Current Ubuntu user here as well. I'm all for this too... but in a ***separate*** shopping lens.
Even Stallman said so: "[To protect users' privacy] is easy: all it takes is to have separate buttons for network searches and local searches, as earlier versions of Ubuntu did."
Goddamn, having shopping result when I am searching for local files is not only a privacy issue... it is damnright annoying.
No, it won't be open source. From the wikipedia page:
Jolla said that mobile phone manufacturers (e.g. Nokia, Samsung etc.) will be able to license and use Sailfish on a phone, just like Android. Similar to Windows Phone, it is also not open source.
Although not directly related to coffee, there is a very interesting TED talk from Jojanna Blakley that touches this exact point. She compares the fashion industry, in which there are pratically no copyright law or intellectual property, to the entertainment industry where this is heavily overblown. Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html
I got really curious now! I work mostly with C and GCC, and I would really like to know your technique to log the function calls, arguments and return value! I really can't think of a way of doing this without using a lot of macros, that would make the code unreadable... Would you mind giving me an insight? Thanks!
Not so fast! There is a problem with the analisys. Check the first graph: The 123456789 password appears twice (in the 4th position and in the last shown position). This is a blasphemy to my true nerd beliefs.
Some people are also questioning if the home lens (the default lens to make any local search) is the right place to integrate these remote searches to third party services. In theory, amazon could gather information about every file you search, every program you launch through the lens, and such. There is even a bug report, marked as confirmed, questioning this very thing.
Commenting here, as my finger slipped and I wrongly modded this as Troll. Gosh, I am a human, give me an option to remoderate my miskates, you silly slashdot!
Opus has support for up to 255 channels. Indeed, lossless was the most glaring omission, but considering the obsolescence of MP3HD, I think they must had good reasons to leave it out.
Newsworth? I don't know. But absolutely Awarenessworth! Currently, more and more people are releasing their own music and videos under the CC licenses for our own free enjoyment, and also it's one of the greatest forces we have against the ever increasing stupidity of the big labels.
This. I am losing a couple moderation points already spent in this discution, but I had to post.
I am not quite young anymore, but personally never had any inclination for owning music, but I always liked radio and streaming services. After discovering Pandora, I fell in love imediatelly. I listen to Pandora almost exclusively nowadays during my commutes and free time, but due to licening issues, Pandora's streaming was blocked for listeners outside the US a few years ago.
Since I am not american, I have to subscribe to a VPN service ($7 per month) that I use almost exclusively to listen to it. So for me, Pandora costs $7 per month, with ads, and Pandora itself never sees a cent of this money. I'd rather pay directly to Pandora and support the service, but the rules doesn't allow me too, and my greed inner bastard refuses to pay $7 + $4 for the complete ad-free international streaming solution.
This is the thing that really worries me in these cloud-based services in general. You are giving away a little part of the control and power you have of your consumption in exchange for (questionably) more convenience and better service. And inevitably, sometimes it's exactly this little amount of the control you have conceded that comes back to bite you in the ass.
Ask slashdot time: Why is it that Pandora is forbidden to stream internationally, but other services like Songza do it at will and with no ads whatsoever?
Sorry, but I can't stand anymore the Paladin of the party insisting on replacing the HD for a tried and true Bag Of Holding. Thanks for the tip anyway.
Just out of curiosity, I went to check the version of my Paragon installer and guess what... it was corrupted! Oh the irony! Windows is the OS I least use, and I have not booted it for the last month or so. Unless Paragon silently corrupted something there previously and somehow "weakened" the filesystem integrity since. Anyway, thanks for the tip. What do you use currently to read HFS+ in Windows?
The problem lies in finding a filesystem that can be accessed by all three OSes. I would go with NTFS as well, but last time I tried, MacOS could not write to it. Every guide out there recommends FAT32, but the 4GB file size limitation is a deal breaker for me.
At first I thought this idea wouldn't work. As some people have already written here, the 'file' command sometimes just checks for a few bytes. But since it is so easy to implement, why not give it a try? And indeed, for videos it worked quite well. Some of the corrupted MOV files were detected simply as 'data file' or even 'MPEG sequence' and were promptly deleted! Thank you for the idea.
> Thinks there is a way to detect generic file corruption There is no way to detect generic file corruption. But there is a way to detect specific filetype corruption. For example, I already found mp3val, that is able to scan all my mp3 and check for file integrity, and even fix a few kinds of corruption (such as unmatching bytes in the header and sound chunks). Maybe with the right set of tools, I might also detect (or even fix) my corrupted pictures, movies and books as well.
My first though when checking out the report was: "Whoa, Microsoft contributed more to the linux kernel than Canonical itself"... but later I realized that Canonical is not even listed there. Maybe I am wrong, but I have this inner concept that Canonical would contribute to these projects just like Red Hat, since they are the most "open-source-focused" companies currently... Well, I guess they indeed are completely different companies with completely different goals, and Canonical is somewhat more focused in the userspace experience (which surely is just as important).
