What would you think if SCN hides points and displays only your badges and current level?

Hi
After recent change or improvement I must say, in SCN gamification and points system I just came up with an idea that what if SCN hides points completely and calculate and maintain them just they way they are being calculated now?
With this you'll be able to see reputation of users just with their badges (Answer Hero, Story Teller, Thought Leader etc) and their levels (Diamond, Gold, Topaz etc). Would you like that reputation system or this one with points showing with every name.? Please share your thoughts and views.
Thank$

Hi JP
Thank you for being part of this discussion and sharing your views. As you can see there are users with different opinions and its good that we have multiple thoughts on it.
When I post a question and get responses from users and if I like someone's response I always visit his profile and see his badges/level/points and area of expertise. It gives me an idea about his potential and increases my trust level. There are many users who sometimes give foolish suggestions without knowing anything. Some users respond just for the sake of points and they give irrelevant answers. If we see badges and points it gives us or at least me a trust level on poster. This is the reason that reputation system is mandatory for this type of forums.
It doesn't mean newbies can't post good and valuable posts. There can be a newbie who has tons of knowledge and years of experience but he is new in SCN. Exceptions are always there but if we see as a whole you must be agreed that newbies post basic or sometimes irrelevant posts mostly.
As you said points give us a barometer and sometimes this barometer can be misused specially when you are near to get some next level. You must have seen in car racings that driver boosts up speed to his maximum in last lap of race. When a user sees he needs just 300/400 points to reach next level (Topaz/Emerald) etc he can use tricks to get points. If we have only levels and badges and points are being calculating at background users will be contributing positively without curse of points.
This is what I believe in.
Thank$

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then
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echo "Could not unpack FreeDOS files"
echo "look above \for \info"
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echo "Fix the problem and run this scrip agin"
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echo ""
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fi
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then
echo "Made directory fdoem144 in direcoty usbbiosfiles... OK"
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echo "Could not make directory fdoem144 in usbbiosfiles directory"
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echo ""
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modprobe loop && sleep 5 && check0="yes"
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echo "Copying BIOS.ROM files to $MOUNTX... OK"
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echo "Fix the problem and run this script agin"
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fi
echo ""
echo "End of script"
Last edited by hunterthomson (2008-08-10 11:17:47)

Personally..... (this is just how I would have written it - if it works, then it's good enough for me though )
I would change this whole block:
verify="n"
while [ "$verify" != y ]
do
printf "Do you have mbr installed... yes or no?"
read AN1
echo ""
printf "You answered... $AN1 I have installed mbr. Is this correct... y or n?"
read verify
done
echo ""
if [ "$AN1" == "no" ]
then
echo "Install mbr now. Then run this script agin"
exit
else
echo "contunuing script"
fi
To this much shorter code:
MBR='/usr/bin/install-mbr' # Or where ever you expect it to be
if [ ! -x $MBR ] ; then
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echo "If it is installed, check it's location, make sure it's executable and then make sure the MBR variable in this script is correct"
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if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
#failed
echo "Could not \make directory usbbiosfiles"
echo "look above \for \info"
echo "Fix the problem and run this scrip agin"
exit 1
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echo "Made directory usbbiosfiles... OK"
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CP='/bin/cp'
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How it works now: Now Premiere only select those edit points that line up together the same frame.
Why is this feature important to you?
How Premiere currently works wastes a lot of time. It currently requires the editor to manually click and add other edit selections.
Currently, Premiere does not actually select all the edit points on SELECTED TRACKS.
*******Enhancement / FMR*********
Brief title for your desired feature:
REMOVE EFFECT - ALLOW US TO CHOOSE WHICH EFFECTS
How would you like the feature to work?
1. Highlight one or more Clips to select them.
2. Press the Remove Effects Keyboard Shortcut
What should happen: Premiere should present you with a window that allows you to check the effects you want to remove or uncheck the effects you don't want to remove.
Why is this feature important to you?
This is very important because often I have a remove just one effect on a large group of effects. I don't have the time - it would take forever - to go through each individual clip and eliminate that particular effect in the Effect Controls panel.
*******Enhancement / FMR*********
Brief title for your desired feature:
A Paste Insert should move the IN/OUT marks down the Timeline, just like the clips
How would you like the feature to work?
1. Set an In an Out point somewhere in the timeline.
2 In the timeline, after copying some material, PASTE INSERT, the clips in front of a whole bunch of other clips (also earlier than the In/Out marks)
What Should Happen:
Material AND In/Out marks should shift to the right to maintain sync.
What currently happens:
Premiere correctly shifts the Clips that follow the pasted material, Down the Timeline, to maintain sync. However, Premiere keeps the In/Out Marks where they are.
Why is this feature important to you?
I often copy material that's between In/Out marks and then go earlier in the Timeline and paste Insert that material. But when I jump back to the In point (Go to In) the In/Out marks haven't move and so I have to find my place in the material all over again.
It shouldn't work this way. It wastes time. And other NLEs don't do it this way. They shift the In/Out marks.

