Well, for instance, it can be used to cloak that silo you're hiding from the enemy, or the troop barracks, or a supply cache....
There are a LOT of things in war that can't be done at a distance, and there are a LOT of things you don't want the enemy to see when the war is on your turf, not theirs.
This would also be interesting combined with surveillance equipment. I wonder if two of these cloaks could cloak each other as well as a third object though? Otherwise, the cloak will be a dead giveaway.
You still seem to be assuming I want the player to "manage" anything. It just has to play the file I point it at. If it wants to get fancy, it could read a plain-text list of files I point it at, and play those, optionally in shuffled order. If it thinks it is doing anything "fancier" than that, I probably don't want it.
"Unfortunately, this can slow down search "
I don't want search. I know where my files are, and have better ways to search for them if I didn't.
"and shuffle functions"
after I've given it a list of files to shuffle between, I expect a machine up to playing audio can generate some pseudo-random numbers quickly enough.
"if the directory structure is corrupted in anyway (yes yes, that's mostly a Windows issue)"
Not an issue I've ever seen, and I'm mostly a windows user. Not sure how locking me into a bad UI for managing music files helps in any case, since it rests on the file system in the background anyway.
Sounds like you want to use one of the following instead of iTunes: 1) M3U files in the Finder 2) Quicktime or one of the knockoff quicktime players like BitPlayer/Popcorn/QTAmateur/QTTunes/NicePlayer/Cellulo/XinePlayer/Playlist Player/aQTPlaylist 3) something you can use from the terminal, like a simple bash script, the 'open' commend, or qtplay
iTunes is all about the metadata and a centralized library, although it lets you escape from both if you dig into it. It also has real plugins (although I think support for most of them is broken in the latest version of iTunes), plus a handy applescript menu, and it supports apple events (you can use iTunes as a background engine to drive any simple apple event aware app or widget you want).
Personally, I think there should be more work to separate the different aspects of the music player -- build an iTunes-compatible front end that supports themes -- you could even let it support mplayer and VLC if you wanted more rendering engines supported.
My guess is that the image on the left looks more accessible to introverts, and by extension is more attractive on a "getting to know you" level to male AND female/.ers. It's not that the image on the right looks less attractive, but that it makes us (for a general case of us) more uncomfortable due to negative run-ins we've had with people who look like that.
This, of course is cultural, but lies (I think) on top of some non-cultural aspects.
To add to the other post: BackupPC plus some scripting of the latest rsync. BackupPC lets you pull all the data from the various sources into one pool, and tracks your ACL for you. Rsync then lets you mirror your BackupPC pool to multiple sites. Data is restored/retrieved via web interface.
Not quite a transparent SAN, but I think it meets all the listed requirements.
What the hell? No you aren't. Microsoft makes you download it every time you get something off their site that isn't a critical update. So, to have WGA, all you need to do is want some software they make. That's not foolish in the least.
It isn't? I have often needed to install some software they make, but I've never actually wanted to -- mostly because of stunts like this. When they can retroactively change the rules on how your software runs, how can you want to install their software?
Some sites I've helped moderate have had an interesting solution that actually seems to work quite well... an extra forum, named what ever you want ("Feed the Trolls" is a common one) where only moderators can start a thread but anyone can respond. Any abusive posts get moved into this thread, sometimes along with a bit of satire. This thread works best if seeded with fake comments that are obviously idiotic.
With this method, anything posted just to get a rise out of people gets moved to this dedicated thread where the person ends up looking mildly foolish, but can carry on their diatribe with whoever wants to join in, until they tire of it.
Usually this method results in some of the posters eventually becoming good citizens of the community, and the rest just fading away in obscurity. Blacklisting is still available for those few occasions where someone just won't stop posting inflammatory/abusive content to the main forums.
Hard to tell, but it's good to see that normal people (not just us geeks) are choosing to go with a different OS, rather than staying with the headache-inducing Windows."
And since when have Apple users been considered "normal" around here?
Or did you really mean 'orthogonal'
Apple users are definitely wacky. I bought a MacBook recently
You'll need to choose a sample size of greater than one for me to trust your proclamation;)
Isn't the Jpeg format closed? How about Gif? Not supporting formats (be they actual formats or containers like RAW files) is dumb. It's not done for a good reason, it's done because they just haven't gotten around to adding in the support yet. The GIMP should very much support RAW files from every manufacturer.
