a scatter channel which would define the degree of scattering of the image as it passes through a foreground image.
Ah, I can't fault you. The site itself regularly misuses the term "translucent". Free lesson: if you can make out details, particularly able to read text, it is not translucent, it is transparent. Transparency is a continuum from completely transparent to opaque. Translucency is not part of that continuum. It is different, like looking through a frosted shower door, where you can get the sense of color and motion, but where details cannot be determined. Photons get scattered by the medium resulting in a loss of perceptable detail.
I'd applaud a system that implemented a scatter channel for true translucency. Trying to read text while other text is showing through it is difficult. A moderate amount of translucent scatter applied would be less distracting.
Now think, what if you could apply a visual blurring to windows that aren't in the foreground/under the cursor? Surely that could help focus the user on a task. (There'd need be some control to allow multiple windows be in perfect focus on occasion.) Simulated depth perception to enhance the window stacking model.
Has anyone checked to see if the automatic defragmentation of sub-20 MiB files performs secure erasures of the original sectors? The OS has the ability to empty the trash with secure erasure, but I don't see how that will find the portions of the disk where the file used to reside.
Unless they port it to only run on Apple-branded x86 hardware.
Apple is quite capable of building x86-based hardware, and to make the software proprietary enough that it requires the uniquely proprietary features of Apple's x86 platform so that Mac OS will only run on the machines they make.
But it would risk opening up Apple's platform to OS competition with Microsoft.
I have three different models of Pyro Firewire enclosures (3-port transparent, 2-port transparent, and an opaque model). None of them support large (>137 GB, >128 GiB) drives.
I haven't purchased Panther yet (or is it pronounced "Pan-there"?) but this does recall a problem I had running Final Cut Pro under Mac OS X 10.1.x. It had the nasty habit of destroying the partition tables of random Firewire drives on launch, presumably in its attempts to find and communicate with Firewire video devices. Upgrading to Jag-wire resolved the problem.
AFAIK, Apple never acknowledged there was a problem with FCP and 10.1.
A pity that The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension got the date wrong.
But then so did the TV series War of the Worlds (transcribed script). The series attempted to establish that the 1938 broadcast was an actual invasion, but was a scout force sent in advance of the 1953 invasion depicted in the movie. They suggested that Orson Welles and men from the government came by following that attempted invasion and concocted a panic-inducing script to cover up what really happened.
Except the radio broadcast was on the 30th and the eyewitnesses had it occuring on the 31st. Meaning Welles (and not Howard Koch) wrote the radio play in at most -1 days, probably less. Now that's a neat trick.
The site is mine, and I need to resume updating it. It's written from the perspective of the series, and so incorporates the mythos, yet also serves as a collection of tellings of the story, including comic books and arcade games. It suffers from a lack of airing of the TV series. I just haven't been able to keep up my own interest in it.
Actually, there was a disclaimer between the two acts. But the first act ran uninterrupted for a long time. The broadcast is one of the reasons why broadcasters have to self-identify at least every 15 minutes.
Also, most people missed not only the disclaimer at the beginning, but also the opening monologue, tuning in at the fake weather report or later when people turned the dial away from Charlie McCarthy. It is the first documented incident of channel switching. Listeners were so gripped that they never switched back.
And congrats for getting the date right. Many people mistakenly think the broadcast was October 31st, 1938. It was indeed October 30th, 1938.
Also, 50 years ago, the George Pal movie The War of the Worlds opened in theaters.
Claria. Ask your IT department. It's time to ask your IT department. Ask about Claria.
Claria side effects include bandwidth loss increased advertisement and loss of privacy if they continue or are bothersome check with your IT department contact your IT department immediately if your develop rapid or pounding disk access OS instability or unusual sluggishness while using this software.
...a chair in the process of being carved out of a solid block of wood, with an axe embedded in it, a la the original definition: "someone who makes furniture with an axe".
That meme is well ingrained, myself being familiar with it before ever using a modem, and lends itself well to imagery and iconification.
