I've also had to mask mplayer >=1.0pre3. Additionally, install support for HPQ servers (cciss) is pretty bad, enough for me to abandon gentoo and use redhat. Pick a device tree and run with it.
However, I appreciate the ease-of-use when it comes to nvidia stuff, and 'opengl-update' is a handy hack.
OTOH, using nvidia opengl libs breaks building opengl packages, which is annoying.
In general, I still prefer gentoo, but I wouldn't recommend it for the faint-of-heart.
I'm away from my linny box right now so I can't test this out myself, but What is the Difference between Gaim & Kopete?
Gaim runs on windows and Kopete is integrated nicely in KDE?
Still, Kopete's systray context menu is kinda boned, there should be a submenu listing all online buddies so you can chat with them directly, rather than have to bring up the panel and double-click the user. IMHO ideally there is no screen real-estate used for an IM, a systray with context menus is perfect.
IOW, do what iChat does, since Apple got it right. You can use a menubar pulldown to chat with people, go on/offline, etc. Very efficient, and the right thing to do.
In fact, KDE really should look at OS X and just steal everything. OS X is where we want to be, it's just that good. That coupled with DCOP and KParts would be perfect...
This is neat and all, but IMHO what this country really needs is a new holiday, the first tuesday in November, so nobody has any excuse not to show up and vote.
Granted, I probably won't vote for the president, but I may vote in my local congressional and state/local races, if I can get home from work in time.
Then again, what this country needs is a TON more holidays;)
If you don't vote, then you have no right to talk about politics! With all due respect, that type of attitude totally disgusts me. The notion that any person's vote doesn't count (despite the most recent zupreme kort installation) is a bunch of propagandist drivel barfed out by those with insideous agendas. It's because of that type of mentality we're in this mess.
So, do I vote for John Jackson or Jack Johnson? Kang or Kodos?
What's the _point_, when the two "sides" are so much the same as you say? Where both sides promise to do different stupid things that are comparably harmful. Literally 'pick your poison'.
Also, what's the point if you live in a state that's been engineered to be a 'lock'? Why should a Republican show up in NY or CA? Why should a Democrat show up in TX or GA?
I'll give this to Nader: as arrogant and self-righteous as he is, he's done a lot more during his life to help the average American than either of the puppets dancing for their respective parties. He's also right in that our winner-take-all system is horribly broken. However, thanks to the Senate, we'll never be able to fix it. Nor will we ever be able to fix crap like the bridge to nowhere or the bloody farm subsidies.
Hell, I'd leave if I didn't have so much US$ debt to pay off...
That explains why Mahaer's show is a huge hit on HBO.
He's a bigger fish in a much tinier pond, with very little in the way of public pressure on a premium network where you can use the 'f-word' all you like. Besides, the HBO audience craves stuff like 'The Sopranos', 'Six Feet Under', 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', 'Sex and the City', not to speak of fare like 'Hookers on the Point' or 'Real Sex googleplex'.. The HBO audience is self-selected and paying for a slate of entertainment, and Maher appeals to that demo. That's probably where he belongs.
I'm really less interested in generalizing about political ideologies than I am pointing out larger-scale sociological patterns which IMO create these closed-minded groups. I generally think all politicians have 90% of the same modus operandi regardless of their affilliation so I don't want to continue the partisian babble.
It's somewhere between tribalism and religion, where people succumb to the social need (or political expedience) to belong to a group, even at the cost of submitting their own nuanced opinion or principle to the will of their chosen tribe. Each tribe has its own memes and fairy-tales, and can range from 'evangelism' when it's feeling its oats, to 'inquisition' when it's on the outs.
(just for reference: if I weren't planning to stay home in protest of the weak presidential slate, I'd write in McCain/Wyden...)
The fact that he's rich has no bearing on his integrity, even though it's a relatively safe assumption that MOST people (with the exception of Moore) would rather sell out and cash in than stand up for what they believe in.