Nice requests. Just trying to be helpful here:
Re REMOVE EFFECT - ALLOW US TO CHOOSE WHICH EFFECTS
I agree - this could be quite useful. However, It sounds like using adjustment layers may be helpful for your workflow also?
Re: Increase/Decrease Volume using Keyboard for MULTIPLE CLIPS at once (between In and Out)
I've stopped using volume altogether now, and instead use 'Gain' mapped to "g" key in premiere keyboard layout. SUPER useful, for all the reasons you describe. I've never used I/O marks, but you can make big selections of clips, or a whole track's. Volume controls in Premiere, as far as I can tell, caps at +6DB for some reason. I routinely have to go much higher than that. also there is a very intelligent gain options screen that lets you bump your selected clips relatively by +/- DB levels; or set absolute values; OR set normalization targets. I LOVE IT, and its all I use now.
It seems to me that the audio component of Premiere if far more sophisticated than any other NLE I've used [ Avid MC, FCP...]. My only caveat is that volume and gain are not integrated across all methodologies. For example, you can have a volume adjustment on the clip, the track, and gain adjustments on the clip all operating independently- its alot to keep track of on projects that get passed back and forth between different editors with different methods!

Random kernel panics on iPhone 4 GSM: what would you do?

Hello all,
I'm posting here in hopes that someone could help shed some light on the matter before I give up and send my phone in for repair, provided it will be repaired/replaced given how random this issue is.
I've had an iPhone 4 since November 2010, a GSM unit as I'm in Europe. Jailbroke it on a dull day just to see if I'd have any use for that, restored it to stock firmware (using the backup I had created before applying the jb) about 24 hours later. No trace of jb on it at all nowadays, basically. The phone and the system are as vanilla as they can be. The only customization, so to speak, is the provisioning profiles in my name as I'm an iOS developer.
Ever since March, the phone will sometimes randomly reboot. There is no pattern whatsoever: I may be fiddling with it, I may be keeping it in my pocket, it may be charging, it may be placidly sitting on a table undisturbed. Out of the blue, the Apple logo will show up and the thing will reboot, and won't ask for the PIN either. I hadn't thought much of it as it was very rare, but lately it's become more apparent and I decided to look for some logs.
To my horror, I found that ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/MobileDevice/Jolliphone/Panics on my Mac was way overpopulated. The weirdest thing is that all the logs look virtually the same, although they all end abruptly in different points (which suggests that they were so brutal that there was no "time" to write the whole thing down.)
Here is an example:
Incident Identifier: [...]
CrashReporter Key:   [...]
Hardware Model:      iPhone3,1
Date/Time:       2011-05-28 10:20:51.833 +0200
OS Version:      iPhone OS 4.3.3 (8J2)
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x8007f3e5): "buf_brelse: bad buffer = 0xd0705fc8\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1735.46/bsd/vfs/vfs_bio.c:2348
Debugger message: panic
OS version: 8J2
Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 11.0.0: Wed Mar 30 18:51:10 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1735.46~10/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8930X
iBoot version: iBoot-1072.61
secure boot?: YES
Paniclog version: 1
Epoch Time:        sec       usec
Boot    : 0x4de0afb5 0x00000000
Sleep   : 0x00000000 0x00000000
Wake    : 0x00000000 0x00000000
Calendar: 0x4de0b02c 0x0007b411
Task 0x812e7c60: 10957 pages, 100 threads: pid 0: kernel_task
Task 0x812e7a50: 187 pages, 3 threads: pid 1: launchd
Task 0x812e7210: 152 pages, 2 threads: pid 13: usbethernetshari
Task 0x812e7000: 134 pages, 4 threads: pid 14: syslogd
Task 0x839be840: 543 pages, 2 threads: pid 17: lockdownd
Task 0x839be420: 1068 pages, 23 threads: pid 19: mediaserverd
Task 0x839be210: 383 pages, 3 threads: pid 20: mediaremoted
Task 0x839be000: 342 pages, 3 threads: pid 21: mDNSResponder
Task 0x83ad2c60: 1593 pages, 12 threads: pid 22: locationd
Task 0x83ad2a50: 588 pages, 4 threads: pid 23: imagent
Task 0x83ad2840: 586 pages, 1 threads: pid 24: fairplayd.N90
Task 0x83ad2630: 764 pages, 15 threads: pid 25: configd
