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Comment Re:GeoSetter (Score 1) 326

by Cico71 (#32583306) Attached to: A File-Centric Photo Manager?

It's amazing that the most relevant answer is buried under ton of irrelevant stuff.

  • It's freeware (Lightroom is nice but for its price you should consider it if you are going to use all other features, not just for tagging).
  • It's based on the excellent Exiftool tagger (much more reliable than many commercial tools when writing back to files keeping original metadata).
  • You can decide where to store the metadata (EXIF/IPICT/XMP in the file or sidecar XMP).
  • Easy geotagging integrated with Goggle maps and supporting favorites locations.
  • Easy tagging in general with templates.
  • Supports batch tagging.
  • Easy in general, yet flexible if you want to do something more complex supporting extra commands through Exiftool.
  • Windows based (can't believe how people suggest to change OS to do a simple thing like tagging).

Just try it, I'm sure it's what you are looking for. Only major thing missing: facial recognition to assist tagging people. For that, you can use Live Photogallery, it's not as good as Picasa but at least it stores the metadata in documented XMP estensions (Picasa store facial information inside sidecar files but they contain references to unique ids in their database).
Businesses

Why No Billion-Dollar Open Source Companies? 487

Posted by Soulskill from the free-as-in-give-us-money dept.
Glyn Moody writes "If open source is such a success, why aren't there any billion-dollar turnover open source companies? A recent briefing by Red Hat's CEO, Jim Whitehurst, to a group of journalists may provide an answer. Asked why Red Hat wasn't yet a $5 billion company, as he suggested it would be one day, he said getting Red Hat to $5 billion meant 'replacing $50 billion of revenue' currently enjoyed by traditional computer companies. If, as is likely, that's generally true for open source companies, it means they will need to displace around $10 billion of proprietary business in order to achieve a billion-dollar turnover. Few are likely to do that. Perhaps it's time for managers of open source startups to stop chasing the billion-dollar dream. If they don't, they will set unrealistic ambitions for themselves, disappoint their investors, and allow opponents of free software to paint one of its defining successes — saving money — as a failure."

Comment Re:So this is like cable TV? (Score 1) 562

by Cico71 (#32524886) Attached to: Google Slams Apple Over iPhone Ad Ban

I canceled the Sky satellite contract years ago. First they started with documentary channels (the only ones I was really interested in) with ads about other programs. Then after a year or so they started with generic advertisement.

I simply canceled everything and gave them a hard time to get back the leased decoder. I'm not going to pay for advertisement that's it.

Nowadays, I simply look a the news on the free channels (luckily here they are not interrupted by ads. Instead, I now read a *lot* more and can dedicate time to the kids to do something more intelligent that passively looking at the box full of crap.
Amiga

Timberwolf (a.k.a. Firefox) Alpha 1 For AmigaOS 152

Posted by timothy from the because-it-was-there dept.
An anonymous reader writes "We're happy to announce the availability of the first alpha release of Timberwolf, the AmigaOS port of the popular Firefox browser. Timberwolf needs AmigaOS 4.1 Update 2 installed. Please read the documentation for information about usage and limitations. This is an alpha release, meaning it will have a lot of problems still, and be slower than it should be. We are releasing it as a small 'Thank you' to all those that have donated in the past to show that development is still going on. Timberwolf is available on os4depot.net. For further information and feedback, check the Timberwolf support forum on amigans.net."
The Media

Gizmodo Not Welcome at 2010 WWDC 395

Posted by timothy from the not-until-you-apologize-mister dept.
recoiledsnake writes "Gizmodo is reporting that Apple has refused to answer its request to attend the company's big Worldwide Developers Conference keynote this Monday. Apple's move to ban Gizmodo seems a direct repercussion of Apple's prototype leak by Gizmodo and subsequent actions of Apple to get the prototype back. Meanwhile, Gizmodo said that it would resort to a live blog to cover the event in case of the ban. This comes a few days after San Mateo County authorities announced that a 'special master' had been appointed to assist in the search of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen's belongings: goods seized as part of a police investigation into the disappearance (and Gizmodo acquisition) of one of Apple's prototype iPhones. It's the very device that's rumored to be announced at the Monday keynote."
Earth

Giant Guatemalan 'Sinkhole' Is Worse Than We Thought 357

Posted by kdawson from the series-of-pipes dept.
reillymj writes "Despite hundreds of media reports to the contrary, Sam Bonis, a geologist whose life work has been studying Guatemalan geology, has plainly said that the dramatic 'sinkhole' in Guatemala City that opened over the weekend isn't a sinkhole at all. Instead, he called it a 'piping feature' and warned that because the country's capital city sits on a pile of loose volcanic ash, the over one million people living on top of the pile are in danger. 'I'd hate to have to be in the government right now,' Bonis, who worked for the Guatemalan government's Instituto Geografico Nacional for 16 years, said. 'There is an excellent potential for this to happen again. It could happen almost anywhere in the city.'"
The Courts

