Only the 5th? Shit I filled up my 6th (thank you Epox) PCI slot months ago.. and pci expansion systems are crazy expensive. They also eat up bandwidth.. which my pci bus is already starved for. I really hope PCI-X catches on soon I'm getting sick of latency issues caused by limited pci bandwidth.
Umm... call me simplistic but wouldn't the solution to problems using low quality apps be to um... use high quality ones?
Wanna copy a CD? OK start up k3b, click on the Tools menu, and click on Copy CD... Gee that was hard. It's not as if other platforms *cough*windows*cough* don't have their fair share of low quality apps, and it's not as if low quality apps are the only ones available for any platform.
Liunux may have it's complexities, but that is part of what makes it great. My only problem is when people turn these complexities into some sort of failing and/or overstate them (Copying a CD in Linux is not one of those complex things). I use Linux because of its complexity... if you want simple click 'n go use Windows.
I never understood part of the "communities" goal to "spread the linux gospel" to the windows based "heathens." I find Jehovas Witnesses annoying enough as it is... Linux is what it is, don't give any heed to those who think it's the second coming. It's not for everyone, and never will be.
I won't buy anything from the sony music division... but from everything I've heard their hardware division makes a lot more money than their music division, and quite frequently gives a nice "screw you" to the music division:)
Have you ever even used a LCD screen? I don't care if you have a best of breed Viewsonic like I do... it still gets the crap beat out of it by your run of the mill el cheapo LCD screen in the "Easy on the eyes" catagory by a long shot. And don't give me the typical crap on response times and better color and whatnot. I'm sick of how abused those excuses are. They are usually cried out by people who've never even seen a high end LCD in use before.
Please bear with me as I'll admit up front I haven't RTFA. However I'm only responding to your specific remarks. First you mentioned that this Klawans guy created digital backups of these records. You then go on to say he's also sharing them on p2p networks. Now according to the summary of the article this is about defeating anti-piracy technologies (i.e. CSS) and not the actual act of copyright infringement (i.e. p2p).
Preserving the method of playing the original media, while important, would do very little good in preserving the media itself. I'm not sure how familiar with records you are, but they are not a very reliable archival medium. The very act of playing them wears them out a considerable amount. What good is archiving an album if you cannot play it back? Making a digital backup of such a medium only makes sense for long time archival and enjoyment of the content.
Now I'm confused as to what making a digital backup of a record has to do with circumvention of anti-piracy devices.. as as far as I can remember records don't have anything like that built into them. With that and the mention of p2p I'd dare say things got a little off topic... my main point was just the fact that records wear out quickly with repeated use...
Either I misread or you've got the wrong idea here. As far as I know decoding either mp3 or ogg vorbis is mathematically intensive. The idea of the integer decoder being of less quality runs along the same lines as the difference between a radeon 9700's fpu pipeline or its predecessors integer core. There's problems with precision when using fixed point numbers. I'm not even sure the integer decoder WOULD use fixed point numbers, but it makes sense. I'm also too ignorant about either codec to know wether or not fixed point precision is enough for either... this is the question that I believe the original poster and I would like answered.
that pisses me the hell off 'cause your innocent little head is too good to hear certain combinations of sounds made in succession... profanity is a socially imbued idea that does nothing but 'cause people like you to shake your finger for no good reason. Get over it and join the real world.
Assuming only 10 people EVER rent a movie and the movie rental cost is $3.50 then they make $35. That is well above the price of most DVD's. Now imagine if they get a total of 100? Late fees are a source of revenue however it is by far not their only source.
+5, Insightful? wtf is wrong with moderators. This post is 100% completely wrong. How crap like this gets modded up and my stuff doesn't I'll never know.
Perhaps you should read the GPL some time. Linking to GPL'd code requires you to license your code under the GPL as a derivative work. Why exactly do you think the LGPL was created? It's bad enough spreading misinformation as if it were fact like this... doing it and getting modded up tho... *shakes head*
X for example isn't well integrated into the rest of the OS.
And for a damn good reason too. X should not be integrated into any other part of what makes up most Linux systems as X is an addon. I should not need X to have a working Linux system and X should not need Linux to work itself. They are designed to be seperate.
Sometimes right clicking cuts-and-pastes; othertimes it doesn't.
Hmm ya.. right clicking has never cut os pasted anything for me before... perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the middle mouse button pastes, and the simple act of highlighting copies. This works everywhere too... uncanny how it works eh? If you are speaking of the inconsitancies say between desktop environments such as gnome and kde well... they extend the basic X clipboard in different ways. Gnome and KDE are two different systems, and if you mix them you'll get inconsistant behavior... it's the way these things work. You want consistancy... choose one and stick to it. Besides KDE and Gnome copy and paste are starting to work together lately.
