On the topic of making your own subtitles: can someone point me to some software that helps you to create subtitles on Linux? I have looked, but haven't found anything really yet. I would expect something that works in conjunction with a video player like mplayer that helps to record (approximate) time stamps of when the subtitles should appear. Any hints?
If you would like to celebrate the release of Etch, check out if there's a party planned near you or throw one yourself:) http://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyEtch
But ultimately governments making software isn't a whole lot better than governments making airplanes or computer chips. Microsoft does have a case.
That really depends on your viewpoint. If you (want to) see software as a commodity then a government making software is no different from an government building roads, maintaining a justice and police system or having a military. The fact that software is infinitely reproducable at virtually no cost makes software different from the other more traditional products you listed as examples. The government can provide something for the entire country that is beneficial to everyone without spending disproportionate amounts of money. It is even likely that it will create more wealth and possibilies in the long run for almost all the people.
Of course it sucks for Microsoft that governments are now starting to realize that software can be seen and treated as a commodity. That doesn't mean however that this change is actually unfair to Microsoft. They will have to cope with the changing rules and accept that their unlimited skies of the early software years might fade away once in the future.
Instead of accusing the AI's of going nowhere, we should blame ourselves. *We*, the I's, are going nowhere trying to create AI's. If we were really as I, as we'd like to believe, the AI's would've already existed and gone anywhere they'd liked.
Those idealistic demonstrators you describe are not against globalization. They are in fact for globalization, but against the unfair globablization that most of the first world countries prefer, because they realise that real and honest globalization will have a serious impact on their economies that will have a very hard time to compete on almost any ground.
Of course it's much easier for those being protested against to claim that the protesters are against globalization and against improvements for impoverished countries: even half-smart people who don't bother to inform themselves buy that.
Does illegally downloading RIAA and MPAA proteced mp3's and divx movies count? According to the RIAA and MPAA that is equivalent to stealing from them. So instead of funding the opposition, might I attack the media conglomerates by depriving them of their income? I sure think it would be easier to motivate people to contribute this way.
I know the following isn't exactly about the article, but I've wondered about this for a long time:
What would happen if you start dumping an huge amount of electrons in a black hole? As I understand it, the electrical force is far more powerful than the gravitational force. Therefor I wonder: what would happen if you create this huge negative pole? Would the black hole become unstable, would it eventually become impossible to add more electrons or something else (maybe the question is wrong altogether)? I anyone knows, I'd like to hear.
You obviously don't know XS4ALL. Your statement definitely stands, but only on the premise that XS4ALL would want to screen email. I can assure you that this is not the case.
Because of this verdiect XS4ALL doesn't need to screen email. Whenever a customer receives unsollicited email from ABFAB, they can report this voluntarily and ABFAB has to pay.
XS4ALL is defintely the very best ISP in the Netherlands (and possibly even in a more global sense) in the 'your rights online' category. They were the first ISP in the Netherlands founded by a couple of 'hackers' starting their business in may 1993. From the start they offered services such as mail by UUCP and telnet-access to powerful UNIX-machines. In 1997 they were the only (!) Dutch ISP to refuse to cooperate in a nationwide 'tap', because they didn't think the law being referenced in the tap-order could actually be used to order a tap. A judge proved them right. During the Serbian war they kept B52, the radio station of Belgrado, on-air online. They encourage their customers to use encryption by giving every single one of them a personal copy of PGP. They mirror almost everything cool in the open-source world and have donated the official machine and bandwidth of the munitions international crypto-resource. They are the primary sponsors and organisers of the 'hacking-festivals', HEU (Hacking at the end of the universe), HIP (Hacking in progress) and HAL (Hackers at large). They have never pulled content of their customers, when they received orders to do so, unless the order cam from a judge. They support Linux/BSD by offering documentation, howto's and software on their website. It's even possible to meet most of the sysadmins on irc and talk about how their systems work, ask about the specs and generally talk with them. I could tell you more, but I think the point is made: XS4ALL is no threat to our online privacy and rights. I would almost say that they're the dream-isp of almost any slashdot-fanatic.