The Rise of the Copyright Trolls 169

Posted by kdawson from the encouraging-champarty dept.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In the new mass filesharing suit brought in Washington, DC, on behalf of a filmmaker, Achte/Neunte v. Does 1-2094, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Citizen, and two ACLU organizations have filed an amicus curiae brief supporting a motion by Time Warner to quash the subpoena. EFF commented: 'We've long been concerned that some attorneys would attempt to create a business by cutting corners in mass copyright lawsuits against fans, shaking settlements out of people who aren't in a position to raise legitimate defenses and becoming a category of 'copyright trolls' to rival those seen in patent law.'" And reader ericgoldman notes a case that arguably falls under the same umbrella: "Sherman Frederick, publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, wrote a blog post declaring 'Copyright theft: We're not taking it anymore.' Apparently upset that third-party websites are republishing its stories in full, the newspaper 'grubstaked and contracted with a company called Righthaven ... a local technology company whose only job is to protect copyrighted content.' Righthaven has brought 'about 22' lawsuits on behalf of the newspaper, including lawsuits against marijuana- and gambling-related websites. Frederick hopes 'if Righthaven shows continued success, that it will find other clients looking for a solution to the theft of copyrighted material' and ends his 'editorial' (or is it an ad?) inviting other newspapers to become Righthaven customers. A couple of months back Wendy Davis of MediaPost deconstructed some of Frederick's logic gaps."
Books

Jumbo Dual-Screen "Kno" Tablet Debuts At D8 106

Posted by timothy from the maybe-don't-supersize-me-quite-so-hard dept.
itwbennett writes "The Microsoft Courier may be a dead project, but that doesn't mean you can't still have a dual-touchscreen e-reader. And a super-sized one at that, says blogger Peter Smith. The Kno, which debuted at All Things Digital's D8 conference yesterday has 'two 14.1-inch (1440 x 900) capacitive touch screens. Each screen has its own battery, giving the Kno 8-hours of battery life, but a hefty weight of 5.5 lbs. ... If Kno (the company) has its way, students will be carrying around a Kno (the device) rather than a stack of textbooks. That's the reason for the huge screens; most textbook pages can be shown 'full size' on a 14-inch screen.' Engadget, who got some hands-on time with the device, says 'the entire experience is essentially a WebKit instance.' Price is still up in the air but Ina Fried at CNET says the company is aiming for a price well under $1,000."
Power

Traffic-Flow Algorithm Can Reduce Fuel Consumption 328

Posted by timothy from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept.
thecarchik writes "New projects from German automakers Audi and BMW promise to ease congestion simply by looking at traffic signals and driving style, in an effort to smooth the flow of traffic. Through a test course in Munich, vehicles were able to post phenomenal fuel efficiency gains simply by adjusting the timing of traffic lights depending on traffic volume — to whatever speed provides a so-called 'green wave' of four or more synchronized signals."
Government

Guess My Speed and Give Me a Ticket, In Ohio 636

Posted by timothy from the well-it-sounded-really-fast dept.
quall writes "The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that police may estimate your car's speed and issue a ticket if they believe you were speeding. The hearing threw out a radar gun as evidence because the officer was not qualified to use it, but apparently his guess was good enough. If you make your way into Ohio, I suggest driving 5mph under the speed limit because this leaves little room to dispute your ticket in court. The only chance you have is if the issuing officer decides to skip your hearing." I wonder whether the court would also accept a driver's own GPS log as exculpatory evidence.

Comment Re:XBMC was the best thing for the Xbox (Score 1) 213

by Cico71 (#32383078) Attached to: XBMC Discontinues Xbox Support

Of course, they still aren't there, but in terms of being a front end for a media server it does a good job.

Good job? You must be joking. Can't access regular CIFS shares, requires DLNA and then it's not able to play FLAC, which is pretty much standard among people taking digital backups of their CDs, unless you have something that transcodes on-the-fly and not many NASs are powerful enough to do that. A complete failure I would say. Let alone the UI which is horrible.
Books

Google's Book Scanning Technology Revealed 100

Posted by kdawson from the real-page-turner dept.
blee37 writes "Last March we discussed Google's patent for a rapid book scanning system. This article describes and provides pictures of how the system works in practice. Google is secretive, but the system's inner workings were apparently divulged by University of Tokyo researchers who wrote a research article on essentially identical technology. There are also videos of robotic page flippers and information about how Google wants to use music to help humans flip pages."
Google

Nexus One Name Irks Philip K. Dick's Estate 506

Posted by samzenpus from the acting-like-a-dick dept.
RevWaldo writes "According to the Wall Street Journal, the estate of Philip K. Dick says the name of Google's new smartphone infringes on the famous character name from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Isa Dick Hackett, a daughter of Mr. Dick, states Google has its 'Android system, and now they are naming a phone "Nexus One." It's not lost on the people who are somewhat familiar with this novel... Our legal team is dealing head-on with this.'"
Math

Which Math For Programmers? 466

Posted by CmdrTaco from the stats-kicked-my-balls dept.
An anonymous reader writes "It is no news that the greatest computer scientists and programmers are/were mathematicians. As a kid 'hacking' if-else programs, I was not aware of the importance of math in programming, but few years later, when I read Engines of Logic by Martin Davis I started becoming increasingly more convinced of this. Unfortunately, math doesn't return my love, and prefers me to struggle with it. Now, as the end of the semester approaches, I am faced with a dilemma: What math subject to choose next? I have two choices: 'Discreet structures with graph theory' (discrete math; proofs, sets, algorithms and graphs) on one side, and 'Selected math chapters' (math analysis; vectors, euclidean space, differentials) on the other. I'm scared of the second one because it's said to be harder. But contrary to my own opinion, one assistant told me that it would be more useful for a programmer compared to the first subject. Then again, he's not a programmer. That's why I turn to you for help, fellow slashdotters — any advice?"

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