I have 5 on a PC. Yes, I think I had to first enable that somewhere in the configuration. But that was years ago. Unlike other Windows apps, the config. is just an plain.ini file, which I copy around between directories or machines.
If you put your e-mail into a database, you don't need grep
I don't need it with a plain email client either. Eudora has no trouble doing the searches you describe on plain text files, using it's index.
But if the computer crashed, and I only have some old Amiga or a 1985 Mac lying around or some DOS boot disk, and I need something from a mail right now, I can get at it if the files are plain text.
Also, I sometimes do searches in the plain text because I'm looking for a too common word. Eudora or a database will get me far too many results; I would have to double-click on each individual result to open it, then find that word in the message, etc. Instead, I open the whole.mbx file in a viewer where I can very quickly hit F3 or / or whatever to jump to the next match. I used that several times for stuff in big mailing lists, where I knew I had read something some time ago, which I wanted to find.
I quite like the idea in the previous comment of having the best of both worlds. That's sort of what email clients do with their indexes, but having the index in a more standard db format would be nice.
database... Does anybody else think this would be interesting?
No. I understand why you find it interesting, and why some mail clients use databse storage, but I don't find the benefits are worth giving up the huge advantage of plain text storage.
I will definitely NOT use a mail client which doesn't use plain text storage. I want to be able to occasionally use text search tools on the raw files, I want to be able to read these files even if the application that created them is not installed, I want to be able to read them on any platform, I want to be able to read bits of these files if the hard disk badly crashed.
One very annoying problem I found with Apple's Mail is that it hides server error messages from you. And it hides them very effectively! I found absolutely no way to see why the server rejected a mail.
In case of an error, Apple's Mail offers you a "friendly" drop-down list of SMTP servers, suggesting you try another server. While indeed, the "Relaying denied" error from using the wrong SMTP server may be the most common one, there are cases when that is not the problem. You then have to setup another mail program to be able to find out what is wrong.
When people I know have trouble with email, they call me. But they cannot tell me the error message. That would only be good if I could/would charge by the minute for incoming calls...
A few things are mentioned in the what's new page. Some are nice, but it's not clear for me whether the things I need to switch from Eudora are there now:
Can the filters now do more than one action?
Does it remember the folder state
Can I modify the From address by simply tyoing it in the From: line, without creating an account/identity for it?
Can we now move mails folder (on Windows) to somewhere else, and just launch it with an argument telling it where the profile folder is?
Does it still have that insane default folder structure? (c:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\default\sr5qf9vq.slt\Mai l\ etc. !!)
There were many things I liked a lot last time I looked. But these problems prevented me from switching.
Just don't try to edit multicamera shoots this way without some major brain wiggles.
Yes, I know, and multicamera shoots are not the only case. But producers sometimes have a hard time to understand why renting a cheaper editing suite will end up costing them much more once the project is finished. Of course, it's not the case for all projects, but there are many post pitfalls where weeks get lost because the wrong tool was choosen, just because it seemed cheaper.
And not only in the "wannabe film junkie" crowd, but it is also becoming more and more popular in the professional film crowd. At least in Europe, where filmmakers are poor and see "the poor man's Avid" as something just exactly for them.
News editing is a very specific niche in which, indeed, using a laptop for editing might make sense.
But for the rest -- feature-length stuff, film (at 24 fps.), documentaries with over 100 hours of raw material (from various media), etc. -- trying to do it on a laptop is certainly going to be the very hard way (if possible at all).
You still need specific hardware to enter digital sound from a DAT tape (with it's time code), to enter uncompressed video (and possibly to compress it), and of course the various video and audio players that populate an editing suite.
Avid isn't anymore so much about specific hardware, but rather about seemless integration with ProTools, and various professional features which others don't offer (yet).
these pro-level tools that have become absolutely essential to the media cartels.
Actually, the media cartels are mostly using Avid (on both Mac and Windows), not Apple's FCP.
It's not in the high-end market they are competing (though that may change), but in the lower end where Adobe Premiere was not good enough and Avid too expensive. That's where everyone jumped on FCP and... bought a Mac. That's not to say FCP isn't good. It seems to be pretty good, and the editors I know tend to rather like it, even if it cannot (yet?) really compete with high-end Avids in some areas. But that seems to be the next step.
