The last time I attempted to use iTunes was an unmitigated disaster. I'm pretty sure we are already beating apple. I never have problems like that in Rhythmbox. TVtime needs a lot of work though....
I actually have a youtube video up posting about how Obama is a stuffed shirt corporate mouth piece very similar to McCain. I'm a fan of Kucinich. And the Senator that got whacked. I think his name was Wellstone. Going back further, I'm a fan of JFK, Jefferson, and Franklin. Not necessarily in that order.
I actively promote armed rebellion, and advocate every American citizen owning a REAL gun, so that we can get the Bill of Rights back, and the rest of the constitution, and maybe start tearing down the cameras.
Elderly people STILL predominately vote Republican, and at THIS POINT, that is clearly stupid.
The problem is, even though that kind of statement (though true) is STATISTICALLY ageist, it is still wrong to assume that EVERY old person is stupid.
I'm one of those people who tend to think 90% of EVERY age group, race, and sex is pretty fucking stupid.
I'm also one of those people eagerly willing to wade through the 90% to find the 10% I want to talk to, which hopefully keeps me from really being ageist, sexist OR racist. Although, honestly, having been in orchestra for most of my life (I play the violin), I AM convinced that Asian women, at least, are mildly worse drivers than average. But they are also mildly (or in some cases) extremely more attractive than the rest of us, so I suppose it evens out.
The government's fairly blatant cover-up of 9/11 is pretty horrific. Compared to their complicity and subsequent cover-up of JFK's assassination, they've done what can only be described as a piss-poor job.
Besides the fact that the demolitions were completely obvious, and the presence of molten steel for weeks afterward completely indicates incendiaries, the put-options and stock market chicanery are well well documented, and the owner of the buildings was even quoted directly, "I was talking to the fire Marshall, and I said, 'We've had such a terrible loss of life, maybe the best idea is just to pull it.' So that's what we did, we made the decision to pull." Pull being a well known demolition term meaning "Bring the building down", and then watching video of the WTC7 coming down... combined with the fact that news sources including the BBC somehow knew it was going to collapse ahead of time..
At the very least there is clearly complicity and fore-knowledge and a cover up regarding WTC7. It doesn't really stand to reason that the other rather incredible demolitions weren't also therefore connected, especially given that Marvin Bush, a well known and well connected criminal was in charge of security for the weeks up to September 11th.
Did you really want to stick your foot in your mouth and talk about 9/11 in some kind of discrediting tone and look like a jack-ass? Or were you just being a shill for some corporate entity?
....but it's not a real solution, unless there is a real alternative. Unfortunately, openmoko is just plain poorly designed, too expensive, and did I mention that it sucks?
What we need is an openmoko that not only beats the iphone all the way on price and freedom, but on design as well. Hell, just clone the iPhone exactly for now.
With the inherently poor design decisions that seem to consistently go into FOSS projects, such as Ubuntu and OpenMoko, I have to wonder if they don't have some voracious and vocal corporate plants somewhere in the project actively sabotaging the overall movement. Or maybe I need a tin foil hat.
Well I like to think that intent has more to do with a behavioral question, rather than a lack of ability to communicate maybe as perfectly as everyone would like.
You are just really right on. Thanks man. I do think the toughest part about using Linux (for me) has been the rather abrupt and rude veiled threats I seem to get in IRC, or in forums, or elsewhere.
You can come on and say, "Hey, I can't play a DVD!" or some other such stuff, and next thing you know there is some LEET HAXORZ telling you that you need to try and program a DVD decryptor yourself in PERL or you are some kind of retard.
But I'll admit that for experienced computer people, less informed questions from n00bies can be frustrating. I've been on both side of this coin more times than I'd like to count, and I sympathize with some of the Linux nerds. They just need to take a deep breath, slow down, and link to a good FAQ that solves the problem that is usually VERY common, and has been had by about 20 windows converts probably that very day.
Not an easy thing to try to remember to do, what with the pressures of real life, and the annoying tendencies of Windows converts to blindly run into the same walls over and over again.
