It is the nature of man to compare himself with others, and sadly comparison is the root of discontentment.
Doesn't this actually support the person you're responding to? He implied that by raising the status of ALL people, we'd work to eliminate terrorism by reducing things such as ignorance and poverty.
You say that discontent is rooted in comparison. What would happen if we all looked around, and when comparing things like money or education, we all came out about the same? Would that not reduce or eliminate discontent, and hence terrorism?
I think the goal should not be 'make us all the same'; that's socialism, and with the resources available to many countries, that just makes everybody poor and, hence, discontent. But by working on things that benefit EVERYBODY, we can hope to raise the bar for all. When everybody in the world is the same, and they're all 'rich'... I don't see many reasons for terrorism.
Education and money are not problem solvers on their own.
I believe that you would be hard-pressed to defend that statement. If you could go to all the poor regions of the world and magically increase the people's education and bolster the economic structure of the region... I think you'd solve a ton of problems.
Absolute truth does exist, and when man's worldview and life choices contradict that, it leads to conflict within himself and with other people.
I solidly disagree, but that's not the point. It appears that your religious/spiritual views have gotten mixed in with a logical discussion.
There will probably be a line in the EULA stating: It is illegal to run this program on a non-windows operating system.
They've either been saying that for years, or they used to say that years ago. I remember hearing that that line was in the MS Office EULA, and finding one and reading it.
He speaks at length about the reasons for the rewrite, and how extensive it is.
"So it is only affecting what has always been the core piece of Samba, but it is perhaps now, I'd guess off the top of my head, maybe 30 percent of the code in Samba."
"So we need to be able to break the tight link to POSIX and be able to support, directly in Samba, the more advanced filesystems that are now available on Linux, such as JFS and XFS. There are a whole bunch of interesting filesystems that are being developed for Linux, and those have capabilities well beyond what is defined in the core filesystem POSIX specification. We'd like to be able to take advantage of those within Samba."
This is not to "feel like you are doing something to improve the system", it's to address very specific shotcomings inherant in the current design.
I was about to post exactly that. Whether or not you run Gentoo, the people who do generally know their stuff, and there is probably little that you can run into that they haven't already. Search for what you're looking for, and it's probably already been discussed and solved. If not, ask about it, and you're likely to get a bunch of helpful replies in less than an hour.
I've solved many, many a problem on those boards, and gotten many an idea on how to approach other problems. Highly recommended.
Why do you need a player that plays DivX movies when the main thing people use DivX for is to rip DVDs and trade them?
Even right there in your own question, the answer is obvious. Say I've ripped my DVDs and traded them with somebody. I'd like to play the ones I got in return, wouldn't I?
I'll give you another scenario. I rip recordings off my TiVo, encode them to DivX, and store them in a much smaller form on my file server. It would be great to have a device to play these back again on the TV, instead of just on a computer.
Am I misunderstanding something, or was the article author just intending a more generic meaning of refresh rates?
I believe it's the latter. You are correct, LCDs don't have a "vertical refresh rate" like a CRT does, they list a "response time", which is just what you describe. However, assume that in a fast-moving graphics environment, like video or gaming, many of the pixels change color rapidly. The inverse of the response time determines how many complete 'frames' you can get per second.
For example, most LCDs today have a response time from 25-40ms. A response time of 25ms means at most 40 frames per second. This isn't good enough for most gamers.
Oh come on, people. This is not Insightful, this is a complete troll.
PGP is a general-purpose encryption tool. It's an open standard with several implimentations, both commercial and not. It is all around great stuff.
Office 11's DRM stuff is NOT an open standard, WILL require millions of users and businesses to re-pay the "Microsoft Tax", and WILL shut out any hope of interoperability with any other office suite by making it illegal, under the DMCA, for other developers to try and reverse-engineer it. It may be USEFUL, don't get me wrong, but for the above reasons, it's pretty damn evil.
