Of course you can do with a laptop that has Linux installed on it and do the capture with e.g. Kino. And, if you have some power outlet nearby, you can use a BIG 3.5" HDD in a USB or FW enclosure.
Well, if you don't take that little time to research this matter (really, it's not that hard or complicated and it's not a closely guarded secret, either) then whose fault is it?
"I record music on at least 8 tracks at a time into a single cpu. I NEED higher transfer rates."
Higher than what? Say, 20 mono, 16 bit, 44.1 kHz tracks take 1.7 MB/s - that kind of transfer rate is easily provided by a rewritable CD, let alone HDDs manufactured in this millennium (even when factoring in things like using a system that uses a different file for each track thus adding some (unnecessary) overhead).
"Welcome to America, everyday closer to a Socialist Republic."
Actually, America (or more precisely, the USA) get farther and farther away from being a Socialist Republic. In a socialist state, there would be no big difference between people's wealth, there would be a hospitable state with free schools, free health care, etc (this was true even of the so-called socialist states of the former Eastern Block) - clearly, the USA is not heading this way. Also, a republic is a state where the power is exercised by the people by some means (and not, for example, by corporates). So, I think, today's USA is becoming more and more the antithesis of a Socialist Republic.
It is clear, that some of TLDs were mismanaged (namely.com,.org and.net), but the most of them (.mil,.gov,.edu,.int and most of the two-letter, country-specific TLDs) were properly used. It is well understood, that, for example, that www.sony.de is the site for the German branch of Sony and is in German, while www.sony.com is the international/USA site (and is in English).
Well, it does, I can tell it from experience (even in Hungarian, which, being an agglutinag language, is ill fitted for limited size T9 dictionaries). The text used in the test could be entered on my phone without having to switch between the possible hits, so it definitely required less keypresses. The other thing is, what slows down SMS typing is the situation when the next letter is on the same button as the previous was - you have to wait for the phone to time out so you won't get "c" instead of "ba" - this delay is gone with T9.
Well, with T9 enabled on my Nokia 6230 I have managed to enter this message in 82 seconds (without using any abbreviations) and I am not a skilled SMS sender.
"[i]NVidia is and has always been oders of magnitude above the rest.[/i]"
Of course, that's utter bullshit. In the TNT2 days the NVidia drivers were quite bad, absolutely under the level of the open source driver for Matrox G400.
Since that was the last occassion that some major video card vendor made the specs public, there is little basis for comparsions between the closed and open video card drivers.
And could you please enlighten me as to what is exactly the chance that a 12 year old girl would enter a chatroom named "Girls 13 And Under For Older Guys"?
I tell you, it's nothing more than hysteria at its best.
I think you mix up two things: interface and internal workings.
As for the interface: a drag'n'drop interface for apt is abolutely feasible. It could be, and perhaps it is already implemented (I don't know, since I would not use it anyway).
And I did not bash OS X, I've just observed that their solution is a really simple and limited one. Using it instead of the Debian system would not solve any problem but create lots of additional ones.
"[i]In a complex system, packages are just as bad (actually worse) for users than DLL Hell.[/i]"
I think you have missed something.
Packages are a GREAT way to handle things. The simple & dumb way as OS X handles packages is just that: it can not handle dependencies, or anything, it just puts some files on your computer. It works moderately well, if you only use it for applications and those are statically linked, but nothing else. Now, take Debian's package system: it handles dependencies, version conflicts, alternative packages that serve the same purpose, etc, etc, ec. And it is absolutely easy: an apt-get install xyz installs/updates package xyz and all the necessary shared libs, updates file associations, whatever (and it does not takes exactly rocket science to create some GUI for that single command line).
I find this theory that the MS fine makes much difference regarding the EU's budget. Well, that budget was around 100 billion Euros for 2004. Now tell me, do a few hunder million Euros really make a difference? Also, the fines and other remedies seem to be quite reasonable - and you have to see that it's not the money that really hurts MS but the requirement to open up the APIs and - to a lesser extent - to provide Windows sans WMP. If the allegiations were unfounded complying with these requirements would not be such a problem for MS.