Here in Brazil we have been using alcohol as a fuel source for years. When you go to a gas station, it is guaranteed that you will find both a gasoline pump and an alcohol pump. Most cars developed here since 2003 accept both fuels, using an engine technology called FLEX. The only difference is that the alcohol we use is called "Anidro", and it is 99.3% pure, while Ethanol is 96% pure (the rest being mostly water).
Based on this, to subsidize the price of the gasoline here, the government sets an alcohol mandate of 22%. So even if you have a gasoline-only car, you are really using 3/4 gasoline and 1/4 alcohol when you fill the tank. Since the alcohol does attack all parts of the engine that are in contact with it, engines produced for the brazilian market have a special protection layer. And indeed, owners of imported cars here usually fill their tanks with a special "premium" gasoline, that is basically pure and high-octane, to avoid damage. (Guess I don't have to say that gas stations rip you off for that)
I dare say that this insistence on backward compatibility is going to kill this format.
If anyone still remembers, many years ago Thomson released the mp3PRO format. It was a low bitrate MP3 with some added spectral band data that could recreate the original music sound quality. So in theory, you could have the same quality for half the bitrate/size.
To my decaying ears, it sounded really good at the time... if played on the supported players. But when you played these files in any unsupported player, which happened to be all of them except for the Thomson's Player or the Thomson's Winamp Plugin, you ended up listening to a HORRIBLE low bitrate sound quality, since the extra mp3PRO information was ignored.
And even worse: you had no way of telling if a file being downloaded was an original mp3 file or a new mp3PRO file, since they both used the same file extension. Maybe if they had renamed the extension to.mp3pro or something like that, the mp3PRO format might have had some chance...
Years pass... and now they are doing the same thing again.
Instead of focusing on a lossless mp3 codec for a specific kind of market/enthusiast, they are insisting in keeping backward compatibility with players using the same method as mp3PRO did. And once more the files are going to have the same extension as the original ones, instead of.mp3hd or something similar.
I hope I am wrong, but this surely spells doom to me.
This is the first time I heard about Parrot, and it really got my attention as well. I know it's common knowlegde, but you can get more information in wikipedia:
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I know that you're not a girl... ;-)
Current Ubuntu user here as well.
I'm all for this too... but in a ***separate*** shopping lens.
Even Stallman said so:
"[To protect users' privacy] is easy: all it takes is to have separate buttons for network searches and local searches, as earlier versions of Ubuntu did."
Goddamn, having shopping result when I am searching for local files is not only a privacy issue... it is damnright annoying.
No, it won't be open source.
From the wikipedia page:
Jolla said that mobile phone manufacturers (e.g. Nokia, Samsung etc.) will be able to license and use Sailfish on a phone, just like Android. Similar to Windows Phone, it is also not open source.
Although not directly related to coffee, there is a very interesting TED talk from Jojanna Blakley that touches this exact point. She compares the fashion industry, in which there are pratically no copyright law or intellectual property, to the entertainment industry where this is heavily overblown. Link: http://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture.html
I got really curious now! I work mostly with C and GCC, and I would really like to know your technique to log the function calls, arguments and return value! I really can't think of a way of doing this without using a lot of macros, that would make the code unreadable... Would you mind giving me an insight? Thanks!
Not so fast! There is a problem with the analisys. Check the first graph: The 123456789 password appears twice (in the 4th position and in the last shown position). This is a blasphemy to my true nerd beliefs.
Some people are also questioning if the home lens (the default lens to make any local search) is the right place to integrate these remote searches to third party services. In theory, amazon could gather information about every file you search, every program you launch through the lens, and such. There is even a bug report, marked as confirmed, questioning this very thing.
Commenting here, as my finger slipped and I wrongly modded this as Troll. Gosh, I am a human, give me an option to remoderate my miskates, you silly slashdot!
Opus has support for up to 255 channels. Indeed, lossless was the most glaring omission, but considering the obsolescence of MP3HD, I think they must had good reasons to leave it out.
Newsworth? I don't know. But absolutely Awarenessworth! Currently, more and more people are releasing their own music and videos under the CC licenses for our own free enjoyment, and also it's one of the greatest forces we have against the ever increasing stupidity of the big labels.
This.
I am losing a couple moderation points already spent in this discution, but I had to post.
I am not quite young anymore, but personally never had any inclination for owning music, but I always liked radio and streaming services. After discovering Pandora, I fell in love imediatelly. I listen to Pandora almost exclusively nowadays during my commutes and free time, but due to licening issues, Pandora's streaming was blocked for listeners outside the US a few years ago.
Since I am not american, I have to subscribe to a VPN service ($7 per month) that I use almost exclusively to listen to it. So for me, Pandora costs $7 per month, with ads, and Pandora itself never sees a cent of this money. I'd rather pay directly to Pandora and support the service, but the rules doesn't allow me too, and my greed inner bastard refuses to pay $7 + $4 for the complete ad-free international streaming solution.
This is the thing that really worries me in these cloud-based services in general. You are giving away a little part of the control and power you have of your consumption in exchange for (questionably) more convenience and better service. And inevitably, sometimes it's exactly this little amount of the control you have conceded that comes back to bite you in the ass.
