They're all PCI. Could be the motherboard, but I've played about with just about every setting in the BIOS, and no combo seems to fix it. Maybe I need to try harder though.:-) This is on a "Generic" style BX motherboard ("EupaComputer" brand, if you must know), running a PIII 733 (at 550, due to 733 requiring a 133 Mhz FSB, and therefore overclocking my PCI slots on this el cheapo motherboard and crashing my Fasttrak 66...).
I can't recall if it did that on my KT7-RAID Athlon board. Gave up on that when I couldn't get much of my hardware to work properly on it (Diamond MX300 soundcard, the Radeon Card itself -- I hate VIA chipsets!).
(I'm not the original poster, but here's a good reason for swapping cards):
For some strange reason, 10/100 cards cause my ATI Radeon to get _very_ jerky motion during LAN games (it will work fine for about 5 seconds, then freeze for 1), yet a plain 10 Mbps combo card doesn't. I've tried Tulip, RTL8139, and various DLink cards, and various Hubs and Switches. Even tried new drivers for all these cards and my Radeon, which, sad to say, NEEDS ATI to make some new driver updates very badly. Heck, I've even tried different versions of GameOS (windows) -- 98, 2000, ME. No help.
I like the 100 Mbits for file transfers, and need the 10 Mbits for games. That means they get swapped every other week, at a minimum.
>*BSD users too are dooming thier own OS. As a group, they are a very vocal and rowdy bunch.
Isn't this group telling. Other than the parent post and mine, In this small discussion we have:
- A "give us FREE" style post...
- So MS are employing people to flamebait on slashdot now?
- Others, like the BSD troll are just mentally unstable.
- Sorry to bite on this troll, but I'd like to mention that a smaller percentage in DNA seperates us from monkeys.
And an entire 2 non-troll/non-flame posts.
I hate to say this, but I think he made his point.
>it's nowhere near as stressful as high school was!
It's true. IRL, there's more stressors, but they are easier to overcome, since you have full control over them. If you are beaten up IRL, you get the cops on the agressors ass. If you are broke, you get a job. Hate your boss? Look for work elsewhere. Etc...
In highschool, your stressors weren't something you were allowed to overcome. Need money? Can't get any, you're just 14! Got beat up in the school yard bad enough to go to hospital? Just try to find a cop that cares. Can't deal with that nutcase teacher that kicked you off of the school computers for 6 months for running file manager (this happened to me)? You can't get anything done -- I tried, even though at that point I was 18, it didn't matter. I even phoned the Human Rights board at the school (hey, I was mad and didn't know exactly who to get involved) and they simply pushed the job aside -- "Talk to your principal". So what can I do? Enroll myself in the school 2 hours away? That isn't an option.
And that's the problem. Without control over your stress it becomes unmanageable, IMHO. For a while in highschool I was popping nearly a bottle of Advil every couple of months to deal with the constant stress headaches. I've been in college for 3 years now, regularly getting all-nighter assignments, and yet I still haven't polished off a bottle of Advil in that time. It's just so much better to decide for yourself.
- Toronto
- Ottawa
- A liberal mix of various downtown areas in other big cities
Too bad if you don't live there you _generally_ don't have a hope in hell of getting it out of Bell Canada [stranger things have happened, though]. They have a goal to cover 85% of Ontario's population by the end of the year (fat chance), not landmass.:-)
Their listings of what cities have it are pretty incorrect too I'm told by residents of various areas listed. But it does make them look good!
Personally, I'm going to sidestep the entire non-DSL issue, and getting Nebulink internet service from the US (finally, a satellite provider there that will sell us service!). It is literally over 17 times cheaper than the Canadian alternative, Bell Expressvu (direcPC in disguise). Over $1300 per month for 400 kbps rate- and transfer-limited internet, I think not.
>Actually, UK, Finland etc have full two tier health care (not just a clinic in Ontario for the elite). Canada, China and Cuba remain the only places where it's illegal to pay for better service.
That's being changed. Slowly... For now just take a trip to the US. If you have the hundreds of thousands private care is going to cost, a $1000 First Class ride shouldn't concern you.
>I've lived in Canada 19 years and spent 4 years in the UK. What are you talking about?
European Union, prices, crime, Hoof and Mouth / Mad Cow disease, just for starters. I was in a small town in Cumbria of less than 10,000 people, and they had people burning each others cars on the street for jollies. I've never seen that happen in any town near me. While over there I saved a man from being murdered (no joke, he was lying on a golf course, nearly beaten to death). Never, ever, have I witnessed an attempted murder anywhere in Canada, and certainly not on a golf course. There's more, but I'm not all _that_ up on their politics, those are just the hot issues. I'm surprised that you never noticed the prices or the farmers dumping millions of tomatoes, or the HGVs filling the roads in gas tax protests over there in your four years stay.
Again, I don't want to bash any country. Every country has its problems, including Canada.
>they should go every time their toddler has a cough.
No disagreement here. It's hard to close that loophole, though, because there seems to be a lot of resistance to the idea in Canada (why, I can't figure).
