Erm, you misunderstood. You don't need a "digital" TV as in LCD or Plasma. Any old CRT will do. You'll just need a receiver that's capable of receiving digital television, since the analog one that's built into most old TVs won't work anymore. These are available in any store that sells electronics for a few bucks. Here's a cheap one from Amazon.
Where did you get that from? I can see no such thing in the source for that webshite link. Just to clear that up, you're talking about this url: http:/// www . the webshite . net / nickelback . htm? The only script I can make out in there is for advertising, as far as I can see. There is nothing it could be hidden in, besides the flash video?
It boils down to conglomeration of a terribly incompetent, but trying-to-overachieve administration, a bunch of rightout lies and a big media clusterfuck in a lot of countries. IMO.
This Wikipedia article might be an interesting read for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War
Like I already said, we Germans consider ourselves having freedom of speech, yet we still banned the national socialist party (and several communist parties, too, btw). I don't think that's right, either. But it doesn't make Germany the evil dictatorship that Russia is currently painted to be for continuously imprisoning Gary Kasparov in the media ("He was a great chess player, afterall! How could he possibly be wrong?").
You have to keep in mind that these people might have a different view on freedom than you have.
I know that's not Kasparov's party. In the very least one could say that Mr. Kasparov is a political opportunist, for allying himself to them. Don't you think he could've chosen his friends a little bit wiser? I am not content with the direction my country is heading either, especially in the personal rights department, but it'd never occur to make friends with fascist assholes to change that.
There's a famous German proverb, attributed to Martin Luther: Wer mit einem Scheissdreck rammelt, er gewinne oder verliere, er geht beschissen hinvon. Translated that means something in the line of: when you fuck with crap, who cares if you win or lose, you go away covered in crap.
No idea if it's right that Mr. Kasparov is arrested. Honestly, I don't care. Just have a look at some of his allies and you'll know why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bolshevik_Party - these guys are as much about freedom of speech as Adolf Hitler was, and you know how it ended. In this case it's better to be safe than sorry, in my honest opinion. Using Gary Kasparov and his political friends arrests as proof for diminishing freedom of speech in russia is just wrong. In this case there wouldn't be any political freedom in Germany, too, as the national socialist party is forbidden here, too.
Not Ubuntu's fault, from a comment to this article:
The situation is somewhat less clear than you might think from the article, but the basic takeaway message is that Ubuntu doesn't touch your hard drive power management settings by default. In almost all cases, it's more likely to be your BIOS or the firmware on your hard drive.
The script that's executed when you plug or unplug your laptop is/etc/acpi/power.sh. The relevant sections are:
That is, when the laptop_mode_enable function is called, we set the drive power parameters. Now, by default laptop_mode_enable isn't called:
if [ x$ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE = xtrue ]; then
(sleep 5 && laptop_mode_enable)&
fi
because ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE is false in the default install (check/etc/default/acpi-support). This means that, by default, we do not alter the hard drive power settings. In other words, the APM settings that your drive is using in Ubuntu are the ones that your BIOS programmed into it when the computer started. This is supported by the fact that people see this issue after resuming from suspend. We don't touch the hard drive settings at that point, so the only way it can occur is if your BIOS or drive default to this behaviour.
If you enable laptop mode, then we will enable aggressive power management on the drive and that may lead to some reduction in hard drive lifespan. That's a fairly inevitable consequence of laptop mode, since it only makes sense if the laptop enages in aggressive power management. But, as I said, that's not the default behaviour of Ubuntu.
There's certainly an argument that we should work around BIOSes, but in general our assumption has been that your hardware manufacturer has a better idea what your computer is capable of than we do. If a laptop manufacturer configures your drive to save power at the cost of life expectancy, then that's probably something you should ask your laptop manufacturer about.
Huh? Are you sure this is true? I'd imagine there would be some binding description about the required quality in the bidding for this contract? At least that's how it's done over here in my country. Not fulfilling this requirement would be fraud.
Wow. I love you for using the most recent LAME Version and correctly applying presets. Unlike Radiohead you seem to have managed to read up on how to encode to MP3 properly (well, considering you're posting on Slashdot I should've expected that...;) ). Thank you for that!
My point is, concealing the facts generally implies that there is some fear of the popular reaction.
