You are entitled to your own beliefs. You are not entitled to your own facts....
Well said. The article in a nutshell.
There is a whole industry out there of consultants and "scientists" trying to create custom-made facts, suitable to any industrial or political interest. This is pretty well-known, but it doesn't hurt to shine some light on it now and again. In my opinion, one of the best works in this regard is "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming" by Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes. Good read.
Damn right. The almost total lack of interest from mainstream media is just flabbergasting. Sports, more sports, lots of local fluff and perhaps one big international story (if it cannot be avoided) is the regular fare here (Norway). It's been pretty much the same in other places I have lived (Americas, Europe). The only real exceptions I can think of is the BBC, the Guardian newspaper and - to a certain extent - Die Zeit (German weekly).
"Remember that Skype was written by a hard-core group of Romanian programmers..."
Nope, the Skype software was created by three Estonian programmers; Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. The Skype company was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark.
There is a Norwegian startup - Domos Labs - that has had quite a lot of success with a combination of a fairly advanced router and OpenWRT. Their way into each country's market is quite original; they gain a foothold by giving away 100 routers to techies that are having trouble with their Wifi. The rest is achieved by word-of-mouth.
If I were to fund the continued development of one Linux-based video authoring/editing tool it would be Cinelerra. Between that and Avidemux, all my video editing needs are completely met.
Err... What about Kdenlive? Worked pretty well last time I checked...
Warcraft = First life? For some, I guess. To me it's the World of Borecraft... All that grinding; it's like having a really boring job. Only difference is that you pay to be bored.
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You are entitled to your own beliefs. You are not entitled to your own facts. ...
Well said. The article in a nutshell. There is a whole industry out there of consultants and "scientists" trying to create custom-made facts, suitable to any industrial or political interest. This is pretty well-known, but it doesn't hurt to shine some light on it now and again. In my opinion, one of the best works in this regard is "Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming" by Erik M. Conway and Naomi Oreskes. Good read.
Damn right. The almost total lack of interest from mainstream media is just flabbergasting. Sports, more sports, lots of local fluff and perhaps one big international story (if it cannot be avoided) is the regular fare here (Norway). It's been pretty much the same in other places I have lived (Americas, Europe). The only real exceptions I can think of is the BBC, the Guardian newspaper and - to a certain extent - Die Zeit (German weekly).
"Remember that Skype was written by a hard-core group of Romanian programmers..." Nope, the Skype software was created by three Estonian programmers; Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. The Skype company was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark.
There is a Norwegian startup - Domos Labs - that has had quite a lot of success with a combination of a fairly advanced router and OpenWRT. Their way into each country's market is quite original; they gain a foothold by giving away 100 routers to techies that are having trouble with their Wifi. The rest is achieved by word-of-mouth.
These Einsteins sure know their audience!
That also goes for the author of this submission: An Adobe Flash video about a Linux Magazine, when Adobe no longer makes Flash updates for Linux?
I totally agree. Kdenlive is a good option.
If I were to fund the continued development of one Linux-based video authoring/editing tool it would be Cinelerra. Between that and Avidemux, all my video editing needs are completely met.
Err... What about Kdenlive? Worked pretty well last time I checked...
Warcraft = First life? For some, I guess. To me it's the World of Borecraft... All that grinding; it's like having a really boring job. Only difference is that you pay to be bored.
World of Borecraft...