* and i know what SAMBA is, i've done ubuntu sharing before, but i'm not sure how to format the address of the folder, i just want to freaking navigate to it and i can't.:-/ -Taylor
Have you considered using XBMC? It uses mplayer and ffdshow and has a nifty interface. It has mouse, keyboard, and remote support... And it's available for win, mac, lin, and xbox.
I have, but i still can't figure out how to add network media. There is this weird interface with two explorer-like things. Why two? I don't know, but when i try to add a network folder it wants some samba crap and it doesn't make any sense. I just want to navigate to my network places and click on my "media" folder, but I can't seem to do it. Haven't tried a new version, but it was pretty bad before. I'm sure i could look it up and figure it out, but bad UI's irritate me. -Taylor
I just covered this below, but on my media center i keep my keyboard stowed, so that's more annoying than just clicking the small button. I know HOW to use VLC, i just don't like it how that is. -Taylor
I also HATE that VLC doesn't let you click on the frame to pause. Nothing happens when you click on the frame, so why not pause! Having to navigate to the little pause button every time is lame.
Spacebar pauses.
Of course it does, but generally i keep my keyboard stowed when using my Media Center. The mouse is small so I keep it with the remotes, and I would be nice if I could just click on the frame, which I've grown accustomed to. And besides, nothing happened when you click the frame. *something* useful should happen there, it's a very simple UI point. Who thought *nothing* was a useful function? Maybe people who keep accidentally clicking the screen? I have no idea. -Taylor
Eh, VLC is okay. I've found it to be more processor intensive when decoding MKV's than Media Player Classic - to the point where the old PC i repurposed as a media center can play 1080p movies just barely smoothly in media player classic, but it chokes if i need to use VLC (media player classic has options for choosing an audio stream but never actually shows more than one stream! grr).
I also HATE that VLC doesn't let you click on the frame to pause. Nothing happens when you click on the frame, so why not pause! Having to navigate to the little pause button every time is lame.
ALSO hate that even in full screen, the progress bar stays small, so I don't have much resolution when i want to skip back a little.
So yeah, best player ever? meh. It's nice, and i love all the transcoding features etc. is has, but that's not media playing, that's something else. As a media player, VLC is just ok.
This is just a TLD, which is obviously run by some governing body in Ireland. They get to choose what they want on the TLD, and I assume at some level it is supported by the politicians.
Now, if there are people that feel oppressed in Ireland, they can simply get a domain at a different TLD. They could also just move out of Ireland. That's a choice too.
The real problem is when Irish ISPs start blocking other TLDs and controlling what domains people can resolve on their networks. Then of course come all the blogs and posts about proxies/TOR/Freenet/OpenDNS.
Maybe I am triviliazing the issue, but being restricted on possible domains on a TLD that only applies to a single country does not seem as big of an issue as actually interferring with what traffic can reach a country. It's large scale censorship such as the Great Firewall in China that should be more concerning than this.
If the Irish people feel that they are being oppressed and it is a free speech issue, then they need to address that with their politicians. It's still largely ineffective.
It's still a government trying to tell its people what words they should and should not see, which is censorship and something to notice and oppose. -Taylor
If a teenager sends it to arouse someone or titillate them, is it porn, and if so, is that tacitly illegal? Perhaps it should be, but it's not a felonious act.
Why on earth should titillating the person who looks at an image make it illegal?
The argument is that people should not be encouraged to want to see nude children, or they might seek out more of this and actually create new harm against a child.
... Working for a firm that did medical education... everything was written in English... We had to be careful not to write above a 6th grade level...
"Hello, Sir. I looked at the see-through pictures of your boo-boo, and it makes me sad. You will have to sleep here for longer, we need to look for more things. We might have to find a new red thingy from a person who doesn't need their red thingy anymore, and it may hurt for a while. We have these little pills you will need to eat. Please lay down for a while, and i will use this pokey tube to make you sleep while I cut."
Oh, wait, that was pre-school english, my bad. -Taylor
Women are coming up to you, in public, and complimenting your laptop and you're pissed because the language they're using is cute and adorable? Were you raised in a barn?
And the 'attention you want' is ANY. Just because you lack the social skills to turn a 'wow that laptop is cute' into a 'hey would you like to have dinner' doesn't mean some Metallica Stickers are going to fix it.
I was with my Dad and his dog and my Girlfriend at a rugby tournament this weekend. Every single woman that walked pass came up and started petting the dog. I told my girlfriend next year she wasn't invited and I was just going to bring the dog.
Right on. This guy is way too inept to handle women, there is no hope. -Taylor
I was with my Dad and his dog and my Girlfriend at a rugby tournament this weekend. Every single woman that walked pass came up and started petting the dog. I told my girlfriend next year she wasn't invited and I was just going to bring the dog.
