I love my Mac Mini's! Just mount a little cage behind the tv and wire up the hdmi! Only issue with it has been lack of 3d support on my latest tv but the 4k modes look awesome on it. Add external firewire, USB3, or NAS and now you can play anything you've got in your library. Probably all fit behind the wall mount for your tv just like mine does.
Blender is mostly for 3d animation, but it does have it's own video editor built in. Added bonus that you can animate things like callouts, thought clouds, etc... Added bonus that the community for Blender seems massive.
The idea that people, or even children, need to be shielded from topics that surround us everyday in reality is ludicrous. The jury is STILL out on whether violent games cause violent behavior but if my experience can be humbly included it does not. It's a choice people gleefully want to take away from us for no other reason than exercising power over us.
Turning the world Micky Mouse does not help anyone and simply annoys me. I am reminded of a quote from Demolition Man:
Edgar Friendly: That's right. You see, according to *Cacteau's* plan. *I'm* the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy who would sit in the greasy spoon and think "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the big rack of Barbecued spare ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I *want* high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese alright? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinatti in a non-smoking section. I wanna run around naked with green jell-o all over my body reading a Playboy magazine. Why? Because maybe I feel the need to okay pal? I've *seen* the future, you know what it is. It's made by a 47 year-old virgin in gray pajamas soaking in a bubble bath, drinking a broccoli milkshake and thinking "I'm an Oscar-Meyer Wiener". You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cacteau's way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants. Your other option: come down here, maybe starve to death.
I live in Canada and I was worried for a second there that I would have to start actively supporting creationists in the US! How else can the United States be made to fail? Can we out produce them? No. Can we out inovate them? Not yet... But we can out educated them! And by sabotaging the US education system we foreigners can force the once mighty United States to crash down like a house of cards.
Do you see the Chinese teaching their children worthless garbage? No. Good!
Do you see the Americans teaching their children worthless garbage? YES! GOOD!
I am so tempted to kiss the guy! Linux can't have this type of _OBVIOUS_ audio sabotage at the kernel level if we expect game developers to ever make their products available on Linux. Linus NEEDS to reign this in, we just can't afford it. He is 110% right.
Keep the helm firm, man! That's exactly what we need!
The people researching this cure are outraged that big-pharma refuses to help them, especially since it seems to be 100% effective even against cancers that are leathal... No human trials yet, but lots of recorded history for the drug and all point to it being safe and effective.
Religions cannot coexist. It is impossible. Eventually the leaders of each religion will realize that the only way to make more money or control more people is to destroy the other religions. There is no religion without the greedy and intolerant wanting to be in control of everything they see.
Even the bible itself is a great example of this; why did god throw the devil into hell? Because god didn't want to share his toys. Greed is the foundation of religion and the very reason that these people want intolerance enforced on all; so that no one can question their domination.
Without greed being the entire equation, there would be no need for intolerance.
I am by no means saying definitively that they were not in legal hangaring since they first posted their rfc's (or whatever they call them). Just that from the average Canadian; I saw none of that...
I blame media outlets that shape what news they will allow the public to know about...
I see the CSIRO thing as a completely valid case; from what we saw here in Canada, CSIRO did exactly what you say they didn't. We see nothing, nothing, wait... nope nothing, nothing, nothing, PAY ME OR DIE! Where the (place of no return) did that come from!?!
As a Canadian, I see no reason why any company from any country shouldn't be able to make a profit from it's inventions... For a time... After that - it's public domain time and the writing's on the wall to innovate again or DIE... It's the big time out there now, people. Get your big kid pull ups on. If you want to get ahead, you have to out innovate the entire planet now, not just your neighbor. Intellectual Property rights were a cudgel to help foster local monopolies, but in this day and age monopolies just can't exist anymore - not that they were ever a good idea. The guy from Winnipeg has the same right to copy your innovation as the guy in Bombay.
If movie compression algorithms could be implemented on hardware based on what works best, not who's gouging the least or who's pet project it is.
The definition of IP is to intentionally HURT the end users of your own products as well as your competitors by maintaining a monopoly, retaining ownership even when sold, and requiring licensing long after the usefulness of such is insane.
I think it's high time to get rid of IP permanently.
