I don't have any problems getting 30fps, but I am using 1Ghz Athlon for my home made PVR. I have experimented with this a bit, for me, 15fps doesn't cut it, 24-25 is exceptable, but for truly smooth video that isn't hard to watch, I need to hit 30fps.
Where are the pro-life Democrats and the anti-gun Republicans? There are tons of examples of where Republicans and Democrats differ.
Yes they do disagree, but mostly on issues that are dead, settled law. Very few Republicians support a nation wide federal ban on abortion, when was the last time any such legislation was introduced ? Very few Democrats support a nation wide federal ban on guns, when was the last time such legislation was introduced ? Most issues they do not disagree on, they simply disagree on implementation. Social Security Reform is a good example, both parties want to reform it, what they don't agree on is how, the Republicans want to allow for private investment, the Democrats want to remove it from the general fund and make it a "Locked Box" as Gore put it. Taxes, same thing, Democrats like "Tax and Spend", Republicans prefer "Borrow and Spend", the only difference is if this generation pays for it or the next. This is why nothing ever really changes, both parties like the status quo. Over the last 15 years or so, both parties have moved center and will probably continue until the two parties are virtually identical. Our only hope for real change is if a viable third party rises.
If I can't use something under Linux, it won't get purchased, period, and I don't have the money to take risks on technology that might and probably work under Linux, but doesn't now.
gentoo looks like it's trying to hit in to the mainstream vein, as in trying to be the desktop of choice for newbies and guru's alike.
I think you completly missed it on this one. Gentoo is not for newbies, nor do they try to sell themselves as such. To quote them directly;
Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast, completely free Linux distribution for x86, PowerPC, UltraSparc and Alpha systems that's geared towards Linux power users.
Not on a 486 you can't, I doubt you could even do the mpeg encoding and even if you could, it would take days, maybe weeks. By the time you assembled the parts for this thing you'd be in it more than a $1000, a DVD Burner alone is more than $300 and besides DVD authoring on Linux is pretty much in it infancy, it has only been possible for a few months. Although you could do it with a regular CDRW making VCD instead of DVD. Honestly, if your yearly income is $1000, then you have bigger problems than this.
Metallica S&M would run over $20 on this. I'd rather pay the $16 for the CD and be able to burn it in the for4mat of my choice. (i.e. ogg)
This is better, because now you have a choice. If you want a whole album, you get a discount by going to Wal-Mart and purchasing the CD for $16. If you just want one song off the album, you pay 99 cents.
But lumping members of the pro-life movement along with the terrorist action of a few pro-lifers is being extremely shortsighted and unwitful. Dumbass.
You didn't read beyond the first line did you. If you had, you would have gotten to this part;
this is pretty clearly a website supported by a hate group and inspite of its Christian trappings, has nothing what so ever to do with the teachings of Christ.
How the heck did that get lumped together in the same group with pro-Nazi, white supremacist and anti-semitic sites?!?!?
Pro-Nazism, white supremacy and anti-Semitism are all hate-driven egocentric nationalistic racial biases. How the heck does the Pro-Life movement fit in with these groups?
Blowing up Womens Clinics, then planting more bombs in the dumpsters outside to kill Policemen and Firemen are acts of Terrorism. Assassinating Doctors is Terrorism. Advocating political change through violence against a civilian population is advocating Terrorism. Checkout The Nuremberg Files, this is pretty clearly a website supported by a hate group and inspite of its Christian trappings, has nothing what so ever to do with the teachings of Christ.
Mind you, I do not advocate suppressing these sites, these people, as sick as they are, have the right to say whatever they want. However, Google is a private company, they recieve no government funding and is therefore within thier rights to de-list any site it feels is objectionable. It is no more censorship than a TV broadcasting company refusing to show full frontal nudity during prime time.
Yeah, until you decide to turn it back on again, right? Windows machines have an "off" switch too...whether it's a matter of unloading from memory or powering down, it's no different.
You might want to rethink that statment. If you turn the power off on a Windows machine (or a Linux box for that matter), you have a paper weight until you turn it back on. On the other hand, I can completely uninstall Wine from my Linux box and still have a fully functional computer. There is a difference.
