And they didn't just die from bombings, we're talking rape and torture. And no, not the kind of torture where people have sex in front of you and make you undress, but the kind where things are shoved up your ass that don't belong in your ass, where you are slowly killed, you know, real torture.
You mean like the Iraqi teenager who was seen in Abu Ghraib, lying on the floor with his anus bleeding while US troops discussed sodomizing him with metal objects? I guess that story didn't get reported on FOX News, huh?
Yes, you are wrong. MP4 refers to an MPEG-4 container file, usually containing MPEG-4 video and/or audio streams (generally with H.264 and AAC encoding). The MPEG-4 container is similar to, but not identical to, the QuickTime container format.
(Mostly the difference is that the original QuickTime format used forked files, whereas MPEG-4 is more like a flattened QuickTime file.)
Now, does anyone have a good guide for how to encode video from DVD to MP4 on Linux, resizing on the way? That's what I'm looking for...
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Why worry about cops first and not the (always) bad guys?
Because crime isn't actually as bad as you'd think from watching TV.
In reality, most of us live in an age of incredibly low crime rates, even those of us who live in cities in America. I've never even seen a gun, and the one time I was within a mile of an actual violent crime, there were so many cop cars (and bikes and helicopters) after the guy it was like a scene from The Blues Brothers.
Sure, there are exceptions; maybe you live in Gary, Indiana or inner city DC. But for most of us, the chances of being beaten up or having our stuff stolen by law enforcement are much greater than the chances of the same happening because of a violent criminal.
Someone in your apartment block deals drugs? Guess it's time for a drug forfeiture sweep. Doesn't matter if you're found innocent, you can kiss your worldly possessions goodbye.
Selling video signal clarifiers or bootleg arcade game emulators? You could be the next person to be raided by the Department of Homeland Security. (No, I'm not kidding.)
Sharing lots of files? Thanks to Bill Clinton, copyright violation in sufficient quantities is now a felony, and you could find the feds kicking down your door.
Political protester? It's now routine for protesters (whatever the cause) to be illegally mass-arrested in advance to get them off the streets, mistreated in jail, and then freed without charge once the event being protested is over. That's if you're lucky; if you're unlucky, the cops engineer a riot and wade in with the tear gas and batons. If you're really unlucky, they discover that you once sent a pair of boots to a Chechen rebel or contributed to an Islamic charity, and you suddenly disappear to jail indefinitely, or to Guantanamo Bay to be tortured.
I don't lie awake at night worrying that my next-door neighbors might steal my stuff; even if they did, I have insurance, and it's just stuff. I do sometimes worry that I might get arrested or "disappeared" by the US authorities.
I still build sites with Domino, and whilst I agree that Domino's HTML is a mess, the unfortunate fact is that the market doesn't give a shit about whether HTML validates or not. Sure, I'd love Domino to generate valid XHTML with style sheets, but that's not what's stopping badly-designed Domino sites from complying with Section 508.
Domino is fast to deploy. You lose something in maintainability and cleanliness, but there are always tradeoffs in web development. Sure, I could build a site in J2EE in a month or two, and it would produce nice clean XHTML... or, I could build it in Domino, and you can have it tomorrow. Lots of times, tomorrow wins.
Take most web tools "out of the box" and they're not compliant with section 508. Dreamweaver, for example. In fact, I've yet to see a decent web editing tool that complies automatically with XHTML and section 508 requirements.
I maintain that the problem is the developers, not the tools. For a decade web standards folks have been screaming style sheets and clean markup, but a lot of semi-competent developers in the.com bubble just weren't interested. Well, now the companies who bought into their crap are getting what they deserve.
Except that for some reason, people would rather blame the tools than admit that they hired a bunch of know-nothing fly-by-night "web design gurus".
It's possible to build dynamic web sites in Domino that comply fully with Section 508. I know this because I do it, at IBM. With the templates I have, I can bring up a web site with IBM look and feel in an afternoon.
Similarly, as far as I can tell the revolutionary text editor is basically vi, if a bunch of the keys were handled like shift keys.
For example, where he has [Leap]x[/Leap], vi has/x[Return]. Add in shift keys for:, i and Esc and you are basically back at vi again.
The zooming interface idea is interesting, but hardly revolutionary, and it doesn't need a whole new interface paradigm. Just go to the nearest Mac and hit F9...
That's a misleading comment. There's nothing stopping you from using Domino to build Section 508 compliant web sites. You don't *have* to use the sample Java applets provided with Domino.
The IBM VPN solution does work on Linux. I run Debian with the IBM VPN, Notes via WINE, and VMware for the two applications I need to access that don't work without IE.
For every horrible build.xml file, I can find you an incomprehensible Makefile. Or even worse, an automake file... It's not the tools, it's the people writing the files.
There's no such thing as a Sun only feature, or an IBM only feature, unless you use something like the com.sun packages
Not true if you're doing J2EE development. As far as I can tell it's impossible to write a.ear J2EE application that will deploy to any J2EE environment.
j as many times as it took to get to the end of the block, counting in my head as I go
Yes, well, no editor is productive if you don't know how to use it. And vim has directory navigation and the ability to have lots of files open, and since we're talking about Linux here, vi is almost certainly actually vim.
