It's not just the tech. We had an administration that we somehow elected back the second term, who provided the collossal cultural impetus into the Big Brother Age, easily a decade before natural forces would have gotten us there. Now that it's here, in at least half strength, we get to deal with it.
Maybe there's a dialectic. Overall the world will favor goodness, but just barely, and it can be thrown off kilter into distractions for a long time. We are nearing the end of one such era. Obama is not a saint, but I guarantee he CANNOT be as horrific as the crew exiting. He'll have to knuckle to a few groups we don't like, *because he has to repair a damaged country*.
Let's go back even more innocently. A friend wanted to put some random picture of me on their page. I declined, and they were shocked. It's Do It Yourself Blackmail.
I like to clown around, but it's in a context. If you were there, drink's on me. But I don't need some random person following the 6 degrees of separation asking me about it 2 years later.
Part of the big shift that has to happen is social. We joke about it, but the Slashdot Karma rating is a prototype. We need to quit penalizing people for facebook party pics and watch for other measures of worth.
This may be the best common ground. The internet made "leveraging the genius" the thing of the 2nd decade (give the world another year to rest & prepare).
Now all any organization has to do is locate one of some 10,000 people worldwide with the knack at seeing ultra-patterns. Most of us aren't that interesting to bother with, so a little camoflage to avoid 5 second name searches is usually enough. But what the real point of the Mrs. S. effect is, "if you annoy the collective Net, they'll borrow a pattern expert and pulverize you".
You already ansered the question! Let me just invert the order of your post.
"... you want to gave songs as images on your webpage, that people would listen to by opening them with a "mini photosounder"? "
is met by
"I'm definitely going to implement drag-and-drop in Photosounder because often do I find myself thinking it would be much simpler if I could open file just by dropping the onto the window when I'm browsing for files."
1. RightClick/Save Image 2. Drag Image onto MiniSounder and play!
The "Computer Monk" picture takes you to the next webpage, but the dark background graphic - surprise! - turns out to be a playable music song!
It would be neat if you had a "drag and drop" variant of your photosounder so if someone is browsing a webpage they can save a song image, then right away drag it onto your "mini photosounder" without opening the full strength program, because they just want to play the song, not do havy modifications on it.
re: rotation, recall that webpages "scroll down". So I would turn the picture sideways as a page background. When saved, photosounder should have an option to attempt to rotate before playing. (Otherwise it is gibberish).
I am close to purchasing, but it would be nice to see these and a couple other finesses.
I'm still curious why you didn't go for that other famous Demo trick of time & usage limited. (Unless those are too easy to hack? But that again says something in the MetaThread.)
(My memory failed me - it was sound saving that was disabled.)
However, I did do a quick test on a 3866k-ish mp3, and it came out as a 823k jpeg. A 4.7X space savings might be useful for something like a phone. However, I am not an audiophile enough to know what the equivalent quality loss would be in a standard audio export program.
Feature question for you:
You know that WebPages run on Pictures, whereas sound files are kinda "blobs". Do you have any plans to be able to visually make the image file the same as the song, so that a webpage would literally show the music? I think they would make pretty backgrounds too.
1. ShortSound/3Sec : I can only assume that's a cripple feature, and it's pretty bad. I almost thought it was a bug until I took out my stopwatch and timed it. 2. I think saving image files is disabled. Thus I had to ask and couldn't have looked for myself. 3. Quality Crippling!? I hope not. There'd be no way to tell if it's just the state of the art as you know it vs. a protection feature.
(Grinding back on topic) We're in a thread about people's opinions of how much IP is worth. Your measures rank pretty high up on the CrippleDemo scale, so you must be concerned about people's reception to your program.
1. It's hard for the mind to reach its absolute top limits if part of it is busy playing an IP metagame. There's some unknown amount of damage to the student here.
2. The point of a classical Masters or Doctorate degree is to push the boundaries to achieve new results. So if you're saving your big ace in the hole it's the Elephant In The Room problem. (Degree committee) "This paper is kinda neat, but there's clearly something not stated... deny the degree. The student is hosed, so he has no choice but to tell us."
Except weird super-high end Physical/Biosciences tests, and maybe a portion of CompSci, "education" consists of books plus 42 lectures plus a "sorta-reliable" proof to employers that you learned a little. We all know the soft degrees subsidize the scary equipment. We know Paper Publishing is a racket.
But the IP ideas can be worth millions. With that last fragment in the equation, it just barely might NOT be worth going to a "top" university, and instead fish out a semi-obscure one that just happens to have beautifully liberal IP policies. When it comes to the usual boring interview question for resumes "Gee, why didn't you go to Harvard?" The answer is "Because I like owning MY business thank you."