>Given the exchange rate...What's the $CDN at, $0.50?
1 pound buys $2.25 CDN. www.xe.net will tell you this.
A Ford Fiesta in Canada will cost just over $16,000, according to Ford. A Ford Fiesta, in the UK, similarly equipped: 13,300 UKP. That's $30,000, or within arms reach of twice the price. You'll find that's the norm there.
I'd give some examples of housing, but it's a little difficult (well, more like technically impossible), considering you have to compare totally different cities, lot sizes, etc...
>Now compare to the USA. Ah, right. You don't like that comparison. Just comparisons to Bangladesh and crowded Europe.
Fine. You don't like Europe and think the US is the best place to live on Earth and that everywhere else is a hellhole. I can't argue with you on that simply because you seem too serious on the fact.
Perhaps I can still burst your bubble:
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/paw/paonline/class if ieds/current/885.shtml
It isn't all roses there. Things can cost you. But, fine, if you _want_ to live in the projects, sure, you'll find housing extremely affordable (probably under 1/3 our usual prices).
Did I mention Canada doesn't have "the projects"? Notice that the cartoon, the PJs, is a tongue-in-cheek parody of American life in their worst cities. Doesn't seem too pleasant, does it?
>And agrees to take in every "refugee" that wants a free ride
It's _because_ Canada is that nice that when you go to other countries you get the royal treatment. I've found abroad people mistake me as American. I get really bad service that way. Sew a Canadian patch on your backpack and you will get the best treatment. No, that isn't just from the infomercials, that's real life.
When your country threatens to blow up any country that disagrees with you, you tend to find the world resents you for it.
>and agrees to disarm every Canadian in the name of the Global New World Order
Guns don't kill people. People kill people. With weapons. Like guns.
I can't even fathom why anyone would want handguns on our streets after seeing a few episodes of cops. Aren't the episodes where one kid kills the other with the handgun because they got in an argument sad enough?
>The fact remains though that Canada's richest provinces still have a lower standard of living than Mississippi
For crying out loud man! They are still SENDING PEOPLE TO THE GAS CHAMBER there. And you think that place is the best to live in?
>You can't have "sorta" free speech.
Yes, you can. In Canada, people would say you have free speech. Yet we still ban certain books. In the US everyone "knows" you have free speech. Yet you can't yell "fire" in a theater that isn't burning down.
>And BTW a government policy of taking money from where it's being made and transferring it to welfare provinces isn't a free economy.
If welfare is the gravy train everyone thinks it is, why don't they try it for themselves? Oh yeah, because it SUCKS to get that paltry sum of money. That doesn't mean we shouldn't give them the bare minimum and not a dollar more, but really, no welfare at all and you'll quickly see what problems occurr when people burgle your house for food.
>and you don't ask too many questions about the warlords, drug smugglers, murderers and other scum you give haven, welfare and everything else to
Then they should be in jail. You don't get welfare in jail. And if you think that costs too much, and that they should all fry, that's just too much. Killing a man doesn't fix the crime. It makes us a country of murderers.
>So long as everything's in French
That's Quebec. I don't like their decision, but it is a separate province. Don't like it, leave. Your citizenship is valid in all other Canadian provinces. And so is your language.
And your beloved United States is Biligual too! Didn't you notice all the government made Espanol signs all over?
>Then why is there a brain drain?
Because the US economy WAS hot, and therefore naturally paid better. I say WAS. You watch the Americans complain about the brain drain to Canada now.
>Why can't Canada attract the skilled immigration it wants?
I see a lot of skilled immigrants out there, considering all Canadians, other than Natives, are immigrants.
>What more freedoms do you want curtailed?
If you're talking about Bill C-68, I'm mad too. But I'm not going to dismiss our entire country on the basis of this one piece of legislation. Canada is very free, often to the point that many people don't want us to cross (look at our lax child pornography laws). I'd like to see how we aren't free (excepting the one Bill).
>How many more giveaways to the usual suspects?
If you don't like welfare then I hope you are on tenure. Because without money, you won't last long. If you need relevant examples, I'm sure I can cook you up as many as you want.
>And BTW only Canada and Cuba have communist medicine
And the UK, and Finland, and God knows how many other counties. With great success.
Man, oh man, what I'd do to take some Canadians with me on my next visit to the UK. It's such an eye opener to see a totally different set of problems. Makes you really appreciate what you have at home.
>Hope you enjoy delivering your OWN BABY in hospital
People have been delivering their own babies for years. Why the heck do we have to pay for people to deliver what doctors have previously said are going to be perfectly healthy babies in a hospital? That's what midwives are for! Hospitals are for sick people...
>Canada's got the highest taxes in the G-7.
Our taxes put our tax freedom day on June 30th, the UK (for example, since I've lived a total of a year there) has a tax freedom day of June 10th. Yes, I suppose one might say we have higher taxes.
Now look at the prices compared to wages and taxes.
