Back in my Windows days I used warftpd which in the license said it was completely free for use except for government and police. While I think this is completely against the spirit of open source, you could always release an open source project under the GPL with a couple restrictions against government use. Besides, I though the MA Dept. of Revenue switching to Linux was a good thing.
That's funny, TaxAct's Download section give me the option between download for Windows and CDRom for Windows. Usually when people ask for a "Linux Alternative", they are not asking what can run under VMWare or Wine. While TaxAct has an online service, I don't think most Slashdot readers would be happy giving some corporation their tax records.
Omigod... you mean that vacation on Mars was just a brain implant?
If you read Philip K. Dick's We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, you'll realise that while they're telling you it was only an implant, they are wrong.
Several years ago I had a GF with a 3 year old daughter. One day the daughter came into the office and wanted to play one of her Freddie Fish games. She found the cross cut office shreader with had a little 4 inch slot (you had to fold a full sheet of paper into thirds to make it fit) which looked just like the slot on her computer's front load CDRom drive. Anyway the shreader ate about 1/3 of the CD before it jammed. Hmmm. Maybe this story is off topic as the CD did not work anymore. Talk about one PO'd little kid and one funny looking CD.
They typically charge $1 per song to burn, but have an offer going through March 31 to charge $0.49 per song. This seems to be the pricing point that folks on Slashdot have been claiming they would support. I plan to burn a few CDs just to show my support.
Ouch. A CD is 700MB. An average 128k mp3 is 5MB. 700/5=68.6 Hmm, a full CD would cost about $70.00. The price of those CD's will add up fast.
People are not naturally inclined to work for the service of others. It is not natural for people to sacrifice the fruits of their labor for some larger social goal.
I disagree. Have you ever heard of Open Source? If people are treated fairly and with respect this is natural. Yes, I believe human nature is good and people generally want to help others.
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Iron Maiden also wrote a song about the old film The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and named a CD after Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Those guys at Iron Maiden could have made a living being book critics, they have good taste. They have not written anything about my favorite author, Roger Zelazny, however. To the best of my knowledge only Hawkwind has done that.
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation.
That's Robert Heinlein. You should try reading Stranger in a strange land or The moon is a harsh mistress. Heinlein's books carry the same intensity as the quote you used. Iron Maiden wrote songs titled after about both Stranger in a strange land and 666 the number of the beast.
I had lasik done on both eyes about 5 or 6 years ago. My contacts were -10.5 and -11.5. Basically I could read a book confortably pressed to my nose. My vision is better now than when I wore contacts or glasses. Before I got the surgery I read that your vision afterwards would never be quite as good as before with proper contacts or glasses, but fornatually I found this to be false for myself. When I go the the DMV I can read the eye charts from double the distance crystal clear. I have never experienced any halo effects and my night vision has always been good, and still is. I sit in front of a monitor all day and the eye strain is no where near as bad as when I had glasses. I researched this subject a bit before I got the surgery. I found out that RK (radial keratomy (sp?) - using a scalpel) has an "pissed off" percentage of 90% after 20 years as the eye keeps flattening out. PRK (like lasik but on the eye vs inside) blows away the bowmans membrane which they think might help keep out UV rays. Also people with PRK tend to have dry eye problems. I think what finally sold me on lasik was the statement from an eye doctor that 3 months after the surgery an eye doctor will not be able to tell that you had the procedure done. If you ask me if things can heal up that well they must be doing something right. Anyway getting lasik is one of the smartest things I've done. I've known other people who have had it and they have also been thrilled with the results. One big difference between PRK and lasik is that lasik depends on the skill of the surgeon a lot more than PRK, so get a good eye doctor.
Does the RIAA expect people to believe that internet users are cheap people with hours of time to waste downloading music through a 56k modem connection?
I can leach a 100GB site in just over a year on 56K using wget.
> on a good DVD, it's close to impossible to tell. It's very easy to tell, the annoying blocky regions around any fast moving action or any dark area is the mpeg. In my opnion, (I used to write for Video Systems magazine) a DVD does not look as good a brand new VHS tape. Now play the tape a dozen times or let it sit a year and this is no longer the case.