No offence meant to Mr. Gates, as he has given a lot more of his money to charitable causes than a lot of people, and even more importantly he seems to really care about them.
Apparently you missed the leaked memo. Just before the Bill Gates Foundation was set up, someone leaked a memo from Microsoft's PR department that advised Gates to consider philanthropy as a way to improve Microsoft's public image during the anti-trust trials. (I've done some searching, but it seems to have disappeared into the memory hole, perhaps someone else can dredge up a copy?)
Also, the "charity" uses its money to accumulate major stakes in companies that just happen to be aligned with Microsoft's interests.
Of course, using tax money to support hospitals has problems too... there is a reason why the US has one of the best health care systems in the world...
Having experienced both the UK National Health Service, and the top-rated HMO in the USA, I'd have to say that they're about equal.
I'm sure you believe that the US health system is the envy of the world... but I'm afraid it really isn't.
The thing about global warming is it doesn't result in temperatures being uniformly warmer all year round. If that was all that happened, it might not be such a bad thing.
No, the problem of global warming is it results in climate disruption, i.e. the weather being a lot more freakish and extreme.
Then again, you probably know that and are just trying desperately to remain in denial.
Perhaps worse, how many people end up in basically third-world living conditions with no access to health care because there isn't any transportation available?
You should pick better hypotheticals; 60% of Americans already lack basic healthcare coverage.
As someone said recently on Slashdot, America is already like a third-world country, just one that has lots of chubby people and SUVs.
So by a similar argument... Think of the serial killers and assassins who have committed their crimes in order to get attention. The newspapers and TV networks, which carry lurid details of horrific crimes in order to increase their audiences and make more money, are actually partially responsible for those same crimes?
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Well, IBM code contributions to Linux include stuff like 32 and 64 processor support and improvements for CAPP security certification. That's more than just "philosophy".
As for revenue, IBM makes millions of dollars selling Linux products. That may be a small percentage of the total, but do people say that Mitsubishi isn't a car company for similar reasons?
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IBM's cafeterias are all outsourced. IBM doesn't have anyone working in catering. Nice try though.
This isn't a discussion about income taxes, it's a discussion of whether average wages or top 1% wages are growing. Good attempt at distraction, though.
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IBM has more developers working on Linux than RedHat has employees. I'd say that makes them as much a Linux company as RedHat, wouldn't you?
I thought the widening income gap was common knowledge; just do a Google search for "CEO pay" or "income gap" and you'll find a ton of studies and pages of statistics to back them up.
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And guess what? We killed ten of thousands ourselves "liberating" them, and now the civilian death rate is worse than it was under Saddam.
You mean like the Iraqi teenager who was seen in Abu Ghraib, lying on the floor with his anus bleeding while US troops discussed sodomizing him with metal objects? I guess that story didn't get reported on FOX News, huh?
You mean they have nothing to do with each other, apart from XM being part-owned by Clear Channel, right?
Stupid astroturfer.
Have you written up the encoding process? I'm looking for a guide to encoding DVDs to MP4 using Debian...
Yes, you are wrong. MP4 refers to an MPEG-4 container file, usually containing MPEG-4 video and/or audio streams (generally with H.264 and AAC encoding). The MPEG-4 container is similar to, but not identical to, the QuickTime container format.
(Mostly the difference is that the original QuickTime format used forked files, whereas MPEG-4 is more like a flattened QuickTime file.)
Now, does anyone have a good guide for how to encode video from DVD to MP4 on Linux, resizing on the way? That's what I'm looking for...
Because crime isn't actually as bad as you'd think from watching TV.
In reality, most of us live in an age of incredibly low crime rates, even those of us who live in cities in America. I've never even seen a gun, and the one time I was within a mile of an actual violent crime, there were so many cop cars (and bikes and helicopters) after the guy it was like a scene from The Blues Brothers.
Sure, there are exceptions; maybe you live in Gary, Indiana or inner city DC. But for most of us, the chances of being beaten up or having our stuff stolen by law enforcement are much greater than the chances of the same happening because of a violent criminal.
Someone in your apartment block deals drugs? Guess it's time for a drug forfeiture sweep. Doesn't matter if you're found innocent, you can kiss your worldly possessions goodbye.
Selling video signal clarifiers or bootleg arcade game emulators? You could be the next person to be raided by the Department of Homeland Security. (No, I'm not kidding.)
Sharing lots of files? Thanks to Bill Clinton, copyright violation in sufficient quantities is now a felony, and you could find the feds kicking down your door.
Political protester? It's now routine for protesters (whatever the cause) to be illegally mass-arrested in advance to get them off the streets, mistreated in jail, and then freed without charge once the event being protested is over. That's if you're lucky; if you're unlucky, the cops engineer a riot and wade in with the tear gas and batons. If you're really unlucky, they discover that you once sent a pair of boots to a Chechen rebel or contributed to an Islamic charity, and you suddenly disappear to jail indefinitely, or to Guantanamo Bay to be tortured.
