Now, on the day he died, we're unlikely to hear from an official source wether he was actively interacting with the animal or if he was just passing by.
And what makes you think that? There is videotape of the incident, which is being investigated. The witness have also been repeatedly interviewed.
My guess is that he spotted the fish, interacted with it, and got surprised by it's speed (or his own slowness in water).
Yes, well, your guess has NO facts behind it at all. Mine has, a few at least, although motivation is certainly speculative.
I don't consider stingrays mostly harmless.
And you're a marine expert? When was the last time a person killed by a stingray?
The fact remains that this was a freak accident. This isn't an animal which is normally able to kill people, unlike snakes, crocs, etc. Even if he was handling it (which doesn't seem to be the case), he had very little, if any, reason to believe it could put his life in danger.
dvdrtools may not be a perfect drop-in, but if cdrtools binaries are symlinked to it then frontends such as K3B are basically happy to use them.
K3B explictly added support for dvdrtools. Try an old version of K3B, before dvdrtools was released, and see how that works out. You can't expect all other applications to be rewritten in a short period of time.
For example, I have never managed to burn anything on my machine using cdrecord, and had to use frontends that support cdrdao instead until I found dvdrtools. I don't know why this is
That's quite a bit too vague to draw any conclusion from. For all I know, you could have had a buggy package of cdrtools, or similar one-off problems.
Freedom? Safety? Anti-terrorism? Right, freedom from Saddam's rule? He wasn't stopping you from buying widgets from Wal-Mart.
That's the funny thing about the USA. Unlike other countries, we don't just fight wars for our own interests... The EU is working on becomming a world power, but they're still not willing to make tough decisions, that are against their own short-term interests.
There were no US interests in Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti, etc. When US troops were tied up in Afganistan, and Iraq, none of the other western powers volunteered to go into Darfur.... Of course you're just a 9/11 denial/conspiracy troll, so I don't expect any intelligent discussion on the topic.
Don't kid yourself. Fans are getting larger. Even an 80mm fan can leave a nice gash if you get "bitten" by it. And the 120mm fans, which are getting popular, are twice as heavy, powerful, etc.
I'm not sure if cases are getting more or less dangerous... The metal is getting thinner (sharper) but it's more commonly getting crimped/rolled at the edges. All in all, it's probably a wash.
And let's not forget the obligatory Penny Arcade link:
TFA says it was a freak accident. but was it really?
Yes. When there's been perhaps 3 deaths from a certain method, you can safely call it a freak accident.
what were the stingray's intentions?
Clearly the stingray had seen Steve on TV before, and was going over to him to get an autograph...
WHAT DO YOU THINK IT'S INTENTIONS WERE? Steve was within striking distance, and somehow the (usually passive) stingray felt threatened. Of course, I Am Not A Stingray Psychologist.
Freak accident? No. Statistics caught up with him.
I would agree with you if he was bitten by a venomous snake, or pulled under by a croc, but he wasn't.
None of the articles I've read on the subject suggest he did anything to provoke the stingray, other than swimming near it.
It's really seems quite the opposite of what you're claiming... It seems he may have let his guard down around an animal which rational people would consider mostly harmless, and certainly not a lethal threat.
In other words, people who live dangerous, can still get killed by a meteorite out of a blue sky.
I thought that someone already forked this long ago because of problems with Joerg Schilling mucking around with the license?
It's not really a similar situation at all. Joerg was SELLING dvdrecord-pro, as a commercial app, with no open source equivalent. To get free DVD-burning, there was little choice but to take cdrecord/mkisofs and extend it to DVDs.
Why did they need another fork?
dvdrtools was branched off a while ago, and the most recent changes have not been merged from cdrtools.
Last I checked, dvdrtools wasn't as good as cdrtools in specific cases, like burning from bin/cue files.
dvdrtools is very similar, but isn't a 100% compatible, drop-in replacement for users, and applications that use it, as this debian fork is meant to be.
Besides, this fork may just be a short-term measure, which seems likely, as they are planning on integrating it immediately.
What is really interesting here is the revelation that Sun explicitly made CDDL intentionally incompatible with GPL.
Practically every corporate OSS license is GPL incompatible. There is nothing inherently wrong with that, unless it explicitly needs to be able to integrate with GPL'd code.
Reading this just underscores the fact that you just can't trust Sun,
Sun released many large and important projects under an OSS license (as they said they would), which just happens to be slightly more restrictive than the GPL. Where is the un-trustworthy-ness entering into it?