It is less "free" than public domain code because one cannot do whatever they like with it, like distribute binaries without source and so forth.
I think you meant "cannot not do", as not distributing source is an inactivity.
GPL is more free because you cannot not distribute source. You can't keep your modifications proprietary. If you distribute, you must make your code equally as free as what you took. It expands the base of free code. It self-perpetuates, enriching that which is free. Public domain code doesn't do that.
Then there's Portal. It's a kind of Soap Opera, using just characters from the various MMORPGs as it's actors. It's ok at times, boring at others.
I actually like Portal. I probably need exposure to more quality machinima, but I like how they use various MMORPGs to tell stories. The cheesiness of many of the stories are part of its charm, as well as their parodies of people and films, like Ringfellas:
"I thought it was four rings, each with their own power. One ring to rule--"
"No, you [bleep]! It's one ring, four powers! Who the [bleep] has four rings!" "Well, everybody in the family, Joey."
And of course the dwarf, Shorty, who almost invariably only ever says, "You have my axe!"
"I cannot tell a lie. I
want to chop down the cherry tree, but I have no axe." "You have my axe!"
"I lost my axe." "You have my axe!"
"I tied my shoelaces together!" "You have my axe!"
Unfortunately it has too many airtimes in the week at too many inconsistent times of day for anyone except PVR owners to follow. I was happy for the weekend marathon.
And they're killing off some of the best characters, such as Bloody Dove and Moe Tuesday.
"Can you and me be buddies and go hunt little wolves together?"
"A problem with Panther has been found with external FireWire drives, that causes FireWire disk partitions in Panther above 137GB [128 GiB] to be shown as corrupt after a reboot, in most cases being entirely unaccessible and unusable."
Reminds me of a problem with Final Cut Pro and Mac OS X 10.1. Random Pyro Firewire drives would have their partition tables overwritten. But then they weren't just shown as corrupt, they were corrupted.
Who the hell cares what it can do in a wind tunnel? A wind tunnel means there is an atmosphere, which there isn't in space. This makes no sense and is a waste of time. Morons.
Because it is a good way to test the equipment without putting in jeopardy any test model you care about. And having some geeky fun while you do it.
Would it be any better if they were testing the performance at Mach 5 of a model of the Batmobile?
No joy. The only ones that work for me are the ones that end in appropriate filename extensions, and thus the server provides the right MIME type. Several still do not: Bliss Wallpaper ends with.Wallpaper, Collecting Info ends with.Setup, Clock ends with.Clock, and Installation with.Installation. (Servers tend to depend on the filename to serve the right MIME type, but they need not so depend.)
All the others have.jpg extensions and are served with the right MIME type, save two: Desktop and Winver which end with.gif and are served as image/gif.
At least those load properly. The story's site serves the images as text/plain. Which means the only browser you can use to view them is Internet Explorer with its noncompliant HTTP implementation that ignores the server-provided MIME type and sniffs the content to determine its type.
IOW, Mozilla won't show the screenshots from flexbeta.net because the server is frelled and the site owner only tests with IE which conceals his mistakes from him.
Anyone care to mirror the original story's screenshots on a properly configured server?
Perhaps they have notch deafness. Be exposed to a continuous noise of a specific frequency and eventually you become deaf to that particular frequency.
Slashdot Mirror
And using "transparency" lacks the ambiguity of "translucency", so if we in the field can use "transparency" consistently, then the ambiguity of "translucency" is lessened.
We must be precise when instructing our machines. When describing what our machines do to others, should we not also be precise? Especially to others in our field? (I know when I was trying to acquire some plastics for a project, I had to specify transparent red material or else I would end up with translucent(1b) material which was not suitable for the project.)
As to user interface, it could be something as simple as the last n windows (on a desktop) brought into focus remain in focus, provided they are still visible, and that unobscured windows remain in focus. An Expose'-like feature could allow for them to remain unobscured without affecting their preferred dimensions.
dd to a disk works if the destination volume is equal to or greater than the source volume size. The destination disk then has a partition table that doesn't reflect the drive's true capacity. (Much like formatting a 160 GB drive for only 128 GiB.) If the resulting drive is to become your volume for regular use, you can edit the partition table to allocate the rest of the disk as an empty partition and use that space for whatever purpose you have in mind.
