You're right. The e-fence was no fence at all.
- What we need is some kind of wall to keep out non-citizens. I think the Chinese invented the idea 2500 years ago, when they wanted to stop immigrants from the north, so let's go negotiate with them to build it for us.
And of course other Pac-Man clones like Maze Craze, Make Trax, Ladybuy, Mouse Trap (cats instead of ghosts - eat a pill and your mouse becomes adog), and so on. Some of these were better than the official Pacman/Ms Pacman from Atari, although I think Jr PacMan was the best of the bunch (it's a real challenge).
Yeah. I was talking about the actual RUNNING of the programs. Opera11 starts-up around 150 MB (same as seamonkey and much less than firefox) while Chromium7 uses a mere 30-40 MB. Since my laptop is old it matters to use as small programs as possible.
According to the US-FCC's new neutrality rules, ISPs are allowed to throttle websites as part of their "network management". The ISPs are required to be non-discriminatory when they throttle, but good luck enforcing that part of the regulation.
As for France, I've no clue if throttling is allowed, but given their three-strike laws they don't seem a very internet-friendly country. I bet the ISP won't be punished.
So of course the Mods marked you troll. Well I think your post was insightful and interesting. Anyway: Chromium is really just a clone of Opera 10 and 11..... it has the same kind of interface, speeddial of websites, "paste and go" interface at the URL bar, et cetera. However Chrome is lighter weight (no email, newsgroups, HTML/java composer).
Mozilla SeaMonkey will soon be releasing Beta 2 if anyone's interested. SeaMonkey is essentially Firefox 4, Thunderbird 3, Chatzilla, and Composer merged into a single package.
"My friend Bobby had crossed over into the machine. As he swayed to the music and virtual dancers bounced around him on the video screen, I realized he had achieved the ultimate dream. To BE the REMIX in the ultimate extended dance club." - Pretty Boy Crossover, Asimovs, 1986
I quit Apple when Windows started looking like a clone of Mac OS 8. Later-on a friend gave me a OS X machine but it was too slow (hence why he was giving it away).
As for this DJ helmet, I think it's pretty cool. Not as impressive as DEADMAU5 but okay for an amateur DJ.
>>>only if you make more than x amount of money, do you have to pay a very reasonable royalty fee..... unless you think MPEG-LA are codec fascists who are only out to screw everyone..... [MPEG4/h264] is an open-source codec that's freely available for non-profit use. >>>
I want to hug you. FINALLY someone on slashdot displays some THINKING ability instead of trying to worship Oope-source WEBM as if it was a religion, and MPEG was the devil incarnate. THANK YOU for finally posting a rational argument. (But sadly you'll probably be modded "troll" in order to shut you up).
Having email on your phone, or your computer, gives the company authorization to scan the whole thing including your personal data. That was already ruled in court.
I'd sooner keep my work and life separate, and that includes my gadgets.
From Wall Street Journal: "Odds of Dying in Terrorist Attack on Airline: 1 in 25 million; Struck by Lightning: 1 in 500,000". you have a 50 times greater chance of being struck by lightning than dying from a terrorist attack on an airplane.
And I'll add that death by US tsunami is 1 in 5000 and by car is 1 in 100. Scary numbers indeed, but still no reason to fear a terrorist.
John Adams lived in a house smaller than what my Amish neighbors live in. Thomas Jefferson had his entire property taken-away upon his death. Ditto George Washington. And Patrick Henry died in the street. The only one rich enough to "retire" was Benjamin Franklin; the rest worked right up til their deaths. They were NOT the wealthy..... certainly not compared to the huge thousand-acre estates that existed for the British or French wealthy, with their 100-room homes.
>>>80% of the national debt was run up under Republican Presidents.
Since it is CONGRESS that holds the power of the purse, not the president, it would be more accurate to say 80% of the national debt was run-up under Democrat Congresses. The biggest periods were from the 1930s-40s, 1960s-94, and again 2006-to-2010.
As for conservative hosts, it doesn't mean much. The reason conservative John Stossel quit ABC is because they kept saying, "We're not airing that," on his conservative or libertarian-leaning stories. The corporation not the reporter is the one that ultimately decides what gets aired or not aired, and corporations LOVE big government (it gives them bailouts, favorable laws, and protection from new upstart competitors).
Corporations hate the idea of downsizing government, because it means less benefits for them. Besides every time I turn-on Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, or some other MSNBC primetime person, their theme can be summarized as "republicans suck". So how you can claim MSNBC is not anti-R bias makes no logical sense?
>>>Yeah, no media bias here (and I'm not just talking about FOX News)
The TV Media is very clearly Democrat-biased (except fox). ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS - all pro-big government. MSNBC even admits it is progressive biased. If you turn on the television you have a 1 in 6 chance of landing on a pro-D news show.