As I understand it, there is far too many bills every year for either the House or the Senate to actually debate every single one of them. So what they do is once it is out of committee, it goes on the calender, if nobody raises any objections to it, they have a voice vote on it, which is very quick, but there is no official record on who voted and how, only that it passed or not. I could be wrong, so please correct me if I am. This is more or less how the DMCA was passed. Anyone who was sitting at the time should be held accountable, if for no other reason than they didn't raise any objections, force a public debate and a formal vote.
Let me say up front, any sort of Digital Rights Management (DRM) system is a bad idea. It will by its very nature restrict the rights and freedoms enjoyed by generations of Americans for no other purpose than to increase the profits of the Entertainment Industry at the expense of consumers and the much larger Tech Industry.
In order for ant sort of Digital Rights Management system to be acceptable, the following list MUST be implemented;
1. Fair Use as it existed prior to 1998 must be protected. Circumvention must be allowed for personal use, interoperability, reverse engineering and research both public and private.
2. DRM must not interfere with anyones right to make and distribute their own content. Content providers should be allowed to distribute their content without DRM protection and consumers should be able to use unprotected content without restriction. If a content provider wishes to protect their work with DRM, any required digital certificates will be free and easy to obtain.
3. DRM must be an open and public specification with no licensing fees attached.
4. All DRM systems must protect the rights of the consumer. DRM systems must protect the privacy of the user and can not interfere with free speech, free expression, freedom of the press or any other freedom provided by the constitution.
5. The burden of Enforcement must be on the content provider, not on the consumer or the provider of the DRM system. The burden of enforcement must also not be with any government body beyond what is provided for by current law.
6. DRM must not interfere with any other use of the system.
Voting online is a bad idea regardless of the software used to implement it. Simply put, there is no guarrantee of privacy. By having people goto public locations with private booths, each persons privacy can be garranteed because there are people there whose job it is to ensure it. At home, an abusive wife can illegally influence her husband into voting for a candidate or issue he would have otherwise not voted for. Corporations or Labor Unions could setup computer voting centers for thier members or employees. What guarrantee is there the persons Boss or Union Leader won't be standing over thier shoulder or there isn't a keystroke capture program installed on the computer or the data stream isn't funneled into another program designed to change votes or somehow invalidate "Wrong" votes.
Actually he is correct. Micky Mouse and Donald Duck are still completely protected by Copyright. However there is nothing stopping "Wes Cravens Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" from being made except desire. The original story is in the Public Domain, anyone can use it as the basis of another work,as long as none of Disneys interpretations are used.
I am still unconvinced the US Patriot Act was neccessary or even wise. However, I hope for all of our sake you are correct and I am wrong. I hope we do not live to regret the decisions our government has made of late.
Terrorism was against the law prior to the US Patriot Act and 9/11. Committing a Terrorist Act makes one a criminal and belonging to a Terrorist Organization is the no different from belonging to Mafia Crime Family. If there were laws already on the books which cover criminals and by extension terroists and terrorist orgizations and these laws had already passed constitutional muster, again, what exactly do we need the US Patriot Act for ? Besides motivation, what is the difference between a terrorist (motivated by politics) and a common criminal (motivated by greed) that required the passage of the US Patriot Act ?
Lets assume for a moment you are correct, if the government already had all the powers it needed to fight terrorism, and as you have been saying, the US Patriot Act really didn't change anything, then why do we need it at all ?
Abdullah al-Muhajir (you don't call Muhammad Ali `Cassius Clay', do you?) is being held as an enemy combatant, something which has nothing at all to do with USA PATRIOT
On the contrary, the suspension of Habeaus Corpus and the passing of the US Patriot act are symptoms of the same disease. The following is my list symptoms of an erroding Democracy.
Freedom of association: The government may monitor religious and political groups without evidence of criminal activity.
Right to liberty: Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them.
Freedom from unreasonable searches: The government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to aid terrorism investigation.
Freedom of speech: The government may prosecute librarians, telecommunication company officials and anyone else who reveals they have received a subpoena for records related to the terrorism investigation.
Right to legal representation: The government may monitor penal communications between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.
Right to a speedy and public trial: The government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.
