Lest my point be misconstrued, I'm not advocating that people should be forced to testify on a whim. In fact, I'd say that "everybody is equal to the press", and the criteria should be fairly high to compel testimony from any citizen.
Anybody can fire up a blog and become the press -- and many people on the in public carry a digital camera or video recorder at all times as part of their cell phone. I think that rather than dispensing special rights to a "special class" that is becoming less and less distinguishable from the public, we should re-examine why and under what circumstances any citizen is compelled to give testimony.
Although it doesn't seem to support what most people think... basically anybody can be required to testify in front of a grand jury. In the courtroom, the first amendment doesn't give special rights to the press. And in a position that you might want to think about before replying, I agree. There should be no special legal benefits given to a citizen over another citizen based on their profession. I find it amazing that most people here are happy with giving special legal shelter to a "special class" of citizen.
Equality under the law should apply to all citizens.
You realize that Qt is far more than a GUI library, correct? It has database engines, multiprocess communication handlers and even fundimental components like a powerful string library. Non-GUI applications like daemons and CLI programs can use Qt.
If it makes you feel any better, some people read your post and easily comprehended what you were saying. Probably simply by reading what you wrote. It's amazing how many people are jumping to the conclusion that you're saying the photos mentioned in the post are unaltered.
But again, you're not comparing the codecs or format, you're comparing "what is there right now", which is a different comparison. A valid one, to be sure, but it's not really HD vs. BR, it's "these three HD discs" vs. "these three BR discs" using the three movies that happened to be released cross format first. I have a Metropolis DVD that looks far worse than my VHS copy of Metropolis. That's because the DVD was quickly and cheaply authored. These BR releases are by a company that has invested primarily in HD to date. That doesn't mean anything... other than to point out that picking the first examples isn't going to give you a comparison between HR and BR so much as how well the authoring company and player company does BR vs. HD.
A good chunk of the winning screenshot are features in Konqueror (and the associated things installed by default with KDE like war archives, sidebar and preview plugins). Enough so that I wonder if the winner is also a KDE user.
Yup, that's pretty much why (as I said) I don't agree with it. A group of sovereign nations agreeing to work together is far different from a group of nations assigning land that isn't under their claim to a particular government. It has a certain simplistic appeal, but the two situations are not really comparable at all.
Hey, I said I didn't agree with it, I was just relating the theory. I can also tell you about the Heliocentric model of the solar system and how Star Trek warp drives work. Doesn't mean I'm saying they are real.
I think his argument is that they were both created from thin air by the group of nations that won WWII. I don't really think the argument works, but I've heard it before. The idea is (overly) simple: if you accept the United Nations as a political entity, you have to accept Israel, since they were both formed by roughly the same nations with the same amount of authority.
Jews are a race. Some of the people living in Israel are Jewish, but there's no 1:1 relation. I don't think a hair stylist in Boca Raton, Florida who had bacon and eggs this morning and hasn't been to Temple since her grandfather died should get a hearty "Fuck you" because some idiots who share her race on the other side of the world have gone rabidly overboard on a zero tolerance policy. Heck, there are plenty of countries that have had bad policies and done some pretty nasty stuff. I don't run around saying "Fuck you Irish" because quite a bit of the population of the United States are of Irish ancestry and I don't like the Trail of Tears or the Iraqi invasion and occupation.
All that said, I have a feeling he was not thinking rationally... post-trauma is where quite a bit of anger based racism comes from. Unfortunately that's how the cycle of violence continues. A very human reaction.: it's not an excuse, but neither is his reaction exceptional.
Interestingly, in my semi-wild youth, several couples (and couples to be) used to down Irish Coffees and then go skinny dipping in the abandoned swimming pools on Jupiter Island during off-season. I don't know about becoming a yes man, but Irish Coffees produce the perfect combo of "sloshed to do something stupid, awake and alert enough to do the stupid thing well". Although looking back, I think the first time we were sober... which points out that the same state can be achieved just through being young, dumb and horny.