A couple of years ago, I saw a comparison of Apache/Red Had vs. IIS/Windows that left a lot of people scratching their heads. The central test of the comparison was a comparison of a couple of hundred clients trying to read the same files from the server at the same time. Anyone that knows networking basics would know that 100 clients trying to create http sessions over tcp/ip would each require the files to be spooled to them one at a time and the maximum through put of the 10baseT network they were using would be 10Mbps / (8 data bits + 1 stop bit) = 1.111MB/s which is exactly what the Red Hat server maintained. The windows server magically transported 100MB/s over the same wires! How could this be?!? My thoughts about this have always been that IIS was not using http over tcp/ip, it was using http over udp. That meant that all 100 clients could be added to a multicast group and receive the files at the same time. This does mean that you could never attain the same throughput over https, though, because each session would be forced to be separated.
You know that's strange, I always heard it, but never looked it up to be sure. Thanks for the correction and the link! I actually learned something today.
Depends... You have to remember Mac OSX runs visual post script. The whole thing is being scaled anyways. That's why it can scale any portion of the screen to any size at any time. It also has more than one workspace per monitor all of which can be scaled.
I don't run windows as my main os, so I'm not always up-to-date on windows issues.
But seriously! Every file matches a virus or spyware tool and I should ignore this and run these programs anyways? I don't think so.
And all I was saying here is that it was a wee bit odd. That's all. I said "Check you computers", if nothing showed up you could always just reply with "yes, it's a false positive". Not flame my e-mail.
People.... Some of your really (insert word describing the behavior of a vacuum)...
Qybix
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No.
Just that: No.
IP addresses do NOT identify people or even computers. MAC addresses can be hacked and even windows license numbers aren't worth shit.
This judge is actually being intelligent and Beerdood hits the nail on the head. We should all be congratulating this judge not condemning him....
But then, your so fickle you can't even be consistent in your answer! Personal privacy or file sharing doesn't matter. It's the mark of an idiot to think that IP address makes anything other than an end point for a tcp or udp stream.
Well, I don't know about you folks, but the first thing that I did was download the programs in Mac OSX and the scan them from windows in Parallels Desktop using AVG... The results were horrendous! Every file has a virus. EVERY FILE. Check your computers people... I am so glad that I only run windows in emulation these days! This could be a false positive, but I doubt it.
I agree. It is the webmasters duty to ensure that their site uses valid encryption. If it were up to me, these people would be criminally responsible for any identity theft that occurs because of this laziness.
The warning should stay as it is so that non-technical people CAN be frightened by it. They need to be!
Scrivener also promises large scale document tools on Mac only. I haven't really tried it out seeing as I don't have the next great canadian novel in me at this moment.
What you're talking about was already sort of available years ago; some of the old windows emulation software for the Apple Macintosh used to store a quick booting ram image that booted instantly. It worked because an outside operating system was controlling the operation of the emulated one. Given how fast emulated systems can work, and how well they can manage the security of the guest operating system, I have actually wondered why this hasn't been done in a real world os like windows...
Not withstanding the server versions of this which I hear have really taken on: virtualized instances of windows servers that can instantly be protected by the superiour Linux host operating system from zero-day attackes (or so the pamphlets say).
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada has been using a private company to manage the cell phone payment for parking in public areas of the city starting in October 21, 2005. For more information please see link below...
Has anyone considered something like a MUTE type of solution? If such a thing existed, I would allow a small percentage of my cpu time and network bandwidth to be used to route messages.
Slashdot Mirror
I love my Mac Mini's! Just mount a little cage behind the tv and wire up the hdmi! Only issue with it has been lack of 3d support on my latest tv but the 4k modes look awesome on it. Add external firewire, USB3, or NAS and now you can play anything you've got in your library. Probably all fit behind the wall mount for your tv just like mine does.
Blender is mostly for 3d animation, but it does have it's own video editor built in. Added bonus that you can animate things like callouts, thought clouds, etc... Added bonus that the community for Blender seems massive.
QYbix
So true dood...
The idea that people, or even children, need to be shielded from topics that surround us everyday in reality is ludicrous. The jury is STILL out on whether violent games cause violent behavior but if my experience can be humbly included it does not. It's a choice people gleefully want to take away from us for no other reason than exercising power over us.