Freedom of information: The government has closed once-public immigration hearings, secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist requests for public records under the Freedom of Information Act.
a practice which was upheld most recently in the 1942 US Supreme Court case Ex Parte Quirin.
The difference of course is we were at war in 1942. Regardless of what GW Bush says, we are not at war, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, not the President or FoxNews. GW Bush will have to do better than "He's a bad man" to convince me that Abdullah al-Muhajir deserves to be held without trial or access to a lawyer or his family.
..you are aware that Bush has spoken strongly in favor of a strict `original intent' interpretation of the Constitution..
And yet he signed the US Patriot Act, which directly spits on the Constitution in so many ways. Has he vetoed anything since he's been in office ? or is he going to be known from here on out as George "Rubber Stamp" Bush.
If this had been pro-Bush, he would've been modded down to -1 as a Troll.
Perhaps you are right, it was offtopic, but I don't neccessarily feel it was a troll, it was more like karma whoring. I also feel my post was more anti-government than anit-Bush. After all the liberals in the Senate voted for the US Patriot Act too.
Except when the "enemy combatant" is a natural born American citizen.
There of course is the problem, the Bush Administration is claiming the right to hold American Citizens without trial. Jose Padilla was arrested on 8 May and as of yet has not had access to a Lawyer or his family. I don't care what GW thinks he was going to do, this man deserves, like all Americans, the right to a fair trial. If they can do it to him, they can do it to anyone.
Detaining people without trial and ignoring the courts is a time honored practice in the US. Lincoln did it during the Civil War to secessionist politicians from Maryland.
The only problem is, Lincoln was a REAL War Time President. The Civil War was legally declared by Congress as set forth by the Constitution. The War on Terrorism was illegally declared by GW Bush and the FoxNews Channel.
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I am still here and still in the game. Holiday/Family stuff is still dominating my life, but time permitting, I'll respond this weekend sometime.
I don't have any problems getting 30fps, but I am using 1Ghz Athlon for my home made PVR. I have experimented with this a bit, for me, 15fps doesn't cut it, 24-25 is exceptable, but for truly smooth video that isn't hard to watch, I need to hit 30fps.
Where are the pro-life Democrats and the anti-gun Republicans? There are tons of examples of where Republicans and Democrats differ.
Yes they do disagree, but mostly on issues that are dead, settled law. Very few Republicians support a nation wide federal ban on abortion, when was the last time any such legislation was introduced ? Very few Democrats support a nation wide federal ban on guns, when was the last time such legislation was introduced ? Most issues they do not disagree on, they simply disagree on implementation. Social Security Reform is a good example, both parties want to reform it, what they don't agree on is how, the Republicans want to allow for private investment, the Democrats want to remove it from the general fund and make it a "Locked Box" as Gore put it. Taxes, same thing, Democrats like "Tax and Spend", Republicans prefer "Borrow and Spend", the only difference is if this generation pays for it or the next. This is why nothing ever really changes, both parties like the status quo. Over the last 15 years or so, both parties have moved center and will probably continue until the two parties are virtually identical. Our only hope for real change is if a viable third party rises.
If I can't use something under Linux, it won't get purchased, period, and I don't have the money to take risks on technology that might and probably work under Linux, but doesn't now.
It should work, look here .
gentoo looks like it's trying to hit in to the mainstream vein, as in trying to be the desktop of choice for newbies and guru's alike.
I think you completly missed it on this one. Gentoo is not for newbies, nor do they try to sell themselves as such. To quote them directly;
Gentoo Linux is a versatile and fast, completely free Linux distribution for x86, PowerPC, UltraSparc and Alpha systems that's geared towards Linux power users.
Not on a 486 you can't, I doubt you could even do the mpeg encoding and even if you could, it would take days, maybe weeks. By the time you assembled the parts for this thing you'd be in it more than a $1000, a DVD Burner alone is more than $300 and besides DVD authoring on Linux is pretty much in it infancy, it has only been possible for a few months. Although you could do it with a regular CDRW making VCD instead of DVD. Honestly, if your yearly income is $1000, then you have bigger problems than this.