I don't lie awake at night worrying that my next-door neighbors might steal my stuff; even if they did, I have insurance, and it's just stuff. I do sometimes worry that I might get arrested or "disappeared" by the US authorities.
I still build sites with Domino, and whilst I agree that Domino's HTML is a mess, the unfortunate fact is that the market doesn't give a shit about whether HTML validates or not. Sure, I'd love Domino to generate valid XHTML with style sheets, but that's not what's stopping badly-designed Domino sites from complying with Section 508.
Domino is fast to deploy. You lose something in maintainability and cleanliness, but there are always tradeoffs in web development. Sure, I could build a site in J2EE in a month or two, and it would produce nice clean XHTML... or, I could build it in Domino, and you can have it tomorrow. Lots of times, tomorrow wins.
Take most web tools "out of the box" and they're not compliant with section 508. Dreamweaver, for example. In fact, I've yet to see a decent web editing tool that complies automatically with XHTML and section 508 requirements.
.com bubble just weren't interested. Well, now the companies who bought into their crap are getting what they deserve.
I maintain that the problem is the developers, not the tools. For a decade web standards folks have been screaming style sheets and clean markup, but a lot of semi-competent developers in the
Except that for some reason, people would rather blame the tools than admit that they hired a bunch of know-nothing fly-by-night "web design gurus".
It's possible to build dynamic web sites in Domino that comply fully with Section 508. I know this because I do it, at IBM. With the templates I have, I can bring up a web site with IBM look and feel in an afternoon.
Similarly, as far as I can tell the revolutionary text editor is basically vi, if a bunch of the keys were handled like shift keys.
/x[Return]. Add in shift keys for :, i and Esc and you are basically back at vi again.
For example, where he has [Leap]x[/Leap], vi has
The zooming interface idea is interesting, but hardly revolutionary, and it doesn't need a whole new interface paradigm. Just go to the nearest Mac and hit F9...
That's a misleading comment. There's nothing stopping you from using Domino to build Section 508 compliant web sites. You don't *have* to use the sample Java applets provided with Domino.
The IBM VPN solution does work on Linux. I run Debian with the IBM VPN, Notes via WINE, and VMware for the two applications I need to access that don't work without IE.
Right, that's one of my big problems with J2EE--it's really totally non-portable. Throws away the entire point of Java.
For every horrible build.xml file, I can find you an incomprehensible Makefile. Or even worse, an automake file... It's not the tools, it's the people writing the files.
Have you tried it on multiple J2EE platforms (e.g. WebSphere, JBoss, etc)? Or just multiple operating systems running the same platform?
Not true if you're doing J2EE development. As far as I can tell it's impossible to write a
Yes, well, no editor is productive if you don't know how to use it.
And vim has directory navigation and the ability to have lots of files open, and since we're talking about Linux here, vi is almost certainly actually vim.
Apparently you missed the leaked memo. Just before the Bill Gates Foundation was set up, someone leaked a memo from Microsoft's PR department that advised Gates to consider philanthropy as a way to improve Microsoft's public image during the anti-trust trials. (I've done some searching, but it seems to have disappeared into the memory hole, perhaps someone else can dredge up a copy?)
Also, the "charity" uses its money to accumulate major stakes in companies that just happen to be aligned with Microsoft's interests.
Having experienced both the UK National Health Service, and the top-rated HMO in the USA, I'd have to say that they're about equal.
I'm sure you believe that the US health system is the envy of the world... but I'm afraid it really isn't.
The thing about global warming is it doesn't result in temperatures being uniformly warmer all year round. If that was all that happened, it might not be such a bad thing.
No, the problem of global warming is it results in climate disruption, i.e. the weather being a lot more freakish and extreme.
Then again, you probably know that and are just trying desperately to remain in denial.
You should pick better hypotheticals; 60% of Americans already lack basic healthcare coverage.
As someone said recently on Slashdot, America is already like a third-world country, just one that has lots of chubby people and SUVs.
So by a similar argument... Think of the serial killers and assassins who have committed their crimes in order to get attention. The newspapers and TV networks, which carry lurid details of horrific crimes in order to increase their audiences and make more money, are actually partially responsible for those same crimes?
Well, IBM code contributions to Linux include stuff like 32 and 64 processor support and improvements for CAPP security certification. That's more than just "philosophy".
As for revenue, IBM makes millions of dollars selling Linux products. That may be a small percentage of the total, but do people say that Mitsubishi isn't a car company for similar reasons?
IBM's cafeterias are all outsourced. IBM doesn't have anyone working in catering. Nice try though.
This isn't a discussion about income taxes, it's a discussion of whether average wages or top 1% wages are growing. Good attempt at distraction, though.
IBM has more developers working on Linux than RedHat has employees. I'd say that makes them as much a Linux company as RedHat, wouldn't you?
graph of top 1% of earners' pay vs average worker pay
'nuff said?
I thought the widening income gap was common knowledge; just do a Google search for "CEO pay" or "income gap" and you'll find a ton of studies and pages of statistics to back them up.