> you raise the bitrate up to where a 1:30:00 movie will just fit on a CD-R, it's very nearly indistinguishable from DVD video. 1:30 on a disk is the cutoff point to where it starts to look really bad. If a movie is over 1:30 I encode (divx5) it on two disks. The quality is amazing considering an entier movie fits on one or two CD's, but to say it's almost the same as the DVD is just plain wrong. It's watchable, like a beat up video rental VHS tape.
> This goes double for animation. I just tried encoding some episodes of South Park to divx5 and was shocked with the results. The artifacting was much more apparent than normal video, even after I cranked up the quality to fit 45 minutes on a CDR. I finally just gave up and left them in VOB format.
> a 200mb file is more than high enough quality to tape and share with your friends You must not like your friends. Possibly a 20 minute TV episode could look acceptable at this size. What resolution is stuff encoded at? If you shrink this down to web cam resolutions you can fit a lot on a disk, but NTSC video is about 720 x 480 resolution. I think TV is way too low of resolution as it is, I wouldn't want to cut it down any more.
Transcode and DVDrip are the best Linux tools I've found for doing video encoding. Some people like memcoder which I believe is part of mplayer.
I thought the topic was DVD audio on CD's, not DVD video on CD's.,,
Use a little logic here, if established companies are going out of business due to the economy (lack of paying customers), how are you going to get work?
I use a Zaurus, which has been tested with up to 1GB CF cards. Since I'm ordering a 6 megapixel camera, I'm going to be needing some large (512MB) cards anyway. Nothing like dual purpose. Now if an Ipod could dock up to a digital camera for storage I would really be impressed.
I get about 14MB/s on read to an external USB2 maxtor 120MB drive according to hdparam. I had my hands on a 160MB Firewire maxtor drive and only got about 12MB/s. Both drives used ext3.
I've been using the external USB2 drive for several months now, probably close to 1/2 a year and it has performed perfect, except when I plug it into my USB1 machine at work (way too slow).
> Your gas pedal really does not control gas flow directly; instead it is a potentiometer that sends a signal to a computer.
Obviously you've never worked on a car. The gas petal goes through a cable to the fuel injector. That's about as direct as you can get. There is TPS (Throttle Position Sensor) that feeds the information into the computer so it knows how much gas you're giving it.
What ya don't get with open source is a sales person taking the purchasing decision maker out to the titty bars patting them on the back telling them what a smart decision they're making by going with proven industry leading software. Here in the US marketing is much more important than actual product. If management can see magazine ads or billboards for a product they purchased they feel warm and fuzzy, like they're part of something successfull. The quality of the product is irrelevant. Quality may be important to the techies, but management could care less, after all, what do techies know about important purchasing desisions? MySQL will never look as good as Oracle on a company's balance sheet. Open source will never offer these warm and fuzzy experiences.
I used MS SQL v6.5 years back and I can tell you that compared to MySQL it is very slow and most importantly, extremely unreliable. MS SQL cannot handle the load that MySQL can. At my previous company (care2.com) we had a dual xenon (PII 350MHz?) machine performing an average of up to 600 queries per second during peak hours. Sure I miss stored procedures, but running stored procedures on a database doing hundreds of queries per second is not realistic. It makes more sense to have clients do as much of the work as possible to reduce the load on the centralized DB. I guess if you have a minimal DB load or a mainframe you could successfully argue this point.
I can say the exact same thing about Micropolis drives. That's why they went out of business. The majority of my customers I made the mistake of selling Micropolis drives to had them die within 6 months. Getting dead drives back from the warranty dept was common. Two years before that Micropolis drives were great. Often HD manufacturers go threw stages were a design sucks or they have a hard time getting quality parts. Maxtor went through one of those phases maybe 5 years back, but since then they have been awesome drives.
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I hope they remove the tag after purchase...
If you read the part where they said that returned items automatically go back into inventory, you could deduce that they are not removing the tags.
Back in my Windows days I used warftpd which in the license said it was completely free for use except for government and police. While I think this is completely against the spirit of open source, you could always release an open source project under the GPL with a couple restrictions against government use. Besides, I though the MA Dept. of Revenue switching to Linux was a good thing.
That's funny, TaxAct's Download section give me the option between download for Windows and CDRom for Windows. Usually when people ask for a "Linux Alternative", they are not asking what can run under VMWare or Wine. While TaxAct has an online service, I don't think most Slashdot readers would be happy giving some corporation their tax records.
