Oh, wait this is/. of course not.
Brin makes an outlandish suggestion. What if Vader and Obi won were working together against both the jedi and the empire? It would explain all the inconsistencies in the 5 movies so far!
Go read the article, it's right at the bottom. Awesome idea.
actually I remember a company in brazil that made very nifty self-sharpening razor blades. Those things lasted a LONG time, measured in years no less.
They were promptly bought out by gillette together with all their patents, then shut down. This was more than a decade ago. I only know this because my grandfather was telling me about it recently, he still has some. To this day I still have to buy razor blades that last for less than a month.
Go figure.
I had the argument about the lightbulb with my physics teacher. I lost. Do some research. Cheap efficient lightbulbs that last for decades aren't hard to produce. The parent poster is right when he says the companies who make lightbulbs aren't interested and destroy anyone who attempts it.
Capitalism in practice does not work like you think. Monopolies and cartels are a dime a dozen in this world, stiffling competition and using power and influence to maintain outdated buisness models.
add to this the fact that if you go with ogg vorbis for example, you don't have to hire lawyers to figure out what you can and can't do, you don't have to keep track of what you owe and you don't have to pay it. Add to this you get a lot of work that's already done, you don't have to license even more tech from another company to encode,decode,play etc. Add to that you get all the freedoms of the GPL and thousands of user testers and free coders improving and bugfixing the format and codec. Seems like it's worth it to me.
Read their statements in the article linked by the story. It's hillarious. They start by advertising their product, then continue by saying how they love opensource and the linux operating system. ERM i thought the GPL was FREE SOFTWARE not opensource and... what does this video codec have to do with linux? As a matter of fact what kind of a freakin apology is this?!
Oh the code theft was carried out by a lone programmer without our managers knowing about it. ROFL, so this guy cuts and pastes a years worth of work, then goes on a year's vacation and your managers are STILL clueless? Yes, please, I'll buy all your products now that I know how competent you are (/sarchasm).
Okay, I'm from Brazil so I will comment. In the rainforests in Brazil loggers DO cut down trees and sell them for every purpose. Yes even to make paper in the developed world. Not only that but over 90% of all the trees cut down go to the developed world. Where do you think all the good wood like mahogony (ie. everything except pine, oak and cherry) comes from? A rainforest that's where. These trees take hundreds of years to grow, they can't be cultivated like pine.
You do have a point that a significant portion of the damage to the forests is done in order to get new agricultural land, but it's not cut down it's usually burned down illegaly by rogue farmers.
Don't go getting smug though, because 90% of that agricultural product (usually beef) then gets sold in the developed world as well. Not only that, but because most of the cleared land was burned down to graze cattle, the soil becomes unusable within a few years and they do it again.
Regardless of how the damage is done, the vast majority of it is financed for by money from the developed world.Yes, what you do here does mean you're responsible for acres of rainforests being depleted. Quit denying it and do something about it.
very nice! I was wondering about this myself. I'd like to have a kiosk mode for the guest account on my box so my friends couldn't mess around with it too much. Everytime certain friends log in they leave pr0n wallpapers and shit. A nasty surprise when you tell your dad to go ahead and just use the guest login.
I know there are a lot of us here waiting on that client. Let's show them their linux support was worthwhile. Head out and buy the game the day the linux client is released. You'll get to play the game you want and they'll see a nice large bump in the sales and go "whoa".
Does anyone know of a good place with up to date documentation on how to start developing with python the QT and KDE3 bindings?
This kinda stuff seems very tough to find. The only one I found depended on using a commercial IDE which did not interest me. All free software please. thanks.
actually, while the companies with crooked accounting went down in a ball of flame; most of the guilty white-collars responsible for it got out early with millions and are now pleading the 5th in front of congress. Not a single one has gone to jail yet. Anyone wanna place bets on whether any will?
Why the equalizer is fluff.
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If you have decent speakers and a decent soundcard, you shouldn't need to touch an equalzer.
The people who produce these songs are usually working out of hundred thousand dollar studios with better equipment and ears than you. They probably do a much better job of equalizing than you so just leave it alone. If you have crap speakers tho, then you might need to adjust to correct for them.
M$ just wants to keep letting them have free samples, they don't want the habbit kicked just yet. Then when they have their whole.NET framework, BAM! They'll lock it down and cut off the copyright violations. They'll finally start makin some money off them.
If they don't do this and linux begins to be the flavour of choice, the chinese won't fall into the trap.
Now that's some fucking bullshit. I waited for kde3 to be included in debian unstable for months and it's STILL not included. KDE3 is more featurefull, more mature, easy as hell to build and has a LOT of applications. Quite the opposite of gnome2 yet gnome2 is gonna be included first. BOGGLES the mind.
