The Single Biggest Advantage of Open Source software is that when the company/individual/team/whatever who is developing it no longer supports it well, it can be forked (FreeX86, and Blender are good examples).
I know of three forks of blender: The The official/original fork, that from the beginning has been "owned" by Ton and still, in part, is. The Tuhopuu fork, that are are in the same control as the official fork, Tuhopuu is the "evil" tree, where the developers are allowed to experiment more. Intrr's fork, instinctive-blender that he made because he simply wanted to be allowed to do whatever he wanted without interference. That fork is made only for his personal purposes and are not a competitor to the main fork.
In 2002 Ton decided that whe wanted to make Blender Open Source and the investors that owned Blender rights at the time agreed that it could be bought for 100,000EUR. The Blender Foundation Sucessfully collected the money and now Blender is GPL.
In no time has the responsible(mainly Ton) for the project lacked in handling the project for what I know.
Obvious sarcasm/humor? I don't agre on that one, while it, with todays sollution on how email works, is not really possible to do , it still is how it should have been done and was an insightful post.
Buying your own domain is the only sure-to-last sollution today.
Maybe they should have designed the protocol so that you can have an alias, like you can alias a domain to an IP you could alias a mail-adress to an account.
There would have been problem deciding on how people should get their ever-lasting mail alias though, since it wouldn't be nice if you had to pay for them, maybe they should be given as a service from each government.
*just annoyed on how people accept things as they are and thinks looking outside the box is sarcasm*
Hmm, it seams like i interpreted "The AAC or MP3 encoding at 128K are virtually indistinguishable from CDs for most listeners, but most listeners can hear the lack of bass. Its like something is missing." I got it as that the encoding was cause of the lack of bass, when I read it now I see that was really not what he meant. But since the post generated an interesting reply I guess it wasn't all in wain.:)
Now, I'm not any expert on audio compression, but shouldn't the bass be the easiest to store faithfully?
The bass conatains much less information per time than the higher frequencies. If you played with computer audio back at the time when you often used really low bitrates, like 11kHz and lower you probably have noticed that the sound lacks all higher frequencies.
The problem with 128kbit.mp3 audio is that the higher frequencies take damage, often distorting the cymbals in rock music.
The problem with reproducing bass is rather that we hear those frequencies less, that you need larger speakers to generate them loud enough to suvive some difference, you have probably noticed that ear plugs most often perform poor on the bass compared to ear phones.
One thing I've noticed in theese advices is that they are written by either relly smart or really successful guys. What are their advice worth for one that isn't very far above the average in intellegence and will probably not be successful. (face it, not any high percentage gets to be millionaries)
I'd need more advice on how to get a good life as a mediocrity person, because that's probably what I are going to be.
As several people have pointed out, it's highly indiscriminate. You can tell it what folders you do and don't want it indexing, but doing this is an awkward process, and setting up anything but their defaults (i.e., basically index 'My Pictures' or index everything) will take too much doing for anyone with a heavily-populated system.
I solved that problem by using Tweak UI so set the My Pictures -path to D:\Picures(wich is where i store my pictures as you can guess) and by mounting my other picture partition as a folder in D:\Pictures.
But I agree htat They could have made the task easier without making the UI much more complicated. Maybe somebody shuld mention that to the developers.
Skins. Goodbye consistency. I blame Winamp for this, although Windows Media Player has taken the problem to dizzying new heights.
In (older)Winamp you cannot change how things are positioned with the skins, so it is rather consistant, and since it was made for Windows at a time before custom themes it was very nessescary IMO. I have yet to see a good media player that use native widgets, the native widgets aren't made for such button-filled interfaces as media players tend to be.
So blame on, but I still think that Winamps skinning is part of what makes it the best music player around.
Hmm, to me, when you add.0 to a version number it indicates version. It implies that there could be a 2.5 or 1.3. Therefore I'd say that 2.0 would indicate a remake while just 2 would indicate a follow-up.
Still, being free(as in beer free) is an important part of the freedom.
The reason I like open source software more than just free software is that I'm guaranteed that it won't just die and stop being developed nor will it go payware.
But if the OSS software demanded me to pay a fee to use(while still let me see and modify the code) it wouldn't be free, and I would not be interested.
Hmm so if you can't jam the system what do you do?
Yes! You make a fake terrorist attack, send a mailbomb or something to the white house, with some luck they will take that as a terrorist attack and shut down the system.