They have a very clear business model of providing (good) software to sell their hardware. (iTunes to sell iPods, FCP to sell Macs, what's next?)
large enough project, would involve many many editors
?? What sort of project are you thinking of? Motion picture movies certainly do not use many many editors. They may use one or two assistants, and the sound editing is done later by someone else, but there is usually only one editor, sometimes two.
So you applaud them for believing that they have the truth about God but are not wanting to share it with others?
I consider it as some sort of extenuating circumstance.
What is particularly bad about monotheist religions as opposed to polythist ones?
Monotheist ones seem to have been much better suited for wide-spread oppression. In fact the origins of the monotheistic idea seem to have been a particularly megalomaniac Egyptian pharaoh.
But I'm afraid I'm too lazy and it's too late (around here) to start a serious philosophical discussion. Besides,/. would quickly have it modded troll/flamebait (why is that bad)/offtopic...
I was recently involved in a work about Jews and how they feel/live being Jews, which inevitably made me notice one religious aspect. While I think any monotheist religion is a particularly Bad Thing, I must admit the Jewish religion is by far not as bad as the others, because at least it has no concept of proselytism.
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Now that communism is dead, I guess it's OK, even with Americans, to recall some of it's good apects: Religion is the opium of the people. (simple interpretation here)
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Yes, Edison invented a relatively modern camera and showed films first, but only to one viewer at a time.
What the Lumiere brothers invented (among other things) is a camera that could also be used as a projector (and which they called "cinematographe"). With it, they made the first public projection, on a big screen, of a motion picture movie.
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I have 5 on a PC. Yes, I think I had to first enable that somewhere in the configuration. But that was years ago. Unlike other Windows apps, the config. is just an plain .ini file, which I copy around between directories or machines.
i just tried that, and i get this message...
maybe you need to upgrade to Panther
Glad to hear they corrected this with Panther. Indeed, I saw that problem on 10.2 systems.
If you put your e-mail into a database, you don't need grep
.mbx file in a viewer where I can very quickly hit F3 or / or whatever to jump to the next match. I used that several times for stuff in big mailing lists, where I knew I had read something some time ago, which I wanted to find.
I don't need it with a plain email client either. Eudora has no trouble doing the searches you describe on plain text files, using it's index.
But if the computer crashed, and I only have some old Amiga or a 1985 Mac lying around or some DOS boot disk, and I need something from a mail right now, I can get at it if the files are plain text.
Also, I sometimes do searches in the plain text because I'm looking for a too common word. Eudora or a database will get me far too many results; I would have to double-click on each individual result to open it, then find that word in the message, etc. Instead, I open the whole
I quite like the idea in the previous comment of having the best of both worlds. That's sort of what email clients do with their indexes, but having the index in a more standard db format would be nice.
database ... Does anybody else think this would be interesting?
No. I understand why you find it interesting, and why some mail clients use databse storage, but I don't find the benefits are worth giving up the huge advantage of plain text storage.
I will definitely NOT use a mail client which doesn't use plain text storage. I want to be able to occasionally use text search tools on the raw files, I want to be able to read these files even if the application that created them is not installed, I want to be able to read them on any platform, I want to be able to read bits of these files if the hard disk badly crashed.
One very annoying problem I found with Apple's Mail is that it hides server error messages from you. And it hides them very effectively! I found absolutely no way to see why the server rejected a mail.
In case of an error, Apple's Mail offers you a "friendly" drop-down list of SMTP servers, suggesting you try another server. While indeed, the "Relaying denied" error from using the wrong SMTP server may be the most common one, there are cases when that is not the problem. You then have to setup another mail program to be able to find out what is wrong.
When people I know have trouble with email, they call me. But they cannot tell me the error message. That would only be good if I could/would charge by the minute for incoming calls...
There were many things I liked a lot last time I looked. But these problems prevented me from switching.
You wouldn't see any more detail from your DVD. It wasn't encoded from HD.
But you can go to a theatre, can't you?
Uncompressed HD-SDI is 1.485 Gbps (SMPTE 292M).
Standard definition SDI is 270 Mbps.
See this overview
so making movies in iMovie is difficult.