It's a pretty clear-cut issue. If RedHat came out with this, or Mandrake, or Debian, the response would be exactly the same, if not even MORE harsh. We expect this from Microsoft, as evil as they are; if a Linux distro tried to pull it, we'd all freak out.
Doug
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Since EFI can mount (some) filesystems, and the booted OS can subsequently mount the same filesystem, an EFI partition is a useful place. For example, when you build a new linux kernel, you just copy it into the mounted EFI partition, modify the elilo.conf file (also in this partition), and the next boot will boot from the new file. No more scribbling to boot records.
I typically dislike the "but X already does this" style of comment, but that description is exactly how the GRUB bootloader works. Those steps are exactly what I do on my Gentoo systems when I want to try out a new kernel.
I think we should keep the parts seperate. The BIOS (or EFI or whatever) should init the hardware, decide what to boot, and pass on control. The arbitrarily complex booting stuff should happen elsewhere, GRUB from the MBR of the drive for example, or the network boot PROM could TFTP a GRUB loader or other kernel.
But the BIOS should just init the local hardware and be done. I don't need an OS to load before it loads my OS.
As such, most respectable members of the hacking community will not encourage this hack.
I must disagree. Just as ripping a CD to a bunch of OGG files doesn't mean you're putting them up on Kazaa, ripping your saved shows onto a computer doesn't mean you're putting them up on Kazaa.
I understand TiVo not wanting anything to do with it, which is why discussion about it is banned on the TiVo forums. But that doesn't make the practice bad, or hurtful to TiVo if we do it ourselves.
The other taboo subject, replacing TiVo's program guide with one from a free source, falls squarely into the catagory of things respectable members of the hacking community should avoid. That takes money directly from TiVo's pocket, from a company that's been very good to us.
This is no different from how I've been doing it for a goodly while now on my Linux box. They've just compiled the tools for OS X, that's all.
I'm working on a version of the tools that will show you the listing in your console, let you select a show, and will stream the.ty, translate to.mpeg on the fly, and then either save that stream or use something (mplayer, perhaps) to recode to another codec (DivX, anyone?).
And it's written entirely in Perl, so it should run anywhere Perl does. If anybody's interested in looking at it, pop me an email; I'd be especially interested in hearing from people with knowledge of the MPEG2 format.
This is, in its entirety, an excellent idea. I suggest you write up a short, clear proposal with some examples and send it off to the teams who make various media players for Linux (Mplayer, Xine, Ogle, KDE team, whoever you can find) and see how they react to it.
Even something as simple as another command-line to mplayer to manually select a 'filter file' when viewing any movie file would be a good start. Let me know if you think you'd like to do this, and if you'd like any help with it.
In fact, it is. I physically own that DVD, and can do whatever I want with it.
I'll give you a wonderful example. Brigham Young University decided to show Schindler's List to the students. Except, they wanted to show their own version, with all the "offensive content" removed. Speilberg said "no way", and he was fully within his rights to do so.
This is a good example of something, but not for the situation at hand. That situation is classified as a 'public broadcast', I believe, and copyrights and other rules certainly do apply.
In the topic at hand, however, that is not the case. When I buy a DVD, I do, in fact, own it. I can choose to play certain parts of it, or not, as I choose. If you argue that, tell me, have you ever skipped around a movie to see a part again that you liked? Or even to show said part to a friend? That's perfectly legal.
The DVD device in question does exactly that. It does it in an automated fashion, sure, and you're even plugging in somebody else's values for "what do I skip if I don't want to see sex" or whatever. The same premise holds, however: it's my disc, it's my player, and I'll watch some or all of it as I damn well please.
If copyright owners are not allowed to control what happens to their work, we could not enfoce the GPL. Free software would die.
This is untrue. The GPL, as a copyright specification, tells you the rules for how you are able to make copies of the source code; this means distribution. It does not limit in any way how you are able to use or modify the code. I can download the source to any GPL program and modify it literally however I please, combining it with proprietary code of my own design or others'... for my own use. As soon as I try to give it away, though, the GPL takes effect.