I guess you maybe print a lot of photos, but an Epson r800 costs about $400 according to Google and the first online printing service I found costs $0.30 for a 4x6 and $1 for a 5x7. That means that you, for the price of one printer, can get about 1000 4x6 plus 100 5x7. (probably fewer considering shipping and alike, but still many)
You can run many instances of Firefox, though you need them to use different profiles. just make a *.bat-file containing the following: (without the quotes) """ c: cd "c:\[program folder]\Mozilla Firefox\" set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 firefox -p """ It works perfectly for me.
There are one. It's called Spellbound though you have to open a separate window for it, you can't have it automaticly underline errors in the input box. If they fix that, I think we have the chance of seeing a great improvement of the spelling on the web.:)
And I got it to about 38 days in LAME --alt-preset-standard (assuming that it averages on 192 kbps) wich is perfectly fine quality for anyone with normal hearing. Especially considering that you probaly use less than perfect ear phones to listen to it.
Apparently he made a good compromise there.:)
Obviously there's a huge difference between the two with that large LCD(so not all energy leaving the system will be heat energy), but still, doesn't all this energy it's burning through have to go somewhere?
All energy willl be heat, sooner or later. I'd guess that the light emitted from the backlighting will be of minor relevance. Especially considering that it will be partially blocked by the LCD as long as the display shows anything other than white.
Are you trying to say that flash is better at compressing the images?
Otherwise I can't see why flash would be better on dial up?
With html/php I can easily make a slideshow preloading and showing images, so there's no aqdvantage with flash. For what I know their compresssion aren't very much better than jpeg-compression.
But flash is kind of unique today, it's one of the last commonly used formats where one company have monopoly on the players/viewers. That, to me, is enough reason to avoid it as much as possible.
There's only two uses for flash imo, animations & games (like Weebl and Bob) and audio.
English hard to learn? Not in my experience.
I think background have more to do with it, since I natively speak a somewhat related language I guess I have an advantage to i.e. a russian.
If my memory serves me well, the nose have lots of different kinds of receptors. To simulate all kinds of smells you'd have to have a "generator" for each kind of receptor, wich, I'm afraid, would be quite unpractical and expensive to implement.
A computer screen only have to generate three different kinds of light - specifically red, green and blue - because the eye only can see those colours. With varying intensity creating all the other hues.
Oh I found a source:
"It is thought that there are hundreds of different olfactory receptors, each encoded by a different gene and each recognizing different odorants."
This was just some poorly done publicity stunt, probably dreamed up in by some PHB deep in the dungeons of their marketing department.
As I mentioned in an earlier post what you said there isn't far from the truth. The story about it is availble at starring.se
You can have lo-tech film with a great story and it'll be fantastic...
Sure, I won't disagree with that. There are some emovies that do great without cool effects and blue screens. Many movies would even be worse off with too much mis-used advanced tech.
Bur that doesn't mean that all movies would do without, LOTR, Matrix and Harry Potter comes to mind as movies that would have sucked without their effects and their tech. Guess why it took so long for LOTR to be made a serious movie?
What you have to remember is that technology is just a tool among the others, with more tools they get more freedom to create just the kind of movie they wan't. That to me is a good thing since I like freedom so much.
No story, great tech = bad movie
Great story, bad tech = good (if primitive) movie
I don't agree, would you have liked it if LOTR were featuring orcs and their likes made out of paper?
Bad story, great tech = bad movie
Great story, bad tech = bad movie
If you got a story to tell but no budget into making it good as a movie I'd suggest writing a book instead. I'd rather read a good book than watching the same storie as a badly made movie.
Though I guess taste differ among people, so you probably do not agree.
Ok, so if I delete the movie I downloaded after viewing it is not stealing, but if I save the movie, it is?
That must be one of the worst arguments I've heard for calling it stealing. (well, I've only heard one more, and that was bad too)
Yeah, and I can think up of some other grat uses for it too!
Why not make it detect the words terror-action, bomb, attack and kill too?
When I come to think of it, to really get ahead of the crimes, you could make it react on stuff like "stalin", "communism", "soviet" and "I voted for nader" too!
*ponders on moving to the safe(and even almost free) USA
You know, not everyone got a "damn good lawyer" as parent.
I'd even guess, since he's a lawyer and all, that he even listens to you when you tell him not to click those "i love you" attachments and to stop using IE in favor of Firefox.
I usually succeeds to redirect such support subjects on to my big brother, so it isn't really a big problem for me. (although when I fail it is quite annoying) But my mom work with geriatric care and my dad write reviews, I do not see much personal use of those skills.
