>Fine paid: $2,500. >Year servced: One year. > >Money gained for copyright holder/theater: Negative amounts. >Money gained for prison system: Negative amounts. > >Total outcome: Hassle for everyone and shitload of money lost all around.
Money gained/will be gained by lawyers: shitloads.
in 20 years, there will only be 2 jobs.... laywers and their IT guys. Which are you going to be?
poor recievers and position on your part does not constitute a problem with GPS on the operator's part.
and besides - how does adding additional signals to your already shitty location change anything? If you've got bad multipath problems or narrow FOV problems, more satellites isn't going to change anything.
This article is so thin on actual information, its incredible.
1. The Euros still have barely made 1 satellite broadcast a NAV message.. if in fact, they actually did. The most accurate discription of what the whole Galileo program has done to this point is bitch-n-moan, and put up a used Frigidaire into space with a HAM radio and a metronome hooked together with bailing wire broadcasting the opening 3 seconds of Weird Al's "Like a Surgeon" track for the last few years.
2. Teenagers keep hacking the ICD-spec'd encryption in a handful of days, thus ensuring that any possible monitary beneift the 72 countries "invovled" with Galileo will become naught once some industrious Chinese manufacturers start making receivers which bypass the payment scheme. (can you say "region-free/CCS-free DVD players?" I knew you could)
3. The Euros could shut-down Galileo anytime they wanted - why should the US depend on a system that could be shut-down anytime someone else wanted? Answer - they probably won't.
they killed the Concorde because they couldn't get along. They stopped supporting Airbus because they couldn't get along. They haven't accomplished anything of merit with Galileo because they can't get along.
Perhapse we'll just all do what we know everyone will do... what Euro's do best...
keep using GPS for free while complaining the whole while about it and keep bitching about the colonials until they're in deep shit and ask for help.
how am i supposed to preview my DVD in DVD player on my Mac when i'm making it - the disc is not on a disc, so must i burn my DVDs before playing them in DVD player?
i mean, apple has to use this license for DVD player, to get the legal CCS decryptors, no?
i tried to explain to California that i hate them and moved to a much better state, so stop sending me registration tax bills for cars that not only don't i own any more (its amazing what $250,000 in liquid assets feels like) and registered the week i got into the new state.
but even tho i don't need "forgiveness" - i'd take it all the same.
i am spending $500 for an iPhone because it will sync properly with my Mac.
I have already spent twice that on a veriety of phones and software packages that claim to sync with my Mac, but in every case - Treo, Blackberry, Symbian - it only sorta works, and usually requires me to backup my old address book and stickies file prior to use because i KNOW that whatever craptastic 3rd party software i'm going to be forced to use will suck ass and not work.
SE and Moto phones were close to okay - but SE only makes phones 2 and a half inches thick, and Moto phones could have a slower UI in them, but would have to have a waterwheeled abacus for a CPU for that to be possible.
The iPhone is fast, slim, and will not treat me, a Mac user, like a second-class citizen. For that reason alone - i couldn't give a shit how expensive it is. Many mac users i know feel the same...
of course, for all i know, software for windows for all those phones could blow ass too, but you don't hear any bitching because... well... we're talking about Windows users, right?
does that mean that i have to throw away all my CDs at home? I mean, if that iPod is now in someone else's hands, i've "distributed" music - and would be liable under the rules... remember, a CD is nothing more than shiny plastic... i'm given a license to listen to that music... i don't "own" anything but the shiny plastic.
what if i was robbed? As far as i can tell, not only would i have been robbed of my iPod, but i'd have to go home and throw out my CDs on top of it, else, i'd be liable for distributing hundreds of CD's worth of copyrighted materials.
Seriously. When was the last time the actual product was demoed AS the commercial?
Hell, when was the last commercial you saw so clear and simple so as to be produced at nearly zero cost? The have a dude holding the phone, and showing you how it works. Then there's a graphic at the end with the date.
Compare to the blackjack commercial with the magic hands. WTF? The whole commercial pimps its card-like design by the hands? is there any indication of how useable it is? You barely even see the *actual* product for a few moments.
