I seriously ask the question, in the us, is your tax declaration private? (at least here, anyone can go to the tax office and check one another's declaration... seems rather sound in the case of a democracy..)
I really don't get how this type of measure is going to achieve anything, if the price is uniform.. If the charge were to be indexed on the car owner's revenue, perhaps it would deter traffic, but as it is now, it's just a matter of having enough revenue to have the right to drive..
With a fixed price, they can't make the price too high because it would be too painful for the commoners, and if they charge too low, then the measure is useless.
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Greece never was homogeneous, athen is the city you are referring to by talking about democracy. As for valuing freedom, it wasn't that great of a culture, as it maintained formal slaves, and unformal ones like women and children.
octet is also an english word, used in ietf's documents for example. And its latin root makes obvious the exact number of bits. (bytes could be any size after all depending on the architecture)
Architecture dedicated compilers may well be faster, but gcc's performance has already reached a 'good enough' stage.
What's more important is that gcc provides features that are absent from all the other compilers: gcc works virtually on any architecture, and offers a stable (in its functions) platform, and an unique interface to low-level features (such as building calls dynamically) as well as very good extensions. It demonstrates how free software can offer a standard, and not be affraid of 'innovating.'
so, intel/dell/sun's compilers may have their place, but they don't play in the same category
as gcc. They're useful for dedicated performance apps, or things like games.
then they'll make a library that will use user-level threads (not kernel-level threads)
since user-level threads have the smallest context-switches time.
Can you elaborate on how radicaly different is a common life form engineered by thousands of centuries of natural selection and and a system engineered by humans/and or other systems presenting all the characteristics of living animals?
is it just a belief that if we create something; we are automatically superior to it? (then why should childrens be anything but slaves?)
oh well, sceners usually can't stand being in that big ice hockey hall filled with 15 years old gamers, so typically meet in a small place outside the party hall where alcohol and other substances are (ab)used and come back to watch the compos if they are not too wasted to enter the party.
Yes I absolutly don't regret having upgraded to 2.4! grab 2.4.x and low latency patches (you'll find that the links and information on http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/) grab some nice audio software like jmax, and see how much responsive the machine is.. (really)
I know about that, and heard the quality. But still I'd like to be able to digitally transfer samples, even if tainted from a portable minidisc instead of using an analog output. (can we say hiss) Besides, there are pro minidisc equipments which provide optical out. The restriction on optical out on consumer portable devices is purely and clearly an effort to forbid copy protection and at the same time makes the device less useful.
Your capitalist guts will say; you had the choice and choosed to buy this device anyway, it's your fault. I say no. It's difficult to get those portable devices with digital out, and surely not at a decent price, while the cost of adding the feature is not so high especially if you can make a customer happier..
there's a whole thing which annoys me in this turn of affairs, and this optical-in / out reminds me of it, is that we are, and going to be more and more considered like mere *consumers*. slowly, the major companies are trying to steal our ways to *produce* in their quest for copy protection.
for example, take a fairly normal consumer minidisc player. Those don't come with any optical out. just optical in. You can't just sample something outside, and transfer it digitaly to your computer because of this damn copy protection policies.
I don't really care if they protect their own work, i mean i can live without hearing the latest tune they released on the market. It seems like the core of the problem is that people have been brainwashed into thinking they need to hear the latest metallica apparently. (Remember, you have the power here) But imposing measures and copy protection techniques on the industry forbid me to exploit and use *my* 'intellectual property'. (I can see it coming, consumer players that would only play materials coming from authenticated music coming from 'real' artists.
And i find that's fairly insulting... especially in days were productions means are more and more ubiquitous
Yes that's because the information chain between people is still channelled thru very global nodes of information: news paper, tv, radios.
we can only hope that the general public will start using todays technology (internet?) more and more as its source of information. There the sources of information are more and more distributed and less controllable. Less concentration => less power of advertising.
It's just a question of beeing sufficiently disconnected from the major media channels.
Of course production of media content is not always cheap... Well perhaps the public will just turn itself to look into cheaper media/art. (nothing in the word entertaining implies that it has to be expensive to produce)
The difference here is that media is not scarce. Anybody is able to produce art. Even if hollywood and the big companies would like you to believe you can't have good quality content without them. They will realize, once the general public will be too pissed off by protection techniques and will begin to look into other sources of content, that they don't have a monopoly on creativity.
We don't NEED any of their productions. Face it, and make them feel that way.
first, try to check www.buzz2.com it still resolved last time i checked.
second, check www.buzzmachines.com instead of buzztrack.com
third, oskari announced recently he lost the source of buzz in a hardware crash... (definitely buzz would have been a good candidate for opensourcing)
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I seriously ask the question, in the us, is your tax declaration private? (at least here, anyone can go to the tax office and check one another's declaration... seems rather sound in the case of a democracy..)
I really don't get how this type of measure is going to achieve anything, if the price is uniform.. If the charge were to be indexed on the car owner's revenue, perhaps it would deter traffic, but as it is now, it's just a matter of having enough revenue to have the right to drive..
