How many Fs?

[Felix_MC]

Quote: Originally Posted by kel101 well only one of the clips works for me in quicktime, the one called quartz composer source

That's actually the quartz composer source file (notice the .qtz extension ), with all the patches and the cool stuff inside. But yes, qc files are quicktime compatible, so if you don't have QC installed, they will open by default in QT. Guess I didn't think of that before

Quote: Originally Posted by NovaScotian I was just testing it for you FMC -- I don't need the data.

Alright -- sorry

[kel101]

Quote: Originally Posted by Felix_MC That's actually the quartz composer source file (notice the .qtz extension ), with all the patches and the cool stuff inside. But yes, qc files are quicktime compatible, so if you don't have QC installed, they will open by default in QT. Guess I didn't think of that before Alright -- sorry

Regardless, its still witchcraft

[Felix_MC]

Quote: Originally Posted by kel101 Regardless, its still witchcraft

It's just the magic of Quartz Composer

I've actually tried to put this on YouTube once, but it obviously didn't work, hence all YouTube videos are H.264 encoded, and not compatible with QT or QC.. Didn't know that then..lol

[ThreeDee]

Sorry if this is going OT again:

I'm in high school, and find it is REALLY difficult to have to wake up at 5:30/6:00 AM to get ready for school, after going to sleep at ~11:00 PM (and that's on a 'good' night). Because I live in a semi-rural area, I can't simply walk to the school (which is a good few miles away), and I don't have a full driver's license yet (not like my parents would let me drive anyway). Where I live, classes start at 7:00, and the school buses come to my stop at around 6:35.

There's been a ton of studies on teen sleeping habits, and all of them have shown that some hormone 'forces' many of teens (including me) to stay awake longer, as a inherited trait from hundreds of years ago (learned this fact in school, BTW). Obviously my parents won't believe that. I mean, even before I learned of this, I would lay in my bed for a while and not feel tired at all! Unless I have some sort of unknown sleeping condition...

Anyway, some other students in my school are still half-asleep when they arrive, and I just can't concentrate on geometry and biology (my first 2 classes) that early in the morning with only 5-7 hours of sleep. I'm having a hard time trying to absorb information while falling asleep.

Currently, the high schoolers (including me) start classes at 7:00. The junior high and middle school students start at 8:00, and the kindergarten to 4th graders start at 9:00 (lucky them).

Finally, the school board decided 'investigating' into alternate scheduling plans for school hours. They would have the HS students and the junior high students start school at the same time, but then they would need to have twice the amount of busses out on the road, which would cost about twice as much to fund.

This plan was then added to the school district's budget plan, and needed to be voted on by the townspeople for it to be passed. It seems like nobody wanted their taxes to increase (well, nobody does), so the plan didn't pass.

So, I'm still stuck waking up at 5:45 to prepare for school and wait for the bus.

-_- Oh how I hate this...

[seeker777]

Quote: Originally Posted by ThreeDee Last edited by ThreeDee : Today at 08:29 PM. Reason: typoe

ThreeDee, are you and FMC in the same school, or is that just another typoe... You two need to get more sleep. No more Coca-Cola and Starbucks. OK

[Felix_MC]

Quote: Originally Posted by ThreeDee I'm in high school, and find it is REALLY difficult to have to wake up at 5:30/6:00 AM to get ready for school, after going to sleep at ~11:00 PM (and that's on a 'good' night). Because I live in a semi-rural area, I can't simply walk to the school (which is a good few miles away), and I don't have a full driver's license yet (not like my parents would let me drive anyway). Where I live, classes start at 7:00, and the school buses come to my stop at around 6:35.

I find it very difficult to wake up at 6:30 AM, and I don't know what I would do if I had to wake up an hour earlier.. Well, then again, at 11:00 PM, I'm just heading off to take a shower, and then it takes another 10 minutes to dry my hair (which is long and awesome, may I add)..
I too have the "pleasure" of riding a school bus, but at least my dad drives me to the bus stop on his way to work.. I don't my have license yet neither, haven't even been to DMV yet, but my dad said that if I get my license by this summer, he's going to leave me his 1992 Red Chrysler New Yorker, and get himself a new car.. It isn't much, but it's a working car at least

Quote: Originally Posted by ThreeDee There's been a ton of studies on teen sleeping habits, and all of them have shown that some hormone 'forces' many of teens (including me) to stay awake longer, as a inherited trait from hundreds of years ago (learned this fact in school, BTW). Obviously my parents won't believe that. I mean, even before I learned of this, I would lay in my bed for a while and not feel tired at all! Unless I have some sort of unknown sleeping condition...