My mom owns an iPod now that i've given her one - she fscking loves it. She uses it everywhere. I didn't get her a sansa or something else 1. because she's got a mac and every other music player is pretty much fsck-all useless if you have a mac 2. she understood how to use it in 15 seconds.
She has called me exactly one time because she forgot how to make a new playlist in iTunes. Once sorted out, she's been using it - with 100% no techincal support from me.
Compare to her sprint whatever the fsck it is phone. She's got no way to sync up her phone's phone book with her mac, and its impossible for her to DO anything with the pictures it takes - they're all stuck inside the phone.
Just looking at the iPhone commerical - its obvious that my mom could use 100% of the functions on the phone. Its simple and it works seamlessly on Mac and Windows.
When it comes to technology for day to day use - i want technology designed well enough that my mom can use it because i no longer live in her basement. I don't have the time nor the inclination to figure things out that just simply shouldn't be so complicated. I have stuff to do, and figureing out the minutae of some damn sycning issue is not one of the things i need to do.
It amazes me how many don't get it. Well designed things may cost more - the cheapest thing you can buy is not always really the best answer. My life is considerably less stressful by following this one rule.
Buy the best, or be content with what you have.
(btw: i drove a beater early 90's accord until i could afford a Impreza WRX STi - and now, i enjoy it immensely, as opposed to having a long list of shitty half-baked cars)
if yerlooking for a ton of great fluff, its time to get PC world.
10 reasons we love/hate Apple/Microsoft?
Holy mackrel. Why not "10 Dumbest things ever said by Dvorak" or "Top 10 Ryan Meader predicitions we wish would come true" or "10 Things to look for in a PC for your dog."
you can be jailed for going over the speeding limit by 20 mph, there are more cameras than people, its illegal to own GPS recievers that tell you where the speeding cameras are, new speeding cameras that identify individual cars and time you over long distances to see if you broke the average speeding limit, and now they're going to watch your every single move from the A4 and thru London, and send you a smegging bill.
Every asshat that ever said that can go home, shit on a plate, put some mustard on it, maybe a little tabasco on it... but that is the shit sandwitch of words that you must now eat.
I guess i'm saddened that so many people are so convinced that everything every company does is for pure evil. Watching Jobs all these years, its obvious that
a) he doesn't need the money. Seriously. b) he's got a track record of being straight with people.
for instance... when they opened the iTMS in Europe, he said on stage "we wanted to do a single Euro Store, but the copyright holders said no" - and then recently, all the Euros piled on Apple for making it impossible for Belgins to buy songs from the UK Music store.. apple said, again "no, we wanted a single Euro Store - blame the music companies"... and everyone said Apple was lying.
Well, about a week later, all the music companies came out and said "yeah, pretty much, Euro customers can get fucked, cause we're the ones not letting apple sell the English songs on the French Music Store page... now smeg off, its our content".... and all has gone quiet on the subject.
Now, we all remember Steve saying "DRM doesn't work, but the music companies forced us into this" - and everyone balked - they all said "this is for iPod lock-in. You can't fool us!" And the din only increased after the Music Manifesto.
Well, all of you naysayers... all of you that doubted Apple's honesty can just jam it.
If you will sell your wares without DRM, Apple is happy to oblige. Your arguements are 100% invalidated, and all the blame now rests squarely on the shoulders of the music companies.
Practically everything that was said regarding Iraq's WMD prowess was also said by
George Bush John McCain John Kerry Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton Robert Byrd Sandy "nothing in my underpants" Berger Madeline "Kim Jung Ill seems a nice guy" Albright Carl Levin Ted Fscking Kennedy Al Gore and a HOST of others...
It begs the question why Kusinich is picking on Dick only?
Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
- President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
- President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction."
- Madeline Albright, Feb 1, 1998
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
- Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs." Letter to President Clinton.
- (D) Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, others, Oct. 9, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"Hussein has... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and th! e means of delivering them."
- Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam H
I installed Vista on my MacPro - in 12 minutes, i had a successfully BSOD'd Vista by playing a standard DiVX 6.0 file on Vista. (yesssss... i installed the drivers for everything)
I think (i do not know - so back off, i'm guessing) that there is some kind of problem with Vista and video... at least, i'm seeing a trend.
Considering the amount of work Microsoft put into preventing people from playing (assumedly pirated) video, I don't think its much of a strech to believe that its much harder for developers to make video playback software. I know that i read a very long article that talked about video card compliance and every 30ms being polled by the OS or some such bullshit, but i don't recall the link. But it was quite long, very extensive, and seemed to me that Vista's goal was not to provide a system which would foster video content creation - but rather, just the opposite.
its rather sad, actually. Microsoft/Adobe and MS/AVID had the makings of at least pitiful competition for Apple/Apple & Apple/Avid... (Apple/Adobe? Yeah, not so much any more after NAB). I actually LIKE competition, because it means that Apple and their developers actually have to work to make better products.
With all of the pain that's obivously involved with working HD video (which inclueds VIEWING IT) on Vista, there won't be much competition. If Vista is a shitty at video work as its looking to be, i suspect that Apple will be able to kick back on the beach with a mai-tai and not have to evern try... i mean, HD playback is 100% zero effort (assuming you aren't trying to do it on a PowerBook 520c) in Mac OS X - there's no DRM invovled whatsoever (except for BR and HDDVDs).... and the video cards Just Work(TM), and Quicktime just works, and VLC just works and DIVX just works.... etc.
sucks to have your workflow based upon a product that is EOL in 7 months (Windows XP + ___________). Personally, i don't care. I've long stopped caring about the abuse people that use Windows for video work put themselves thru... sure, Windows did some things faster back in the day, but all of that is totally gone now, isn't it?
refurb. Saved a ton. Bought it for video editing for a small business and a local ministry.
Toward the end of the year, if its still too slow, i can always throw down on some of the quad core chips. They're around $1200 right now on Newegg.
But so far, its not the processors that are slowing me down - its the hard drives and the 2 gigs of ram.
If you're buying the 8 core box, and you're NOT buying a SATA raid w/card to go with it, you're pissing in the wind... because you'll NEVER keep the processors busy enough..
encoding h.264 right now is taxing the 3 drive array inside my box, not the computing bits.
I'm sure that with the release of Final Cut Suite 6 - we'll hopefully get some 3D graphics - finally - and maybe we'll even get shake with the Uber package if we're lucky.
THEN we'll see.
but right now, i have literally thrown dozens of needlessly complex stuff at Motion 2, and i can't get the CPUs to bog down.
Are wireless devices going to cause the plane to crash or not?
If i can cause the plane to crash using my iPod during takeoff, why can i now use WiFi during the flight?
This all goes to show you why the asshole that refused to put away his iPod or laptop when told to was always right, and the stewdresses and do-gooder sheeple sitting around the cabin ratting them out are the real dumbasses.
I use XP at work, all day long, and i just gave Vista a swing on my MacPro via parallels last night.
Wow. I was so lost, it wasn't funny. Vista and, from the screenshots, Office Vista... whatever... are going to require 100 pounds of retraining per person at any corporation.
Things are in the wrong place, the menus have all vanished or mysteriously moved to the right side of the window, except now some of them are text and some of them are icons.
I have a hard time believeing that if you can get your head wrapped around Vista and Vista Office that you can't get your head around Ubuntu. I just don't believe you. The differences may be less stark between 2000/XP and Ubuntu and XP/Vista. And i'm not even using Aqua... errr... Aero. I've even gone to Windows classic mode - and i'm still totally lost in Vista.
Fear, laziness, and stubbornness are the reasons IT nerds won't even consider Linux.
Even itunes has become a PITA when i want to make an MP3 CD for my car. I've decided i'm no longer going to buy from iTunes until i can convert the songs into mp3 in 1 step.
Remember - everything that the lables are telling you is bullshit when it comes to DRM - because they sell ALL of their music RIGHT NOW DRM-Free.... At WalMart, Target, Best Buy, Amazon, etc.
