I'm a film student at the moment, and at this point I've used most of the options out there-- my school's friendly like that. For what it's worth, here's some opinions...You've basically got three choices in software when it comes to editing-- Premiere, Final Cut Pro, and Avid.
Ok, I'm down with all that. But, out of curiosity, are there no software packages that are available for *nix?
We hear all the time about these huge render farms that make all these cool movies for us, but is there no decent editing software available?
While my Palm IIIc only has 8 megs of RAM which limits the amount of software that I can run on it. I find that it's nice to have even if i don't use it constantly.
With powerOne Graph it doubles as a graphing calculator. With Quickoffice it does a good job of dealing with Word files and Excel spreadsheets. And of course with Tetris I can have some fun with it too.
Well, that's because there are several people that either think it's their God-given right to do P2P at full throttle on the upload, or sustain a constant 500kbs download 24 hours a day.
As someone who also managed a small ISP for a time I can understand what your saying, but there is a solution.
Find out who these BW hogs are and TOS them out the door! Thats the great thing about being a private buisness, is that you can refuse service to anyone.
Yes, I know that those who are useing full bandwidth 24/7 will scream like bloody murder and generate some bad PR over it. But it is better in the long run imho to get a rep for killing users who are obviously violating TOS rather than the alternative.
...but if you haven't read the book, why do you care about the movie?
You mean like Jurassic Park?
Or Dances With Wolves?
Or The Exorcist?
Or The Great Gatsby?
Or Forrest Gump?
Or The Silence of the Lambs?
Or Gone With the Wind?
Or The Shining?
Or Shogun?
Who else but someone that has the morals of a used car salesman would want this kind of job?
Our goverment is slowly turning out nation into a para-military state for the sake of it self. (Or so they say.)
The more and more I see of this, the more I just feel that until something radical happens, I'm best off sticking my head in the sand and doing what pleases me while trying to avoid "the man". (Yeah, it's a cop-out, but I've been doing "activist" shit for years and it's not doing a damn bit of good.)
While looking to mod up some of the more rebellious posts in this thread, I was disappointed when I could not find anything that great. Then, like very good/.er, I decided to read the article after reading the thread and noticed that it comes from pcworld.com!?
You have got to be kidding me that the only outlet for reporting this is pcworld.com! Grated that the ACLU site had information on it, but with a 3.5 million dollar budget, do you think they could get a few of the major news organizations involved in this?
Maybe this is just the early stages where they are going after that small and oh so significant geek vote. And they are going to target the big boys next...but...PCWORLD.COM!? Oh well, here's to hoping.
While it is nice that there was some OS contribution to this PC, until the bit PC manufactures start selling desktops with Linux preinstalled (...again), I think we should reserve our praise.
Maintaining that these systems are needed to impede hackers, proponents say they could help restore law and order in a world where digital piracy is rampant.
The classic piracy FUD. Last time I looked, all the big media groups were still making money. But, as we all know, unlike brick and mortar retailers, they can't just accept that there is a nominal loss due to shoplifting and or employee theft. Nah, they need to have it all or society as we know it will collapse.
"If we're going to get content on the 'Net, somehow we're going to have to reward the people who put it on there," said Dave Farber, an Internet engineering pioneer and computer science professor at the University of Pennsylvania who is an independent consultant to the TCPA.
Before I even start to rant about the content that is already on the internet, who is this Dave Farber guy that is some sort of "Internet engineering pioneer?" I mean I thought Al Gore invented the internet anyway, did this guy help?
"Security is more social than technical," Schneier said. "There are a lot of good technical controls in Palladium, but it's unclear whether they'll be used to protect personal privacy or limit personal freedom.
Translated from corporate speak: The control mechanisms we propose will be very profitable if we can get the masses to swallow them. However, it is as yet unclear if they will accept a pill as big as this one.
