Slashdot Mirror


User: SlaterSan

SlaterSan's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
49
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 49

  1. Re:WinFS vs Tiger Spotlight? on Microsoft Uncertain About WinFS for XP · · Score: 1

    I use the same functionality for my photos in Adobe Photoshop Album, but I'd love if that information was available across other applactions. I think that's where it's key. Also if I do a search for files relating to "Jim Smith", I'd get all the e-mails, photos, contact info, etc. Whereas now I'm stuck just seeing only specific information in a single program.

  2. Re:WinFS vs Tiger Spotlight? on Microsoft Uncertain About WinFS for XP · · Score: 1

    Sorry that should have been:
    "YY.MM.DD - TOPIC"

  3. Re:WinFS vs Tiger Spotlight? on Microsoft Uncertain About WinFS for XP · · Score: 1

    I'm strictly addressing this idea as a windows user.

    So here's a case. I have my pictures organized very well by date. All in directories of the form:
    "YY.MM.DD - "
    But sometimes I want to see all pictures of a trip, which actually lasted a week. This is easy enough because they days are probably in order. But what if I want to see all the birtday pictures I have, or all the landscape photos I've taken. Add the ability to see all the pictures and video that I've taken at birthday parties in the same view.

    It isn't just about searching if applications make use of this metadata though. If all this information is implmented at a common level, then media players/calendar makers/whatever are able to access the data. Sure MS is doing the implementation of the database, but since it's an open implementation, all windows apps will be able to get at it.

  4. Re:Red vs. Blue is great on Red vs. Blue Season 3 Begins · · Score: 1

    I think RvsB is very funny if you sit down and watch many episodes right in a row. It isn't set up like family guy where one episode is self contained. They don't even really make sense one at a time.

    There are a few teaser type videos that they did (look for non-episode videos) that are funny on their own.

    Maybe it's just a matter of taste.

  5. Re:At last! on Warp Records Reject DRM, Go Bleep · · Score: 2, Informative

    Might I suggest Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" or "Girl/Boy EP" CD?

    Another good choice would be:
    Boards of Canada's "Music Has The Right To Children"

    I'd offer a link, but the site doesn't seem to lend itself to it.

  6. Re:Mark of the Beast? on Barcodes: The Number of the Beast · · Score: 1

    No, it just means that you were on another FOX show that was cancelled.

  7. Re:This will drive up the price of Thanksgiving! on From Turkey Guts to Fuel Oil · · Score: 1

    yeah... yeah...
    and monkeys aren't donkeys

  8. Re:Correct me if i'm wrong on Examining a Tablet PC · · Score: 1

    Actually they are not touchscreens. I'm pretty sure all of the screen / digitizer combos use magnetic sensing.

  9. Re:quick way on Patents for the Little People? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    That might be an ok way to show prior-art, but that's not a good way to make money off the idea. I think that it is/was a valid form of copyright that many aspiring musicians use. It only works if you plan on producing something, and don't want them to sue you.

  10. Validation of Other licences on Click-Thru Licensing on Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    Would having this be validating the use of click thru for other licenses? This still seems to be somewhat of a grey area. Has it been tested in US, or other, court? Would it have any effects compared to what we have now for OSS?

  11. Re:Who cares about 64 kbps tests? on Audio Format Listening Tests Concluded · · Score: 1

    The structural engineering for cars is a (mostly) continuous scale. If it doesn't break at 50 mph, it won't break at 45. Computer science is a descrete enginnering field. These codecs could easily be tuned to work better at 64kbps without making them any better at 192kbps. Therefore they could also be tuned to work better at 128 or 192 and not work as well at 64k.

  12. Re:STL downsides on Downsides to the C++ STL? · · Score: 1

    You can write your own allocators for lists which allow you to decide how you want to work with memory.

  13. Available Area Codes on VoIP for the Masses! · · Score: 1

    New York - 212,516,631,646,718,914,917
    New Jersey - 201,732,908,973
    California - 408,415,510,650,707,831,925

    Not so great for people like me in MI. I don't think my friends/family would be thrilled about having to call LD to talk. That is unless everyone I know decided to join up too.