Lol, so true..
I haven't tried this on my parents, but I don't think it's even worth to try ..

Quote: Originally Posted by ThreeDee Anyway, some other students in my school are still half-asleep when they arrive, and I just can't concentrate on geometry and biology (my first 2 classes) that early in the morning with only 5-7 hours of sleep. I'm having a hard time trying to absorb information while falling asleep.

Again, so true.. Sometimes I fall asleep on the bus and wake up when the bus arrives at school..
The worst part is we have the same exact classes every day, and it kinda stinks, since you have to do work and study for all of them.. It's pretty tiring .. I almost fell asleep during my last block the other day..
I actually tried to "make a difference" like they teach us in school, and send a letter to the Dean (being as "formal" and polite as possible ) suggesting a different schedule, but they called me in the office the next day.. They thought it was a joke, and I was about to get in trouble.. but then I remembered what they thought us in Civics and I told the lady that it was my right under the 1st amendment to petition.. she looked at me for a minute, and then she just let me off with a warning.. good thing I didn't fall asleep in Civics

Quote: Originally Posted by ThreeDee This plan was then added to the school district's budget plan, and needed to be voted on by the townspeople for it to be passed. It seems like nobody wanted their taxes to increase (well, nobody does), so the plan didn't pass.

Nothing ever gets passed if it includes raising taxes.. lol..

Quote: Originally Posted by ThreeDee -_- Oh how I hate this...

Lol, I'm joining the club

Quote: Originally Posted by seeker777 ThreeDee, are you and FMC in the same school, or is that just another typoe... You two need to get more sleep. No more Coca-Cola and Starbucks. OK

I don't think we are in the same school, though it would be awfully funny and cool if we were
Hail to the sleep! Who invented the day with only 24 hours? They should have made it like 30. Then again, we'd just probably stay awake the 24 and sleep the 6 XD
I don't drink Coca-Cola, I prefer Pepsi, though right now I'm staring at a sexy can of Sprite, just waiting for me to open it up..lol.. it says "NO COFFEINE" on it, so I guess that's good
Besides, Spring Break just started today for me, so guess what? You guys are in luck! You're going to have a full week of me, with no more school& homework breaks! How much luckier can you guys get ?

(and, umm, yea, sorry about the excess of smilies )

[kel101]

Quote: Originally Posted by Felix_MC I'm staring at a sexy can of Sprite, just waiting for me to open it up

thats wrong on so many levels ( maybe you need to see the uk sprite ads to get that)

[Felix_MC]

Quote: Originally Posted by kel101 thats wrong on so many levels ( maybe you need to see the uk sprite ads to get that)

Maybe some youtube links would help, lol ?

[kel101]

Quote: Originally Posted by Felix_MC Maybe some youtube links would help, lol ?

ah i was about to do that but i got called away, here is the only one i could find, and its not on youtube its not even the advert, i guess coke banned posting of it http://www.visit4info.com/static/advert_pages/15878.cfm

Basically the premise of the ads, had someone asking say their bf for a sprite at the petrol station, the bf returns with a sprite but not the "sexy beverage" but the evil creature in the picture above

[Felix_MC]

Well, kinda late now, but I've got came up with another very useless way to counting the number of F's programatically..
I wrote a long and frustrating program on my TI-84 Plus Silver Edition calculator
It should be compatible with any TI-83 calculators or higher..
here's a code legend, since some stuff on the calculator can't be typed on the keyboard, and stuff..
-> is equivalent to the STO (store) key on the calculator.
Ø is equivalent to the crossed crossed zero variable on the calculator (forgot what it's called). It's found by pressing Alpha+3
Disp is the display command, not text.. It's found in PRGM>I/O>3

:0->A
:0->B
:0->C
:0->D
:0->E
:1->F
:0->G
:0->H
:0->I
:0->J
:0->K
:0->L
:0->M
:0->N
:0->O
:0->P
:0->Q
:0->R
:0->S
:0->T
:0->U
:0->V
:0->W
:0->X
:0->Y
:0->Z
:F+I+N+I+S+H+E+D+F+I+L+E+S+A+R+E+T+H+E+R+E+S+U+L+T+O+F+Y+E+A+R+S+O+F+S+C+I+E+N+T+I+F+I+C+S+T+U+D+Y+C+O+M+B+I+N+E+D+W+I+T+H+T+H+E+E+X+P+E+R+I+E+N+C+E+O+F+Y+E+A+R+S->Ø
:DISP Ø
:DISP "FELIX ROCKS :D"

[Felix_MC]

So... I was bored... again
Here's another way to count F's using C++ this time... Enjoy?

