As a backhanded compliment, yes, he does sound like an average user. No explanation of _why_ there aren't proprietary codecs and DVD capability. The same old false comparison that linux takes some knowledge to maintain but, of course, any old grandma can install drivers and devices on Windows.
But he has some points. No control panel? Not on KDE but Ubuntu is natively Gnome. Video stuttering? Really? Like to hear more about that hardware or maybe the display driver. And the fact that some modules are "ugly" or might "taint" the kernel isn't something grandma wants to hear, is it? That latter point speaks a little to developer humor and frank individualism. Linux has had quite a bit of it and, unfortunately, it probably should be restrained. Like the K3b redesign. My heart sank a little, as it always does, to see the quirky splash replaced with slick professionalism. But something unobtusive like that probably is what appeals to the greater number of people.
Janis Ian is outspoken about the industry. Long career, lot of releases, and she said _every_ one has been accompanied by a letter from accounting telling her how much _she_ owes _them_ for the release.
OK, the GIMP isn't Photoshop on _second_ look, but my wife's a webmaster and the UI is a primary nonstarter for her. The argument is "why bother"? I'd probably be setting up an XP/QEMU boot for her Illustrator and Flash designer on her home machine anyway, but she likes a lot about a linux boot with a local Apache and such. Uses linux Bluefish and phasing into Aptana for coding so if the GIMP were more like Photoshop in features _AND_ UI I really could see her giving it a second look.
how to know for sure if a channel is digital or analog as received?'"
Not to be snotty but it's easy training with MythTV in our area because 1/3 of the stations have an HD and SD broadcast side-by-side. Switch back and forth on a newscast a few times and you'll forever recognize the fuzziness of lines and text in particular in SD.
The price differential is being blamed on raw materials costs and currency fluctuation.
If it is mostly raw materials, I suppose there is only so much a person can do. If it is currency fluctuation, maybe they should price it, and should have priced it to begin with, in euros. Everyone knows the dollar has been sinking for years.
I'm going to continue integrating the MythTV into my life as if 2009 is still the doorway to a digital future.
But, you know, I'm honestly not that surprised that they caved -- again. I think there is still a lot of consumer confusion about camera-to-screen digital vs. converter boxes and LCD TVs running analog tuners vs. digital. Probably some backlash from stations that don't want to spend a penny either. Only one of our broadcast stations here is doing local news 16:9 and it looks like our ABC is still using analog cameras exclusively for local work. And they have to nail down that DRM better, don't they?
Most of us probably had something like 2400 baud modems at the time to CompuServe and the like so only people at trade shows got exposed to that little work.
Yup. Had a few short outages when I first got QWest DSL in 2000. I can remember a service rep asking a supervisor whether linux telnet worked the same as Windows telnet. So I always did a Windows 95 laptop serial connection on subsequent calls.
Good old Edmund Scientific, catalog available through any Popular Science, in its prime in the 60s sold grinding kits up to 10"-12" inches if I remember with tons of parts: mounts, tubes, diagonal mirrors, eyepieces. Would have been nice if they had sold Foucault testers.
Anybody have similar suppliers today for parts and aluminizing at their fingertips?
Unless I'm mistaken I believe Free Pascal is still used at the University of South Africa for it's first programming course. A great way to save students money.
I agree. Kurzweil still predicting that in 22 years, a typical PC will be equivalent to 1,000 brains and a decade or so after that AI will be nearly perfected? Dude, it feels like I've been waiting 22 years for consumer delivery of the photosensor/optical nerve interface for the blind, much less Commander Data. I mean, Geez......
Frankly, I have a lot more respect for serious science fiction writers than I do for "futurists". I sometimes wonder whether universities keep them around as court jesters.
And what I sensed in the adults was the paranoia of having this Russian thing overhead every hour. In contemporary parlance, a circling Orange Terror Alert that supported the Cold War. So Sputnik had a dark side in its cultural context.
I've been listening to streaming euro-trance exclusively for about the last 6 years and I'm in the heart of North America. So what is the payola to my local stations getting the record industry from me considering what they put out to have played?
No, socialism _is_ communism. Ronald Reagan said so and every American under 40 was taught that from infancy and is incapable of believing anything else. A solution has not been put in place to deal with the degenerates who would try to weaken zie Homeland by trying to make people believe otherwise.
