Yes. Finally someone nails it with an accurate plumbing analogy. Thank you.
That basically covers my beliefs on the expectations a performer should have these days.
Recorded works should be virtually public domain, with appropriate distribution costs covered with a small tax on recordable media - its the only way forward.
Think of how it could really improve society to have to deal with the fact that so many good performers get virtually no distribution compared to the select few who play ball and make shitloads.
We need a paradigm shift in the way we see the value of performers to see the benefits of respect for the many.
In most cases, the process of changing the OS means choosing another user. The 2 variables don't have to be dependent, they could be, but they are correlated, which is sufficient.
I'm with you, I have been reading many posters comments that seem to in some way admit she is a criminal, even if some wish she had a defense.
Now, she may have been found guilty, but of what ?. If this does go the way I think it will, the class action is the deal that needs to be done and we all know it - it just can't keep going this way with RIAA, many people including many judges surely feel this way as well and for the RIAA going against the people who can help legislate, in a democracy, their time will come.
The interval between extinctions is 62 million years only if you accept ~30 millions of year of error margin.
The current downfall of biodiversity is really fast compared to the time scale mentioned here. Its most likely reason has two legs, two arms, a big brain and a various set of forest-destroying machines as well as a bad habit of dumping various materials into the ocean.
You're right! It's people that is the problem. Please write your congressman and tell them to expand Cap'n Trade to cover Humans. All that human breathing is producing unacceptable levels of CO2.
We could put a life clock on everyone's hand, and only allow a few people selected by lottery to live past age 35. That should keep the population down enough to save planet Earth!
The IMF and the WTO wish to sue you for patent infringement.
Its marked interesting now, some idiot must have marked it troll early on
Actually, I'm working on a theory that the mods are altered depending on viewer status, logged in or karma or maybe geolocation or even just plain ol' random (cleverly hashing your IP, so you don't notice;)
Back to the point, I think when you say tearing, you possibly mean a lack of sync between video frame rate and display frame rate. This problem can be fixed with nVidia chipsets using the nvidia-settings tool. Under X Server XVideo Settings tick the box Sync to VBlank and read about how to automatically load these settings when you login.
This will work for any player that uses XVideo or xv for its graphics (vlc, mplayer etc...)
If you want the truth, there are many people here who can enlighten you on that. Don't expect people who know more about these issues to be told they are whining about Microsoft and then just expect them to suddenly turn around and say Shit, there I was trying to see which corporate evil is lying this time and the whole time, it was not a corporation, it was me! me being unable to accept that corporations have no incentive to lie or do dubious deals, its just entirely my Linux is sacred attitude that causes my lack of true insight!
When you say:
Just like MS does
You are merely showing your lack of faith in all of it, without trying to analyse the causes you blame Linux fanatics for doing.
They may not be hippies you expect at times, but you've got nothing.
I'll tell you one thing, thanks to MS, many people actually think they know some Linux and replaced it with XP without even knowing they were duped into a crap distro.
ALSA may not be perfect, but now it has software mixing, it beats pulse hands down. I followed pulses promises, each time I would try it - get the latest sources, I'm not even the type to be too concerned about latency. Each time, pulse would blow me away in what it could do for me and then within minutes of having it configured for my different sound devices, it would do something stupid, like lose a stream, freeze an app, even an app like mplayer that has native pulse support. Pulse never played music without inserting intermittent pops.
I maybe doing strange things like tweaking realtime scheduling on different apps as I process batch conversions on idle nice whilst playing HD videos with realtime priority. ALSA handles this perfectly BTW.
Maybe this is why pulse hates me.
Bloat and instability, I don't care if pulse can juggle 5 balls and pee into the bowl at the same time, it never takes long for it all go wrong.
You are assuming that the metric for driving skill is somehow perfectly tied to the number of drivers.
The examples you give for the metric show a combination of independent variables - that would contradict the statement that only 50% of drivers can be above average in driving skill.
The use of median for average is incorrect, the use of median for 50% of a quantity, is correct.
You sound quite well versed on codecs, but it just doesn't seem to fit my experience at all on a few points:
Nothing beats Xvid for low bitrates. (The bitrates which create ~350MB videos)
You've successfully said nothing about low bitrates by referring to the size of video instead.
In my experience, X264 has features which allow for a kind of blur effect that reduces blockiness on large same colour painted areas - Xvid doesn't have any of that unless the decoder has it added.
The other stuff you said sounds cool, but since you have lost credibility here, I can't take your word for it.
My experience with cross platform dev so far between KDE and Windows, is that the functionality of widgets works well, but you have a lot more flexibility with KDE to change the look and feel. Its a great solution really, I can make something on my enjoyable-to-use Linux box and then spend as little time as possible getting something to work on Windows for those who don't know what dev is short for.
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I'm not doing a RAM raid with the side window smashed, it completely ruins the air con. effectiveness.
I suspect they found the exploit in imageshack and needed a manifesto to sound important enough at the same time.
... except the resale value of computer hardware.
Yes. Finally someone nails it with an accurate plumbing analogy. Thank you.
That basically covers my beliefs on the expectations a performer should have these days.
Recorded works should be virtually public domain, with appropriate distribution costs covered with a small tax on recordable media - its the only way forward.
Think of how it could really improve society to have to deal with the fact that so many good performers get virtually no distribution compared to the select few who play ball and make shitloads.
We need a paradigm shift in the way we see the value of performers to see the benefits of respect for the many.