Hopefully the main development team will work on getting a solid API in place..
Who? You mean the kernel developers? The XFree86 developers perhaps? Perhaps GNU (they do make glibc and gcc)? Maybe the KDE/Gnome teams... You're post is kind of awkward... I'm having a hard time telling if you are intentionally trying to be funny or really don't have a clue.
Not even your reveered windows has an all inclusive API. They have GDI, DirectX, etc. etc. Different API's for each job and they usually don't communicate much with eachother either. So I must ask...
Then there's people like me who record TV shows to divx. I'm not breaking the law anymore than someone with a VCR recording their favorite shows. I'm not pirating. How dare you place me into a stereotype just because I like to use good compression formats.
Now don't get me wrong I understand as well as anyone divx, like mp3, is primarily used for piracy on the web. Now of course a statement like that usually gets a ton of flames in reply as ppl scream and shout "where's your proof?!" People seem to get very defensive when you point out the reality of situations. However just load up pretty much any public p2p network (i.e. kazaa) and look around for 10 seconds, and you get the idea;).
However, I rip my own CD's to mp3 (god what I'd give for portable ogg players and for my Audiotron to support ogg). I record my own tv shows (i.e. I don't even download those... 'cept for buffy svcd's from usenet.. and even then I only get the ones that haven't been released on DVD, and purchase the boxed sets as they do). I don't rip DVD's as that kills quality... I just copy the DVD's and decrypt them for backup purposes, and to be able to play the dvd's straight to the hard disk. However it can be pretty expensive getting enough space to copy season boxed set of X show after another:). I've never used CloneCD or no-CD/fix SafeDisc hacks as I know how to take care of a CD and own my games.
Bah.. I should really just stop talking now. I just wanted to point out people like me do exist, and this set top divx4 player is just what I've been asking for. Now all I ask for is ogg vorbis playback support and a tv tuner card with hardware divx4 encoding.
What does that quote from the article have to do with DRM and Serial ATA? Serial ATA is designed to be as compatible as possible... hell iirc regular ide drivers work with serial ata. IDE -> Serial ATA adapters exist and are very simple... I seriously doubt Serial ATA has built in DRM. Besides why on earth would you build the DRM into the drive controller (or even the drive for that matter)?
I'm reasonably certain that command instructs nslookup to query the a root server itself therefore bypassing any cache. I usually use dnsq of the djbdns package to do such queries so I might be wrong... but I'm reasonably certain.
Heh ya... every time I go back to read my posts I always think "crap that sounded a lot more pissy than I meant it to be." 'Tis just my nature I suppose. And for some weird reason the wild and rampant misinformation and lies that spread like a virus about a church I no longer wish to associate myself with just gets on my nerves. I suppose any wild rumor and gossip that paints any good nature thing as bad or evil gets on my nerves... but especially that for some reason.
Anyways... sorry for blowing up in your face.
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This sounds vaguely like what the Mormons do...
As a knowledgable ex-mormon I find this statement completely ignorant. The only thing that mormons did that was vaguely similar to this was migrate to Utah back when nobody else wanted to go there. They sure as hell didn't want to go there themselves. It is the one time in the history of the church there was an actual split over a disagreement. Some people stayed to form an off shoot while the rest left. The conditions were total crap. They were driven out by intense hatred and prosecution from the rest of society.
There is no directorate or anything else in the churches plicies that says "ye shall overwhelm states with large numbers and take over." They never made any such move with those intentions.
You do have the right to your own opinions.. even if they are based on lies. However you might want to check your accuracy before stating such misinformed opinions publicly.
how many more Atapi drives have to come out before they phase of that stupid 1/8" Jack nad Volume control that no-one uses.
I use those jacks quite frequently... and I get mad when they don't include a second button for play/next track. Listening to music during those long gentoo installs while the system was not properly setup for sound and cd audio was fun. Too bad my new yamaha crw-f1 doesn't have one =(. However staring at the pretty blue led can kill a lot of time;).
Speak for yourself... my X desktop is very much slower with 2d hardware accel turned off. Just when I was getting all excited that X finally got such a basic ability I find out it's still useless =(.
Just because a piece of softwares bug database is open it seems to somehow get an incredibly bad rep for being a constantly buggy program. I wonder how many of your programs that "just work" would have a cleaner bug database if it were out in the open? Besides who uses netscape and mozilla at the same time?