Ask slashdot time: Why is it that Pandora is forbidden to stream internationally, but other services like Songza do it at will and with no ads whatsoever?
Author here:
This method detected a single corrupted picture.
Probably my pictures were the least affected of all my data.
Thanks for the great idea.
Author here:
Sorry, but I can't stand anymore the Paladin of the party insisting on replacing the HD for a tried and true Bag Of Holding.
Thanks for the tip anyway.
Author here:
Just out of curiosity, I went to check the version of my Paragon installer and guess what... it was corrupted! Oh the irony!
Windows is the OS I least use, and I have not booted it for the last month or so. Unless Paragon silently corrupted something there previously and somehow "weakened" the filesystem integrity since. Anyway, thanks for the tip. What do you use currently to read HFS+ in Windows?
Author here:
The problem lies in finding a filesystem that can be accessed by all three OSes. I would go with NTFS as well, but last time I tried, MacOS could not write to it. Every guide out there recommends FAT32, but the 4GB file size limitation is a deal breaker for me.
Author here:
Ok, I could deal with the loss of some unique videos and pictures from travels... but now that you mention the porn... *weep*
Author here:
At first I thought this idea wouldn't work. As some people have already written here, the 'file' command sometimes just checks for a few bytes. But since it is so easy to implement, why not give it a try? And indeed, for videos it worked quite well. Some of the corrupted MOV files were detected simply as 'data file' or even 'MPEG sequence' and were promptly deleted! Thank you for the idea.
Author here:
> Last backup August.
Yes, that was silly of me.
> Thinks there is a way to detect generic file corruption
There is no way to detect generic file corruption. But there is a way to detect specific filetype corruption. For example, I already found mp3val, that is able to scan all my mp3 and check for file integrity, and even fix a few kinds of corruption (such as unmatching bytes in the header and sound chunks). Maybe with the right set of tools, I might also detect (or even fix) my corrupted pictures, movies and books as well.
My first though when checking out the report was: "Whoa, Microsoft contributed more to the linux kernel than Canonical itself"... but later I realized that Canonical is not even listed there. Maybe I am wrong, but I have this inner concept that Canonical would contribute to these projects just like Red Hat, since they are the most "open-source-focused" companies currently... Well, I guess they indeed are completely different companies with completely different goals, and Canonical is somewhat more focused in the userspace experience (which surely is just as important).
I liked the Amiga's solution: Holding down one of the Amiga keyboard buttons turned the cursor keys into a virtual mouse.
In Linux you can press SHIFT + NUMLOCK.
This toggles numpad-keys-as-virtual-mouse behaviour.
I really miss a "Well Played Sarcarm" mod option.
Here in Brazil we have been using alcohol as a fuel source for years. When you go to a gas station, it is guaranteed that you will find both a gasoline pump and an alcohol pump. Most cars developed here since 2003 accept both fuels, using an engine technology called FLEX. The only difference is that the alcohol we use is called "Anidro", and it is 99.3% pure, while Ethanol is 96% pure (the rest being mostly water).
Based on this, to subsidize the price of the gasoline here, the government sets an alcohol mandate of 22%. So even if you have a gasoline-only car, you are really using 3/4 gasoline and 1/4 alcohol when you fill the tank. Since the alcohol does attack all parts of the engine that are in contact with it, engines produced for the brazilian market have a special protection layer. And indeed, owners of imported cars here usually fill their tanks with a special "premium" gasoline, that is basically pure and high-octane, to avoid damage. (Guess I don't have to say that gas stations rip you off for that)
I dare say that this insistence on backward compatibility is going to kill this format.
If anyone still remembers, many years ago Thomson released the mp3PRO format.
It was a low bitrate MP3 with some added spectral band data that could recreate the original
music sound quality. So in theory, you could have the same quality for half the bitrate/size.
To my decaying ears, it sounded really good at the time... if played on the supported players.
But when you played these files in any unsupported player, which happened to be all of them
except for the Thomson's Player or the Thomson's Winamp Plugin, you ended up listening to
a HORRIBLE low bitrate sound quality, since the extra mp3PRO information was ignored.
And even worse: you had no way of telling if a file being downloaded was an original mp3 file .mp3pro or something like that, the mp3PRO format might have had some chance...
or a new mp3PRO file, since they both used the same file extension. Maybe if they had renamed
the extension to
Years pass... and now they are doing the same thing again.
Instead of focusing on a lossless mp3 codec for a specific kind of market/enthusiast, they are .mp3hd or something similar.
insisting in keeping backward compatibility with players using the same method as mp3PRO did.
And once more the files are going to have the same extension as the original ones, instead
of
I hope I am wrong, but this surely spells doom to me.
This is the first time I heard about Parrot, and it really got my attention as well.
I know it's common knowlegde, but you can get more information in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot_virtual_machine
Enjoy!
Nice!
I am totally in!
Now we only have to manage the silly limitation that April only goes to 30!