In my own house, I am free to do whatever I wish with both my DVDs and the code on my machines.
People, I don't think this comment was meant to be funny, and I certain don't find the situation amusing.
Sure, the people who make the DVD can make it start playing whatever they like before it gets to the menus, be it ads or an FBI warning or whatever. But when I press my 'menu' button, the damn thing had better jump to the effin' menu. I'm rarely as mad as when I press 'menu' and I get "This operation prohibited" on my screen.
Posts like this are why I keep reading Slashdot. The original dude's question was rather interesting, but this suggestion is even more so. I didn't even know you could do something like this! There may be a lot of trolls or MS-bashing or whatever, but when you boil it down, Slashdot has tons of geeks who know and have tried some pretty cool things.
Thanks, Slashdot, and my fellow geeks! Keep up the good work!
Ignoring the minor fact that the video output from a GF2 (and, frankly, all nVidia cards) sucks...
Perhaps, but for HDTV, you'd use the VGA output, just like with a computer monitor. Unless your HDTV monitor had a VGA-in, you'd have to convert from VGA to component, but the actual signals remain untouched.
...the poster was pretty obviously wanting to put a high-end game-capable video card in his HTPC in order to play the latest and greatest PC games on a big screen.
I actually wasn't suggesting that the poster get a GeForce2 GTS, I was merely commenting on their use for a HTPC would be acceptable due to their small-or-none fan situation. And the poster I replied to didn't once mention either his intentions for his machine or the display he'd be running it on.
I was holding out on nVidia's new card, but now I've given up on that idea. With more and more people using PCs as multimedia devices (watch DVDs, listen to music, etc), a fan that puts out almost 60Db of noise is unacceptable.
I really wanted to go away from ATI this time around, but it appears I'll have to wait a little longer. I'm sure nVidia will [eventually] release a fanless, 1-slot version. I just wonder if it will be too little too late.
With more and more people using PCs as multimedia devices (watch DVDs, listen to music, etc), a fan that puts out almost 60Db of noise is unacceptable.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but on the 'home theater pc' front, 1080i HDTV signal can be easily generated by a GeForce2 GTS, which you can get for $34 these days. I don't think the fan on those is very loud.
Doug
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And when the power goes off do you want it to fail open or fail closed?
Well, assume the BT device triggers a mechanical device that moves a bolt that unlocks the door for a few seconds. When the power goes out, it will "fail locked".
In addition, the door would have a key and lock. When the power is on, the key system is actively mechanically disabled. When the power is off, the key system would be functional.
Willow: Well, don't you have some ambition?
Oz: Oh, yeah! Yeah. E-flat, diminished ninth.
Willow: Huh?
Oz: Well, the E-flat, it's doable, but that diminished ninth, y'know, it's a man's chord. You could lose a finger.
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Doesn't this actually support the person you're responding to? He implied that by raising the status of ALL people, we'd work to eliminate terrorism by reducing things such as ignorance and poverty.
You say that discontent is rooted in comparison. What would happen if we all looked around, and when comparing things like money or education, we all came out about the same? Would that not reduce or eliminate discontent, and hence terrorism?
I think the goal should not be 'make us all the same'; that's socialism, and with the resources available to many countries, that just makes everybody poor and, hence, discontent. But by working on things that benefit EVERYBODY, we can hope to raise the bar for all. When everybody in the world is the same, and they're all 'rich'... I don't see many reasons for terrorism.
I believe that you would be hard-pressed to defend that statement. If you could go to all the poor regions of the world and magically increase the people's education and bolster the economic structure of the region... I think you'd solve a ton of problems.
I solidly disagree, but that's not the point. It appears that your religious/spiritual views have gotten mixed in with a logical discussion.
Doug
Doug
They've either been saying that for years, or they used to say that years ago. I remember hearing that that line was in the MS Office EULA, and finding one and reading it.