All Steve Jobs asked for was to have the same ability the CD-selling stores have - the ability to sell music DRM-free. Absolutely nothing different.
EMI has been pitching the possibility of selling its entire music collection to the public in MP3 form... without Digital Rights Management protections.
take out the 45 second step that they're saving me by pre-converting the sounds in.mp3 files, but haven't they, since the beginning, sold their entire music collection to the public without Digital Rights Management?
All the EMI cd's i have are...
I think steve missed a critical moment in his letter. He should have pointed out with a LOT more punch that they are all ALREADY selling their ENTIRE music collections without DRM in physical stores... and that we're simply talking about making the same possible on online stores.
The ACLU fought against this exact kind of move in California - the use of paper ballots vs the use of electronic ballots - because according to them, electronic ballots are "twice as accurate" and the use of paper ballots woulddisenfranchise voters. According to the left and the ACLU in 2003, "punch cards are unfit for use" and are all for electronic voting.
i was there when they did this, and MAN... they were insistent that paper ballots go into the dustbin of history because of their error rates and their propensity to "confuse minority voters". Their words, not mine.
So, i guess that the governor of Florida should get his lawyers ready for this... taking their state back into the dark ages...
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>Fine paid: $2,500.
>Year servced: One year.
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>Money gained for copyright holder/theater: Negative amounts.
>Money gained for prison system: Negative amounts.
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>Total outcome: Hassle for everyone and shitload of money lost all around.
Money gained/will be gained by lawyers: shitloads.
in 20 years, there will only be 2 jobs.... laywers and their IT guys. Which are you going to be?
By 2020, there will only be two jobs left in the US.
1. Lawyers
2. IT guys for lawyers.
just think about which you're going to be, and start preparing.
200,783 to go...
poor recievers and position on your part does not constitute a problem with GPS on the operator's part.
and besides - how does adding additional signals to your already shitty location change anything? If you've got bad multipath problems or narrow FOV problems, more satellites isn't going to change anything.
This article is so thin on actual information, its incredible.
1. The Euros still have barely made 1 satellite broadcast a NAV message.. if in fact, they actually did. The most accurate discription of what the whole Galileo program has done to this point is bitch-n-moan, and put up a used Frigidaire into space with a HAM radio and a metronome hooked together with bailing wire broadcasting the opening 3 seconds of Weird Al's "Like a Surgeon" track for the last few years.
2. Teenagers keep hacking the ICD-spec'd encryption in a handful of days, thus ensuring that any possible monitary beneift the 72 countries "invovled" with Galileo will become naught once some industrious Chinese manufacturers start making receivers which bypass the payment scheme. (can you say "region-free/CCS-free DVD players?" I knew you could)
3. The Euros could shut-down Galileo anytime they wanted - why should the US depend on a system that could be shut-down anytime someone else wanted? Answer - they probably won't.
they killed the Concorde because they couldn't get along. They stopped supporting Airbus because they couldn't get along. They haven't accomplished anything of merit with Galileo because they can't get along.
Perhapse we'll just all do what we know everyone will do... what Euro's do best...
keep using GPS for free while complaining the whole while about it and keep bitching about the colonials until they're in deep shit and ask for help.
tossers.
how am i supposed to preview my DVD in DVD player on my Mac when i'm making it - the disc is not on a disc, so must i burn my DVDs before playing them in DVD player?
i mean, apple has to use this license for DVD player, to get the legal CCS decryptors, no?
Does this mean the end of Open VIDEO_TS folders?
i tried to explain to California that i hate them and moved to a much better state, so stop sending me registration tax bills for cars that not only don't i own any more (its amazing what $250,000 in liquid assets feels like) and registered the week i got into the new state.
but even tho i don't need "forgiveness" - i'd take it all the same.
i wonder if i'll get it?
i am spending $500 for an iPhone because it will sync properly with my Mac.
