Two awesome photo management apps that fit almost any workflow with a very clean, intuitive interface. Gwenview is a lighter program that's very easy to use and Digikam is a more professional one with some very advanced features.
Sounds like you're looking for ownCloud. It's still under heavy development but the file storage functions work very well and it's accessible on Mac, Windows & Linux via webdav and from everywhere else via a web interface. There are also a couple of mobile apps in the works and it runs on a standard LAMP stack.
http://owncloud.org/index.php/Main_Page
And a blog post about the current status:
http://owncloudtest.blogspot.com/2011/06/owncloud-20-just-merged-with.html
It's really great to see this. One of linux's greatest weaknesses is the amount of duplication that happens. Sometimes it's necessary but a lot of the time the community would be better served by everybody working together instead of against each other. This is one of those times and I applaud the beryl and compiz devs for realizing that and having the good sense to swallow a little bit of their pride on both sides. I'm looking forward to the great things that will come out of this.
I don't know whether regulation is good or bad but this seems a bit excessive. An unfinished product isn't being delivered. What if I wrote and started selling a program that had a feature commented out, then later decided to uncomment it? Would I not be able to claim that I'd made money for the program? It's a bad example, but you get the idea. There's something very nonsensical going on with this.
To be honest, I haven't looked at aac all that much. Ogg seems to be the de facto standard on Linux, boasts better quality than mp3 and is free. But based on the little bit of research I've done since reading your comment it looks like ogg is also better than aac. Here's a comparison between mp3,ogg and aac. And because I don't trust random blogs all that much, here's a previous slashdot article that says the same thing. The article's been taken down but the summary, well... summarizes it. And if aac was really a free codec, I think it would be supported in Linux by default. Without installing any extra packages I can rip to flac, ogg, even mp3 but not aac. If I missed something let me know, but if not I'm going to stick with ogg.
The problem with any ipod killer is that the ipod has set the bar. When people think about what they want/need they think about what they know they like, which for most people is the ipod. Telling somebody you're DAP has an FM radio may be true, but only adds value if it's something the person wants. Somebody who's happy with their ipod isn't going to see a radio as a feature that makes them want to change DAPs. People don't listen to radios anymore because they've all got ipods. I didn't listen to the radio when I had an ipod, I just listened to my ipod which didn't have commercials or play songs I didn't want to hear or make me listen to annoying DJ's/announcers. Any product that wants to take mind and marketshare away from the ipod has to do it with new features, things people don't know whether or not they won't be able to live without. Either that or make something more convenient. Apple made portable music players more convenient and easier to use, which is why they're at the top of the hill. The Zune had a chance to beat the ipod by being the first to introduce a wireless connection to their DAP but from everything I've heard, they messed it up pretty badly and it's just going to frustrate users rather than become something they can't live without.
That said, I'm not buying another ipod until Apple supports Ogg Vorbis.
I'd just like to say congratulations and thank you for making such a great desktop. Keep up the good work for KDE 4. Just in case anyone is interested in getting involved, here's the link to the Support KDE page. There's info there on how to donate money, time, code, etc.
Google is quickly developing an online suite of tools that will rival anything that m$ or Linux can offer within a few years.
Google isn't competing with operating systems like Windows and Linux. Operating systems help people create and work with content and with only a few exceptions (Writely and Google Spreadsheets, if that) Google is really just helping people organize and share their content more easily. That's what Gmail, Google Desktop, Google Talk, etc. all do. It's what YouTube does and will continue to do. In some areas Google competes with Microsoft but that seems to be more because Microsoft is imitating Google and purposely moving into areas where they are succeeding (Windows Live? Live Office?). My point is that Google is definitely not competing with Linux and actually greatly improving the Linux experience by having so many of their tools be web-based and cross-platform. I know that I might not have switched to Linux if it meant giving up the Google services I use so often. As it is Google and Linux make a great combination and I'd love to see more integration of Google technologies into Linux apps.