Oh no, the same old bullshit is repeated over and over again. MS was not found guilty because it has bundled various software with the OS - the problem is, that this bundled stuff could not be removed: while technically it was possible, MS used - illegally - its market power against those who tried (e.g.: "So, you want to sell your computers with RealPlayer instead of WMP? Well, then Windows will cost four times for you").
The parent post points out the hypocrisy in this statement: if all that Nokia wants is to be safe from patent lawsuits then it would be quite counterproductive to push for software patents in the EU - which is exactly what they are doing. So, I do not really believe that they do not plan to use SW patents offensively.
Well, no moving parts does not mean that they don't have to be cooled. I have a cheap little USB drive and it got definitely warm after writing some stuff to it.
You know, this guy, Knuth, has some similar ideas about being a programmer (see this Dr Dobb's interview: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.vink/lead.htm). I guess he is just a saddo too, who does not have the necessary skillset or something.
So, I guess locking up (or killing) people and taking away someone else's money are all the same: either good or bad. It may not happen that locking up convicted felons in a prison is a good thing while locking up innnocents is bad. It HAS to be either good or bad, right? Well, not. It would be "double standard" if the OP stated the ultimate goal is to protect the copyright owner - however, if he thinks that benefitting the average citizen is the important thing, the standard against which everything is measured, then he may claim that different cases of copyright infringments can be judged differently without having to resort using double standards. And the law is based on pretty subjective things (and at its very fundament is (or should be) the "greater good"): that's why we use humans to create the law and make judgements and not computers.
May I remind you that the governments of most countries are also non-elected? Usually they are appointed by the prime minister, who is also non-elected, but appointed by the governing faction/coalition of the parliament.
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Of course you can do with a laptop that has Linux installed on it and do the capture with e.g. Kino.
And, if you have some power outlet nearby, you can use a BIG 3.5" HDD in a USB or FW enclosure.
Well, if you don't take that little time to research this matter (really, it's not that hard or complicated and it's not a closely guarded secret, either) then whose fault is it?
"I record music on at least 8 tracks at a time into a single cpu. I NEED higher transfer rates."
Higher than what? Say, 20 mono, 16 bit, 44.1 kHz tracks take 1.7 MB/s - that kind of transfer rate is easily provided by a rewritable CD, let alone HDDs manufactured in this millennium (even when factoring in things like using a system that uses a different file for each track thus adding some (unnecessary) overhead).
"Welcome to America, everyday closer to a Socialist Republic."
Actually, America (or more precisely, the USA) get farther and farther away from being a Socialist Republic. In a socialist state, there would be no big difference between people's wealth, there would be a hospitable state with free schools, free health care, etc (this was true even of the so-called socialist states of the former Eastern Block) - clearly, the USA is not heading this way.
Also, a republic is a state where the power is exercised by the people by some means (and not, for example, by corporates).
So, I think, today's USA is becoming more and more the antithesis of a Socialist Republic.
It is clear, that some of TLDs were mismanaged (namely .com, .org and .net), but the most of them (.mil, .gov, .edu, .int and most of the two-letter, country-specific TLDs) were properly used. It is well understood, that, for example, that www.sony.de is the site for the German branch of Sony and is in German, while www.sony.com is the international/USA site (and is in English).
Well, it does, I can tell it from experience (even in Hungarian, which, being an agglutinag language, is ill fitted for limited size T9 dictionaries).
The text used in the test could be entered on my phone without having to switch between the possible hits, so it definitely required less keypresses. The other thing is, what slows down SMS typing is the situation when the next letter is on the same button as the previous was - you have to wait for the phone to time out so you won't get "c" instead of "ba" - this delay is gone with T9.
Well, with T9 enabled on my Nokia 6230 I have managed to enter this message in 82 seconds (without using any abbreviations) and I am not a skilled SMS sender.
And, more importantly, the SMS was entered without T9 (which in itself speeds up typing by a factor of 2 or 3).
"[i]NVidia is and has always been oders of magnitude above the rest.[/i]"
Of course, that's utter bullshit.
In the TNT2 days the NVidia drivers were quite bad, absolutely under the level of the open source driver for Matrox G400.
