That may be your goal but that doesn't mean it was his or anyone elses. Most artists do what they do for the joy of creating something not just for the fact that they might be able to sell it.
That's because Mac users probably don't read PC magazines. It's easy to win approval for your arguments when you're preaching to the already converted.
It's not an excuse, it's just reality. When software is under development stuff can break. If you write your software for stable APIs then your software will have a higher chance of working. The Mozilla folks have said that 1.0 is a stable release and 1.4 is a stable release whos APIs are guaranteed not to change. They don't guarantee that for any other versions and stated that the APIs might change in newer versions. The evidence to that end has been shown with some skins, extensions, and patches not working from one release to the next as things are changed and improved upon.
I put together an edit suite for myself about a year ago and thought of doing the same thing. Unfortunately, there's not a lot of open-source video tools out there, and of the ones there are, not all of them are very polished. I finally decided to just go the Windows route and use some open-source tools here and there to augment what I had. I wanted to spend time working on video not trying to get different hardware to work together (I already suffered through that with video on the Amiga).
I used to be an Avid editor but didn't have the budget or clients to afford one of those on my own. Based on some feedback from friends I decided to go with a a Matrox RT2500 and later upgraded to a Matrox RT.X100. The RTX100 is fantastic. It's basically a PCI card with a breakout box that has stereo audio in/out, and component and Y/C in/out. There's also two firewire ports on the back. It uses Adobe Premiere for its editor and installs a plugin which lets Premiere use the RTX100 for realtime effects. Basically anything you find in an online suite you'll find here as a realtime effect. Titling, wipes, ADOs, keying, colour correction, etc.
The RTX100 also comes with DVD burning software called ReelDVD. I've only used it twice so all I can tell you is that it works and has lots of features, none of which I've yet to really take advantage of.
I pretty much use that on a dedicated machine with Premiere 6.0, Photoshop, After Effects, and Sound Forge. I also use some open-source tools such as VirtualDub and DubMan. I haven't upgraded to Premiere Pro yet as the Matrox drivers are still in beta.
My only suggestion is that if you do get a RTX100, then buy one of the recommended systems to use it in. The Matrox forums are full of people who complain that the RXT100 doesn't work right or at all yet admit they don't have a compatible system. Especially watch out for via chipsets as the RTX100 won't work on those at all.
Why don't the developers design a system so that the skin authors don't have to do that? Let's see... hundreds of skin authors updating their skin every new release or Mozilla devs come up with a new skinning system that undertakes backwards compatability.
The Mozilla developers have made it very clear for years that Mozilla is a technology preview for developers not end users. The 1.0 and 1.4 releases are meant to be stable releases that other customers (commercial or not) can use to make Mozilla based products. If you want your skin to work then target those releases. The interfaces aren't guaranteed to be stable for any other releases except 1.0.x and 1.4.x.
Run Spamassassin as a daemon (ie spamd) for speed and use Evolution's builtin filtering tool to define a pipe to shell command filter (ie spamc -c) with the rule being if does not return 0, either move to your spam folder or just delete it. Make sure bayesian filtering is enabled in spamassassin, do some training via sa-learn, add you will have great spam filtering with very low overhead.
They need something intergrated into the application so that they can click a "spam" or "not spam" button and/or change spam settings from within Evolution. See Mozilla Mail to see what I am talking about. Your solution still requires interacting with the shell (something these users don't know how to do) to change settings or train the bayesian filter. Right now I already have spamassassin checking mail on the server side.
Does anyone know if there are plans to add built-in spam filtering like Mozilla has? Right now everyone says to use spamassassin but that doesn't work for some people that I know that user Evolution. They want something built in to the client end.
When I read about the December EOL for RH7.x (currently in use on our two large DNS & DHCP boxes) I was a bit miffed - some slightly more advanced notification would have been nice through the usual Red Hat channels.