Seriously (also) I think computer science students, college or tech school, didn't have a lot of time for liberal arts so they are sometimes uneducated trades persons. In truth, I don't have a lot of respect for libertarians. I call them "anti-hippies". The same unswerving naive belief -- in their case it's just blind belief in the free market and the invisible hand of capitalism instead of peace and love.
I was reading Introducing Machiavelli the other week and the point was made that every politician quotes the Prince, but how many quote the mature Discourses? The one that says the good of the state is primary -- think infrastructure, levees and high taxes. The one that says no groups of people should become so rich and powerful as to become a disruption to the state's good -- again think high _progressive_ taxes. Really, in every dominant doctrine and myth in Western society since the revolt of Lucifer community strength and welfare has been the primary goal, not isolated individualism. The fact the the U.S. is currently aberrant is a symptom of disease, not strength.
Got around to blowing away my hand-rolled Fedora 4, Myth 2.0 rpm set last week with an "auto" MythDora install. Installation and hardware recognition were 100% uneventful on low-end current stuff. The beginner could find the Myth configuration a learning experience, as always, but I had screen shots of my previous installation and that was uneventful as well.
I think it took me about as much time to angle the new SATA drive into the machine as it did to do the install and an equal amount of time (because I knew what I was doing) to get my first TV reception. Subsequent twiddling is still going on this week of course because I had extra stuff installed like avidemux;)
I've read that with big screens and hi def people don't take in a whole picture like on an old 19" analog TV, they scan the "view" like in real life. How annoying when part of the virtual world is out of focus.
I've already noticed that myself but, instead of thinking big like the Brothers, I've just mused that our local TV stations might have to invest, as practical, in lenses with somewhat better depth.
I was going to say the list obviously depends upon the selectors who do the selecting and it seems a bit negative this year. But you are right. It could be worse. There's already nobody under 30 who remembers a pre-Reagan world when government could do anything right like infrastructure or the space program.
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What would really be a practical application of this? Name me one.
Replicators. You never watched Stargate?
As a backhanded compliment, yes, he does sound like an average user. No explanation of _why_ there aren't proprietary codecs and DVD capability. The same old false comparison that linux takes some knowledge to maintain but, of course, any old grandma can install drivers and devices on Windows.
But he has some points. No control panel? Not on KDE but Ubuntu is natively Gnome. Video stuttering? Really? Like to hear more about that hardware or maybe the display driver. And the fact that some modules are "ugly" or might "taint" the kernel isn't something grandma wants to hear, is it? That latter point speaks a little to developer humor and frank individualism. Linux has had quite a bit of it and, unfortunately, it probably should be restrained. Like the K3b redesign. My heart sank a little, as it always does, to see the quirky splash replaced with slick professionalism. But something unobtusive like that probably is what appeals to the greater number of people.
Janis Ian is outspoken about the industry. Long career, lot of releases, and she said _every_ one has been accompanied by a letter from accounting telling her how much _she_ owes _them_ for the release.
OK, the GIMP isn't Photoshop on _second_ look, but my wife's a webmaster and the UI is a primary nonstarter for her. The argument is "why bother"? I'd probably be setting up an XP/QEMU boot for her Illustrator and Flash designer on her home machine anyway, but she likes a lot about a linux boot with a local Apache and such. Uses linux Bluefish and phasing into Aptana for coding so if the GIMP were more like Photoshop in features _AND_ UI I really could see her giving it a second look.
how to know for sure if a channel is digital or analog as received?'"
Not to be snotty but it's easy training with MythTV in our area because 1/3 of the stations have an HD and SD broadcast side-by-side. Switch back and forth on a newscast a few times and you'll forever recognize the fuzziness of lines and text in particular in SD.
The price differential is being blamed on raw materials costs and currency fluctuation.
If it is mostly raw materials, I suppose there is only so much a person can do. If it is currency fluctuation, maybe they should price it, and should have priced it to begin with, in euros. Everyone knows the dollar has been sinking for years.
I'm going to continue integrating the MythTV into my life as if 2009 is still the doorway to a digital future.
But, you know, I'm honestly not that surprised that they caved -- again. I think there is still a lot of consumer confusion about camera-to-screen digital vs. converter boxes and LCD TVs running analog tuners vs. digital. Probably some backlash from stations that don't want to spend a penny either. Only one of our broadcast stations here is doing local news 16:9 and it looks like our ABC is still using analog cameras exclusively for local work. And they have to nail down that DRM better, don't they?
Most of us probably had something like 2400 baud modems at the time to CompuServe and the like so only people at trade shows got exposed to that little work.