Call me paranoid if you will, but I think many of the comments that praise the settlement are suspiciously looking alike.
I was browsing http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms_tuncom/public/in dx22.htm where an extreme amount of pro-settlement comments appears all looking alike, but none contains any personal information besides an email address. They are formulated alike and are of equal length. They don't contain a real name. There even seem to be some comments opposing the settlement but in the exact same style. Possibly to prevent suspicion?
Go see for yourself by browsing the index. Here are some examples. The list goes on and on, but I got tired of pasting URL's: http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms_tuncom/p ublic/22/mtc-00021341.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ ms_tuncom/public/22/mtc-00021347.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ ms_tuncom/public/22/mtc-00021348.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ ms_tuncom/public/22/mtc-00021352.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ ms_tuncom/public/22/mtc-00021353.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ ms_tuncom/public/22/mtc-00021356.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ ms_tuncom/public/22/mtc-00021357.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ ms_tuncom/public/22/mtc-00021362.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ ms_tuncom/public/22/mtc-00021367.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ ms_tuncom/public/22/mtc-00021391.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ ms_tuncom/public/22/mtc-00021403.htm http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ ms_tuncom/public/22/mtc-00021404.htm
I tried to make the URL's into links but then/. wouldnt accept my post.
Spot on. Every time I tried it or see it in normal (font) sized texts of reasonable size my eyes get sore trying to focus right.I use Microsoft Verdana in mozilla and helvetica (9pt) for KDE programs. It's perfectly legible and doesn't looked jagged at all.
I'm certainly not saying that this stuff isn't useful for anybody, but you shouldn't use it just because others tell you that it's better or because you think it's superior. That's plain nuts.
I am a Gnome user, and athough I am NOT a sky is falling person, KDE seems to be making much more usefull strides, I am also concerned about the Ximian fork, (even though I use it) How long till XImian hack up all the libs to work for their effort and how compatible will it be ?
I have thought about switching to KDE for no other reason than they seem to have a much better, much more focused direction.
I am what you could call a KDE user, ethousiastically even developing my own KDE app, but still I don't feel that Gnome is losing out to KDE. KDE might seem to have some advantage at this time, but Gnome is certainly strong in the application department. Off course I can't be sure, but I definitely hope that Gnome 2.0 will rock and maybe recapture a bit of the current kde users. If there's one thing that helps to get motivated then it's solid competition and I don't like Microsoft very much in this role of 'evil' competition. I'd rather see two projects with the same idealogy compete and I think that most KDE developers certainly wouldn't want Gnome 'out of the way' either.
I just saw someone get modded down in another thread for mentioning Solaris. Solaris rocks.
I'm not reluctant to admit that my experience with Solaris might be somewhat limited. I only use it as a desktop on the University, but from that single experience I certainly would never say anything like "Solaris rocks". They have Solaris 8 running on Ultra Sparcs at 500Mhz with 1.25 GB of RAM ans still things seem slow. I got an out-of-memory error while making a very simple movie with Matlab the other day. Mathematica can't happily scroll the view if there are images involved and compiling (java, c, etc.) seems dogslow compared to my Linux box at home. Maybe Solaris does rock, but I sure wouldn't have come to that conclusion from my experience.
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On the topic of making your own subtitles: can someone point me to some software that helps you to create subtitles on Linux? I have looked, but haven't found anything really yet. I would expect something that works in conjunction with a video player like mplayer that helps to record (approximate) time stamps of when the subtitles should appear. Any hints?
If you would like to celebrate the release of Etch, check out if there's a party planned near you or throw one yourself :)
http://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyEtch
and any smart admin has disabled the USB ports on a server anyway.
So how is the smart admin going to read out the Smart-UPS then when serial cable is not an option?
The topic of learning through the means of video games, can't go without a reference to Project LRNJ.