I have already spent twice that on a veriety of phones and software packages that claim to sync with my Mac, but in every case - Treo, Blackberry, Symbian - it only sorta works, and usually requires me to backup my old address book and stickies file prior to use because i KNOW that whatever craptastic 3rd party software i'm going to be forced to use will suck ass and not work.
SE and Moto phones were close to okay - but SE only makes phones 2 and a half inches thick, and Moto phones could have a slower UI in them, but would have to have a waterwheeled abacus for a CPU for that to be possible.
The iPhone is fast, slim, and will not treat me, a Mac user, like a second-class citizen. For that reason alone - i couldn't give a shit how expensive it is. Many mac users i know feel the same...
of course, for all i know, software for windows for all those phones could blow ass too, but you don't hear any bitching because... well... we're talking about Windows users, right?
lets say i lose my (80gb) iPod on a train...
does that mean that i have to throw away all my CDs at home? I mean, if that iPod is now in someone else's hands, i've "distributed" music - and would be liable under the rules... remember, a CD is nothing more than shiny plastic... i'm given a license to listen to that music... i don't "own" anything but the shiny plastic.
what if i was robbed? As far as i can tell, not only would i have been robbed of my iPod, but i'd have to go home and throw out my CDs on top of it, else, i'd be liable for distributing hundreds of CD's worth of copyrighted materials.
report vulnerabilities to Apple because he is a total fsckwad loser attention hound.
Thanks for the news about the vunerabilities, Paris Maynor.
Falwell, Pat Robertson, Robert Tilton, Kenneth Copeland, everyone on Trinity Broadcasting Network, and this stupid-ass museum...
PLEASE GO AWAY or SHUT THE HELL UP! You're fscking embarrassing.
Except TBN - you're Jesus pimps... which is far worse. The Bible has something to say about pimping God... and that He doesn't take kindly to it.
Seriously. When was the last time the actual product was demoed AS the commercial?
Hell, when was the last commercial you saw so clear and simple so as to be produced at nearly zero cost? The have a dude holding the phone, and showing you how it works. Then there's a graphic at the end with the date.
Compare to the blackjack commercial with the magic hands. WTF? The whole commercial pimps its card-like design by the hands? is there any indication of how useable it is? You barely even see the *actual* product for a few moments.
My mom owns an iPod now that i've given her one - she fscking loves it. She uses it everywhere. I didn't get her a sansa or something else 1. because she's got a mac and every other music player is pretty much fsck-all useless if you have a mac 2. she understood how to use it in 15 seconds.
She has called me exactly one time because she forgot how to make a new playlist in iTunes. Once sorted out, she's been using it - with 100% no techincal support from me.
Compare to her sprint whatever the fsck it is phone. She's got no way to sync up her phone's phone book with her mac, and its impossible for her to DO anything with the pictures it takes - they're all stuck inside the phone.
Just looking at the iPhone commerical - its obvious that my mom could use 100% of the functions on the phone. Its simple and it works seamlessly on Mac and Windows.
When it comes to technology for day to day use - i want technology designed well enough that my mom can use it because i no longer live in her basement. I don't have the time nor the inclination to figure things out that just simply shouldn't be so complicated. I have stuff to do, and figureing out the minutae of some damn sycning issue is not one of the things i need to do.
It amazes me how many don't get it. Well designed things may cost more - the cheapest thing you can buy is not always really the best answer. My life is considerably less stressful by following this one rule.
Buy the best, or be content with what you have.
(btw: i drove a beater early 90's accord until i could afford a Impreza WRX STi - and now, i enjoy it immensely, as opposed to having a long list of shitty half-baked cars)
if yerlooking for a ton of great fluff, its time to get PC world.
10 reasons we love/hate Apple/Microsoft?
Holy mackrel. Why not "10 Dumbest things ever said by Dvorak" or "Top 10 Ryan Meader predicitions we wish would come true" or "10 Things to look for in a PC for your dog."
wow.
you can be jailed for going over the speeding limit by 20 mph, there are more cameras than people, its illegal to own GPS recievers that tell you where the speeding cameras are, new speeding cameras that identify individual cars and time you over long distances to see if you broke the average speeding limit, and now they're going to watch your every single move from the A4 and thru London, and send you a smegging bill.
