I think pitivi is aiming to be usable for a different set of users than blender. Pitivi lets you just drag video clips into time line without worrying about resolutions, frame rates or codecs. Achieving the same process in blender requires quite a bit more work.
Vim and emacs are great tools, but it does not mean that we don't need gedit and kate.
While Cinelerra is very capable, it also seems to be an unmaintainable code dump. The community project can just about get it in a state that it builds, but I am not aware that they have added any features to it. IIRC the community devs though it would be better to start again from scatch, with a project called something like Luminara, but I can't find much about that now.
On the other hand Pitivi is build on a solid base of libraries that are used widely in other peices of software. Even if pitivi were not to succede then it would have created the tools for other people to build an editor. It also provides a base of libraries for experimental editors like Nova cut.
> Nucelar power has problems and if we were to use it as much as we use fossil fuels, it would cause the same problem.
Nuclear's problems are vastly exaggerated. There are industrial accidents and oil and gas explosions every week that have more fatalities than the Fukushima disaster. Passive safety features in modern designs make them safer still, and that's before fancy designs like subcritical reactors. There are methods of destroying nuclear waste (transmutation) or using it as fuel. People worry about long half lives of isotopes, but that ignores that pollutants like lead or mercury effectively have infinite half lives.
Nuclear certainly scares people, but that does not mean that it is dangerous (relative to any other method of power generation, or any other industrial process).
Nuclear output is not varied for practical reasons, not fundamental limitation.
All current grids with nuclear also have fossil fuels. When demand drops you turn the fossil fuels down, because that saves fuel and fuel dominates the cost of fossil fuel power generation. If you turn the nuclear plant down you don't save any money, costs in nuclear power are dominated by construction, other costs are pretty much independent over whether you are generating power or not.
If you had a grid with only nuclear, then you would either add the capability to load follow into your nuclear plants or you would solve energy storage.
my sony bluray manual mentions a 'quick starting mode' that makes it switch on faster. I suspect (though have not tested) that this just means it does not fully switch off.
This is good news. GNOME2/MATE is a very nicely evolved traditional desktop, that I am sure has more person hours of testing than all the other linux desktops put together (being the default in most major distros for years).
Having it in the official repos, saves having to hunt down the addresses of the repos when installing. A strength of debian is how broad the repos are. Thanks for the hard work folks.
Collisions are a real problem. As an example, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devicekit-power/+bug/507247 Ubuntu recognises a whole bunch of things as a power meter, because they all use the same usb-serial chip, and so have the same IDs. Here they all use the same low level driver, but programs that try to talk to the device over that serial link have issues.
Can you recommend a board with a GPU that has acceleration with an opensource driver. The current state of opensource ARM seems a bit basic http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ3MTM . Even intels minowboard uses one of the powervr GPUs that tainted half the netbooks back in the day.
The old CPU is a shame, but its been fast enough for me so far. For my MPD server I replaced a Beagleboard with RaspberryPI, which is plenty fast for streaming playing FLACs and MP3s.
> 2. its encumbered, so enjoy one more $45 product that kicks FLOSS to the curb.. Beaglebone isnt encumbered...but beagleboard isnt the word for god on the lips and hearts of every blogosphere hipster.
The beagleboard uses PowerVR GPU, which requires a closed driver for acceleration.
I've had no trouble with network. I'm using NFS and ssh to move files andstream audio. (but i assume those protocols are robust against the odd dropped packet)
If it were possible for the an open system to implement the standard, then it could save the decrypted data to disk instead of displaying it. More likely it will be impossible for an open browser to implement it even if it wanted to.
I think its the end for being able to view a lot of content on open source systems. If the DRM module is decrypting it and passing it to the browsers rendering engine, then an opensource browser could capture it defeating the whole point. So the modules will want a method to pass the decrypted content straight to the screen (HDCP), or having guarantees from the browser and OS that saving and screen capturing are disabled.
If every nuclear story needs 'meltdown' in the title, I propose every natural gas story gets 'explode'. This will help remind us of the thousands of people blown up in oil and gas accidents.
Even with massive efficiency improvements we need to at least double electricity production, as we need to electrify transport and heating in order to stop emitting CO2. ( And that's from an environment group http://zerocarbonbritain.com/ )
The USA may have a low enough population density for renewables to work, but not europe or the far east. Don't be fooled by the 'will provide electricity for N homes', as household electricity is just a fraction of the problem.
1 privately owned company should have an exclusive monopoly on how crowdfunding should work, what the fees should be, how payments are made and what projects are suitable. Any project that dares uses a different crowdfunding site should be ridiculed for being different.
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Ubuntu still as the 0.15.x series. You should have a look at the recent improvements in 0.92. There is a PPA https://launchpad.net/~gstream...
I think pitivi is aiming to be usable for a different set of users than blender. Pitivi lets you just drag video clips into time line without worrying about resolutions, frame rates or codecs. Achieving the same process in blender requires quite a bit more work.
Vim and emacs are great tools, but it does not mean that we don't need gedit and kate.
While Cinelerra is very capable, it also seems to be an unmaintainable code dump. The community project can just about get it in a state that it builds, but I am not aware that they have added any features to it. IIRC the community devs though it would be better to start again from scatch, with a project called something like Luminara, but I can't find much about that now.