They own 1/3 the house and land (thrice our prices), half the car (twice our prices), and drive diesel manual transmission cars to eke out the last drop of their $2/litre gas. Even food bought at a supermarket, which was once competitive with Canadian prices, is higher. You can't have a decent meal out for less than $15. Property taxes are insane (ahem... poll tax anybody?).
And, you'll realize, pricing in these countries is VERY petty. I've never paid for utensils before, have you? Well, I lied: I paid 4 cents for a fork in a fish and chippe shop there. You want ketchup with that? $1. And here charging for bathroom access is virtually unheard of! 25 cents - $1 if you're desparate in Europe.
Their wages are not three times ours. They aren't even twice ours. I'd be surprised if they were much higher at all than ours. If they were we know a lot of people who'd be living the high life in Canada, right now.
A little item of interest: A friend of ours took a trip to Germany about 5 years ago. They took their 1 year old Caravan (tm) [not the trailer, the van] with them. We thought they were nuts. They said they sold it for $40k. I don't believe it, but then again, I guess their taxes make up for it, right?
>Canada should be setting its targets at the best. e.g. USA
Before you say the best is in other countries, see this:
Canada is multicultural, we pick and choose what's best for this country. Parts of American idealism (free economy, free speech [sorta]) are used here, parts of European idealism (free health care, public services) are used here, etc... That is what keeps our country strong, and the #1 best place to live on earth.
I'm not trying to suggest other countries are horrible places to live (far from it, each counrty has its own charm, and most are quite nice, and depending on what you want from life, better in some ways). I'm trying to say that you can generally live "better" here for less (as far as $$$ goes). Maybe not compared to the US, but elsewhere, yes.
Canada's good. Canada could be better. I'd like it to be better, but not at the expense of our culture and lifestyle.
Just my 2 cents... don't take this too seriously... it's unlikely we're going to find a compromise (it's a little to political for that):-)
In Canada, I'm told, there's laws allowing anyone to rebroadcast a radio/TV signal, unmodified. iCraveTV was fighting on those grounds, but lost due to lawyer prices and the fact their rebroadcast included extra advertising.
Would it be illegal to rebroadcast over the internet a non-modified radio stream from a local radio station that has the game on for free? I wonder...
I won't disagree that the meter is probably good for the job, but for $70/hr I sort of expect an oscilloscope, or some other equipment that makes me feel his time worth that rate.
At least when I get a TV serviced for $70/hr, even if they don't have to use that expensive equipment it's there. I asked, and this guy said none of the Bell techs on home repairs get any more test equipment than the Butt set and VOM I saw. I figure I can get both of those for under $70 myself. Now, whether or not it is so difficult to use them to test phone lines is another question...
Just make me feel you are worth your money. Sorta like if you see two computer consultants, and one brings a laptop, the other pencil and paper, if you don't know too much about computers, you're gonna feel gypped by the guy with the pencil and paper.
Ok, perhaps this is a silly argument. I give up.:-)
OK, so people downloading their ISO for free from them is costing them too much money. They want to charge for it, but I hope they know many people are cheap and aren't going to pay.
Here's what I'd do:
- High speed (Lets say a server connected to multiple T1s, or better) download for paying users.
- Low speed (256kbps or less total bandwidth) for free.
People could sit on their low speed link for a few hours [maybe days or weeks:) when the new release is out] waiting for the download. This doesn't cost them too much since slow speed links aren't extremely high cost. But it lets people enjoy their distro for free (and therefore, perhaps, consider buying a new release later on), and keeps the whiners away.
You want it now? Just pony up the 15 dollars and download it in 30 minutes!
In Canada, if your phone company was Bell Canada, up until a few years ago (which was after our house was built) it was *illegal* to get anybody but Bell to do the wiring, all the way up to the jacks on the walls.
Now, with demarcation points, Bell's responsibility is up until the walls of your house. God help you if they say your house wiring is at fault for the trouble. If you phone them for a trouble report, unplug the demarcation point the day they are going to check your phones, or risk them telling you your phones are at fault (which is likely a mistake, considering the last Bell tech in my house was using a Simpson VOM encased in Bakelite -- this was in 1998).
Going back a few more years, you could ONLY use rented phones from Bell on those lines. Going back even more years, Bell wired all the way to the Bell handset (leased, of course), since your phone was hardwired to the phone system.
I wish Microsoft would take over the phone lines here. No matter how much I don't like them, I can still buy any flavour of Windows I like here, but the phone company still stiffs me with the same 24k constant data rate phone line... Uggghhhhh.
I'm lucky though -- I talked to the guys at the local Bell shop (ok, so I'm a glutton for punishment) and now with deregulation of local lines (allowing CLECs) they no longer have to install phones lines if they don't want to. I could be without phone service, and I've never, ever, seen a single CLEC within hundreds of miles advertising service (if they were, I'd be with them).
Probably NCR did it to protect some cash machine (their main source of $$$). I dunno why really.