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what the hell is up with your sig?
Oh, wait this is /. of course not.
Brin makes an outlandish suggestion. What if Vader and Obi won were working together against both the jedi and the empire? It would explain all the inconsistencies in the 5 movies so far!
Go read the article, it's right at the bottom. Awesome idea.
no no no, what I want, is a DVD burner that holds a stack of dvds and automatically burns them, then dumps them into storage for me.
They were promptly bought out by gillette together with all their patents, then shut down. This was more than a decade ago. I only know this because my grandfather was telling me about it recently, he still has some. To this day I still have to buy razor blades that last for less than a month.
Go figure.
I had the argument about the lightbulb with my physics teacher. I lost. Do some research. Cheap efficient lightbulbs that last for decades aren't hard to produce. The parent poster is right when he says the companies who make lightbulbs aren't interested and destroy anyone who attempts it.
Capitalism in practice does not work like you think. Monopolies and cartels are a dime a dozen in this world, stiffling competition and using power and influence to maintain outdated buisness models.
If you have to remotely flush your toilet, odds are you're doing something wrong.
Ho would have thunk it?
I think I'll coin a new phrase:
Illiterate by /.
add to this the fact that if you go with ogg vorbis for example, you don't have to hire lawyers to figure out what you can and can't do, you don't have to keep track of what you owe and you don't have to pay it. Add to this you get a lot of work that's already done, you don't have to license even more tech from another company to encode,decode,play etc. Add to that you get all the freedoms of the GPL and thousands of user testers and free coders improving and bugfixing the format and codec. Seems like it's worth it to me.
Oh the code theft was carried out by a lone programmer without our managers knowing about it. ROFL, so this guy cuts and pastes a years worth of work, then goes on a year's vacation and your managers are STILL clueless? Yes, please, I'll buy all your products now that I know how competent you are (/sarchasm).
You do have a point that a significant portion of the damage to the forests is done in order to get new agricultural land, but it's not cut down it's usually burned down illegaly by rogue farmers.
Don't go getting smug though, because 90% of that agricultural product (usually beef) then gets sold in the developed world as well. Not only that, but because most of the cleared land was burned down to graze cattle, the soil becomes unusable within a few years and they do it again.
Regardless of how the damage is done, the vast majority of it is financed for by money from the developed world.Yes, what you do here does mean you're responsible for acres of rainforests being depleted. Quit denying it and do something about it.
very nice! I was wondering about this myself. I'd like to have a kiosk mode for the guest account on my box so my friends couldn't mess around with it too much. Everytime certain friends log in they leave pr0n wallpapers and shit. A nasty surprise when you tell your dad to go ahead and just use the guest login.
I do not think the word slightly means what you think it means.
I know there are a lot of us here waiting on that client. Let's show them their linux support was worthwhile. Head out and buy the game the day the linux client is released. You'll get to play the game you want and they'll see a nice large bump in the sales and go "whoa".
omg, then you'd be sleeping with fat chicks, overpaying for cars and freaking out when all your pepsis taste like another drink.
the FTC won't let me be
or let me be me
so let me see...
Must be you that caused it. It wasn't socialism.If you're dumb enough to confuse despotism with socialism you're not worthy of discussing the topic.
I don't like windows.
thank you :)
I have a teac 56s-600. They only provide self extracting windows and mac binaries. How does one flash a cdr firmware when one is using linux?
This kinda stuff seems very tough to find. The only one I found depended on using a commercial IDE which did not interest me. All free software please. thanks.
actually, while the companies with crooked accounting went down in a ball of flame; most of the guilty white-collars responsible for it got out early with millions and are now pleading the 5th in front of congress. Not a single one has gone to jail yet. Anyone wanna place bets on whether any will?
The people who produce these songs are usually working out of hundred thousand dollar studios with better equipment and ears than you. They probably do a much better job of equalizing than you so just leave it alone. If you have crap speakers tho, then you might need to adjust to correct for them.
He mentioned this in his last interview. It's amazing to me he's actually going through with it.
If they don't do this and linux begins to be the flavour of choice, the chinese won't fall into the trap.
It's a very quick way to test all the patches. Then only apply the ones with features you want to your production kernel.
Now that's some fucking bullshit. I waited for kde3 to be included in debian unstable for months and it's STILL not included. KDE3 is more featurefull, more mature, easy as hell to build and has a LOT of applications. Quite the opposite of gnome2 yet gnome2 is gonna be included first. BOGGLES the mind.