Yup. Had a few short outages when I first got QWest DSL in 2000. I can remember a service rep asking a supervisor whether linux telnet worked the same as Windows telnet. So I always did a Windows 95 laptop serial connection on subsequent calls.
Good old Edmund Scientific, catalog available through any Popular Science, in its prime in the 60s sold grinding kits up to 10"-12" inches if I remember with tons of parts: mounts, tubes, diagonal mirrors, eyepieces. Would have been nice if they had sold Foucault testers.
Anybody have similar suppliers today for parts and aluminizing at their fingertips?
Same as their complaints about low-power broadcasters in the 70s. Really, guys, you need a fresh pick-up line.
Unless I'm mistaken I believe Free Pascal is still used at the University of South Africa for it's first programming course. A great way to save students money.
They provided a couple weeks of data so there's still a week in the database.
Yup, transferring service is on the "to do" list for a lot of people this week, I imagine.
a Singularity is decades or even lifetimes away.
I agree. Kurzweil still predicting that in 22 years, a typical PC will be equivalent to 1,000 brains and a decade or so after that AI will be nearly perfected? Dude, it feels like I've been waiting 22 years for consumer delivery of the photosensor/optical nerve interface for the blind, much less Commander Data. I mean, Geez......
Frankly, I have a lot more respect for serious science fiction writers than I do for "futurists". I sometimes wonder whether universities keep them around as court jesters.
For shame. Every time a person gets free access to state university research an angel drops a tear upon Ronald Reagan's grave.
Hope he enjoys his settlement.
No doubt his attorney will.
And what I sensed in the adults was the paranoia of having this Russian thing overhead every hour. In contemporary parlance, a circling Orange Terror Alert that supported the Cold War. So Sputnik had a dark side in its cultural context.
I've been listening to streaming euro-trance exclusively for about the last 6 years and I'm in the heart of North America. So what is the payola to my local stations getting the record industry from me considering what they put out to have played?
Who says it's "alone"? Here in Minnesota in '04 MS bought me a cheap printer, refurb Epson scanner, and three LinuxStore keyboards.
No, socialism _is_ communism. Ronald Reagan said so and every American under 40 was taught that from infancy and is incapable of believing anything else. A solution has not been put in place to deal with the degenerates who would try to weaken zie Homeland by trying to make people believe otherwise.
Seriously (also) I think computer science students, college or tech school, didn't have a lot of time for liberal arts so they are sometimes uneducated trades persons. In truth, I don't have a lot of respect for libertarians. I call them "anti-hippies". The same unswerving naive belief -- in their case it's just blind belief in the free market and the invisible hand of capitalism instead of peace and love.
I was reading Introducing Machiavelli the other week and the point was made that every politician quotes the Prince, but how many quote the mature Discourses? The one that says the good of the state is primary -- think infrastructure, levees and high taxes. The one that says no groups of people should become so rich and powerful as to become a disruption to the state's good -- again think high _progressive_ taxes. Really, in every dominant doctrine and myth in Western society since the revolt of Lucifer community strength and welfare has been the primary goal, not isolated individualism. The fact the the U.S. is currently aberrant is a symptom of disease, not strength.
Got around to blowing away my hand-rolled Fedora 4, Myth 2.0 rpm set last week with an "auto" MythDora install. Installation and hardware recognition were 100% uneventful on low-end current stuff. The beginner could find the Myth configuration a learning experience, as always, but I had screen shots of my previous installation and that was uneventful as well.
;)
I think it took me about as much time to angle the new SATA drive into the machine as it did to do the install and an equal amount of time (because I knew what I was doing) to get my first TV reception. Subsequent twiddling is still going on this week of course because I had extra stuff installed like avidemux
I've read that with big screens and hi def people don't take in a whole picture like on an old 19" analog TV, they scan the "view" like in real life. How annoying when part of the virtual world is out of focus.
I've already noticed that myself but, instead of thinking big like the Brothers, I've just mused that our local TV stations might have to invest, as practical, in lenses with somewhat better depth.
Fuller: examples, exceptions
I was going to say the list obviously depends upon the selectors who do the selecting and it seems a bit negative this year. But you are right. It could be worse. There's already nobody under 30 who remembers a pre-Reagan world when government could do anything right like infrastructure or the space program.
If the American auto safety administration has something to hide, is it American auto related? Sounds like another argument to buy a Prius.
And avoid bridges.