Go out to your local flea market, hunt around for an old 486. Slap your fav distro of *nix on there, add NICs to taste and whammo. Instant low cost firewall.
(Mine's an AST 486/SX33 with 16megs of RAM and 2 500 meg HD's. Runs like a champ, can forward way more ports than any cheap router, and can even runs a thing or two for me.)
It seems to me that you imply that only campaigns with spam will succeed. I for one, would not vote for anyone who was running a campaign that included spam.
A Disney executive, who asked to remain anonymous, acknowledged that the film didn't include a menu option for the ads and that the company has received complaints about it. However, the executive defended the ads as a benefit for consumers.
In business school these days, is it a prereq to take Corporate Lying and Spin doctoring 101 or something?
I mean the guy went so far as to insist on anonymity, but then almost as if it was reflex, had to throw that last bit in.
While I didn't think it was possible, but my opinion of Disney has just gone down yet another notch.
It is often popular, in the 1337 circles, to bash any *nix that makes things easy. Because of that, Red Hat has gotten bashed by more linux zealots that any other linux disto that I know of. And though all that, it has risen above the rest and actually shown a business model that appears to work.
Now, rather than embrace the standard set by a company that has grown in a hostile and monopolized market, they choose to, "try and take on Red Hat's dominance in the industry."
With this, I can only surmise that we now will see a new form of Red Hat bashing in the form of corporate Red Hat bashing. Kudos to you Red Hat, the more they bash you, the better you seem to get.
Stearns, a Florida Republican whose consumer-protection subcommittee held six hearings on privacy last year, said the free flow of consumer data has been a cornerstone of the modern information-based economy.
The free flow of my information is what has been keeping this economy going? What economy is he living in?
"The underlying principle that anchors this bill is, 'do no harm,' " he said.
Do no harm to who? Your representing me and any time my privacy is violated I incur harm.
In news today, the FCC released it's new Mandatory Viewing Schedule for this fall lineup. Citizens will be required, as per the Senator Hollings Consumer TV Awareness Act of 2004, to tune into their assigned channels from 8pm to 11pm for no less than 5 nights a week.
Senator Hollings called the new lineup, "A great stride forward in the quest to bring a closer relationship with consumers and our corporate masters."
Please be aware that, as always, any other activity during your assigned viewing time will be prosecutable to the fullest extent of the law. Do NOT attempt to engage in any other form of entertainment and or human contact during your scheduled viewing period.
In other news, the Voluntary Censorship Corps have set a new record for books burned! They claim that by the end of the year, all works of Shakespeare, Molere, and Orwell should be completely eradicated.
Privacy-rights advocates contacted for comment expressed some concern about the way the Altnet software has been distributed and about whether the millions of people who already have it installed on their computers will be tech-savvy enough to know what they're agreeing to when and if Brilliant does ask to use their computers.
Now I know that its been a long long time since there was any illusion of the general computer user possessing anything resembling intelligence. However, how dumb are we going to make things? If you are are stupid enough to click though every pop up that appears, you deserve to have your spair clock cycles put to some good. Obviously your brain is on System Idle Process 90% of the time anway.
I hear everyday, "I really need to upgrade my computer, it's only 500mhz".
Who are you hearing this from? I expect that it's either a) gamers or b) ppl who want every damn bell and whisle turned on.
My AMD 300 with it's measly 128M of RAM has been running XP for a while now. I am able to have more than, "a couple of applications" at one time and it does it well actually.
I will upgrade soon, but my current computer will go to another family member who I will probaly setup with XP. If they decide to turn on all the eyecandy that I will tell them not to do, they can live with the slowdown, but as my box is setup right now, it's way better than Win9x ever was.
Yes, I do run a 2.4.x kernel on here and it smokes. Yes, by running a light window manager in X it runs way faster than XP. However, as it stands, when I do use windows I would much rather run XP than Win9x. And by tweaking it, it runs better than 9x ever could.