How much advanced notification do you want? They announced it on the usual Red Hat channels a year ago. It was covered on news sites including Linux Weekly News and Slashdot. Just because you've been dragging your feet on planning your migration or were not paying attention doesn't mean that Red Hat is at fault.
Sir Ernest Rutherford related the following story:
Some time ago I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed a perfect score. The instructor and the student agreed to an impartial arbiter, and I was selected.
I read the examination question: "Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer." The student had answered: "Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of the rope is the height of the building."
The student really had a strong case for full credit since he had really answered the question completely and correctly! On the other hand, if full credit were given, it could well contribute to a high grade in his physics course and certify competence in physics, but the answer did not confirm this.
I suggested that the student have another try. I gave the student six minutes to answer the question with the warning that the answer should show some knowledge of physics. At the end of five minutes, he hadn't written anything. I asked if he wished to give up, but he said he had many answers to this problem; he was just thinking of the best one. I excused myself for interrupting him and asked him to please go on.
In the next minute, he dashed off his answer, which read: "Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stopwatch. Then, using the formula x=0.5*a*t^2, calculate the height of the building." At this point, I asked my colleague if he would give up. He conceded, and gave the student almost full credit.
While leaving my colleague's office, I recalled that the student had said that he had other answers to the problem, so I asked him what they were.
"Well," said the student, "there are many ways of getting the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer.
For example, you could take the barometer out on a sunny day and measure the height of the barometer, the length of its shadow, and the length of the shadow of the building, and by the use of simple proportion, determine the height of the building."
"Fine," I said, "and others?"
"Yes," said the student, "there is a very basic measurement method you will like. In this method, you take the barometer and begin to walk up the stairs. As you climb the stairs, you mark off the length of the barometer along the wall. You then count the number of marks, and this will give you the height of the building in barometer units." "A very direct method."
"Of course. If you want a more sophisticated method, you can tie the barometer to the end of a string, swing it as a pendulum, and determine the value of g [gravity] at the street level and at the top of the building. From the difference between the two values of g, the height of the building, in principle, can be calculated."
"On this same tack, you could take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to just above the street, and then swing it as a pendulum. You could then calculate the height of the building by the period of the precession".
"Finally," he concluded, "there are many other ways of solving the problem. Probably the best," he said, "is to take the barometer to the basement and knock on the superintendent's door. When the superintendent answers, you speak to him as follows: 'Mr. Superintendent, here is a fine barometer. If you will tell me the height of the building, I will give you this barometer."
At this point, I asked the student if he really did not know the conventional answer to this question. He admitted that he did, but said that he was fed up with high school and college instructors trying to teach him how to think.
The name of the student was Niels Bohr." (1885-1962) Danish Physicist; Nobel Prize 1922; best known for proposing the first 'model' of the atom with protons & neutrons, and various energy state of the surrounding electrons -- the familiar icon of the small nucleus circled by three elliptical orbits... but more significantly, an innovator in Quantum Theory.
I think you missed the point that the story submitter was making. It was a 10 year old car with dedicated electronic devices that failed which managed even the locks of the automobile, among other things. Now imagine those devices replaced with software with Microsoft's track record. I don't want my locks, my fuel injection system, my engine timing, etc, managed my Microsoft software. I don't think I'm comfortable placing my life in Microsoft's hands. Are you?
If there were only 850 of those keys, then why was that "feature" included?
There wern't 850 of those keys. The poster was stating that he has 850 total keys on his personal keyring. Only one of them was of the type we're discussing. This one person's keyring isn't an indication of how many of those types of keys exist on all keyrings worldwide.
Set your email prefs... I have mine as alerts-feedback@yahoo-inc.com - this way, they spam their own inbox...
Note that you will need to add the address as an "alternate email address" for it to be available in the selection box.
Nice try but that won't work. They send a verification message to the address you enter so that you can respond and verify it. Since you don't get mail at alerts-feedback@yahoo-inc.com you can't respond and verify it.
Ok, this guy must either work for Microsoft or is getting some serious kick-back. I wonder what he's getting because no sane person would use exciting and Palladium in the same sentence.