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main (int argc, char * const argv[]) {
	string Text = "FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS";
	int Accumulator = 0;
	int chars = Text.size();
	for (int i = 0;i < chars;i++){
		if (Text[i] == 'F'){
			Accumulator += 1;
		}
	}
	cout << "There are " << Accumulator << " F's";
    return 0;
}

[kel101]

You all have way to much free time on your hands...

[Felix_MC]

I know.. This summer is boring...

[fazstp]

Hey Felix you seem to be the Quartz guru around here. Is it possible to take a capture from the built in iSight and save it to a jpeg? Kind of like PhotoBooth but with better resolution. I understand Quartz Composer can access the iSight at a higher resolution?

I just want to capture some CD covers and I don't have a scanner.

[Felix_MC]

Quote: Originally Posted by fazstp Hey Felix you seem to be the Quartz guru around here. Is it possible to take a capture from the built in iSight and save it to a jpeg? Kind of like PhotoBooth but with better resolution. I understand Quartz Composer can access the iSight at a higher resolution? I just want to capture some CD covers and I don't have a scanner.

well, it can't save it as a JPEG by itself (unless I import it to an xcode project and do some coding) but it does have a build-in PNG feature. However, I'm not sure if it will get a better resolution than PhotoBooth, since PhotoBooth itself is one big Quartz composition. Then again, PhotoBooth generates images differently then a normal composition would. So, I'll post back in 10 minutes with a working prototype

[Felix_MC]

okay, that was more like 3 hours rather than 10 minutes, but I didn't actually work 3 hours on it. I had to go eat dinner then do my homework before my mom let me on the computer again. Anyway, here's what I have:
http://tgraphicz.890m.com/Smile%20Please.dmg.zip
It works like screen saver, you just use the drag and drop installer to install it then go to System Preferences and ScreenSavers to select it. Click on "options" and you'll be able to change the save location of the image, and the seconds interval between isight snapshots. Click 'Test' and enjoy
The screen saver will announce you before it takes snapshots. It will save the image as a PNG to the selected destination (it might have a long weird name though, like 'img000-52358.png'). It will save it to the highest dimensions provided by your isight camera. Hope it does what you're looking for. Please, do tell me if you'd like me to change anything.


BTW: I don't have a webcam, so I couldn't really test it out, but theoretically it should work

[NovaScotian]

Interesting, but unfortunately choosing the target under options didn't work, so I have no idea in the world where the defaults went (and since I don't know what they're called, can't find them)

[Felix_MC]

By default the target path is your home directory, unless the path was invalid in which case the image writing patch would have crashed at execution, and no image would have been saved. Also, for some reason with Quartz Composer input text field, in order for Quartz Composer to receive your input, you have to press 'return' rather than clicking the 'done' button in the screen saver options.

[NovaScotian]

Quote: Originally Posted by Felix_MC By default the target path is your user directory, unless the path was invalid in which case the image writing patch would have crashed at execution, and no image would have been saved. Also, for some reason with Quartz Composer input text field, in order for Quartz Composer to receive your input, you have to press 'return' rather than clicking the 'done' button in the screen saver options.

No images were saved in ~/ (and I used return for Done), so something wrong.

[Felix_MC]

Quote: Originally Posted by NovaScotian No images were saved in ~/ (and I used return for Done), so something wrong.

hmm, that's strange.
To test it, I looked for my old USB webcam, and plugged it into my computer. After installing Macam the camera was finally recognized by my mac. I tested it out with the screen saver, and everything seemed to work..
Tell me, when the screen saver is running, do you see your iSight's video feed on the screen? It's set to stretch to fit the whole screen. Also, do you have any other apps open that are using the iSight? Such as iChat maybe, even though you are not in a video conversation. Lastly, go to applications/utilities/console, and in the 'String Matching' search box in the top right corner enter "QC".
Are there any results coming up, especially from the "_eference" sender? What do they say under 'message'?