The GIF and JPEG formats are open standards; they're just patent encumbered (although GIF isn't anymore and JPEG has a very liberal license). Most RAW formats are company trade secrets, as the format is a direct representation of how their hardware and firmware works in the company's photosensing devices; the details are given out under NDA to third parties who can then incorporate closed RAW handling code into their software or RAW handling libraries.
If you don't know why RAW is needed then don't comment on it please.
I call bullshit. If you can't take a simple family snap without ballsing it up, you have no business commenting on the format.
The point is that if you're shooting RAW, you aren't ballsing it up -- you haven't adjusted exposure, limited colorspace or set whitepoint yet (you do it yourself, the camera doesn't automatically do a "best guess" for you and then downsample the result to a JPEG).
RAW is pretty much what your camera's sensors sense, translated into a flat file. Getting from there to JPEG involves a bunch of postprocessing done by the computer built into your camera; usually the built-in computer gets it right, but not all the time. People who want fine grained control over what images they record tend to like RAW.
Personally, I prefer to take lots of pictures and save in JPEG; I just flip through multiple whitepoint settings and exposure rates as I fire off 3 photos per second for 10 seconds or so and then select the best shot after I've uploaded the images to the computer. But people using RAW just need to take a couple of pictures to get the same results, especially if they know what they're doing.
I didn't realize GIMP handled RAW (NEF and suchlike) formats and allowed adjusting of whitepoints, etc. I thought it was purely a raster image editor/tweaker.
This is the whole reason Aperture exists and people don't just use Photoshop (which incidentally does all of that too) for RAW processing.
What I noticed was that the core elements of their handwriting tended to be pretty basic, but the ornamental aspects of their characters were often of similar style (not necessarily quality) to the fonts they create.
I like to think of typesets as the "this is how my writing would look if I could spend 48 hours on each letter" variety of writing.
I can see the new product registration feature already: "Upon opening the package for this toaster, you have agreed to abide by the license agreement included herein. To activate this toaster, please plug it in and then enter its serial number on our online form. The GPS locator will enable the toaster to work within a 1 block radius of its location at the time of registration. To use the toaster elsewhere, its license must be transfered and re-activated."
In other words, "uploaders" can't be sued in this setup unless you can prove that the uploaded file was intentionally violating copyright (you'd need to be monitoring the person already).
Of course, as downloading unauthorized copyrighted material also appears to be a crime in the US, they could still go after the downloaders.
4 - With copyright being "life plus 70", this would mean an effective end to public domain works, except where someone died due to causes other than old age (how many people die due to old age, anyway?).
Your odd desire to know unnecessary details about his personal relationships seems unrelated as to whether or not he is selling what our society, legally and coloquially, determines to be "a life". So... are you telling the GP to get a life?
I was thinking it'd more likely be along the lines of the guy selling all the stuff so his wife couldn't claim it in the divorce proceedings. Soo... either 1) His ex-wife takes half of the proceeds he gets on the place or
2) His ex-wife shows up one day and walks off with a bunch of the stuff the eBay winner "bought" (it belonged to her in the settlement).
Exactly. And the problem of the desktop OS isn't simply the UI. It's in the development of an entire system that balances developers, end users and company profits.
That said, MS has tried to advertise Windows as the OS equivalent of a carbon arc lamp that can be used anywhere, even if an LED lamp would be more efficient and better suited for an individual purpose.
(hey... let's do lightbulb analogies instead of car ones from now on... they're more interesting!)
Interesting point on this: Edison made quite a bit of money off the lightbulb -- but he didn't invent it. It's actually a pretty good analogy; even to the point where nowadays, most people believe Edison invented the lightbulb. Similarly, most people think Microsoft invented the desktop PC interface.
Both Edison and Gates were unique in that they knew how to combine other people's hard work, a bit of their own engineering, and some good marketing strategy to gain major traction in a quickly developing new market.
Not recommended, but I used to use a 9VDC battery in a circuit to boost signal in the local circuit back when I was on a party line. It seemed to provide the boost needed and the telco never complained. I never did figure out why it worked, considering analog twisted copper does run AC.
Doh! Of course you're right. One seeding (ever) and 3 mowings. So it comes out as a wash, except that the switchgrass roots also act as a carbon resevoir.
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Well, for instance, it can be used to cloak that silo you're hiding from the enemy, or the troop barracks, or a supply cache....
