Yeah man, and the government, it's the government that's keeping us down, man: who do you think killed the perpetual motion machine, man? The government that's who, and they won't tell us about aliens or the mind control chemicals and rays and oh, I'm sure there's at least one more I can work in here.
it's really not about liking the argument or not. The constitution allows for suspension of Habeus in times of insurrection. The War Between the States (which was not about slavery, you dolt) WAS EXACTLY an insurrection. We are not currently in a state of insurrection, no matter how many pundits crow that "Liberals" want the terrorists to win. Saying you can not suspend a right except under certain circumstances is pretty explicitly guaranteeing it under all other circumstances, and any other interpretation is willfully inaccurate.
Translation: We don't have the balls to stand on principle and we don't want the loss of revenue that would result from getting out of these markets, so we have to be able to say that our gov't made us do it.
This isn't that bad of a strategy. When dealing with the communist mindset, it's hard for a country's citizenry, let alone its lawmakers, to understand why a company should get to do as it pleases. Andrew Jackson once said of the corporation that it had "no soul to damn and no shins to kick."
That said, if our government makes laws regarding our companies conduct towards foreign governments, they have little choice but comply. It's tough to even see where to take a stand. When a government wants information on possible sexual predators? Why wouldn't they couch all their requests thusly, then?
Sadly, at the end of the day the result is the same. Unwillingness to comply with local law will cause the "violator" countries to shut the markets to foreign competition. Is Microsoft or Google more important to China than China is to them? Not likely. So ultimately they will be subject to the rights the EFF argues for, which I back, to filter the content their citizens may receive. Since the filtering technology will never beat the spread of content itself, there will always be some trickle-through.
It's really the best we can hope for in this situation: advocacy through leadership. Who really gives a damn what countries are on the list at the outset? We can always add more; hopefully, we can remove some when their policies warrant.
When speaking of stand alone video signals, there's no difference between 24bpp and 32bpp, since the extra 8bpp is an alpha channel, and in almost all instances can be dropped, unless for some reason you were layering two or more signals on one device.
unless they're good upstanding christian leaders, in which case they can have their porn stash, oral sex, anal sex, gay sex, drugs, drunken orgies, abortions, illegitimate kids, financial scandals, etc...
What more shall I rant on concerning the hyporcracy and blindedness of the Liberal mindset?
Wow, I was right there with you until I realized you're just as crazy but in the opposite direction. Please don't use the word Liberal to mean "Ignorant Paranoid", and I'll try and refrain from using Conservative to mean "Incompetent Profiteer" because not all of us fall into your fallacious extremes.
If it can regulate underage access to drugs, alcohol, and cigarettes, why not video games (or movies)?
Fundamentally different. Drugs, Alcohol and Cigarettes are substances. Video games and movies are Information.
Didn't you read the pamphlet? Information wants to be free. Although for some reason video game information wants to be USD $59.99.
No in fact I would agree I think both are stupid, and cigarettes and alcohol should be available to children, it's up to the parents to monitor what their kids do.
Really? GRUB's errors depend on what Windows version you're using?
I'm sorry, man, I'm a REALLY patient person, but even I wouldn't help you unless you stopped being such a dick.
Does your incredibly snide and degrading tone get you far in life? Because it doesn't work on the internet. Maybe you think you're being witty or something but you just come across as an angry jerk.
in a decade of using linux I've never come across a more helpful and patient community than Ubuntu. If you ask questions politely and provide the information that's requested, instead of acting like you are smarter than everyone else and you don't think their question is relevant, you might find you get a little bit more useful information. Just a tip.
And even if you think it is illegal to watch MPEG on Linux in the EU, the crime would be committed by the veiwer, not the broadcaster.
well if you feel that way, that it's okay for citizens to have to violate the law to view their government's proceedings, then just download mplayer and the ms codecs and don't worry about it.
If you think Vista is just a GUI refresh, you haven't been paying attention.
Yeah they also built in the google desktop search, caught up (sort of) with linux and mac security from five years ago, and stuck in a bunch of Treacherous Computing and Digital Restrictions Managment.