Bits are as much about sound resolution as they are about dynamic range. You can describe a sound wave much more accurately with a 24 bit integer than with a 16 bit integer. Heck you can give 4 bit sound the same dynamic range as a 16bit sound. It'll sound like total crap as the resolution of the sound wave is total crap, however you can still go from min to max with dynamic range.
... windows XP's style has definitely had influence on the KDE artists...
You mean they used things like gradients, curves, colors, and text to put together a pretty picture? Well then I suppose they are guilty as charged... how dare they.
Integrating net enabled applications into the desktop is a sure way to bad security and should be avoided.
In this day and age we are entering a brave new world where computers/devices are all connected to eachother allowing amazing levels of interconnectivity and communication. It is a golden era and what you propose is to avoid it. Keep the internet and the computer seperated. It almost seems anti-evolutionary.
Unfortunately I don't have the time nor inclination to write a book explaning my viewpoint on this wonderful new age to you, however you do have a valid concern with security. Science and technology is becoming more and more complicated the more we discover and learn. It cannot be avoided and should not. People will just have to become better prepared to handle it. Security may be harder and more complex in such a setup, but that does not mean it is impossible. If you ask me not trying to take advantage of new ideas and technologies on the basis of it becoming harder or more complex is just wrong.... and stop from integrating applications deep down into the core.
The integration you speak of in KDE is a side effect of a bigger issue. KDE is very intelligently designed in that it does something very well most projects either don't do at all or make a half assed try it. It is modularized. It's like a big set of legos that you can put together in a variety of ways to make something cool. It also allows one to very easily "integrate" as you put it. I.E. this "kroupware" (god I hope they change that name) project is basically taking the components of the several PIM applications and putting them together in a different way. Which is pretty easily thanks to KDE's incredibly modular nature.
Did you know modern monitors can show resolutions in excess of 640x480?!? I know I know... crazy talk you say. However I swear it. You probably won't believe this, but I'm actually writing this on a monitor set to an astounding 1600x1200.
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Only the 5th? Shit I filled up my 6th (thank you Epox) PCI slot months ago.. and pci expansion systems are crazy expensive. They also eat up bandwidth.. which my pci bus is already starved for. I really hope PCI-X catches on soon I'm getting sick of latency issues caused by limited pci bandwidth.
Umm... call me simplistic but wouldn't the solution to problems using low quality apps be to um... use high quality ones?
Wanna copy a CD? OK start up k3b, click on the Tools menu, and click on Copy CD... Gee that was hard. It's not as if other platforms *cough*windows*cough* don't have their fair share of low quality apps, and it's not as if low quality apps are the only ones available for any platform.
Liunux may have it's complexities, but that is part of what makes it great. My only problem is when people turn these complexities into some sort of failing and/or overstate them (Copying a CD in Linux is not one of those complex things). I use Linux because of its complexity... if you want simple click 'n go use Windows.
I never understood part of the "communities" goal to "spread the linux gospel" to the windows based "heathens." I find Jehovas Witnesses annoying enough as it is... Linux is what it is, don't give any heed to those who think it's the second coming. It's not for everyone, and never will be.
I won't buy anything from the sony music division... but from everything I've heard their hardware division makes a lot more money than their music division, and quite frequently gives a nice "screw you" to the music division :)
Have you ever even used a LCD screen? I don't care if you have a best of breed Viewsonic like I do... it still gets the crap beat out of it by your run of the mill el cheapo LCD screen in the "Easy on the eyes" catagory by a long shot. And don't give me the typical crap on response times and better color and whatnot. I'm sick of how abused those excuses are. They are usually cried out by people who've never even seen a high end LCD in use before.
Please bear with me as I'll admit up front I haven't RTFA. However I'm only responding to your specific remarks. First you mentioned that this Klawans guy created digital backups of these records. You then go on to say he's also sharing them on p2p networks. Now according to the summary of the article this is about defeating anti-piracy technologies (i.e. CSS) and not the actual act of copyright infringement (i.e. p2p).
Preserving the method of playing the original media, while important, would do very little good in preserving the media itself. I'm not sure how familiar with records you are, but they are not a very reliable archival medium. The very act of playing them wears them out a considerable amount. What good is archiving an album if you cannot play it back? Making a digital backup of such a medium only makes sense for long time archival and enjoyment of the content.
