What's to stop someone from making an audio "device" that simply writes everything it gets to disk...? Granted, you'll have a generic "loss of quality",
Actually, if you're writing it to disk I don't think you would have any loss of audio quality. At least I've never noticed any using the XMMS direct WAV output feature. Anyone know for sure?
I'm really going to miss Fallout if no one picks up the franchise. Both Fallout and Fallout 2 are littered with pop culture referances (such as the drugged out Star Trek away team ship crash landing) that are hillarious.
My all time favorite is the beginning of one where it shows a TV flicking through channels. It pans to a huge hulking armored guy firing a minigun into the distance, then the caption blares "Our Boys, Keeping the Peace in Canada" while the armored guy waves to the camera. Classic:).
I also hold CNN up to some high standards. When something's published with journalistic intent I hold it to a higher standard than my own pithy comments.
When I *submit* articles I do check them a bit more rigorously.
We've reviewed Wall Street Meat, by Andy Kessler. Andy's recently released Running Money.
That just confused the crap outta me at first glance, and I remarked on it.
And, just for your information, the remark was meant light-heartedly. I'm not suggesting that Cmdr Taco go out and hire a 8 year old child proficient in English. Just in case you needed clarification on that point.
From that post, I had absolutely no clue what book this was a review *of* (the blurb post, not the review). Could someone please run the posts by a eight year old child proficient in English? I'm sure he/she would catch the glitches. Thanks!
Manual su, sudo, or logging in isn't required. For any modern distribution you simply type in the root password when requested in a graphical question box. Even a stupid/simple root password will affectively prevent this type of cruft. People rarely notice the GUI popup requesting the root password after the first few shots...
Basically, people do whatever it is their required to with a minimum of grumbling once they're used to it. It just comes down to the default behaviour of whatever software their using being at fault.
And as to software installs needing root permissions.. I dunno. NWN seems to be running just fine.
Linus is just the maintainer of the general stable tree of the Linux kernel, he's not some kind of Linux czar.
There's a big difference between rule of an OS with an iron fist and maintainership of a kernel for an OS. Linus does a good job maintaining his project (the Linux kernel), so no one directly forks it.
Anyway, the article's a interview that ranges over his opinion on some patent issues.. not that you'd realize it from the post.
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ah, yep. I mis-read. Finding that chart was worth the posting though.. pretty usefull relative speeds if you're looking for a bottleneck.
Just not as usefull in this case:).
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Doesn't USB 2.0 have a max throughput (max, realistic's probably 320 after overhead) of 480 Mega*bits* per second, where as my Hdd has a max throughput of 100Mega*Bytes* per second. Multiply by 8.
This is just recollection from memory, so I might be wrong. Don't think so, though. See conversion chart here
Actually, I'd say that it handles many protocols. Any of them can be routed over the shared backbone that is the "Internet".
I agree it should be cap'd though. As we're reffering to a single entity in the specific rather than a type of something in the generic. Tom rather than human and all that.
They're probably having trouble just because it's a dual purpose name. Ex: the guy in Batman is called "The Joker". He is also "a joker", as in the character from the card.
No offense, but Ogg Verbix sounds like some kind of translator. It think you mean Ogg Vorbis. Like the characters from Terry Pratchet's "Small Gods".
And hopefully you've turned off that fun "report computer type for maximum enjoyment" option, or whatever it was. Allthough it's not tinfoil hat worthy it *is* irritating to have it checked off without being asked prior to using the application.
Excuse me, but how on earth would you sue someone for accessing a public CVS archive for the purpose of downloading a CVS build? Remember now, you (the user) access it with an ebuild, not the Gentoo group.
What would the argument be, exactly? "You're honor, we only meant that CVS tree for people that wanted to do free work, not everyone else. That's why we made it publicly available"? They essentially threatened to pull the CVS tree if Gentoo didn't remove their ebuild. Real nice. HUGE believers in OSS and "giving back" to the WINE project.