Remember the reaction on warrantless wiretapping in the USA? Well, me neither, as there was no noteworthy public reaction. At least here in Germany there are public protests against these laws. Latest one got 15000 attendants. And you see the picture of the politician behind the "Bundestrojaner", Wolfgang Schäuble, together with the signature "STASI 2.0" in a lot of places nowadays.
http://erklaerung.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/
Really? For the better part of the last week I was researching Nokia Communicator 9300i, which runs Symbian OS 8.1, so I completely mixed that up with Series 80. When I saw that its successor runs "Series 60 3rd Ed." it seemed clear as day to me that this was based on Symbian OS 6.3 or something. Wow, so I managed to make a complete and utter fool out of myself again...
From Wikipedia's Symbian OS Article it reads like this is Symbian OS 9.1 only. And 9.1 isn't developed any further, AFAIK. The newest Communicator Model uses Symbian OS Series 60 3rd Ed.
It's damn interesting, yes. And a smallish around these numbers would've made his post very informative. But it's missing and alone these numbers mean nothing, IMHO. It was the reaction to him being modded down that someone else posted a similar link.
IMHO Inside jokes are expected to be understood by regulars, but at least I can't remember reading about these numbers before here on Slashdot. I remember reading an article about the Wow! signal itself, but there's no way in hell that I would have remembered the numbers without context.
TBH, he could've written one or two words explaining what he posted. If this post wouldn't take away my modding rigths for this article I would still mod him Off Topic. Without explanation these numbers are just rubbish.
Various sources talk about 18 villages that have "disappeared" on these Satellite images and 30 new ones around a Military Base as "proof" for forced relocations.
How can this be proof of anything? Just a reminder, Myanmar has a population of a little less than 50 million people. The only pictures I've seen (here and here) show villages of maybe five houses in the middle of a wood, so these 18 villages could've simply been abandoned. Sources speak of burnt down ruins... but is it really that far fetched to assume there might be accidental fires involved? After all Myanmar population is said to live a quite backward style of living (and that being the Military Regimes fault).
If the pictures that are public are the best evidence they have then I'd be highly critical of using them as a base for any kind of punishment (the fact aside that sanctions won't hurt anyone than the population).
If I understood that correctly, eMusic is using LAME V0 VBR and Amazon uses LAME 256 kBit/s ABR. In this case eMusics quality will be better. With average bitrate the song you encode *must* be at the bitrate you say it has to have, even if the average bitrate should be higher, while variable bitrate, well, is completely variable. So the 1995 'Foo Fighters' Album in V0 has an average bitrate of ~270 kBit/s, while Joanna Newsom's 'Ys' only has ~206 kBit/s. In the first case there would be bitrate shortages, in the second case there would be wasted space by applying ABR instead.
DRM gives me the ability to legally 'test drive' the music.
With how DRM is working today, you wouldn't be allowed to "test-drive" as long as you have long hair on your drivers license picture. Or, without analogy: I use Linux. How should I ever play a MS DRM'd file?
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Erm, you misunderstood. You don't need a "digital" TV as in LCD or Plasma. Any old CRT will do. You'll just need a receiver that's capable of receiving digital television, since the analog one that's built into most old TVs won't work anymore. These are available in any store that sells electronics for a few bucks. Here's a cheap one from Amazon.
Where did you get that from? I can see no such thing in the source for that webshite link. Just to clear that up, you're talking about this url: http:/// www . the webshite . net / nickelback . htm? The only script I can make out in there is for advertising, as far as I can see. There is nothing it could be hidden in, besides the flash video?
That's what I was curious about when I entered this article's comments section. Thanks for answering.
It boils down to conglomeration of a terribly incompetent, but trying-to-overachieve administration, a bunch of rightout lies and a big media clusterfuck in a lot of countries. IMO. This Wikipedia article might be an interesting read for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationale_for_the_Iraq_War
Yes, that's how I meant "fuck with", actually. If I'm not absolutely wrong informed this phrase can carry the meaning "mess with", too.
Like I already said, we Germans consider ourselves having freedom of speech, yet we still banned the national socialist party (and several communist parties, too, btw). I don't think that's right, either. But it doesn't make Germany the evil dictatorship that Russia is currently painted to be for continuously imprisoning Gary Kasparov in the media ("He was a great chess player, afterall! How could he possibly be wrong?").
You have to keep in mind that these people might have a different view on freedom than you have.