Since that was the last occassion that some major video card vendor made the specs public, there is little basis for comparsions between the closed and open video card drivers.
I guess the fans are there to move the air (and thus remove the heat from) behind the canvas.
And could you please enlighten me as to what is exactly the chance that a 12 year old girl would enter a chatroom named "Girls 13 And Under For Older Guys"?
I tell you, it's nothing more than hysteria at its best.
I fail to see how running MS Office on Win XP could give Linus some insight into how the VM of Windows works.
I think you mix up two things: interface and internal workings.
As for the interface: a drag'n'drop interface for apt is abolutely feasible. It could be, and perhaps it is already implemented (I don't know, since I would not use it anyway).
And I did not bash OS X, I've just observed that their solution is a really simple and limited one. Using it instead of the Debian system would not solve any problem but create lots of additional ones.
"[i]In a complex system, packages are just as bad (actually worse) for users than DLL Hell.[/i]"
I think you have missed something.
Packages are a GREAT way to handle things.
The simple & dumb way as OS X handles packages is just that: it can not handle dependencies, or anything, it just puts some files on your computer.
It works moderately well, if you only use it for applications and those are statically linked, but nothing else.
Now, take Debian's package system: it handles dependencies, version conflicts, alternative packages that serve the same purpose, etc, etc, ec. And it is absolutely easy: an apt-get install xyz installs/updates package xyz and all the necessary shared libs, updates file associations, whatever (and it does not takes exactly rocket science to create some GUI for that single command line).
I wonder if the SMS senders have used T9. It really speeds up typing, especially in non-agglutinating languages (e.g. English).
No, it can be replaced.
As I can replace Firefox with Opera, and everything still operates that depends on having a www-browser.
I find this theory that the MS fine makes much difference regarding the EU's budget. Well, that budget was around 100 billion Euros for 2004. Now tell me, do a few hunder million Euros really make a difference?
Also, the fines and other remedies seem to be quite reasonable - and you have to see that it's not the money that really hurts MS but the requirement to open up the APIs and - to a lesser extent - to provide Windows sans WMP. If the allegiations were unfounded complying with these requirements would not be such a problem for MS.
Oh no, the same old bullshit is repeated over and over again.
MS was not found guilty because it has bundled various software with the OS - the problem is, that this bundled stuff could not be removed: while technically it was possible, MS used - illegally - its market power against those who tried (e.g.: "So, you want to sell your computers with RealPlayer instead of WMP? Well, then Windows will cost four times for you").
The parent post points out the hypocrisy in this statement: if all that Nokia wants is to be safe from patent lawsuits then it would be quite counterproductive to push for software patents in the EU - which is exactly what they are doing.
So, I do not really believe that they do not plan to use SW patents offensively.
Well, no moving parts does not mean that they don't have to be cooled. I have a cheap little USB drive and it got definitely warm after writing some stuff to it.
No, it's the EU, not the USA. They have to pay with Euro, not with glass beads.
You know, this guy, Knuth, has some similar ideas about being a programmer (see this Dr Dobb's interview: http://home.hccnet.nl/h.vink/lead.htm).
I guess he is just a saddo too, who does not have the necessary skillset or something.
So, I guess locking up (or killing) people and taking away someone else's money are all the same: either good or bad. It may not happen that locking up convicted felons in a prison is a good thing while locking up innnocents is bad. It HAS to be either good or bad, right?
Well, not.
It would be "double standard" if the OP stated the ultimate goal is to protect the copyright owner - however, if he thinks that benefitting the average citizen is the important thing, the standard against which everything is measured, then he may claim that different cases of copyright infringments can be judged differently without having to resort using double standards.
And the law is based on pretty subjective things (and at its very fundament is (or should be) the "greater good"): that's why we use humans to create the law and make judgements and not computers.
Water is not a problem, these devices do not produce enough power to heat that water more than perhaps a few hundreth degrees.
May I remind you that the governments of most countries are also non-elected? Usually they are appointed by the prime minister, who is also non-elected, but appointed by the governing faction/coalition of the parliament.