Now I'm confused as to what making a digital backup of a record has to do with circumvention of anti-piracy devices.. as as far as I can remember records don't have anything like that built into them. With that and the mention of p2p I'd dare say things got a little off topic... my main point was just the fact that records wear out quickly with repeated use...
Either I misread or you've got the wrong idea here. As far as I know decoding either mp3 or ogg vorbis is mathematically intensive. The idea of the integer decoder being of less quality runs along the same lines as the difference between a radeon 9700's fpu pipeline or its predecessors integer core. There's problems with precision when using fixed point numbers. I'm not even sure the integer decoder WOULD use fixed point numbers, but it makes sense. I'm also too ignorant about either codec to know wether or not fixed point precision is enough for either... this is the question that I believe the original poster and I would like answered.
that pisses me the hell off 'cause your innocent little head is too good to hear certain combinations of sounds made in succession... profanity is a socially imbued idea that does nothing but 'cause people like you to shake your finger for no good reason. Get over it and join the real world.
"Where do you think that get [their] money from?"
Assuming only 10 people EVER rent a movie and the movie rental cost is $3.50 then they make $35. That is well above the price of most DVD's. Now imagine if they get a total of 100? Late fees are a source of revenue however it is by far not their only source.
+5, Insightful? wtf is wrong with moderators. This post is 100% completely wrong. How crap like this gets modded up and my stuff doesn't I'll never know.
Perhaps you should read the GPL some time. Linking to GPL'd code requires you to license your code under the GPL as a derivative work. Why exactly do you think the LGPL was created? It's bad enough spreading misinformation as if it were fact like this... doing it and getting modded up tho... *shakes head*
X for example isn't well integrated into the rest of the OS.
And for a damn good reason too. X should not be integrated into any other part of what makes up most Linux systems as X is an addon. I should not need X to have a working Linux system and X should not need Linux to work itself. They are designed to be seperate.
Sometimes right clicking cuts-and-pastes; othertimes it doesn't.
Hmm ya.. right clicking has never cut os pasted anything for me before... perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the middle mouse button pastes, and the simple act of highlighting copies. This works everywhere too... uncanny how it works eh? If you are speaking of the inconsitancies say between desktop environments such as gnome and kde well... they extend the basic X clipboard in different ways. Gnome and KDE are two different systems, and if you mix them you'll get inconsistant behavior... it's the way these things work. You want consistancy... choose one and stick to it. Besides KDE and Gnome copy and paste are starting to work together lately.
Hopefully the main development team will work on getting a solid API in place..
Who? You mean the kernel developers? The XFree86 developers perhaps? Perhaps GNU (they do make glibc and gcc)? Maybe the KDE/Gnome teams... You're post is kind of awkward... I'm having a hard time telling if you are intentionally trying to be funny or really don't have a clue.
Not even your reveered windows has an all inclusive API. They have GDI, DirectX, etc. etc. Different API's for each job and they usually don't communicate much with eachother either. So I must ask...
What exactly are you talking about?
Then there's people like me who record TV shows to divx. I'm not breaking the law anymore than someone with a VCR recording their favorite shows. I'm not pirating. How dare you place me into a stereotype just because I like to use good compression formats.
;).
:). I've never used CloneCD or no-CD/fix SafeDisc hacks as I know how to take care of a CD and own my games.
Now don't get me wrong I understand as well as anyone divx, like mp3, is primarily used for piracy on the web. Now of course a statement like that usually gets a ton of flames in reply as ppl scream and shout "where's your proof?!" People seem to get very defensive when you point out the reality of situations. However just load up pretty much any public p2p network (i.e. kazaa) and look around for 10 seconds, and you get the idea
However, I rip my own CD's to mp3 (god what I'd give for portable ogg players and for my Audiotron to support ogg). I record my own tv shows (i.e. I don't even download those... 'cept for buffy svcd's from usenet.. and even then I only get the ones that haven't been released on DVD, and purchase the boxed sets as they do). I don't rip DVD's as that kills quality... I just copy the DVD's and decrypt them for backup purposes, and to be able to play the dvd's straight to the hard disk. However it can be pretty expensive getting enough space to copy season boxed set of X show after another
Bah.. I should really just stop talking now. I just wanted to point out people like me do exist, and this set top divx4 player is just what I've been asking for. Now all I ask for is ogg vorbis playback support and a tv tuner card with hardware divx4 encoding.
P.S. I also use divx for home recordings.
They did.
I hadn't a clue.... and now that I do I couldn't care less.