Microsoft markets it's products to the MASSES, and they love pretty things. When ppl see my desktop they think its sterial and plain, but to me all the crap that they put on their desktops only annoys me. However, that is why they have their computers and I have mine. They will go out and spend $2000 on a new computer that will do what they need it to do, while I will go out and spend $200 on a bare bones upgrade and it will do what I need it to do.
Sure, now he's getting paid for it and is famous and all, but that doesn't mean that he has any special responsibility in advancing the "only viable alternative to a desktop OS."
I'm sorry, I never ment to imply that getting paid for something was akin to having a responsibility for it.
I would have to agree here. While I understand that a majority of the hardcore kernel geeks that get down in the code and make it work are not the most social of animals, this interview left me feeling like the guy just did not care.
Considering how linux is no longer just a nitch OS that is used by geeks, but rather one of the only viable alternatives to a desktop OS, I would have hoped that the maintainer of the current stable kernel would have shown a bit more intrest in what was being asked of him.
It may be asking a lot of some ppl to have social skills in addition to programming skills, but even if the former is lacking, when faced with something of this magnatude, they should at least try.
Are we to be surprised that the Bush administration's DOJ is pushing this insult of a settlement forward considering who was on the drafting committee?
Microsoft --- "Trust us, we will be good."
Bush's DOJ -- "Are you sure? Oh of course you are, lets go get a drink and forget this ever happened."
The States -- "Uh, guys, where are you going? Were not done here...Guys...?"
The states can make as much noise as they want, but once this deal goes though, they will most likely become a splintered group. MS will be able to buy them off at their leisure.
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Best rant ever!
If I had some mod points I would use them and give you a +1 Kick Ass Rant.
I'm a film student at the moment, and at this point I've used most of the options out there-- my school's friendly like that. For what it's worth, here's some opinions...You've basically got three choices in software when it comes to editing-- Premiere, Final Cut Pro, and Avid.
Ok, I'm down with all that. But, out of curiosity, are there no software packages that are available for *nix?
We hear all the time about these huge render farms that make all these cool movies for us, but is there no decent editing software available?
That gay men can't have babies? Then where are all these gay people comeing from?!
Because as we all know, the religious right says that gay people can't come from straight couples... Wait... Ohhhhhhhhh...
While my Palm IIIc only has 8 megs of RAM which limits the amount of software that I can run on it. I find that it's nice to have even if i don't use it constantly.
With powerOne Graph it doubles as a graphing calculator. With Quickoffice it does a good job of dealing with Word files and Excel spreadsheets. And of course with Tetris I can have some fun with it too.
Well, that's because there are several people that either think it's their God-given right to do P2P at full throttle on the upload, or sustain a constant 500kbs download 24 hours a day.
As someone who also managed a small ISP for a time I can understand what your saying, but there is a solution.
Find out who these BW hogs are and TOS them out the door! Thats the great thing about being a private buisness, is that you can refuse service to anyone.
Yes, I know that those who are useing full bandwidth 24/7 will scream like bloody murder and generate some bad PR over it. But it is better in the long run imho to get a rep for killing users who are obviously violating TOS rather than the alternative.
...but if you haven't read the book, why do you care about the movie?
You mean like Jurassic Park?
Or Dances With Wolves?
Or The Exorcist?
Or The Great Gatsby?
Or Forrest Gump?
Or The Silence of the Lambs?
Or Gone With the Wind?
Or The Shining?
Or Shogun?
I could go on here...
Who else but someone that has the morals of a used car salesman would want this kind of job?
Our goverment is slowly turning out nation into a para-military state for the sake of it self. (Or so they say.)
The more and more I see of this, the more I just feel that until something radical happens, I'm best off sticking my head in the sand and doing what pleases me while trying to avoid "the man". (Yeah, it's a cop-out, but I've been doing "activist" shit for years and it's not doing a damn bit of good.)