Spending R18 million (if I knew what the "R" was I'd convert it) on open source advertising can't hurt. I'd think funding local open source outfits with startup capital and training would probably go farther though. All the pretty advertisements in the world aren't going to help you get your Fedora Desktop running correctly when there's a kernel bug.
Having heard Bruce Peren's give a speech before and had a chance to hear some of his outlook on Linux and IP, he seems to have a fair handle on how it all works.
From the interview it seems that it's an effort to provide some indemnity while making people aware of the possible IP/Copyright issues inherent in coding software in the USA (and probably Europe soon). They're offering a service to assess risk of malicious lawsuits and possible IP violation. Doesn't sound like spreading Fear, Uncertainty, *or* Doubt to me.
It appears that any given internet outlet that isn't sanctioned and approved by 5 governmental regulatory bodies or involve their parent corporation will eventually be vilified by clueless reporters. Note the little "i" in internet. I've seen writeups where they don't understand that the computer needs to be *on* for someone to use it..
The first law of clueless technology reporting appears to be "include 'possibly' wherever possible".
Considering it's on GIMP's website in modular form, I wouldn't say that's exactly scouring the web. I imagine it's just not included because they don't consider it 100% yet.
And I almost forgot. The Obligatory link for the google impaired.:) Hinted, Kerned, and Anti-Aliased to your hearts content.. fully buzzword compliant!
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That knives can be used to slash tires? Somehow I don't think letting this one out 'll get me put in jail.. at least I hope not :).
What's to stop someone from making an audio "device" that simply writes everything it gets to disk...? Granted, you'll have a generic "loss of quality",
Actually, if you're writing it to disk I don't think you would have any loss of audio quality. At least I've never noticed any using the XMMS direct WAV output feature. Anyone know for sure?
or am I missing something with the argument? :) Or we could just stop short with the "Pump Billions into defense". Seems that's more the goal.
I'm really going to miss Fallout if no one picks up the franchise. Both Fallout and Fallout 2 are littered with pop culture referances (such as the drugged out Star Trek away team ship crash landing) that are hillarious.
:).
My all time favorite is the beginning of one where it shows a TV flicking through channels. It pans to a huge hulking armored guy firing a minigun into the distance, then the caption blares "Our Boys, Keeping the Peace in Canada" while the armored guy waves to the camera. Classic
I wonder if arbitrarily rendering image code spat into the middle of a page could be used as a vulnerability? Anyone ever try this?
I also hold CNN up to some high standards. When something's published with journalistic intent I hold it to a higher standard than my own pithy comments.
When I *submit* articles I do check them a bit more rigorously.
We've reviewed Wall Street Meat, by Andy Kessler. Andy's recently released Running Money.
That just confused the crap outta me at first glance, and I remarked on it.
And, just for your information, the remark was meant light-heartedly. I'm not suggesting that Cmdr Taco go out and hire a 8 year old child proficient in English. Just in case you needed clarification on that point.
From that post, I had absolutely no clue what book this was a review *of* (the blurb post, not the review). Could someone please run the posts by a eight year old child proficient in English? I'm sure he/she would catch the glitches. Thanks!
Manual su, sudo, or logging in isn't required. For any modern distribution you simply type in the root password when requested in a graphical question box. Even a stupid/simple root password will affectively prevent this type of cruft. People rarely notice the GUI popup requesting the root password after the first few shots...
Basically, people do whatever it is their required to with a minimum of grumbling once they're used to it. It just comes down to the default behaviour of whatever software their using being at fault.
And as to software installs needing root permissions.. I dunno. NWN seems to be running just fine.
Linus is just the maintainer of the general stable tree of the Linux kernel, he's not some kind of Linux czar.
There's a big difference between rule of an OS with an iron fist and maintainership of a kernel for an OS. Linus does a good job maintaining his project (the Linux kernel), so no one directly forks it.