It likely wasn't CSA/UL/CE certifiable wired in that manner. It did get hotter than most computers I've ever seen; it was built in the worst way. It used a passive mainboard with the processor card slotted into it. Problem was it is a desktop case and the processor card rubbed against the top of the case, meaning heat trouble (it was full length).:-)
I guess you've never seen a computer hardwired to the electrical system...
I have. They lopped off the end of the power cord and maretted it straight inside the power supply. I assume the other end of the cable was "protected" in some way as well. IIRC, this computer was an NCR donation to my high school.
So, unless you enjoy 120v coursing through your body, no, you cannot just pull the plug on a well thought out system.
>A stupid non-portable suggestion like tabstops perhaps?
I didn't know there were still EBCDIC users on slashdot. Isn't it hard to convert to ASCII before posting? Please tell us, enquiring COBOL writers want to know!
You don't happen to know where I could get one of those $130 LCDs, do you? I'm going to assume they are either Composite or S-VHS input...
I ask because I have converted my case to fit into a breifcase, and nothing would rule more than to fit one of those into the lid (my card does TV out straight from BIOS boot).:-)
>That would be 5 adverts before users could see your movie. That's ridiculous - nobody gets that kind of branding except movie studios.
Let's see, why not display this for 5 seconds:
_________________________
| |
| Made With: |
| Quake DiVX |
| GiMP OpenFX |
| |
| Broadcast 2000 |
|_________________________|
I don't think they said you couldn't show it along with other logos... And they never mentioned its size.
If you don't like section 5, rewrite the MoMuSys pieces of code. I have a feeling they are saying that because MoMuSys asked for it.
>what if some part of MPEG 4 is patented, and you can't afford a patent license for it?
To the best of anyone's knowledge, MPEG-4 isn't pantented in any way to stop free development. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have been given any code from MoMuSys, and wouldn't have $100m in backing if this project was violating patent laws. Yes, they did break the law with original DiVX, but they didn't get any money or support from companies then.
>but it happened with MPEG 1 and 2 (the sound format was MP3...)
Say wha...? I thought MPEG 1 and 2 used MPEG layer 2 sound. MPEG layer 3 sound was developed after MPEG-1, and isn't part of your usual MPEG-2 stuff. Most DVD players fully support both formats, and there's very few that can play MP3s. That, and there are libre (Free and free) encoders for these formats.
>What if you need to modify it to work with a certain streaming server? What if MPEG 4 can't take advantage of some new compression technique you like?
Then keep it within MPEG-4 spec. Otherwise, why use an MPEG-4 encoder to encode stuff that isn't MPEG-4?
>This license does not fit the Open Source Definition, and it's not a Free Software license.
Maybe not. But I'm happy with it (and would be willing to donate code, if I had the time and skills), and many other developers are. Of course, feel free to continue bbMpeg development if you're unhappy with this license.
If I seem a bit liberal with what I think is free and isn't, it's because I think the world works better with a good balance. I think users get the freedom they need, and companies get the working-within-spec standards so they can actually make hardware to work with this encoder. Everyone wins.
Trying to keep up with an Open Source project that can totally change in a heartbeat isn't possible for any company, and if that's what's truly required for something to be open source I think it will fail.
[That's it. I have to code an anti-lameness-filter-unfilter. That was a PITA, that simple box.]
I see your point. I suppose as long as it doesn't come as an addon to a CD (like AOL comes with almost every program you buy nowadays) it probably won't be a hit with the average consumer.
Oh well, maybe it is for the best. The smart people can get the infrastructre and quality content going before Joe Sixpack ruins it.
Assuming you want to fit an entire 2 hour movie on an 80 minute CD (the biggest I've seen), you actually need a (2/3)x CD drive. Even your old POS 1x Mitsumi drive will work... sorry to pick... it really doesn't matter.
So we are looking at what will likely be the world's cheapest video platform. Imagince, once 5" colour LCDs cost $50, you'll be able to watch movies on the go for less than $100, instead of the $1,000 those players are now! Wow!:-)
I hope this is why the MPAA is supporting DiVX. This idea would really kick ass!
>even installing the codec can be too technical for most people
If these people can buy and install a software package from their local computer store, DivX is EASY!
DivX [original] now comes in a simple setup file. Just click and unwrap, so to speak. It is easier than installing WinAmp, if you ask me (less questions);-)
>With DiVX, you play the movie and all things are on hold while you're watching it.
You haven't timeshifted music videos with it yet... Trust me, MP3s are going to be old stuff once this becomes hot! But otherwise you are right.
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They're all PCI. Could be the motherboard, but I've played about with just about every setting in the BIOS, and no combo seems to fix it. Maybe I need to try harder though. :-) This is on a "Generic" style BX motherboard ("EupaComputer" brand, if you must know), running a PIII 733 (at 550, due to 733 requiring a 133 Mhz FSB, and therefore overclocking my PCI slots on this el cheapo motherboard and crashing my Fasttrak 66...).
I can't recall if it did that on my KT7-RAID Athlon board. Gave up on that when I couldn't get much of my hardware to work properly on it (Diamond MX300 soundcard, the Radeon Card itself -- I hate VIA chipsets!).