Not a troll. I'm a FOSS advocate. I'd like to see improvement so my computer clients don't bitch at me about stuff they are used to from Windows that is different in a BAD way.
And that was some time ago, not drawing a straight line in GIMP. LOL I am not a professional graphic artist. Sue me! I'm really not trolling, but sometimes people get highly offended over honest constructive criticism for pride or emotional reasons. And I do little assuage their insecurities, since I don't feel that is the place of an unabashed critic with good intentions.
openwengo is not as good as skype. Skype I'd like to skip altogether by having a cross platform VoIP program that kills skype, kind of like how firefox kills IE. I believe that is the way forward for all of us, and for society.
Gnome has more complete in other ways than kde. I know I can alter it, but I haven't gotten to it yet. I just feel the default layout takes too much space I suppose is my main gripe there. And that's a subtle less important one.
7zip is required to open.7z files which are superior to zip, rar, ace, etc. I also use it for.rar files, which the built in compression program in Ubuntu also cannot handle, or even suggest a plugin or upgrade.
I've tried a FEW native snes emus, including zsnes. They all had pretty serious problems, and ran very poorly compared to zsnes on windows.
Thanks for the advice though, I've tried lots of it! I am still using Ubuntu frequently.
Let me say first and foremost, that I prefer booting into Ubuntu and using that as my daily driver. Sometimes I just can't though.
Here is a list of short reasons why:
Skype seems to be faster, and work better in w32. My video gets sent at higher resolution, and I can hear the other party better. Dunno why, this is just the case.
7zip is screwed up in Linux. I installed a wine version, AND a native version, only the wine version will start and it flickers and won't let me select a package to extract. Making it unusable.
Random crashes. I mean, probably as many or more as I get regularly in Windows, with the added inconvenience of ctrl+alt+bckspce not being near as good as ctrl+alt+delete, which brings up a handy task menu for me to clean up (usually).
No two sound things going at once. Sometimes I like to put on mp3s, and THEN go kill people in Urban Terror. This is easy and works perfect in W32, but not in Ubuntu, I just get the mp3s, and NO sound in a game whilst they are playing.
TVtime not recognizing my TV card. Dscaler turns on perfectly in Windows. So does TVtime in Ubuntu, but then the screen is blue and there is no menu for me to figure out what is wrong, either.
Joost. Works in windows, not in Ubuntu. I'm sure partially Joost's fault, but still sad.
Civilization 2. Best/funnest version of the game, will not play in wine even though it's like 10 years old.
I like how Windows arranges it's GUI, start button, quicklaunch, then task list, then systray and clock. Less real estate, all the same functionality, but without a top AND bottom bar.
Zsnes. Does not work in any way shape or form, or under wine.
What Linux gets RIGHT however is it's ability to find and install 99% of my hardware without me hunting for hours for drivers, inclusion of most of the software I prefer (firefox, gimp, pidgin, open office, cd burner), Compiz Fusion (blows every Windows attempt away!), and it's open source nature. There is something good knowing the code to my machine is inspected by lots of eyes, not just one corporation, and it's also good to know that if I was knowledgeable enough, some of those eyes could be mine.
Honestly Linux feels "closer" than it ever did. It just needs to solve a few naggling issues before it can fully dominate the world by desktop. Another way it could do so is by being AHEAD of the curve. It would be nice if there was a superior FOSS Skype killer, since skype is actually deficient in numerous ways, including not being FOSS. Speex is a better speech compression algorithm, so it would seem like we have the tools in hand to beat the current corporate paradigm too, and yet it sadly isn't happening.
Eventually. It seems the pattern for emulation is: Nothing, then a few loading screens, then it's almost playable, then the games become playable, then the emulation steadily improves, and finally the gameplay experience is vastly superior to the original console.
That is mostly on topic. There is a new Open Source wii emulator out that runs in both x86 and x64 windows. It was initially just a gamecube emulator, but it now emulates several wii titles, and shows perfect graphics until it realizes you have no wiimote, for which there is currently no software interface, either.
But still, a wii emulator is ALREADY OUT that shows graphics, and it's OPEN SOURCE (now)!