  14. Re:I disagree on Should Open Source Software Expire? · · Score: 1

    Well that sounds like me trying to get debian to install...

  15. Re:Car HUD on Augmented Reality: Enhanced Perception · · Score: 1

    It's actually been shown that _current_ HUDs in cars aren't very useful (or at least not nearly as useful) as those in planes, because we aren't moving anywhere near as fast. Looking down to see our speed or look around to see around us is no big deal when your traveling 1/10 the speed of a jet.

    The big problem for enhancing object outside the car is registration. How to make each of the things line up correctly. Gaze tracking and magnetic head tracking have/are being tested, but it's a big problem.

  16. Re:We (probably) won't ever actually ACHIEVE AI on Arguing A.I. · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The reason these technologies are no longer considered "AI" is that they never were actual artifical intelligence.
    When the original researchers in AI began, they saw that the bottom-up approach had a huge number of issues. So they ended up spliting into the computer vision, modeling, logic, etc.. groups. The idea was that if we could figure out all of these individally, we could bring them together and show real intelligence. The problem is that as these individual technologies become more mature, the path for putting them back together is gone. We're seeing that this isn't the way to model real intelligence.
    There is a group, involving some major players, that is looking at other methods though. Personally this seems like a more viable approach.

  17. Re:this is not so bad on Distastful Advertising Continues: "Gatoring" · · Score: 1

    But you've already bought the Coke! I think it's similar to going to pick up a 12-pack of pepsi and a clerk running up and saying "Hey you should try this instead!"

  18. Re:Why? on ARIN IPv6 Allocation Policy · · Score: 1

    It isn't a matter of having enough. There will be more than enough for quite a while. The question is how do you organize the networks so I can get information from my house to my neighbor's without having to route through 2^32 different routers. Giving them out in an orderly fashion allows for easy routing mechanisims.

  19. Protecting the Evil on Roxio Countersues Gracenote · · Score: 2

    This is kind of strange, we're all up in arms about Roxio. We now want to support a company that is working to screw us all when we're trying to burn. Remember this old artice (link = http://slashdot.org/articles/01/06/05/2155245.shtm l) for those that are worried.

  20. Re:CNET = Confused NET? on Bill Gates Says GPL Is Like Pac-Man · · Score: 1
    Sure it will be if you do an assignment like that.

    A much better way would have been to say:
    if (CNET == "Confused NET")
    return true;
    else
    return false;

    I'm sure some of you out there would prefer the single line if, but lets keep it readable for the newbies. If they're still confusing test cases with assignments they need all the help they can get.

    wow. slow morning at work.

  21. Re:No. DMCA. on TiVo Upgrade Isn't · · Score: 1

    It's not illegal if if it's licensed by the company (DirectTV) that encrypts the signal.

  22. Re:LinuxPPC on TiVo? on TiVo Upgrade Isn't · · Score: 1

    Note that this is not everything that makes TiVo work. The majority of the functionality is in their "myworld" executable and tcl scripts (many in 1.3 less in 2.0). Just having the kernel source is not going to allow you to hack around these types of problems.

  23. Re:Too Late for Some on Microsoft Admits To Backdoor In IIS [updated] · · Score: 4

    And now it's been slashdotted too .

  24. Re:Development time on Is Freenet Vapourware? Ian Clarke Responds · · Score: 1

    Sure the Linux kernel has 2+ million lines of code, but it was also based on fairly well understood principles. Freenet is creating a brand new P2P solution that hasn't been seen before. The orig creators had an idea of what they wanted for Freenet but it is always changing. We have an idea of what and OS is supposed to do (filesystem, memory management, etc). I'm not saying that Linux isn't constantly changing, but it's also been around alot longer and the initial steps had a specific path.

  25. Most Interesting Search... Google. on Anime Hardsuits For Sale · · Score: 1

    When I went to see if I could find pictures elsewhere I came across this link as the top match. Not quite an "anime hardsuit" but still interesting.