Turning the world Micky Mouse does not help anyone and simply annoys me. I am reminded of a quote from Demolition Man:
Edgar Friendly: That's right. You see, according to *Cacteau's* plan. *I'm* the enemy. Because I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom of speech, freedom of choice. I'm the kind of guy who would sit in the greasy spoon and think "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the big rack of Barbecued spare ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I *want* high cholesterol. I want to eat bacon, butter and buckets of cheese alright? I want to smoke a Cuban cigar the size of Cincinatti in a non-smoking section. I wanna run around naked with green jell-o all over my body reading a Playboy magazine. Why? Because maybe I feel the need to okay pal? I've *seen* the future, you know what it is. It's made by a 47 year-old virgin in gray pajamas soaking in a bubble bath, drinking a broccoli milkshake and thinking "I'm an Oscar-Meyer Wiener". You wanna live on top, you gotta live Cacteau's way. What he wants, when he wants, how he wants. Your other option: come down here, maybe starve to death.
Qybixxx
I live in Canada and I was worried for a second there that I would have to start actively supporting creationists in the US! How else can the United States be made to fail? Can we out produce them? No. Can we out inovate them? Not yet... But we can out educated them! And by sabotaging the US education system we foreigners can force the once mighty United States to crash down like a house of cards.
Do you see the Chinese teaching their children worthless garbage? No. Good!
Do you see the Americans teaching their children worthless garbage? YES! GOOD!
All is right with the world!
Qybix
I so did that on purpose... Reign/rein/rain... Sorry to rein on your parade...
Qybix
I am so tempted to kiss the guy! Linux can't have this type of _OBVIOUS_ audio sabotage at the kernel level if we expect game developers to ever make their products available on Linux. Linus NEEDS to reign this in, we just can't afford it. He is 110% right.
Keep the helm firm, man! That's exactly what we need!
Qybix
http://www.sott.net/article/228583-Scientists-cure-cancer-but-no-one-takes-notice
The people researching this cure are outraged that big-pharma refuses to help them, especially since it seems to be 100% effective even against cancers that are leathal... No human trials yet, but lots of recorded history for the drug and all point to it being safe and effective.
Qybix
Religions cannot coexist. It is impossible. Eventually the leaders of each religion will realize that the only way to make more money or control more people is to destroy the other religions. There is no religion without the greedy and intolerant wanting to be in control of everything they see.
Even the bible itself is a great example of this; why did god throw the devil into hell? Because god didn't want to share his toys. Greed is the foundation of religion and the very reason that these people want intolerance enforced on all; so that no one can question their domination.
Without greed being the entire equation, there would be no need for intolerance.
Qybixxx
That is very possible.
I am by no means saying definitively that they were not in legal hangaring since they first posted their rfc's (or whatever they call them). Just that from the average Canadian; I saw none of that...
I blame media outlets that shape what news they will allow the public to know about...
Qybix
I see the CSIRO thing as a completely valid case; from what we saw here in Canada, CSIRO did exactly what you say they didn't. We see nothing, nothing, wait... nope nothing, nothing, nothing, PAY ME OR DIE! Where the (place of no return) did that come from!?!
As a Canadian, I see no reason why any company from any country shouldn't be able to make a profit from it's inventions... For a time... After that - it's public domain time and the writing's on the wall to innovate again or DIE... It's the big time out there now, people. Get your big kid pull ups on. If you want to get ahead, you have to out innovate the entire planet now, not just your neighbor. Intellectual Property rights were a cudgel to help foster local monopolies, but in this day and age monopolies just can't exist anymore - not that they were ever a good idea. The guy from Winnipeg has the same right to copy your innovation as the guy in Bombay.
And that's exactly the way I like it.
Qybix
I so wish 3 months was the standard for all IP. Imagine all the good it would do!
If obscure companies had no way of showing up years later and demanding payment for ideas they helped write the initial specs for but never put any effort into.
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/04/01/2011245/australian-wifi-inventors-win-us-legal-battle
If you could sing "Happy Birthday" on tv without getting sued.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You
If movie compression algorithms could be implemented on hardware based on what works best, not who's gouging the least or who's pet project it is.
The definition of IP is to intentionally HURT the end users of your own products as well as your competitors by maintaining a monopoly, retaining ownership even when sold, and requiring licensing long after the usefulness of such is insane.