Oh well. Thanks for any help!
(I'm not the original poster, but here's a good reason for swapping cards):
:-)
For some strange reason, 10/100 cards cause my ATI Radeon to get _very_ jerky motion during LAN games (it will work fine for about 5 seconds, then freeze for 1), yet a plain 10 Mbps combo card doesn't. I've tried Tulip, RTL8139, and various DLink cards, and various Hubs and Switches. Even tried new drivers for all these cards and my Radeon, which, sad to say, NEEDS ATI to make some new driver updates very badly. Heck, I've even tried different versions of GameOS (windows) -- 98, 2000, ME. No help.
I like the 100 Mbits for file transfers, and need the 10 Mbits for games. That means they get swapped every other week, at a minimum.
How's that explanation?
I hated March first.
Now I hate April second.
>*BSD users too are dooming thier own OS. As a group, they are a very vocal and rowdy bunch.
Isn't this group telling. Other than the parent post and mine, In this small discussion we have:
- A "give us FREE" style post...
- So MS are employing people to flamebait on slashdot now?
- Others, like the BSD troll are just mentally unstable.
- Sorry to bite on this troll, but I'd like to mention that a smaller percentage in DNA seperates us from monkeys.
And an entire 2 non-troll/non-flame posts.
I hate to say this, but I think he made his point.
1,600 Google pages couldn't be wrong, could they?
>it's nowhere near as stressful as high school was!
It's true. IRL, there's more stressors, but they are easier to overcome, since you have full control over them. If you are beaten up IRL, you get the cops on the agressors ass. If you are broke, you get a job. Hate your boss? Look for work elsewhere. Etc...
In highschool, your stressors weren't something you were allowed to overcome. Need money? Can't get any, you're just 14! Got beat up in the school yard bad enough to go to hospital? Just try to find a cop that cares. Can't deal with that nutcase teacher that kicked you off of the school computers for 6 months for running file manager (this happened to me)? You can't get anything done -- I tried, even though at that point I was 18, it didn't matter. I even phoned the Human Rights board at the school (hey, I was mad and didn't know exactly who to get involved) and they simply pushed the job aside -- "Talk to your principal". So what can I do? Enroll myself in the school 2 hours away? That isn't an option.
And that's the problem. Without control over your stress it becomes unmanageable, IMHO. For a while in highschool I was popping nearly a bottle of Advil every couple of months to deal with the constant stress headaches. I've been in college for 3 years now, regularly getting all-nighter assignments, and yet I still haven't polished off a bottle of Advil in that time. It's just so much better to decide for yourself.
>I'm pretty sure *67 doesn't work on some ISDN/PRI Lines
It also doesn't work on 800/900 numbers, they use ANI, not caller ID. AFAIK Nothing can on an 800 number, short of an operator initiated block, IIRC.
This is why I laugh every time America's Most Wanted wants people to phone their 800 number "anonymously".
They're in Bell's top three...
:-)
- Toronto
- Ottawa
- A liberal mix of various downtown areas in other big cities
Too bad if you don't live there you _generally_ don't have a hope in hell of getting it out of Bell Canada [stranger things have happened, though]. They have a goal to cover 85% of Ontario's population by the end of the year (fat chance), not landmass.
Their listings of what cities have it are pretty incorrect too I'm told by residents of various areas listed. But it does make them look good!
Personally, I'm going to sidestep the entire non-DSL issue, and getting Nebulink internet service from the US (finally, a satellite provider there that will sell us service!). It is literally over 17 times cheaper than the Canadian alternative, Bell Expressvu (direcPC in disguise). Over $1300 per month for 400 kbps rate- and transfer-limited internet, I think not.
>Actually, UK, Finland etc have full two tier health care (not just a clinic in Ontario for the elite). Canada, China and Cuba remain the only places where it's illegal to pay for better service.
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That's being changed. Slowly... For now just take a trip to the US. If you have the hundreds of thousands private care is going to cost, a $1000 First Class ride shouldn't concern you.
>I've lived in Canada 19 years and spent 4 years in the UK. What are you talking about?
European Union, prices, crime, Hoof and Mouth / Mad Cow disease, just for starters. I was in a small town in Cumbria of less than 10,000 people, and they had people burning each others cars on the street for jollies. I've never seen that happen in any town near me. While over there I saved a man from being murdered (no joke, he was lying on a golf course, nearly beaten to death). Never, ever, have I witnessed an attempted murder anywhere in Canada, and certainly not on a golf course. There's more, but I'm not all _that_ up on their politics, those are just the hot issues. I'm surprised that you never noticed the prices or the farmers dumping millions of tomatoes, or the HGVs filling the roads in gas tax protests over there in your four years stay.
Again, I don't want to bash any country. Every country has its problems, including Canada.
>they should go every time their toddler has a cough.
No disagreement here. It's hard to close that loophole, though, because there seems to be a lot of resistance to the idea in Canada (why, I can't figure).