He also seems to have problems with Suse and RedHat as far as his homepage goes (they also include older versions) and with the Linux kernel itself. There seems to be some stuff he dislikes about the SCSI subsystem. And he seems to prefer the way Solaris handles SCSI.
NONE of which have any bearing at all on a LICENSE CHANGE.
So it is a shame that they had to use such a lame excuse to boot him.
In what way is it lame? You've given no reasons for this.
But I also heard that Linux Torvalds can be a very harsh himself. Anybody want to fork the kernel because of that?
If he ever starts comitting non-GPL compatible code into the (GPLd) kernel... YES.
It's like passing a law that forces FedEx and UPS to charge by the pound for delivering *everything*, no matter what service is needed.
No, it's like passing a law that forces FedEx and UPS to charge the same rate for the same service, no matter which company is sending the package, and no matter how much they've been bribed by one company or another to get preferential treatment.
Those businesses have to turn a profit so either they have to cut their profit margins or pass the costs on to the consumer in the form of increased prices. Guess which?
In any situation where they have any competition, they'll cut their profit margins slightly. If they raise their prices, they risk their competitors taking away market share by NOT raising their own prices.
Less profit is better than no profit.
No adverts on TV or on the web [...] but the cost of almost everything you buy being 23% less...
I'll choose option #3. Free TV and ad-supported websites, while still getting stuff 23% cheaper by buying from companies who don't spend much money advertising.
Let the fools affected by ads, and dedicated to buying brand-names, subsidize everyone else.
btw i might be wrong, but i think subtitles are in text format on dvd's too, but i might be wrong on them...
I can assure you vobsubs are entirely graphical.
i wonder how good is all this on freebsd, i really like the system, but haven't considered it to anything other than hosting websites yet....
FreeBSD is really much simpler and easier to setup than Linux for the task (and more stable in general, as I expect you know). Lirc and the Nvidia driver is in ports. MPlayer works just as well as it does on Linux. Xine is also available. etc.
The only drawback, in my case, is that it doesn't support as many TV tuner cards as Linux, though the most popular ones are there. If that wasn't the case, I'd much prefer to use it rather than keeping that last Linux box around as my DVR/media box.
Or I can just buy a DVD player, plug it in and.. well I guess be done in 2 minutes.
There's such a thing as context. You replied to my post, in reply to another post, under a story. None of which you bother to consider when you made your snide reply.
The reasons to do this have already been fully explained.
Of the 737 models listed there, only 100 are capable of displaying 1024 lines or more,
Which models of HDTVs are most popular at a specific store (particularly a virtual store) is completely and utterly irrelevent.
And those results don't say what number of people have bought which sets, so you can't make any sort of statistical analysis from the "popular" list... even *if* Cnet was typical of the public at large (which is unbelievably laughable in itself).
In short, at most 10.7% of the market is capable of 1080i.
Junk in, junk out.
Your numbers are pure bullshit. "The market" isn't made-up entirely of what people are able to buy through Cnet Shopper.
Find some REAL numbers, not something you've made up, and get back to me.
Mplayer (compiled a few months ago, HAD a problem playing some of the disks, along with xine and OGLE, and it was a CCS error....
You didn't report this bug to the MPlayer mailing list, did you? I can't remember anything similar.
so you can throw PEBKAC and all the insults, if using linux for that was an easier solution i would do that...
You use Windows, and find that PCs as DVD players are not practical... I use Linux, and find that PCs as DVD players are entirely practical... I have tried to use Windows and found, first hand, what an utter mess it makes of everything. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to put two and two together.
You don't have to use Linux for everything (I'm a FreeBSD user myself), but this is a situation where Windows absolutely sucks at all of this. I know how well this works because I have had a Linux DVR up and running for 4 years now without any significant software problems, and the few bugs I did have to deal with have nothing to do with something as simple as playback.
Can you use a HDTV output of an NVIDIA card, without using the NON-binary driver of Xorg ?
Of course you can. Performance won't be as good, but a fast enough system, and you won't notice.
I can hack hours with LIRC, MPLAYER, X, NVIDIA DRIVERS, and when my test DVDs are playing just fine, I will put that rental in and : SEGFAULT XXXXX cannot find whatever CCS shit... or the NVIDIA driver just dumps core, and crashes my card so bad, no XDM/KDM/GDM restart is possible, and have to restart the whole crap
I've never seen anything of the sort. Sounds like the last time you did this really was 4 years ago.