It's important with these kind of topics to discuss the difference between illegal and immoral. Part of the whole PROBLEM is that so much that is NOT immoral is illegal. I think that ALL information should be free (and I'm a musician!), and that includes all media, software, and the like. There are historically many great minds that also feel this way and frankly diminish me both in their eloquence and lucidity on the subject. My personal favorite is probably Benjamin Franklin:
"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
I would argue that all media, software, or anything else that can be transferred as 1s and 0s would qualify as an "invention" in modern terms.
And for that reason, I use TOR, and just about any other tool possible to protect myself legally, as I feel very confident on moral grounds. Furthermore, I strongly advocate civil disobedience in a society where our "free" market has been completely overrun by corporate monopolies and the government is now owned outright by those same monopolies.
What needs to happen now is that TOR and other technologies like the discussed Pirate Bay one night to be improved, used more widely, and made more robust. Frankly, I'd prefer a global ad hoc wifi network running fully encrypted and fully p2p for all data.
Putting the genie back in the bottle of content control and pay for play is never going to happen anyway, no matter where you stand morally or legally on the issue. So really this whole discussion is moot. However, we should clearly outline the moral issues (and listen to greater minds like Franklin) for other reasons moving forward in the future.
How is this better than solar power? Is it because it will allow corporations to continue to control the energy and transportation industries? Is this good for some reason?
If everyone had a Tesla (or a cheaper version) and a bunch of solar panels on their garage, we'd all be driving around for free. I don't understand how this isn't happening faster than it is, and why everyone is buying this bullshit about biofuels, ethanol, hydrogen, etc....
Why replace one corrupt fuel industry with another? We could eliminate them altogether!
*sigh*. Yeah, it must be hard not to drink the kool-aid when you live in DC. At least he still is ALIVE, and has a super hot wife. I think his worst day is probably still pretty bad ass.
And even if everyone did have a sudden burst of reason and common sense and voted for Kucinich, he would still lose because Diebold does not count your votes. And you would never hear about it because the corporate media wouldn't tell you the news, even though the exit polls aren't matching and the UN claims the election is totally fraudulent. That is exactly what happened during BOTH of the last elections.
This is just ONE of MANY examples proving that Obama is a total stuffed shirt who only says the right things, and almost never does them.
If he was a REAL candidate of hope and change, who actually gave even a passing nod to the constitution, or even any of the tenets set forth by Franklin, Jefferson, and the other geniuses who set up our system, he would not be a "realistic" candidate, and he certainly wouldn't get so much air time on corporate TV.
All you Obama fans had a real guy representing the stuff you really wanted. His name was Kucinich, and his wife is totally hot.
Oh, and he's the one in congress delivering impeachment papers day after day, too.....
But what he doesn't have is CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSN, and Rolling Stone completely sucking his cock. There's a reason for that, too. He's the real deal, unlike stuffed shirt Obama, who talks the talk and then sells the constitution out for corporate and political power every time. Just like the FISA thing.
You people claiming it's a simple mistake that he will work to correct are idiots. The FISA thing is an OBVIOUS choice, actually talked about DIRECTLY in the fourth amendment.
You people claiming Republican's are far worse are also idiots. They are exactly the same. They just don't even SAY the right things. Well, they say the right things for old people and people who talk to invisible men in the sky, but then they vote pro corporate and pro fascist just like the Democrats. There is NO difference. The party lines are both the same: The bottom line for Viacomm, AOL/Time Warner, Bertelsmann, News Corp, and Disney.
Yes, honestly, you are completely right. I advocate that every citizen not charged with a violent crime own their own weapon. Even if we never actually use them, just having them would give us more power, and make the country function more as it was supposed to according to the constitution.
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You can do everything a Win + MS OFFICE machine does NOW, and for free. It's called Ubuntu and Open Office.
Who will pay $10 a month for something they can HAVE that's FREE? I don't really get it.
The last time I attempted to use iTunes was an unmitigated disaster. I'm pretty sure we are already beating apple. I never have problems like that in Rhythmbox. TVtime needs a lot of work though....