What does that quote from the article have to do with DRM and Serial ATA? Serial ATA is designed to be as compatible as possible... hell iirc regular ide drivers work with serial ata. IDE -> Serial ATA adapters exist and are very simple... I seriously doubt Serial ATA has built in DRM. Besides why on earth would you build the DRM into the drive controller (or even the drive for that matter)?
I'm reasonably certain that command instructs nslookup to query the a root server itself therefore bypassing any cache. I usually use dnsq of the djbdns package to do such queries so I might be wrong... but I'm reasonably certain.
Wow, you got really pissed off there.
Heh ya... every time I go back to read my posts I always think "crap that sounded a lot more pissy than I meant it to be." 'Tis just my nature I suppose. And for some weird reason the wild and rampant misinformation and lies that spread like a virus about a church I no longer wish to associate myself with just gets on my nerves. I suppose any wild rumor and gossip that paints any good nature thing as bad or evil gets on my nerves... but especially that for some reason.
Anyways... sorry for blowing up in your face.
This sounds vaguely like what the Mormons do...
As a knowledgable ex-mormon I find this statement completely ignorant. The only thing that mormons did that was vaguely similar to this was migrate to Utah back when nobody else wanted to go there. They sure as hell didn't want to go there themselves. It is the one time in the history of the church there was an actual split over a disagreement. Some people stayed to form an off shoot while the rest left. The conditions were total crap. They were driven out by intense hatred and prosecution from the rest of society.
There is no directorate or anything else in the churches plicies that says "ye shall overwhelm states with large numbers and take over." They never made any such move with those intentions.
You do have the right to your own opinions.. even if they are based on lies. However you might want to check your accuracy before stating such misinformed opinions publicly.
how many more Atapi drives have to come out before they phase of that stupid 1/8" Jack nad Volume control that no-one uses.
;).
I use those jacks quite frequently... and I get mad when they don't include a second button for play/next track. Listening to music during those long gentoo installs while the system was not properly setup for sound and cd audio was fun. Too bad my new yamaha crw-f1 doesn't have one =(. However staring at the pretty blue led can kill a lot of time
It's not a problem for simple 2D renderings...
Speak for yourself... my X desktop is very much slower with 2d hardware accel turned off. Just when I was getting all excited that X finally got such a basic ability I find out it's still useless =(.
Just because a piece of softwares bug database is open it seems to somehow get an incredibly bad rep for being a constantly buggy program. I wonder how many of your programs that "just work" would have a cleaner bug database if it were out in the open? Besides who uses netscape and mozilla at the same time?
Slashdot needs a "Depressing yet true" moderation catagory.
Bits are as much about sound resolution as they are about dynamic range. You can describe a sound wave much more accurately with a 24 bit integer than with a 16 bit integer. Heck you can give 4 bit sound the same dynamic range as a 16bit sound. It'll sound like total crap as the resolution of the sound wave is total crap, however you can still go from min to max with dynamic range.
... windows XP's style has definitely had influence on the KDE artists ...
You mean they used things like gradients, curves, colors, and text to put together a pretty picture? Well then I suppose they are guilty as charged... how dare they.
Integrating net enabled applications into the desktop is a sure way to bad security and should be avoided.
... and stop from integrating applications deep down into the core.
In this day and age we are entering a brave new world where computers/devices are all connected to eachother allowing amazing levels of interconnectivity and communication. It is a golden era and what you propose is to avoid it. Keep the internet and the computer seperated. It almost seems anti-evolutionary.
Unfortunately I don't have the time nor inclination to write a book explaning my viewpoint on this wonderful new age to you, however you do have a valid concern with security. Science and technology is becoming more and more complicated the more we discover and learn. It cannot be avoided and should not. People will just have to become better prepared to handle it. Security may be harder and more complex in such a setup, but that does not mean it is impossible. If you ask me not trying to take advantage of new ideas and technologies on the basis of it becoming harder or more complex is just wrong.
The integration you speak of in KDE is a side effect of a bigger issue. KDE is very intelligently designed in that it does something very well most projects either don't do at all or make a half assed try it. It is modularized. It's like a big set of legos that you can put together in a variety of ways to make something cool. It also allows one to very easily "integrate" as you put it. I.E. this "kroupware" (god I hope they change that name) project is basically taking the components of the several PIM applications and putting them together in a different way. Which is pretty easily thanks to KDE's incredibly modular nature.
Did you know modern monitors can show resolutions in excess of 640x480?!? I know I know... crazy talk you say. However I swear it. You probably won't believe this, but I'm actually writing this on a monitor set to an astounding 1600x1200.