...so you re-encode to MP3 a format that is slower more CPU intensive and a very old format... but well supported
This is not an argument for Ogg but against MP3 which is widely supported mostly because it is widely supported
Nothing has come along to supplant it not because there is nothing better/cheaper/simpler/faster etc but because nothing else is as well supported....
Theora will be well supported simply because it will be in the HTML 5 spec and so the majority will support it, they will also support other codecs but the default will be theora....
Amount that most of the people get from "Residuals" i.e. more than their original salary is 0!
So paying for the Blu-Ray will give most of these people nothing, they already got paid and the money to pay them came from the TV companies that paid for the show to be made, and they made back all the money to pay for this from advertising
The Blu-Ray/DVD/Download sales pay the publisher and sometimes the producer/director and the "stars" the "little people" get nothing Note the publisher get the most the "Artists" get very very little if anything....
The problem is not making a trojan for Linux, it is getting it run and getting it to survive a reboot
Getting it to run is harder since it is normally not just a click to run, getting it to survive a reboot is much harder since a user does not normally have the rights to do this...
There are malware and viruses for Linux, but they were all without exception limited by they fact that most systems were unlikely to allow them to run themselves and on the few that did they did not survive a reboot, all the mildly successful ones used a flaw in a program to get themselves run and when this was patched (usually very soon after) then it died because the majority of systems were updated with the fix
The real problems with Windows systems are being addressed by Microsoft, default rights (don't run as admin, and make sure most programs don't assume/require you are running as admin), auto update (the main parts of a windows systems are now updated automatically, but not all parts and not all programs), don't be a monoculture (Not good in Windows, but Ubuntu Linux is going the wrong way on this....)
MS's Security problems are that the average user is not running the most secure and locked down system and so is open to all the malware
pwn2own tests a normally setup but basically secure system, this is *Not* how most people have their systems configured and the majority of people are still running an older version of windows that is less secure, and are running it in a less than ideal security state, behind an inexpertly configured firewall... so the malware propagates
Windows is also a monoculture the average user runs IE and Outlook and so is an easy target for anything exploiting the flaws in these products, the average Linux user is likely to be running one of a huge number of different combination of products and so is a much harder target
Because in most other operating systems you do not have enough priviledges to be able to do enough to spread the malwear or do enable it to do anything useful
On Windows it is getting harder for malwear to install itself but since most people still run XP/IE/Outlook they also mostly run as a user who can be tricked into doing what the malwear considers useful
The biggest advantage Vista/Win 7 has is that it discourages (finally) you from running as Admin , but it is still a monoculture and so the malwear can exploit the bugs in the programs it can easily assume you are running....
My experience is that anywhere you can reasonably travel to on train still has light pollution so you still cannot see the Milky way... more stars but not all of them
It's light pollution when it goes up into the sky.... what is it lighting up : nothing, it wastes energy and has no purpose!
From where I live I cannot see the milky way, not because it is not there but because of the town I live in lights up the sky at night, many of the lights are very wasteful and are lighting up empty car parks, buildings etc, the few that are needed are sending half of their light upwards and not helping to light up what they are trying to, they are just wasting energy... so people are wasting energy to deprive me of a dark sky....
Try installing Windows (any version) on a random Laptop.... it will fail with hardware driver problems just as much
The drivers you get pre-installed with the laptop are carefully tailored by the manufacturer of the laptop to work... the standard ones often have problems,they are more likely to be fixable for windows but you still need to hunt....
If the manufacturer of the laptop did Linux drivers for all the hardware it would be as little hassle
Most people *never* install Windows or OSX it comes preinstalled
If you know which operating system you are using you are either a geek or the operating system is getting in the way
Most non-geek people I ask think they are running a system called "Word" (or whatever the main app they use is) , and they also use Email (client not important) and "The Internet" again client not important, if it all worked on another system it is unlikely they would ever notice....
Best advice... *RAID 1 or 5 *Regular backups *Regular checking of those backups to see they are actually working and can actually be recovered
Data recovery then only needs to be used when you need to recover data you wrote today and you have had a failure in multiple drives in the RAID array.... and in most cases this is pointless because the data was in memory not on disk....
Journalists/Bloggers *generally* have no training in the sciences (or often any field outside "Media") and so are not the ideal people to explain any ideas in a specialist field, since they do not understand them...
Specialists in the field are often very bad at explaining their work since they are not trained in communicating ideas to lay people
The people who have been best at explaining complex ideas have been people who work in the field but also have media training (Carl Sagan springs to mind as an example), these are rare, and often Journalists who do not know enough to properly explain suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect and oversimplify
If I have a cracked copy of a steam game, I can play it on any computer I want, do not have to be online, and if Steam goes bust then I can still play it....... What's positive about DRM again....?