While there are other sites doing the same thing for free, Google is turning into an easy to use, all in one solution for information. Do I really want to create another account or do I want to pay Google a pittance and have it be much more convienent? I'm technically able but if I had need of a service like this I wouldn't dismiss the Google one out of hand. If the price was right and the terms were good I'd be willing to pay to have it work with my existing accounts. Plus, a lot of people don't know about alternatives. They'll hear about Google doing it, think it's a novel new service and sign up. That's how they'll make money off of it.
What are the integrated graphics cards designed to do? I realize they're not for playing high-end 3d games. Are they designed for more multimedia related tasks? Playing back and/or recording HD streams? I'm really curious, not only to what they're intended to do well, but how well the actually end up doing it.
While I'm interested in when Apple will start selling Meroms, they're not known for being on the cutting edge of technology. When will Meroms start being available from every computer seller? I heard Intel's been shipping them for a while but I can't find anywhere to buy one and I'm getting to the point where I can't wait any longer. Santa Rosa's out of the question for me, but if somebody would hurry up and start selling laptops with Merom in them I'd love to get one.
Thank you. You absolutely hit the nail on the head. The most effective way to learn something (besides teaching it) is to have there be consequences for not learning it. I'm so tired of governments, companies and now landlords trying to protect me from myself. I think a recommendation should be put in place that encrypting wireless traffic makes things safer (a bad encryption is still better than no encryption) but beyond that let people make their own decisions, otherwise they'll never understand the reasons behind them and will just make the same mistakes in other areas. If the only reason somebody encrypts their wireless network is because they're forced to they won't understand why they're doing it and won't see any need to put their wired internet connection behind a firewall. Take that same person, recommend they use WEP or WAP, but let them choose not to and eventually either they'll get burned or they'll know somebody who did and they'll do a little bit of research, realize why encryption and firewalls and lots of other things are important. Then you've got a person who is that much more able to take care of themselves on the internet. Otherwise, you have to keep passing more and more laws protecting people from themselves and the last thing we need is more beaurocracy.
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Am I the only one who gets annoyed when non-novices review a book intended for novices? There's a world of difference between being able to understand somebodys explanation of something you already know and being able to learn how to use it from just an explanation. You'd think that somebody who hasn't "been using GIMP exclusively for touching up images for many years now and it has met all my graphics manipulation needs" would be a much better reviewer of a book intended for novices to GIMP.
While I appreciate getting articles like this I always wonder what's stopping extremists from reading it as well and knowing what not to do in the future. I'm not a lawyer but aren't there laws against helping people commit illegal acts? Mightn't this article fall under such a heading?
There's no golden rule. What works for somebody else might be perfect for you or the worst possible thing you could do. The most important thing is to be honest and open and trust your wife to be the same. Talk it over with her and come to some kind of understanding. The worst thing would be having to sit down again six months later and one of you say something like 'I thought I could handle it, so I didn't say anything before, but I really didn't want you to take this job.' That's when you're in trouble. Also, be open to change. You might think you'll be OK and find out a few months in that you're not or vice-versa. Be open and honest and you have a better than average chance of things working out.
Can there be any better proof that lawyers are running rampant than the fact they can sue somebody for not hiring them? For not wanting to have anything to do with them? If these lawyers aren't reprimanded, soon, severly and publicly, the precedent this sets could be disasterous.
I've been running for about five years now (competitively and otherwise) and almost every pair of shoes I've owned, whether they were for training or competition have come from Adidas. Same thing with a lot of the people I run with. Adidas just makes good shoes without lots of flash and hype. If Apple had partnered with Adidas I'd at least be considering getting this, it sounds interesting. Of course, one of the reasons Apple chose Nike for this was because of all the hype and flash and recognition they bring. I think that will alienate a lot of more serious runners. Of course, maybe that's not the target audience for this.
That sounds a hell of a lot like the browser that gets installed with the new version of AIM. During install I tried telling it not to install the browser but it did anyway, was amazingly slow and had lots of pop ups. It sounds pretty similar to this worm.
