Early after I made my Slashdot account I had adblock on but didn't pay it any mind, and then I saw the "thanks to you contributing positively to this board, you are eligible to turn off ads"
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my phone and camera both turn images the right way, but NEVER videos. i really haven't seen one that does it. if someone knows such a phone/camera please tell me so i won't buy. thsnks in advance.
You did not read my question? Have you used a camera that records in 1:1? Or one that records in a portrait orientation? Asking because i have not.
Not my handycam, not my phone, not my p&s nikon.
"Sharing is good" - I love how Stallman is once again so open with other peoples creations as well as his own. If you want to share, why not simply stick to sharing those things you are allowed to? But oh no, that's not good enough - the 'people' must be allowed to share *everything*
Stallman doesn't recognize the idea that other people's (digital) creations belong to their creators. They belong to the people.
Yup, I have just read that and its a pile of crap - the whole idea seems to be to reward those who are successful less and less, and reward those who are failing more. Why are those who are popular less deserving of those who are not?
So you would prefer the current system, where 0.1% of the artists are driving around in million dollar cars to their fifty million dollar mansions and getting one or two DUIs on the way while the other 99.9% are barely making a living and thus have to get a day job and only have 3-5 hours every day to actually be creating stuff? Less social inequality is good.
yes. if everyone is at the same/nearly same socio-economic level, ambition will be eradicated and the human race will stagnate.
umm, no. you can't decide how i want to sell my software, and what contract i want my customers to agree to. if you don't like my conditions, i will not force you to buy my product. why do you force me to change my agreement as YOU see fit? point is, maybe you're right and i'm wrong. but i have the RIGHT to be wrong unless i hurt you.
Stallman does the right things but the way he relates his thoughts don't really map well onto others. He is too rigid when it comes to Free software, ideally all software should be Free but until the transition is over - say another 20 years - then some mixing is pragmatic for the now to enable functionality: like binary blobs in the Linux kernel. I like a lot of what Stallman has to say but I always translate it into less dogmatic terms and take the hard edges off. Free is the ideal Open is the pragmatic, he kicked off Free and that led to Open and Open is not as dogmatic as Free - things evolve. Open also markets better.
i don't agree. ideally, all software authors' will should be respected by everyone. if someone wants you to pay for his work, you should pay. if someone is okay with letting you have it for free and do anything with it, then you can do that. the problem now is that companies like microsoft think they are doing something so magical in their software that every single individual should pay for using it. and that editing code should be out of bounds for anyone not employed by them. but this contract is broken by pirates. and people like rms want to impose their ideologies and will over others
can you tel me just TWO dangers (out of many) that stallman warned about before anybody else? (and they really turned out to be important) i think rms is just an attention-seeking troll.
if you can drive your auto with as much control as your manual, then i don't think you actually HAVE much control over your car.
What is it, exactly, I shouldn't be able to do ?
i can't say, never having seen you drive.
and i don't have any trouble driving an auto, actually its less taxing on the mind. but sometimes i like being in control of my car, especially on trips >100km.
Long trips are one of the best times to have an auto (along with cruise control). Probably beaten out only by city driving and commuting.
i think you've never driven for fun. automatic gears take the fun out of driving. inside the city it becomes a burden (not an advantage) to continually keep shifting. automatic gear shifting is really helpful there. when, on the other hand, you don't need to shift so frequently, it becomes nice to have something to think about. here, automatics just take away the enjoyment of a long drive. cruise control is usually liked by people who aren't bothered about driving and just want it to be as painless as possible. i find it quite boring.
if you can drive your auto with as much control as your manual, then i don't think you actually HAVE much control over your car. and i don't have any trouble driving an auto, actually its less taxing on the mind. but sometimes i like being in control of my car, especially on trips >100km.
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no no. you don't understand.get this:
you don't use 'activate' if steve jobs calls it 'syncing'.
okay?
well said. my thoughts exactly. but i have trouble translating thoughts to words (or maybe i'm just lazy).
true...al gore and pachauri are just two-faced thugs with phds(not sure about gore).
Only on Slashdot do people believe that consumers buy Apple products because they're "cool and hip".
Because usability is for pussies, right?
the problem with that is that the iphone/ipad is NOT usable. they are just toys for wannabe geeks/fools.
Early after I made my Slashdot account I had adblock on but didn't pay it any mind, and then I saw the "thanks to you contributing positively to this board, you are eligible to turn off ads"
I felt it was such an honorable and honest system that I disabled adblock for Slashdot and didn't opt-out of the ads.
same here. /. rulez!!!!!!!!!
my phone and camera both turn images the right way, but NEVER videos. i really haven't seen one that does it. if someone knows such a phone/camera please tell me so i won't buy.
thsnks in advance.