DRM is a way of stopping me doing something and nothing else.... it restricts my rights, it cannot enable me to do what I can already do without it...
If I buy an un DRM'd game I can play it anytime I want, sell it, give it away... but I cannot with a DRM'd game....
I was reinstalling a PC at work, started it downloading/installing the 50+ updates it needed, after SP1 was installed....got called away....
Next day remembered I had not finished it... had an error on the screen, and the System32 folder had only *6* files in it!
The error was two viruses fighting each other for control and one losing.......all this while logged in as a default user, and behind a NAT and firewall.....
Needless to say the machine was wiped to the bare metal and reinstalled.....
Depends if the shuttle is defined as USA jurisdiction? It is a craft in transit so international laws applying to craft in international water would seem to apply...?
No you live in the United States where the federal government which you vote for, can enact laws that affect the member states, and your state representative, which you also vote for, can do little or nothing about it.... sound familiar....?
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...so you re-encode to MP3 a format that is slower more CPU intensive and a very old format ... but well supported
This is not an argument for Ogg but against MP3 which is widely supported mostly because it is widely supported
Nothing has come along to supplant it not because there is nothing better/cheaper/simpler/faster etc but because nothing else is as well supported ....
Theora will be well supported simply because it will be in the HTML 5 spec and so the majority will support it, they will also support other codecs but the default will be theora ....
This is a case of a thorough analysis done by someone who knows how to do an analysis but has no idea what they are analysing or what is important?
So you end up with lots of pretty graphs and trees that actually mean absolutely nothing
NFS has more external symbols than VFAT and there are less than in the previous kernel version... and this means ..... well not a lot really ....
...all of which are owned by root and you (and any malware) have no access to be able to change ....
This is why it is difficult to get it to survive a reboot
There is no such thing as a "Desktop" system there is just a system tuned for the desktop with particular packages selected
Why game it, just pay Microsoft and they will bump your site to the top of the list .... just like they always have done
This is why I don't trust Bing's results
Why buy a movie on BluRay that you can buy on DVD cheaper with your current setup .... ...and will be available free on your TV in a years time in HD?
If you want to see it now, go tot the Cinema and watch it on a screen bigger than you could ever hope to buy and it will cost you less
If a movie is good enough to watch again and again it was not for the effects?
Amount that most of the people get from "Residuals" i.e. more than their original salary is 0!
So paying for the Blu-Ray will give most of these people nothing, they already got paid and the money to pay them came from the TV companies that paid for the show to be made, and they made back all the money to pay for this from advertising
The Blu-Ray/DVD/Download sales pay the publisher and sometimes the producer/director and the "stars" the "little people" get nothing ....
Note the publisher get the most the "Artists" get very very little if anything
The problem is not making a trojan for Linux, it is getting it run and getting it to survive a reboot
Getting it to run is harder since it is normally not just a click to run, getting it to survive a reboot is much harder since a user does not normally have the rights to do this ...
There are malware and viruses for Linux, but they were all without exception limited by they fact that most systems were unlikely to allow them to run themselves and on the few that did they did not survive a reboot, all the mildly successful ones used a flaw in a program to get themselves run and when this was patched (usually very soon after) then it died because the majority of systems were updated with the fix
The real problems with Windows systems are being addressed by Microsoft, default rights (don't run as admin, and make sure most programs don't assume/require you are running as admin), auto update (the main parts of a windows systems are now updated automatically, but not all parts and not all programs), don't be a monoculture (Not good in Windows, but Ubuntu Linux is going the wrong way on this....)
MS's Security problems are that the average user is not running the most secure and locked down system and so is open to all the malware
pwn2own tests a normally setup but basically secure system, this is *Not* how most people have their systems configured and the majority of people are still running an older version of windows that is less secure, and are running it in a less than ideal security state, behind an inexpertly configured firewall ... so the malware propagates
Windows is also a monoculture the average user runs IE and Outlook and so is an easy target for anything exploiting the flaws in these products, the average Linux user is likely to be running one of a huge number of different combination of products and so is a much harder target
Because in most other operating systems you do not have enough priviledges to be able to do enough to spread the malwear or do enable it to do anything useful
On Windows it is getting harder for malwear to install itself but since most people still run XP/IE/Outlook they also mostly run as a user who can be tricked into doing what the malwear considers useful
The biggest advantage Vista/Win 7 has is that it discourages (finally) you from running as Admin , but it is still a monoculture and so the malwear can exploit the bugs in the programs it can easily assume you are running ....