Anybody with more info?
Doug
Read the article.
He speaks at length about the reasons for the rewrite, and how extensive it is.
This is not to "feel like you are doing something to improve the system", it's to address very specific shotcomings inherant in the current design.
Doug
I was about to post exactly that. Whether or not you run Gentoo, the people who do generally know their stuff, and there is probably little that you can run into that they haven't already. Search for what you're looking for, and it's probably already been discussed and solved. If not, ask about it, and you're likely to get a bunch of helpful replies in less than an hour.
I've solved many, many a problem on those boards, and gotten many an idea on how to approach other problems. Highly recommended.
Doug
Even right there in your own question, the answer is obvious. Say I've ripped my DVDs and traded them with somebody. I'd like to play the ones I got in return, wouldn't I?
I'll give you another scenario. I rip recordings off my TiVo, encode them to DivX, and store them in a much smaller form on my file server. It would be great to have a device to play these back again on the TV, instead of just on a computer.
Doug
I believe it's the latter. You are correct, LCDs don't have a "vertical refresh rate" like a CRT does, they list a "response time", which is just what you describe. However, assume that in a fast-moving graphics environment, like video or gaming, many of the pixels change color rapidly. The inverse of the response time determines how many complete 'frames' you can get per second.
For example, most LCDs today have a response time from 25-40ms. A response time of 25ms means at most 40 frames per second. This isn't good enough for most gamers.
Doug
Wow! You're saying that this device will work better than the real thing?? Amazing!
Doug
How do you spell relief?
"Threshold 4, Highest Scores First"
Ahhh.....
Doug
Oh come on, people. This is not Insightful, this is a complete troll.
PGP is a general-purpose encryption tool. It's an open standard with several implimentations, both commercial and not. It is all around great stuff.
Office 11's DRM stuff is NOT an open standard, WILL require millions of users and businesses to re-pay the "Microsoft Tax", and WILL shut out any hope of interoperability with any other office suite by making it illegal, under the DMCA, for other developers to try and reverse-engineer it. It may be USEFUL, don't get me wrong, but for the above reasons, it's pretty damn evil.
It's a pretty clear-cut issue. If RedHat came out with this, or Mandrake, or Debian, the response would be exactly the same, if not even MORE harsh. We expect this from Microsoft, as evil as they are; if a Linux distro tried to pull it, we'd all freak out.
Doug
I typically dislike the "but X already does this" style of comment, but that description is exactly how the GRUB bootloader works. Those steps are exactly what I do on my Gentoo systems when I want to try out a new kernel.
I think we should keep the parts seperate. The BIOS (or EFI or whatever) should init the hardware, decide what to boot, and pass on control. The arbitrarily complex booting stuff should happen elsewhere, GRUB from the MBR of the drive for example, or the network boot PROM could TFTP a GRUB loader or other kernel.
But the BIOS should just init the local hardware and be done. I don't need an OS to load before it loads my OS.
Doug
Ahh... bliss. Typing in Mozilla, while listening to my OGG collection in XMMS on Genoo Linux.
Let freedom ring.
Doug
I must disagree. Just as ripping a CD to a bunch of OGG files doesn't mean you're putting them up on Kazaa, ripping your saved shows onto a computer doesn't mean you're putting them up on Kazaa.
I understand TiVo not wanting anything to do with it, which is why discussion about it is banned on the TiVo forums. But that doesn't make the practice bad, or hurtful to TiVo if we do it ourselves.
The other taboo subject, replacing TiVo's program guide with one from a free source, falls squarely into the catagory of things respectable members of the hacking community should avoid. That takes money directly from TiVo's pocket, from a company that's been very good to us.
Doug
This is no different from how I've been doing it for a goodly while now on my Linux box. They've just compiled the tools for OS X, that's all.
