Yep you put that in your arm. How come I lost all my medical records? Remember that funny looking kid that walked by with a strange looking scanner thingy?

Bluejacking, Wardriving, and spoofing subway quick passes.

You think your information is safe? The only way to be safe is to unplug and turn off.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

Ahhh yes. That's the problem. You're right though- the message is confusing.

In reply to this comment by Psychologic:
The embed that I pasted to the message was the same one I pasted to the submit form. Longde suggested that my "rank" may not be high enough to submit it. I had the same issue trying to submit the PeeWee iPad video, but it worked fine for him.

If it is a permission issue then I would rather the submit form say "you do not have permission to post this" rather than "the embed appears to be invalid". I spent over an hour trying to figure out what was wrong with that PeeWee iPad embed yesterday.


In reply to this comment by dag:
I just tried it and it worked fine for me:
http://videosift.com/video/test-39

Make sure that you've got a complete copy of the embed- if it's still not working for you, we'll escalate to Lucky.

Cheers

In reply to this comment by Psychologic:
Hey, I'm trying to submit a video but it keeps telling me that the embed is invalid. It works fine in comments, but the submit form won't accept it. The same thing happened with the PeeWee iPad video yesterday. =(

The embed that I pasted to the message was the same one I pasted to the submit form. Longde suggested that my "rank" may not be high enough to submit it. I had the same issue trying to submit the PeeWee iPad video, but it worked fine for him.

If it is a permission issue then I would rather the submit form say "you do not have permission to post this" rather than "the embed appears to be invalid". I spent over an hour trying to figure out what was wrong with that PeeWee iPad embed yesterday.


In reply to this comment by dag:
I just tried it and it worked fine for me:
http://videosift.com/video/test-39

Make sure that you've got a complete copy of the embed- if it's still not working for you, we'll escalate to Lucky.

Cheers

In reply to this comment by Psychologic:
Hey, I'm trying to submit a video but it keeps telling me that the embed is invalid. It works fine in comments, but the submit form won't accept it. The same thing happened with the PeeWee iPad video yesterday. =(

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I just tried it and it worked fine for me:
http://videosift.com/video/test-39

Make sure that you've got a complete copy of the embed- if it's still not working for you, we'll escalate to Lucky.

Cheers

In reply to this comment by Psychologic:
Hey, I'm trying to submit a video but it keeps telling me that the embed is invalid. It works fine in comments, but the submit form won't accept it. The same thing happened with the PeeWee iPad video yesterday. =(

Yea, that's a possibility. Us lowbies might do something dangerous with certain videos... like submit more of them. =X

Oh well, feel free to submit it yourself since apparently I'm not allowed. =)

In reply to this comment by longde:
I think that once you reach higher levels (e.g., bronze, silver, gold), you are able post post more types of embeds. I would ask one of the senior members, though.

In reply to this comment by Psychologic:
Hey, how did you get the PeeWee video to embed? I never could get figure out why it told me that the embed was invalid.

I get the same error on another video I've been trying to embed (see below)... any suggestions?

(edit: wtf, why does it work here but won't let me submit it??)

I think that once you reach higher levels (e.g., bronze, silver, gold), you are able post post more types of embeds. I would ask one of the senior members, though.

In reply to this comment by Psychologic:
Hey, how did you get the PeeWee video to embed? I never could get figure out why it told me that the embed was invalid.

I get the same error on another video I've been trying to embed (see below)... any suggestions?

(edit: wtf, why does it work here but won't let me submit it??)

Hey, I'm trying to submit a video but it keeps telling me that the embed is invalid. It works fine in comments, but the submit form won't accept it. The same thing happened with the PeeWee iPad video yesterday. =(

Hey, how did you get the PeeWee video to embed? I never could get figure out why it told me that the embed was invalid.

I get the same error on another video I've been trying to embed (see below)... any suggestions?

(edit: wtf, why does it work here but won't let me submit it??)

"The Darwin system underlying OS X"


Great, another MacAddict.

Here's a link to my new cell phone- bought last week... http://reviews.cnet.com/cell-phones/motorola-renew-w233-t/4505-6454_7-33485041.html.