"As we removed the Palladium code from the revision control system and erased all the backups, I couldn't help but think how exciting it was to do this."
I know what you meant, but my sentence gives me the warm fuzzies whereas his sentence just made my skin crawl.
Look, you said that devices with fixed functionality "turn on instantly instead of having to boot up." I provided examples which disproved your statement; you can provide examples of some devices which seem to turn on "instantly", but since the general statement "cell phones... turn on instantly" applies to all cell phones, all I have to do is find a single cell phone which does not turn on "instantly" in order to prove the falsehood of your generalization.
That's why it's a generalization. Not all cell phones turn on instantly, but the majority of them do. I could say the same thing about cars like you did. "Cars are painted." If you have a car that has no paint that doesn't disprove the generalization that the majority of cars have paint on them and therefore by saying that "cars are painted" most people will know what I mean and agree.
You've lost -- you're wrong. It's okay, it happens to lots of men. Just take your toys and go home, will you? The horse is dead, and if you keep flogging it it's going to really start to smell.
Do you wish to have a discussion like an adult? Comments like these make you look very immature.
I'm glad that you're familiar enough with my usage patterns of the devices I've listed to recommend me wasting more money on more crap I'll rarely use anyways.
This all has nothing to do with your argument that GUIs map well to the way the system actually functions, but thanks for playing.
Interesting. My cell phone, VCR, DVD player, Playstation, and Comcast cable box all have a delay between initial power-on and full functionality. It's too bad that you claiming that they don't doesn't suddenly make my cell phone allow me to place a call within 8 seconds of initial power-on, since it's still starting up (not seeking service, starting up).
Wow, that sucks. I was able to turn on my VCR and use it within about a second and a half. My TV came on right away and I was able to turn the volume up and down and change channels within a second of hitting the power button. My microwave was also useful in the same amount of time even after unplugging it and plugging it back into the wall. My cell phone (old StarTac) came on immediately and only took about four seconds to connect to the network (Sprint). That sucks that yours takes eight seconds just to turn on. I can't comment on the cable box, but seeing how slow the user interface is on those AT&T/Comcast cable boxes are I'm not surprised it takes so long to turn on. My cable goes right into my VCR. My DVD player also came on right away, ready to accept a disc. Just for grins I left I DVD in there, turned it on and hit play. It started playing the DVD within a second or two.
Maybe you should buy better equipment if you have to sit and wait so long for it all to come on.
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It's not an excuse, it's just reality. When software is under development stuff can break. If you write your software for stable APIs then your software will have a higher chance of working. The Mozilla folks have said that 1.0 is a stable release and 1.4 is a stable release whos APIs are guaranteed not to change. They don't guarantee that for any other versions and stated that the APIs might change in newer versions. The evidence to that end has been shown with some skins, extensions, and patches not working from one release to the next as things are changed and improved upon.
I used to be an Avid editor but didn't have the budget or clients to afford one of those on my own. Based on some feedback from friends I decided to go with a a Matrox RT2500 and later upgraded to a Matrox RT.X100. The RTX100 is fantastic. It's basically a PCI card with a breakout box that has stereo audio in/out, and component and Y/C in/out. There's also two firewire ports on the back. It uses Adobe Premiere for its editor and installs a plugin which lets Premiere use the RTX100 for realtime effects. Basically anything you find in an online suite you'll find here as a realtime effect. Titling, wipes, ADOs, keying, colour correction, etc.
The RTX100 also comes with DVD burning software called ReelDVD. I've only used it twice so all I can tell you is that it works and has lots of features, none of which I've yet to really take advantage of.
I pretty much use that on a dedicated machine with Premiere 6.0, Photoshop, After Effects, and Sound Forge. I also use some open-source tools such as VirtualDub and DubMan. I haven't upgraded to Premiere Pro yet as the Matrox drivers are still in beta.