I'm working on a version of the tools that will show you the listing in your console, let you select a show, and will stream the .ty, translate to .mpeg on the fly, and then either save that stream or use something (mplayer, perhaps) to recode to another codec (DivX, anyone?).
And it's written entirely in Perl, so it should run anywhere Perl does. If anybody's interested in looking at it, pop me an email; I'd be especially interested in hearing from people with knowledge of the MPEG2 format.
Doug
This is, in its entirety, an excellent idea. I suggest you write up a short, clear proposal with some examples and send it off to the teams who make various media players for Linux (Mplayer, Xine, Ogle, KDE team, whoever you can find) and see how they react to it.
Even something as simple as another command-line to mplayer to manually select a 'filter file' when viewing any movie file would be a good start. Let me know if you think you'd like to do this, and if you'd like any help with it.
Doug
In fact, it is. I physically own that DVD, and can do whatever I want with it.
This is a good example of something, but not for the situation at hand. That situation is classified as a 'public broadcast', I believe, and copyrights and other rules certainly do apply.
In the topic at hand, however, that is not the case. When I buy a DVD, I do, in fact, own it. I can choose to play certain parts of it, or not, as I choose. If you argue that, tell me, have you ever skipped around a movie to see a part again that you liked? Or even to show said part to a friend? That's perfectly legal.
The DVD device in question does exactly that. It does it in an automated fashion, sure, and you're even plugging in somebody else's values for "what do I skip if I don't want to see sex" or whatever. The same premise holds, however: it's my disc, it's my player, and I'll watch some or all of it as I damn well please.
This is untrue. The GPL, as a copyright specification, tells you the rules for how you are able to make copies of the source code; this means distribution. It does not limit in any way how you are able to use or modify the code. I can download the source to any GPL program and modify it literally however I please, combining it with proprietary code of my own design or others'... for my own use. As soon as I try to give it away, though, the GPL takes effect.
In my own house, I am free to do whatever I wish with both my DVDs and the code on my machines.
Doug
People, I don't think this comment was meant to be funny, and I certain don't find the situation amusing.
Sure, the people who make the DVD can make it start playing whatever they like before it gets to the menus, be it ads or an FBI warning or whatever. But when I press my 'menu' button, the damn thing had better jump to the effin' menu. I'm rarely as mad as when I press 'menu' and I get "This operation prohibited" on my screen.
Doug
Posts like this are why I keep reading Slashdot. The original dude's question was rather interesting, but this suggestion is even more so. I didn't even know you could do something like this! There may be a lot of trolls or MS-bashing or whatever, but when you boil it down, Slashdot has tons of geeks who know and have tried some pretty cool things.
Thanks, Slashdot, and my fellow geeks! Keep up the good work!
Doug
Perhaps, but for HDTV, you'd use the VGA output, just like with a computer monitor. Unless your HDTV monitor had a VGA-in, you'd have to convert from VGA to component, but the actual signals remain untouched.
I actually wasn't suggesting that the poster get a GeForce2 GTS, I was merely commenting on their use for a HTPC would be acceptable due to their small-or-none fan situation. And the poster I replied to didn't once mention either his intentions for his machine or the display he'd be running it on.
Doug
I'm not disagreeing with you, but on the 'home theater pc' front, 1080i HDTV signal can be easily generated by a GeForce2 GTS, which you can get for $34 these days. I don't think the fan on those is very loud.
Doug
...potato bazookas fire YOU!
you make some good points.
Doug
In addition, the door would have a key and lock. When the power is on, the key system is actively mechanically disabled. When the power is off, the key system would be functional.
Doug
Might I suggest a hammer? Useful for both "recovering" the drive from the laptop and then "disposing" of it unrecoverably.
Doug
Willow: Well, don't you have some ambition?
Oz: Oh, yeah! Yeah. E-flat, diminished ninth.
Willow: Huh?
Oz: Well, the E-flat, it's doable, but that diminished ninth, y'know, it's a man's chord. You could lose a finger.
Doug