BT is BT is BT
BT OpenReach manage the infrastructure, BT Broadband are an ISP, BT Wholesale sell that infrastructure to ISP's (including BT Retail)
This is coming from BT Retail, but will almost certainly affect all BT Wholesale customer and that means almost all ISP's in the UK
This is BT Wholesale who are asking for more from BBC
This means it will affect you and anyone who uses one of the 125 ISP's who use BT Wholesale and not another provider ....
My experience is that anywhere you can reasonably travel to on train still has light pollution so you still cannot see the Milky way ... more stars but not all of them
It's light pollution when it goes up into the sky .... what is it lighting up : nothing, it wastes energy and has no purpose!
From where I live I cannot see the milky way, not because it is not there but because of the town I live in lights up the sky at night, many of the lights are very wasteful and are lighting up empty car parks, buildings etc, the few that are needed are sending half of their light upwards and not helping to light up what they are trying to, they are just wasting energy... so people are wasting energy to deprive me of a dark sky ....
Sound like a good system .... mark a paper ballot, scan it, keep it in case of disputes
The Computer only counts votes, it is just doing the job of a counter only quicker
The paper votes system is transparent and hard to fix, the only downside is the slow counting
The marker could be used for all people to stop spoiled papers .....
It's simple
I can find what I want with Google, I can find what I want with Bing
I know how to use Google's advanced searches, I don't know how to do this in Bing
Bing would have to be *a lot* better than Google for me to change, ..... it isn't
Try installing Windows (any version) on a random Laptop .... it will fail with hardware driver problems just as much
The drivers you get pre-installed with the laptop are carefully tailored by the manufacturer of the laptop to work ... the standard ones often have problems,they are more likely to be fixable for windows but you still need to hunt ....
If the manufacturer of the laptop did Linux drivers for all the hardware it would be as little hassle
Most people *never* install Windows or OSX it comes preinstalled
If you know which operating system you are using you are either a geek or the operating system is getting in the way
Most non-geek people I ask think they are running a system called "Word" (or whatever the main app they use is) , and they also use Email (client not important) and "The Internet" again client not important, if it all worked on another system it is unlikely they would ever notice ....
Best advice ...
*RAID 1 or 5
*Regular backups
*Regular checking of those backups to see they are actually working and can actually be recovered
Data recovery then only needs to be used when you need to recover data you wrote today and you have had a failure in multiple drives in the RAID array .... and in most cases this is pointless because the data was in memory not on disk ....
The bank requiring IE would annoy me..... ... my reason for leaving would be the attitude of the representative
The two real problems are
Journalists/Bloggers *generally* have no training in the sciences (or often any field outside "Media") and so are not the ideal people to explain any ideas in a specialist field, since they do not understand them ...
Specialists in the field are often very bad at explaining their work since they are not trained in communicating ideas to lay people
The people who have been best at explaining complex ideas have been people who work in the field but also have media training (Carl Sagan springs to mind as an example), these are rare, and often Journalists who do not know enough to properly explain suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect and oversimplify
If I have a cracked copy of a steam game, I can play it on any computer I want, do not have to be online, and if Steam goes bust then I can still play it .... ... What's positive about DRM again ....?
DRM is a way of stopping me doing something and nothing else .... it restricts my rights, it cannot enable me to do what I can already do without it ...
If I buy an un DRM'd game I can play it anytime I want, sell it, give it away ... but I cannot with a DRM'd game ....
I was reinstalling a PC at work, started it downloading/installing the 50+ updates it needed, after SP1 was installed ....got called away ....
Next day remembered I had not finished it ... had an error on the screen, and the System32 folder had only *6* files in it!
The error was two viruses fighting each other for control and one losing .... ...all this while logged in as a default user, and behind a NAT and firewall .....
Needless to say the machine was wiped to the bare metal and reinstalled .....
So... what you are saying is that WoWers are the kind of people who play 22hrs a week online but don't work so have time for a social life *as well*
So windows is better than the Distro that it came with ... but a "proper" Linux distro is better than windows ....
So maybe the site is right? (ducks and flees ....)
Depends if the shuttle is defined as USA jurisdiction? It is a craft in transit so international laws applying to craft in international water would seem to apply ...?
The ISS is another matter entirely ....
No you live in the United States where the federal government which you vote for, can enact laws that affect the member states, and your state representative, which you also vote for, can do little or nothing about it .... sound familiar ....?