Apple loves price holes. Just look at the iPod. They used to have a 20GB regular iPod and a 6GB iPod mini. At that point, a lot of people are already going to be thinking that 6GB's just isn't enough, but if they want more they have to jump up to 20. I'm sure a lot of people who weren't really looking for something that big made the jump because there was nothing in between, and who wants to go down a level? Characteristically, Apple then introduced the nanos (which had even smaller hard drives) to replace the minis and then upped the capacity of the video iPods. Now, you can get either a 30GB model or a 4GB model. That's a huge hole and forces a lot of people who only need 10GB's or so to jump up to 30. It's amazing marketing, although I'm sure it makes some (myself among them) resentful at being herded like that.
Agreed, and this project might provide some momentum to get things like Motion capture done. If you were a startup animation studio, or even a larger one and you saw that open source software was at the point where it was (or is close to being) a viable alternative to software that can cost you up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, wouldn't you at least investigate whether or not it was worth your while to donate some money to the software in order to bring it up to the level you need it to be, then reap the benefits of not having to buy some insanely expensive proprietary tools?
A couple of weeks ago Intel announced they were moving up their launch dates. Here's the quote from the article: "Three new chips, one for each of the Core market segments, will be part of the rollout: Woodcrest for servers in June, Conroe for desktops in July, and Merom for notebooks in August." Hopefully by November prices will have already started dropping.
I think the main reason this is important is solely because it's the first open source movie. It's mainly showcasing the fact that such a thing is possible. Just like with any first, you can't really hold it to standards of greatness. Edisons light bulb was probably pretty weak and didn't last very long, but the fact that he did it set the stage for massive improvements later on. Nobody expected him to come up with flourescent lights, but without him (or somebody else doing the same thing) we would have never had flourescent lights.
Movie remixes should be awesome. Even better since anybody can make them. The possibilities are enormous.
Because it's Microsoft these are the specs you can expect to see on new PC's. No PC manufacturer is going to keep ordering PC's that don't meet these specs. Prices will likely go up, but they go up whenever a new OS is released. People will pay because they don't know any better and want the absolute latest, and they'll get burned for it with all the unpatched holes, but Vista will eventually become a standard, although I think people are beginning to realize that Microsoft might not be who they want to trust their computer to so this process will happen more slowly than it has in the past.
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Two awesome photo management apps that fit almost any workflow with a very clean, intuitive interface. Gwenview is a lighter program that's very easy to use and Digikam is a more professional one with some very advanced features.
Sounds like you're looking for ownCloud. It's still under heavy development but the file storage functions work very well and it's accessible on Mac, Windows & Linux via webdav and from everywhere else via a web interface. There are also a couple of mobile apps in the works and it runs on a standard LAMP stack. http://owncloud.org/index.php/Main_Page And a blog post about the current status: http://owncloudtest.blogspot.com/2011/06/owncloud-20-just-merged-with.html
It's really great to see this. One of linux's greatest weaknesses is the amount of duplication that happens. Sometimes it's necessary but a lot of the time the community would be better served by everybody working together instead of against each other. This is one of those times and I applaud the beryl and compiz devs for realizing that and having the good sense to swallow a little bit of their pride on both sides. I'm looking forward to the great things that will come out of this.
I don't know whether regulation is good or bad but this seems a bit excessive. An unfinished product isn't being delivered. What if I wrote and started selling a program that had a feature commented out, then later decided to uncomment it? Would I not be able to claim that I'd made money for the program? It's a bad example, but you get the idea. There's something very nonsensical going on with this.
To be honest, I haven't looked at aac all that much. Ogg seems to be the de facto standard on Linux, boasts better quality than mp3 and is free. But based on the little bit of research I've done since reading your comment it looks like ogg is also better than aac. Here's a comparison between mp3,ogg and aac. And because I don't trust random blogs all that much, here's a previous slashdot article that says the same thing. The article's been taken down but the summary, well... summarizes it. And if aac was really a free codec, I think it would be supported in Linux by default. Without installing any extra packages I can rip to flac, ogg, even mp3 but not aac. If I missed something let me know, but if not I'm going to stick with ogg.