You sir are a dick. Mainly because you claim to have a girlfriend and then effectively tell her you're going to cheat on her to her face - unless that was in jest, in which case that was still a dickhead thing to do.
He was obviously kidding, and my girlfriend would laugh too if I said something like that in a scenario like that. If you think joking around is a dickhead thing to do, you must be really fucking boring, or date boring women. -Taylor
A black car on a lit day is easy to see, and a black car in the evening with its lights on is also easy. It's only hard to see a black car at night with the lights off, but only idiots do that, so shouldn't we really ban idiots? -Taylor
What about convertibles? My roof comes off when it's hot, so the car heating up has little to do with the internal temp of the car. Especially since it's a cloth top. -Taylor
I would think it is almost the opposite of what you say (in a way).
For most people graphic violence triggers an aversion. While graphic sex triggers a pleasant tingling.
Additioanlly most of us have/will have sex, while most won't even have a chance to gun people down. This makes it easier for violence to be isolated into the pure fantasy realm.
When i grew up, I was allowed to see all kinds of violence, but no sex, when watching movies. My best friend was allowed to see all kinds of sex, but not violence.
We turned out pretty much the same (and my exposure to violence absolutely didn't mess me up, i'm generally a pacifist, even though i am strong enough to win fights), though for likely unrelated reasons he's not as socially skilled as most people.
But yeah, i think it's a crapshoot what your parents decide. I know my mom was a victim of sexual abuse when she was younger, that might be why she tried to hide me from sex, or maybe it has nothing to do with it.
Either way, sex and violence don't bother me, i still haven't seen the watchmen but i can't wait! -Taylor
People Hate DRM not because of how it works, but what it does. If this new system makes moving the game to an new computer a pain, it will still piss people off. -Taylor
Sounds like you're a dick. Maybe just get over it? OMFG people want to look at your site! Take advantage of it, don't get all "get off my lawn" about it. -Taylor
I'm not affiliated with these guys or anything, I've just used some of their stuff before. I build a real walking hexapod when i was in 9th grade, which is pretty far beyond 5th grade, but they may have something simpler, i dunno.
Actually, you may wanna look at the BOE bot, avaliable probably from parallax, but I'm not sure.
Anyway, i just love Lynxmotion. Might be for an older crowd, but they are good. -Taylor
Yeah... I'm pretty sure that even with NO map i could still find a school, just drive around for a bit and I will find one. Or, like, find the school's website and look at their address there. In fact, why even blur them? It would be sufficient to just de-list these things from map services, it's not like they find schools by looking for school shaped things, they just search the map for schools.
Of course, i don't think that de-listing them is anything less than moronic, but still, it at least makes more sense than blurring things. -Taylor
Yeah, and in this case, kdawson got it right. The patch will be released on March 11th, according to Adobe.
It's my policy to give credit where credit is due. I know kdawson normally SUCKS HORRIBLY, but he owned you and the grandparent here.
DOUBLE KILL!
What are you talking about man? I made it very clear (for people who can't figure it out) that there is a big difference between prediction and fact. You cannot claim something as fact that hasn't happened yet. The headline should have taken that into account. "patch beats adobe's projected release by two weeks" for example.
But, you know, you could just ignore the basic stuff i said and spout of something stupid too, that works. -Taylor
What i find more interesting is how slashdot is now able to tell the future! The article boldly claims that something released yesterday has arrived two weeks before the official patch. Now, i know it's possible that the two weeks was taken from Adobe's projected patch fix date, but projections and fact are still different, and journalistic integrity requires a writer in this situation to indicate directly that this two weeks is not actually fact, as we couldn't know that yet. The headline is an outright lie, as far as i can tell, as it relies on future events being a certain way.
Can we not have articles started with lies on slashdot from now on? Maybe keep the lies towards the end? -Taylor
Well, i DID install the proprietary stuff, and i DID use their tool, but there was basically no option that worked to allow me to use both in one session without stretching stuff. I also spent a long time searching online and most forum threads i found ended up with the person not succeeding. Grr. Maybe I'll look again, but i wasn't able to do it before, and I spent a few nights trying to solve it. -Taylor
So... when will I be able to use multiple displays without having two separate X sessions? You can't drag things between sessions so that approach is useless, and I don't want one virtual display where everything full screen is kicked between the two either. I want two screens. Is that so hard? It's part of the reason i rarely use ubuntu at home! -taylor
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* and i know what SAMBA is, i've done ubuntu sharing before, but i'm not sure how to format the address of the folder, i just want to freaking navigate to it and i can't. :-/
-Taylor
Have you considered using XBMC? It uses mplayer and ffdshow and has a nifty interface. It has mouse, keyboard, and remote support... And it's available for win, mac, lin, and xbox.
