Problem is currently my choices are half done betaware, and half done betaware.. NOTHING is a complete solution... They both focus on stupid shineys instead of fixing major problems that have existed for a very long time.
Not really. That statement sums up everything wrong with Gnome and KDE development. Both camps hold the fault of the mess that is the Linux desktop in their hands. It's their fault that Linux is not as useable as it should be because they cant get over their petty and silly differences and join to make a single decent desktop.
I like "choice" but only when choice is between good things not half done betas.
Yes they are. I have sat on MANY juries and your "peers" are pretty uneducated. They believe that if the judge tells you the person is guilt then you HAVE TO find them guilty. They also do not understand anything about nullification or the fact you can find them innocent even if they did break the law because you find the law is unjust.
Most people are sheep and do exactly what the judge tells them to do.
IT will never happen. you see all the rich assholes who make money off of how broken it is, are the ones that are making the laws or greasing the palms of those that do.
No. 1080p with AC3 surround compressed at a mpeg4 is only 12GB per movie. Split out the AC3 into separate tracks and compress the crap out of it to 160kbps and you can lower it by another.5GB. and this low bitrate is acceptable to 99% of all netflix users.
But, here is the fun.... you get 720p max from netflix... so it's actually 5-6Gb from them.
Have you actually tried to do any bluray compression to mpeg4? 25GB is for uncompressed or mildly compressed only 2 Blurays I have ripped have had any main feature above the 25GB mark. Most blurays are compressed to hell.. AVCHD is the darling for bluray.
It's why I always though that HD-DVD was better. simple MPEG2 on the disc delivered far better picture with less hardware power.
Yes they do. Do you not know anything about real internet connectivity?
MY 2, T1 lines are truly unlimited. I can saturate them at 100% for 900 days in a row and they wont/cant say crap about it. If I buy an OC3 I can saturate that at full capacity forever and they have to deliver it.
I have 3 people in my home and 37 computers. I have a total of 37 IP addresses inside my lan, every one of those things are a computer. the 4 BLuray players are all computers. the Two big TV's are computers, the Apple TV's are computers, the 6 NAS boxes, the 2 Crestron processors, the 4 chumbys, etc......
I only need 1 to the world because I can use NAT. Some wackjobs think NAT is evil... I think they are wackjobs. I do not WANT most of my computers to EVER be directly on the internet. Even if I was given 10,000 Internet IP's I would still NAT and I guarantee most businesses will as well.
Here is the problem. They want to MAXIMIZE profit from the bandwidth. Not get a good profit or healthy profit, but MAXIMIZE it in any way possible. Comcast does it by intentionally not upgrading their downstream paths. Even 10 years ago Comcast was capable of 10BaseT speeds Up and Down over cable modems to the headends for ALL the people in the area that headend serves. The problem is that headend is connected via fiber to a larger headend. That larger headend has another 5-10 connect to it, and a Single OC3 feeds 5+ cities if you are lucky for it to have an OC3. The area I worked in was selling 5Mbit service and I knew that the backend was nothing more than 2 bonded t3's that way too little bandwidth for the number of subs on that POP.
ISP's are screwing the pooch in increasing their backbone connection speeds. Until they get a LOT of complaints, they will continue to major oversell the available bandwidth. it's now well past the 100 to 1 ratio at most.
Ever notice how you suddenly drop out of HD to DVD quality about the middle to 3/4 point in the movie? Ever try to do a big download right after watching a HD netflix?
go looking, the scumbag ISP you have is throttling and/or oversold their backbone and you are being punished for paying for the service you were promised.
"Might I suggest that, immediately after Valentine's, some women might be casting men from their sight, appalled that their lovers could think of nothing more romantic than roses from the supermarket and dinner at Outback Steakhouse?"
If your Girl is that shallow.... It was a GOOD THING(tm) that she "dumped you".
Honestly, some guys cant afford more than that on a silly holiday created by a greeting card company. IF she wants Diamonds on Valentines day, Kick that gold digger to the curb pronto!
You are trying to reason with a rabid Tea Party member... It's like reasoning with a 3 year old, be careful he does not try to stomp on your head.
MY wife explained all this to me from her economics classes.
The president does not do SHIT for the economy.
Congress cant do SHIT for the economy.
What "fixes" the economy is the people. if you tied up every single politician and held them captive in a prison for 5 years the economic recovery would be just fine. What congress can do, make laws that put CEO's and board members of banks and businesses that pull the crap that caused an economic collapse. but we keep voting in idiots that are either rich guys that dont like putting rich guys in jail, or they are friends of these scumbags that cause the problems.
Want to fix the economy.. make sure that the government can not get anything done. split senate, repub house, dem president.
