You don't need 3-D rendering and C/GPU-hogging programs to make good games. There are some text-based games that are far more fun than most 3-D and virtual games will ever be. Ideas trump graphics. Same goes for films. A lot of this CGI-crap cannot touch films made before CGI was even a thing, where story, script, acting, and skilful set design still held some value. It still holds value. Heck, a bunch of humans around a card table rolling dice and going over scenarios seems buckets more fun than 'grinding' for manna on WoW for days at a time. Maybe you do your low-tech thing and it will turn out to be better than corporate high tech merde.
Companies that use self-checkout are also the same that sell goods based on exploited labour and who use 'lawful' income tax evasion as in not paying their fair share. In addition, hired labour is also 'gamed'. What do I mean by that? When people are made to work full time but are still "temps" on paper or are "interns" or whose hours are played with so they are not eligible for paid overtime or a sustainable living. While there is a choice, do not support these entities until there is no longer choice. Then by definition, you are under oppression.
When you go to school, it is Windows, Android, and iOS that is taught with, not free variants. Same goes for attendant software. If you want to be a film maker, graphic designer, photographer--you are taught Adobe Creative Cloud, not free variants. In the workplace, proprietary software is the rule, free is the exception. The way people post here, one gets the impression that Stallman is some software Czar that denies the right to use proprietary software. The facts are the opposite. Proprietary software has moved from paid tools to rented ones and we, the user, have become serfs for The (corporate) Czar. We are forced onto a subscription model with programs that audit our hard drive to make sure we always comply with the company terms and conditions wherein the company has all the rights and we have none. We cannot even access our own work if we do not have the money that month. If the user does not have money for the subscription fee that month, guess what? The user does not work. Think about that. These companies have denied the user the right to own her own tools and be afforded the dignity of labour. When you have and use free software, you are always free to work without being beholden to a company for the right to work. Read Stallman's 'Free Software, Free Society'. It is perhaps among the most important series of essays on technology there is. Here is something else: technological progress will grind to a halt and we as a society are due for regression due to patent laws. Patent laws were conceived as a way to encourage development, but corporations have hijacked the system such that they control patents. Please read Tom Wolfe's 'Land of Wizards' from Popular Mechanics (1986) where patent laws enable corporations to take ideas from inventors because s/he cannot afford the court costs. If we want to (technologically) progress as a society and as a Human Race, Stallman's admonishments are vital to follow.
But I know for a fact that high-end studios like Lucasfilm and the ones who did Aquaman, among others, use Linux as the operating system. Big production studios use Linux. All that money is used for computing power instead of DRM. Now for more modest production studios, it used to be Mac and Windows. However, now the likes of DaVinci Resolve and Lightworks runs just fine on Linux whether you have an AMD Graphics card or Nvidea. If you are into 'Free as in Freedom' and wish to Stallmanize, you can always run Blender or Cinlerra for audio/video editing. Other options are Flowblade, Shotcut, and Openshot. Now what is video without pro audio production? Well you got Ardour, Mixbus and Reaper (Linux native or WINE powered) running smooth. If you need plugins for your audio, buddy, Carla and Wine make most of those Windows/Mac plugins give Windows and Mac a run for their money. Not to mention that Linux -based plugins like x42 and Linus Studio Plugins are excellent. Excellent. EXCELLENT. By the way, Reaper and Ardour/Mixbus can import/export video at resolutions desired, with your audio tweaked and soundtrack scored picture perfect. The gap is closing.
Unlike mainstream social media and Google, Archive.org (the PBS of the internet) is there for the user, touting Universal Access to Knowledge. Rather than being driven by ad revenue, Archive.org is there to serve the best interests of the public. Ideally, non-profits, such as museums like The Smithsonian (and the public) are better served to have an Archive.org page of videos instead of on Youtube. Watch 'Google: Behind the Screen (2006)', especially the segments where Archve.org founder Brewster Kahle talk's about our reliance on 'Google searches' (instead of multi-source searches) diminished our capacity to acquire knowledge. It remains to be seen whether Google will order a take down of Google + instances like certain lawyers are of 'Wayback Machine' pages.
An excellent, thought-provoking sci-fi film told through a series of stills and a brief filmed segment. This movie inspired '12 Monkeys', both the film and TV series but I like the original best. La Jetee probably also inspired Primer, which I also love. You don't need a flashy budget to make a great film.