In most cases, the process of changing the OS means choosing another user. The 2 variables don't have to be dependent, they could be, but they are correlated, which is sufficient.
If everyone had the attitude of "If it doesn't do what I want, I'm not using it." there would be no software for you to use.
Nooo...body expects the MPAA!!
Well, it might be a little tricky now that they also changed the default pronunciation to "Cute".
Above post should be modded "-1 trolltech"
I'm with you, I have been reading many posters comments that seem to in some way admit she is a criminal, even if some wish she had a defense.
Now, she may have been found guilty, but of what ?. If this does go the way I think it will, the class action is the deal that needs to be done and we all know it - it just can't keep going this way with RIAA, many people including many judges surely feel this way as well and for the RIAA going against the people who can help legislate, in a democracy, their time will come.
I can see you've really worked on your sense of humour.
Its a headline, it supposed to be alluring, even if that means somewhat questionable in meaning.
It is also supposed to be brief, which makes it impossible to contain enough adjectives to be close to covering the topic well.
The interval between extinctions is 62 million years only if you accept ~30 millions of year of error margin. The current downfall of biodiversity is really fast compared to the time scale mentioned here. Its most likely reason has two legs, two arms, a big brain and a various set of forest-destroying machines as well as a bad habit of dumping various materials into the ocean.
You're right! It's people that is the problem. Please write your congressman and tell them to expand Cap'n Trade to cover Humans. All that human breathing is producing unacceptable levels of CO2.
We could put a life clock on everyone's hand, and only allow a few people selected by lottery to live past age 35. That should keep the population down enough to save planet Earth!
The IMF and the WTO wish to sue you for patent infringement.
Its marked interesting now, some idiot must have marked it troll early on
Actually, I'm working on a theory that the mods are altered depending on viewer status, logged in or karma or maybe geolocation or even just plain ol' random (cleverly hashing your IP, so you don't notice ;)
Back to the point, I think when you say tearing, you possibly mean a lack of sync between video frame rate and display frame rate. This problem can be fixed with nVidia chipsets using the nvidia-settings tool. Under X Server XVideo Settings tick the box Sync to VBlank and read about how to automatically load these settings when you login.
This will work for any player that uses XVideo or xv for its graphics (vlc, mplayer etc...)
The truth ?
Just how mean is too mean ?
If you want the truth, there are many people here who can enlighten you on that. Don't expect people who know more about these issues to be told they are whining about Microsoft and then just expect them to suddenly turn around and say Shit, there I was trying to see which corporate evil is lying this time and the whole time, it was not a corporation, it was me! me being unable to accept that corporations have no incentive to lie or do dubious deals, its just entirely my Linux is sacred attitude that causes my lack of true insight!
When you say:
Just like MS does
You are merely showing your lack of faith in all of it, without trying to analyse the causes you blame Linux fanatics for doing.
They may not be hippies you expect at times, but you've got nothing.
I'll tell you one thing, thanks to MS, many people actually think they know some Linux and replaced it with XP without even knowing they were duped into a crap distro.
Right On!
ALSA may not be perfect, but now it has software mixing, it beats pulse hands down. I followed pulses promises, each time I would try it - get the latest sources, I'm not even the type to be too concerned about latency. Each time, pulse would blow me away in what it could do for me and then within minutes of having it configured for my different sound devices, it would do something stupid, like lose a stream, freeze an app, even an app like mplayer that has native pulse support. Pulse never played music without inserting intermittent pops.
I maybe doing strange things like tweaking realtime scheduling on different apps as I process batch conversions on idle nice whilst playing HD videos with realtime priority. ALSA handles this perfectly BTW.
Maybe this is why pulse hates me.
Bloat and instability, I don't care if pulse can juggle 5 balls and pee into the bowl at the same time, it never takes long for it all go wrong.
China owns a lot of your cash.
My understanding is that it isn't supposed to do any filtering, just attempt to delete known methods for circumventing the great firewall.
We all hold different opinions.
No we don't :-P
Speak for yourself!
You are assuming that the metric for driving skill is somehow perfectly tied to the number of drivers.
The examples you give for the metric show a combination of independent variables - that would contradict the statement that only 50% of drivers can be above average in driving skill.
The use of median for average is incorrect, the use of median for 50% of a quantity, is correct.
Dad, how did you get here ?
Minor ? Nitpick ?
I made no assertions about driving ability at all.
If want my opinion, driving "skill" is such a subjective term that anal stats are just 99.56% irrelevant.
My dad still doesn't get this one about statistics, the difference between median and mean.
It is actually possible for 99% of a group to be above average, just not 100%.
You sound quite well versed on codecs, but it just doesn't seem to fit my experience at all on a few points:
Nothing beats Xvid for low bitrates. (The bitrates which create ~350MB videos)
You've successfully said nothing about low bitrates by referring to the size of video instead.
In my experience, X264 has features which allow for a kind of blur effect that reduces blockiness on large same colour painted areas - Xvid doesn't have any of that unless the decoder has it added.
The other stuff you said sounds cool, but since you have lost credibility here, I can't take your word for it.
My experience with cross platform dev so far between KDE and Windows, is that the functionality of widgets works well, but you have a lot more flexibility with KDE to change the look and feel. Its a great solution really, I can make something on my enjoyable-to-use Linux box and then spend as little time as possible getting something to work on Windows for those who don't know what dev is short for.
ouch.. my ears hurt.