AFAIK Mandriva provides the best KDE oriented linux desktop. That's a problem for the linux desktop. Ubuntu is great, but monocuture is not acceptable, we need a good KDE linux desktop too.
What about PCLinuxOS? It has roots in Mandrake, but has evolved its own character under TexStar's direction. It is primarily a KDE desktop distro (and was exclusively KDE until last year), and the KDE variant is still its flagship.
Although we're mostly Ubuntu/Gnome at home, I did have PCLinuxOS 2007 for a while on one of our PCs, and will probably install the 2010 edition into a VM for a test drive fairly soon.
If I buy a camera, I am not licensing from MPEG-LA, the manufacturer is. MPEG-LA can bitch and moan all they want about commercial use, but I highly doubt their claims would stand up in court.
Do you own a h.264-capable camera? If so, you should read the documents that came with it, paying special attention to the h.264 license which the camera manufacturer granted you. Even if it was sold as a "professional" video camera, it will contain those same terms, restricting your use of any h.264 videos you make with that camera to personal non-commercial purposes. That is all the camera manufacturer is permitted to grant you according to their distribution license with MPEG-LA.
You purchased and own the camera hardware (lens, switches, plastic, etc.), but you merely obtained a license for the software (codecs, etc.). You would need additional licensing from MPEG-LA to make commercial use of h.264 videos you made yourself, even though you are the copyright owner. This applies even if you transcode your video to use another codec, although MPEG-LA might have a harder time detecting your license violation in that case.
If somehow the Pope is removed, it will not get rid of the problem. All it will do is make a few Atheists happy.
The happiness of atheists is unaffected by the presence, absence, or identity of any pope.
That's not to deny that some of us find the current one more amusing than his predecessor.
Here's a pastiche of snips from other less-well-known Nimoy performances (SS officer, playboy, detective, spy, revolutionary, etc.), to Duran Duran's "Wild Boys". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRM1NB_SU40 See if you can identify which movies/shows these clips are from (hint: his appearances are at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000559).
Youll get the 4Kx2K monitor when 4Kx2K video becomes mainstream.
My home PC had a Dell 20" 1600x1200 LCD monitor about 10 years ago, and it was joined by a Sony laptop with a 17" 1920x1200 LCD display seven years ago. Were these "mainstream" resolutions at the time? They were more expensive than typical alternatives at the time, but still quite affordable. Both are still in use, along with a pair of recent 24" 1920x1080 LCD monitors. A comparable step up in size/resolution from 1080 displays today involves a proportionally larger price increment, if you can actually find anything worth upgrading to.
I thought mounted entertainment systems were killed by portable $100 DVD players already...
The portable unit one we got cost about euro120, but it has dual displays which attach to the headrests and provide independent volume controls. It can play almost anything, including DivX movies and MP3 music as well as regular DVDs and CDs. The headphones are not wireless, but I don't see that as justifying an additional euro1500+ for the automaker's system.
Manually editing text is time-consuming, fatiguing and error prone. Have a tool to automate that sort of thing is one of the fundamental reasons for having computers in the first place.
There's a great tool called vi.
Blasphemer! Vi is not great. Vi is evil incarnate, a tool for infidels.
Emacs is great. Emacs smiles upon the faithful. All praise emacs in its glory!
In a perfect world I'd have a pony. With a horn on its head.
Marketing droid: "People want ponies, but with one of the horns broken off!"
Real-world marketing often involves changing people's perception of reality, usually into falsehood or confusion. Marketing is not divorced from sales, but a precursor of both development and sales (but not really with advertising). It addresses what can be easily created as much as what people actually want, together with how to persuade people to want what will be produced. Competent good marketing is valuable to both product planner and eventual customer; competent bad marketing is used to the detriment of both. In either case, the marketer still benefits. It is this asymmetry which is objectionable. Similar asymmetries exist in other professions, but not often to the same extent.
The world may not be perfect, but some of its imperfections should not be defended.
FYI, US patent 4,429,685 on making goats into unicorns has expired. Would you accept a goat with one horn instead of a pony with one horn as a substitute for a unicorn? How about if an antelope or elk was used instead? Those are marketing questions. In order to produce a positive recommendation to a client, marketers often postulate ridiculous answers to such questions.