Of course, then your next dd will need a drive of that size or bigger.
I, for one, welcome our new alpha-channel enabled translucent overlords.
It has translucency? I have yet to see that implemented. Everything I've seen so far is only varying levels of transparency. I'm only seeing alpha channel implemented, no options for a scatter channel which would define the degree of scattering of the image as it passes through a foreground image.
Ah, I can't fault you. The site itself regularly misuses the term "translucent". Free lesson: if you can make out details, particularly able to read text, it is not translucent, it is transparent. Transparency is a continuum from completely transparent to opaque. Translucency is not part of that continuum. It is different, like looking through a frosted shower door, where you can get the sense of color and motion, but where details cannot be determined. Photons get scattered by the medium resulting in a loss of perceptable detail.
I'd applaud a system that implemented a scatter channel for true translucency. Trying to read text while other text is showing through it is difficult. A moderate amount of translucent scatter applied would be less distracting.
Now think, what if you could apply a visual blurring to windows that aren't in the foreground/under the cursor? Surely that could help focus the user on a task. (There'd need be some control to allow multiple windows be in perfect focus on occasion.) Simulated depth perception to enhance the window stacking model.
Has anyone checked to see if the automatic defragmentation of sub-20 MiB files performs secure erasures of the original sectors? The OS has the ability to empty the trash with secure erasure, but I don't see how that will find the portions of the disk where the file used to reside.
I'm only just now ordering Panther.
Unless they port it to only run on Apple-branded x86 hardware.
Apple is quite capable of building x86-based hardware, and to make the software proprietary enough that it requires the uniquely proprietary features of Apple's x86 platform so that Mac OS will only run on the machines they make.
But it would risk opening up Apple's platform to OS competition with Microsoft.
Well the angels dancing on the heads of pins need something to dance to.
Keyboards that occasionally type "www.belkin.com" when they detect you're typing a URL.
You laugh, but what about the welcome datacomp case of this keyboard?
i liked it
So, you thought the metaphysical imagery was particularly effective?
Nothing is provable without a URL.
Ah, that proves nothing.
Correction: that should be "ABS Pyro Firewire".
I have three different models of Pyro Firewire enclosures (3-port transparent, 2-port transparent, and an opaque model). None of them support large (>137 GB, >128 GiB) drives.
I haven't purchased Panther yet (or is it pronounced "Pan-there"?) but this does recall a problem I had running Final Cut Pro under Mac OS X 10.1.x. It had the nasty habit of destroying the partition tables of random Firewire drives on launch, presumably in its attempts to find and communicate with Firewire video devices. Upgrading to Jag-wire resolved the problem.
AFAIK, Apple never acknowledged there was a problem with FCP and 10.1.
A pity that The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension got the date wrong.
But then so did the TV series War of the Worlds (transcribed script). The series attempted to establish that the 1938 broadcast was an actual invasion, but was a scout force sent in advance of the 1953 invasion depicted in the movie. They suggested that Orson Welles and men from the government came by following that attempted invasion and concocted a panic-inducing script to cover up what really happened.
Except the radio broadcast was on the 30th and the eyewitnesses had it occuring on the 31st. Meaning Welles (and not Howard Koch) wrote the radio play in at most -1 days, probably less. Now that's a neat trick.
The site is mine, and I need to resume updating it. It's written from the perspective of the series, and so incorporates the mythos, yet also serves as a collection of tellings of the story, including comic books and arcade games. It suffers from a lack of airing of the TV series. I just haven't been able to keep up my own interest in it.
Actually, there was a disclaimer between the two acts. But the first act ran uninterrupted for a long time. The broadcast is one of the reasons why broadcasters have to self-identify at least every 15 minutes.