Yes, but solidarity with the Oppressed Classes(tm) is is stock in trade, which is why he's a hypocrite. Moore makes his living by exposing fault in others, and is handsomely paid to do so. However, he also is paid handsomely to exploi^H^H^Hose the plight of those OCs.
There's a difference between the right wingers and the left wingers. The left don't go out of their way to destroy the livelihood of their ideological opponents;
Haven't been on a college campus, in a TV network or a major newspaper lately, then?
The right on the other hand, are boycott-happy, and not merely content with being "superior" but seek to sew the mouth shut and destroy anybody's ability to even publicly disagree with them.
You forgot to mention defacing SUVs, harrassing people wearing fur, shouting down Christopher Hitchens (a 'reformed socialist'), etc.
Oh, and we shouldn't boycott? Tell that to MLK's gravestone, genius...
Rush Limbaugh. Drug-addicted, pill-popping hypocrite is still on the air. Bill Mahaer says he doesn't like the "war with Iraq" on his show, "Politically Incorrect" and *WHAM* the right wingers push a few buttons and get his show cancelled.
Wow, nice ad-hoc attack. Did you learn to debate in Harvard? Naah, for a left-wing drive-by like that you'd have had to gone to Columbia... Besides, Maher's show shared a fatal flaw with Colin Quinn's new show: it sucked. Maher's a jackass, Jon Stewart is far more "dangerous"..
Oh, and it wasn't the "right wingers" that got anybody canceled, it was the audience who didn't want to hear that shrill crap, made it unsellable to advertisers, and therefore killed it. It's the free market, baby, the ultimate arbiter of success... If you don't like it don't watch it, if enough people are like you it goes away, thanks to capitalism...
If Michael Moore's documentaries are such BS, why are you so afraid of people watching them?
At risk of auto-Godwining, I could say the same thing about Leni Riefenstahl films or other Goebbels productions.
Only because Moore's on _your_ side, does it not register as agitprop.
There's plenty of stuff on the net debunking Moore (who thanks you for watching from his million-dollar NYC apartment), feel free to look for it.
Oh, and how many millions of dollars has Moore given back to Flint? How many US manufacturing jobs has he created? Where are the gimme hats he wears made?
... especially if you live in a foregone-conclusion state like NY.
For me, it's either do that or don't bother showing up, since I think both candidates are broken for various reasons, and lesser-of-two-evilism holds no appeal. I can't in good conscience vote for either sorry excuse dished up by our broken political system.
Real's server model is crap (authentication is a nightmare). Its proprietary codecs aren't good enough to be worth the trouble. Its content isn't worth the trouble to register (and payf for). Helix is kinda useless compared to mplayer, xine, etc. (its browser plugin is useless in konq)
Darwin/Quicktime Streaming Server is a better streaming server solution, and it's free.
Apple partnering with Real? Why? Apple should only partner with Real if they drop Real and go with Quicktime. And at that point, why should Real even exist?
Frankly, WMP is better supported on my platform (Linux KDE/KMplayer/Konq) than Real (the KMplayer kpart bones javascript tests for rm plugins), so what's the point of Real?
Add in the asinine hiding of the free player, and the verdict is:
They have a flexible DRM policy (without which they wouldn't even be able to offer the service to begin with).
How do I play encumbered files on my Tivo home media player?
How do I play them at work on my Linux box, even if they're streaming off my iPod?
Thieves are thieves, if they hadn't purchased the songs in the first place they wouldn't need this utility, and there's plenty of files in sharing anyways. People use the iTunes store for convenience, and quality fast downloads. Sharing cracked iTunes files is kind of silly, frankly, because you're definitely not gonna have the same ease-of-use and quick-downloadability that makes the itms worth the 'premium'.
so until you are willing to pay a significant premium for the MADE IN USA mantra... drop the act.
Just ask someone spouting off about offshoring whether or not they shop at Walmart, Costco, Target, etc.
Americans can't compete at being cheaper without serious automation. They _can_, however, compete at being smarter or better. That's a tougher fight, less room for error or sympathy for incompetence, so it's more painful.