The problem with any ipod killer is that the ipod has set the bar. When people think about what they want/need they think about what they know they like, which for most people is the ipod. Telling somebody you're DAP has an FM radio may be true, but only adds value if it's something the person wants. Somebody who's happy with their ipod isn't going to see a radio as a feature that makes them want to change DAPs. People don't listen to radios anymore because they've all got ipods. I didn't listen to the radio when I had an ipod, I just listened to my ipod which didn't have commercials or play songs I didn't want to hear or make me listen to annoying DJ's/announcers. Any product that wants to take mind and marketshare away from the ipod has to do it with new features, things people don't know whether or not they won't be able to live without. Either that or make something more convenient. Apple made portable music players more convenient and easier to use, which is why they're at the top of the hill. The Zune had a chance to beat the ipod by being the first to introduce a wireless connection to their DAP but from everything I've heard, they messed it up pretty badly and it's just going to frustrate users rather than become something they can't live without. That said, I'm not buying another ipod until Apple supports Ogg Vorbis.
I'd just like to say congratulations and thank you for making such a great desktop. Keep up the good work for KDE 4. Just in case anyone is interested in getting involved, here's the link to the Support KDE page. There's info there on how to donate money, time, code, etc.
Google isn't competing with operating systems like Windows and Linux. Operating systems help people create and work with content and with only a few exceptions (Writely and Google Spreadsheets, if that) Google is really just helping people organize and share their content more easily. That's what Gmail, Google Desktop, Google Talk, etc. all do. It's what YouTube does and will continue to do. In some areas Google competes with Microsoft but that seems to be more because Microsoft is imitating Google and purposely moving into areas where they are succeeding (Windows Live? Live Office?). My point is that Google is definitely not competing with Linux and actually greatly improving the Linux experience by having so many of their tools be web-based and cross-platform. I know that I might not have switched to Linux if it meant giving up the Google services I use so often. As it is Google and Linux make a great combination and I'd love to see more integration of Google technologies into Linux apps.
While there are other sites doing the same thing for free, Google is turning into an easy to use, all in one solution for information. Do I really want to create another account or do I want to pay Google a pittance and have it be much more convienent? I'm technically able but if I had need of a service like this I wouldn't dismiss the Google one out of hand. If the price was right and the terms were good I'd be willing to pay to have it work with my existing accounts. Plus, a lot of people don't know about alternatives. They'll hear about Google doing it, think it's a novel new service and sign up. That's how they'll make money off of it.
What are the integrated graphics cards designed to do? I realize they're not for playing high-end 3d games. Are they designed for more multimedia related tasks? Playing back and/or recording HD streams? I'm really curious, not only to what they're intended to do well, but how well the actually end up doing it.
While I'm interested in when Apple will start selling Meroms, they're not known for being on the cutting edge of technology. When will Meroms start being available from every computer seller? I heard Intel's been shipping them for a while but I can't find anywhere to buy one and I'm getting to the point where I can't wait any longer. Santa Rosa's out of the question for me, but if somebody would hurry up and start selling laptops with Merom in them I'd love to get one.
Thank you. You absolutely hit the nail on the head. The most effective way to learn something (besides teaching it) is to have there be consequences for not learning it. I'm so tired of governments, companies and now landlords trying to protect me from myself. I think a recommendation should be put in place that encrypting wireless traffic makes things safer (a bad encryption is still better than no encryption) but beyond that let people make their own decisions, otherwise they'll never understand the reasons behind them and will just make the same mistakes in other areas. If the only reason somebody encrypts their wireless network is because they're forced to they won't understand why they're doing it and won't see any need to put their wired internet connection behind a firewall. Take that same person, recommend they use WEP or WAP, but let them choose not to and eventually either they'll get burned or they'll know somebody who did and they'll do a little bit of research, realize why encryption and firewalls and lots of other things are important. Then you've got a person who is that much more able to take care of themselves on the internet. Otherwise, you have to keep passing more and more laws protecting people from themselves and the last thing we need is more beaurocracy.
Am I the only one who gets annoyed when non-novices review a book intended for novices? There's a world of difference between being able to understand somebodys explanation of something you already know and being able to learn how to use it from just an explanation. You'd think that somebody who hasn't "been using GIMP exclusively for touching up images for many years now and it has met all my graphics manipulation needs" would be a much better reviewer of a book intended for novices to GIMP.