Anyway, the article's a interview that ranges over his opinion on some patent issues.. not that you'd realize it from the post.
ah, yep. I mis-read. Finding that chart was worth the posting though.. pretty usefull relative speeds if you're looking for a bottleneck.
:).
Just not as usefull in this case
Doesn't USB 2.0 have a max throughput (max, realistic's probably 320 after overhead) of 480 Mega*bits* per second, where as my Hdd has a max throughput of 100Mega*Bytes* per second. Multiply by 8.
This is just recollection from memory, so I might be wrong. Don't think so, though. See conversion chart here
Actually, I'd say that it handles many protocols. Any of them can be routed over the shared backbone that is the "Internet".
I agree it should be cap'd though. As we're reffering to a single entity in the specific rather than a type of something in the generic. Tom rather than human and all that.
They're probably having trouble just because it's a dual purpose name. Ex: the guy in Batman is called "The Joker". He is also "a joker", as in the character from the card.
I think you answered your own question...
No offense, but Ogg Verbix sounds like some kind of translator. It think you mean Ogg Vorbis. Like the characters from Terry Pratchet's "Small Gods".
And hopefully you've turned off that fun "report computer type for maximum enjoyment" option, or whatever it was. Allthough it's not tinfoil hat worthy it *is* irritating to have it checked off without being asked prior to using the application.
Excuse me, but how on earth would you sue someone for accessing a public CVS archive for the purpose of downloading a CVS build? Remember now, you (the user) access it with an ebuild, not the Gentoo group.
What would the argument be, exactly? "You're honor, we only meant that CVS tree for people that wanted to do free work, not everyone else. That's why we made it publicly available"? They essentially threatened to pull the CVS tree if Gentoo didn't remove their ebuild. Real nice. HUGE believers in OSS and "giving back" to the WINE project.
to get people to use the Segway's or somesuch. It might work to get people to view the city... wonder if it's funded in part by a tourist council?
if you completely discount that whole "faster than light" thing. Possible in the sense that there's no currently conceivable way to do it?
Spending R18 million (if I knew what the "R" was I'd convert it) on open source advertising can't hurt. I'd think funding local open source outfits with startup capital and training would probably go farther though. All the pretty advertisements in the world aren't going to help you get your Fedora Desktop running correctly when there's a kernel bug.
Having heard Bruce Peren's give a speech before and had a chance to hear some of his outlook on Linux and IP, he seems to have a fair handle on how it all works.
From the interview it seems that it's an effort to provide some indemnity while making people aware of the possible IP/Copyright issues inherent in coding software in the USA (and probably Europe soon). They're offering a service to assess risk of malicious lawsuits and possible IP violation. Doesn't sound like spreading Fear, Uncertainty, *or* Doubt to me.
"that even if someone has pirated copy of Windows, it is more important to keep our future revenues safe than to worry about coypright infringment."
It appears that any given internet outlet that isn't sanctioned and approved by 5 governmental regulatory bodies or involve their parent corporation will eventually be vilified by clueless reporters. Note the little "i" in internet. I've seen writeups where they don't understand that the computer needs to be *on* for someone to use it..
The first law of clueless technology reporting appears to be "include 'possibly' wherever possible".
Now where'd I leave my reporter kicking boots..
Considering it's on GIMP's website in modular form, I wouldn't say that's exactly scouring the web. I imagine it's just not included because they don't consider it 100% yet.
And I almost forgot. The Obligatory link for the google impaired. :) Hinted, Kerned, and Anti-Aliased to your hearts content.. fully buzzword compliant!
On the matter of Text, use FreeType for the GIMP. It produces beautiful scaled, rotated, and angled text output.
Sure, good enough to run my servers on :). Most people don't get a kick out of fixing up gcc though.
I tend to have to do my own testing and check out the package versions for issues. Another level of stability should address that though. Good stuff.