The AM Radio Media is very clearly Republican-biased. FM Radio doesn't appear to have a bias (they just play music), and the newspaper media nobody reads.;-)
US system was designed by the rich? - What rich? Most of the men who signed the declaration of independence wound-up dead or bankrupt or poor. The only millionaire in the whole group (adjusting to 2010 dollars) was the Printer Benjamin Franklin. Every one else was middle class (Washington, Adams, Madison) or deep, deep in debt (Jefferson).
NOW if you're talking about the Federal Reserve Bank Monopoly, then yes, you have a valid point. But the system was not designed that way - it has only existed in that state since 1913 and can be just as easily dismantled. ("Kill the bank!" to quote Andrew Jackson.)
>>>and when we call on americans, some of you come up saying that not all americans are the same, some of you actually see what's going on, and aware of how things really are. ok. well. nice. >>>
I could say the same about Europeans (not seeing the "public-enemy the system has become"). Kettle - meet pot. Or better yet: Watch Daniel Hannan and Nigel Farage's videos on youtube: "Small wonder former Soviet apparatchiks feel at home in European Union" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl-amBxz-to "Look at the Faces - look like they've seen a Ghost; EU will Collapse" http://beta.video.me/ViewVideo.aspx?catid=4&vid=160675 "EU To Ban Construction of Ordinary Family Houses by 2020"
"Overall, VP8 appears to be significantly weaker than H.264 compression-wise. The primary weaknesses mentioned above are the lack of proper adaptive quantization, lack of B-frames, lack of an 8×8 transform, and non-adaptive loop filter. With this in mind, I expect VP8 to be more comparable to VC-1 or H.264 Baseline Profile than with H.264."
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You're right. The e-fence was no fence at all.
- What we need is some kind of wall to keep out non-citizens. I think the Chinese invented the idea 2500 years ago, when they wanted to stop immigrants from the north, so let's go negotiate with them to build it for us.
Come on in.
Get free food, and my wallet is over there for you to raid.
Take it all, and leave behind a mess in my home, paleskin stranger.
If two anonymous cowards (0) are ;-)
talking in a woods (or slashdot),
does anybody hear them?
- Today's nerd girls EXIST -
(when I was in college they didn't)
>>>Some higher species might be doing the same thing with us humans.
Ahhh..... you've seen the end of Men In Black 2. ;-) As for this game I'm pretty sure I've already played it on my 70s-era Atari: http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9026
And of course other Pac-Man clones like Maze Craze, Make Trax, Ladybuy, Mouse Trap (cats instead of ghosts - eat a pill and your mouse becomes adog), and so on. Some of these were better than the official Pacman/Ms Pacman from Atari, although I think Jr PacMan was the best of the bunch (it's a real challenge).
>>>Seamonkey 2.1 Beta[1]
Minor fix.
Beta 2 is coming next week.
>>>Opera is a (less than) 7 MB download.
Yeah. I was talking about the actual RUNNING of the programs. Opera11 starts-up around 150 MB (same as seamonkey and much less than firefox) while Chromium7 uses a mere 30-40 MB. Since my laptop is old it matters to use as small programs as possible.
I'll pass on the "skipscreen"..... for the same reason I don't use ad-blocking. Although I do use NoScript (to block viruses/spies).
According to the US-FCC's new neutrality rules, ISPs are allowed to throttle websites as part of their "network management". The ISPs are required to be non-discriminatory when they throttle, but good luck enforcing that part of the regulation.
As for France, I've no clue if throttling is allowed, but given their three-strike laws they don't seem a very internet-friendly country. I bet the ISP won't be punished.
>>>not trying to troll just saying.
So of course the Mods marked you troll. Well I think your post was insightful and interesting. Anyway: Chromium is really just a clone of Opera 10 and 11..... it has the same kind of interface, speeddial of websites, "paste and go" interface at the URL bar, et cetera. However Chrome is lighter weight (no email, newsgroups, HTML/java composer).
Mozilla SeaMonkey will soon be releasing Beta 2 if anyone's interested.
SeaMonkey is essentially Firefox 4, Thunderbird 3, Chatzilla, and Composer merged into a single package.
"My friend Bobby had crossed over into the machine. As he swayed to the music and virtual dancers bounced around him on the video screen, I realized he had achieved the ultimate dream. To BE the REMIX in the ultimate extended dance club."
- Pretty Boy Crossover, Asimovs, 1986
I quit Apple when Windows started looking like a clone of Mac OS 8. Later-on a friend gave me a OS X machine but it was too slow (hence why he was giving it away).
As for this DJ helmet, I think it's pretty cool.
Not as impressive as DEADMAU5 but okay for an amateur DJ.
>>>only if you make more than x amount of money, do you have to pay a very reasonable royalty fee..... unless you think MPEG-LA are codec fascists who are only out to screw everyone..... [MPEG4/h264] is an open-source codec that's freely available for non-profit use.
>>>
I want to hug you.
FINALLY someone on slashdot displays some THINKING ability instead of trying to worship Oope-source WEBM as if it was a religion, and MPEG was the devil incarnate. THANK YOU for finally posting a rational argument. (But sadly you'll probably be modded "troll" in order to shut you up).