For starters, one cannot plug in one of those USB memory sticks into a Linux PC. Forget about plugging the thing and having it auto-recognized and mounted. Forget even about shell commands to "mount" (that is so DEC 1970's PDP-11) that device. No can do. One is told to log into a Windows station, copy the files to a network share accessible from the Unix side, log out, and then access the files from Linux. No joke.
Y'all obviously need to do some updating... my mom's three year old Ubuntu machine auto mounts memory sticks, and even her (brand new) digital camera. This isn't a critique of desktop linux from last decade, is it?
Eh, no it's not. The 'box' is the set of standard notions that are currently accepted as the way to do things.
That's what you think the box is. I think it is an actual box, located 15 miles south of Champagne, IL.
All kidding aside, please don't legitimize corporate doublespeak buzzwords by trying to claim they have an actual definition. It's an insult to those of us who are not marketroids.
Anyone using the gun is committing a crime. Are you saying that the manufacturer of the gun did not participate in "planning and executing" the use of the gun?
I wholeheartedly agree.
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I hope not to start a flamewar but, BSD tends to be more stable than Linux for enterprise purposes (uptime, high load, etc.) even if not by a lot, why wouldn't you choose BSD over Linux for something like this? The other reason I think this would be a good thing is for licensing: They could keep their proprietary tweaks to the BSD architecture as a proprietary edge over other vendors.
Mind you, crusaders, that I am posting this from my Linux-enabled laptop.
What this example has is no place in a discussion about murder. The fact that our government continues to wage a failed war on drugs, a war on our own citizenry, involves so much less of a conscious decision and VASTLY LESS SIGNIFICANT moral conflicts on the part of the offender that it isn't even remotely applicable. At all.
Just why do I think the terms "pro-quality" and "affordable" don't mix?
most likely because you are not familiar with the many "prosumer" audio offerings to choose from. There is a large pool of very decent hardware that is not quite professional but far beyond the needs of the average consumer. Frankly, any of the soundblasters from Live! on would be adequate for the task described. The good low-end pro models are the M-Audios, which I think are what the submitter is looking for, being both mac and pc compatible, having very decent snr's and having a really wide variety of configurations to choose from to suit the needs of the studio in question. You can get a LOT from these guys for $600-$1000
Now, if you wanted to go PRO-PRO, I'd suggest something in a MOTU box that would run you at a bare MINIMUM, $1600 for something with enough I/O that it would be truly useful for an application such as submitter describes. It's really in how much of "a friggin lot" do you want to spend for this kind of thing.
This seems a grand failure of basic logic. Getting negative results does not mean that something (in this case, cold fusion) can not actually happen.
Quite the contrary... it would seem to my uneducated mind that if it works sometimes, but not reliably that this, in a very Popperian way, disproves the theory that cold fusion is a myth.
Nobody is moving to Linux because the games aren't there
Okay... however those in the F/OSS crowd are looking at the potential opportunity here. I know tons of small and medium sized shops (and by the way, take a look at the figures, business is where MS makes their money, not home users) that have already been on the fence of switching their desktops to linux if they can still do everything that's needed for work purposes. Generally these are: keep the books, work with spreadsheets, word-ish docs, email, browsing, and so on.
Linux can do all of those things, won't fall to viruses or "hackers" as easily, and allows a greater amount of lockdown for a reduction in general employee-fucking-around-installing-spyware-and-gen erally-making-a-mess-of-the-lan. Not to mention a longer life on hardware and a much cheaper software upgrade cycle.
All it will take is for the WGA "lockdown" (if this isn't in fact a bunch of damn hooey, which I actually suspect) to take out a few critical systems, say the bosses' or bosses' secretaries' machines, to get these fence sitters to wake up and smell the source code.
To most of the business world, these "disadvantages" you mention are actually favorable.
The whole freaking point of BitTorrent is to transfer files so you don't need a fat pipe. Why exactly do they need 1 gigabit per second to run a tracker?