(Jupiter Island, part of Jupiter, FL, has a population that is pretty much only there during the winter, as most of the condo owners are snowbirds, living the summer up north and coming to their second house over the weekend. The groundskeeper was always either absent or was a nephew or son of the owner who didn't care, especially if we brought some beverages and kept the midnight party quiet.)
At this point anything the company releases with their logo on it will have instant sales to any geek who either collects videogame consoles or just likes esoteric hardware. It's the equivalent of a car collector owning an Edsel or having a dinner plate from the Titanic.
Post after post here is missing the point. A Microsoft or Apple tech employee, who, asked "why doesnot my f***ing XYZ work", who responded with "RTFM, jackass!", would be fired on the spot.
And I agree -- if you bought SUSE Linux, and called them up for help, they would reply to a "Why can't I fucking print?". The same goes for most of the other commercial distros. SUSE help desk is remarkably nice. Caldera was as well (many years ago, back when they were their own company). I've called both when I used their distros and they were very helpful.
This is akin to walking up to a group of people talking about computers at a local coffeehouse and saying "Why can't I fucking print?". Can you see the difference?
<jsm> Why won't my fucking Linux computer print?
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<linuxbabe> what printer r u using?
Asking for assistance *anywhere* by walking up and saying "Why isn't there fucking mayo on my sandwich?" or "Why is there a fucking surcharge on my bill?" is not going to help you. Asking for free assistance: "Can you take my fucking picture in front of this fucking Eiffel Tower?", "Can you fucking lend me a quarter to make a call?", "Can I have your fucking fries?", "Can I fucking borrow a fucking gas canister?" and expecting a *good* response is fairly stupid.
I've never seen a popup ad for X-10. I've seen plenty for X-10.com. The two are very different. (I bought most of my X-10 stuff from RadioShack, but I did get the firecracker from X-10.com. Nice small serial transmitter, only available from them.)
Yes, but I have no idea how many or how well. There's already been complaints from users because when you create a new image, it asks you for colorspace, and some users think that's too complicated and technical.
Ah, feature balance.
(There was also a fleeting bug in the kubuntu packages where the colorspaces weren't registered until kbuildsycoca was manually run, something that should be always be part of a KDE app install).
Part 15 only addresses (AFAIK), devices that broadcast. The speakers aren't broadcasting, they are picking up the "noise" from the cell phone. OTOH, the cell phones have a license to broadcast at certain power levels. It is conceivable the *phone* is violating Part 15, but as the speakers are the things being interfered *with*, they aren't violating anything. I would imagine they aren't.
Of course, I could be very wrong, as my knowing about Part 15 is primarily based on a bit of chatter in commercial radio stations among people who know more than I. Feel free to correct me.
I dunno... Until about two years ago, I was using KDE3 on a 350Mhz Compaq laptop with 128megs (64megs for awhile). It ran fine. Not as fast as my current machine, but I got quite a bit of work and home use out of it. Each release ran better and better (KDE tends to be lighter with each minor release as the code tightens up, and larger with each major release as they add features).
A $100 laptop is not going to perform as well as my current $2,000 beast. I wouldn't expect it to, nor would I expect KDE to run the same on it. Turning off the eyecandy is required, just like I did on my old Compaq. But it does run and is very useful.
If I were on a scooter oriented forum with a focus on Chinese imports, I'd expect people to know the difference between a GY6 engine and a GY6 bulb by context. This is a computer oriented forum with a focus on Linux, and I expect most people to know the difference between DSL bandwidth and the DSL distro by context.
Perhaps Slashdot is not for you, or possibly you should read quietly before jumping into a discussion when you don't know what people are talking about. If you do jump in, and are corrected, it doesn't make much sense to demand that everyone should dumb down the discussion and explain all the terms used. This is an article posted on linux.slashdot.org. It is expected that people reading know the subject at hand and follow it -- at least enough to use Google (as someone else in this thread did) to look up the term.
It's the system, not the phone. As has been noted, it's a GSM thing. That means that pretty much any make/model of phone will do it with the GSM variant (assuming there is one for that given model). If you travel quite a bit, it's pretty much your best bet -- some parts of the world only have GSM.