It's just that sometimes the subtitles have wrong encoding, they do not work, or are just unreadable, or do not fit...
DVD subtitles don't have "encoding" at all. They're all bitmaped images, not text. No fonts need apply.
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Since it kills people after the time they can have had children, the people who are not naturally immune(if there are any) will still have their genes passed on. Basically the virus lives too long.
An HIV-infected person can still breed, but they will die shortly thereafter. The person they breed with will have a much increased chance of catching and dying of the disease just a few years later.
Their children will have a good chance of catching the disease, and almost certainly dying long before they can reproduce. And even if the children don't catch HIV, the fact that one or both of their parents has died while they are too young to fend for themselves, does give them a much lesser chance of surviving.
So, natural selection can't take care of it as quickly as it could for other, faster-acting diseases, but it will eventually build herd immunity to it, so long as the population doesn't ALL die in the period of time before enough people develop an immunity.
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And what makes you think that? There is videotape of the incident, which is being investigated. The witness have also been repeatedly interviewed.
Yes, well, your guess has NO facts behind it at all. Mine has, a few at least, although motivation is certainly speculative.
And you're a marine expert? When was the last time a person killed by a stingray?
The fact remains that this was a freak accident. This isn't an animal which is normally able to kill people, unlike snakes, crocs, etc. Even if he was handling it (which doesn't seem to be the case), he had very little, if any, reason to believe it could put his life in danger.
K3B explictly added support for dvdrtools. Try an old version of K3B, before dvdrtools was released, and see how that works out. You can't expect all other applications to be rewritten in a short period of time.
That's quite a bit too vague to draw any conclusion from. For all I know, you could have had a buggy package of cdrtools, or similar one-off problems.
You happily gave up your freedom for DVDs, but won't do it again for HD-DVD/Blu-ray?
That's the funny thing about the USA. Unlike other countries, we don't just fight wars for our own interests... The EU is working on becomming a world power, but they're still not willing to make tough decisions, that are against their own short-term interests.
There were no US interests in Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti, etc. When US troops were tied up in Afganistan, and Iraq, none of the other western powers volunteered to go into Darfur.
Of course you're just a 9/11 denial/conspiracy troll, so I don't expect any intelligent discussion on the topic.
Don't kid yourself. Fans are getting larger. Even an 80mm fan can leave a nice gash if you get "bitten" by it. And the 120mm fans, which are getting popular, are twice as heavy, powerful, etc.
I'm not sure if cases are getting more or less dangerous... The metal is getting thinner (sharper) but it's more commonly getting crimped/rolled at the edges. All in all, it's probably a wash.
And let's not forget the obligatory Penny Arcade link:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/08/09
Yes. When there's been perhaps 3 deaths from a certain method, you can safely call it a freak accident.
Clearly the stingray had seen Steve on TV before, and was going over to him to get an autograph...
WHAT DO YOU THINK IT'S INTENTIONS WERE? Steve was within striking distance, and somehow the (usually passive) stingray felt threatened. Of course, I Am Not A Stingray Psychologist.
I would agree with you if he was bitten by a venomous snake, or pulled under by a croc, but he wasn't.
None of the articles I've read on the subject suggest he did anything to provoke the stingray, other than swimming near it.
It's really seems quite the opposite of what you're claiming... It seems he may have let his guard down around an animal which rational people would consider mostly harmless, and certainly not a lethal threat.
In other words, people who live dangerous, can still get killed by a meteorite out of a blue sky.
It's not really a similar situation at all. Joerg was SELLING dvdrecord-pro, as a commercial app, with no open source equivalent. To get free DVD-burning, there was little choice but to take cdrecord/mkisofs and extend it to DVDs.
dvdrtools was branched off a while ago, and the most recent changes have not been merged from cdrtools.
Last I checked, dvdrtools wasn't as good as cdrtools in specific cases, like burning from bin/cue files.
dvdrtools is very similar, but isn't a 100% compatible, drop-in replacement for users, and applications that use it, as this debian fork is meant to be.
Besides, this fork may just be a short-term measure, which seems likely, as they are planning on integrating it immediately.
Practically every corporate OSS license is GPL incompatible. There is nothing inherently wrong with that, unless it explicitly needs to be able to integrate with GPL'd code.