You nailed the post I was thinking, so I'll try a followup. Since the RIAA has told us how much IP is worth, that makes the student's contribution about a million dollars right?
From what I remember of business law 10 years ago:
Offer, Acceptance, Consideration.
Host Offers service, you Accept, and your consideration is to abide by the terms *they* set specifically because it is a form of giving up certain legal rights *as payment* to use their service. Typical is "no foreign language sites". They're too lazy to translate sites for policing purposes, so they make it a TermOfService, which you agree to for their sake.
Unfortunately, companies are learning that "free as in beer" can be an excuse to slide out of commitments. I dabble with free hosts and have solid backups, and two mirrors at any one time, so I really *expect* them to fail and operate on that premise.
But despite some (good) advice here, I have managed to avoid backing up my Yahoo Mail and I would REALLY be upset if they croaked. That's because the principle of Relied Upon has come into play.
Why can't there be multiple front ends to the same back end set of features? The "dumbed down" thing will serve a business purpose. It's now really the era of "simple interface - advanced interface".
You can have the same interactions. But the interface command sequence grows longer.
A chess clock I know has one button you press seventeen times in something resembling morse code to set every feature it has, but it has a lot of features!
They're not taking it, they're copying the idea. After all, you can do something with your idea yourself. It's not like they physically vacuum the idea out of your head, unless someone invents the (generic brand) mind-sifter.
After all, if your idea wasn't any good to you, why when they take their resources to do it should you bother to get paid?
How about the publicity? Wouldn't "Google implemented my idea" be worth something?
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It's not just the tech. We had an administration that we somehow elected back the second term, who provided the collossal cultural impetus into the Big Brother Age, easily a decade before natural forces would have gotten us there. Now that it's here, in at least half strength, we get to deal with it.
Maybe there's a dialectic. Overall the world will favor goodness, but just barely, and it can be thrown off kilter into distractions for a long time. We are nearing the end of one such era. Obama is not a saint, but I guarantee he CANNOT be as horrific as the crew exiting. He'll have to knuckle to a few groups we don't like, *because he has to repair a damaged country*.
Yep, you found the other problem. It's now easy to frame people, and the Old School institutions will give you hell until it's fixed.
Let's go back even more innocently. A friend wanted to put some random picture of me on their page. I declined, and they were shocked. It's Do It Yourself Blackmail.
I like to clown around, but it's in a context. If you were there, drink's on me. But I don't need some random person following the 6 degrees of separation asking me about it 2 years later.
Part of the big shift that has to happen is social. We joke about it, but the Slashdot Karma rating is a prototype. We need to quit penalizing people for facebook party pics and watch for other measures of worth.
This may be the best common ground. The internet made "leveraging the genius" the thing of the 2nd decade (give the world another year to rest & prepare).
Now all any organization has to do is locate one of some 10,000 people worldwide with the knack at seeing ultra-patterns. Most of us aren't that interesting to bother with, so a little camoflage to avoid 5 second name searches is usually enough. But what the real point of the Mrs. S. effect is, "if you annoy the collective Net, they'll borrow a pattern expert and pulverize you".
Web 2.0 and 2.1 are about Sharing.
Web 3.0 and 3.11 will be about privacy.
Is that a typo or did you actually use symbolic logic in a sentence? If so, that's an awesome addition to the language, even better than If&Only If.
It works with the inverted clause too.
"Omg Children Hide Teh Boobies!"
Aka Wardrobe Malfunction.
You already ansered the question! Let me just invert the order of your post.
"... you want to gave songs as images on your webpage, that people would listen to by opening them with a "mini photosounder"? "
is met by
"I'm definitely going to implement drag-and-drop in Photosounder because often do I find myself thinking it would be much simpler if I could open file just by dropping the onto the window when I'm browsing for files."
1. RightClick/Save Image
2. Drag Image onto MiniSounder and play!
Hi there.
This is a sample page I whipped based on my previous template.
http://taophoenix.exofire.net/Comp/CompIntro.html
The "Computer Monk" picture takes you to the next webpage, but the dark background graphic - surprise! - turns out to be a playable music song!
It would be neat if you had a "drag and drop" variant of your photosounder so if someone is browsing a webpage they can save a song image, then right away drag it onto your "mini photosounder" without opening the full strength program, because they just want to play the song, not do havy modifications on it.
re: rotation, recall that webpages "scroll down". So I would turn the picture sideways as a page background. When saved, photosounder should have an option to attempt to rotate before playing. (Otherwise it is gibberish).
I am close to purchasing, but it would be nice to see these and a couple other finesses.
I just realized - Please include support to handle rotations, and let your web widget play downward.
(Please mods, don't hurt me for being hopelessly offtopic!)