Omigod ... you mean that vacation on Mars was just a brain implant?
If you read Philip K. Dick's We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, you'll realise that while they're telling you it was only an implant, they are wrong.
Dvorak must have the largest database of being both for and against the same thing; perhaps multiple times.
Dvorak is to author as RCA is to manufacturer.
Years ago I had a friend who wrote for Dvorak, and his articles were published with the name Dvorak.
Several years ago I had a GF with a 3 year old daughter. One day the daughter came into the office and wanted to play one of her Freddie Fish games. She found the cross cut office shreader with had a little 4 inch slot (you had to fold a full sheet of paper into thirds to make it fit) which looked just like the slot on her computer's front load CDRom drive. Anyway the shreader ate about 1/3 of the CD before it jammed. Hmmm. Maybe this story is off topic as the CD did not work anymore. Talk about one PO'd little kid and one funny looking CD.
They typically charge $1 per song to burn, but have an offer going through March 31 to charge $0.49 per song. This seems to be the pricing point that folks on Slashdot have been claiming they would support. I plan to burn a few CDs just to show my support.
Ouch. A CD is 700MB. An average 128k mp3 is 5MB. 700/5=68.6 Hmm, a full CD would cost about $70.00. The price of those CD's will add up fast.
People are not naturally inclined to work for the service of others. It is not natural for people to sacrifice the fruits of their labor for some larger social goal.
I disagree. Have you ever heard of Open Source? If people are treated fairly and with respect this is natural. Yes, I believe human nature is good and people generally want to help others.
Once again it's the Penguin Liberation Front to the rescue for Mandrake RPS's of festival.
Iron Maiden also wrote a song about the old film The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and named a CD after Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Those guys at Iron Maiden could have made a living being book critics, they have good taste. They have not written anything about my favorite author, Roger Zelazny, however. To the best of my knowledge only Hawkwind has done that.
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation.
That's Robert Heinlein. You should try reading Stranger in a strange land or The moon is a harsh mistress. Heinlein's books carry the same intensity as the quote you used. Iron Maiden wrote songs titled after about both Stranger in a strange land and 666 the number of the beast.
The companies also agreed to distribute $75.7 million worth of CDs to public entities and nonprofit organizations in all 50 states.
I'm willing to bet the next time I'm at the local library there's going to be a LOT of copies of Nsync and Brittany.
I had lasik done on both eyes about 5 or 6 years ago. My contacts were -10.5 and -11.5. Basically I could read a book confortably pressed to my nose. My vision is better now than when I wore contacts or glasses. Before I got the surgery I read that your vision afterwards would never be quite as good as before with proper contacts or glasses, but fornatually I found this to be false for myself. When I go the the DMV I can read the eye charts from double the distance crystal clear. I have never experienced any halo effects and my night vision has always been good, and still is. I sit in front of a monitor all day and the eye strain is no where near as bad as when I had glasses. I researched this subject a bit before I got the surgery. I found out that RK (radial keratomy (sp?) - using a scalpel) has an "pissed off" percentage of 90% after 20 years as the eye keeps flattening out. PRK (like lasik but on the eye vs inside) blows away the bowmans membrane which they think might help keep out UV rays. Also people with PRK tend to have dry eye problems. I think what finally sold me on lasik was the statement from an eye doctor that 3 months after the surgery an eye doctor will not be able to tell that you had the procedure done. If you ask me if things can heal up that well they must be doing something right. Anyway getting lasik is one of the smartest things I've done. I've known other people who have had it and they have also been thrilled with the results. One big difference between PRK and lasik is that lasik depends on the skill of the surgeon a lot more than PRK, so get a good eye doctor.
Does the RIAA expect people to believe that internet users are cheap people with hours of time to waste downloading music through a 56k modem connection?
I can leach a 100GB site in just over a year on 56K using wget.
My Seiko watch already has this. Sapphire, along with ruby and emerald are alumninum oxides.
> on a good DVD, it's close to impossible to tell.
It's very easy to tell, the annoying blocky regions around any fast moving action or any dark area is the mpeg. In my opnion, (I used to write for Video Systems magazine) a DVD does not look as good a brand new VHS tape. Now play the tape a dozen times or let it sit a year and this is no longer the case.
