here' the thing with descript.ion files If I were to move a dozen photos from one dir to another using explorer the descript.ion file in the other directory has none of the info about the files I just put there. All that info is in the.ion file of the previous directory. If I copy that.ion file over to the new destination folder it overwrites the old one and now only those 12 recently moved photos will have metadata and the hundreds of other photos in that dir lose everything.
descript.ion files suck unless every app in the os capable of moving files keeps constant track of them.
I've been an acdsee user since version 4 and it just doesn't cut it for me. To manually 'tag' stuff (stored in its database or.ion) takes too many clicks and keys and to edit exif data takes even more.
Crazy Idea: An new xml image filefomat.imx
[imx]
[meta]...meta data here...
[/meta]
[binaryimagedata]...jpg or whatever binary image data here...
[/binaryimagedata] [/imx]
there, it can wrap any common existing file format.
what's important is not how much porn there is but how easy it is for minors to access it. I remember a few years back doing coursework in the highschool computer lab and I needed information about our phone company Batelco. A visit to Batelco.com resulted in an endless stream of porn ad pop ups.
Anyone can turn off the safe search option on google in 2 clicks. Go turn it off and search for melons. What's the first result?
"I don't know if there's a need for "official" extensions,"
Yes, you need them. I think the session saver is the greatest extension ever but it's an added step in the firefox conversion to have to explain the session saving aspects to a new user. If it had just stayed as an extension I could have disabled it during the install and my promise of "just like IE but no virus" would have been more accurate.
"Not to mention I don't need to see distorted effects to display text on page."
Agreed. We beg the ISPs for faster connections and go hungry to be able to afford cable and dsl all so we dont have to wait for information to download and be drawn. Why oh why do these bastards insist on simulating the dailup experiece when they clearly state on the "splash page" that this version is for "HIGH SPEED" connections?
the time, manpower, brainpower, and hundreds of millions of dollars required to make this happen (it's probably do-able) would be better spent on a permanent solution here on earth.
anyone have other ideas on what we could spend all those resources on?
I say they buy all the rainforest land that's already been destroyed and plant trees. Of course when those trees mature the US would be making $ from all logging operations.
I'd prefer if they found a way to turn one of the deserts into another rainforest or at least make it no longer a desert.
If you mix rotting garbage with desert sand do you get fertile soil?
I'll buy you whatever you want for christmas if you can get ubuntu to work on my home system.
I'll even pay for the plane ticket to fly you to the Bahamas.
I think it might be comparable to using wordpress or some other CMS vs. updating your site's content in the html source without the benefit of a sql database. I'd much rather my mom be trapped in a user friendly and productive content management system instead of nagging me every two minutes to do something for her.
For the average person all popular OSes are too complicated. Does grandpa really need the contents of c:\windows\ showing up when he searches for one of the few files that he himself created?
I think a lot of people would feel comforted knowing that something like parakey is sandwiched between them and the 'real' OS and they don't have to worry about possibly destroying their computer some how.
Sure, this isn't a good fit for most people like me with our 1800 php files, 3000 html files, countless psd gif jpg, mb, 3ds, wav, ogg, etc... but we're not the "average joe". One of the main reasons IE is so damned popular is because a large portion of computer users ONLY use their computer to update their profile page on some community site, check their mail (ever had to help someone set up outlook over the phone, people hate all the steps and foreign terms), and search for information.
When last did you see somone buy and encyclopedia on cd/dvd? stuff like Wikipedia is faster and easier and like so many things on the web it's straight to the point.
Sure other people have attempted something like this in the past maybe. But maybe their implementation sucked. Maybe this won't suck so bad. With so many examples online of just how useful a good CMS can be, I'm sure they have a good chance to get it right and make something good.
What I call a hardware change is building a new system from scratch, taking the windows drive from the old system and plugging it into the new system (this often doesn't works for XP without a repair installation btw).
Does that count as a major hardware change?
Also often when trying to figure out if i have a software/viral or hardware problem I'll move the same drive back and forth between 2 or 3 machines to see what works and what doesn't. Does that count? I'm sure some pc repair technicians probably do a lot of other stuff. I wonder how much of a hassle this is for them?
more and more reasons for blind people to not buy an ipod....:(
Think about it. I'm sure blind people must _love_ listening to music. You'd think every blind person would have one...but...ever tried using an ipod in the dark or, like me, using one with a broken screen? That click is the only thing I have to navigate by.
What I'm suggesting is that there be an Acid Test 1.5 and an Acid test 2
In the short term, get browder devs to make perfect code (acid 1.5) render perfectly and in the long term make their browsers work with broker code (acid 2).
been lookin throught the acid test source for a while. I'd fire someone for writing something like that. Nobody really really writes like that. I don't think that it's all that important for any browser to pass that particular test.