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The Single Biggest Advantage of Open Source software is that when the company/individual/team/whatever who is developing it no longer supports it well, it can be forked (FreeX86, and Blender are good examples).
Blender has been forked for that reason?
I know of three forks of blender:
The The official/original fork, that from the beginning has been "owned" by Ton and still, in part, is.
The Tuhopuu fork, that are are in the same control as the official fork, Tuhopuu is the "evil" tree, where the developers are allowed to experiment more.
Intrr's fork, instinctive-blender that he made because he simply wanted to be allowed to do whatever he wanted without interference. That fork is made only for his personal purposes and are not a competitor to the main fork.
In 2002 Ton decided that whe wanted to make Blender Open Source and the investors that owned Blender rights at the time agreed that it could be bought for 100,000EUR. The Blender Foundation Sucessfully collected the money and now Blender is GPL.
In no time has the responsible(mainly Ton) for the project lacked in handling the project for what I know.
More(and more accurate) Blender history.
[end flaming mode]
Obvious sarcasm/humor?
I don't agre on that one, while it, with todays sollution on how email works, is not really possible to do , it still is how it should have been done and was an insightful post.
Buying your own domain is the only sure-to-last sollution today.
Maybe they should have designed the protocol so that you can have an alias, like you can alias a domain to an IP you could alias a mail-adress to an account.
There would have been problem deciding on how people should get their ever-lasting mail alias though, since it wouldn't be nice if you had to pay for them, maybe they should be given as a service from each government.
*just annoyed on how people accept things as they are and thinks looking outside the box is sarcasm*
Hmm, it seams like i interpreted "The AAC or MP3 encoding at 128K are virtually indistinguishable from CDs for most listeners, but most listeners can hear the lack of bass. Its like something is missing." I got it as that the encoding was cause of the lack of bass, when I read it now I see that was really not what he meant. But since the post generated an interesting reply I guess it wasn't all in wain. :)
Now, I'm not any expert on audio compression, but shouldn't the bass be the easiest to store faithfully?
The bass conatains much less information per time than the higher frequencies. If you played with computer audio back at the time when you often used really low bitrates, like 11kHz and lower you probably have noticed that the sound lacks all higher frequencies.
The problem with 128kbit.mp3 audio is that the higher frequencies take damage, often distorting the cymbals in rock music.
The problem with reproducing bass is rather that we hear those frequencies less, that you need larger speakers to generate them loud enough to suvive some difference, you have probably noticed that ear plugs most often perform poor on the bass compared to ear phones.
Then the crack will be universial. :)
One thing I've noticed in theese advices is that they are written by either relly smart or really successful guys. What are their advice worth for one that isn't very far above the average in intellegence and will probably not be successful. (face it, not any high percentage gets to be millionaries)
I'd need more advice on how to get a good life as a mediocrity person, because that's probably what I are going to be.
As several people have pointed out, it's highly indiscriminate. You can tell it what folders you do and don't want it indexing, but doing this is an awkward process, and setting up anything but their defaults (i.e., basically index 'My Pictures' or index everything) will take too much doing for anyone with a heavily-populated system.
I solved that problem by using Tweak UI so set the My Pictures -path to D:\Picures(wich is where i store my pictures as you can guess) and by mounting my other picture partition as a folder in D:\Pictures.
But I agree htat They could have made the task easier without making the UI much more complicated. Maybe somebody shuld mention that to the developers.
Skins. Goodbye consistency. I blame Winamp for this, although Windows Media Player has taken the problem to dizzying new heights.
In (older)Winamp you cannot change how things are positioned with the skins, so it is rather consistant, and since it was made for Windows at a time before custom themes it was very nessescary IMO. I have yet to see a good media player that use native widgets, the native widgets aren't made for such button-filled interfaces as media players tend to be.
So blame on, but I still think that Winamps skinning is part of what makes it the best music player around.
Hmm, to me, when you add .0 to a version number it indicates version. It implies that there could be a 2.5 or 1.3. Therefore I'd say that 2.0 would indicate a remake while just 2 would indicate a follow-up.
But then, that's just me philosophizing.
Still, being free(as in beer free) is an important part of the freedom.
The reason I like open source software more than just free software is that I'm guaranteed that it won't just die and stop being developed nor will it go payware.
But if the OSS software demanded me to pay a fee to use(while still let me see and modify the code) it wouldn't be free, and I would not be interested.