There are a LOT of things in war that can't be done at a distance, and there are a LOT of things you don't want the enemy to see when the war is on your turf, not theirs.
This would also be interesting combined with surveillance equipment. I wonder if two of these cloaks could cloak each other as well as a third object though? Otherwise, the cloak will be a dead giveaway.
You still seem to be assuming I want the player to "manage" anything. It just has to play the file I point it at. If it wants to get fancy, it could read a plain-text list of files I point it at, and play those, optionally in shuffled order. If it thinks it is doing anything "fancier" than that, I probably don't want it.
"Unfortunately, this can slow down search "
I don't want search. I know where my files are, and have better ways to search for them if I didn't.
"and shuffle functions"
after I've given it a list of files to shuffle between, I expect a machine up to playing audio can generate some pseudo-random numbers quickly enough.
"if the directory structure is corrupted in anyway (yes yes, that's mostly a Windows issue)"
Not an issue I've ever seen, and I'm mostly a windows user. Not sure how locking me into a bad UI for managing music files helps in any case, since it rests on the file system in the background anyway.
Sounds like you want to use one of the following instead of iTunes:
1) M3U files in the Finder
2) Quicktime or one of the knockoff quicktime players like BitPlayer/Popcorn/QTAmateur/QTTunes/NicePlayer/Cellulo/XinePlayer/Playlist Player/aQTPlaylist
3) something you can use from the terminal, like a simple bash script, the 'open' commend, or qtplay
iTunes is all about the metadata and a centralized library, although it lets you escape from both if you dig into it. It also has real plugins (although I think support for most of them is broken in the latest version of iTunes), plus a handy applescript menu, and it supports apple events (you can use iTunes as a background engine to drive any simple apple event aware app or widget you want).
Personally, I think there should be more work to separate the different aspects of the music player -- build an iTunes-compatible front end that supports themes -- you could even let it support mplayer and VLC if you wanted more rendering engines supported.
http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/3.0.0rc4/
If there's an RC4 installer, I presume someone's going to compile the GM as well.
My guess is that the image on the left looks more accessible to introverts, and by extension is more attractive on a "getting to know you" level to male AND female /.ers. It's not that the image on the right looks less attractive, but that it makes us (for a general case of us) more uncomfortable due to negative run-ins we've had with people who look like that.
This, of course is cultural, but lies (I think) on top of some non-cultural aspects.
You're on the right track. Imagine a submersible aircraft carrier that launches flying submarines. Consider your mind blown.
Would they call the submersible craft Sputnik?
To add to the other post: BackupPC plus some scripting of the latest rsync. BackupPC lets you pull all the data from the various sources into one pool, and tracks your ACL for you. Rsync then lets you mirror your BackupPC pool to multiple sites. Data is restored/retrieved via web interface.
Not quite a transparent SAN, but I think it meets all the listed requirements.
What the hell? No you aren't. Microsoft makes you download it every time you get something off their site that isn't a critical update. So, to have WGA, all you need to do is want some software they make. That's not foolish in the least.
It isn't?
I have often needed to install some software they make, but I've never actually wanted to -- mostly because of stunts like this. When they can retroactively change the rules on how your software runs, how can you want to install their software?
Some sites I've helped moderate have had an interesting solution that actually seems to work quite well... an extra forum, named what ever you want ("Feed the Trolls" is a common one) where only moderators can start a thread but anyone can respond. Any abusive posts get moved into this thread, sometimes along with a bit of satire. This thread works best if seeded with fake comments that are obviously idiotic.
With this method, anything posted just to get a rise out of people gets moved to this dedicated thread where the person ends up looking mildly foolish, but can carry on their diatribe with whoever wants to join in, until they tire of it.
Usually this method results in some of the posters eventually becoming good citizens of the community, and the rest just fading away in obscurity. Blacklisting is still available for those few occasions where someone just won't stop posting inflammatory/abusive content to the main forums.
And since when have Apple users been considered "normal" around here?
Or did you really mean 'orthogonal'
Apple users are definitely wacky. I bought a MacBook recently
You'll need to choose a sample size of greater than one for me to trust your proclamation ;)
Isn't the Jpeg format closed? How about Gif? Not supporting formats (be they actual formats or containers like RAW files) is dumb. It's not done for a good reason, it's done because they just haven't gotten around to adding in the support yet. The GIMP should very much support RAW files from every manufacturer.