I think a very large suite of test cases using sampes from many real websites that have no IE hacks would be a much more useful test.
Also I remember reading somewhere that the acid test also tests how a browser reacts to some sort of invalid code like a broken comment. If there were a version of the acid test that tests only perfectly valid code and dropped the src=data: stuff most browsers would be much closer to passing it.
atm nobody really uses data: sources and I for one VALIDATE EVERYTHING. If the browser work perfect with totally valid code, it works for me.
remember that hundreds of thousands of people cannot tell the difference between any 2 windows. If you make a firefox shortct and switch the icon you'd be surprised how many people don't even notice.
I wish there were a virus that just went around and dit that.
also reminds me of a 3d desktop I tried one. Except with that thing the developers cared more about making it look like a real studio apartment and less about making it something that would actually benefit a computer user.
It would be next to impossible to convince a non-technical person to virtually walk through a filing system to find their work when they could just browse to it normally without the 3D stuff.
that's assuming the non-technical person actually knows what it means to 'browse to where you saved your file'. So many people don't. Example:
them: ok i just downloaded somthing. where did it go?
me: check your desktop
them: you mean EX out everything untill I see the grass
me: no just minimize everything. Windows+D.
them: what?
me: "make it small" then!
them: oh! yeah ok
--waits for them to minimize 17 IE windows--
me: do you see the file
them: I don't know.
me: what do u mean you don't know. What did you name the file?
them: I don't know.
me: go back to the page you downloaded it from, download it again and this time remember where you saved it and what you named it!
-- i go back to warcraft cuz I know that will take 20 minutes --
them: ok done!
me: where did you save it this tme
them: I don't know.
me: F$#@!
me: what did you name the file
them: I left it as the name it already had when the save window opened
me: and you dont remember which directory you saved it in?
di..rect...or... what?
me: FOLDER DAMMIT! F O L D E R
them: oh, no.
me: Look, come sit here. See this? it's a compass. East, west, north, south.
See those people? Those are People. See those animal looking things. They will kill me. Avoid them. Look at the keys. forward, backwards, left, right. See this button? It keeps you from dying. Now while I go download your crap I want you to keep running to the west until you can see the ocean. OK? and avoid anything that's not human looking.
them: ok!
-- I go over to their system, plug in my usb drive and run toolbarcop, install avg, and zone alarm, set zonealarm to deny IE and kazaa access to the net and install firefox. Just when the firefox home page comes up they look over their shoulder....
them: Dammit! I knew you'd put damned Mozzarella Firefox on there again. Stop puttin that on my computer. I can't watch yahoo videos with that. It sucks.
-- they turn back around --
them: I'm at the beach! But why am I a cloud thing and why's your screen in black and white.
we're not talking about your local drives/dvd collection and filing cabinets in your house.
We're talking about the web.
I do think it works for local filesystems tho.
but I do like the idea. I'd love something like this for my mom or little kids. Many accomplished computer users have no idea how hard it is for some people to grasp the concept of nested directories.
yeah I've dreamt up stuff like this but it's for a local filesystem. Not the web.
And I think no matter how many apple designers you have working for you you're never gonna be able to come up with an attractive room using all the colors opacities and textures you've mentioned.
There's too many common computer uses that the 3d environment adds nothing to.
Word processing? No
Spreadsheets? Doubtful
Web browsing? Probably not.
Music and Video? No
that never stopped vista, OS X, or XGL from rendering everything as a texture on a 3d plane or cube.
Also there's another virtual world project that had firefox rendering in the 3d engine as one of their top priorities. Also, a virtual world without virtual 2d paper/web pages/tv screens is like our world without real paper web page and tv screens.
who says we 'have to' switch? I look forward to the day when I can read slashdot on a 'magic wall' in Warcraft. Rendered as a regular html page projected as a texture ingame.
Actually there was a similar article to this posted on slashdot many months ago where one of the first milestones of their virtual world technology was to make it possble to render web pages with firefox within the game.
reminds me of my dream of using the quake engine to replace Explorer.
drives were castles folders at root level were rooms anything deeper was a treasure chest in the room new folder = new treasure chest to find a file you actually had to know which room it was in...
of course this limited how deeply nested your directory structure could go but for some people that would be a good thing.
add quakes ability to recolor an objects textures like coloring folders on a mac and I thought it would have been cool.
Slashdot Mirror
here' the thing with descript.ion files .ion file of the previous directory. If I copy that .ion file over to the new destination folder it overwrites the old one and now only those 12 recently moved photos will have metadata and the hundreds of other photos in that dir lose everything.
