Yeah. And drop emacs in favour of ed. And ls in favour of dir. And pirates in favour of ninjas. Yeah man, you think you want a holy war, but can you hack it?
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See, I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking, did he logon to six virtual consoles or only five? Well to tell you the truth, I forgot myself in all this excitement. But being as this is enlightenment 0.16.8.11, the most stable release of enlightenment in the world and will blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: do I feel lucky? Well do ya, punk?
"Former FBI Agent Patrick J. Dempsey warns that the Internet has become a sanctuary for cyber criminals
Any time you have a new community or resource to exploit, there will be criminals. However, calling it a sanctuary is hardly apt. I can think of more than a few places that are a sanctuary for criminals, yet you won't see the government razing those neighborhoods and starting anew, would you? Besides, who gets called a criminal?
Actually, the internet is a sanctuary for cyber criminals. You don't find cyber criminals holding up armoured trucks at gun point, regular meat criminals do that, you find cyber criminals on the interwebs. That's why they're cyber criminals. The intertubes are a sanctuary for cyber criminals for exactly the same reason that the FBI is a sanctuary for corrupt FBI agents.
I totally recommend creating a second internet, and a second FBI, a second stock market, a second local primary school. Everything.
No one thing should get all the cred for harbouring criminals. If people want to be paranoid and really stupid, let them be paranoid and really stupid and have a good laugh at their expense.
I want video editing software in linux that WORKS and is as EASY to use as Vegas. Or, perhaps when they figure out Photoshop they can figure out Vegas and even Premier.
Have a look at kdenlive. It's pretty simple to use and does a nice job. One caveat is it's not incredibly stable yet (occasionally crashes when you move an edit on my amd64 installation) but save frequently and it's nearly there - I'd rate it with Premier from 10 years ago. Another reasonable editor is LiVES which seems more stable but has a less easy user interface - it kind of expects you to know what your doing a bit more. Great for VJing and has jack support for audio.
I recently put a DVD together using kdenlive as the editing package and found it worked a treat, although having also used Lightworks and Avid, I wouldn't call it professional. Maybe a release from now I might say it's up with mickey mouse tools like Premier and Vegas.
What I would love to see is video and audio layers including alsa/jack midi and audio added to Synfig Studio. That would become the ultimate editing/compositing/mixing package. Seeing as I'm too busy these days to get involved, I'll just have to wish.
Inkscape is for vector graphics, that is graphics that are comprised of descriptions of lines, curves, colours. GIMP/Photoshop are primarily intended for rasterized graphics, that is images comprised of a bunch of pixels in a 2D plane.
Try importing an image into inkscape, changing the colour of a single pixel and saving the image. You'll get the difference.
If I gave $30 billion (I don't care how it was made, it was) of my money and decided I wanted the recipients to figure out how to make monkeys dance while playing cards and whistling Sheena is a Punk Rocker, than they better damn well figure out how to do it.
If you gave $30 billion of your money to a charity administered by me and insisted we figure out how to make monkeys dance while playing cards and whistling Sheena is a Punk Rocker, I'd cut off your penis in front of your bank manager, shove you dismembered member down your throat, piss on you and then go to gaol happy in the knowledge that I had done some good for the world.
Well perhaps I'm exagerating, but I do hope you realise that your entire rant is offtopic and very, very stupid. We are talking about charity, not "a rich arsehole giving idiots money to perform whatever the rich arsehole finds amusing tody."
the current communications minister is the one making all the noise about 'clean-feed', trying to suck up to Family First in the senate
That isn't very clear in the article linked, barely a mention in one paragraph buried in the story. Maybe another article may have been more appropriate... like here for instance.
How does an article about a filtering scheme introduced by the previous government support your claim that this filtering will likely go ahead? The current government has next to no track record, except in declaring the net filtering introduced by the previous government a failure.
Really, what are you trying to say and did you get an interesting moderation for the same reason as a triple breasted bearded dwarf might be considered "interesting"?
I was reading through all of the crap about how much energy it would take to go and get the hydrocarbons, how our technology isn't quite efficient enough yet, etc, etc, and just hoping that someone on this site would be intelligent enough to realise that, given the problem we already have releasing our own carbon stores into the atmosphere, what kind of absolute stupidity would lead anyone to deliberately import carbon from elsewhere?
I suppose that burning it in orbit and beaming power back to Earth could work, providing we could find a good source of oxygen, but then would that cost less than setting up orbital solar plants?
So in general my reaction to this story is "Wow, Titan's got hydrocarbons - wtf does that have to do terrestrial energy consumption?"
As a German, I can just point out that many Americans are in gross violation of German road traffic law (for example, they're overtaking on the right side all the time) as well as German gun regulations.
