does "original footage" even *mean* anything any more? In the day where "Photoshop" is a verb, I posit that it doesn't.
You are looking at a small, specific, potential problem and missing the big picture.
As it is, witnesses have their eyes, mouths and still cameras. Their credibility will improve with many people watching events live over their shoulders.
As it is, "news" organizations can and do edit their images. Won't it be nice to have more than them to rely on?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is just some guys idea. A lot of people have ideas... what makes this one great enough that, say, Sony would start making the cameras he is suggestions?
Some people even think about their ideas, amazing isn't it?
The cameras are being made already. They are already part of cell phones and anyone with gumption can combine a PDA with wifi and a camera. That's not the point.
The point is imagining what people will do with those cameras and the possible social good that will come from them. As long as new restrictions are not made on publishing photographs of public places, these cameras will give the public an unprecedented new witness of public events.
The same technology in government hands, however, needs to be restricted. Real harm can come from unrestricted domestic spying. The trick it to not pay people to do the spying while still allowing prosecutors reasonable access to publically recorded material for criminal investigation.
In short, it is possible for these new cameras to be used in a way that does us all lots of good. The credibility of witnesses can be enhanced without creating a police state, where the state has all of the "evidence" and the ability to harass political opponents. Recent events, such as Mary Landrie's hysterical smut cam attacks and the whole UK police cam infrastructure make me worry about the actual uses. Noise produced by people like FortKnox serves the interest of those who would do all the wrong things.
Any possible "legitimate" use for these things will be dwarfed by the massive amounts of grainy upskirt pornography that will be produced.
Oh yeah, like that's what people did with film cameras. Nope, I don't think so. That kind of behavior makes you a cad and most people don't want to be thought of that way.
Don't blame the tool for the stupid things that you might think to do with it. Better people will make better use of the same tool. Such thoughts waste your time anyway because you can't remove the tool.
I'm embarrassed to be from the same state as the hysterical Marry Landrieu, who thinks like you do or used to. I might be able to calm you, but that won't help her or me.
I asked him this just the other day. I saw him at a truck stop buying de greaser for his hair. I asked him what he thought of the DMCA and before his body guards removed me, he actually answered:
"I have great respect for artists, consumers and the companies that make lots of money from them all. At the same time, I feel uncomfortable inflicting my personal beliefs onto any of them. Digital information is conceived in human minds but does not become profitable until sold."
..was this set up by SCO, Microsoft or one of the anti-virus folks who want to prove that Linux isn't without its weaknesses...?
Just look for the soon to be announced case of a photograph of a male model that looks nothing like the PR drone who writes an article about their bad experience with an email trojan while running Red Hat. It will run on about how secure they felt without complicated tar files and compilations, just taking it easy while Windoze 2003 server and Windoze Update did all the hard work for him. No more late nights with failed makefiles trying to run trojans for him again, no sir, he's switching back to the blissfull, dependable world of M$. It will be the security analog to the ease of use Apple Switcher about a year ago and it will fool about as many people for about as long.
Dude, once you get the facts you will always be willing to pay for second rate stuff!
Why not just use the real link and slashdot their site into oblivion!
First, the guy is a dick and might have something nasty for your browser as well. Never stick your hand down a hole you saw a snake crawl out of.
Second, the guy is a dick and won't be paying his bill. All you will do is stick the ISP with the Slashdot Jihad botnet DoS attack that follows links from Slashdot's current page.
A third, less obvious reason is that the guy is a dick and spoofed everything. All of those listed may be innocent or not exist.
Keep your malicious activity to yourself, please, or target real, proven dickheads with attacks that really won't harm innocent bystanders.
Um, WTF are you talking about? Reinstall "Windoze" every day?? Are you on crack? By god, are you actually generalizing this?
Several Librarians I know have told me that they have to re image Windoze on a daily basis to keep it clean and virus free. Even that is not enough now.