>Given the exchange rate...What's the $CDN at, $0.50?
1 pound buys $2.25 CDN. www.xe.net will tell you this.
A Ford Fiesta in Canada will cost just over $16,000, according to Ford. A Ford Fiesta, in the UK, similarly equipped: 13,300 UKP. That's $30,000, or within arms reach of twice the price. You'll find that's the norm there.
I'd give some examples of housing, but it's a little difficult (well, more like technically impossible), considering you have to compare totally different cities, lot sizes, etc...
>Now compare to the USA. Ah, right. You don't like that comparison. Just comparisons to Bangladesh and crowded Europe.
Fine. You don't like Europe and think the US is the best place to live on Earth and that everywhere else is a hellhole. I can't argue with you on that simply because you seem too serious on the fact.
Perhaps I can still burst your bubble:
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/paw/paonline/clas
It isn't all roses there. Things can cost you. But, fine, if you _want_ to live in the projects, sure, you'll find housing extremely affordable (probably under 1/3 our usual prices).
Did I mention Canada doesn't have "the projects"? Notice that the cartoon, the PJs, is a tongue-in-cheek parody of American life in their worst cities. Doesn't seem too pleasant, does it?
>And agrees to take in every "refugee" that wants a free ride
It's _because_ Canada is that nice that when you go to other countries you get the royal treatment. I've found abroad people mistake me as American. I get really bad service that way. Sew a Canadian patch on your backpack and you will get the best treatment. No, that isn't just from the infomercials, that's real life.
When your country threatens to blow up any country that disagrees with you, you tend to find the world resents you for it.
>and agrees to disarm every Canadian in the name of the Global New World Order
Guns don't kill people. People kill people. With weapons. Like guns.
I can't even fathom why anyone would want handguns on our streets after seeing a few episodes of cops. Aren't the episodes where one kid kills the other with the handgun because they got in an argument sad enough?
>The fact remains though that Canada's richest provinces still have a lower standard of living than Mississippi
For crying out loud man! They are still SENDING PEOPLE TO THE GAS CHAMBER there. And you think that place is the best to live in?
>You can't have "sorta" free speech.
Yes, you can. In Canada, people would say you have free speech. Yet we still ban certain books. In the US everyone "knows" you have free speech. Yet you can't yell "fire" in a theater that isn't burning down.
>And BTW a government policy of taking money from where it's being made and transferring it to welfare provinces isn't a free economy.
If welfare is the gravy train everyone thinks it is, why don't they try it for themselves? Oh yeah, because it SUCKS to get that paltry sum of money. That doesn't mean we shouldn't give them the bare minimum and not a dollar more, but really, no welfare at all and you'll quickly see what problems occurr when people burgle your house for food.
>and you don't ask too many questions about the warlords, drug smugglers, murderers and other scum you give haven, welfare and everything else to
Then they should be in jail. You don't get welfare in jail. And if you think that costs too much, and that they should all fry, that's just too much. Killing a man doesn't fix the crime. It makes us a country of murderers.
>So long as everything's in French
That's Quebec. I don't like their decision, but it is a separate province. Don't like it, leave. Your citizenship is valid in all other Canadian provinces. And so is your language.
And your beloved United States is Biligual too! Didn't you notice all the government made Espanol signs all over?
>Then why is there a brain drain?
Because the US economy WAS hot, and therefore naturally paid better. I say WAS. You watch the Americans complain about the brain drain to Canada now.
>Why can't Canada attract the skilled immigration it wants?
I see a lot of skilled immigrants out there, considering all Canadians, other than Natives, are immigrants.
>What more freedoms do you want curtailed?
If you're talking about Bill C-68, I'm mad too. But I'm not going to dismiss our entire country on the basis of this one piece of legislation. Canada is very free, often to the point that many people don't want us to cross (look at our lax child pornography laws). I'd like to see how we aren't free (excepting the one Bill).
>How many more giveaways to the usual suspects?
If you don't like welfare then I hope you are on tenure. Because without money, you won't last long. If you need relevant examples, I'm sure I can cook you up as many as you want.
>And BTW only Canada and Cuba have communist medicine
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And the UK, and Finland, and God knows how many other counties. With great success.
Man, oh man, what I'd do to take some Canadians with me on my next visit to the UK. It's such an eye opener to see a totally different set of problems. Makes you really appreciate what you have at home.
>Hope you enjoy delivering your OWN BABY in hospital
People have been delivering their own babies for years. Why the heck do we have to pay for people to deliver what doctors have previously said are going to be perfectly healthy babies in a hospital? That's what midwives are for! Hospitals are for sick people...
>Canada's got the highest taxes in the G-7.
Our taxes put our tax freedom day on June 30th, the UK (for example, since I've lived a total of a year there) has a tax freedom day of June 10th. Yes, I suppose one might say we have higher taxes.
Now look at the prices compared to wages and taxes.