As an Australian, I'd like to point out that driving on the right side of the road is illegal, dangerous and incredibly stupid. You are likely to kill yourself and the poor soul you collide with.
I will be lobbying my goverment to tell your goverment to get into line immediately.
Oh, and overtaking on the right is perfectly legal if it is safe to do so, overtaking on the left is a no no.
Clean energy was killed by the very environmentalists who tout it. I was talking to an engineer recently who worked on nuclear power plants, and he told me about a plant somewhere (can't remember the name) that planned to build 6 cores.
Until you have a completely safe and reliable way of disposing of waste, as distinct from just reducing it, in fact handling the entire fuel chain from mining to waste disposal, don't call nuclear power clean. Fision is not clean and probably never will be.
If you were making an argument about environmentalists impeding development of fusion, I might be interested in what you have to say, but given the way you started off in that post, then followed up with crap about "I guess fish are more important than people" (shows a complete lack of understanding of the big picture with all its complex dependencies) and then suggestions that drilling and burning more oil is going to solve anything, I lump you right in with rabid environmentalists.
Sure, your supidity has an opposing direction, but the magnitude is roughly equal.
Kelty's just a bit of a whiner, really. He's consistantly blamed everyone else for the repeated federal police screw ups, and his latest target is the media. I'm not surprised that the current government isn't taking him to seriously, especially considering how keen they are to distance themselves from the corrupt practices of the previous government.
The only positive out of the actions of the previous government and the AFP is that they were so transparently corrupt and incompetent that our judiciary could prevent us from going down the path of breaking international law to the extent that the current US administration has. If there had been a media blackout, or "editors club" as proposed, the previous government wouldn't have appeared so twisted and the new government wouldn't have got elected. They know it. Mick really should wait until closer to a second term election when the current government has a few dirty secrets to hide before trying to float an idea like this.
Nothing to see here. Nothing's been sensored, there actually is nothing to see beyond a sad old whiner pointing the finger yet again.
In the meantime, the iPhone is the only phone you can take virtually anywhere on the planet and borrow a cable from someone to recharge it.
Actually, I know of two people among my freinds who own iPods and one of them lives on the other side of the world. I know heaps of people with older style Nokia chargers and even more people with usb hosts in the form of PCs, laptops, DVD recorders, etc, etc.
I'm pretty sure that if everyone standardised on Apple connectors, Apple would be compelled to change to something funky looking which noone else uses - either that or sue. They tried to change with the move to intel CPUs, but long term I don't think they can really break that old habit.
You got it so spot on. These school kids are going to need real Windows(r) skills when they're ready for work in five to ten years.
So will the next generation and the generation after that. I learned all about registry hacking when I was in grade 3, 1982 I think, and boy, I'm so glad I did.
What's the use of Linux desktops? If windows has been good enough for the last thousand years, it's good enough for the next thousand years.
Lots of people worried about birds or "The Ecosystem". Very few seem to be worried about the millions of PEOPLE who die HORRIBLE DEATHS thanks to Dengue fever.
Oh if I had mod points....
That's the funniest thing I've read in ages. It's like the whole argument that the economy is more important than the environment while completely ignoring the fact that the economy can't exist without the environment - but taken to a new ridiculous level.
While nexus is the magazine for whackos, i think it's not all that far fetched.
We tend to think of the brain as that mass of nervey wurvey stuff in our head cavaties, to use scientific parlance, but if you instead look at the entire nervous system as the brain, you get an expaination of interesting notions like the ability of the nerve mass in the lower spine and sacrum being able to walk with the spinal chord severed above. It also becomes feasible for the organs to affect thought, not by being wired to the brain, but by effectively being part of the brain.
So we tend to think of the brain as the big mass in the head, but really we probably have a smaller secondary brain in the sacrum, and then heads of smaller and smaller brains scattered throughout the body. Maybe...
Unfortunately, my father has gotten involved with Landmark, and I'm at a loss as to how to convince him it is a horrible idea.
First off, it's not a horrible idea. Maybe find out why he is doing it and find out if he needs to keep doing it to achieve that. Perhaps look at it as an economic question. Is the cost justified?
On the other hand, if he's happy, why worry? If he keeps bugging you to do the forum and you really don't want to ever do it, say so and tell him that continually asking you to do it shows that he isn't listening and is a bit offensive. Also understand that if he is really into it then it is an important part of his life, so listen politely when he talks about it, just as I listen to my dad when he talks about his cats. I really don't think you have too much to worry about, it isn't expensive when compared to gym membership or other activities.
Freaking out and acting like it's a cult or stonewalling all talk of it is likely to have him thinking you don't get it and he'll be more concerend to correct your fears. Listening to him talk about this aspect of his life as you would other aspects of life puts the whole thing in the context of a normal relationship, and the sense of a normal relationship will free him up to see whether he needs to continue with it.