XP supports multiple concurrent users, sort of like X (but it's a simpler system, unless you use a full-fledged TS server). No one has to read anyone else's files, and the whole thing is easily secured and restricted if you know what you're doing.Yeah, I've seen time slicing, such as Magic Twin, and it can work at the 3GHz level with specialized hardware but Microsoft did not write that. I seriously doubt you can carry many users with it, AS I KNOW YOU CAN WITH ANY DECENT LINUX DISTRO. The security issues mentioned above make that kind of thing pointless, however.
Librarians go through absurd lengths, such as automated software that reinstalls windoze every day, to support Windoze on their public terminals.
You insulted the librarians I know with:
So it's Microsoft's fault they're not doing their jobs properly?
You have no clue, do you?
Well, that they are using Windoze may be them not doing their job. That's going away fast. My University is nuking their public Windoze terminals and replacing them with KDE + Firefox though terminal services. It's much more secure and much easier to maintain. The Librarians I know will soon follow the example.
You're a moron. I mean U R A m0r0n.... You're a fucking twit.... I'm just admittedly opposed to your blanket statement casting ignorance. Best of luck finishing high school with that attitude I hope 11th grade is better for you than this one is.
Gee, you sound so persuasive when you curse and call people morons. Do you really get worked up by posts on Slashdot or are you paid to pretend you are?
I'm a huge fan of Linux
What a wonderful advocate you are.
there is a company in town here with 300 yes that's 300 not 30 people using one machine as a terminal server and it works fantastic.
That I would believe if I saw it, but I've never seen a Microsoft run computer that could stay up for more than a day or so with as much as one user.
we have 80 people using one windows machine via clients and they can't view each others files let alone change them
Your ignorance is not a proof. You may not know of a way to look at other people's files. The relative frequency of Windoze cracks before and after security became "job one" for M$ two years ago makes me think there's a way to do it.
How is it possible the users can install ANYTHING (not just Google Desktop) on public internet terminals or in libraries?
Because M$ made a system that automatically installs software from any random internet site? Really. Librarians go through absurd lengths, such as automated software that reinstalls windoze every day, to support Windoze on their public terminals. For all that work, it's still an insecure, single user OS that should not be trusted.
If these cache files are world readable, you should be able to use any search tool to get the same information. Google's search tool is just easier to use.
And it will convert almost everything as well. # CONVERT LEAD INTO GOLD... Darn. And I thought Google could do everything.
But all the solder in your computer was turned to gold, until you stopped looking at Google. I might be missunderstanding what I know about how Google managed to convert crappy old X86 into lots of money, but I think it had something to do with their software.
And the person who wants to be distracted by the TV to avoid thinking about his miserable life on the road, never seeing his family? When he arrives at said gate, and the TV is off, and he has no mechanism to turn it back on?
Do you really think four hours of CNN will make anyone feel better? No, it's just repetitive, annoying bullshit. The person who has to listen to it the most is the one who wants it least.
What would be the appropriate word for someone who so obviously scorns and disdains their fellow man?
Troll?
You need to visit the wrong airport to understand.
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If you're annoyed by it, try to find a place to sit such that it isn't a problem... If you can't [tune the TV out], perhaps that's your problem?
There are some airports where there is no place to escape. The whole reason the TVs are there is because some marketing genius thought they had a "captive audience" and sold it to someone with more money than sense. Every single gate has two or three with the volume cranked so high that you can't hear actual airport announcements.
It could be my problem, but now there's a way to remove the root cause, I could care less. I have no fear that those who really want to watch TV will not be disturbed when I wander across the way to an unused gate and kill the TV there. Chances are that they won't notice. TV is designed intentionally to disturb and grab your attention, it's obnoxious by design. This little button will get rid of one or two and make my life and that of others much better.
I leave people like you alone to do whatever they wish to do, so long as it doesn't affect me.
Except when you tell me:
DON'T GO TO THE AIRPORT.
I would avoid the airport if I thought it was really full of morons such as yourself. Thankfully, people like you who accept whatever is pushed on them are a minority.
So you think you own the airport, eh? I suppose you think it's all fine and dandy to fill the airport with porn, if that's what you like. No thanks. I'll be one of those people turning those stupid TVs off till they decide to take them away and quit annoying people with them.
