Wouldn't the market allow for an expensive tomato that more wealthy and/or more picky customers would choose to want? If the demand is there, then surely we should be able to have these nice tomatoes?
As others have said before, you can emulate folders with a metadata system anyway. Having actual folders on TOP of that is a kludge.
Besides that minor issue, Microsoft isn't exactly encouraging people to use virtual folders (and do third-party programs allow you to save metadata when saving files?). Does it utilize a realtime filterable window like Everything, where you can search for something in an instant based on the metadata they contain? I very much doubt it. That's a vital part of the tech if a metadata system is to become standard.
I was thinking of something which was designed completely from the ground up to fully support a metadata filesystem, and where actual folders were an 'extra' if implemented at all (since they can be emulated perfectly). Explorer windows become extinct and are replaced by a powerful filterable window which lists any and all files in realtime.
We could learn off Amazon for our own computer file systems. A metadata/database filesystem where everything is stored all in one folder (rather than organized into directories) would save everyone so much time. The barcode would be replaced by 'tags' or metadata. Popular and recent tags could be accessible via a dropdown. Hunting for files, reorganization, deciding where to store files, becomes suddenly much easier.
It seems every energy tech apart from solar converts to turbine power before electricity. Are there any future energy techs (e.g. fusion) which produce electricity directly (or at least more directly)?
Thanks for the feedback! If you press F4, you can get different colour schemes - one of which is mono. The version number in the titlebar is so that anyone can immediately check if they have the latest version (not everyone will think of going to the about menu).
In short, in an ideal world with developers that care about writing clean and portable programs, you could copy and move the game in any form wherever you wanted, and everything would be fine. Is the real world, though, I can only wish you good luck.
My very OpalCalc program is portable, and completely DRM/password/key free for the paid version, so a good start I guess;)
In short, a password is a weak attempt at DRM that doesn't really do the job.
Yes, it would seem the product would at least have to "phone home" so that the company could cancel that installation, otherwise piracy sites could simply give out the password/key along with the installation exe. Since I'm against this 'phoning home' lark, I can see the dilemma for both the publisher and the end user. It's somewhat unfortunate.
Right. I have bought a few products which require keys/passwords to be entered. I'm not sure if those products "phone home", but otherwise in theory it would seem I could pass on the product to someone else and they could use the same password and username to activate the product again (not that I would actually do that of course).
I think even normal people can experience blindsight (or something resembling it) in a couple of ways:
1: The first is to look in the center of your field of vision, and concentrate on something at the very edge of your vision. You can't really 'see it', but you can detect the very basic shape and colour.
2: Have randomly placed words on a page. Sometimes, you'll be able to think of a word that randomly pops to mind, then look a little to the left/right/up/down, and that's the word you unconsciously picked up.
Students who learn piano are often taught to take breaks between practice sessions (or even just 2 half hour sessions per day instead of one single hour session). As a piano teacher myself, I've recently encouraged my own students to take 5 minutes breaks, and even 5-20 second breaks WITHIN a session to allow the subconscious mind to make more sense of a passage or scale etc. Not sure how popular this kind of technique across other teaching disciplines is.
I thought electric cars made gears obsolete, so reintroducing them would appear to be a step backwards, as one 'gear' supplies maximum torque surely?
A hybrid is an okay compromise for now, but let's face it, gas guzzlers are ancient tech with too many parts to go wrong. Once the infrastructure is in place, everything will be electric. It's a bit like the comparison with SSD/HD hybrids and pure SSD drives. A compromise is okay for now, but we'll reach the future quicker by going for pure SSD.
As for your other points, I'm not sure how being lighter will make too much difference, since electricity is already at least twice as cheap as gas. Ultra-streamlined? I think the 0-60 in 4 seconds is good enough for anyone;)
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As this story testifies, fragmenting the internet is a very painful thing to do, as it should be. That's the reality.
It'll be a very long time before world peace is achieved, but this news may have potentially cut that time by decades or even centuries.
Language, currency and cultures often divide us, but the internet is one of the things unified in this world. Long may it stay that way.
The DMCA (which is the only one that passed) is arguably beneficial, and in any case far less intrusive than the other two. So I don't get your point.
Wouldn't the market allow for an expensive tomato that more wealthy and/or more picky customers would choose to want? If the demand is there, then surely we should be able to have these nice tomatoes?
Okay, it resists mould, but does the bread resist going stale and hard?
Sounds great. Did your company build the filesystem or did you get it off the shelf?
As others have said before, you can emulate folders with a metadata system anyway. Having actual folders on TOP of that is a kludge.