You did not read my question? Have you used a camera that records in 1:1? Or one that records in a portrait orientation? Asking because i have not. Not my handycam, not my phone, not my p&s nikon.
i would think it is very difficult. After all, it is ROCKET SCIENCE!
and what's up with the fucked up aspect ratio of the video? what sort of crazy-ass camera records in PORTRAIT?
just like sony.
have you run win7 with 512mb ram? Its quite usable, almost as responsive as xp. Its quite surprising. Can't say nothing about apple though.
actually i think overdrive would cause LOWER rpms than usual.
um, apart from the above mentioned laxity concerning seatbelts, most (90%) cars here don't have airbags.
omg! right clicking is such a great feature now!
dumbass.
"Sharing is good" - I love how Stallman is once again so open with other peoples creations as well as his own. If you want to share, why not simply stick to sharing those things you are allowed to? But oh no, that's not good enough - the 'people' must be allowed to share *everything*
Stallman doesn't recognize the idea that other people's (digital) creations belong to their creators. They belong to the people.
Yup, I have just read that and its a pile of crap - the whole idea seems to be to reward those who are successful less and less, and reward those who are failing more. Why are those who are popular less deserving of those who are not?
So you would prefer the current system, where 0.1% of the artists are driving around in million dollar cars to their fifty million dollar mansions and getting one or two DUIs on the way while the other 99.9% are barely making a living and thus have to get a day job and only have 3-5 hours every day to actually be creating stuff? Less social inequality is good.
yes.
if everyone is at the same/nearly same socio-economic level, ambition will be eradicated and the human race will stagnate.
oh no! you can't make the microphone argument with these guys. they believe every artist/band should make money ONLY fromm live concerts.
umm, no. you can't decide how i want to sell my software, and what contract i want my customers to agree to. if you don't like my conditions, i will not force you to buy my product. why do you force me to change my agreement as YOU see fit?
point is, maybe you're right and i'm wrong. but i have the RIGHT to be wrong unless i hurt you.
Stallman does the right things but the way he relates his thoughts don't really map well onto others. He is too rigid when it comes to Free software, ideally all software should be Free but until the transition is over - say another 20 years - then some mixing is pragmatic for the now to enable functionality: like binary blobs in the Linux kernel. I like a lot of what Stallman has to say but I always translate it into less dogmatic terms and take the hard edges off. Free is the ideal Open is the pragmatic, he kicked off Free and that led to Open and Open is not as dogmatic as Free - things evolve. Open also markets better.
i don't agree. ideally, all software authors' will should be respected by everyone. if someone wants you to pay for his work, you should pay. if someone is okay with letting you have it for free and do anything with it, then you can do that.
the problem now is that companies like microsoft think they are doing something so magical in their software that every single individual should pay for using it. and that editing code should be out of bounds for anyone not employed by them. but this contract is broken by pirates. and people like rms want to impose their ideologies and will over others
its offtopic to criticize rms on slashdot. didn't you read the terms and conditions at the registration page?
can you tel me just TWO dangers (out of many) that stallman warned about before anybody else? (and they really turned out to be important)
i think rms is just an attention-seeking troll.
true, true.
It's 1.75/ltr in NZ so $1.22 USD or 0.91 Euro I don't own a car though. My bicycle runs on biofuels.
what?! you pee into your bicycle?
;)
if you can drive your auto with as much control as your manual, then i don't think you actually HAVE much control over your car.
What is it, exactly, I shouldn't be able to do ?
i can't say, never having seen you drive.
and i don't have any trouble driving an auto, actually its less taxing on the mind. but sometimes i like being in control of my car, especially on trips >100km.
Long trips are one of the best times to have an auto (along with cruise control). Probably beaten out only by city driving and commuting.
i think you've never driven for fun. automatic gears take the fun out of driving. inside the city it becomes a burden (not an advantage) to continually keep shifting. automatic gear shifting is really helpful there.
when, on the other hand, you don't need to shift so frequently, it becomes nice to have something to think about. here, automatics just take away the enjoyment of a long drive.
cruise control is usually liked by people who aren't bothered about driving and just want it to be as painless as possible. i find it quite boring.
if you can drive your auto with as much control as your manual, then i don't think you actually HAVE much control over your car.
and i don't have any trouble driving an auto, actually its less taxing on the mind. but sometimes i like being in control of my car, especially on trips >100km.
sorry, i missed the comma.