But what worries me about the Pirate Party is precisely that it is fundamentally international in nature.
What worries me is that many political parties which should be international in nature pretend to be merely local. For example, the UK's Official Monster Raving Loony Party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Monster_Raving_Loony_Party should expand internationally. Entry by the OMRLP into US politics could be disastrous for both the Republicans and the Democrats, since the policies of all three parties would be so closely clustered (on the sanity scale).
Impossible, if you follow Micosoft's guidelines, such as those published in the Microsoft Programming Series book by Steve Maguire: "Writing Solid Code: Microsoft Techniques for Developing Bug-free C" ISBN 978-1556155512
Microsoft uses these very techniques themselves, in every single one of their bug-free programs. Uh, on second thoughts...
Quibble: I think you meant "twisted pair" with RJ45 connectors won out over coax with BNC connectors. Ethernet was used over both, just as it it used over fiber today. In fact, I also recall the old thickwire with MAU boxes and AUI connectors; those yellow hoses were a real pain to install, but they carried ethernet before thinwire with BNC connectors had been invented.
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AFAIK Mandriva provides the best KDE oriented linux desktop. That's a problem for the linux desktop. Ubuntu is great, but monocuture is not acceptable, we need a good KDE linux desktop too.
What about PCLinuxOS? It has roots in Mandrake, but has evolved its own character under TexStar's direction. It is primarily a KDE desktop distro (and was exclusively KDE until last year), and the KDE variant is still its flagship.
Although we're mostly Ubuntu/Gnome at home, I did have PCLinuxOS 2007 for a while on one of our PCs, and will probably install the 2010 edition into a VM for a test drive fairly soon.
It definitely goes against the grain of what we've seen before now.
Stating the obvious usually does.
I prefer my games on a reel-to-reel you insensitive clod!
That's reels of paper tape, sonny boy...
If I buy a camera, I am not licensing from MPEG-LA, the manufacturer is. MPEG-LA can bitch and moan all they want about commercial use, but I highly doubt their claims would stand up in court.
Do you own a h.264-capable camera? If so, you should read the documents that came with it, paying special attention to the h.264 license which the camera manufacturer granted you. Even if it was sold as a "professional" video camera, it will contain those same terms, restricting your use of any h.264 videos you make with that camera to personal non-commercial purposes. That is all the camera manufacturer is permitted to grant you according to their distribution license with MPEG-LA.
You purchased and own the camera hardware (lens, switches, plastic, etc.), but you merely obtained a license for the software (codecs, etc.). You would need additional licensing from MPEG-LA to make commercial use of h.264 videos you made yourself, even though you are the copyright owner. This applies even if you transcode your video to use another codec, although MPEG-LA might have a harder time detecting your license violation in that case.
Went to Disney this year. Not only did Buena Vista Suites charge $10 a day for wifi, the speeds were only 1 megabit down (~150 kBps)
The revelation that Disney gouges everyone who sets foot on their property is hardly new.
If somehow the Pope is removed, it will not get rid of the problem. All it will do is make a few Atheists happy.
The happiness of atheists is unaffected by the presence, absence, or identity of any pope.
That's not to deny that some of us find the current one more amusing than his predecessor.
Shatner needs to do a spoken word version of Lenard Nimoy's "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins".
The mind boggles. The stomach retches. The spirit withers.
I laughed out loud when he was Mustafa Mond in the Brave New World movie.
Actually, I thought he did it fairly well. Klaus Kinski might have been better, if he had not been dead already. Nimoy was a good choice.
Here's a pastiche of snips from other less-well-known Nimoy performances (SS officer, playboy, detective, spy, revolutionary, etc.), to Duran Duran's "Wild Boys". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRM1NB_SU40 See if you can identify which movies/shows these clips are from (hint: his appearances are at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000559).
Lest we forget: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04 or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPh12Q7cpeE
Let's hope he does not perform the "Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" again. Once was barely forgiveable.
Youll get the 4Kx2K monitor when 4Kx2K video becomes mainstream.
