I see that a lot. But hardly ever with any real examples of what it is missing that you need for professional graphics work. I'd love to hear specifically what is missing, as I'm sure the devs would too. Is it just the color management for print design, or something else?
I've run with multiple partitions in several different configurations since XP came out. I've never seen that happen. XP is currently on the second partition of my first disk. I believe it told me during setup that it would be formatting the second partition as NTFS (system), first partition as NTFS (boot).
Now that I've checked the KB to confirm what I had recalled, I'm positive that it asks for confirmation for both partitions. See kb313348, step 11:
Note If you deleted and created a new System partition, but you are installing Windows XP on a different partition, you will be prompted to select a file system for both the System and startup partitions.
That means that you will see the following menu twice, once for each partition:
* Format the partition by using the NTFS file system (Quick) * Format the partition by using the FAT file system (Quick) * Format the partition by using the NTFS file system * Format the partition by using the FAT file system * Leave the current file system intact (no changes)
If you choose to format 2 different partitions without paying attention, how is that MS's fault?
Yeah, I know a lot of people who refuse to do that though. I mean, do they really need to make sure their mail goes out at 9am instead of 1pm, when it will take 2 days to get there anyway? Other people are afraid somebody will steal it, but what are they going to do with checks or NetFlix movies anyway? NetFlix covers it if there's a shipping problem, not to mention you don't really hear about too many people committing a federal offense to steal mail.
You can't change the battery because adding a removable cover for it would make the iPod far larger than it currently is. Considering the 24+ hours available from a single charge on some models, and the much larger number of charge cycles available from lithium ion batteries today this becomes a moot point. You don't need to change it so don't worry about it. (This isn't the 1st generation iPod).
Yeah, dude, my cell phone is freakin huge. I so wish they would have made the battery non-removable so it would fit in my pocket. I don't know why they even bothered to make them serviceable. Nobody ever has to replace a lithium-ion cell phone battery.
GoDaddy is a bit of a joke as far as hosting. I've used them about a year ago, and they have very small limits on domains, subdomains, email, etc., charging for any additional features you need. Their performance is poor compared to the alternatives. Their interfaces are slow and awkward, giving you ads every time you use them. Their support emails are HTML, and require you to reply in this little section between HTML tags to process your response.
DreamHost, Site5, or BlueHost are much better alternatives. DreamHost, for example, gives you 200 GB disk, 1000 GB bandwidth for $10/mo. with unlimited domains, subdomains, databases, shell access, and a large number of shell/FTP/email accounts. Their performance is also better than GoDaddy's, speaking from personal experience.
It's kind of a turn off that they have a $50 setup fee, but you can waive it by using a coupon. One of my coupons for monthly is DH02SETUP, which is the largest coupon I can create for monthly. Disclaimer: that coupon does earn me income, but it is the greatest amount for you (and least amount for me) that they allow me to create for monthly. I wouldn't use DreamHost without a coupon though, as $50 setup is more than you pay almost anywhere else for setup.
I'd recommend using something other than GoDaddy for sure, regardless of whether it is DreamHost or not. GoDaddy is fine for domains (sort of, namecheap.com is better), but they are one of the worst for hosting.
Anyway, I should have also mentioned that audio.module also includes audio_import.module, which can import mp3s you have uploaded by FTP, which should meet your criteria for that.
It should be pretty simple to setup. Buy hosting, untar the core package and modules, visit the/admin section and configure the modules, and upload your mp3s. You get to maintain control over the whole process, rather than relying on someone else's service.
Yeah, but who really cares about the fan? When it's dying, you'll know it. All sorts of freaky noises will spew from your system. $20 to replace a fan vs. up to $300 to replace a component that failed because of heat.
Podcast (RSS), XSPF, PLS, and M3U feed generation is taken care by this module.