I think it's high time to get rid of IP permanently.
Qybix
A couple of years ago, I saw a comparison of Apache/Red Had vs. IIS/Windows that left a lot of people scratching their heads. The central test of the comparison was a comparison of a couple of hundred clients trying to read the same files from the server at the same time. Anyone that knows networking basics would know that 100 clients trying to create http sessions over tcp/ip would each require the files to be spooled to them one at a time and the maximum through put of the 10baseT network they were using would be 10Mbps / (8 data bits + 1 stop bit) = 1.111MB/s which is exactly what the Red Hat server maintained. The windows server magically transported 100MB/s over the same wires! How could this be?!? My thoughts about this have always been that IIS was not using http over tcp/ip, it was using http over udp. That meant that all 100 clients could be added to a multicast group and receive the files at the same time. This does mean that you could never attain the same throughput over https, though, because each session would be forced to be separated.
Just a quick thought..
You know that's strange, I always heard it, but never looked it up to be sure. Thanks for the correction and the link! I actually learned something today.
Qybix
Older Tv's run at 300x150... Much less than useful. You have to think about what the resolution of the tv is before you do something like that.
Frank
Depends... You have to remember Mac OSX runs visual post script. The whole thing is being scaled anyways. That's why it can scale any portion of the screen to any size at any time. It also has more than one workspace per monitor all of which can be scaled.
Frank
Thank you.
That's all you had to say.
I just get a little paranoid when it comes to my windows virtual machine. It's just not as robust as my main Apple and Red Hat machines.
Qybix
Flamebait?!?
Go do bad things to a goat!
I don't run windows as my main os, so I'm not always up-to-date on windows issues.
But seriously! Every file matches a virus or spyware tool and I should ignore this and run these programs anyways? I don't think so.
And all I was saying here is that it was a wee bit odd. That's all. I said "Check you computers", if nothing showed up you could always just reply with "yes, it's a false positive". Not flame my e-mail.
People.... Some of your really (insert word describing the behavior of a vacuum)...
Qybix
No.
Just that: No.
IP addresses do NOT identify people or even computers. MAC addresses can be hacked and even windows license numbers aren't worth shit.
This judge is actually being intelligent and Beerdood hits the nail on the head. We should all be congratulating this judge not condemning him....
But then, your so fickle you can't even be consistent in your answer! Personal privacy or file sharing doesn't matter. It's the mark of an idiot to think that IP address makes anything other than an end point for a tcp or udp stream.
Qybix
Well, I don't know about you folks, but the first thing that I did was download the programs in Mac OSX and the scan them from windows in Parallels Desktop using AVG... The results were horrendous! Every file has a virus. EVERY FILE. Check your computers people... I am so glad that I only run windows in emulation these days! This could be a false positive, but I doubt it.
Qybix
I agree. It is the webmasters duty to ensure that their site uses valid encryption. If it were up to me, these people would be criminally responsible for any identity theft that occurs because of this laziness.
The warning should stay as it is so that non-technical people CAN be frightened by it. They need to be!
Qybix
Scrivener also promises large scale document tools on Mac only. I haven't really tried it out seeing as I don't have the next great canadian novel in me at this moment.
http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.html
Qybix
What you're talking about was already sort of available years ago; some of the old windows emulation software for the Apple Macintosh used to store a quick booting ram image that booted instantly. It worked because an outside operating system was controlling the operation of the emulated one. Given how fast emulated systems can work, and how well they can manage the security of the guest operating system, I have actually wondered why this hasn't been done in a real world os like windows...
Not withstanding the server versions of this which I hear have really taken on: virtualized instances of windows servers that can instantly be protected by the superiour Linux host operating system from zero-day attackes (or so the pamphlets say).
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada has been using a private company to manage the cell phone payment for parking in public areas of the city starting in October 21, 2005. For more information please see link below...
i neering/parking_services/index.asp
http://www.city.saskatoon.sk.ca/org/municipal_eng
The companies website can be see at:
http://www.new-parking.com/
Qybix
Has anyone considered something like a MUTE type of solution? If such a thing existed, I would allow a small percentage of my cpu time and network bandwidth to be used to route messages.
A new do-it-yourself kit here in sk.ca is $209.00cd or less for a 2.0ghz amd... I'm sure I could get better if I didn't get the case.