This game helps you to learn Japanese. It's just so much fun learning this way! For those interested, here is the website:
http://lrnj.com/
Maybe it's not as you want is, but a similar plugin already exist: http://moji.mozdev.org/
Studying this source might be useful for your own project.
with competition like this ...
This is the website: http://fire.dmzs.com/
But ultimately governments making software isn't a whole lot better than governments making airplanes or computer chips. Microsoft does have a case.
That really depends on your viewpoint. If you (want to) see software as a commodity then a government making software is no different from an government building roads, maintaining a justice and police system or having a military. The fact that software is infinitely reproducable at virtually no cost makes software different from the other more traditional products you listed as examples. The government can provide something for the entire country that is beneficial to everyone without spending disproportionate amounts of money. It is even likely that it will create more wealth and possibilies in the long run for almost all the people.
Of course it sucks for Microsoft that governments are now starting to realize that software can be seen and treated as a commodity. That doesn't mean however that this change is actually unfair to Microsoft. They will have to cope with the changing rules and accept that their unlimited skies of the early software years might fade away once in the future.
Instead of accusing the AI's of going nowhere, we should blame ourselves. *We*, the I's, are going nowhere trying to create AI's. If we were really as I, as we'd like to believe, the AI's would've already existed and gone anywhere they'd liked.
You're right. Some of the links still even work.
post with links to dynamic content
Those idealistic demonstrators you describe are not against globalization. They are in fact for globalization, but against the unfair globablization that most of the first world countries prefer, because they realise that real and honest globalization will have a serious impact on their economies that will have a very hard time to compete on almost any ground.
Of course it's much easier for those being protested against to claim that the protesters are against globalization and against improvements for impoverished countries: even half-smart people who don't bother to inform themselves buy that.
Does illegally downloading RIAA and MPAA proteced mp3's and divx movies count? According to the RIAA and MPAA that is equivalent to stealing from them. So instead of funding the opposition, might I attack the media conglomerates by depriving them of their income? I sure think it would be easier to motivate people to contribute this way.
No off course not. Your analogy is flawed.
You meant: "Requiring people to get permission before citing the relevant pagenumbers in sources in bibliographies."
RIAA vs God because he created humans that can violate ip laws and DNA without copy restriction.
I'm about to go make a bowl of ramen noodles, and I'll be throwing in some pieces of broccoli.
You'd better not. I've patented that.
I know the following isn't exactly about the article, but I've wondered about this for a long time:
What would happen if you start dumping an huge amount of electrons in a black hole? As I understand it, the electrical force is far more powerful than the gravitational force. Therefor I wonder: what would happen if you create this huge negative pole? Would the black hole become unstable, would it eventually become impossible to add more electrons or something else (maybe the question is wrong altogether)? I anyone knows, I'd like to hear.
Poor Hawking ...
Maybe, if you have time, you can read the article.
You obviously don't know XS4ALL. Your statement definitely stands, but only on the premise that XS4ALL would want to screen email. I can assure you that this is not the case.
Because of this verdiect XS4ALL doesn't need to screen email. Whenever a customer receives unsollicited email from ABFAB, they can report this voluntarily and ABFAB has to pay.
XS4ALL is defintely the very best ISP in the Netherlands (and possibly even in a more global sense) in the 'your rights online' category. They were the first ISP in the Netherlands founded by a couple of 'hackers' starting their business in may 1993. From the start they offered services such as mail by UUCP and telnet-access to powerful UNIX-machines. In 1997 they were the only (!) Dutch ISP to refuse to cooperate in a nationwide 'tap', because they didn't think the law being referenced in the tap-order could actually be used to order a tap. A judge proved them right. During the Serbian war they kept B52, the radio station of Belgrado, on-air online. They encourage their customers to use encryption by giving every single one of them a personal copy of PGP. They mirror almost everything cool in the open-source world and have donated the official machine and bandwidth of the munitions international crypto-resource. They are the primary sponsors and organisers of the 'hacking-festivals', HEU (Hacking at the end of the universe), HIP (Hacking in progress) and HAL (Hackers at large). They have never pulled content of their customers, when they received orders to do so, unless the order cam from a judge. They support Linux/BSD by offering documentation, howto's and software on their website. It's even possible to meet most of the sysadmins on irc and talk about how their systems work, ask about the specs and generally talk with them. I could tell you more, but I think the point is made: XS4ALL is no threat to our online privacy and rights. I would almost say that they're the dream-isp of almost any slashdot-fanatic.