OTOH, I'm in a field where skillsets can die quite horrible deaths into obsolescence, so I'm used to having to learn constantly.
Because the Chinese currency is pegged to the dollar and the Japanese are buying dollars to keep the Yen in check?
Because if Americans stop buying imported goods and services, foreign economies are more fucked than ours is?
I fear the day China's actually a free nation. While they're still a corrupt corporate-fascist state they won't be as efficient, productive or creative as we are. Better to let Chinese toil for pennies an hour, so we won't have to confront them at their best: look at Hong Kong and Taiwan, multiplied to a billion+ population, if you want to see what we'd be up against if China were free.
Then we'll be pegging the dollar to the yuan and subsidizing _their_ spending spree, if we haven't already imploded under the weight of baby boomer retirement benefits and the oil crash...
Now, if Skype made some users share their modems (yes, I hear some people still use those things), then it would be a true P2P interface to the local phone system, which I believe is the only thing that could give Skype a real chance. Any thoughts on this?
Would a typical modem chipset be adequate for this? Assuming even a traditional Rockwell voicemodem.. I think you'd need to be running a FXO board or something
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I've also had to mask mplayer >=1.0pre3. Additionally, install support for HPQ servers (cciss) is pretty bad, enough for me to abandon gentoo and use redhat. Pick a device tree and run with it.
However, I appreciate the ease-of-use when it comes to nvidia stuff, and 'opengl-update' is a handy hack.
OTOH, using nvidia opengl libs breaks building opengl packages, which is annoying.
In general, I still prefer gentoo, but I wouldn't recommend it for the faint-of-heart.
What, arch hints and -O3 is _that_ unusual?
I'm away from my linny box right now so I can't test this out myself, but What is the Difference between Gaim & Kopete?
Gaim runs on windows and Kopete is integrated nicely in KDE?
Still, Kopete's systray context menu is kinda boned, there should be a submenu listing all online buddies so you can chat with them directly, rather than have to bring up the panel and double-click the user. IMHO ideally there is no screen real-estate used for an IM, a systray with context menus is perfect.
IOW, do what iChat does, since Apple got it right. You can use a menubar pulldown to chat with people, go on/offline, etc. Very efficient, and the right thing to do.
In fact, KDE really should look at OS X and just steal everything. OS X is where we want to be, it's just that good. That coupled with DCOP and KParts would be perfect...
As much as I love the following, there's _NO WAY_ a movie should be made of them:
It just goes to show, never listen to slashdot when it comes to learning what the market wants.
Two words:
Atari Jaguar.
(I'm the Tech Marketing Kiss of Death(tm))
This is neat and all, but IMHO what this country really needs is a new holiday, the first tuesday in November, so nobody has any excuse not to show up and vote.
;)
Granted, I probably won't vote for the president, but I may vote in my local congressional and state/local races, if I can get home from work in time.
Then again, what this country needs is a TON more holidays
If you don't vote, then you have no right to talk about politics! With all due respect, that type of attitude totally disgusts me. The notion that any person's vote doesn't count (despite the most recent zupreme kort installation) is a bunch of propagandist drivel barfed out by those with insideous agendas. It's because of that type of mentality we're in this mess.
So, do I vote for John Jackson or Jack Johnson? Kang or Kodos?
What's the _point_, when the two "sides" are so much the same as you say? Where both sides promise to do different stupid things that are comparably harmful. Literally 'pick your poison'.
Also, what's the point if you live in a state that's been engineered to be a 'lock'? Why should a Republican show up in NY or CA? Why should a Democrat show up in TX or GA?
I'll give this to Nader: as arrogant and self-righteous as he is, he's done a lot more during his life to help the average American than either of the puppets dancing for their respective parties. He's also right in that our winner-take-all system is horribly broken. However, thanks to the Senate, we'll never be able to fix it. Nor will we ever be able to fix crap like the bridge to nowhere or the bloody farm subsidies.
Hell, I'd leave if I didn't have so much US$ debt to pay off...
No, you're thinking of Sendmail.