Task 0x83ad2420: 407 pages, 4 threads: pid 26: awd_ice3
Task 0x83ad2210: 411 pages, 3 threads: pid 27: apsd
Task 0x83ad2000: 225 pages, 2 threads: pid 28: accessoryd
Task 0x83b8ac60: 6689 pages, 18 threads: pid 29: SpringBoard
          thread 0xc0a780d0
                    kernel backtrace: d2663ac8
                      lr: 0x8006de75 fp: 0xd2663af4
                      lr: 0x8006e085 fp: 0xd2663b14
                      lr: 0x8006e19f fp: 0xd2663b1c
                      lr: 0x80015fed fp: 0xd2663b34
                      lr: 0x8007f3e5 fp: 0xd2663b74
                      lr: 0x8007fec5 fp: 0xd2663b8c
                      lr: 0x8007fedf fp: 0xd2663b94
                      lr: 0x800a256f fp: 0xd2663bd0
                      lr: 0x80132735 fp: 0xd2663bd8
                      lr: 0x80132cd3 fp: 0xd2663c00
                      lr: 0x80158d45 fp: 0xd2663c10
                      lr: 0x80156dab fp: 0xd2663ce0
                      lr: 0x8013393f fp: 0xd2663d08
                      lr: 0x8013399f fp: 0xd2663d18
They are all like that. The only thing that's different is the OS system, which ranges from 4.3 to 4.3.3, and the location that generated the panic:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x8007f3e5): "buf_brelse: bad buffer = 0xd0704640\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1735.46/bsd/vfs/vfs_bio.c:2348
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x8007f3e5): "buf_brelse: bad buffer = 0xd070aa98\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1735.46/bsd/vfs/vfs_bio.c:2348
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x8007f3e5): "buf_brelse: bad buffer = 0xd06fdf88\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1735.46/bsd/vfs/vfs_bio.c:2348
…and so on. The caller is always 0x8007f3e5, and the buffer location is always in 0x0d6…–0x0d7… range. This is what leads me to think that it may be some memory problem.
As I said there is absolutely no pattern in this. Sometimes it will stay a month without panicking – after a few panics on April 1st, it happened again on May 2nd – yet in other occasions it will panic 4 times within 8 minutes as it happened yesterday morning.
Lately it's been happening more often when I charge it using the wall adapter, but then again it's fairly inconsistent: I have kept it connected since last evening on purpose, and it hasn't panicked once.
I have tried restoring it as a new phone, just to make sure that it wasn't a software problem, and the very same thing happened as soon as I connected to my father's iPad 2 adapter.
If you have read so far, I want to thank you very much for your patience. I'll get to the point: what should I do?
I spent 35 minutes on the phone with AppleCare this morning and was about to give the green light to have it picked up, but the woman told me that I couldn't provide the logs to tech support, and that they'd run some tests on their own and, if they could reproduce the problem, I would get a refurbished phone in place of this one, otherwise they'd send the same unit back. Considering that it's impossible to reproduce it on purpose, I'm afraid that I will just end up being phoneless for two weeks (with the added issue of finding a way to stick this micro-sim into a phone that takes regular-sized sims), and ultimately be sent back the faulty phone.
I told the woman I'd consider going to the Apple Store in Rome, so I could at least speak with a human person and expose the problem in more detail. I do have a repair ID and apparently I can just book a slot at the genius bar and have them access the repair ID data.
The problem is that I live 200 km from Rome, and it would take the better part of a day and it would be more money spent on this issue to get there and back. And I wouldn't even be certain that they'd replace it: even if they agree to replace it, what if they're out of stock on 32 GB units, for instance?
So here is the dilemma: I have a phone that feels very unstable given the 18 (eighteen) panics I've had in the last three days, and I'm facing either wasting time and money to go to an Apple Store, or being without the phone for the better part of two weeks, again without any certainty.
Going to my carrier (Vodafone) is pointless: they referred me to Apple; at most they will ship it for me, but at that point I'd rather do it myself.
As for the local Apple Premium Reseller, they are an authorized support center for Macs, but they don't offer any support for iPhones at all.
What would you do?
Thanks.