I'd rather live in the US than in England.
Nor-fscking-way???!!
Every asshat that ever said that can go home, shit on a plate, put some mustard on it, maybe a little tabasco on it... but that is the shit sandwitch of words that you must now eat.
I guess i'm saddened that so many people are so convinced that everything every company does is for pure evil. Watching Jobs all these years, its obvious that
a) he doesn't need the money. Seriously.
b) he's got a track record of being straight with people.
for instance... when they opened the iTMS in Europe, he said on stage "we wanted to do a single Euro Store, but the copyright holders said no" - and then recently, all the Euros piled on Apple for making it impossible for Belgins to buy songs from the UK Music store.. apple said, again "no, we wanted a single Euro Store - blame the music companies"... and everyone said Apple was lying.
Well, about a week later, all the music companies came out and said "yeah, pretty much, Euro customers can get fucked, cause we're the ones not letting apple sell the English songs on the French Music Store page... now smeg off, its our content".... and all has gone quiet on the subject.
Now, we all remember Steve saying "DRM doesn't work, but the music companies forced us into this" - and everyone balked - they all said "this is for iPod lock-in. You can't fool us!" And the din only increased after the Music Manifesto.
Well, all of you naysayers... all of you that doubted Apple's honesty can just jam it.
If you will sell your wares without DRM, Apple is happy to oblige. Your arguements are 100% invalidated, and all the blame now rests squarely on the shoulders of the music companies.
Practically everything that was said regarding Iraq's WMD prowess was also said by
... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies."
George Bush
John McCain
John Kerry
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Robert Byrd
Sandy "nothing in my underpants" Berger
Madeline "Kim Jung Ill seems a nice guy" Albright
Carl Levin
Ted Fscking Kennedy
Al Gore and a HOST of others...
It begs the question why Kusinich is picking on Dick only?
Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003
"I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force -- if necessary -- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
- Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
- President Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
- President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"We must stop Saddam from ever again jeopardizing the stability and security of his neighbors with weapons of mass destruction."
- Madeline Albright, Feb 1, 1998
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
- Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton.
- (D) Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, others, Oct. 9, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"Hussein has
- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
"We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and th! e means of delivering them."
- Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002
"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
"The last UN weapons inspectors left Iraq in October of 1998. We are confident that Saddam H
i had massive BSOD problems trying to use VLC in Vista. YMMV.
I don't see on the VLC page that VLC is compatible with vista - is there something i'm missing?
I installed Vista on my MacPro - in 12 minutes, i had a successfully BSOD'd Vista by playing a standard DiVX 6.0 file on Vista. (yesssss... i installed the drivers for everything)
I think (i do not know - so back off, i'm guessing) that there is some kind of problem with Vista and video... at least, i'm seeing a trend.
Considering the amount of work Microsoft put into preventing people from playing (assumedly pirated) video, I don't think its much of a strech to believe that its much harder for developers to make video playback software. I know that i read a very long article that talked about video card compliance and every 30ms being polled by the OS or some such bullshit, but i don't recall the link. But it was quite long, very extensive, and seemed to me that Vista's goal was not to provide a system which would foster video content creation - but rather, just the opposite.
its rather sad, actually. Microsoft/Adobe and MS/AVID had the makings of at least pitiful competition for Apple/Apple & Apple/Avid... (Apple/Adobe? Yeah, not so much any more after NAB). I actually LIKE competition, because it means that Apple and their developers actually have to work to make better products.
With all of the pain that's obivously involved with working HD video (which inclueds VIEWING IT) on Vista, there won't be much competition. If Vista is a shitty at video work as its looking to be, i suspect that Apple will be able to kick back on the beach with a mai-tai and not have to evern try... i mean, HD playback is 100% zero effort (assuming you aren't trying to do it on a PowerBook 520c) in Mac OS X - there's no DRM invovled whatsoever (except for BR and HDDVDs).... and the video cards Just Work(TM), and Quicktime just works, and VLC just works and DIVX just works.... etc.
sucks to have your workflow based upon a product that is EOL in 7 months (Windows XP + ___________). Personally, i don't care. I've long stopped caring about the abuse people that use Windows for video work put themselves thru... sure, Windows did some things faster back in the day, but all of that is totally gone now, isn't it?