Cheap-ass Motorola candy-bar phone, no camera, no smart features whatsoever.

It's hard to think of anyone who has a cell phone as a luddite, but there you go.

This is the same guy who wants to give the president the power to shut off the internet:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

Get avast or avg and spybot search and destroy installed. Get malwarebytes and scan with that too. They're all free. I don't know of a good free firewall.

>> ^ForgedReality:

Macs and Desktops using Windows are both PCs. MacOS is oversimplified (meaning it restricts user control far too much), but its UI is overcomplicated (meaning things that should be accomplished easier are made more complicated).


Say what? I generally use 4 different OSes daily, and have lots of experience with many of them (Daily: Mac OS X, Windows XP/Vista, BackTrack, and CentOS. Experience: Too many to name all, but basically all the BSDs, most of the Linuxes, Minix, AIX, basically every Mac and Windows OS version, you name it - just no OS/2.)

Mac OS pre-10 didn't give you enough control (unless you knew the tricks), but in Mac OS X, you have WAY more control than Windows. Too much if you ask me. But the Mac has ALWAYS had a very simple UI, that was the beauty of it. You could do just as much with less effort. A true productivity OS.


Things are a lot easier on Windows such as being able to click a drop down, and then move thru it via the arrow keys, which is very nice for Photoshop users in particular (arrowing through typefaces, layer blend modes, etc). So many things are made quicker via the keyboard, which Apple refuses to allow in its OS. Everything must be done with the mouse. Why? Okay, Windows has Windows+D, and MacOS has F11, but that's the extent of it pretty much. I can't tab through window elements on a Mac, I can't easily get to a console on a mac (Windows+R->cmd<enter>), I can't select a shortcut and then alt+enter it to get to its properties window on a Mac, etc.


I'll bet it's all down to experience. I've always complained to my Windows friends that I can't navigate Windows with the keyboard like I can on the Mac. I'm lightning fast navigating through Mac OS with the keyboard, but I can't do jack on Windows. Chalk it up to knowledge is my guess. As for Photoshop, I would guess that's Adobe's fault.

BTW, one click on a Mac to get console access, or >console in the login. CMD-I will get you to the properties window for any file. Any others you need help with?


And games? Fuggeddaboudit.


And here is my only reason for still having Windows machines AT ALL. If it weren't for the games, I wouldn't touch the OS with a 10 meter cattle prod.


Ubuntu is a far superior OS to both Windows and MacOS. This is fact, not opinion.
Even though MacOS is based on Unix, just like Ubuntu (Linux was derived from Unix), somehow Ubuntu does it much better.
The only reason I run Windows is because I can actually run my games on it. The SECOND Linux gets better support and can run games as well as XP, or at least approachably well, Ubuntu will become my main OS.


Any time someone tells you that something is a fact and not an opinion... well, I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this. I have used Ubuntu quite a bit, especially for my Netbooks. One I moved to Mac OS X, one runs various OSes installed to SD cards, such as BackTrack, and one went to Windows to support a crappy piece of hardware I have that is ONLY supported in Windows (don't get me started on hardware support). Ubuntu is okay for a consumer OS, but not great. Linux suffers from the 'too many cooks' issue, and Ubuntu does a pretty good job at mitigating that, but it's no Mac OS, where everything "just works".

>> ^dag:
Looks garish and inelegant to me, but you know where I'm coming from.

Oh sorry...was there no "app for that"?

>> ^arvana:
^ Have you tried VirtualBox?  It's pretty amazing.  My father uses WordPerfect, so the only way he would let me set him up on Ubuntu was with WP running on XP under VirtualBox, and it works perfectly.

Virtualbox is excellent! If you really want to get into it, you can run the VMs as a Windows service, have them start up when the computer boots and so on. Performance is better than either VirtualPC or VMWare, and it's free Also, running x64 guests on x32 hosts is amusing.

>> ^Xax:
Windows 7 has been my primary OS for more than half a year, and I'm very happy with it. It's not revolutionary, but I prefer it over XP.

Question is, will you pay for a license when you already have XP? Is it that big an upgrade to justify $200?