I want a picture of this "inventor" guy so I can snatch a magazine out of his hands at an airport or crank up a boombox next to his table at a restaurant, thus freeing him to sit in silence and think about his navel.
Do that to me and there will be silence, as your boom box will be swiftly broken into bent pieces. Don't worry much about it though, because you will never catch me using my fob. People in TV induced comas are known for their lack of situational awareness.
Your right to swing your arm ends where my nose begins. Don't believe me? Come on over some day and I'll punch you in the nose. You and the airport do not have a right to bomb me with adverts from some crappy TV. I'm sick of it and I'll be getting one of these devices so that I can contemplate whatever I like while you go into some kind of broadcast stupidity withdrawal.
If that withdrawal is really too painful for you, I suggest you get a portable TV, a laptop, a radio, a CD player or any other device with EAR PHONES, YOU ASS.
Ahhh, that felt good. I know you posted that just to get a rise out of people but I don't care. I enjoyed writing the above because people with your wrong headed notions are far too common.
"...will base the pricing on the number of processors the operating system shows present in the machine"
In other words, we will make our display match what we think you should pay. We count it as one, see here when you click this tab? We made it say "1 processor" so that's what we will charge you today. What a freaking non-statement.
Windoze, the single user stupid, on a multicore computer, what a waste!
It's not Microsoft's fault you can't run an up-to-date AV client. So you want to pirate software and blame them when you get a virus? Why is this about Microsoft and not about you again?
This is about Microsoft's retarded system of charging people money for every dinky thing they do. A multi-core processor machine is next to wasted running M$'s stupid single user software. What's the point of using such a thing for a single person's Word processing? Because of that, M$'s seemingly generous policy of not charging an additional rape fee per processor looks worthless. Oh, sure, someone can say that it would be nice to run "server" with it but that is always the wrong tool for the job.
Oh yeah, Debian does not need an Anti-Virus program, unless it's filtering email for Windoze crippled computers. Running software that others want you to run and share can hardly be called pirating. Things are so much easier when you use software that's not owned by a bunch of assholes like Microsoft. I'm not directly annoyed by virus run computers. My clients are and everyone else has to bear the cost of the spam and other malice their boxes spew.
Keep it coming AC, that's much better stuff than the usual nasty that your Astroturfing buddies like to throw at me.
The thing will make a good power source for tommorrow's vibrators. It warms itself, and bad bearings only make it better.
microturbines may work better than big ones.
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There are two reasons big gas turbines have low efficiency. The first is that gas compression is expensive in terms of work. It's also tricky, and it took decades to make working models even though the materials and techniques were well known. The second problem is that you are typically blowing lots of hot and unexpanded gas back into the environment.
Combined cycle generation overcomes these limits by using water as a working fluid for the gas turbine's "waste heat". Water is much easier to compress, you just condense it and run it through a pump. The condenser makes a vacuum, which further adds to cycle efficiency. Steam turbines can expand steam all the way down to vacuum pressures and nearly ambient temperature.
The working fluid, air, in a micro turbine is going to behave in a more compressible fashion than it will in a big turbine. It should be easier to compress and suffer fewer losses due to turbulence. This will partially be offset by increased viscous losses to walls and pipes, but those can be kept low with short paths.
Now if only more than one person could use a copy of Word at the same time. It's so underwhelming.
Perhaps they could reimburse everyone for all the time spent weeding out worms and viruses. Nah, that would make a "profit center" into a money loser as well as customer loser.
According to that scenerio, sentience would take additional resources provided by virus infected PCs, mobile phones, fax machines and.... oh no, it's Wince, Skynet is Wince, Ahhhh!
Does Mepis support ACPI Suspend/hibernate out of the box?