They own 1/3 the house and land (thrice our prices), half the car (twice our prices), and drive diesel manual transmission cars to eke out the last drop of their $2/litre gas. Even food bought at a supermarket, which was once competitive with Canadian prices, is higher. You can't have a decent meal out for less than $15. Property taxes are insane (ahem... poll tax anybody?).
And, you'll realize, pricing in these countries is VERY petty. I've never paid for utensils before, have you? Well, I lied: I paid 4 cents for a fork in a fish and chippe shop there. You want ketchup with that? $1. And here charging for bathroom access is virtually unheard of! 25 cents - $1 if you're desparate in Europe.
Their wages are not three times ours. They aren't even twice ours. I'd be surprised if they were much higher at all than ours. If they were we know a lot of people who'd be living the high life in Canada, right now.
Here's some _close_ to home salary news:
http://www.eetimes.com/salarysurvey/1999/europe
A little item of interest: A friend of ours took a trip to Germany about 5 years ago. They took their 1 year old Caravan (tm) [not the trailer, the van] with them. We thought they were nuts. They said they sold it for $40k. I don't believe it, but then again, I guess their taxes make up for it, right?
>Canada should be setting its targets at the best. e.g. USA
Before you say the best is in other countries, see this:
http://www.undp.org/hdr2000/english/presskit/hd
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Canada is multicultural, we pick and choose what's best for this country. Parts of American idealism (free economy, free speech [sorta]) are used here, parts of European idealism (free health care, public services) are used here, etc... That is what keeps our country strong, and the #1 best place to live on earth.
I'm not trying to suggest other countries are horrible places to live (far from it, each counrty has its own charm, and most are quite nice, and depending on what you want from life, better in some ways). I'm trying to say that you can generally live "better" here for less (as far as $$$ goes). Maybe not compared to the US, but elsewhere, yes.
Canada's good. Canada could be better. I'd like it to be better, but not at the expense of our culture and lifestyle.
Just my 2 cents... don't take this too seriously... it's unlikely we're going to find a compromise (it's a little to political for that)
HAND!
In Canada, I'm told, there's laws allowing anyone to rebroadcast a radio/TV signal, unmodified. iCraveTV was fighting on those grounds, but lost due to lawyer prices and the fact their rebroadcast included extra advertising.
Would it be illegal to rebroadcast over the internet a non-modified radio stream from a local radio station that has the game on for free? I wonder...
I won't disagree that the meter is probably good for the job, but for $70/hr I sort of expect an oscilloscope, or some other equipment that makes me feel his time worth that rate.
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At least when I get a TV serviced for $70/hr, even if they don't have to use that expensive equipment it's there. I asked, and this guy said none of the Bell techs on home repairs get any more test equipment than the Butt set and VOM I saw. I figure I can get both of those for under $70 myself. Now, whether or not it is so difficult to use them to test phone lines is another question...
Just make me feel you are worth your money. Sorta like if you see two computer consultants, and one brings a laptop, the other pencil and paper, if you don't know too much about computers, you're gonna feel gypped by the guy with the pencil and paper.
Ok, perhaps this is a silly argument. I give up.
OK, so people downloading their ISO for free from them is costing them too much money. They want to charge for it, but I hope they know many people are cheap and aren't going to pay.
:) when the new release is out] waiting for the download. This doesn't cost them too much since slow speed links aren't extremely high cost. But it lets people enjoy their distro for free (and therefore, perhaps, consider buying a new release later on), and keeps the whiners away.
Here's what I'd do:
- High speed (Lets say a server connected to multiple T1s, or better) download for paying users.
- Low speed (256kbps or less total bandwidth) for free.
People could sit on their low speed link for a few hours [maybe days or weeks
You want it now? Just pony up the 15 dollars and download it in 30 minutes!
Everyone wins. Or so it seems.
In Canada, if your phone company was Bell Canada, up until a few years ago (which was after our house was built) it was *illegal* to get anybody but Bell to do the wiring, all the way up to the jacks on the walls.
Now, with demarcation points, Bell's responsibility is up until the walls of your house. God help you if they say your house wiring is at fault for the trouble. If you phone them for a trouble report, unplug the demarcation point the day they are going to check your phones, or risk them telling you your phones are at fault (which is likely a mistake, considering the last Bell tech in my house was using a Simpson VOM encased in Bakelite -- this was in 1998).
Going back a few more years, you could ONLY use rented phones from Bell on those lines. Going back even more years, Bell wired all the way to the Bell handset (leased, of course), since your phone was hardwired to the phone system.
I wish Microsoft would take over the phone lines here. No matter how much I don't like them, I can still buy any flavour of Windows I like here, but the phone company still stiffs me with the same 24k constant data rate phone line... Uggghhhhh.
I'm lucky though -- I talked to the guys at the local Bell shop (ok, so I'm a glutton for punishment) and now with deregulation of local lines (allowing CLECs) they no longer have to install phones lines if they don't want to. I could be without phone service, and I've never, ever, seen a single CLEC within hundreds of miles advertising service (if they were, I'd be with them).