Call me paranoid if you will, but I think many of the comments that praise the settlement are suspiciously looking alike.
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p ublic/22 /mtc-00021341.htm/ ms_tuncom/public/22 /mtc-00021347.htm/ ms_tuncom/public/22 /mtc-00021348.htm/ ms_tuncom/public/22 /mtc-00021352.htm/ ms_tuncom/public/22 /mtc-00021353.htm/ ms_tuncom/public/22 /mtc-00021356.htm/ ms_tuncom/public/22 /mtc-00021357.htm/ ms_tuncom/public/22 /mtc-00021362.htm/ ms_tuncom/public/22 /mtc-00021367.htm/ ms_tuncom/public/22 /mtc-00021391.htm/ ms_tuncom/public/22 /mtc-00021403.htm/ ms_tuncom/public/22 /mtc-00021404.htm
/. wouldnt accept my post.
I was browsing http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms_tuncom/public/i
where an extreme amount of pro-settlement comments appears all looking alike, but none contains any personal information besides an email address. They are formulated alike and are of equal length. They don't contain a real name. There even seem to be some comments opposing the settlement but in the exact same style. Possibly to prevent suspicion?
Go see for yourself by browsing the index. Here are some examples. The list goes on and on, but I got tired of pasting URL's:
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases/ms_tuncom/
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases
I tried to make the URL's into links but then
If not because you think it's superior, just when should you use it? At random?
That should have been: "[You shouldn't use it] just because you think that it's superior without actually comparing...
Spot on. Every time I tried it or see it in normal (font) sized texts of reasonable size my eyes get sore trying to focus right.I use Microsoft Verdana in mozilla and helvetica (9pt) for KDE programs. It's perfectly legible and doesn't looked jagged at all.
I'm certainly not saying that this stuff isn't useful for anybody, but you shouldn't use it just because others tell you that it's better or because you think it's superior. That's plain nuts.
I am a Gnome user, and athough I am NOT a sky is falling person, KDE seems to be making much more usefull strides, I am also concerned about the Ximian fork, (even though I use it) How long till XImian hack up all the libs to work for their effort and how compatible will it be ?
... so I'll quit.
I have thought about switching to KDE for no other reason than they seem to have a much better, much more focused direction.
I am what you could call a KDE user, ethousiastically even developing my own KDE app, but still I don't feel that Gnome is losing out to KDE. KDE might seem to have some advantage at this time, but Gnome is certainly strong in the application department. Off course I can't be sure, but I definitely hope that Gnome 2.0 will rock and maybe recapture a bit of the current kde users. If there's one thing that helps to get motivated then it's solid competition and I don't like Microsoft very much in this role of 'evil' competition. I'd rather see two projects with the same idealogy compete and I think that most KDE developers certainly wouldn't want Gnome 'out of the way' either.
Okay I'm just rambling now
I just saw someone get modded down in another thread for mentioning Solaris. Solaris rocks.
I'm not reluctant to admit that my experience with Solaris might be somewhat limited. I only use it as a desktop on the University, but from that single experience I certainly would never say anything like "Solaris rocks". They have Solaris 8 running on Ultra Sparcs at 500Mhz with 1.25 GB of RAM ans still things seem slow. I got an out-of-memory error while making a very simple movie with Matlab the other day. Mathematica can't happily scroll the view if there are images involved and compiling (java, c, etc.) seems dogslow compared to my Linux box at home. Maybe Solaris does rock, but I sure wouldn't have come to that conclusion from my experience.
ok, to prevent others from doing so I will make the obligatory wisecrack mentioning "error" and "handling well" ...