I think reinstating prohibition would be pointless, since that's already the existing situation with marijuana. But I enjoy your creative approach.
Trust me, when the number is AGE, neither women nor men really want it to be much over 20.
My /. ID # is less than a third of yours!
I actually have a youtube video up posting about how Obama is a stuffed shirt corporate mouth piece very similar to McCain. I'm a fan of Kucinich. And the Senator that got whacked. I think his name was Wellstone. Going back further, I'm a fan of JFK, Jefferson, and Franklin. Not necessarily in that order.
I actively promote armed rebellion, and advocate every American citizen owning a REAL gun, so that we can get the Bill of Rights back, and the rest of the constitution, and maybe start tearing down the cameras.
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Elderly people STILL predominately vote Republican, and at THIS POINT, that is clearly stupid.
The problem is, even though that kind of statement (though true) is STATISTICALLY ageist, it is still wrong to assume that EVERY old person is stupid.
I'm one of those people who tend to think 90% of EVERY age group, race, and sex is pretty fucking stupid.
I'm also one of those people eagerly willing to wade through the 90% to find the 10% I want to talk to, which hopefully keeps me from really being ageist, sexist OR racist. Although, honestly, having been in orchestra for most of my life (I play the violin), I AM convinced that Asian women, at least, are mildly worse drivers than average. But they are also mildly (or in some cases) extremely more attractive than the rest of us, so I suppose it evens out.
The government's fairly blatant cover-up of 9/11 is pretty horrific. Compared to their complicity and subsequent cover-up of JFK's assassination, they've done what can only be described as a piss-poor job.
Besides the fact that the demolitions were completely obvious, and the presence of molten steel for weeks afterward completely indicates incendiaries, the put-options and stock market chicanery are well well documented, and the owner of the buildings was even quoted directly, "I was talking to the fire Marshall, and I said, 'We've had such a terrible loss of life, maybe the best idea is just to pull it.' So that's what we did, we made the decision to pull." Pull being a well known demolition term meaning "Bring the building down", and then watching video of the WTC7 coming down... combined with the fact that news sources including the BBC somehow knew it was going to collapse ahead of time..
At the very least there is clearly complicity and fore-knowledge and a cover up regarding WTC7. It doesn't really stand to reason that the other rather incredible demolitions weren't also therefore connected, especially given that Marvin Bush, a well known and well connected criminal was in charge of security for the weeks up to September 11th.
Did you really want to stick your foot in your mouth and talk about 9/11 in some kind of discrediting tone and look like a jack-ass? Or were you just being a shill for some corporate entity?
....but it's not a real solution, unless there is a real alternative. Unfortunately, openmoko is just plain poorly designed, too expensive, and did I mention that it sucks?
What we need is an openmoko that not only beats the iphone all the way on price and freedom, but on design as well. Hell, just clone the iPhone exactly for now.
With the inherently poor design decisions that seem to consistently go into FOSS projects, such as Ubuntu and OpenMoko, I have to wonder if they don't have some voracious and vocal corporate plants somewhere in the project actively sabotaging the overall movement. Or maybe I need a tin foil hat.
Well I like to think that intent has more to do with a behavioral question, rather than a lack of ability to communicate maybe as perfectly as everyone would like.
Of the new Wii/Gamecube emulator are available here:
http://www.nyleveia.com/nevada/release/
If you are on Windows, and don't want to compile source code.....
You are just really right on. Thanks man. I do think the toughest part about using Linux (for me) has been the rather abrupt and rude veiled threats I seem to get in IRC, or in forums, or elsewhere.
You can come on and say, "Hey, I can't play a DVD!" or some other such stuff, and next thing you know there is some LEET HAXORZ telling you that you need to try and program a DVD decryptor yourself in PERL or you are some kind of retard.
But I'll admit that for experienced computer people, less informed questions from n00bies can be frustrating. I've been on both side of this coin more times than I'd like to count, and I sympathize with some of the Linux nerds. They just need to take a deep breath, slow down, and link to a good FAQ that solves the problem that is usually VERY common, and has been had by about 20 windows converts probably that very day.