Bell sucks worse than a 630v industrial Hoover.
It was a donation -- it came that way...
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Probably NCR did it to protect some cash machine (their main source of $$$). I dunno why really.
It likely wasn't CSA/UL/CE certifiable wired in that manner. It did get hotter than most computers I've ever seen; it was built in the worst way. It used a passive mainboard with the processor card slotted into it. Problem was it is a desktop case and the processor card rubbed against the top of the case, meaning heat trouble (it was full length).
Just a tidbit of information, that's all.
I guess you've never seen a computer hardwired to the electrical system...
I have. They lopped off the end of the power cord and maretted it straight inside the power supply. I assume the other end of the cable was "protected" in some way as well. IIRC, this computer was an NCR donation to my high school.
So, unless you enjoy 120v coursing through your body, no, you cannot just pull the plug on a well thought out system.
I'd kill for a system registry for linux. That way IE6 would be that much easier to port to Linux!
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>the ClawHammer which will come out in early 2001 at 2ghz"
So it is already out?
>A stupid non-portable suggestion like tabstops perhaps?
I didn't know there were still EBCDIC users on slashdot. Isn't it hard to convert to ASCII before posting? Please tell us, enquiring COBOL writers want to know!
Yeah, censorware exists for Linux.
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# route add default reject
all done... I think that should block any site on "the list".
You don't happen to know where I could get one of those $130 LCDs, do you? I'm going to assume they are either Composite or S-VHS input...
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I ask because I have converted my case to fit into a breifcase, and nothing would rule more than to fit one of those into the lid (my card does TV out straight from BIOS boot).
Thanks!
>That would be 5 adverts before users could see your movie. That's ridiculous - nobody gets that kind of branding except movie studios.
Let's see, why not display this for 5 seconds:
_________________________
| |
| Made With: |
| Quake DiVX |
| GiMP OpenFX |
| |
| Broadcast 2000 |
|_________________________|
I don't think they said you couldn't show it along with other logos... And they never mentioned its size.
If you don't like section 5, rewrite the MoMuSys pieces of code. I have a feeling they are saying that because MoMuSys asked for it.
>what if some part of MPEG 4 is patented, and you can't afford a patent license for it?
To the best of anyone's knowledge, MPEG-4 isn't pantented in any way to stop free development. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have been given any code from MoMuSys, and wouldn't have $100m in backing if this project was violating patent laws. Yes, they did break the law with original DiVX, but they didn't get any money or support from companies then.
>but it happened with MPEG 1 and 2 (the sound format was MP3...)
Say wha...? I thought MPEG 1 and 2 used MPEG layer 2 sound. MPEG layer 3 sound was developed after MPEG-1, and isn't part of your usual MPEG-2 stuff. Most DVD players fully support both formats, and there's very few that can play MP3s. That, and there are libre (Free and free) encoders for these formats.
>What if you need to modify it to work with a certain streaming server? What if MPEG 4 can't take advantage of some new compression technique you like?
Then keep it within MPEG-4 spec. Otherwise, why use an MPEG-4 encoder to encode stuff that isn't MPEG-4?
>This license does not fit the Open Source Definition, and it's not a Free Software license.
Maybe not. But I'm happy with it (and would be willing to donate code, if I had the time and skills), and many other developers are. Of course, feel free to continue bbMpeg development if you're unhappy with this license.
If I seem a bit liberal with what I think is free and isn't, it's because I think the world works better with a good balance. I think users get the freedom they need, and companies get the working-within-spec standards so they can actually make hardware to work with this encoder. Everyone wins.
Trying to keep up with an Open Source project that can totally change in a heartbeat isn't possible for any company, and if that's what's truly required for something to be open source I think it will fail.
[That's it. I have to code an anti-lameness-filter-unfilter. That was a PITA, that simple box.]
I see your point. I suppose as long as it doesn't come as an addon to a CD (like AOL comes with almost every program you buy nowadays) it probably won't be a hit with the average consumer.
Oh well, maybe it is for the best. The smart people can get the infrastructre and quality content going before Joe Sixpack ruins it.
Assuming you want to fit an entire 2 hour movie on an 80 minute CD (the biggest I've seen), you actually need a (2/3)x CD drive. Even your old POS 1x Mitsumi drive will work... sorry to pick... it really doesn't matter.
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So we are looking at what will likely be the world's cheapest video platform. Imagince, once 5" colour LCDs cost $50, you'll be able to watch movies on the go for less than $100, instead of the $1,000 those players are now! Wow!
I hope this is why the MPAA is supporting DiVX. This idea would really kick ass!
>even installing the codec can be too technical for most people
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If these people can buy and install a software package from their local computer store, DivX is EASY!
DivX [original] now comes in a simple setup file. Just click and unwrap, so to speak. It is easier than installing WinAmp, if you ask me (less questions)
>With DiVX, you play the movie and all things are on hold while you're watching it.
You haven't timeshifted music videos with it yet... Trust me, MP3s are going to be old stuff once this becomes hot! But otherwise you are right.