So we are back here again, blame all Muslims and their belief system for the foolish actions of a minority. The fallacy of throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Would it it be equally fair to say that atheism is the root cause of the nihilist actions of serial killers or those who go on a rampage, that their lack of a belief system facilitates horrific acts? Do we need to have a post on slashdot every time an atheist goes on a rampage? Handpick and skew their belief systems in such a way as to say, 'see, Atheism led to this!' Meanwhile, our foreign policy incinerates thousands of Muslims on a regular basis, whether they oppose the US policy or not. They are just statistics of course, not that these men, women and children's lives matter to any of us. We have very little posts about them in Slashdot (even though people like Snowden found these actions and appalling). Here is an interesting piece by a cartoonist who draws incendiary cartoons, but refuses to be part of the Hebdo orgy, http://www.truthdig.com/arts_c...
Right, everything follows the European model. Other countries/populaces must measure themselves against the European/gold standard as they are a lesser breed. Got it.
Right, Muslims historically know nothing of math, astronomy, science, biology. Oh, come to think of it, neither do Christians or Jews for that matter! These are strictly realms for atheists. So enlightening.
Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Tony Robinson, never happened. Its all a fig newton of our imagination. But we can do wholesale bombing of poor brown people in other countries.
Yes, Islamists are racially impure and incapable of being enlightened. That is why over a quarter of the world population are terrorists and backwards people with their thumbs up their asses. They should be more racially pure like our forward thinking societies that have no concept of misogyny, exploitation, and oppression. Sure, sometimes we have to shoot and gas the odd rebel in our society, but that is because they are racially impure. Why can't these lower people think and be more flawless like us?
Kindly do not equate file sharing with boarding ships and seizing booty and other such sundry treasures by force. Though corporate bullies who induce state representatives may not know the difference between sharing and force, the rest of us, including Slashdot ought to know better.
Time to remix my search engines and never use Yahoo! (or affiliated products) again. After reading "When Google Met Wikileaks" by Assange, I will add google to that mix.
The servers do not have to be in the US and they are close to enough to (some of) the five eyes to intercept communications anyway.Plus, the UK already do a 'full take' on all data, not just metadata. Whatever they say about 'not spying on the Irish' is not so. There has been enmity long enough in (and with) Ireland to make it a place of interest. The move is more symbolic than anything else. A better location would be Iceland. Again, it would be purely symbolic, but it does send a stronger statement. When I think Ireland, I think 'tax shelter'.
Yeah, what can be done about this? The current GNU/Linux alternatives still have a catch up time of at least a decade in this field. Pixel editing is okay, vector editing is one of the success stories as well as digital photo development. But video is way off...If only one of these major companies can get a port to work on GNU/Linux...unless we can crowdfund openshot or some similar ilk to close the gap...
1) The NSA is aware of computer software vulnerabilities and exploits by other unscrupulous entities, yet they hoard this information rather share with the public (they are mandated to protect). Imagine how much safer American computers would be from say, phishing and ransomeware that affects even public institutions like schools should the NSA actually try to help them.
2) A lot of NSA espionage resources are dedicated to industrial espionage of foreign entities to maintain economic hegemony for a handful of corporate interests rather than American business at large.
3) Retroactive punishment. Web activity is stored and mined should future laws be broken to retroactively punish a populace or build profiles. For instance, someone takes part in a protest such as the occupy movement. That person's web life becomes an opportunity to search and find anything incriminating, no matter how trivial.
4) Mandated sharing of raw intelligence gathering with Israel, without reciprocity.
Rather than empowerment, the NSA seems more of a repressive regime tool.
I don't bother with facebook, twitter, linkedin et al because it does not serve my purposes. It is sort of like working a part time job and not getting paid for it. I don't see anything that productive coming out of it. Though, I am considering using alternatives like Quitter, Diaspora, among other GNU social alternatives. However, they do seem to require a lot of effort and am not sure I want to invest in my time that way. Things like Vimeo and Flickr make more sense (to me) as you can work on video and image stills and share with a community to get critiques on your work. As for employment, while some may not hire you if you don't do social media, people also lost their jobs because of social media. It is a sad commentary that people may not hire you because you don't have a bloody linkedin account. I've been spammed mercilessly by linkedin and recall a time they used to go through user contact lists on e-mail clients. (come to think of it, that is how they spam people...) I understand why linkedin does this, but it is also terrible etiquette.
Are there any more companies that offer GNU/Linux out of box on lappies? Somehow, I do not trust the Dell's and HP's of this world.... What about desktops? Do you have to have Windows by default too when you buy a new motherboard? Anyone?
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No justice, no peace.