I have, but i still can't figure out how to add network media. There is this weird interface with two explorer-like things. Why two? I don't know, but when i try to add a network folder it wants some samba crap and it doesn't make any sense. I just want to navigate to my network places and click on my "media" folder, but I can't seem to do it. Haven't tried a new version, but it was pretty bad before. I'm sure i could look it up and figure it out, but bad UI's irritate me.
-Taylor
Hit the space bar to pause.
I just covered this below, but on my media center i keep my keyboard stowed, so that's more annoying than just clicking the small button. I know HOW to use VLC, i just don't like it how that is.
-Taylor
I also HATE that VLC doesn't let you click on the frame to pause. Nothing happens when you click on the frame, so why not pause! Having to navigate to the little pause button every time is lame.
Spacebar pauses.
Of course it does, but generally i keep my keyboard stowed when using my Media Center. The mouse is small so I keep it with the remotes, and I would be nice if I could just click on the frame, which I've grown accustomed to. And besides, nothing happened when you click the frame. *something* useful should happen there, it's a very simple UI point. Who thought *nothing* was a useful function? Maybe people who keep accidentally clicking the screen? I have no idea.
-Taylor
Eh, VLC is okay. I've found it to be more processor intensive when decoding MKV's than Media Player Classic - to the point where the old PC i repurposed as a media center can play 1080p movies just barely smoothly in media player classic, but it chokes if i need to use VLC (media player classic has options for choosing an audio stream but never actually shows more than one stream! grr).
I also HATE that VLC doesn't let you click on the frame to pause. Nothing happens when you click on the frame, so why not pause! Having to navigate to the little pause button every time is lame.
ALSO hate that even in full screen, the progress bar stays small, so I don't have much resolution when i want to skip back a little.
So yeah, best player ever? meh. It's nice, and i love all the transcoding features etc. is has, but that's not media playing, that's something else. As a media player, VLC is just ok.
-Taylor
I guess i shouldn't bother with my idea for ShitPissFuckCuntCocksuckerMotherfuckerTits.ie then, Huh?
-Taylor
Really. Who gives a shit? Nobody should.
This is just a TLD, which is obviously run by some governing body in Ireland. They get to choose what they want on the TLD, and I assume at some level it is supported by the politicians.
Now, if there are people that feel oppressed in Ireland, they can simply get a domain at a different TLD. They could also just move out of Ireland. That's a choice too.
The real problem is when Irish ISPs start blocking other TLDs and controlling what domains people can resolve on their networks. Then of course come all the blogs and posts about proxies/TOR/Freenet/OpenDNS.
Maybe I am triviliazing the issue, but being restricted on possible domains on a TLD that only applies to a single country does not seem as big of an issue as actually interferring with what traffic can reach a country. It's large scale censorship such as the Great Firewall in China that should be more concerning than this.
If the Irish people feel that they are being oppressed and it is a free speech issue, then they need to address that with their politicians. It's still largely ineffective.
It's still a government trying to tell its people what words they should and should not see, which is censorship and something to notice and oppose.
-Taylor
If a teenager sends it to arouse someone or titillate them, is it porn, and if so, is that tacitly illegal? Perhaps it should be, but it's not a felonious act.
Why on earth should titillating the person who looks at an image make it illegal?
The argument is that people should not be encouraged to want to see nude children, or they might seek out more of this and actually create new harm against a child.
That's the argument anyway.
-Taylor
Looks like this could go a long way towards providing some very effective "Skin" for a robot, to sense contact all over.
-Taylor
... Working for a firm that did medical education ... everything was written in English ... We had to be careful not to write above a 6th grade level...
"Hello, Sir. I looked at the see-through pictures of your boo-boo, and it makes me sad. You will have to sleep here for longer, we need to look for more things. We might have to find a new red thingy from a person who doesn't need their red thingy anymore, and it may hurt for a while. We have these little pills you will need to eat. Please lay down for a while, and i will use this pokey tube to make you sleep while I cut."
Oh, wait, that was pre-school english, my bad.
-Taylor
Women are coming up to you, in public, and complimenting your laptop and you're pissed because the language they're using is cute and adorable? Were you raised in a barn?
And the 'attention you want' is ANY. Just because you lack the social skills to turn a 'wow that laptop is cute' into a 'hey would you like to have dinner' doesn't mean some Metallica Stickers are going to fix it.
I was with my Dad and his dog and my Girlfriend at a rugby tournament this weekend. Every single woman that walked pass came up and started petting the dog. I told my girlfriend next year she wasn't invited and I was just going to bring the dog.
Right on. This guy is way too inept to handle women, there is no hope.