On the other hand Pitivi is build on a solid base of libraries that are used widely in other peices of software. Even if pitivi were not to succede then it would have created the tools for other people to build an editor. It also provides a base of libraries for experimental editors like Nova cut.
They could probably solve this by giving people free pizza
http://rt.com/usa/chevron-frac...
(On a serious note, why does it take a PR scandal to make a fatal explosion at an gas well newsworthy?)
> Nucelar power has problems and if we were to use it as much as we use fossil fuels, it would cause the same problem.
Nuclear's problems are vastly exaggerated. There are industrial accidents and oil and gas explosions every week that have more fatalities than the Fukushima disaster. Passive safety features in modern designs make them safer still, and that's before fancy designs like subcritical reactors. There are methods of destroying nuclear waste (transmutation) or using it as fuel. People worry about long half lives of isotopes, but that ignores that pollutants like lead or mercury effectively have infinite half lives.
Nuclear certainly scares people, but that does not mean that it is dangerous (relative to any other method of power generation, or any other industrial process).
try calculating how massive those battery banks need to be and how much they will cost.
Nuclear output is not varied for practical reasons, not fundamental limitation.
All current grids with nuclear also have fossil fuels. When demand drops you turn the fossil fuels down, because that saves fuel and fuel dominates the cost of fossil fuel power generation. If you turn the nuclear plant down you don't save any money, costs in nuclear power are dominated by construction, other costs are pretty much independent over whether you are generating power or not.
If you had a grid with only nuclear, then you would either add the capability to load follow into your nuclear plants or you would solve energy storage.
It should only be installation costs. The drive will be replaced under warranty.
Pipelines aren’t necessarily safe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Qingdao_oil_pipeline_explosion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Nairobi_pipeline_fire
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-12-17/noida/45294234_1_ntpc-plant-ntpc-employees-pipeline
I have wanted a blink(1) for a while, but the price is very high for what it is. Then add in shipping to the UK, import tax and handling fees.
BlinkStick is cheaper, though you loose the nice plastic enclosure.
my sony bluray manual mentions a 'quick starting mode' that makes it switch on faster. I suspect (though have not tested) that this just means it does not fully switch off.
This is good news. GNOME2/MATE is a very nicely evolved traditional desktop, that I am sure has more person hours of testing than all the other linux desktops put together (being the default in most major distros for years).
Having it in the official repos, saves having to hunt down the addresses of the repos when installing. A strength of debian is how broad the repos are. Thanks for the hard work folks.
natural gas, killing people every day
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24702806
(and somehow people have the idea that nuclear is dangerous)
Collisions are a real problem. As an example, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devicekit-power/+bug/507247 Ubuntu recognises a whole bunch of things as a power meter, because they all use the same usb-serial chip, and so have the same IDs. Here they all use the same low level driver, but programs that try to talk to the device over that serial link have issues.
There is interest in using diamonds for LHC detectors, due to its superior radiation hardness compared to silicon.
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/april-2012/signal-to-background
If diamond was as cheep as silicon, then they would be using tonnes of it.
Can you recommend a board with a GPU that has acceleration with an opensource driver. The current state of opensource ARM seems a bit basic http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ3MTM . Even intels minowboard uses one of the powervr GPUs that tainted half the netbooks back in the day.
The old CPU is a shame, but its been fast enough for me so far. For my MPD server I replaced a Beagleboard with RaspberryPI, which is plenty fast for streaming playing FLACs and MP3s.
> 2. its encumbered, so enjoy one more $45 product that kicks FLOSS to the curb.. Beaglebone isnt encumbered...but beagleboard isnt the word for god on the lips and hearts of every blogosphere hipster.
The beagleboard uses PowerVR GPU, which requires a closed driver for acceleration.
I've had no trouble with network. I'm using NFS and ssh to move files andstream audio. (but i assume those protocols are robust against the odd dropped packet)
If it were possible for the an open system to implement the standard, then it could save the decrypted data to disk instead of displaying it. More likely it will be impossible for an open browser to implement it even if it wanted to.
I think its the end for being able to view a lot of content on open source systems. If the DRM module is decrypting it and passing it to the browsers rendering engine, then an opensource browser could capture it defeating the whole point. So the modules will want a method to pass the decrypted content straight to the screen (HDCP), or having guarantees from the browser and OS that saving and screen capturing are disabled.
If every nuclear story needs 'meltdown' in the title, I propose every natural gas story gets 'explode'. This will help remind us of the thousands of people blown up in oil and gas accidents.
Natural gas, the explosive financial opportunity.
I used a GPB paypal account to pledge to the USD ubuntu edge indiegogo, and was refunded the exact amount in GBP that i pledged. no fee was taken.
its the only version that get security updates.
Even with massive efficiency improvements we need to at least double electricity production, as we need to electrify transport and heating in order to stop emitting CO2. ( And that's from an environment group http://zerocarbonbritain.com/ )
The USA may have a low enough population density for renewables to work, but not europe or the far east. Don't be fooled by the 'will provide electricity for N homes', as household electricity is just a fraction of the problem.
1 privately owned company should have an exclusive monopoly on how crowdfunding should work, what the fees should be, how payments are made and what projects are suitable. Any project that dares uses a different crowdfunding site should be ridiculed for being different.