It really isn't a cult as such. Emotionally vulnerable people can get a bit sucked in to it and create that perception, but if you just keep loving them and treat their choices with respect, or rather respect their choices, you free them up to get on with their lives and actually help remove the cult tag from otherwise really useful stuff.
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Yeah. And drop emacs in favour of ed. And ls in favour of dir. And pirates in favour of ninjas. Yeah man, you think you want a holy war, but can you hack it?
...
See, I know what you're thinking, punk. You're thinking, did he logon to six virtual consoles or only five? Well to tell you the truth, I forgot myself in all this excitement. But being as this is enlightenment 0.16.8.11, the most stable release of enlightenment in the world and will blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself a question: do I feel lucky? Well do ya, punk?
Actually, the internet is a sanctuary for cyber criminals. You don't find cyber criminals holding up armoured trucks at gun point, regular meat criminals do that, you find cyber criminals on the interwebs. That's why they're cyber criminals. The intertubes are a sanctuary for cyber criminals for exactly the same reason that the FBI is a sanctuary for corrupt FBI agents.
I totally recommend creating a second internet, and a second FBI, a second stock market, a second local primary school. Everything.
No one thing should get all the cred for harbouring criminals. If people want to be paranoid and really stupid, let them be paranoid and really stupid and have a good laugh at their expense.
Well, I've always said that Windows 3.11 was at least as good on the server as anything else they've released.
Only because you eat salty liquorice and herrings. ;-P
Ooops, I ignored that. Forgive me.
Yeah, that sucks.
Have a look at kdenlive. It's pretty simple to use and does a nice job. One caveat is it's not incredibly stable yet (occasionally crashes when you move an edit on my amd64 installation) but save frequently and it's nearly there - I'd rate it with Premier from 10 years ago. Another reasonable editor is LiVES which seems more stable but has a less easy user interface - it kind of expects you to know what your doing a bit more. Great for VJing and has jack support for audio.
I recently put a DVD together using kdenlive as the editing package and found it worked a treat, although having also used Lightworks and Avid, I wouldn't call it professional. Maybe a release from now I might say it's up with mickey mouse tools like Premier and Vegas.
What I would love to see is video and audio layers including alsa/jack midi and audio added to Synfig Studio. That would become the ultimate editing/compositing/mixing package. Seeing as I'm too busy these days to get involved, I'll just have to wish.
Inkscape is for vector graphics, that is graphics that are comprised of descriptions of lines, curves, colours. GIMP/Photoshop are primarily intended for rasterized graphics, that is images comprised of a bunch of pixels in a 2D plane.
Try importing an image into inkscape, changing the colour of a single pixel and saving the image. You'll get the difference.
You linked scientology to science fiction.
It's unlikely you got a Troll mod for insulting scientologists.
It's highly likely you got a Troll mod for insulting science fiction.
At least science fiction is honest.If you gave $30 billion of your money to a charity administered by me and insisted we figure out how to make monkeys dance while playing cards and whistling Sheena is a Punk Rocker, I'd cut off your penis in front of your bank manager, shove you dismembered member down your throat, piss on you and then go to gaol happy in the knowledge that I had done some good for the world.
Well perhaps I'm exagerating, but I do hope you realise that your entire rant is offtopic and very, very stupid. We are talking about charity, not "a rich arsehole giving idiots money to perform whatever the rich arsehole finds amusing tody."
That isn't very clear in the article linked, barely a mention in one paragraph buried in the story. Maybe another article may have been more appropriate... like here for instance.
How does an article about a filtering scheme introduced by the previous government support your claim that this filtering will likely go ahead? The current government has next to no track record, except in declaring the net filtering introduced by the previous government a failure.
Really, what are you trying to say and did you get an interesting moderation for the same reason as a triple breasted bearded dwarf might be considered "interesting"?
heh heh "A-ring" heh heh "Moon" heh heh heh...
Ummm, Earth is the third world. Mars is the fourth.
So you've never used a spoon, right idiot? ;-P
I was reading through all of the crap about how much energy it would take to go and get the hydrocarbons, how our technology isn't quite efficient enough yet, etc, etc, and just hoping that someone on this site would be intelligent enough to realise that, given the problem we already have releasing our own carbon stores into the atmosphere, what kind of absolute stupidity would lead anyone to deliberately import carbon from elsewhere?
I suppose that burning it in orbit and beaming power back to Earth could work, providing we could find a good source of oxygen, but then would that cost less than setting up orbital solar plants?
So in general my reaction to this story is "Wow, Titan's got hydrocarbons - wtf does that have to do terrestrial energy consumption?"