-Taylor
I was with my Dad and his dog and my Girlfriend at a rugby tournament this weekend. Every single woman that walked pass came up and started petting the dog. I told my girlfriend next year she wasn't invited and I was just going to bring the dog.
You sir are a dick. Mainly because you claim to have a girlfriend and then effectively tell her you're going to cheat on her to her face - unless that was in jest, in which case that was still a dickhead thing to do.
He was obviously kidding, and my girlfriend would laugh too if I said something like that in a scenario like that. If you think joking around is a dickhead thing to do, you must be really fucking boring, or date boring women.
-Taylor
A black car on a lit day is easy to see, and a black car in the evening with its lights on is also easy. It's only hard to see a black car at night with the lights off, but only idiots do that, so shouldn't we really ban idiots?
-Taylor
What about convertibles? My roof comes off when it's hot, so the car heating up has little to do with the internal temp of the car. Especially since it's a cloth top.
-Taylor
I would think it is almost the opposite of what you say (in a way).
For most people graphic violence triggers an aversion. While graphic sex triggers a pleasant tingling.
Additioanlly most of us have/will have sex, while most won't even have a chance to gun people down. This makes it easier for violence to be isolated into the pure fantasy realm.
When i grew up, I was allowed to see all kinds of violence, but no sex, when watching movies. My best friend was allowed to see all kinds of sex, but not violence.
We turned out pretty much the same (and my exposure to violence absolutely didn't mess me up, i'm generally a pacifist, even though i am strong enough to win fights), though for likely unrelated reasons he's not as socially skilled as most people.
But yeah, i think it's a crapshoot what your parents decide. I know my mom was a victim of sexual abuse when she was younger, that might be why she tried to hide me from sex, or maybe it has nothing to do with it.
Either way, sex and violence don't bother me, i still haven't seen the watchmen but i can't wait!
-Taylor
People Hate DRM not because of how it works, but what it does. If this new system makes moving the game to an new computer a pain, it will still piss people off.
-Taylor
Sounds like you're a dick. Maybe just get over it? OMFG people want to look at your site! Take advantage of it, don't get all "get off my lawn" about it.
-Taylor
I'm not affiliated with these guys or anything, I've just used some of their stuff before. I build a real walking hexapod when i was in 9th grade, which is pretty far beyond 5th grade, but they may have something simpler, i dunno.
Actually, you may wanna look at the BOE bot, avaliable probably from parallax, but I'm not sure.
Anyway, i just love Lynxmotion. Might be for an older crowd, but they are good.
-Taylor
Yeah... I'm pretty sure that even with NO map i could still find a school, just drive around for a bit and I will find one.
Or, like, find the school's website and look at their address there.
In fact, why even blur them? It would be sufficient to just de-list these things from map services, it's not like they find schools by looking for school shaped things, they just search the map for schools.
Of course, i don't think that de-listing them is anything less than moronic, but still, it at least makes more sense than blurring things.
-Taylor
Can we not have articles started with lies on slashdot from now on? Maybe keep the lies towards the end?
"Yes"
Haha, thanks!
-Taylor
Yeah, and in this case, kdawson got it right. The patch will be released on March 11th, according to Adobe.
It's my policy to give credit where credit is due. I know kdawson normally SUCKS HORRIBLY, but he owned you and the grandparent here.
DOUBLE KILL!
What are you talking about man? I made it very clear (for people who can't figure it out) that there is a big difference between prediction and fact. You cannot claim something as fact that hasn't happened yet. The headline should have taken that into account. "patch beats adobe's projected release by two weeks" for example.
But, you know, you could just ignore the basic stuff i said and spout of something stupid too, that works.
-Taylor
What i find more interesting is how slashdot is now able to tell the future!
The article boldly claims that something released yesterday has arrived two weeks before the official patch. Now, i know it's possible that the two weeks was taken from Adobe's projected patch fix date, but projections and fact are still different, and journalistic integrity requires a writer in this situation to indicate directly that this two weeks is not actually fact, as we couldn't know that yet. The headline is an outright lie, as far as i can tell, as it relies on future events being a certain way.
Can we not have articles started with lies on slashdot from now on? Maybe keep the lies towards the end?
-Taylor
NVIDIA, btw.
Well, i DID install the proprietary stuff, and i DID use their tool, but there was basically no option that worked to allow me to use both in one session without stretching stuff. I also spent a long time searching online and most forum threads i found ended up with the person not succeeding. Grr. Maybe I'll look again, but i wasn't able to do it before, and I spent a few nights trying to solve it.
-Taylor
So... when will I be able to use multiple displays without having two separate X sessions? You can't drag things between sessions so that approach is useless, and I don't want one virtual display where everything full screen is kicked between the two either. I want two screens. Is that so hard? It's part of the reason i rarely use ubuntu at home!
-taylor