That depends on what version you use and what kernel you install and what hardware you have. Some laptops, such as my Thinkpad T600, have notoriously buggy BIOS. Both ACPI and APM in newer kernels work well using Sarge. The same packages, of course, are available for Mepis and Mepis is easier with new hardware. The upshot is that you can install the last stable release of Mepis, knock out everything but Sarge from/etc/apt/sources.list, and get a nifty version of Sarge that has Spam Assassin for Kmail, MANY funky hardware drivers and MANY working commercial goodies like flash and real player configured and working. Mepis, especially the release candidates, does a very good job configuring newer hardware and can be used to test and repair X configurations.
The only downside to Mepis is that it instals freaking EVERYTHING. I don't need Apache and MySQL on my laptop, so I'd have to spend some time removing those and other packages. Also, I hate flash and prefer that my browser ignore it 99% of the time. That too takes some time. For an older laptop, Sarge works better for me. Mostly, hardware support is a kernel function and newer kernels do it better. The kernels available in Sarge are generally good enough and the install works.
Can you imagine the response if I started trying to sell/market KnoppMyth? Not to mention I would probably get sued. Where is the incentive for *anyone* to try to market the Linux Media Center to the world?
Wow, that's easy. The incentive is that it does what people want. If you are building hardware, it costs you less to use free software and it does what 99% of your market wants it too. When you look at it that way, it's hard to understand where the incentive to sell someone the same thing that costs more is.
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You are looking at a small, specific, potential problem and missing the big picture.
As it is, witnesses have their eyes, mouths and still cameras. Their credibility will improve with many people watching events live over their shoulders.
As it is, "news" organizations can and do edit their images. Won't it be nice to have more than them to rely on?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is just some guys idea. A lot of people have ideas... what makes this one great enough that, say, Sony would start making the cameras he is suggestions?
Some people even think about their ideas, amazing isn't it?
The cameras are being made already. They are already part of cell phones and anyone with gumption can combine a PDA with wifi and a camera. That's not the point.
The point is imagining what people will do with those cameras and the possible social good that will come from them. As long as new restrictions are not made on publishing photographs of public places, these cameras will give the public an unprecedented new witness of public events.
The same technology in government hands, however, needs to be restricted. Real harm can come from unrestricted domestic spying. The trick it to not pay people to do the spying while still allowing prosecutors reasonable access to publically recorded material for criminal investigation.
In short, it is possible for these new cameras to be used in a way that does us all lots of good. The credibility of witnesses can be enhanced without creating a police state, where the state has all of the "evidence" and the ability to harass political opponents. Recent events, such as Mary Landrie's hysterical smut cam attacks and the whole UK police cam infrastructure make me worry about the actual uses. Noise produced by people like FortKnox serves the interest of those who would do all the wrong things.
Oh yeah, like that's what people did with film cameras. Nope, I don't think so. That kind of behavior makes you a cad and most people don't want to be thought of that way.
Don't blame the tool for the stupid things that you might think to do with it. Better people will make better use of the same tool. Such thoughts waste your time anyway because you can't remove the tool.
I'm embarrassed to be from the same state as the hysterical Marry Landrieu, who thinks like you do or used to. I might be able to calm you, but that won't help her or me.
"I have great respect for artists, consumers and the companies that make lots of money from them all. At the same time, I feel uncomfortable inflicting my personal beliefs onto any of them. Digital information is conceived in human minds but does not become profitable until sold."
I'm still not sure what he's going to do.
Just look for the soon to be announced case of a photograph of a male model that looks nothing like the PR drone who writes an article about their bad experience with an email trojan while running Red Hat. It will run on about how secure they felt without complicated tar files and compilations, just taking it easy while Windoze 2003 server and Windoze Update did all the hard work for him. No more late nights with failed makefiles trying to run trojans for him again, no sir, he's switching back to the blissfull, dependable world of M$. It will be the security analog to the ease of use Apple Switcher about a year ago and it will fool about as many people for about as long.
Dude, once you get the facts you will always be willing to pay for second rate stuff!
First, the guy is a dick and might have something nasty for your browser as well. Never stick your hand down a hole you saw a snake crawl out of.
Second, the guy is a dick and won't be paying his bill. All you will do is stick the ISP with the Slashdot Jihad botnet DoS attack that follows links from Slashdot's current page.