The interference is a clicking, somewhat like a rotary phone (I now feel old). It happens when the phone is talking to the tower. I kind of like it as it occurs a second or so before an incoming call starts ringing. It also occurs at random (or maybe regular?) intervals.
It bugged me with one set of speakers that were arranged such that it was fairly loud. I moved the phone, and it fixed the problem. My new speakers click more subtly, and I don't really mind it. I think it may have more to do with the volume settings on my computer and on the speakers than the brand of the speakers.
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Anybody can fire up a blog and become the press -- and many people on the in public carry a digital camera or video recorder at all times as part of their cell phone. I think that rather than dispensing special rights to a "special class" that is becoming less and less distinguishable from the public, we should re-examine why and under what circumstances any citizen is compelled to give testimony.
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Although it doesn't seem to support what most people think... basically anybody can be required to testify in front of a grand jury. In the courtroom, the first amendment doesn't give special rights to the press. And in a position that you might want to think about before replying, I agree. There should be no special legal benefits given to a citizen over another citizen based on their profession. I find it amazing that most people here are happy with giving special legal shelter to a "special class" of citizen.
Equality under the law should apply to all citizens.
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All that said, I have a feeling he was not thinking rationally... post-trauma is where quite a bit of anger based racism comes from. Unfortunately that's how the cycle of violence continues. A very human reaction.: it's not an excuse, but neither is his reaction exceptional.
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(Jupiter Island, part of Jupiter, FL, has a population that is pretty much only there during the winter, as most of the condo owners are snowbirds, living the summer up north and coming to their second house over the weekend. The groundskeeper was always either absent or was a nephew or son of the owner who didn't care, especially if we brought some beverages and kept the midnight party quiet.)
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And then I moved cross country twice and lost all my gamer buddies. :(
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And I agree -- if you bought SUSE Linux, and called them up for help, they would reply to a "Why can't I fucking print?". The same goes for most of the other commercial distros. SUSE help desk is remarkably nice. Caldera was as well (many years ago, back when they were their own company). I've called both when I used their distros and they were very helpful.
This is akin to walking up to a group of people talking about computers at a local coffeehouse and saying "Why can't I fucking print?". Can you see the difference?
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Asking for assistance *anywhere* by walking up and saying "Why isn't there fucking mayo on my sandwich?" or "Why is there a fucking surcharge on my bill?" is not going to help you. Asking for free assistance: "Can you take my fucking picture in front of this fucking Eiffel Tower?", "Can you fucking lend me a quarter to make a call?", "Can I have your fucking fries?", "Can I fucking borrow a fucking gas canister?" and expecting a *good* response is fairly stupid.
Actually, make that really stupid.
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More on-topic, Kubuntu means "towards humanity" in Bemba.
Ah, feature balance.
(There was also a fleeting bug in the kubuntu packages where the colorspaces weren't registered until kbuildsycoca was manually run, something that should be always be part of a KDE app install).
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Of course, I could be very wrong, as my knowing about Part 15 is primarily based on a bit of chatter in commercial radio stations among people who know more than I. Feel free to correct me.
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A $100 laptop is not going to perform as well as my current $2,000 beast. I wouldn't expect it to, nor would I expect KDE to run the same on it. Turning off the eyecandy is required, just like I did on my old Compaq. But it does run and is very useful.
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Perhaps Slashdot is not for you, or possibly you should read quietly before jumping into a discussion when you don't know what people are talking about. If you do jump in, and are corrected, it doesn't make much sense to demand that everyone should dumb down the discussion and explain all the terms used. This is an article posted on linux.slashdot.org. It is expected that people reading know the subject at hand and follow it -- at least enough to use Google (as someone else in this thread did) to look up the term.
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The interference is a clicking, somewhat like a rotary phone (I now feel old). It happens when the phone is talking to the tower. I kind of like it as it occurs a second or so before an incoming call starts ringing. It also occurs at random (or maybe regular?) intervals.
It bugged me with one set of speakers that were arranged such that it was fairly loud. I moved the phone, and it fixed the problem. My new speakers click more subtly, and I don't really mind it. I think it may have more to do with the volume settings on my computer and on the speakers than the brand of the speakers.
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