But isn't making movies in iMovie supposed to be difficult anyway? Isn't it supposed to just convince you of forking out the money for Final Cut Pro?
Just don't try to edit multicamera shoots this way without some major brain wiggles.
Yes, I know, and multicamera shoots are not the only case. But producers sometimes have a hard time to understand why renting a cheaper editing suite will end up costing them much more once the project is finished. Of course, it's not the case for all projects, but there are many post pitfalls where weeks get lost because the wrong tool was choosen, just because it seemed cheaper.
And not only in the "wannabe film junkie" crowd, but it is also becoming more and more popular in the professional film crowd. At least in Europe, where filmmakers are poor and see "the poor man's Avid" as something just exactly for them.
Sorry, but I really don't see what Photoshop has to do with Avid, and even less what it has to do with video color correction.
News editing is a very specific niche in which, indeed, using a laptop for editing might make sense.
But for the rest -- feature-length stuff, film (at 24 fps.), documentaries with over 100 hours of raw material (from various media), etc. -- trying to do it on a laptop is certainly going to be the very hard way (if possible at all).
You still need specific hardware to enter digital sound from a DAT tape (with it's time code), to enter uncompressed video (and possibly to compress it), and of course the various video and audio players that populate an editing suite.
Avid isn't anymore so much about specific hardware, but rather about seemless integration with ProTools, and various professional features which others don't offer (yet).
these pro-level tools that have become absolutely essential to the media cartels.
Actually, the media cartels are mostly using Avid (on both Mac and Windows), not Apple's FCP.
It's not in the high-end market they are competing (though that may change), but in the lower end where Adobe Premiere was not good enough and Avid too expensive. That's where everyone jumped on FCP and... bought a Mac. That's not to say FCP isn't good. It seems to be pretty good, and the editors I know tend to rather like it, even if it cannot (yet?) really compete with high-end Avids in some areas. But that seems to be the next step.
They have a very clear business model of providing (good) software to sell their hardware. (iTunes to sell iPods, FCP to sell Macs, what's next?)
large enough project, would involve many many editors
?? What sort of project are you thinking of? Motion picture movies certainly do not use many many editors. They may use one or two assistants, and the sound editing is done later by someone else, but there is usually only one editor, sometimes two.
FCP doesn't seem to be supporting uncompressed HD. Apparently, it's only for the Panasonic DVCPRO HD codec.
I guess it's OK
:-)
Well, I guess it isn't, after all... seeing it modded troll
So you applaud them for believing that they have the truth about God but are not wanting to share it with others?
/. would quickly have it modded troll/flamebait (why is that bad)/offtopic...
I consider it as some sort of extenuating circumstance.
What is particularly bad about monotheist religions as opposed to polythist ones?
Monotheist ones seem to have been much better suited for wide-spread oppression. In fact the origins of the monotheistic idea seem to have been a particularly megalomaniac Egyptian pharaoh.
But I'm afraid I'm too lazy and it's too late (around here) to start a serious philosophical discussion. Besides,
I was recently involved in a work about Jews and how they feel/live being Jews, which inevitably made me notice one religious aspect. While I think any monotheist religion is a particularly Bad Thing, I must admit the Jewish religion is by far not as bad as the others, because at least it has no concept of proselytism.
Now that communism is dead, I guess it's OK, even with Americans, to recall some of it's good apects: Religion is the opium of the people. (simple interpretation here)
... not because the results are so good (they are the same as on Google), but because A9.com breaks your browser's back button! From A9.com, as soon as you did a search, you cannot go back anymore!
Didn't Crimly just cover this?
/. too.
You mean Robert X. Cringely in "Now the Only Way Microsoft Can Die is by Suicide". Yes, and it was discussed on
But the Volvo is more secure than a 1960 Yugo.
No, the 1960 Yugo is much more secure! Because it didn't exist, and everyone knows pedestrians are safer...
The cars made in Yugoslavia at the time were Fiats, patriotically called Zastava (which means flag).
Yes, Edison invented a relatively modern camera and showed films first, but only to one viewer at a time.
What the Lumiere brothers invented (among other things) is a camera that could also be used as a projector (and which they called "cinematographe"). With it, they made the first public projection, on a big screen, of a motion picture movie.