Hmm so if you can't jam the system what do you do?
Yes! You make a fake terrorist attack, send a mailbomb or something to the white house, with some luck they will take that as a terrorist attack and shut down the system.
I guess you maybe print a lot of photos, but an Epson r800 costs about $400 according to Google and the first online printing service I found costs $0.30 for a 4x6 and $1 for a 5x7. That means that you, for the price of one printer, can get about 1000 4x6 plus 100 5x7. (probably fewer considering shipping and alike, but still many)
You can run many instances of Firefox, though you need them to use different profiles.
just make a *.bat-file containing the following: (without the quotes)
"""
c:
cd "c:\[program folder]\Mozilla Firefox\"
set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1
firefox -p
"""
It works perfectly for me.
There are one. It's called Spellbound though you have to open a separate window for it, you can't have it automaticly underline errors in the input box. If they fix that, I think we have the chance of seeing a great improvement of the spelling on the web. :)
And I got it to about 38 days in LAME --alt-preset-standard (assuming that it averages on 192 kbps) wich is perfectly fine quality for anyone with normal hearing. Especially considering that you probaly use less than perfect ear phones to listen to it. :)
Apparently he made a good compromise there.
Obviously there's a huge difference between the two with that large LCD(so not all energy leaving the system will be heat energy), but still, doesn't all this energy it's burning through have to go somewhere?
All energy willl be heat, sooner or later. I'd guess that the light emitted from the backlighting will be of minor relevance. Especially considering that it will be partially blocked by the LCD as long as the display shows anything other than white.
Are you trying to say that flash is better at compressing the images?
Otherwise I can't see why flash would be better on dial up?
With html/php I can easily make a slideshow preloading and showing images, so there's no aqdvantage with flash. For what I know their compresssion aren't very much better than jpeg-compression.
But flash is kind of unique today, it's one of the last commonly used formats where one company have monopoly on the players/viewers. That, to me, is enough reason to avoid it as much as possible.
There's only two uses for flash imo, animations & games (like Weebl and Bob) and audio.
English hard to learn? Not in my experience.
I think background have more to do with it, since I natively speak a somewhat related language I guess I have an advantage to i.e. a russian.
A computer screen only have to generate three different kinds of light - specifically red, green and blue - because the eye only can see those colours. With varying intensity creating all the other hues.
Oh I found a source: - smell
This was just some poorly done publicity stunt, probably dreamed up in by some PHB deep in the dungeons of their marketing department.
As I mentioned in an earlier post what you said there isn't far from the truth. The story about it is availble at starring.se
You can have lo-tech film with a great story and it'll be fantastic...
Sure, I won't disagree with that. There are some emovies that do great without cool effects and blue screens. Many movies would even be worse off with too much mis-used advanced tech.
Bur that doesn't mean that all movies would do without, LOTR, Matrix and Harry Potter comes to mind as movies that would have sucked without their effects and their tech. Guess why it took so long for LOTR to be made a serious movie?
What you have to remember is that technology is just a tool among the others, with more tools they get more freedom to create just the kind of movie they wan't. That to me is a good thing since I like freedom so much.
No story, great tech = bad movie
Great story, bad tech = good (if primitive) movie
I don't agree, would you have liked it if LOTR were featuring orcs and their likes made out of paper?
Bad story, great tech = bad movie
Great story, bad tech = bad movie
If you got a story to tell but no budget into making it good as a movie I'd suggest writing a book instead. I'd rather read a good book than watching the same storie as a badly made movie.
Though I guess taste differ among people, so you probably do not agree.
Ok, so if I delete the movie I downloaded after viewing it is not stealing, but if I save the movie, it is?
That must be one of the worst arguments I've heard for calling it stealing. (well, I've only heard one more, and that was bad too)
Yeah, and I can think up of some other grat uses for it too!
Why not make it detect the words terror-action, bomb, attack and kill too?
When I come to think of it, to really get ahead of the crimes, you could make it react on stuff like "stalin", "communism", "soviet" and "I voted for nader" too!
*ponders on moving to the safe(and even almost free) USA
You know, not everyone got a "damn good lawyer" as parent.
I'd even guess, since he's a lawyer and all, that he even listens to you when you tell him not to click those "i love you" attachments and to stop using IE in favor of Firefox.
I usually succeeds to redirect such support subjects on to my big brother, so it isn't really a big problem for me. (although when I fail it is quite annoying) But my mom work with geriatric care and my dad write reviews, I do not see much personal use of those skills.