Metallica S&M would run over $20 on this. I'd rather pay the $16 for the CD and be able to burn it in the for4mat of my choice. (i.e. ogg)
This is better, because now you have a choice. If you want a whole album, you get a discount by going to Wal-Mart and purchasing the CD for $16. If you just want one song off the album, you pay 99 cents.
But lumping members of the pro-life movement along with the terrorist action of a few pro-lifers is being extremely shortsighted and unwitful. Dumbass.
You didn't read beyond the first line did you. If you had, you would have gotten to this part;
this is pretty clearly a website supported by a hate group and inspite of its Christian trappings, has nothing what so ever to do with the teachings of Christ.
How the heck did that get lumped together in the same group with pro-Nazi, white supremacist and anti-semitic sites?!?!? Pro-Nazism, white supremacy and anti-Semitism are all hate-driven egocentric nationalistic racial biases. How the heck does the Pro-Life movement fit in with these groups?
Blowing up Womens Clinics, then planting more bombs in the dumpsters outside to kill Policemen and Firemen are acts of Terrorism. Assassinating Doctors is Terrorism. Advocating political change through violence against a civilian population is advocating Terrorism. Checkout The Nuremberg Files, this is pretty clearly a website supported by a hate group and inspite of its Christian trappings, has nothing what so ever to do with the teachings of Christ.
Mind you, I do not advocate suppressing these sites, these people, as sick as they are, have the right to say whatever they want. However, Google is a private company, they recieve no government funding and is therefore within thier rights to de-list any site it feels is objectionable. It is no more censorship than a TV broadcasting company refusing to show full frontal nudity during prime time.
Yeah, until you decide to turn it back on again, right? Windows machines have an "off" switch too...whether it's a matter of unloading from memory or powering down, it's no different.
You might want to rethink that statment. If you turn the power off on a Windows machine (or a Linux box for that matter), you have a paper weight until you turn it back on. On the other hand, I can completely uninstall Wine from my Linux box and still have a fully functional computer. There is a difference.
Bull. Voting is electronic and recorded! Consult the Congressional Register to see who voted (or didn't) for what.
Alright big boy, show me.
As I understand it, there is far too many bills every year for either the House or the Senate to actually debate every single one of them. So what they do is once it is out of committee, it goes on the calender, if nobody raises any objections to it, they have a voice vote on it, which is very quick, but there is no official record on who voted and how, only that it passed or not. I could be wrong, so please correct me if I am. This is more or less how the DMCA was passed. Anyone who was sitting at the time should be held accountable, if for no other reason than they didn't raise any objections, force a public debate and a formal vote.
Let me say up front, any sort of Digital Rights Management (DRM) system is a bad idea. It will by its very nature restrict the rights and freedoms enjoyed by generations of Americans for no other purpose than to increase the profits of the Entertainment Industry at the expense of consumers and the much larger Tech Industry.
In order for ant sort of Digital Rights Management system to be acceptable, the following list MUST be implemented;
1. Fair Use as it existed prior to 1998 must be protected. Circumvention must be allowed for personal use, interoperability, reverse engineering and research both public and private.
2. DRM must not interfere with anyones right to make and distribute their own content. Content providers should be allowed to distribute their content without DRM protection and consumers should be able to use unprotected content without restriction. If a content provider wishes to protect their work with DRM, any required digital certificates will be free and easy to obtain.
3. DRM must be an open and public specification with no licensing fees attached.
4. All DRM systems must protect the rights of the consumer. DRM systems must protect the privacy of the user and can not interfere with free speech, free expression, freedom of the press or any other freedom provided by the constitution.
5. The burden of Enforcement must be on the content provider, not on the consumer or the provider of the DRM system. The burden of enforcement must also not be with any government body beyond what is provided for by current law.
6. DRM must not interfere with any other use of the system.
Voting online is a bad idea regardless of the software used to implement it. Simply put, there is no guarrantee of privacy. By having people goto public locations with private booths, each persons privacy can be garranteed because there are people there whose job it is to ensure it. At home, an abusive wife can illegally influence her husband into voting for a candidate or issue he would have otherwise not voted for. Corporations or Labor Unions could setup computer voting centers for thier members or employees. What guarrantee is there the persons Boss or Union Leader won't be standing over thier shoulder or there isn't a keystroke capture program installed on the computer or the data stream isn't funneled into another program designed to change votes or somehow invalidate "Wrong" votes.