A third, less obvious reason is that the guy is a dick and spoofed everything. All of those listed may be innocent or not exist.
Keep your malicious activity to yourself, please, or target real, proven dickheads with attacks that really won't harm innocent bystanders.
Several Librarians I know have told me that they have to re image Windoze on a daily basis to keep it clean and virus free. Even that is not enough now.
XP supports multiple concurrent users, sort of like X (but it's a simpler system, unless you use a full-fledged TS server). No one has to read anyone else's files, and the whole thing is easily secured and restricted if you know what you're doing. Yeah, I've seen time slicing, such as Magic Twin, and it can work at the 3GHz level with specialized hardware but Microsoft did not write that. I seriously doubt you can carry many users with it, AS I KNOW YOU CAN WITH ANY DECENT LINUX DISTRO. The security issues mentioned above make that kind of thing pointless, however.
Librarians go through absurd lengths, such as automated software that reinstalls windoze every day, to support Windoze on their public terminals.
You insulted the librarians I know with: So it's Microsoft's fault they're not doing their jobs properly?
You have no clue, do you?
Well, that they are using Windoze may be them not doing their job. That's going away fast. My University is nuking their public Windoze terminals and replacing them with KDE + Firefox though terminal services. It's much more secure and much easier to maintain. The Librarians I know will soon follow the example.
Gee, you sound so persuasive when you curse and call people morons. Do you really get worked up by posts on Slashdot or are you paid to pretend you are?
I'm a huge fan of Linux
What a wonderful advocate you are.
there is a company in town here with 300 yes that's 300 not 30 people using one machine as a terminal server and it works fantastic.
That I would believe if I saw it, but I've never seen a Microsoft run computer that could stay up for more than a day or so with as much as one user.
we have 80 people using one windows machine via clients and they can't view each others files let alone change them
Your ignorance is not a proof. You may not know of a way to look at other people's files. The relative frequency of Windoze cracks before and after security became "job one" for M$ two years ago makes me think there's a way to do it.
Good luck to you and your windows using buddies.
Because M$ made a system that automatically installs software from any random internet site? Really. Librarians go through absurd lengths, such as automated software that reinstalls windoze every day, to support Windoze on their public terminals. For all that work, it's still an insecure, single user OS that should not be trusted.
If these cache files are world readable, you should be able to use any search tool to get the same information. Google's search tool is just easier to use.
This is just another reason a single user OS (Windoze) should not be used in a multi user environment.
But all the solder in your computer was turned to gold, until you stopped looking at Google. I might be missunderstanding what I know about how Google managed to convert crappy old X86 into lots of money, but I think it had something to do with their software.
Do you really think four hours of CNN will make anyone feel better? No, it's just repetitive, annoying bullshit. The person who has to listen to it the most is the one who wants it least.
What would be the appropriate word for someone who so obviously scorns and disdains their fellow man?
Troll?
There are some airports where there is no place to escape. The whole reason the TVs are there is because some marketing genius thought they had a "captive audience" and sold it to someone with more money than sense. Every single gate has two or three with the volume cranked so high that you can't hear actual airport announcements.
It could be my problem, but now there's a way to remove the root cause, I could care less. I have no fear that those who really want to watch TV will not be disturbed when I wander across the way to an unused gate and kill the TV there. Chances are that they won't notice. TV is designed intentionally to disturb and grab your attention, it's obnoxious by design. This little button will get rid of one or two and make my life and that of others much better.
Except when you tell me:
DON'T GO TO THE AIRPORT.
I would avoid the airport if I thought it was really full of morons such as yourself. Thankfully, people like you who accept whatever is pushed on them are a minority.
So you think you own the airport, eh? I suppose you think it's all fine and dandy to fill the airport with porn, if that's what you like. No thanks. I'll be one of those people turning those stupid TVs off till they decide to take them away and quit annoying people with them.
Why the hell can't you provide the same courtsey?
That's the female bow of submission, right?
Do that to me and there will be silence, as your boom box will be swiftly broken into bent pieces. Don't worry much about it though, because you will never catch me using my fob. People in TV induced comas are known for their lack of situational awareness.