That explains why Mahaer's show is a huge hit on HBO.
He's a bigger fish in a much tinier pond, with very little in the way of public pressure on a premium network where you can use the 'f-word' all you like. Besides, the HBO audience craves stuff like 'The Sopranos', 'Six Feet Under', 'Curb Your Enthusiasm', 'Sex and the City', not to speak of fare like 'Hookers on the Point' or 'Real Sex googleplex'.. The HBO audience is self-selected and paying for a slate of entertainment, and Maher appeals to that demo. That's probably where he belongs.
I'm really less interested in generalizing about political ideologies than I am pointing out larger-scale sociological patterns which IMO create these closed-minded groups. I generally think all politicians have 90% of the same modus operandi regardless of their affilliation so I don't want to continue the partisian babble.
It's somewhere between tribalism and religion, where people succumb to the social need (or political expedience) to belong to a group, even at the cost of submitting their own nuanced opinion or principle to the will of their chosen tribe. Each tribe has its own memes and fairy-tales, and can range from 'evangelism' when it's feeling its oats, to 'inquisition' when it's on the outs.
(just for reference: if I weren't planning to stay home in protest of the weak presidential slate, I'd write in McCain/Wyden...)
The fact that he's rich has no bearing on his integrity, even though it's a relatively safe assumption that MOST people (with the exception of Moore) would rather sell out and cash in than stand up for what they believe in.
Yes, but solidarity with the Oppressed Classes(tm) is is stock in trade, which is why he's a hypocrite. Moore makes his living by exposing fault in others, and is handsomely paid to do so. However, he also is paid handsomely to exploi^H^H^Hose the plight of those OCs.
There's a difference between the right wingers and the left wingers. The left don't go out of their way to destroy the livelihood of their ideological opponents;
Haven't been on a college campus, in a TV network or a major newspaper lately, then?
The right on the other hand, are boycott-happy, and not merely content with being "superior" but seek to sew the mouth shut and destroy anybody's ability to even publicly disagree with them.
You forgot to mention defacing SUVs, harrassing people wearing fur, shouting down Christopher Hitchens (a 'reformed socialist'), etc.
Oh, and we shouldn't boycott? Tell that to MLK's gravestone, genius...
Rush Limbaugh. Drug-addicted, pill-popping hypocrite is still on the air. Bill Mahaer says he doesn't like the "war with Iraq" on his show, "Politically Incorrect" and *WHAM* the right wingers push a few buttons and get his show cancelled.
Wow, nice ad-hoc attack. Did you learn to debate in Harvard? Naah, for a left-wing drive-by like that you'd have had to gone to Columbia... Besides, Maher's show shared a fatal flaw with Colin Quinn's new show: it sucked. Maher's a jackass, Jon Stewart is far more "dangerous"..
Oh, and it wasn't the "right wingers" that got anybody canceled, it was the audience who didn't want to hear that shrill crap, made it unsellable to advertisers, and therefore killed it. It's the free market, baby, the ultimate arbiter of success... If you don't like it don't watch it, if enough people are like you it goes away, thanks to capitalism...
If Michael Moore's documentaries are such BS, why are you so afraid of people watching them?
At risk of auto-Godwining, I could say the same thing about Leni Riefenstahl films or other Goebbels productions.
Only because Moore's on _your_ side, does it not register as agitprop.
There's plenty of stuff on the net debunking Moore (who thanks you for watching from his million-dollar NYC apartment), feel free to look for it.
Oh, and how many millions of dollars has Moore given back to Flint? How many US manufacturing jobs has he created? Where are the gimme hats he wears made?
Hypocrisy, thy name is pinko.
... I mean, I'd rather have the $600 toilet seat money going to Linux integrators than M$.
Oh, and there's no clause in the GPL restricting use for only peaceful purposes. Why not stop whining and fork with your own license?
Call it the PPL?
OTOH, the Internet was developed for use of the military _by_ the military, so why not stop using the Internet? Or GPS?
Welcome to the machine!