Now, its all about the OS.
refurb. Saved a ton. Bought it for video editing for a small business and a local ministry.
Toward the end of the year, if its still too slow, i can always throw down on some of the quad core chips. They're around $1200 right now on Newegg.
But so far, its not the processors that are slowing me down - its the hard drives and the 2 gigs of ram.
If you're buying the 8 core box, and you're NOT buying a SATA raid w/card to go with it, you're pissing in the wind... because you'll NEVER keep the processors busy enough..
encoding h.264 right now is taxing the 3 drive array inside my box, not the computing bits.
I'm sure that with the release of Final Cut Suite 6 - we'll hopefully get some 3D graphics - finally - and maybe we'll even get shake with the Uber package if we're lucky.
THEN we'll see.
but right now, i have literally thrown dozens of needlessly complex stuff at Motion 2, and i can't get the CPUs to bog down.
Which in the hell is it?
Are wireless devices going to cause the plane to crash or not?
If i can cause the plane to crash using my iPod during takeoff, why can i now use WiFi during the flight?
This all goes to show you why the asshole that refused to put away his iPod or laptop when told to was always right, and the stewdresses and do-gooder sheeple sitting around the cabin ratting them out are the real dumbasses.
I use XP at work, all day long, and i just gave Vista a swing on my MacPro via parallels last night.
Wow. I was so lost, it wasn't funny. Vista and, from the screenshots, Office Vista... whatever... are going to require 100 pounds of retraining per person at any corporation.
Things are in the wrong place, the menus have all vanished or mysteriously moved to the right side of the window, except now some of them are text and some of them are icons.
I have a hard time believeing that if you can get your head wrapped around Vista and Vista Office that you can't get your head around Ubuntu. I just don't believe you. The differences may be less stark between 2000/XP and Ubuntu and XP/Vista. And i'm not even using Aqua... errr... Aero. I've even gone to Windows classic mode - and i'm still totally lost in Vista.
Fear, laziness, and stubbornness are the reasons IT nerds won't even consider Linux.
if i like a band - like DMB - i buy the CDs now.
Even itunes has become a PITA when i want to make an MP3 CD for my car. I've decided i'm no longer going to buy from iTunes until i can convert the songs into mp3 in 1 step.
Remember - everything that the lables are telling you is bullshit when it comes to DRM - because they sell ALL of their music RIGHT NOW DRM-Free.... At WalMart, Target, Best Buy, Amazon, etc.
All Steve Jobs asked for was to have the same ability the CD-selling stores have - the ability to sell music DRM-free. Absolutely nothing different.
EMI has been pitching the possibility of selling its entire music collection to the public in MP3 form ... without Digital Rights Management protections.
.mp3 files, but haven't they, since the beginning, sold their entire music collection to the public without Digital Rights Management?
take out the 45 second step that they're saving me by pre-converting the sounds in
All the EMI cd's i have are...
I think steve missed a critical moment in his letter. He should have pointed out with a LOT more punch that they are all ALREADY selling their ENTIRE music collections without DRM in physical stores... and that we're simply talking about making the same possible on online stores.
The ACLU fought against this exact kind of move in California - the use of paper ballots vs the use of electronic ballots - because according to them, electronic ballots are "twice as accurate" and the use of paper ballots would disenfranchise voters. According to the left and the ACLU in 2003, "punch cards are unfit for use" and are all for electronic voting.
i was there when they did this, and MAN... they were insistent that paper ballots go into the dustbin of history because of their error rates and their propensity to "confuse minority voters". Their words, not mine.
So, i guess that the governor of Florida should get his lawyers ready for this... taking their state back into the dark ages...
to Microsoft BOHICA.