I'm still curious why you didn't go for that other famous Demo trick of time & usage limited. (Unless those are too easy to hack? But that again says something in the MetaThread.)
(My memory failed me - it was sound saving that was disabled.)
However, I did do a quick test on a 3866k-ish mp3, and it came out as a 823k jpeg. A 4.7X space savings might be useful for something like a phone. However, I am not an audiophile enough to know what the equivalent quality loss would be in a standard audio export program.
Feature question for you:
You know that WebPages run on Pictures, whereas sound files are kinda "blobs". Do you have any plans to be able to visually make the image file the same as the song, so that a webpage would literally show the music? I think they would make pretty backgrounds too.
1. ShortSound/3Sec : I can only assume that's a cripple feature, and it's pretty bad. I almost thought it was a bug until I took out my stopwatch and timed it.
2. I think saving image files is disabled. Thus I had to ask and couldn't have looked for myself.
3. Quality Crippling!? I hope not. There'd be no way to tell if it's just the state of the art as you know it vs. a protection feature.
(Grinding back on topic)
We're in a thread about people's opinions of how much IP is worth. Your measures rank pretty high up on the CrippleDemo scale, so you must be concerned about people's reception to your program.
I peeked at it. Interesting idea, though a little tricky to determine some important information because your demo is heavily crippled.
File Size: Is that "Sound-Picture" smaller than a typical Mp3? Does your full version even fully support Mp3?
If a picture turns out to be more compressed than a straight audio file, that might be a neat way to save space.
Yea, but they seem to be trying to make it mean *leave* 10%.
Except they have a weird squeeze play going on.
1. It's hard for the mind to reach its absolute top limits if part of it is busy playing an IP metagame. There's some unknown amount of damage to the student here.
2. The point of a classical Masters or Doctorate degree is to push the boundaries to achieve new results. So if you're saving your big ace in the hole it's the Elephant In The Room problem.
(Degree committee) "This paper is kinda neat, but there's clearly something not stated... deny the degree. The student is hosed, so he has no choice but to tell us."
Except weird super-high end Physical/Biosciences tests, and maybe a portion of CompSci, "education" consists of books plus 42 lectures plus a "sorta-reliable" proof to employers that you learned a little. We all know the soft degrees subsidize the scary equipment. We know Paper Publishing is a racket.
But the IP ideas can be worth millions. With that last fragment in the equation, it just barely might NOT be worth going to a "top" university, and instead fish out a semi-obscure one that just happens to have beautifully liberal IP policies. When it comes to the usual boring interview question for resumes "Gee, why didn't you go to Harvard?" The answer is "Because I like owning MY business thank you."
Hot damn, I've even been on Slashdot for a couple years now and I didn't see this one coming!
"So the price of your grant is we get your IP" - beautiful. I was just defending education against some standard trolling, except this is real. Yuk.
You nailed the post I was thinking, so I'll try a followup. Since the RIAA has told us how much IP is worth, that makes the student's contribution about a million dollars right?
What happens if you take a semester off?
From what I remember of business law 10 years ago:
Offer, Acceptance, Consideration.
Host Offers service, you Accept, and your consideration is to abide by the terms *they* set specifically because it is a form of giving up certain legal rights *as payment* to use their service. Typical is "no foreign language sites". They're too lazy to translate sites for policing purposes, so they make it a TermOfService, which you agree to for their sake.
Unfortunately, companies are learning that "free as in beer" can be an excuse to slide out of commitments. I dabble with free hosts and have solid backups, and two mirrors at any one time, so I really *expect* them to fail and operate on that premise.
But despite some (good) advice here, I have managed to avoid backing up my Yahoo Mail and I would REALLY be upset if they croaked. That's because the principle of Relied Upon has come into play.
Why can't there be multiple front ends to the same back end set of features? The "dumbed down" thing will serve a business purpose. It's now really the era of "simple interface - advanced interface".
You can have the same interactions. But the interface command sequence grows longer.
A chess clock I know has one button you press seventeen times in something resembling morse code to set every feature it has, but it has a lot of features!
Paul Thurrott just did a rant on this.
See Microsoft's work in this area in 2007.
So if someone kicks a huge beachball in front of it, will it slam on the brakes and get rear-ended?
Volvo ME!
Clippy was silly only because they mixed bad animation with bad scripts.
If this was customizeable it would rule.
(AntiMeme)
They're not taking it, they're copying the idea. After all, you can do something with your idea yourself. It's not like they physically vacuum the idea out of your head, unless someone invents the (generic brand) mind-sifter.
After all, if your idea wasn't any good to you, why when they take their resources to do it should you bother to get paid?
How about the publicity? Wouldn't "Google implemented my idea" be worth something?
Oh right. These are business ideas, not songs.
(/AntiMeme)