While I appreciate getting articles like this I always wonder what's stopping extremists from reading it as well and knowing what not to do in the future. I'm not a lawyer but aren't there laws against helping people commit illegal acts? Mightn't this article fall under such a heading?
Is it just me or is does this just look like myspace made into its own browser?
There's no golden rule. What works for somebody else might be perfect for you or the worst possible thing you could do. The most important thing is to be honest and open and trust your wife to be the same. Talk it over with her and come to some kind of understanding. The worst thing would be having to sit down again six months later and one of you say something like 'I thought I could handle it, so I didn't say anything before, but I really didn't want you to take this job.' That's when you're in trouble. Also, be open to change. You might think you'll be OK and find out a few months in that you're not or vice-versa. Be open and honest and you have a better than average chance of things working out.
Can there be any better proof that lawyers are running rampant than the fact they can sue somebody for not hiring them? For not wanting to have anything to do with them? If these lawyers aren't reprimanded, soon, severly and publicly, the precedent this sets could be disasterous.
I've been running for about five years now (competitively and otherwise) and almost every pair of shoes I've owned, whether they were for training or competition have come from Adidas. Same thing with a lot of the people I run with. Adidas just makes good shoes without lots of flash and hype. If Apple had partnered with Adidas I'd at least be considering getting this, it sounds interesting. Of course, one of the reasons Apple chose Nike for this was because of all the hype and flash and recognition they bring. I think that will alienate a lot of more serious runners. Of course, maybe that's not the target audience for this.
Where did you read about this text-to-speech interface? I RTFA and I didn't see anything about it. Link?
That sounds a hell of a lot like the browser that gets installed with the new version of AIM. During install I tried telling it not to install the browser but it did anyway, was amazingly slow and had lots of pop ups. It sounds pretty similar to this worm.
Apple loves price holes. Just look at the iPod. They used to have a 20GB regular iPod and a 6GB iPod mini. At that point, a lot of people are already going to be thinking that 6GB's just isn't enough, but if they want more they have to jump up to 20. I'm sure a lot of people who weren't really looking for something that big made the jump because there was nothing in between, and who wants to go down a level? Characteristically, Apple then introduced the nanos (which had even smaller hard drives) to replace the minis and then upped the capacity of the video iPods. Now, you can get either a 30GB model or a 4GB model. That's a huge hole and forces a lot of people who only need 10GB's or so to jump up to 30. It's amazing marketing, although I'm sure it makes some (myself among them) resentful at being herded like that.
Agreed, and this project might provide some momentum to get things like Motion capture done. If you were a startup animation studio, or even a larger one and you saw that open source software was at the point where it was (or is close to being) a viable alternative to software that can cost you up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, wouldn't you at least investigate whether or not it was worth your while to donate some money to the software in order to bring it up to the level you need it to be, then reap the benefits of not having to buy some insanely expensive proprietary tools?
A couple of weeks ago Intel announced they were moving up their launch dates. Here's the quote from the article: "Three new chips, one for each of the Core market segments, will be part of the rollout: Woodcrest for servers in June, Conroe for desktops in July, and Merom for notebooks in August." Hopefully by November prices will have already started dropping.
I think the main reason this is important is solely because it's the first open source movie. It's mainly showcasing the fact that such a thing is possible. Just like with any first, you can't really hold it to standards of greatness. Edisons light bulb was probably pretty weak and didn't last very long, but the fact that he did it set the stage for massive improvements later on. Nobody expected him to come up with flourescent lights, but without him (or somebody else doing the same thing) we would have never had flourescent lights.
Movie remixes should be awesome. Even better since anybody can make them. The possibilities are enormous.
Because it's Microsoft these are the specs you can expect to see on new PC's. No PC manufacturer is going to keep ordering PC's that don't meet these specs. Prices will likely go up, but they go up whenever a new OS is released. People will pay because they don't know any better and want the absolute latest, and they'll get burned for it with all the unpatched holes, but Vista will eventually become a standard, although I think people are beginning to realize that Microsoft might not be who they want to trust their computer to so this process will happen more slowly than it has in the past.