With a fixed price, they can't make the price too high because it would be too painful for
the commoners, and if they charge too low, then the measure is useless.
yeah the music on square is by shad
Greece never was homogeneous, athen is the city you
are referring to by talking about democracy. As for
valuing freedom, it wasn't that great of a culture,
as it maintained formal slaves, and unformal ones like women and children.
octet is also an english word, used in ietf's documents for example. And its latin root makes obvious the exact number of bits. (bytes could be any size after all depending on the architecture)
...
s/dell/dec of course
Architecture dedicated compilers may well be faster, but gcc's performance has already reached a 'good enough' stage.
What's more important is that gcc provides features that are absent from all the other compilers: gcc works virtually on any architecture, and offers a stable (in its functions) platform, and an unique interface to low-level features (such as building calls dynamically) as well as very good extensions. It demonstrates how free software can offer a standard, and not be affraid of 'innovating.'
so, intel/dell/sun's compilers may have their place, but they don't play in the same category
as gcc. They're useful for dedicated performance apps, or things like games.
then they'll make a library that will use user-level threads (not kernel-level threads)
since user-level threads have the smallest context-switches time.
Can you elaborate on how radicaly different is a common life form engineered by thousands of centuries of natural selection and and a system engineered by humans/and or other systems presenting all the characteristics of living animals?
is it just a belief that if we create something; we are automatically superior to it? (then why should childrens be anything but slaves?)
Major scene news site: ojuice
If you want to have a very good glimpse at what the scene is producing / as produced:
http://www.pouet.net
It's an everything2-type site..
For a music radio broadcasting solely scene music:
nectarine radio,
(Those three websites are very well integrated..)
and finally shameless plug on noerror. (scene music news)
http://www.google.com/search?q=boozembly
oh well, sceners usually can't stand being in that big ice hockey hall filled with 15 years old gamers, so typically meet in a small place outside the party hall where alcohol and other substances are (ab)used and come back to watch the compos if they are not too wasted to enter the party.
Check out this demo, the only linux demo at assembly: (it came 5th)
mfx - dose2 (on pouet.net)
Of course you only had to go 500m to Boozembly which would supply decent quantities of alcohol + sceners.
Yes I absolutly don't regret having upgraded to 2.4! grab 2.4.x and low latency patches (you'll find that the links and information on http://www.linuxdj.com/audio/lad/) grab some nice audio software like jmax, and see how much responsive the machine is.. (really)
I know about that, and heard the quality. But still I'd like to be able to digitally transfer samples, even if tainted from a portable minidisc instead of using an analog output. (can we say hiss) Besides, there are pro minidisc equipments which provide optical out. The restriction on optical out on consumer portable devices is purely and clearly an effort to forbid copy protection and at the same time makes the device less useful.
Your capitalist guts will say; you had the choice and choosed to buy this device anyway, it's your fault. I say no. It's difficult to get those portable devices with digital out, and surely not at a decent price, while the cost of adding the feature is not so high especially if you can make a customer happier..
there's a whole thing which annoys me in this turn of affairs, and this optical-in / out reminds me of it, is that we are, and going to be more and more considered like mere *consumers*. slowly, the major companies are trying to steal our ways to *produce* in their quest for copy protection.
for example, take a fairly normal consumer minidisc player. Those don't come with any optical out. just optical in. You can't just sample something outside, and transfer it digitaly to your computer because of this damn copy protection policies.
I don't really care if they protect their own work, i mean i can live without hearing the latest tune they released on the market. It seems like the core of the problem is that people have been brainwashed into thinking they need to hear the latest metallica apparently. (Remember, you have the power here) But imposing measures and copy protection techniques on the industry forbid me to exploit and use *my* 'intellectual property'. (I can see it coming, consumer players that would only play materials coming from authenticated music coming from 'real' artists.
And i find that's fairly insulting... especially in days were productions means are more and more ubiquitous
what? the scene is what? dead?
try:/ t/timeless.zip
ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/mirrors/hornet/demos/1994
hint: try it under dos, clean boot.
...He is supposed to be working in a game company somewhere... at least that's what i heard.
I am using Sylpheed, it's quite a quite good 3 pane gtk mail client, rather stable, handles international character sets.
It does the job rather well for me. (small, fast, user friendly)
Evas supports plain xlib calls...
Yes that's because the information chain between people is still channelled thru very global nodes of information: news paper, tv, radios.
we can only hope that the general public will start using todays technology (internet?) more and more as its source of information. There the sources of information are more and more distributed and less controllable. Less concentration => less power of advertising.
It's just a question of beeing sufficiently disconnected from the major media channels.
Of course production of media content is not always cheap... Well perhaps the public will just turn itself to look into cheaper media/art. (nothing in the word entertaining implies that it has to be expensive to produce)
The difference here is that media is not scarce. Anybody is able to produce art. Even if hollywood and the big companies would like you to believe you can't have good quality content without them. They will realize, once the general public will be too pissed off by protection techniques and will begin to look into other sources of content, that they don't have a monopoly on creativity.
We don't NEED any of their productions. Face it, and make them feel that way.
I think any rational human being should believe that the laws of physics are really real!
i don't think ANY physicist would ever dare to say that.
first, try to check www.buzz2.com it still resolved last time i checked.
second, check www.buzzmachines.com instead of buzztrack.com
third, oskari announced recently he lost the source of buzz in a hardware crash...
(definitely buzz would have been a good candidate for opensourcing)