DaVBMan wrote:
Not saying you are complaining, I know it isn't what one likes, but just the way it is and quite normal.
You can buy a used one from somewhere and just continue on your same contract (if same type of phone, eg: You didn't have original one before and go buy a used 3G now..then you need to change plans). But if you had 3G before and buy a used 3G now, you can activate it and your contract shouldn't restart.
A used one you buy shouldn't have a SIM card in it but even if it does, you don't want to use it. You need to go to AT&T store and request a new SIM. They will give you one set for your account and you just go home and activate using same account (thus no contract changing). If you try to use another SIM without getting one from AT&T it could mess with your contract so best to deal with them first to get one coded for you. There is nothing wrong with buying a used iPhone and saying you want to put it on your existing account. You can do that with any phone. You already have the data plan etc required so they don't care.
That was useful info, and I'm not complaining (well, I am, but it does no good, so it's a rhetorical complaint)...
What I'm really looking for is opinions about what would be the most sensible/cost effective way to go right now, given the available options.
Thanks,
Lorraine

What Would you like to see changed in FC?

Hello everybody,
just a little introduction, as announced flash catalyst would solve the problem of many designers to publish their work without one line of code, well, here begins a death foretold. At some point things to go well but then the problems begin a dependence to have a programmer on the left arm in addition to the program is rather limited. Flash is already incorporating the AS3 language, now wonder why launch a program with a new language, rather confusing, no? as a designer I do not want to worry about programming, but concentrate on the aesthetic aspect of my layout, which is why I found interesting the coming of the catalyst. it was all a lie, or say one more death will be announced shortly birth. but we believe that all this will change and enable designers to express their skills as designers and media .... without a single line of code. otherwise the flash is fine and the catalyst becomes an obsolete program. finally, each monkey on its branch and rethink that, besides confusing the catalyst does not become functional in the optical designer.
What would you like to see changed in Catalyst?
- Most states
- can apply Form Email etc
- better handling of text
- No dependence with programmers, or if it is not possible to incorporate code changes in the proper catalyst
more there, and hopefully remember me
I want to thank The Adobe team that created the opportunity to open new horizons to the class of designers, I still think that the catalyst has great potential ,.... but not the way it is.
Thank you for your attention
and say what they liked to see
cheers
Mike

Well the forms for sure. At least an email form. This really just needs to be there. Ultimatley I think there just needs to be some training right now if they want this product to get used the way they intended. I am sure I will have a ton more to add to this list as I dig deeper into my first live job using it.
Not sure on the AS3 thing, it has been out since 2006, although I may have just misread what you were saying.
A way to change the loading bar would definitly be nice now that I am thinking about it.

Photo/Video editing PC build; what would you change and why?

I'm in the planning phase of my first photo/video editing PC build. I've done quite a bit of research to this point, and I've finally come to a decision on all of the components (I think). After seeing how helpful everyone is on this forum, I decided to post my plan and see what everyone thinks.
Miscellaneous info: I am an amateur photographer looking to expand my horizons and venture into the video realm. I will be running Windows 7 64bit with Adobe CS5 Production Premium and Lightroom 3 on a singe solid state drive and everything else will be on a 3 drive RAID 0 config. Eventually I plan on purchasing a RAID card and a few more drives for a RAID 3 (or 5) config, but that won't be for a while.
Ok, here's my planned build...
Component
Description
Processor
Intel   Core i7 - 950 3.06GHz Quad-Core Processor
Motherboard
ASUS   P6X58D-E LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
Memory
Corsair   Dominator 12GB (6 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Triple Channel Memory
System Drive
Crucial   RealSSD C300 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive
Data Drive(s)
3 - Western   Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal   Hard Drive (Configured in RAID 0 for now)
Optical Drive
Pioneer   BDR-205BKS Blu-ray Burner
Video Card
EVGA   GeForce GTX 470 (Fermi) SuperClocked 1280MB 320-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16   HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card
Power Supply
Corsair   HX Series CMPSU-850HX 850W ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91 80 PLUS SILVER Certified   Modular Active PFC Power Supply
Case
LIAN   LI PC-A71F Black Aluminum ATX Full Tower Computer Case
Monitor
NEC   MultiSync PA271W-BK-SV 27" Widescreen LCD Monitor with SpectraViewII   Color Calibration Solution
So, what would you change and why?
I'm looking forward to your responses!

"I'll take your advice and go with Samsung F3s. With the money I save (by not getting the WD Caviar Blacks), I'll add a 4th drive and use the RAID5 on the mobo until I can afford to upgrade to a proper RAID controller."
I might be a bit late, but wanted to let you know about motherboard software RAID configs (at least mine):
I have an older system running an ASUS P5AD2-E Premium MB containing a Silicon Image 3114 RAID chip. I originally configured a RAID 10 array with four 74 G Raptors for speed and redundancy. Figured if I lost a disc, I could just rebuid the array. Come to find out, the Sil 3114 chip does not support rebuilding the RAID 10 array.
I had lost a disc (disc was okay, just power to the disc was interupted) so was running on three. Fixed my power problem, went to rebuild the array and couldn't. So I figured what is the point of having a RAID 10 that I couldn't rebuild. Went to a RAID 0 with a backup disk.
Never checked the documentation to see if software RAID 5 through the SIl 3114 was rebuildable.
Mind you, I am not a computer guru nor all knowledgable about software/harware based RAID configs. But after talking to others who are the guru's, I found that I should stay away from the motherboard software RAID arrays and they mirror what Harm said about hardware RAID boards. But on a budget, the RAID 0 with a backup drive works for me.
Just my 2 cents to help.
Tony

What do you think of this workflow?