I know that's not Kasparov's party. In the very least one could say that Mr. Kasparov is a political opportunist, for allying himself to them. Don't you think he could've chosen his friends a little bit wiser? I am not content with the direction my country is heading either, especially in the personal rights department, but it'd never occur to make friends with fascist assholes to change that.
There's a famous German proverb, attributed to Martin Luther: Wer mit einem Scheissdreck rammelt, er gewinne oder verliere, er geht beschissen hinvon. Translated that means something in the line of: when you fuck with crap, who cares if you win or lose, you go away covered in crap.
No idea if it's right that Mr. Kasparov is arrested. Honestly, I don't care. Just have a look at some of his allies and you'll know why: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bolshevik_Party - these guys are as much about freedom of speech as Adolf Hitler was, and you know how it ended. In this case it's better to be safe than sorry, in my honest opinion. Using Gary Kasparov and his political friends arrests as proof for diminishing freedom of speech in russia is just wrong. In this case there wouldn't be any political freedom in Germany, too, as the national socialist party is forbidden here, too.
Huh? Are you sure this is true? I'd imagine there would be some binding description about the required quality in the bidding for this contract? At least that's how it's done over here in my country. Not fulfilling this requirement would be fraud.
Wow. I love you for using the most recent LAME Version and correctly applying presets. Unlike Radiohead you seem to have managed to read up on how to encode to MP3 properly (well, considering you're posting on Slashdot I should've expected that... ;) ). Thank you for that!
Music is just not my cup of tea, unfortunately.
More like the East-German STASI. And a lot of people here see it like that.
;-)
Really? For the better part of the last week I was researching Nokia Communicator 9300i, which runs Symbian OS 8.1, so I completely mixed that up with Series 80. When I saw that its successor runs "Series 60 3rd Ed." it seemed clear as day to me that this was based on Symbian OS 6.3 or something. Wow, so I managed to make a complete and utter fool out of myself again...
There's no text in this message body.
From Wikipedia's Symbian OS Article it reads like this is Symbian OS 9.1 only. And 9.1 isn't developed any further, AFAIK. The newest Communicator Model uses Symbian OS Series 60 3rd Ed.
It's damn interesting, yes. And a smallish around these numbers would've made his post very informative. But it's missing and alone these numbers mean nothing, IMHO. It was the reaction to him being modded down that someone else posted a similar link.
IMHO Inside jokes are expected to be understood by regulars, but at least I can't remember reading about these numbers before here on Slashdot. I remember reading an article about the Wow! signal itself, but there's no way in hell that I would have remembered the numbers without context.
TBH, he could've written one or two words explaining what he posted. If this post wouldn't take away my modding rigths for this article I would still mod him Off Topic. Without explanation these numbers are just rubbish.
Various sources talk about 18 villages that have "disappeared" on these Satellite images and 30 new ones around a Military Base as "proof" for forced relocations.
How can this be proof of anything? Just a reminder, Myanmar has a population of a little less than 50 million people. The only pictures I've seen (here and here) show villages of maybe five houses in the middle of a wood, so these 18 villages could've simply been abandoned. Sources speak of burnt down ruins... but is it really that far fetched to assume there might be accidental fires involved? After all Myanmar population is said to live a quite backward style of living (and that being the Military Regimes fault).
If the pictures that are public are the best evidence they have then I'd be highly critical of using them as a base for any kind of punishment (the fact aside that sanctions won't hurt anyone than the population).
If I understood that correctly, eMusic is using LAME V0 VBR and Amazon uses LAME 256 kBit/s ABR. In this case eMusics quality will be better. With average bitrate the song you encode *must* be at the bitrate you say it has to have, even if the average bitrate should be higher, while variable bitrate, well, is completely variable. So the 1995 'Foo Fighters' Album in V0 has an average bitrate of ~270 kBit/s, while Joanna Newsom's 'Ys' only has ~206 kBit/s. In the first case there would be bitrate shortages, in the second case there would be wasted space by applying ABR instead.
Better explanation: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Average_Bitrate
Hopefully I didn't fall to well placed sarcasm here, but...
basically, that's what happened.
With how DRM is working today, you wouldn't be allowed to "test-drive" as long as you have long hair on your drivers license picture. Or, without analogy: I use Linux. How should I ever play a MS DRM'd file?
... a Retro-Virus? ;-)
So... these stories are basically the Slashdot equivalent of "Paris Hilton in jail"?