Features: 1) iTunes podcast/xspf/m3u/pls feeds generated on the fly, with full metadata support 2) album artwork can now be integrated (through URL) 3) xspf flash players for each feed, including popup players for each 4) audio browser, similar to iTunes, used to search audio tags and find the audio to add to playlists 5) upload new audio files to playlists on the fly with an inline uploader 6) listening station: an xspf flash player block that has a dropdown select to listen to different playlists on the site 7) Cut n' paste HTML and javascript includes for integrating the flash player on other sites 8) lots of customization options
Every playlist node has links for podcast, xspf, and m3u/pls views of the playlist, in addition to being able to view the playlist on your site and listen with an embedded OSS Flash player (xspf player). Because it's Drupal, every playlist can be tagged with categories (taxonomy) in addition to support for artist/album/etc. metadata. Audio.module also automatically provides links to pages to view by artist, album, genre, etc.
That's a really good idea. Firefox has a modular extension system already. The core developers should use it more often. Anything that isn't necessary to core should be an uninstallable extension. Or to take that a step further, they could be disabled during installation, or not even downloaded unless enabled during installation. Built-in spellchecker, mouse gestures, phishing detectors, etc. come to mind as features that should be possible to completely remove.
If you would have read the article you wouldn't have anything to be upset over other than the fact that there are people on YouTube who think it's tripe.
Apparently, the majority of people who did read the article are still upset.
What are your thoughts about YouTube censoring videos with a conservative point of view? Now that YouTube is owned by Google, we'll be seeing a lot more of this censoring 62.25% (1258)
Perhaps a boycott of YouTube advertisers would get someone's attention 18.75% (379)
YouTube is a private business - it doesn't have to be fair 6.33% (128)
Censorship only makes people want to see it more 4.21% (85)
I wouldn't mind as long as both sides were censored equally 2.92% (59)
Other 1.68% (34)
YouTube was just making itself more attractive to Google to make the $1.65 billion sale go through 1.29% (26)
YouTube's not censoring conservatives - this is just another example of the radical right whining when its message is rejected in the marketplace 1.14% (23)
The anti-Clinton ad wasn't 'censored' - it just required viewers to 1st verify their age 0.89% (18)
Good - I found the blocked videos offensive 0.54% (11)
I think you meant to say "burning AAC to CD, reripping, and reencoding to AAC/mp3 takes more than a few minutes."
A 128kbps MP3 or AAC is a lot closer to the CD than a re-encoded DVD,
Again, it's a reencoded mp3 or AAC that's a lot worse than a reencoded DVD. But even with your idea of what I was talking about, I'd notice the quality loss of an iTMS AAC on commodity $50 stereo speakers. During normal play (no freeze-frame, no slow-mo), I'd notice the difference in the XviD or H.264 on a high-end HDTV.
Ah, you're right. I was thinking of the settings of font DPI in Windows and Firefox. They're unaware of inches, so you're supposed to set them accurately yourself I guess. But the real, physical DPI does increase if you add more pixels with the same number of inches.
Still, increasing resolution makes on-screen objects smaller, so you effectively have more room to move them around. To a point, where they become unreadable.
So you're saying Powerpoint presentations that require dropping in a bunch of logos, clip art, and bits of text would benefit, but coding in the same file all day wouldn't.
Great! I'll let my Powerpoint-crazy manager know right away! Err...wait.
PHP can be entered with <?php to start, other languages can be wrapped in <code> with codefilter. I haven't tried GeSHIFilter, but parent is right that it seems to add highlighting to the rest of the languages.
I think we're talking about 2 different things. You're talking about now, I'm talking about ideally. I use paper for a couple of those things now and will for the foreseeable future. But I'd prefer not to use paper, ideally.
At meetings, I almost always have a laptop there anyway. The choice is just whether I take notes on that or paper.
I don't mean to pick apart your post or anything, but here's my take:
Quick grocery list? Paper. -We can start off in agreement. Though if I could pick out my items online and stop in a store to pick them up, I'd probably do it.
Quick (circuit diagram|woodworking drawing w/dimensions|flowerbed layout|connector pinout) for reference during implementation? Paper. -If I had a light tablet PC, I'd rather use that. Much less awkward to access large diagrams without spreading it all over the place. And you don't have to skip the Spanish section.