Aha... a popular misconception, but BitTorrent is democratic in nature... that is, the more people are interested in it, the more distribution points there are. Since WB TV content isn't really that popular...
I feel like I'm the only one who sees the elephant in the room. The MEMBERS of the MPAA, such as, oh I don't know, Sony for starters, are the ones pushing this "technology upgrade" not because they think it will benefit people in terms of a "better viewing experience" but because it creates a new and as-yet-uncracked DRM format and larger file sizes so complete rips will be more difficult to trade online.
The MPAA members and other studios will start in a few years to release their blockbuster movies HD-ONLY and THEN we will see "joe sixpack" switching to the formats in droves... they'll have to upgrade to get "matrix 4" or whatever.
Not to mention the writing controls which will make it more difficult to use these sweet new large-formats for archival purposes, and the discs will probably be even cheaper (in quality) than dvd's are, meaning they'll last about six months if that.
no my friend, the "**AA" want you to get in on this more than anything... their business model depends on it.
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The trees. Man, the trees hate us too.
it's really not about liking the argument or not. The constitution allows for suspension of Habeus in times of insurrection. The War Between the States (which was not about slavery, you dolt) WAS EXACTLY an insurrection. We are not currently in a state of insurrection, no matter how many pundits crow that "Liberals" want the terrorists to win. Saying you can not suspend a right except under certain circumstances is pretty explicitly guaranteeing it under all other circumstances, and any other interpretation is willfully inaccurate.
This isn't that bad of a strategy. When dealing with the communist mindset, it's hard for a country's citizenry, let alone its lawmakers, to understand why a company should get to do as it pleases. Andrew Jackson once said of the corporation that it had "no soul to damn and no shins to kick."
That said, if our government makes laws regarding our companies conduct towards foreign governments, they have little choice but comply. It's tough to even see where to take a stand. When a government wants information on possible sexual predators? Why wouldn't they couch all their requests thusly, then?
Sadly, at the end of the day the result is the same. Unwillingness to comply with local law will cause the "violator" countries to shut the markets to foreign competition. Is Microsoft or Google more important to China than China is to them? Not likely. So ultimately they will be subject to the rights the EFF argues for, which I back, to filter the content their citizens may receive. Since the filtering technology will never beat the spread of content itself, there will always be some trickle-through.
It's really the best we can hope for in this situation: advocacy through leadership. Who really gives a damn what countries are on the list at the outset? We can always add more; hopefully, we can remove some when their policies warrant.
When speaking of stand alone video signals, there's no difference between 24bpp and 32bpp, since the extra 8bpp is an alpha channel, and in almost all instances can be dropped, unless for some reason you were layering two or more signals on one device.
Clearly I'm in the wrong line of work.
Didn't you read the pamphlet? Information wants to be free. Although for some reason video game information wants to be USD $59.99.
No in fact I would agree I think both are stupid, and cigarettes and alcohol should be available to children, it's up to the parents to monitor what their kids do.
Does your incredibly snide and degrading tone get you far in life? Because it doesn't work on the internet. Maybe you think you're being witty or something but you just come across as an angry jerk.
in a decade of using linux I've never come across a more helpful and patient community than Ubuntu. If you ask questions politely and provide the information that's requested, instead of acting like you are smarter than everyone else and you don't think their question is relevant, you might find you get a little bit more useful information. Just a tip.
Seriously though, theora actually kind of sucks.
Yeah they also built in the google desktop search, caught up (sort of) with linux and mac security from five years ago, and stuck in a bunch of Treacherous Computing and Digital Restrictions Managment.
Hell of an upgrade.
That's what you think the box is. I think it is an actual box, located 15 miles south of Champagne, IL.
All kidding aside, please don't legitimize corporate doublespeak buzzwords by trying to claim they have an actual definition. It's an insult to those of us who are not marketroids.
I have the feeling that you're one of those people who tries to justify your inability to get laid.
oh... sorry, Slashdot!
I wholeheartedly agree.