Actually he is correct. Micky Mouse and Donald Duck are still completely protected by Copyright. However there is nothing stopping "Wes Cravens Snow White and the Seven Dwarves" from being made except desire. The original story is in the Public Domain, anyone can use it as the basis of another work,as long as none of Disneys interpretations are used.
I am still unconvinced the US Patriot Act was neccessary or even wise. However, I hope for all of our sake you are correct and I am wrong. I hope we do not live to regret the decisions our government has made of late.
Terrorism was against the law prior to the US Patriot Act and 9/11. Committing a Terrorist Act makes one a criminal and belonging to a Terrorist Organization is the no different from belonging to Mafia Crime Family. If there were laws already on the books which cover criminals and by extension terroists and terrorist orgizations and these laws had already passed constitutional muster, again, what exactly do we need the US Patriot Act for ? Besides motivation, what is the difference between a terrorist (motivated by politics) and a common criminal (motivated by greed) that required the passage of the US Patriot Act ?
Lets assume for a moment you are correct, if the government already had all the powers it needed to fight terrorism, and as you have been saying, the US Patriot Act really didn't change anything, then why do we need it at all ?
Abdullah al-Muhajir (you don't call Muhammad Ali `Cassius Clay', do you?) is being held as an enemy combatant, something which has nothing at all to do with USA PATRIOT
On the contrary, the suspension of Habeaus Corpus and the passing of the US Patriot act are symptoms of the same disease. The following is my list symptoms of an erroding Democracy.
Freedom of association: The government may monitor religious and political groups without evidence of criminal activity.
Right to liberty: Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront witnesses against them.
Freedom from unreasonable searches: The government may search and seize Americans' papers and effects without probable cause to aid terrorism investigation.
Freedom of speech: The government may prosecute librarians, telecommunication company officials and anyone else who reveals they have received a subpoena for records related to the terrorism investigation.
Right to legal representation: The government may monitor penal communications between attorneys and clients, and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.
Right to a speedy and public trial: The government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial.
Freedom of information: The government has closed once-public immigration hearings, secretly detained hundreds of people without charges, and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist requests for public records under the Freedom of Information Act.
Read This , it goes into more detail.
a practice which was upheld most recently in the 1942 US Supreme Court case Ex Parte Quirin.
The difference of course is we were at war in 1942. Regardless of what GW Bush says, we are not at war, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, not the President or FoxNews. GW Bush will have to do better than "He's a bad man" to convince me that Abdullah al-Muhajir deserves to be held without trial or access to a lawyer or his family.
I welcome you to provide even a single example of how you believe USA PATRIOT has violated the US Constitution
Habeas Corpus and if you don't beleive me, perhaps you should ask Jose Padilla or his lawyer.
And yet he signed the US Patriot Act, which directly spits on the Constitution in so many ways. Has he vetoed anything since he's been in office ? or is he going to be known from here on out as George "Rubber Stamp" Bush.
As far as email viruses are concerned, I say long live difficult installation.
I'm with you, if it takes a "Difficult Install" to maintain a virus free system, then I am there. Long Live the difficult install.
If this had been pro-Bush, he would've been modded down to -1 as a Troll.
Perhaps you are right, it was offtopic, but I don't neccessarily feel it was a troll, it was more like karma whoring. I also feel my post was more anti-government than anit-Bush. After all the liberals in the Senate voted for the US Patriot Act too.
Except when the "enemy combatant" is a natural born American citizen.
There of course is the problem, the Bush Administration is claiming the right to hold American Citizens without trial. Jose Padilla was arrested on 8 May and as of yet has not had access to a Lawyer or his family. I don't care what GW thinks he was going to do, this man deserves, like all Americans, the right to a fair trial. If they can do it to him, they can do it to anyone.
Detaining people without trial and ignoring the courts is a time honored practice in the US. Lincoln did it during the Civil War to secessionist politicians from Maryland.
The only problem is, Lincoln was a REAL War Time President. The Civil War was legally declared by Congress as set forth by the Constitution. The War on Terrorism was illegally declared by GW Bush and the FoxNews Channel.