As an Australian, I'd like to point out that driving on the right side of the road is illegal, dangerous and incredibly stupid. You are likely to kill yourself and the poor soul you collide with.
I will be lobbying my goverment to tell your goverment to get into line immediately.
Oh, and overtaking on the right is perfectly legal if it is safe to do so, overtaking on the left is a no no.
Until you have a completely safe and reliable way of disposing of waste, as distinct from just reducing it, in fact handling the entire fuel chain from mining to waste disposal, don't call nuclear power clean. Fision is not clean and probably never will be.
If you were making an argument about environmentalists impeding development of fusion, I might be interested in what you have to say, but given the way you started off in that post, then followed up with crap about "I guess fish are more important than people" (shows a complete lack of understanding of the big picture with all its complex dependencies) and then suggestions that drilling and burning more oil is going to solve anything, I lump you right in with rabid environmentalists.
Sure, your supidity has an opposing direction, but the magnitude is roughly equal.
Kelty's just a bit of a whiner, really. He's consistantly blamed everyone else for the repeated federal police screw ups, and his latest target is the media. I'm not surprised that the current government isn't taking him to seriously, especially considering how keen they are to distance themselves from the corrupt practices of the previous government.
The only positive out of the actions of the previous government and the AFP is that they were so transparently corrupt and incompetent that our judiciary could prevent us from going down the path of breaking international law to the extent that the current US administration has. If there had been a media blackout, or "editors club" as proposed, the previous government wouldn't have appeared so twisted and the new government wouldn't have got elected. They know it. Mick really should wait until closer to a second term election when the current government has a few dirty secrets to hide before trying to float an idea like this.
Nothing to see here. Nothing's been sensored, there actually is nothing to see beyond a sad old whiner pointing the finger yet again.
I do use a keyboard instead of C++, you insensitive clod!
Actually, I know of two people among my freinds who own iPods and one of them lives on the other side of the world. I know heaps of people with older style Nokia chargers and even more people with usb hosts in the form of PCs, laptops, DVD recorders, etc, etc.
I'm pretty sure that if everyone standardised on Apple connectors, Apple would be compelled to change to something funky looking which noone else uses - either that or sue. They tried to change with the move to intel CPUs, but long term I don't think they can really break that old habit.
You got it so spot on. These school kids are going to need real Windows(r) skills when they're ready for work in five to ten years.
So will the next generation and the generation after that. I learned all about registry hacking when I was in grade 3, 1982 I think, and boy, I'm so glad I did.
What's the use of Linux desktops? If windows has been good enough for the last thousand years, it's good enough for the next thousand years.
Oh if I had mod points....
That's the funniest thing I've read in ages. It's like the whole argument that the economy is more important than the environment while completely ignoring the fact that the economy can't exist without the environment - but taken to a new ridiculous level.
Well done!! Hahahahaha!
Actually it was European humans. From this story, it looks like they're about to strike again.
While nexus is the magazine for whackos, i think it's not all that far fetched.
We tend to think of the brain as that mass of nervey wurvey stuff in our head cavaties, to use scientific parlance, but if you instead look at the entire nervous system as the brain, you get an expaination of interesting notions like the ability of the nerve mass in the lower spine and sacrum being able to walk with the spinal chord severed above. It also becomes feasible for the organs to affect thought, not by being wired to the brain, but by effectively being part of the brain.
So we tend to think of the brain as the big mass in the head, but really we probably have a smaller secondary brain in the sacrum, and then heads of smaller and smaller brains scattered throughout the body. Maybe...
First off, it's not a horrible idea. Maybe find out why he is doing it and find out if he needs to keep doing it to achieve that. Perhaps look at it as an economic question. Is the cost justified?
On the other hand, if he's happy, why worry? If he keeps bugging you to do the forum and you really don't want to ever do it, say so and tell him that continually asking you to do it shows that he isn't listening and is a bit offensive. Also understand that if he is really into it then it is an important part of his life, so listen politely when he talks about it, just as I listen to my dad when he talks about his cats. I really don't think you have too much to worry about, it isn't expensive when compared to gym membership or other activities.
Freaking out and acting like it's a cult or stonewalling all talk of it is likely to have him thinking you don't get it and he'll be more concerend to correct your fears. Listening to him talk about this aspect of his life as you would other aspects of life puts the whole thing in the context of a normal relationship, and the sense of a normal relationship will free him up to see whether he needs to continue with it.
It really isn't a cult as such. Emotionally vulnerable people can get a bit sucked in to it and create that perception, but if you just keep loving them and treat their choices with respect, or rather respect their choices, you free them up to get on with their lives and actually help remove the cult tag from otherwise really useful stuff.