Having email on your phone, or your computer, gives the company authorization to scan the whole thing including your personal data. That was already ruled in court.
I'd sooner keep my work and life separate, and that includes my gadgets.
>>>This is important. Your brain can tell, because it's hard to read - d00d j00 r kewl w/ m4d sk1llz bt such a newb.
-1 Overrated
Jesus Christ.
Smegheads don't even recognize
a joke when they see one.
From Wall Street Journal: "Odds of Dying in Terrorist Attack on Airline: 1 in 25 million; Struck by Lightning: 1 in 500,000". you have a 50 times greater chance of being struck by lightning than dying from a terrorist attack on an airplane.
And I'll add that death by US tsunami is 1 in 5000 and by car is 1 in 100. Scary numbers indeed, but still no reason to fear a terrorist.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704130904574644651587677752.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_emailed
John Adams lived in a house smaller than what my Amish neighbors live in.
Thomas Jefferson had his entire property taken-away upon his death.
Ditto George Washington. And Patrick Henry died in the street.
The only one rich enough to "retire" was Benjamin Franklin; the rest worked right up til their deaths. They were NOT the wealthy..... certainly not compared to the huge thousand-acre estates that existed for the British or French wealthy, with their 100-room homes.
>>>80% of the national debt was run up under Republican Presidents.
Since it is CONGRESS that holds the power of the purse, not the president, it would be more accurate to say 80% of the national debt was run-up under Democrat Congresses. The biggest periods were from the 1930s-40s, 1960s-94, and again 2006-to-2010.
As for conservative hosts, it doesn't mean much. The reason conservative John Stossel quit ABC is because they kept saying, "We're not airing that," on his conservative or libertarian-leaning stories. The corporation not the reporter is the one that ultimately decides what gets aired or not aired, and corporations LOVE big government (it gives them bailouts, favorable laws, and protection from new upstart competitors).
Corporations hate the idea of downsizing government, because it means less benefits for them. Besides every time I turn-on Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, or some other MSNBC primetime person, their theme can be summarized as "republicans suck". So how you can claim MSNBC is not anti-R bias makes no logical sense?
>>>Yeah, no media bias here (and I'm not just talking about FOX News)
The TV Media is very clearly Democrat-biased (except fox). ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS - all pro-big government. MSNBC even admits it is progressive biased. If you turn on the television you have a 1 in 6 chance of landing on a pro-D news show.
The AM Radio Media is very clearly Republican-biased. FM Radio doesn't appear to have a bias (they just play music), and the newspaper media nobody reads. ;-)
US system was designed by the rich?
- What rich? Most of the men who signed the declaration of independence wound-up dead or bankrupt or poor. The only millionaire in the whole group (adjusting to 2010 dollars) was the Printer Benjamin Franklin. Every one else was middle class (Washington, Adams, Madison) or deep, deep in debt (Jefferson).
NOW if you're talking about the Federal Reserve Bank Monopoly, then yes, you have a valid point. But the system was not designed that way - it has only existed in that state since 1913 and can be just as easily dismantled. ("Kill the bank!" to quote Andrew Jackson.)
>>>and when we call on americans, some of you come up saying that not all americans are the same, some of you actually see what's going on, and aware of how things really are. ok. well. nice.
>>>
I could say the same about Europeans (not seeing the "public-enemy the system has become"). Kettle - meet pot. Or better yet: Watch Daniel Hannan and Nigel Farage's videos on youtube:
"Small wonder former Soviet apparatchiks feel at home in European Union" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl-amBxz-to
"Look at the Faces - look like they've seen a Ghost; EU will Collapse" http://beta.video.me/ViewVideo.aspx?catid=4&vid=160675
"EU To Ban Construction of Ordinary Family Houses by 2020"
Sooner to be free with a small 1 in billion odds of death-by-terrorist vs. a 1-1 certainty of being spied upon.
by russryan
Also, http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377 for a VP8 tear down.
"Overall, VP8 appears to be significantly weaker than H.264 compression-wise. The primary weaknesses mentioned above are the lack of proper adaptive quantization, lack of B-frames, lack of an 8×8 transform, and non-adaptive loop filter. With this in mind, I expect VP8 to be more comparable to VC-1 or H.264 Baseline Profile than with H.264."
Ouch. You're a brave man to publish that on /.
Your brain can tell, because it's hard to read - d00d j00 r kewl w/ m4d sk1llz bt such a newb.
MPEG4/h264 vs. VP8 comparison (h264 slightly better): http://compression.ru/video/codec_comparison/h264_2010/vp8_vs_h264.html
HE-AACplus vs. Vorbis (HEAAC wins): http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/sebastian/mf-48-1/results.htm
WebP vs. JPEG (WebP wins): http://englishhard.com/2010/10/01/real-world-analysis-of-googles-webp-versus-jpg/