Web based directions to somewhere you've never been in a format you can take along in the car? Paper -GPS. Preferably audible.
Notes from a 5-minute meeting (even if you are going to digitize them later)? Paper. -I try to take notes on a laptop if its not too distracting to my fellow attendees.
Keeping static information (headers, a page from the API docs, a quick reference card) in your field of view while you are writing software without the added costs of an additional display? Paper. -F1? Object Browser? I had an engineer give me a stack of header files once and I didn't know what the hell to do with it. Then they took them back from me to pass along to someone else. Isn't that crap online somewhere on the intranet? Doxygen? Searchable API? But I do like some reference material in book form, so I guess we're in agreement.
Note to the (mailman|gardner|etc...)? Paper. -Probably makes sense. Email is not entirely unreasonable though.
Temporary sign to post on the wall? Paper. -If I had lots of cheap, low power screens everywhere, I'd use those. We're not talking this decade though.
at a comfortable font size (to compensate for that low resolution) you have to scroll a screen, where you can just scan a sheet of paper.
I'm laaaazy. I read/. by flicking my scroll wheel after clicking one of my extra mouse buttons to increase the font size 3 times. It's freakin huge, but it's easy to read and the scroll wheel is right there anyway. It's much easier to lounge around doing that then hunched over a piece of paper and actually having to move my arm to flip(!) the pages.
How is reading paper easier on the eyes than reading a TFT LCD? Answer? it isn't - it's all psycological.
I'm with you there, but I don't think any of my former or current bosses can deal with that. They've always wanted reports printed out from systems that I've built, even though it would be easier to have them get their reports by email or directly from the system online. Then they can filter, correct, annotate, etc. right in the same place that everyone else is looking, or keep it secure if it's that type of information.
I think it has something to do with their process of dealing with tasks. If they have a pile of paper to be dealt with, they can start on it in the morning, and hopefully have their desk cleared off by the end of the day. Dropping off a note at their desks often ensures it gets done better than sending them an email.
I'm the exact opposite, though. When I'm given paper, I forget to do anything with it much more frequently than if I have an email sitting in my inbox. I try to get follow up summaries emailed to me after meetings, to add to my list of tasks, just to avoid forgetting about something.
So I guess I can understand their predicament. Mine is just flipped. But they should still be just like me.;-)
And does anyone know where I can get a toolbox with redundant power and cooling?
Exactly. The datacenter can, and should, provide the reliability, redundancy, and centralization that computing needs.
More computing will move to the datacenter, with companies like Google providing ever more complex services built on top of each other, while the computer-like devices that we each use will become ever smaller.
FTFS:
or are the computers going to be placed where they are really needed?
They're not really needed anywhere. Just a small screen, input device, sensor, handheld device, or network terminal is really necessary in most locations.
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I see that a lot. But hardly ever with any real examples of what it is missing that you need for professional graphics work. I'd love to hear specifically what is missing, as I'm sure the devs would too. Is it just the color management for print design, or something else?
Now that I've checked the KB to confirm what I had recalled, I'm positive that it asks for confirmation for both partitions. See kb313348, step 11:
That means that you will see the following menu twice, once for each partition:
If you choose to format 2 different partitions without paying attention, how is that MS's fault?
Yeah, I know a lot of people who refuse to do that though. I mean, do they really need to make sure their mail goes out at 9am instead of 1pm, when it will take 2 days to get there anyway? Other people are afraid somebody will steal it, but what are they going to do with checks or NetFlix movies anyway? NetFlix covers it if there's a shipping problem, not to mention you don't really hear about too many people committing a federal offense to steal mail.
Yeah, dude, my cell phone is freakin huge. I so wish they would have made the battery non-removable so it would fit in my pocket. I don't know why they even bothered to make them serviceable. Nobody ever has to replace a lithium-ion cell phone battery.
Oops, you're right, they changed it, I misread. It is 2 TB, as shown in the link.