.ion) takes too many clicks and keys and to edit exif data takes even more.
.imx
...meta data here ... ...jpg or whatever binary image data here...
If I were to move a dozen photos from one dir to another using explorer the descript.ion file in the other directory has none of the info about the files I just put there.
All that info is in the
descript.ion files suck unless every app in the os capable of moving files keeps constant track of them.
I've been an acdsee user since version 4 and it just doesn't cut it for me. To manually 'tag' stuff (stored in its database or
Crazy Idea:
An new xml image filefomat
[imx]
[meta]
[/meta]
[binaryimagedata]
[/binaryimagedata]
[/imx]
there, it can wrap any common existing file format.
what's important is not how much porn there is but how easy it is for minors to access it.
.xxx doman idea was a good idea I think.
I remember a few years back doing coursework in the highschool computer lab and I needed information about our phone company Batelco.
A visit to Batelco.com resulted in an endless stream of porn ad pop ups.
Anyone can turn off the safe search option on google in 2 clicks.
Go turn it off and search for melons. What's the first result?
the
"I don't know if there's a need for "official" extensions,"
Yes, you need them.
I think the session saver is the greatest extension ever but it's an added step in the firefox conversion to have to explain the session saving aspects to a new user.
If it had just stayed as an extension I could have disabled it during the install and my promise of "just like IE but no virus" would have been more accurate.
"Not to mention I don't need to see distorted effects to display text on page."
Agreed. We beg the ISPs for faster connections and go hungry to be able to afford cable and dsl all so we dont have to wait for information to download and be drawn. Why oh why do these bastards insist on simulating the dailup experiece when they clearly state on the "splash page" that this version is for "HIGH SPEED" connections?
the time, manpower, brainpower, and hundreds of millions of dollars required to make this happen (it's probably do-able) would be better spent on a permanent solution here on earth.
anyone have other ideas on what we could spend all those resources on?
I say they buy all the rainforest land that's already been destroyed and plant trees.
Of course when those trees mature the US would be making $ from all logging operations.
I'd prefer if they found a way to turn one of the deserts into another rainforest or at least make it no longer a desert.
If you mix rotting garbage with desert sand do you get fertile soil?
are you sure...?
if you can't fix it you pay me back for everything plus $50.
I should warn you. I've made over $200 by betting local linux users that they couldn't get ubuntu to work on my system.
I'll buy you whatever you want for christmas if you can get ubuntu to work on my home system. I'll even pay for the plane ticket to fly you to the Bahamas.
I think it might be comparable to using wordpress or some other CMS vs. updating your site's content in the html source without the benefit of a sql database.
I'd much rather my mom be trapped in a user friendly and productive content management system instead of nagging me every two minutes to do something for her.
For the average person all popular OSes are too complicated.
Does grandpa really need the contents of c:\windows\ showing up when he searches for one of the few files that he himself created?
I think a lot of people would feel comforted knowing that something like parakey is sandwiched between them and the 'real' OS and they don't have to worry about possibly destroying their computer some how.
Sure, this isn't a good fit for most people like me with our 1800 php files, 3000 html files, countless psd gif jpg, mb, 3ds, wav, ogg, etc...
but we're not the "average joe". One of the main reasons IE is so damned popular is because a large portion of computer users ONLY use their computer to update their profile page on some community site, check their mail (ever had to help someone set up outlook over the phone, people hate all the steps and foreign terms),
and search for information.
When last did you see somone buy and encyclopedia on cd/dvd? stuff like Wikipedia is faster and easier and like so many things on the web it's straight to the point.
Sure other people have attempted something like this in the past maybe. But maybe their implementation sucked. Maybe this won't suck so bad. With so many examples online of just how useful a good CMS can be, I'm sure they have a good chance to get it right and make something good.
What I call a hardware change is building a new system from scratch, taking the windows drive from the old system and plugging it into the new system (this often doesn't works for XP without a repair installation btw).
Does that count as a major hardware change?
Also often when trying to figure out if i have a software/viral or hardware problem I'll move the same drive back and forth between 2 or 3 machines to see what works and what doesn't. Does that count?
I'm sure some pc repair technicians probably do a lot of other stuff. I wonder how much of a hassle this is for them?
more and more reasons for blind people to not buy an ipod.... :(
Think about it. I'm sure blind people must _love_ listening to music.
You'd think every blind person would have one...but...ever tried using an ipod in the dark or, like me, using one with a broken screen? That click is the only thing I have to navigate by.
What I'm suggesting is that there be an Acid Test 1.5 and an Acid test 2
In the short term, get browder devs to make perfect code (acid 1.5) render perfectly and in the long term make their browsers work with broker code (acid 2).