Also, most people missed not only the disclaimer at the beginning, but also the opening monologue, tuning in at the fake weather report or later when people turned the dial away from Charlie McCarthy. It is the first documented incident of channel switching. Listeners were so gripped that they never switched back.
And congrats for getting the date right. Many people mistakenly think the broadcast was October 31st, 1938. It was indeed October 30th, 1938.
Also, 50 years ago, the George Pal movie The War of the Worlds opened in theaters.
Claria. Ask your IT department. It's time to ask your IT department. Ask about Claria.
Claria side effects include bandwidth loss increased advertisement and loss of privacy if they continue or are bothersome check with your IT department contact your IT department immediately if your develop rapid or pounding disk access OS instability or unusual sluggishness while using this software.
Claria. It's right for you.
...a chair in the process of being carved out of a solid block of wood, with an axe embedded in it, a la the original definition: "someone who makes furniture with an axe".
That meme is well ingrained, myself being familiar with it before ever using a modem, and lends itself well to imagery and iconification.
It is less "free" than public domain code because one cannot do whatever they like with it, like distribute binaries without source and so forth.
I think you meant "cannot not do", as not distributing source is an inactivity.
GPL is more free because you cannot not distribute source. You can't keep your modifications proprietary. If you distribute, you must make your code equally as free as what you took. It expands the base of free code. It self-perpetuates, enriching that which is free. Public domain code doesn't do that.
I actually like Portal. I probably need exposure to more quality machinima, but I like how they use various MMORPGs to tell stories. The cheesiness of many of the stories are part of its charm, as well as their parodies of people and films, like Ringfellas: And of course the dwarf, Shorty, who almost invariably only ever says, "You have my axe!" Unfortunately it has too many airtimes in the week at too many inconsistent times of day for anyone except PVR owners to follow. I was happy for the weekend marathon.
And they're killing off some of the best characters, such as Bloody Dove and Moe Tuesday.
"Can you and me be buddies and go hunt little wolves together?"
"A problem with Panther has been found with external FireWire drives, that causes FireWire disk partitions in Panther above 137GB [128 GiB] to be shown as corrupt after a reboot, in most cases being entirely unaccessible and unusable."
Reminds me of a problem with Final Cut Pro and Mac OS X 10.1. Random Pyro Firewire drives would have their partition tables overwritten. But then they weren't just shown as corrupt, they were corrupted.
Oh how I wish I had thought instead to say, "Would it be any better if they were testing the performance at Mach 5 of a model of the Mach 5?"
Who the hell cares what it can do in a wind tunnel? A wind tunnel means there is an atmosphere, which there isn't in space. This makes no sense and is a waste of time. Morons.
Because it is a good way to test the equipment without putting in jeopardy any test model you care about. And having some geeky fun while you do it.
Would it be any better if they were testing the performance at Mach 5 of a model of the Batmobile?
No joy. The only ones that work for me are the ones that end in appropriate filename extensions, and thus the server provides the right MIME type. Several still do not: Bliss Wallpaper ends with .Wallpaper, Collecting Info ends with .Setup, Clock ends with .Clock, and Installation with .Installation. (Servers tend to depend on the filename to serve the right MIME type, but they need not so depend.)
.jpg extensions and are served with the right MIME type, save two: Desktop and Winver which end with .gif and are served as image/gif.
All the others have
At least those load properly. The story's site serves the images as text/plain. Which means the only browser you can use to view them is Internet Explorer with its noncompliant HTTP implementation that ignores the server-provided MIME type and sniffs the content to determine its type.
IOW, Mozilla won't show the screenshots from flexbeta.net because the server is frelled and the site owner only tests with IE which conceals his mistakes from him.
Anyone care to mirror the original story's screenshots on a properly configured server?
Of course, you're absolutely correct. However, one would hope that any replacement of his would be properly elected.
They're installing the Diebold voting machines as I type.
Perhaps they have notch deafness. Be exposed to a continuous noise of a specific frequency and eventually you become deaf to that particular frequency.
If his plan was to use three webcams, perhaps he'd be planning to become the next Des e-Arnaz.