1 TB for their basic $10/mo plan.
GoDaddy is a bit of a joke as far as hosting. I've used them about a year ago, and they have very small limits on domains, subdomains, email, etc., charging for any additional features you need. Their performance is poor compared to the alternatives. Their interfaces are slow and awkward, giving you ads every time you use them. Their support emails are HTML, and require you to reply in this little section between HTML tags to process your response.
DreamHost, Site5, or BlueHost are much better alternatives. DreamHost, for example, gives you 200 GB disk, 1000 GB bandwidth for $10/mo. with unlimited domains, subdomains, databases, shell access, and a large number of shell/FTP/email accounts. Their performance is also better than GoDaddy's, speaking from personal experience.
It's kind of a turn off that they have a $50 setup fee, but you can waive it by using a coupon. One of my coupons for monthly is DH02SETUP, which is the largest coupon I can create for monthly. Disclaimer: that coupon does earn me income, but it is the greatest amount for you (and least amount for me) that they allow me to create for monthly. I wouldn't use DreamHost without a coupon though, as $50 setup is more than you pay almost anywhere else for setup.
I'd recommend using something other than GoDaddy for sure, regardless of whether it is DreamHost or not. GoDaddy is fine for domains (sort of, namecheap.com is better), but they are one of the worst for hosting.
Anyway, I should have also mentioned that audio.module also includes audio_import.module, which can import mp3s you have uploaded by FTP, which should meet your criteria for that.
/admin section and configure the modules, and upload your mp3s. You get to maintain control over the whole process, rather than relying on someone else's service.
It should be pretty simple to setup. Buy hosting, untar the core package and modules, visit the
Yeah, but who really cares about the fan? When it's dying, you'll know it. All sorts of freaky noises will spew from your system. $20 to replace a fan vs. up to $300 to replace a component that failed because of heat.
Install Drupal, audio.module, and playlist.module.
Every playlist node has links for podcast, xspf, and m3u/pls views of the playlist, in addition to being able to view the playlist on your site and listen with an embedded OSS Flash player (xspf player). Because it's Drupal, every playlist can be tagged with categories (taxonomy) in addition to support for artist/album/etc. metadata. Audio.module also automatically provides links to pages to view by artist, album, genre, etc.
That's a really good idea. Firefox has a modular extension system already. The core developers should use it more often. Anything that isn't necessary to core should be an uninstallable extension. Or to take that a step further, they could be disabled during installation, or not even downloaded unless enabled during installation. Built-in spellchecker, mouse gestures, phishing detectors, etc. come to mind as features that should be possible to completely remove.
That right there is why I read /.
Apparently, the majority of people who did read the article are still upset.
Yeah, but don't let facts get in the way of conservative opinion:_ RESULTS=Y
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/polls/index.asp?VIEW
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What are your thoughts about YouTube censoring videos with a conservative point of view?
Now that YouTube is owned by Google, we'll be seeing a lot more of this censoring
62.25% (1258)
Perhaps a boycott of YouTube advertisers would get someone's attention
18.75% (379)
YouTube is a private business - it doesn't have to be fair
6.33% (128)
Censorship only makes people want to see it more
4.21% (85)
I wouldn't mind as long as both sides were censored equally
2.92% (59)
Other
1.68% (34)
YouTube was just making itself more attractive to Google to make the $1.65 billion sale go through
1.29% (26)
YouTube's not censoring conservatives - this is just another example of the radical right whining when its message is rejected in the marketplace
1.14% (23)
The anti-Clinton ad wasn't 'censored' - it just required viewers to 1st verify their age
0.89% (18)
Good - I found the blocked videos offensive
0.54% (11)
TOTAL VOTES: 2021
Going by moderation, not a very good one. ;-)
I think you meant to say "burning AAC to CD, reripping, and reencoding to AAC/mp3 takes more than a few minutes."
Again, it's a reencoded mp3 or AAC that's a lot worse than a reencoded DVD. But even with your idea of what I was talking about, I'd notice the quality loss of an iTMS AAC on commodity $50 stereo speakers. During normal play (no freeze-frame, no slow-mo), I'd notice the difference in the XviD or H.264 on a high-end HDTV.