The GIF and JPEG formats are open standards; they're just patent encumbered (although GIF isn't anymore and JPEG has a very liberal license). Most RAW formats are company trade secrets, as the format is a direct representation of how their hardware and firmware works in the company's photosensing devices; the details are given out under NDA to third parties who can then incorporate closed RAW handling code into their software or RAW handling libraries.
If you don't know why RAW is needed then don't comment on it please.
I call bullshit. If you can't take a simple family snap without ballsing it up, you have no business commenting on the format.
The point is that if you're shooting RAW, you aren't ballsing it up -- you haven't adjusted exposure, limited colorspace or set whitepoint yet (you do it yourself, the camera doesn't automatically do a "best guess" for you and then downsample the result to a JPEG).
RAW is pretty much what your camera's sensors sense, translated into a flat file. Getting from there to JPEG involves a bunch of postprocessing done by the computer built into your camera; usually the built-in computer gets it right, but not all the time. People who want fine grained control over what images they record tend to like RAW.
Personally, I prefer to take lots of pictures and save in JPEG; I just flip through multiple whitepoint settings and exposure rates as I fire off 3 photos per second for 10 seconds or so and then select the best shot after I've uploaded the images to the computer. But people using RAW just need to take a couple of pictures to get the same results, especially if they know what they're doing.
I didn't realize GIMP handled RAW (NEF and suchlike) formats and allowed adjusting of whitepoints, etc. I thought it was purely a raster image editor/tweaker.
This is the whole reason Aperture exists and people don't just use Photoshop (which incidentally does all of that too) for RAW processing.
What I noticed was that the core elements of their handwriting tended to be pretty basic, but the ornamental aspects of their characters were often of similar style (not necessarily quality) to the fonts they create.
I like to think of typesets as the "this is how my writing would look if I could spend 48 hours on each letter" variety of writing.
I can see the new product registration feature already:
"Upon opening the package for this toaster, you have agreed to abide by the license agreement included herein. To activate this toaster, please plug it in and then enter its serial number on our online form. The GPS locator will enable the toaster to work within a 1 block radius of its location at the time of registration. To use the toaster elsewhere, its license must be transfered and re-activated."
In other words, "uploaders" can't be sued in this setup unless you can prove that the uploaded file was intentionally violating copyright (you'd need to be monitoring the person already).
Of course, as downloading unauthorized copyrighted material also appears to be a crime in the US, they could still go after the downloaders.
You forgot an obvious one for Slashdot...
4 - With copyright being "life plus 70", this would mean an effective end to public domain works, except where someone died due to causes other than old age (how many people die due to old age, anyway?).
In the end, there can be only one slashdotter.
I was thinking it'd more likely be along the lines of the guy selling all the stuff so his wife couldn't claim it in the divorce proceedings. Soo... either
1) His ex-wife takes half of the proceeds he gets on the place or
2) His ex-wife shows up one day and walks off with a bunch of the stuff the eBay winner "bought" (it belonged to her in the settlement).
There's a reason for this: the letters "orgy" don't have the same meaning in all languages.
I never thought of labeling him as a campaigning tool.
(laugh... it's supposed to be a bad joke)
Exactly. And the problem of the desktop OS isn't simply the UI. It's in the development of an entire system that balances developers, end users and company profits.
That said, MS has tried to advertise Windows as the OS equivalent of a carbon arc lamp that can be used anywhere, even if an LED lamp would be more efficient and better suited for an individual purpose.
(hey... let's do lightbulb analogies instead of car ones from now on... they're more interesting!)
Interesting point on this:
Edison made quite a bit of money off the lightbulb -- but he didn't invent it. It's actually a pretty good analogy; even to the point where nowadays, most people believe Edison invented the lightbulb. Similarly, most people think Microsoft invented the desktop PC interface.
Both Edison and Gates were unique in that they knew how to combine other people's hard work, a bit of their own engineering, and some good marketing strategy to gain major traction in a quickly developing new market.
Not recommended, but I used to use a 9VDC battery in a circuit to boost signal in the local circuit back when I was on a party line. It seemed to provide the boost needed and the telco never complained. I never did figure out why it worked, considering analog twisted copper does run AC.
Doh! Of course you're right. One seeding (ever) and 3 mowings. So it comes out as a wash, except that the switchgrass roots also act as a carbon resevoir.