I use FCP's 3-Way Color Corrector quite a bit in my editing workflow. When I send to Color I find the color-correction from FCP doesn't translate so I was thinking about exporting my video as a self-contained QuickTime and then reimporting it into FCP so my initial color-correction is "baked in." Then, make cuts at the mark of each edit and send the new timeline to Color to really treat the footage. What do you think?

I've found myself in the same boat. It is too bad the 3-Way Color Corrector values don't translate exactly to Color -- even close would be nice . Your proposed workflow runs the risk of adding exponential time to the post production process. I'd just take some time to match the looks from FCP in Color, then make grades out of them. jkorosi has an excellent point that by "baking in" the look, you may be limiting yourself in Color. It's an incredibly powerful app, and IMHO, is more capable of properly handling original footage. For example, losing Color's nuisance and ability to manipulate depth and detail in tonality because you baked in contrast, seems like a mistake.

Why would you think java is a better beginner language then c/c++ ???.

Why would you think java is a better beginner language then c/c++.That is if you think it is

1.)because it stear's you towards useing oop style programing.
since nearly everything relate's to object oriented programing.
2.)this forum alone. is a reason thier are comprehensive example's for beginers. and so many people many very freindly and dont mind answering a question. Other beginners are here also who share what they know with each other.
3.)learing curve for useing the language and geting started immediately is good.
4.)once you learn java and then goto c++ you have another probably better perspective on how to code.
5.)codeing in java avoids deconstructors pointers and direct manipulation of reference's. which can be very confuseing for beginers
and deals with variables that directly point to the computer's memory.
and proper deallocation of memory.
though im just a begginer myself i started trying c++ and switched to java.
however thier are somethings in java that can be as complex as c++
when pointers or reference's are needed but not available.

What would you buy if you would you have to return...

2 days ago my N97 stopped working, I had to turned off for some reason, and when I turned it on the screen was frozen. (Nokia logo)
I was so afraid of sending my phone out for repair, with the possibility of getting a new N97 and lose all my apps from the OVI store + all the information that I have on my phone. lucky me, after attemping 10 more times, my phone worked.
It came through my mind the possibility of getting a new phone, but wich one?, Iphone, HTC, Omnia, Android phone? Lets face it, there is no phone in the market with all the capabilities than the N97 has. No phone gets even closer:
- Memory capacity
- FM transmiter
- Widgets
- FM Radio
- Great resolution when you watch movies
- 5MP camera
- REAL MULTITASK phone ( over 8 apps open and no issues at all )
- etc
This morning I updated my phone to the new firmware (2.0XXX), IMHO I would say the firmware is not a mayor improvement, still some bugs to be fixed but, it runs a bit faster. C memory still the same and some other stuff that we all know the phone still has. So, What would you buy, if you have to return your N97?
For me, maybe I will switch to Android OS when my N97 gets obsolete.

Anything new with WINmo 6.5 or some of the new Android phones coming out:
- Memory capacity - N97 has NO MEMORY, the MINI has double the RAM. Think about that!
- FM transmiter - Works at a range of 2 feet - a cable would be better anyway into the car stereo
- Widgets - are you kidding me?????
- FM Radio - yeah sure that is good, but whatever
- Great resolution when you watch movies - no h264 on the n97 mate, sure most other phones do this fine, my HP Ipaq from 2001 plays more movies than the n97 (it has skype as well!!)
- 5MP camera - yeah until it is scratched
-REAL MULTITASK phone - WINmo can do it, Android can do it, even the pre can do it....
I feel hooped for getting the N97, everything is there, but nothing works as it should. Thankfully since this AM i dont have any out of memory errors, but I am sure they will return just when I don't need them to.
At this point anything is better - to be honest, I've had my eyes on the n900 - but unless Nokia fixes my n97, i wont throw them another dime so long as I live, nor will I allow the 30 people i have sent Nokias way to get another one.
Fix. My. Phone.
I love my purple screen, 1/2 day battery, sketchy touch screen and $800 price tag - I call it my Lumia 900

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