Unfortunately, black holes are sparse in this neck of the woods
_UN_fortunately?
... especially if you live in a foregone-conclusion state like NY.
For me, it's either do that or don't bother showing up, since I think both candidates are broken for various reasons, and lesser-of-two-evilism holds no appeal. I can't in good conscience vote for either sorry excuse dished up by our broken political system.
Those are all binary distributions, but I see your point... ... that's what weekends are for ;)
Real's server model is crap (authentication is a nightmare). Its proprietary codecs aren't good enough to be worth the trouble. Its content isn't worth the trouble to register (and payf for). Helix is kinda useless compared to mplayer, xine, etc. (its browser plugin is useless in konq)
Darwin/Quicktime Streaming Server is a better streaming server solution, and it's free.
Apple partnering with Real? Why? Apple should only partner with Real if they drop Real and go with Quicktime. And at that point, why should Real even exist?
Frankly, WMP is better supported on my platform (Linux KDE/KMplayer/Konq) than Real (the KMplayer kpart bones javascript tests for rm plugins), so what's the point of Real?
Add in the asinine hiding of the free player, and the verdict is:
Death by irrelevance.
Elite.
Preinstalled Nvidia drivers, Flash etc. is a nice thing, and I can wait.
emerge nvidia-kernel
emerge nvidia-glx
emerge netscape-flash
emerge realplayer
Why wait? Go gentoo.
This is not a troll. This whole install looks grafted and cheap.
The _real_ solution is to have a widget that treats the iPod as a CD changer, ala Phatnoise.
That would probably run at least $100 tho, as it'd need to be basically an iPod without the screen, drive and controls...
I'd buy one in a second tho if it were compatible with any firewire ipod and the becker/HK trafficpro.
How do I play my minidiscs in my tape player?
How do I play my LPs in my CD player?
Both involve analogdigital conversions, therefore your point is moot, therefore you are an ass. QED.
They have a flexible DRM policy (without which they wouldn't even be able to offer the service to begin with).
How do I play encumbered files on my Tivo home media player?
How do I play them at work on my Linux box, even if they're streaming off my iPod?
Thieves are thieves, if they hadn't purchased the songs in the first place they wouldn't need this utility, and there's plenty of files in sharing anyways. People use the iTunes store for convenience, and quality fast downloads. Sharing cracked iTunes files is kind of silly, frankly, because you're definitely not gonna have the same ease-of-use and quick-downloadability that makes the itms worth the 'premium'.
.... I can emerge it.
Or, at least, when it can run withing WineX..
so until you are willing to pay a significant premium for the MADE IN USA mantra... drop the act.
Just ask someone spouting off about offshoring whether or not they shop at Walmart, Costco, Target, etc.
Americans can't compete at being cheaper without serious automation. They _can_, however, compete at being smarter or better. That's a tougher fight, less room for error or sympathy for incompetence, so it's more painful.
OTOH, I'm in a field where skillsets can die quite horrible deaths into obsolescence, so I'm used to having to learn constantly.
Because the Chinese currency is pegged to the dollar and the Japanese are buying dollars to keep the Yen in check?
Because if Americans stop buying imported goods and services, foreign economies are more fucked than ours is?
I fear the day China's actually a free nation. While they're still a corrupt corporate-fascist state they won't be as efficient, productive or creative as we are. Better to let Chinese toil for pennies an hour, so we won't have to confront them at their best: look at Hong Kong and Taiwan, multiplied to a billion+ population, if you want to see what we'd be up against if China were free.
Then we'll be pegging the dollar to the yuan and subsidizing _their_ spending spree, if we haven't already imploded under the weight of baby boomer retirement benefits and the oil crash...
Now, if Skype made some users share their modems (yes, I hear some people still use those things), then it would be a true P2P interface to the local phone system, which I believe is the only thing that could give Skype a real chance. Any thoughts on this?
Would a typical modem chipset be adequate for this? Assuming even a traditional Rockwell voicemodem.. I think you'd need to be running a FXO board or something