Not an easy thing to try to remember to do, what with the pressures of real life, and the annoying tendencies of Windows converts to blindly run into the same walls over and over again.
Not a troll. I'm a FOSS advocate. I'd like to see improvement so my computer clients don't bitch at me about stuff they are used to from Windows that is different in a BAD way.
And that was some time ago, not drawing a straight line in GIMP. LOL I am not a professional graphic artist. Sue me! I'm really not trolling, but sometimes people get highly offended over honest constructive criticism for pride or emotional reasons. And I do little assuage their insecurities, since I don't feel that is the place of an unabashed critic with good intentions.
openwengo is not as good as skype. Skype I'd like to skip altogether by having a cross platform VoIP program that kills skype, kind of like how firefox kills IE. I believe that is the way forward for all of us, and for society.
Gnome has more complete in other ways than kde. I know I can alter it, but I haven't gotten to it yet. I just feel the default layout takes too much space I suppose is my main gripe there. And that's a subtle less important one.
7zip is required to open .7z files which are superior to zip, rar, ace, etc. I also use it for .rar files, which the built in compression program in Ubuntu also cannot handle, or even suggest a plugin or upgrade.
I've tried a FEW native snes emus, including zsnes. They all had pretty serious problems, and ran very poorly compared to zsnes on windows.
Thanks for the advice though, I've tried lots of it! I am still using Ubuntu frequently.
I'll give fair crits.
Let me say first and foremost, that I prefer booting into Ubuntu and using that as my daily driver. Sometimes I just can't though.
Here is a list of short reasons why:
Skype seems to be faster, and work better in w32. My video gets sent at higher resolution, and I can hear the other party better. Dunno why, this is just the case.
7zip is screwed up in Linux. I installed a wine version, AND a native version, only the wine version will start and it flickers and won't let me select a package to extract. Making it unusable.
Random crashes. I mean, probably as many or more as I get regularly in Windows, with the added inconvenience of ctrl+alt+bckspce not being near as good as ctrl+alt+delete, which brings up a handy task menu for me to clean up (usually).
No two sound things going at once. Sometimes I like to put on mp3s, and THEN go kill people in Urban Terror. This is easy and works perfect in W32, but not in Ubuntu, I just get the mp3s, and NO sound in a game whilst they are playing.
TVtime not recognizing my TV card. Dscaler turns on perfectly in Windows. So does TVtime in Ubuntu, but then the screen is blue and there is no menu for me to figure out what is wrong, either.
Joost. Works in windows, not in Ubuntu. I'm sure partially Joost's fault, but still sad.
Civilization 2. Best/funnest version of the game, will not play in wine even though it's like 10 years old.
I like how Windows arranges it's GUI, start button, quicklaunch, then task list, then systray and clock. Less real estate, all the same functionality, but without a top AND bottom bar.
Zsnes. Does not work in any way shape or form, or under wine.
What Linux gets RIGHT however is it's ability to find and install 99% of my hardware without me hunting for hours for drivers, inclusion of most of the software I prefer (firefox, gimp, pidgin, open office, cd burner), Compiz Fusion (blows every Windows attempt away!), and it's open source nature. There is something good knowing the code to my machine is inspected by lots of eyes, not just one corporation, and it's also good to know that if I was knowledgeable enough, some of those eyes could be mine.
Honestly Linux feels "closer" than it ever did. It just needs to solve a few naggling issues before it can fully dominate the world by desktop. Another way it could do so is by being AHEAD of the curve. It would be nice if there was a superior FOSS Skype killer, since skype is actually deficient in numerous ways, including not being FOSS. Speex is a better speech compression algorithm, so it would seem like we have the tools in hand to beat the current corporate paradigm too, and yet it sadly isn't happening.
There is a Wii emulator out already. I submitted a story last week, but as usual....
http://www.dolphin-emu.com/
Eventually. It seems the pattern for emulation is: Nothing, then a few loading screens, then it's almost playable, then the games become playable, then the emulation steadily improves, and finally the gameplay experience is vastly superior to the original console.