I hope not to start a flamewar but, BSD tends to be more stable than Linux for enterprise purposes (uptime, high load, etc.) even if not by a lot, why wouldn't you choose BSD over Linux for something like this? The other reason I think this would be a good thing is for licensing: They could keep their proprietary tweaks to the BSD architecture as a proprietary edge over other vendors.
Mind you, crusaders, that I am posting this from my Linux-enabled laptop.
What this example has is no place in a discussion about murder. The fact that our government continues to wage a failed war on drugs, a war on our own citizenry, involves so much less of a conscious decision and VASTLY LESS SIGNIFICANT moral conflicts on the part of the offender that it isn't even remotely applicable. At all.
most likely because you are not familiar with the many "prosumer" audio offerings to choose from. There is a large pool of very decent hardware that is not quite professional but far beyond the needs of the average consumer. Frankly, any of the soundblasters from Live! on would be adequate for the task described. The good low-end pro models are the M-Audios, which I think are what the submitter is looking for, being both mac and pc compatible, having very decent snr's and having a really wide variety of configurations to choose from to suit the needs of the studio in question. You can get a LOT from these guys for $600-$1000
Now, if you wanted to go PRO-PRO, I'd suggest something in a MOTU box that would run you at a bare MINIMUM, $1600 for something with enough I/O that it would be truly useful for an application such as submitter describes. It's really in how much of "a friggin lot" do you want to spend for this kind of thing.
I cannot believe that after nearly a decade of running nothing but linux and BSD, This finally happens about a year after I buy a new laptop.
aw Eff it. I'm dual booting.
This seems a grand failure of basic logic. Getting negative results does not mean that something (in this case, cold fusion) can not actually happen.
Quite the contrary... it would seem to my uneducated mind that if it works sometimes, but not reliably that this, in a very Popperian way, disproves the theory that cold fusion is a myth.
Nobody is moving to Linux because the games aren't there
Okay... however those in the F/OSS crowd are looking at the potential opportunity here. I know tons of small and medium sized shops (and by the way, take a look at the figures, business is where MS makes their money, not home users) that have already been on the fence of switching their desktops to linux if they can still do everything that's needed for work purposes. Generally these are: keep the books, work with spreadsheets, word-ish docs, email, browsing, and so on.
Linux can do all of those things, won't fall to viruses or "hackers" as easily, and allows a greater amount of lockdown for a reduction in general employee-fucking-around-installing-spyware-and-gen erally-making-a-mess-of-the-lan. Not to mention a longer life on hardware and a much cheaper software upgrade cycle.
All it will take is for the WGA "lockdown" (if this isn't in fact a bunch of damn hooey, which I actually suspect) to take out a few critical systems, say the bosses' or bosses' secretaries' machines, to get these fence sitters to wake up and smell the source code.
To most of the business world, these "disadvantages" you mention are actually favorable.
The whole freaking point of BitTorrent is to transfer files so you don't need a fat pipe. Why exactly do they need 1 gigabit per second to run a tracker?
Aha... a popular misconception, but BitTorrent is democratic in nature... that is, the more people are interested in it, the more distribution points there are. Since WB TV content isn't really that popular...
Naw man, the American way is to tell them to fuck off unless they want to buy a map from me.
I feel like I'm the only one who sees the elephant in the room. The MEMBERS of the MPAA, such as, oh I don't know, Sony for starters, are the ones pushing this "technology upgrade" not because they think it will benefit people in terms of a "better viewing experience" but because it creates a new and as-yet-uncracked DRM format and larger file sizes so complete rips will be more difficult to trade online.
The MPAA members and other studios will start in a few years to release their blockbuster movies HD-ONLY and THEN we will see "joe sixpack" switching to the formats in droves... they'll have to upgrade to get "matrix 4" or whatever.
Not to mention the writing controls which will make it more difficult to use these sweet new large-formats for archival purposes, and the discs will probably be even cheaper (in quality) than dvd's are, meaning they'll last about six months if that.
no my friend, the "**AA" want you to get in on this more than anything... their business model depends on it.