> you raise the bitrate up to where a 1:30:00 movie will just fit on a CD-R, it's very nearly indistinguishable from DVD video.
1:30 on a disk is the cutoff point to where it starts to look really bad. If a movie is over 1:30 I encode (divx5) it on two disks. The quality is amazing considering an entier movie fits on one or two CD's, but to say it's almost the same as the DVD is just plain wrong. It's watchable, like a beat up video rental VHS tape.
> This goes double for animation.
I just tried encoding some episodes of South Park to divx5 and was shocked with the results. The artifacting was much more apparent than normal video, even after I cranked up the quality to fit 45 minutes on a CDR. I finally just gave up and left them in VOB format.
> a 200mb file is more than high enough quality to tape and share with your friends
You must not like your friends. Possibly a 20 minute TV episode could look acceptable at this size. What resolution is stuff encoded at? If you shrink this down to web cam resolutions you can fit a lot on a disk, but NTSC video is about 720 x 480 resolution. I think TV is way too low of resolution as it is, I wouldn't want to cut it down any more.
Transcode and DVDrip are the best Linux tools I've found for doing video encoding. Some people like memcoder which I believe is part of mplayer.
I thought the topic was DVD audio on CD's, not DVD video on CD's.,,
Take a trip! www.sendthemtomir.com
Use a little logic here, if established companies are going out of business due to the economy (lack of paying customers), how are you going to get work?
I use a Zaurus, which has been tested with up to 1GB CF cards. Since I'm ordering a 6 megapixel camera, I'm going to be needing some large (512MB) cards anyway. Nothing like dual purpose. Now if an Ipod could dock up to a digital camera for storage I would really be impressed.
You can store your contacts & calendar on it too.
I get about 14MB/s on read to an external USB2 maxtor 120MB drive according to hdparam. I had my hands on a 160MB Firewire maxtor drive and only got about 12MB/s. Both drives used ext3.
I've been using the external USB2 drive for several months now, probably close to 1/2 a year and it has performed perfect, except when I plug it into my USB1 machine at work (way too slow).
You can have the carpet now, but it might clash. Enclosed Screen Porch does sound like a great name for a case mod.
One plus is we can now officially consider the Church of Scientology a terrist organization.
I wonder if we could get a bill passed to require the government to be ANSI SQL92 compliant?
> Your gas pedal really does not control gas flow directly; instead it is a potentiometer that sends a signal to a computer.
Obviously you've never worked on a car. The gas petal goes through a cable to the fuel injector. That's about as direct as you can get. There is TPS (Throttle Position Sensor) that feeds the information into the computer so it knows how much gas you're giving it.
What ya don't get with open source is a sales person taking the purchasing decision maker out to the titty bars patting them on the back telling them what a smart decision they're making by going with proven industry leading software. Here in the US marketing is much more important than actual product. If management can see magazine ads or billboards for a product they purchased they feel warm and fuzzy, like they're part of something successfull. The quality of the product is irrelevant. Quality may be important to the techies, but management could care less, after all, what do techies know about important purchasing desisions? MySQL will never look as good as Oracle on a company's balance sheet. Open source will never offer these warm and fuzzy experiences.
I used MS SQL v6.5 years back and I can tell you that compared to MySQL it is very slow and most importantly, extremely unreliable. MS SQL cannot handle the load that MySQL can. At my previous company (care2.com) we had a dual xenon (PII 350MHz?) machine performing an average of up to 600 queries per second during peak hours. Sure I miss stored procedures, but running stored procedures on a database doing hundreds of queries per second is not realistic. It makes more sense to have clients do as much of the work as possible to reduce the load on the centralized DB. I guess if you have a minimal DB load or a mainframe you could successfully argue this point.
I can say the exact same thing about Micropolis drives. That's why they went out of business. The majority of my customers I made the mistake of selling Micropolis drives to had them die within 6 months. Getting dead drives back from the warranty dept was common. Two years before that Micropolis drives were great. Often HD manufacturers go threw stages were a design sucks or they have a hard time getting quality parts. Maxtor went through one of those phases maybe 5 years back, but since then they have been awesome drives.