While looking to mod up some of the more rebellious posts in this thread, I was disappointed when I could not find anything that great. Then, like very good /.er, I decided to read the article after reading the thread and noticed that it comes from pcworld.com!?
You have got to be kidding me that the only outlet for reporting this is pcworld.com! Grated that the ACLU site had information on it, but with a 3.5 million dollar budget, do you think they could get a few of the major news organizations involved in this?
Maybe this is just the early stages where they are going after that small and oh so significant geek vote. And they are going to target the big boys next...but...PCWORLD.COM!? Oh well, here's to hoping.
NEC PCs use genuine Microsoft® Windows®
While it is nice that there was some OS contribution to this PC, until the bit PC manufactures start selling desktops with Linux preinstalled (...again), I think we should reserve our praise.
It seems to me that this is just CNets version of the same story that was reported yesterday.
While it Ballmer is always good for a laugh, it always turns into a slow sad chuckle.
Maintaining that these systems are needed to impede hackers, proponents say they could help restore law and order in a world where digital piracy is rampant.
The classic piracy FUD. Last time I looked, all the big media groups were still making money. But, as we all know, unlike brick and mortar retailers, they can't just accept that there is a nominal loss due to shoplifting and or employee theft. Nah, they need to have it all or society as we know it will collapse.
"If we're going to get content on the 'Net, somehow we're going to have to reward the people who put it on there," said Dave Farber, an Internet engineering pioneer and computer science professor at the University of Pennsylvania who is an independent consultant to the TCPA.
Before I even start to rant about the content that is already on the internet, who is this Dave Farber guy that is some sort of "Internet engineering pioneer?" I mean I thought Al Gore invented the internet anyway, did this guy help?
"Security is more social than technical," Schneier said. "There are a lot of good technical controls in Palladium, but it's unclear whether they'll be used to protect personal privacy or limit personal freedom.
Translated from corporate speak: The control mechanisms we propose will be very profitable if we can get the masses to swallow them. However, it is as yet unclear if they will accept a pill as big as this one.
Go out to your local flea market, hunt around for an old 486. Slap your fav distro of *nix on there, add NICs to taste and whammo. Instant low cost firewall.
(Mine's an AST 486/SX33 with 16megs of RAM and 2 500 meg HD's. Runs like a champ, can forward way more ports than any cheap router, and can even runs a thing or two for me.)
It seems to me that you imply that only campaigns with spam will succeed. I for one, would not vote for anyone who was running a campaign that included spam.
I've allready bought the Windows NWN client. Anyone know if Bioware plans to charge us again for the linux client?
A Disney executive, who asked to remain anonymous, acknowledged that the film didn't include a menu option for the ads and that the company has received complaints about it. However, the executive defended the ads as a benefit for consumers.
In business school these days, is it a prereq to take Corporate Lying and Spin doctoring 101 or something?
I mean the guy went so far as to insist on anonymity, but then almost as if it was reflex, had to throw that last bit in.
While I didn't think it was possible, but my opinion of Disney has just gone down yet another notch.
It is often popular, in the 1337 circles, to bash any *nix that makes things easy. Because of that, Red Hat has gotten bashed by more linux zealots that any other linux disto that I know of. And though all that, it has risen above the rest and actually shown a business model that appears to work.
Now, rather than embrace the standard set by a company that has grown in a hostile and monopolized market, they choose to, "try and take on Red Hat's dominance in the industry."
With this, I can only surmise that we now will see a new form of Red Hat bashing in the form of corporate Red Hat bashing. Kudos to you Red Hat, the more they bash you, the better you seem to get.
Stearns, a Florida Republican whose consumer-protection subcommittee held six hearings on privacy last year, said the free flow of consumer data has been a cornerstone of the modern information-based economy.
The free flow of my information is what has been keeping this economy going? What economy is he living in?
"The underlying principle that anchors this bill is, 'do no harm,' " he said.
Do no harm to who? Your representing me and any time my privacy is violated I incur harm.