Sun released many large and important projects under an OSS license (as they said they would), which just happens to be slightly more restrictive than the GPL. Where is the un-trustworthy-ness entering into it?
NONE of which have any bearing at all on a LICENSE CHANGE.
In what way is it lame? You've given no reasons for this.
If he ever starts comitting non-GPL compatible code into the (GPLd) kernel... YES.
No, it's like passing a law that forces FedEx and UPS to charge the same rate for the same service, no matter which company is sending the package, and no matter how much they've been bribed by one company or another to get preferential treatment.
In any situation where they have any competition, they'll cut their profit margins slightly. If they raise their prices, they risk their competitors taking away market share by NOT raising their own prices.
Less profit is better than no profit.
I'll choose option #3. Free TV and ad-supported websites, while still getting stuff 23% cheaper by buying from companies who don't spend much money advertising.
Let the fools affected by ads, and dedicated to buying brand-names, subsidize everyone else.
Not at all.
An Xbox is an Xbox, no matter where in the country you are. It's only the sales tax that varies.
SBC/Verizon DSL service is the same price, nation-wide, with the exception of taxes. I don't know whether the hidden fees vary or not.
Netflix is the same price across the country, except for sales tax.
etc. etc.
Practically everything is that way. Advertising sales tax puts nationwide chains at a real disadvantage.
"once again" being the key part. If copy protection is actually such a big deal, why didn't everyone boycott DVDs, and stick with VHS?
Those are still advantages, whether or not the formats sell.
Saying they aren't worth it is vastly different than saying the benefits don't exist.
Do you have your computer monitor set at 640x480?
Or is that not "good enough" for you?
Would 1920x1024 be more to your liking?
Me too.
I can assure you vobsubs are entirely graphical.
FreeBSD is really much simpler and easier to setup than Linux for the task (and more stable in general, as I expect you know). Lirc and the Nvidia driver is in ports. MPlayer works just as well as it does on Linux. Xine is also available. etc.
The only drawback, in my case, is that it doesn't support as many TV tuner cards as Linux, though the most popular ones are there. If that wasn't the case, I'd much prefer to use it rather than keeping that last Linux box around as my DVR/media box.
There's such a thing as context. You replied to my post, in reply to another post, under a story. None of which you bother to consider when you made your snide reply.
The reasons to do this have already been fully explained.
So you're saying you didn't buy a single DVD until after October 6, 1999?
Which models of HDTVs are most popular at a specific store (particularly a virtual store) is completely and utterly irrelevent.
And those results don't say what number of people have bought which sets, so you can't make any sort of statistical analysis from the "popular" list... even *if* Cnet was typical of the public at large (which is unbelievably laughable in itself).
Junk in, junk out.
Your numbers are pure bullshit. "The market" isn't made-up entirely of what people are able to buy through Cnet Shopper.
Find some REAL numbers, not something you've made up, and get back to me.
There's a world of difference between no guarantee (best effort), and intentionally throttling your connection.
And no matter what else, they still have to make a best-effort to deliver their advertised speed, no matter what.
You didn't report this bug to the MPlayer mailing list, did you? I can't remember anything similar.
You use Windows, and find that PCs as DVD players are not practical... I use Linux, and find that PCs as DVD players are entirely practical... I have tried to use Windows and found, first hand, what an utter mess it makes of everything. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to put two and two together.
You don't have to use Linux for everything (I'm a FreeBSD user myself), but this is a situation where Windows absolutely sucks at all of this. I know how well this works because I have had a Linux DVR up and running for 4 years now without any significant software problems, and the few bugs I did have to deal with have nothing to do with something as simple as playback.
Of course you can. Performance won't be as good, but a fast enough system, and you won't notice.
I've never seen anything of the sort. Sounds like the last time you did this really was 4 years ago.
DVD subtitles don't have "encoding" at all. They're all bitmaped images, not text. No fonts need apply.
An HIV-infected person can still breed, but they will die shortly thereafter. The person they breed with will have a much increased chance of catching and dying of the disease just a few years later.
Their children will have a good chance of catching the disease, and almost certainly dying long before they can reproduce. And even if the children don't catch HIV, the fact that one or both of their parents has died while they are too young to fend for themselves, does give them a much lesser chance of surviving.
So, natural selection can't take care of it as quickly as it could for other, faster-acting diseases, but it will eventually build herd immunity to it, so long as the population doesn't ALL die in the period of time before enough people develop an immunity.
Yes. Always.