Ah, you're right. I was thinking of the settings of font DPI in Windows and Firefox. They're unaware of inches, so you're supposed to set them accurately yourself I guess. But the real, physical DPI does increase if you add more pixels with the same number of inches.
Still, increasing resolution makes on-screen objects smaller, so you effectively have more room to move them around. To a point, where they become unreadable.
So you're saying Powerpoint presentations that require dropping in a bunch of logos, clip art, and bits of text would benefit, but coding in the same file all day wouldn't.
Great! I'll let my Powerpoint-crazy manager know right away! Err...wait.
He said "higher resolution". So characters would be smaller. Work area would be larger.
;-)
You said "higher DPI". So characters would be larger. Work area would be mostly the same, just with big characters that take up some extra space.
Higher resolution != higher DPI.
Check out how code highlighting looks in Drupal.
PHP can be entered with <?php to start, other languages can be wrapped in <code> with codefilter. I haven't tried GeSHIFilter, but parent is right that it seems to add highlighting to the rest of the languages.
I think we're talking about 2 different things. You're talking about now, I'm talking about ideally. I use paper for a couple of those things now and will for the foreseeable future. But I'd prefer not to use paper, ideally.
At meetings, I almost always have a laptop there anyway. The choice is just whether I take notes on that or paper.
The last one was kind of a joke.
I don't mean to pick apart your post or anything, but here's my take:
Quick grocery list? Paper.
-We can start off in agreement. Though if I could pick out my items online and stop in a store to pick them up, I'd probably do it.
Quick (circuit diagram|woodworking drawing w/dimensions|flowerbed layout|connector pinout) for reference during implementation? Paper.
-If I had a light tablet PC, I'd rather use that. Much less awkward to access large diagrams without spreading it all over the place. And you don't have to skip the Spanish section.
Web based directions to somewhere you've never been in a format you can take along in the car? Paper
-GPS. Preferably audible.
Notes from a 5-minute meeting (even if you are going to digitize them later)? Paper.
-I try to take notes on a laptop if its not too distracting to my fellow attendees.
Keeping static information (headers, a page from the API docs, a quick reference card) in your field of view while you are writing software without the added costs of an additional display? Paper.
-F1? Object Browser? I had an engineer give me a stack of header files once and I didn't know what the hell to do with it. Then they took them back from me to pass along to someone else. Isn't that crap online somewhere on the intranet? Doxygen? Searchable API? But I do like some reference material in book form, so I guess we're in agreement.
Note to the (mailman|gardner|etc...)? Paper.
-Probably makes sense. Email is not entirely unreasonable though.
Temporary sign to post on the wall? Paper.
-If I had lots of cheap, low power screens everywhere, I'd use those. We're not talking this decade though.
I'm laaaazy. I read
I'm with you there, but I don't think any of my former or current bosses can deal with that. They've always wanted reports printed out from systems that I've built, even though it would be easier to have them get their reports by email or directly from the system online. Then they can filter, correct, annotate, etc. right in the same place that everyone else is looking, or keep it secure if it's that type of information.
I think it has something to do with their process of dealing with tasks. If they have a pile of paper to be dealt with, they can start on it in the morning, and hopefully have their desk cleared off by the end of the day. Dropping off a note at their desks often ensures it gets done better than sending them an email.
I'm the exact opposite, though. When I'm given paper, I forget to do anything with it much more frequently than if I have an email sitting in my inbox. I try to get follow up summaries emailed to me after meetings, to add to my list of tasks, just to avoid forgetting about something.
So I guess I can understand their predicament. Mine is just flipped. But they should still be just like me.
Exactly. The datacenter can, and should, provide the reliability, redundancy, and centralization that computing needs.
More computing will move to the datacenter, with companies like Google providing ever more complex services built on top of each other, while the computer-like devices that we each use will become ever smaller.
FTFS:
They're not really needed anywhere. Just a small screen, input device, sensor, handheld device, or network terminal is really necessary in most locations.