"I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom."
Wow, I sure am glad he cleared that up. Feeling the a thief every time I made a trip to the can during a commercial was bringing me down.
In news today, the FCC released it's new Mandatory Viewing Schedule for this fall lineup. Citizens will be required, as per the Senator Hollings Consumer TV Awareness Act of 2004, to tune into their assigned channels from 8pm to 11pm for no less than 5 nights a week.
Senator Hollings called the new lineup, "A great stride forward in the quest to bring a closer relationship with consumers and our corporate masters."
Please be aware that, as always, any other activity during your assigned viewing time will be prosecutable to the fullest extent of the law. Do NOT attempt to engage in any other form of entertainment and or human contact during your scheduled viewing period.
In other news, the Voluntary Censorship Corps have set a new record for books burned! They claim that by the end of the year, all works of Shakespeare, Molere, and Orwell should be completely eradicated.
Hey, thanks for plagiarizing my comment dude. Real smooth.
Privacy-rights advocates contacted for comment expressed some concern about the way the Altnet software has been distributed and about whether the millions of people who already have it installed on their computers will be tech-savvy enough to know what they're agreeing to when and if Brilliant does ask to use their computers.
Now I know that its been a long long time since there was any illusion of the general computer user possessing anything resembling intelligence. However, how dumb are we going to make things? If you are are stupid enough to click though every pop up that appears, you deserve to have your spair clock cycles put to some good. Obviously your brain is on System Idle Process 90% of the time anway.
I hear everyday, "I really need to upgrade my computer, it's only 500mhz".
Who are you hearing this from? I expect that it's either a) gamers or b) ppl who want every damn bell and whisle turned on.
My AMD 300 with it's measly 128M of RAM has been running XP for a while now. I am able to have more than, "a couple of applications" at one time and it does it well actually.
I will upgrade soon, but my current computer will go to another family member who I will probaly setup with XP. If they decide to turn on all the eyecandy that I will tell them not to do, they can live with the slowdown, but as my box is setup right now, it's way better than Win9x ever was.
Yes, I do run a 2.4.x kernel on here and it smokes. Yes, by running a light window manager in X it runs way faster than XP. However, as it stands, when I do use windows I would much rather run XP than Win9x. And by tweaking it, it runs better than 9x ever could.
Microsoft markets it's products to the MASSES, and they love pretty things. When ppl see my desktop they think its sterial and plain, but to me all the crap that they put on their desktops only annoys me. However, that is why they have their computers and I have mine. They will go out and spend $2000 on a new computer that will do what they need it to do, while I will go out and spend $200 on a bare bones upgrade and it will do what I need it to do.
Sure, now he's getting paid for it and is famous and all, but that doesn't mean that he has any special responsibility in advancing the "only viable alternative to a desktop OS."
I'm sorry, I never ment to imply that getting paid for something was akin to having a responsibility for it.
I would have to agree here. While I understand that a majority of the hardcore kernel geeks that get down in the code and make it work are not the most social of animals, this interview left me feeling like the guy just did not care.
Considering how linux is no longer just a nitch OS that is used by geeks, but rather one of the only viable alternatives to a desktop OS, I would have hoped that the maintainer of the current stable kernel would have shown a bit more intrest in what was being asked of him.
It may be asking a lot of some ppl to have social skills in addition to programming skills, but even if the former is lacking, when faced with something of this magnatude, they should at least try.
Are we to be surprised that the Bush administration's DOJ is pushing this insult of a settlement forward considering who was on the drafting committee?
Microsoft --- "Trust us, we will be good."
Bush's DOJ -- "Are you sure? Oh of course you are, lets go get a drink and forget this ever happened."
The States -- "Uh, guys, where are you going? Were not done here...Guys...?"
The states can make as much noise as they want, but once this deal goes though, they will most likely become a splintered group. MS will be able to buy them off at their leisure.