Historically the world and the country has done really well when the house, senate and president are all split and fighting against each other. Less crap get's passed as the other party vetos or stops the others garbage from getting passed. So the bleeding heart liberal socialisim wont get passed easily nor the Whiney conservative Corporate welfare and deep tax cuts for the rich will get passed. The government will be stalemated and nothing will get done.
This is a VERY GOOD THING! And is exactly how the founding fathers designed it.
I worked rotating shift for 12 years. 1 week 1st, 1week 2nd 1 week 3rd, back to 1st... etc... and YES making sure you get a solid 9 hours of in bed time and cutting out caffeine completely made a huge difference.
REally? IS there some kind of law that does not allow me to set the clock to 9pm when I go to bed at 10pm?
Do you really freak out if your clock is 1 hour off while you sleep until 3am? They have meds for that.
P.S. I actually don't have to change it. It's got a RF receiver that set's it's time to the atomic clock. it adjusts to DST automatically... but even if I did not, it's trivial and not a inconvenience to set it by hand before I sleep and take a double dose of ADD meds so that the time being off does not freak me out. OMG time is off, must set it back, but then I need to wake at 3am to set it to 2am... dilemma dilemma.... what would monk do... what would monk do...
I have a LCD clock that runs a YEAR on a single 9V battery. If you consider that quickly then you really need to get rescued off that island you are on.
My $19.95 Alarm Clock also woke me up this morning...
Best part is that it's better than an android or iphone as it never need recharging. I simply replace it's 9V battery every time I replace the fire alarm batteries. Plus I have a snooze that can easily be triggered without even opening my eyes, another feature that is impossible on an iPhone and Android, or any other cellphone from what I discovered.
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I'm not paralyzed by choice. I like choice.
Problem is currently my choices are half done betaware, and half done betaware.. NOTHING is a complete solution... They both focus on stupid shineys instead of fixing major problems that have existed for a very long time.
Yggdrasil.
Not really. That statement sums up everything wrong with Gnome and KDE development. Both camps hold the fault of the mess that is the Linux desktop in their hands. It's their fault that Linux is not as useable as it should be because they cant get over their petty and silly differences and join to make a single decent desktop.
I like "choice" but only when choice is between good things not half done betas.
Actually it IS cheap.
Costco - 4 dozen roses Under $40.00
Costco cheap vase Under $12.00
Costco Drippy sappy movie from the discount bin.
Tell her you want to stay home and be alone with her... she will be all over it.
You are out under $90.00 less than the dinner at the crappy outback house and crap flowers.
Yes they are. I have sat on MANY juries and your "peers" are pretty uneducated. They believe that if the judge tells you the person is guilt then you HAVE TO find them guilty. They also do not understand anything about nullification or the fact you can find them innocent even if they did break the law because you find the law is unjust.
Most people are sheep and do exactly what the judge tells them to do.
IT will never happen. you see all the rich assholes who make money off of how broken it is, are the ones that are making the laws or greasing the palms of those that do.
Personally I'd tell them to stuff it.
Honestly it's a civil trial, all they can do is trash your credit record. Dont pay like 90% of all civil trial judgements end up as.
No. 1080p with AC3 surround compressed at a mpeg4 is only 12GB per movie. Split out the AC3 into separate tracks and compress the crap out of it to 160kbps and you can lower it by another .5GB. and this low bitrate is acceptable to 99% of all netflix users.
But, here is the fun.... you get 720p max from netflix... so it's actually 5-6Gb from them.
Have you actually tried to do any bluray compression to mpeg4? 25GB is for uncompressed or mildly compressed only 2 Blurays I have ripped have had any main feature above the 25GB mark. Most blurays are compressed to hell.. AVCHD is the darling for bluray.
It's why I always though that HD-DVD was better. simple MPEG2 on the disc delivered far better picture with less hardware power.
Yes they do. Do you not know anything about real internet connectivity?
MY 2, T1 lines are truly unlimited. I can saturate them at 100% for 900 days in a row and they wont/cant say crap about it. If I buy an OC3 I can saturate that at full capacity forever and they have to deliver it.
I have 3 people in my home and 37 computers. I have a total of 37 IP addresses inside my lan, every one of those things are a computer. the 4 BLuray players are all computers. the Two big TV's are computers, the Apple TV's are computers, the 6 NAS boxes, the 2 Crestron processors, the 4 chumbys, etc......
I only need 1 to the world because I can use NAT. Some wackjobs think NAT is evil... I think they are wackjobs. I do not WANT most of my computers to EVER be directly on the internet. Even if I was given 10,000 Internet IP's I would still NAT and I guarantee most businesses will as well.