My home PC had a Dell 20" 1600x1200 LCD monitor about 10 years ago, and it was joined by a Sony laptop with a 17" 1920x1200 LCD display seven years ago. Were these "mainstream" resolutions at the time? They were more expensive than typical alternatives at the time, but still quite affordable. Both are still in use, along with a pair of recent 24" 1920x1080 LCD monitors. A comparable step up in size/resolution from 1080 displays today involves a proportionally larger price increment, if you can actually find anything worth upgrading to.
Of course they did...look at that little "microchip"! Can you say mini-dildo?
The other ladies in the study said "Is it in yet?"
I thought mounted entertainment systems were killed by portable $100 DVD players already...
The portable unit one we got cost about euro120, but it has dual displays which attach to the headrests and provide independent volume controls. It can play almost anything, including DivX movies and MP3 music as well as regular DVDs and CDs. The headphones are not wireless, but I don't see that as justifying an additional euro1500+ for the automaker's system.
Manually editing text is time-consuming, fatiguing and error prone. Have a tool to automate that sort of thing is one of the fundamental reasons for having computers in the first place.
There's a great tool called vi.
Blasphemer! Vi is not great. Vi is evil incarnate, a tool for infidels.
Emacs is great. Emacs smiles upon the faithful. All praise emacs in its glory!
No data == no meaningful guesses.
Almost correct. No data = no constraint on wild exaggeration. They'd claim infinite losses if they thought it might be believed.
In a perfect world I'd have a pony. With a horn on its head.
Marketing droid: "People want ponies, but with one of the horns broken off!"
Real-world marketing often involves changing people's perception of reality, usually into falsehood or confusion. Marketing is not divorced from sales, but a precursor of both development and sales (but not really with advertising). It addresses what can be easily created as much as what people actually want, together with how to persuade people to want what will be produced. Competent good marketing is valuable to both product planner and eventual customer; competent bad marketing is used to the detriment of both. In either case, the marketer still benefits. It is this asymmetry which is objectionable. Similar asymmetries exist in other professions, but not often to the same extent.
The world may not be perfect, but some of its imperfections should not be defended.
FYI, US patent 4,429,685 on making goats into unicorns has expired. Would you accept a goat with one horn instead of a pony with one horn as a substitute for a unicorn? How about if an antelope or elk was used instead? Those are marketing questions. In order to produce a positive recommendation to a client, marketers often postulate ridiculous answers to such questions.
different people have different libidos. We don't have to kill each other over it.
Killing is unavoidable for necrophiliacs with persistent arousal syndrome...
But the placebo effect is really great!
Let's hope they offer him more than a placebo for his accumulated legal costs.
...wrote them all!
But what worries me about the Pirate Party is precisely that it is fundamentally international in nature.
What worries me is that many political parties which should be international in nature pretend to be merely local. For example, the UK's Official Monster Raving Loony Party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Monster_Raving_Loony_Party should expand internationally. Entry by the OMRLP into US politics could be disastrous for both the Republicans and the Democrats, since the policies of all three parties would be so closely clustered (on the sanity scale).
bugs would creep in, undoubtedly
Impossible, if you follow Micosoft's guidelines, such as those published in the Microsoft Programming Series book by Steve Maguire: "Writing Solid Code: Microsoft Techniques for Developing Bug-free C" ISBN 978-1556155512
Microsoft uses these very techniques themselves, in every single one of their bug-free programs. Uh, on second thoughts...
Ethernet won out over BNC years ago
Quibble: I think you meant "twisted pair" with RJ45 connectors won out over coax with BNC connectors. Ethernet was used over both, just as it it used over fiber today. In fact, I also recall the old thickwire with MAU boxes and AUI connectors; those yellow hoses were a real pain to install, but they carried ethernet before thinwire with BNC connectors had been invented.
Apple releases magical and revolutionary device with mindblowing features.
Mind-blowing features? Don't tell me Apple is responsible for the we-vibe!
http://we-vibe.com/
So now I feel like someone really is acting really sleazy in my name, even when they don't represent my actual interests.
And your taxes are paying them to do so. Whether you like it or not.