Your right to swing your arm ends where my nose begins. Don't believe me? Come on over some day and I'll punch you in the nose. You and the airport do not have a right to bomb me with adverts from some crappy TV. I'm sick of it and I'll be getting one of these devices so that I can contemplate whatever I like while you go into some kind of broadcast stupidity withdrawal.
If that withdrawal is really too painful for you, I suggest you get a portable TV, a laptop, a radio, a CD player or any other device with EAR PHONES, YOU ASS.
Ahhh, that felt good. I know you posted that just to get a rise out of people but I don't care. I enjoyed writing the above because people with your wrong headed notions are far too common.
In other words, we will make our display match what we think you should pay. We count it as one, see here when you click this tab? We made it say "1 processor" so that's what we will charge you today. What a freaking non-statement.
Windoze, the single user stupid, on a multicore computer, what a waste!
It's not Microsoft's fault you can't run an up-to-date AV client. So you want to pirate software and blame them when you get a virus? Why is this about Microsoft and not about you again?
This is about Microsoft's retarded system of charging people money for every dinky thing they do. A multi-core processor machine is next to wasted running M$'s stupid single user software. What's the point of using such a thing for a single person's Word processing? Because of that, M$'s seemingly generous policy of not charging an additional rape fee per processor looks worthless. Oh, sure, someone can say that it would be nice to run "server" with it but that is always the wrong tool for the job.
Oh yeah, Debian does not need an Anti-Virus program, unless it's filtering email for Windoze crippled computers. Running software that others want you to run and share can hardly be called pirating. Things are so much easier when you use software that's not owned by a bunch of assholes like Microsoft. I'm not directly annoyed by virus run computers. My clients are and everyone else has to bear the cost of the spam and other malice their boxes spew.
Keep it coming AC, that's much better stuff than the usual nasty that your Astroturfing buddies like to throw at me.
Combined cycle generation overcomes these limits by using water as a working fluid for the gas turbine's "waste heat". Water is much easier to compress, you just condense it and run it through a pump. The condenser makes a vacuum, which further adds to cycle efficiency. Steam turbines can expand steam all the way down to vacuum pressures and nearly ambient temperature.
The working fluid, air, in a micro turbine is going to behave in a more compressible fashion than it will in a big turbine. It should be easier to compress and suffer fewer losses due to turbulence. This will partially be offset by increased viscous losses to walls and pipes, but those can be kept low with short paths.
Perhaps they could reimburse everyone for all the time spent weeding out worms and viruses. Nah, that would make a "profit center" into a money loser as well as customer loser.
According to that scenerio, sentience would take additional resources provided by virus infected PCs, mobile phones, fax machines and .... oh no, it's Wince, Skynet is Wince, Ahhhh!
That depends on what version you use and what kernel you install and what hardware you have. Some laptops, such as my Thinkpad T600, have notoriously buggy BIOS. Both ACPI and APM in newer kernels work well using Sarge. The same packages, of course, are available for Mepis and Mepis is easier with new hardware. The upshot is that you can install the last stable release of Mepis, knock out everything but Sarge from /etc/apt/sources.list, and get a nifty version of Sarge that has Spam Assassin for Kmail, MANY funky hardware drivers and MANY working commercial goodies like flash and real player configured and working. Mepis, especially the release candidates, does a very good job configuring newer hardware and can be used to test and repair X configurations.
The only downside to Mepis is that it instals freaking EVERYTHING. I don't need Apache and MySQL on my laptop, so I'd have to spend some time removing those and other packages. Also, I hate flash and prefer that my browser ignore it 99% of the time. That too takes some time. For an older laptop, Sarge works better for me. Mostly, hardware support is a kernel function and newer kernels do it better. The kernels available in Sarge are generally good enough and the install works.
Wow, that's easy. The incentive is that it does what people want. If you are building hardware, it costs you less to use free software and it does what 99% of your market wants it too. When you look at it that way, it's hard to understand where the incentive to sell someone the same thing that costs more is.