You don't need 3-D rendering and C/GPU-hogging programs to make good games. There are some text-based games that are far more fun than most 3-D and virtual games will ever be. Ideas trump graphics. Same goes for films. A lot of this CGI-crap cannot touch films made before CGI was even a thing, where story, script, acting, and skilful set design still held some value. It still holds value. Heck, a bunch of humans around a card table rolling dice and going over scenarios seems buckets more fun than 'grinding' for manna on WoW for days at a time. Maybe you do your low-tech thing and it will turn out to be better than corporate high tech merde.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's not about right or wrong, it's about what you can get away with.
Companies that use self-checkout are also the same that sell goods based on exploited labour and who use 'lawful' income tax evasion as in not paying their fair share. In addition, hired labour is also 'gamed'. What do I mean by that? When people are made to work full time but are still "temps" on paper or are "interns" or whose hours are played with so they are not eligible for paid overtime or a sustainable living. While there is a choice, do not support these entities until there is no longer choice. Then by definition, you are under oppression.
When you go to school, it is Windows, Android, and iOS that is taught with, not free variants. Same goes for attendant software. If you want to be a film maker, graphic designer, photographer--you are taught Adobe Creative Cloud, not free variants. In the workplace, proprietary software is the rule, free is the exception. The way people post here, one gets the impression that Stallman is some software Czar that denies the right to use proprietary software. The facts are the opposite. Proprietary software has moved from paid tools to rented ones and we, the user, have become serfs for The (corporate) Czar. We are forced onto a subscription model with programs that audit our hard drive to make sure we always comply with the company terms and conditions wherein the company has all the rights and we have none. We cannot even access our own work if we do not have the money that month. If the user does not have money for the subscription fee that month, guess what? The user does not work. Think about that. These companies have denied the user the right to own her own tools and be afforded the dignity of labour. When you have and use free software, you are always free to work without being beholden to a company for the right to work. Read Stallman's 'Free Software, Free Society'. It is perhaps among the most important series of essays on technology there is. Here is something else: technological progress will grind to a halt and we as a society are due for regression due to patent laws. Patent laws were conceived as a way to encourage development, but corporations have hijacked the system such that they control patents. Please read Tom Wolfe's 'Land of Wizards' from Popular Mechanics (1986) where patent laws enable corporations to take ideas from inventors because s/he cannot afford the court costs. If we want to (technologically) progress as a society and as a Human Race, Stallman's admonishments are vital to follow.
But I know for a fact that high-end studios like Lucasfilm and the ones who did Aquaman, among others, use Linux as the operating system. Big production studios use Linux. All that money is used for computing power instead of DRM. Now for more modest production studios, it used to be Mac and Windows. However, now the likes of DaVinci Resolve and Lightworks runs just fine on Linux whether you have an AMD Graphics card or Nvidea. If you are into 'Free as in Freedom' and wish to Stallmanize, you can always run Blender or Cinlerra for audio/video editing. Other options are Flowblade, Shotcut, and Openshot. Now what is video without pro audio production? Well you got Ardour, Mixbus and Reaper (Linux native or WINE powered) running smooth. If you need plugins for your audio, buddy, Carla and Wine make most of those Windows/Mac plugins give Windows and Mac a run for their money. Not to mention that Linux -based plugins like x42 and Linus Studio Plugins are excellent. Excellent. EXCELLENT. By the way, Reaper and Ardour/Mixbus can import/export video at resolutions desired, with your audio tweaked and soundtrack scored picture perfect. The gap is closing.
Unlike mainstream social media and Google, Archive.org (the PBS of the internet) is there for the user, touting Universal Access to Knowledge. Rather than being driven by ad revenue, Archive.org is there to serve the best interests of the public. Ideally, non-profits, such as museums like The Smithsonian (and the public) are better served to have an Archive.org page of videos instead of on Youtube. Watch 'Google: Behind the Screen (2006)', especially the segments where Archve.org founder Brewster Kahle talk's about our reliance on 'Google searches' (instead of multi-source searches) diminished our capacity to acquire knowledge. It remains to be seen whether Google will order a take down of Google + instances like certain lawyers are of 'Wayback Machine' pages.
An excellent, thought-provoking sci-fi film told through a series of stills and a brief filmed segment. This movie inspired '12 Monkeys', both the film and TV series but I like the original best. La Jetee probably also inspired Primer, which I also love. You don't need a flashy budget to make a great film.
