There are plenty of tools or scripts that will rename your files according to the time the image was taken. Make sure you use some variation of YYYYMMDDHHMMSS as it's in lexicographic order when sorting. I wrote my own.

Exactly. Using the filesystem is the best and simplest method. I have images ranging 150 years and 10 Tb using this method and I can find things in a few seconds, either with the find command or by zeroing on the date. Fo old scans that aren't dated precisely you can simply use 'YYYY-event" or 'YYYYMM-event'. And it works on any OS and any media (CD, HD...) so you KNOW it'll still work when your granchildren will want to sift through your images.

Interesting post.

Since you mention it I'd like to ask a question about the pictures in the movie. I saw the movie several times but could never figure out what is seen on the picture is actually zooms on, the one with the room and (?) mirror. I'm sure it's on some FAQ somewhere but never dug into that.

'taught' not 'tought'. Long day.

Probably not. I guess it will be some emergent behavior. And teaching. LOTS of teaching. A baby isn't intelligent from birth, it takes... err... quite a while. The AI, a true AI, will show whatever way it's tought. My hope is that it won't come out of the NSA servers... But I'm not an optimist.

Here's a different way to look at it: have you ever heard of the carboniferous period ? It's the 50 million years period between the time plants invented lignin and became trees (300MY ago) and the time when microorganisms evolved a way to digest it. During this period trees that died didn't rot. They just piled up. And other trees grew on top to hundreds of meters of depths. All that accumulated carbon is still around, in the ground, in form of coal of petroleum. But it took humans barely 200 years to release a good part of it into the atmosphere. Draw your own conclusion...

One of the main reasons is that entire operating systems are written with it. When there are operating systems written from scratch in Erlang or Java or Go or whatever, then and only then we'll see C start to fade away. Until then it's here to stay. All the other reasons are secondary: ease of use (gcc test.c; ./a.out), widespread availability from tiny micro-controllers to behemoth supercomputers, low overhead, precise and full control of everything to the bit level, huge choice of well tested libraries, etc... That's why I regularly try and learn new languages but most of what I do is in C.

As to why there are more threads related to C++ on the Internet, easy, it's because C++ is a lot more complicated and complex to grok. I need as much help as I can with some of its tortured constructs and seldom used idioms. C is more straightforward (even if there are plenty of tricky things in it, which the seasoned programmers will either know how to use or steer well clear of).

Google Keep is great for that, no need to involve email.

Stores must love you when you pay a 1$ bread with a credit card and most of it stays in the pocket of the CC company...

Yeah, who thought that playing violent games such as football, lacrosse or hockey in college is a good idea anyway. Or anywhere for that matter, I find those sports violent and stupid. There, I said it. It's better than people going at war or tribes throwing feces at each others, but barely.

Think about what you are doing and what you can split on a dual setup (headless server+laptop) like I described. You don't need the most powerful system in existence to develop nowadays. Unless you compile X11 or KDE every 10 minutes. Even the Linux kernel compiles from clean in a few minutes on my laptop.

In that same situation, I replaced a powerful and nosy desktop behemoth I'd been upgradiung for 15 years by a tiny and quiet headless linux Shuttle server that sits in a bookcase shelf next to the cable modem, always on (local NFS server, virtual machines via rdesktop, web server, family image server, media server, etc); and a powerful large screen laptop I close when I'm not using.

You should fork the pronunciation then. That's how the open source world works, no ?