Besides that minor issue, Microsoft isn't exactly encouraging people to use virtual folders (and do third-party programs allow you to save metadata when saving files?). Does it utilize a realtime filterable window like Everything, where you can search for something in an instant based on the metadata they contain? I very much doubt it. That's a vital part of the tech if a metadata system is to become standard.
I was thinking of something which was designed completely from the ground up to fully support a metadata filesystem, and where actual folders were an 'extra' if implemented at all (since they can be emulated perfectly). Explorer windows become extinct and are replaced by a powerful filterable window which lists any and all files in realtime.
We could learn off Amazon for our own computer file systems. A metadata/database filesystem where everything is stored all in one folder (rather than organized into directories) would save everyone so much time. The barcode would be replaced by 'tags' or metadata. Popular and recent tags could be accessible via a dropdown. Hunting for files, reorganization, deciding where to store files, becomes suddenly much easier.
More info:
http://www.skytopia.com/project/articles/filesystem.html
http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2003/01/19/filesystem_sacrilege/
http://dbfs.sourceforge.net/
By passwords, I also meant 'keys' that programs make you enter to activate the program. I presume they do become DRM if they try to 'phone home'?
It seems every energy tech apart from solar converts to turbine power before electricity. Are there any future energy techs (e.g. fusion) which produce electricity directly (or at least more directly)?
Thanks for the feedback! If you press F4, you can get different colour schemes - one of which is mono. The version number in the titlebar is so that anyone can immediately check if they have the latest version (not everyone will think of going to the about menu).
In short, in an ideal world with developers that care about writing clean and portable programs, you could copy and move the game in any form wherever you wanted, and everything would be fine. Is the real world, though, I can only wish you good luck.
My very OpalCalc program is portable, and completely DRM/password/key free for the paid version, so a good start I guess ;)
In short, a password is a weak attempt at DRM that doesn't really do the job.
Yes, it would seem the product would at least have to "phone home" so that the company could cancel that installation, otherwise piracy sites could simply give out the password/key along with the installation exe. Since I'm against this 'phoning home' lark, I can see the dilemma for both the publisher and the end user. It's somewhat unfortunate.
Right. I have bought a few products which require keys/passwords to be entered. I'm not sure if those products "phone home", but otherwise in theory it would seem I could pass on the product to someone else and they could use the same password and username to activate the product again (not that I would actually do that of course).
Someone clarify for me - if a game doesn't have DRM, does that mean you can copy the folder to another HD, and the game will still work?
Is password protection a weak form of DRM, or not DRM at all?
Maybe it's too late now, but I would otherwise say get rid of the extension altogether, along with http etc.
Actually, maybe just have www. at the beginning to show it is a web address.
Will https add any latency to site navigation?
Can I have your insights and thoughts on an earlier post I made here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3248015&cid=41965405
I think even normal people can experience blindsight (or something resembling it) in a couple of ways:
1: The first is to look in the center of your field of vision, and concentrate on something at the very edge of your vision. You can't really 'see it', but you can detect the very basic shape and colour.
2: Have randomly placed words on a page. Sometimes, you'll be able to think of a word that randomly pops to mind, then look a little to the left/right/up/down, and that's the word you unconsciously picked up.
Students who learn piano are often taught to take breaks between practice sessions (or even just 2 half hour sessions per day instead of one single hour session). As a piano teacher myself, I've recently encouraged my own students to take 5 minutes breaks, and even 5-20 second breaks WITHIN a session to allow the subconscious mind to make more sense of a passage or scale etc. Not sure how popular this kind of technique across other teaching disciplines is.
Oh so to avoid the middleman to increase efficiency you mean? I wish more companies would do that.
Sound can be synthesized if you really must. Efficiency, cost, acceleration and lack of noise can't.
Yeah, I wonder if they can dispose of that whine in electric motors.
Wow, a comment with a score above 2 which isn't a joke or a dig at Steve Jobs.
I thought electric cars made gears obsolete, so reintroducing them would appear to be a step backwards, as one 'gear' supplies maximum torque surely?
;)
A hybrid is an okay compromise for now, but let's face it, gas guzzlers are ancient tech with too many parts to go wrong. Once the infrastructure is in place, everything will be electric. It's a bit like the comparison with SSD/HD hybrids and pure SSD drives. A compromise is okay for now, but we'll reach the future quicker by going for pure SSD.
As for your other points, I'm not sure how being lighter will make too much difference, since electricity is already at least twice as cheap as gas. Ultra-streamlined? I think the 0-60 in 4 seconds is good enough for anyone
But that could happen now. My Amazon buy list could be leaked, or my credit card history. We'd be no worse off than now.
Also wouldn't it be possible to encrypt the database, at least stuff older than say, a month?