So we are back here again, blame all Muslims and their belief system for the foolish actions of a minority. The fallacy of throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Would it it be equally fair to say that atheism is the root cause of the nihilist actions of serial killers or those who go on a rampage, that their lack of a belief system facilitates horrific acts? Do we need to have a post on slashdot every time an atheist goes on a rampage? Handpick and skew their belief systems in such a way as to say, 'see, Atheism led to this!' Meanwhile, our foreign policy incinerates thousands of Muslims on a regular basis, whether they oppose the US policy or not. They are just statistics of course, not that these men, women and children's lives matter to any of us. We have very little posts about them in Slashdot (even though people like Snowden found these actions and appalling). Here is an interesting piece by a cartoonist who draws incendiary cartoons, but refuses to be part of the Hebdo orgy, http://www.truthdig.com/arts_c...
Right, everything follows the European model. Other countries/populaces must measure themselves against the European/gold standard as they are a lesser breed. Got it.
Right, Muslims historically know nothing of math, astronomy, science, biology. Oh, come to think of it, neither do Christians or Jews for that matter! These are strictly realms for atheists. So enlightening.
Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Tony Robinson, never happened. Its all a fig newton of our imagination. But we can do wholesale bombing of poor brown people in other countries.
Imagine massacres the same as it ever was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes, Islamists are racially impure and incapable of being enlightened. That is why over a quarter of the world population are terrorists and backwards people with their thumbs up their asses. They should be more racially pure like our forward thinking societies that have no concept of misogyny, exploitation, and oppression. Sure, sometimes we have to shoot and gas the odd rebel in our society, but that is because they are racially impure. Why can't these lower people think and be more flawless like us?
Hey, I know! Why don't we bomb them into a feminist state? Doing what we do best!
Kindly do not equate file sharing with boarding ships and seizing booty and other such sundry treasures by force. Though corporate bullies who induce state representatives may not know the difference between sharing and force, the rest of us, including Slashdot ought to know better.
Time to remix my search engines and never use Yahoo! (or affiliated products) again. After reading "When Google Met Wikileaks" by Assange, I will add google to that mix.
The servers do not have to be in the US and they are close to enough to (some of) the five eyes to intercept communications anyway.Plus, the UK already do a 'full take' on all data, not just metadata. Whatever they say about 'not spying on the Irish' is not so. There has been enmity long enough in (and with) Ireland to make it a place of interest. The move is more symbolic than anything else. A better location would be Iceland. Again, it would be purely symbolic, but it does send a stronger statement. When I think Ireland, I think 'tax shelter'.
Have you tried to use Wine for Adobe CC? Good luck!
Yeah, what can be done about this? The current GNU/Linux alternatives still have a catch up time of at least a decade in this field. Pixel editing is okay, vector editing is one of the success stories as well as digital photo development. But video is way off...If only one of these major companies can get a port to work on GNU/Linux...unless we can crowdfund openshot or some similar ilk to close the gap...
1) The NSA is aware of computer software vulnerabilities and exploits by other unscrupulous entities, yet they hoard this information rather share with the public (they are mandated to protect). Imagine how much safer American computers would be from say, phishing and ransomeware that affects even public institutions like schools should the NSA actually try to help them. 2) A lot of NSA espionage resources are dedicated to industrial espionage of foreign entities to maintain economic hegemony for a handful of corporate interests rather than American business at large. 3) Retroactive punishment. Web activity is stored and mined should future laws be broken to retroactively punish a populace or build profiles. For instance, someone takes part in a protest such as the occupy movement. That person's web life becomes an opportunity to search and find anything incriminating, no matter how trivial. 4) Mandated sharing of raw intelligence gathering with Israel, without reciprocity. Rather than empowerment, the NSA seems more of a repressive regime tool.
I don't bother with facebook, twitter, linkedin et al because it does not serve my purposes. It is sort of like working a part time job and not getting paid for it. I don't see anything that productive coming out of it. Though, I am considering using alternatives like Quitter, Diaspora, among other GNU social alternatives. However, they do seem to require a lot of effort and am not sure I want to invest in my time that way. Things like Vimeo and Flickr make more sense (to me) as you can work on video and image stills and share with a community to get critiques on your work. As for employment, while some may not hire you if you don't do social media, people also lost their jobs because of social media. It is a sad commentary that people may not hire you because you don't have a bloody linkedin account. I've been spammed mercilessly by linkedin and recall a time they used to go through user contact lists on e-mail clients. (come to think of it, that is how they spam people...) I understand why linkedin does this, but it is also terrible etiquette.
Are there any more companies that offer GNU/Linux out of box on lappies? Somehow, I do not trust the Dell's and HP's of this world.... What about desktops? Do you have to have Windows by default too when you buy a new motherboard? Anyone?
Uhhh, last I checked, Linus has no problems with secureboot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...