Here is the problem. They want to MAXIMIZE profit from the bandwidth. Not get a good profit or healthy profit, but MAXIMIZE it in any way possible. Comcast does it by intentionally not upgrading their downstream paths. Even 10 years ago Comcast was capable of 10BaseT speeds Up and Down over cable modems to the headends for ALL the people in the area that headend serves. The problem is that headend is connected via fiber to a larger headend. That larger headend has another 5-10 connect to it, and a Single OC3 feeds 5+ cities if you are lucky for it to have an OC3. The area I worked in was selling 5Mbit service and I knew that the backend was nothing more than 2 bonded t3's that way too little bandwidth for the number of subs on that POP.
ISP's are screwing the pooch in increasing their backbone connection speeds. Until they get a LOT of complaints, they will continue to major oversell the available bandwidth. it's now well past the 100 to 1 ratio at most.
They already are, you just dont notice it yet.
Ever notice how you suddenly drop out of HD to DVD quality about the middle to 3/4 point in the movie?
Ever try to do a big download right after watching a HD netflix?
go looking, the scumbag ISP you have is throttling and/or oversold their backbone and you are being punished for paying for the service you were promised.
"Might I suggest that, immediately after Valentine's, some women might be casting men from their sight, appalled that their lovers could think of nothing more romantic than roses from the supermarket and dinner at Outback Steakhouse?"
If your Girl is that shallow.... It was a GOOD THING(tm) that she "dumped you".
Honestly, some guys cant afford more than that on a silly holiday created by a greeting card company. IF she wants Diamonds on Valentines day, Kick that gold digger to the curb pronto!
This is slashdot, you must be new here.
You are trying to reason with a rabid Tea Party member... It's like reasoning with a 3 year old, be careful he does not try to stomp on your head.
MY wife explained all this to me from her economics classes.
The president does not do SHIT for the economy.
Congress cant do SHIT for the economy.
What "fixes" the economy is the people. if you tied up every single politician and held them captive in a prison for 5 years the economic recovery would be just fine.
What congress can do, make laws that put CEO's and board members of banks and businesses that pull the crap that caused an economic collapse. but we keep voting in idiots that are either rich guys that dont like putting rich guys in jail, or they are friends of these scumbags that cause the problems.
Want to fix the economy.. make sure that the government can not get anything done. split senate, repub house, dem president.
Obamacare is a good thing unless you get all your education from Glenn Beck.
Have you actually READ the heathcare bill/law? Only a complete sociopath would be against most of what is in there.
Actually it's just that the Paranoid right is simply completely nuts.
I have met the man, you can not help but like him when you meet him and talk to him.
Historically the world and the country has done really well when the house, senate and president are all split and fighting against each other. Less crap get's passed as the other party vetos or stops the others garbage from getting passed. So the bleeding heart liberal socialisim wont get passed easily nor the Whiney conservative Corporate welfare and deep tax cuts for the rich will get passed. The government will be stalemated and nothing will get done.
This is a VERY GOOD THING! And is exactly how the founding fathers designed it.
I needed another excuse to not go to your business and spend money.
Honestly, They figure they cant make movies to attract people, so they figure they need to work on the voyeurism crowd?
I worked rotating shift for 12 years. 1 week 1st, 1week 2nd 1 week 3rd, back to 1st... etc... and YES making sure you get a solid 9 hours of in bed time and cutting out caffeine completely made a huge difference.
REally? IS there some kind of law that does not allow me to set the clock to 9pm when I go to bed at 10pm?
Do you really freak out if your clock is 1 hour off while you sleep until 3am? They have meds for that.
P.S. I actually don't have to change it. It's got a RF receiver that set's it's time to the atomic clock. it adjusts to DST automatically... but even if I did not, it's trivial and not a inconvenience to set it by hand before I sleep and take a double dose of ADD meds so that the time being off does not freak me out. OMG time is off, must set it back, but then I need to wake at 3am to set it to 2am... dilemma dilemma.... what would monk do... what would monk do...
And yet it still cant do what Mine does....
Wake me 15 minutes early if is snowed last night. No you cant buy it, I built it.
Cut caffeene and go to be earlier. That fixes the "very heavy sleeper" problem. IT did for me and my wife.
My buddy fixed it by spending 3 years in Iraq. he used to sleep as if he was dead in college... now a fly farting in his room has him awake...
I have a LCD clock that runs a YEAR on a single 9V battery. If you consider that quickly then you really need to get rescued off that island you are on.
My $19.95 Alarm Clock also woke me up this morning...
Best part is that it's better than an android or iphone as it never need recharging. I simply replace it's 9V battery every time I replace the fire alarm batteries. Plus I have a snooze that can easily be triggered without even opening my eyes, another feature that is impossible on an iPhone and Android, or any other cellphone from what I discovered.