That is mostly on topic. There is a new Open Source wii emulator out that runs in both x86 and x64 windows. It was initially just a gamecube emulator, but it now emulates several wii titles, and shows perfect graphics until it realizes you have no wiimote, for which there is currently no software interface, either.
But still, a wii emulator is ALREADY OUT that shows graphics, and it's OPEN SOURCE (now)!
http://www.dolphin-emu.com/
It's important with these kind of topics to discuss the difference between illegal and immoral. Part of the whole PROBLEM is that so much that is NOT immoral is illegal. I think that ALL information should be free (and I'm a musician!), and that includes all media, software, and the like. There are historically many great minds that also feel this way and frankly diminish me both in their eloquence and lucidity on the subject. My personal favorite is probably Benjamin Franklin:
"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
I would argue that all media, software, or anything else that can be transferred as 1s and 0s would qualify as an "invention" in modern terms.
And for that reason, I use TOR, and just about any other tool possible to protect myself legally, as I feel very confident on moral grounds. Furthermore, I strongly advocate civil disobedience in a society where our "free" market has been completely overrun by corporate monopolies and the government is now owned outright by those same monopolies.
What needs to happen now is that TOR and other technologies like the discussed Pirate Bay one night to be improved, used more widely, and made more robust. Frankly, I'd prefer a global ad hoc wifi network running fully encrypted and fully p2p for all data.
Putting the genie back in the bottle of content control and pay for play is never going to happen anyway, no matter where you stand morally or legally on the issue. So really this whole discussion is moot. However, we should clearly outline the moral issues (and listen to greater minds like Franklin) for other reasons moving forward in the future.
How is this better than solar power? Is it because it will allow corporations to continue to control the energy and transportation industries? Is this good for some reason?
If everyone had a Tesla (or a cheaper version) and a bunch of solar panels on their garage, we'd all be driving around for free. I don't understand how this isn't happening faster than it is, and why everyone is buying this bullshit about biofuels, ethanol, hydrogen, etc....
Why replace one corrupt fuel industry with another? We could eliminate them altogether!
*sigh*. Yeah, it must be hard not to drink the kool-aid when you live in DC. At least he still is ALIVE, and has a super hot wife. I think his worst day is probably still pretty bad ass.
And even if everyone did have a sudden burst of reason and common sense and voted for Kucinich, he would still lose because Diebold does not count your votes. And you would never hear about it because the corporate media wouldn't tell you the news, even though the exit polls aren't matching and the UN claims the election is totally fraudulent. That is exactly what happened during BOTH of the last elections.
This is just ONE of MANY examples proving that Obama is a total stuffed shirt who only says the right things, and almost never does them.
If he was a REAL candidate of hope and change, who actually gave even a passing nod to the constitution, or even any of the tenets set forth by Franklin, Jefferson, and the other geniuses who set up our system, he would not be a "realistic" candidate, and he certainly wouldn't get so much air time on corporate TV.
All you Obama fans had a real guy representing the stuff you really wanted. His name was Kucinich, and his wife is totally hot.
Oh, and he's the one in congress delivering impeachment papers day after day, too.....
But what he doesn't have is CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSN, and Rolling Stone completely sucking his cock. There's a reason for that, too. He's the real deal, unlike stuffed shirt Obama, who talks the talk and then sells the constitution out for corporate and political power every time. Just like the FISA thing.
You people claiming it's a simple mistake that he will work to correct are idiots. The FISA thing is an OBVIOUS choice, actually talked about DIRECTLY in the fourth amendment.
You people claiming Republican's are far worse are also idiots. They are exactly the same. They just don't even SAY the right things. Well, they say the right things for old people and people who talk to invisible men in the sky, but then they vote pro corporate and pro fascist just like the Democrats. There is NO difference. The party lines are both the same: The bottom line for Viacomm, AOL/Time Warner, Bertelsmann, News Corp, and Disney.
Yes, honestly, you are completely right. I advocate that every citizen not charged with a violent crime own their own weapon. Even if we never actually use them, just having them would give us more power, and make the country function more as it was supposed to according to the constitution.