My only suggestion is that if you do get a RTX100, then buy one of the recommended systems to use it in. The Matrox forums are full of people who complain that the RXT100 doesn't work right or at all yet admit they don't have a compatible system. Especially watch out for via chipsets as the RTX100 won't work on those at all.
Why don't the authors just update their skins?
Does anyone know if there are plans to add built-in spam filtering like Mozilla has? Right now everyone says to use spamassassin but that doesn't work for some people that I know that user Evolution. They want something built in to the client end.
Some time ago I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed a perfect score. The instructor and the student agreed to an impartial arbiter, and I was selected.
I read the examination question: "Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer." The student had answered: "Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of the rope is the height of the building."
The student really had a strong case for full credit since he had really answered the question completely and correctly! On the other hand, if full credit were given, it could well contribute to a high grade in his physics course and certify competence in physics, but the answer did not confirm this.
I suggested that the student have another try. I gave the student six minutes to answer the question with the warning that the answer should show some knowledge of physics. At the end of five minutes, he hadn't written anything. I asked if he wished to give up, but he said he had many answers to this problem; he was just thinking of the best one. I excused myself for interrupting him and asked him to please go on.
In the next minute, he dashed off his answer, which read: "Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stopwatch. Then, using the formula x=0.5*a*t^2, calculate the height of the building." At this point, I asked my colleague if he would give up. He conceded, and gave the student almost full credit.
While leaving my colleague's office, I recalled that the student had said that he had other answers to the problem, so I asked him what they were.
"Well," said the student, "there are many ways of getting the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer.
For example, you could take the barometer out on a sunny day and measure the height of the barometer, the length of its shadow, and the length of the shadow of the building, and by the use of simple proportion, determine the height of the building."
"Fine," I said, "and others?"
"Yes," said the student, "there is a very basic measurement method you will like. In this method, you take the barometer and begin to walk up the stairs. As you climb the stairs, you mark off the length of the barometer along the wall. You then count the number of marks, and this will give you the height of the building in barometer units." "A very direct method."
"Of course. If you want a more sophisticated method, you can tie the barometer to the end of a string, swing it as a pendulum, and determine the value of g [gravity] at the street level and at the top of the building. From the difference between the two values of g, the height of the building, in principle, can be calculated."
"On this same tack, you could take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to just above the street, and then swing it as a pendulum. You could then calculate the height of the building by the period of the precession".
"Finally," he concluded, "there are many other ways of solving the problem. Probably the best," he said, "is to take the barometer to the basement and knock on the superintendent's door. When the superintendent answers, you speak to him as follows: 'Mr. Superintendent, here is a fine barometer. If you will tell me the height of the building, I will give you this barometer."
At this point, I asked the student if he really did not know the conventional answer to this question. He admitted that he did, but said that he was fed up with high school and college instructors trying to teach him how to think.
The name of the student was Niels Bohr." (1885-1962) Danish Physicist; Nobel Prize 1922; best known for proposing the first 'model' of the atom with protons & neutrons, and various energy state of the surrounding electrons -- the familiar icon of the small nucleus circled by three elliptical orbits ... but more significantly, an innovator in Quantum Theory.
I think you missed the point that the story submitter was making. It was a 10 year old car with dedicated electronic devices that failed which managed even the locks of the automobile, among other things. Now imagine those devices replaced with software with Microsoft's track record. I don't want my locks, my fuel injection system, my engine timing, etc, managed my Microsoft software. I don't think I'm comfortable placing my life in Microsoft's hands. Are you?
You think that someone who uses AOL would know how to do all of that?
The other side of that coin is that if you're already paying them then you can go ahead and copy the music. You've paid for it.
Hot and willing teeny updates want you to install them now!
Ahh, I missed that part. Thanks.
How long before theives chop off people's fingers and buy stuff with it? It's not like you can be reissued a new fingerprint.
I know what you meant, but my sentence gives me the warm fuzzies whereas his sentence just made my skin crawl.
Maybe you should buy better equipment if you have to sit and wait so long for it all to come on.