Reminds me of when people ask why my $800 2yr old computer is 7x faster than their 4 month old, $1,000+ dell.
"oh, that's cuz I've never opened Internet Explorer, not even once."
Sure that's only a small part of the reason, but it's a good one.
been lookin throught the acid test source for a while.
I'd fire someone for writing something like that.
Nobody really really writes like that. I don't think that it's all that important for any browser to pass that particular test.
I think a very large suite of test cases using sampes from many real websites that have no IE hacks would be a much more useful test.
Also I remember reading somewhere that the acid test also tests how a browser reacts to some sort of invalid code like a broken comment. If there were a version of the acid test that tests only perfectly valid code and dropped the src=data: stuff most browsers would be much closer to passing it.
atm nobody really uses data: sources and I for one VALIDATE EVERYTHING. If the browser work perfect with totally valid code, it works for me.
remember that hundreds of thousands of people cannot tell the difference between any 2 windows.
If you make a firefox shortct and switch the icon you'd be surprised how many people don't even notice.
I wish there were a virus that just went around and dit that.
willing to bet $400 that Ubuntu will once again not boot on my system.
not exactly the same thing
also reminds me of a 3d desktop I tried one. Except with that thing the developers cared more about making it look like a real studio apartment and less about making it something that would actually benefit a computer user.
that's assuming the non-technical person actually knows what it means to 'browse to where you saved your file'. So many people don't. Example:
them: ok i just downloaded somthing. where did it go?me: check your desktop
them: you mean EX out everything untill I see the grass
me: no just minimize everything. Windows+D.
them: what?
me: "make it small" then!
them: oh! yeah ok
--waits for them to minimize 17 IE windows--
me: do you see the file
them: I don't know.
me: what do u mean you don't know. What did you name the file?
them: I don't know.
me: go back to the page you downloaded it from, download it again and this time remember where you saved it and what you named it!
-- i go back to warcraft cuz I know that will take 20 minutes --
them: ok done!
me: where did you save it this tme
them: I don't know.
me: F$#@!
me: what did you name the file
them: I left it as the name it already had when the save window opened
me: and you dont remember which directory you saved it in?
di..rect...or... what?
me: FOLDER DAMMIT! F O L D E R
them: oh, no.
me: Look, come sit here. See this? it's a compass. East, west, north, south.
See those people? Those are People. See those animal looking things. They will kill me. Avoid them. Look at the keys. forward, backwards, left, right. See this button? It keeps you from dying. Now while I go download your crap I want you to keep running to the west until you can see the ocean. OK? and avoid anything that's not human looking.
them: ok!
-- I go over to their system, plug in my usb drive and run toolbarcop, install avg, and zone alarm, set zonealarm to deny IE and kazaa access to the net and install firefox. Just when the firefox home page comes up they look over their shoulder....
them: Dammit! I knew you'd put damned Mozzarella Firefox on there again. Stop puttin that on my computer. I can't watch yahoo videos with that. It sucks.
-- they turn back around --
them: I'm at the beach! But why am I a cloud thing and why's your screen in black and white.
world of warcraft realestate + myspace/hi5/xanga/blackplanet userpages full of "personalized"/"self-expression" crap === $$$$$$$$$
we're not talking about your local drives/dvd collection and filing cabinets in your house. We're talking about the web. I do think it works for local filesystems tho.
but I do like the idea. I'd love something like this for my mom or little kids. Many accomplished computer users have no idea how hard it is for some people to grasp the concept of nested directories.
yeah I've dreamt up stuff like this but it's for a local filesystem. Not the web. And I think no matter how many apple designers you have working for you you're never gonna be able to come up with an attractive room using all the colors opacities and textures you've mentioned.
that never stopped vista, OS X, or XGL from rendering everything as a texture on a 3d plane or cube.
Also there's another virtual world project that had firefox rendering in the 3d engine as one of their top priorities. Also, a virtual world without virtual 2d paper/web pages/tv screens is like our world without real paper web page and tv screens.
who says we 'have to' switch?
I look forward to the day when I can read slashdot on a 'magic wall' in Warcraft. Rendered as a regular html page projected as a texture ingame.
Actually there was a similar article to this posted on slashdot many months ago where one of the first milestones of their virtual world technology was to make it possble to render web pages with firefox within the game.
reminds me of my dream of using the quake engine to replace Explorer.
drives were castles
folders at root level were rooms
anything deeper was a treasure chest in the room
new folder = new treasure chest
to find a file you actually had to know which room it was in...
of course this limited how deeply nested your directory structure could go but for some people that would be a good thing.
add quakes ability to recolor an objects textures like coloring folders on a mac and I thought it would have been cool.