Well, i can think of a remote thingy that wouldn't bother me much. Imagine how much fun you could have had at class: looking at the board and teacher but seen some great pr0n "internally":)
They don't make it to the bestsellers lists because the human IQ numbers follow the gauss distribution. I could even go to argue that the _really_ best titles sell less that the dumbed down "sci-fi" titles like Neal Stephenson (spelling may be wrong) and the like.
But I think that at least some awards do make a great way to tell what are the good titles.
Try AAlib. You can watch any video or DVD right in the term you are using. You'll want to stand away from the computer to be able to "understand" the image.
You don't need X, you don't even need a video card. You don't even need a terminal at that computer. You can watch a remote "aalib" though telnet:)
Mplayer uses aalib, and i think Xine can use it too.
Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Gürer Özen Sinek is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Sinek is a GTK+ video/audio player, capable of supporting all formats libxine supports. At the moment, this includes; Audio MPEG 1, 2, and 3, Vorbis (.ogg), Video MPEG 1 and 2, MPEG 4 (aka OpenDivX), MS MPEG 4 (aka DivX) and motion jpeg.
One of the main differences between Sinek and other popular multimedia players is that it doesn't use skins; instead, it has a standard GTK+ interface. In other words, it doesn't clash with your GTK+ theme.:)
Other features are
* scriptable with scheme language,
* supports text subtitles,
* you can adjust font (any X font!) and placement of subtitles on the fly,
* playlist with repeat, repeat current, and shuffle options,
* configurable key bindings,
* changing the volume with the mouse wheel,
* want something else? just tell on our mailing list:)
...a solution? Maybe you already figured out (it's easy). Just open the pop-ups into tabs. If you haven't called for it, you can close them WITHOUT even taking a look at them. I do it with Galeon.
Besides, they don't know it didn't work. It does harm online ads because they will think it's an uneffective add. They'll figure out one day the must embedd the ads into the page (i an ok with adds as long as they are in-page).
I can understand they sometimes have 15 children and now way to feed them so they are beign irresponsible (or ignorant).
Just that i don't find sterilizing the way to solve poverty. They will always be poor that way. So it's hypocrat. If you don't care, then do nothing. But don't suggest sterilizing their women.
How would you like it if someone suggested sterilizing America? Not funny, of course.
Tax laws have a spirit. If you cleverly avoid the need to pay taxes, you are screwing the american public. The fact that you CAN get away for free means that they are playing nice with you. But you avoinding to pay taxes is not playing nice with your country.
It is often the case that tax elusion is an investment in it's own sense. Say you have to spend $400.000 in accountants and lawers to pay 1% less of taxes. If you make $1B a year, the "investment" is worth. But if you are just a normal guy, you can't afford it.
So the Average Joe is the one that can't take advantage of the tax "avoiding" holes. So eventually, law gets more complicated, and more A.J. get screwed, and big corps just need to "invest" a little more.
That mean that if they decide to use their money, they'd be destroying $200B worth of credits? Wouldn't the USA collapse in such an event and would caos reign supreme?
At least, a lot of people would find they can't pay their loans back and will be forced to sell their houses and everything if Microsoft ever decided to "suddenly" spent their hard earned money.
How is a loan a gift? Please exmplain me this as i thought loans where just another market. Some people shop for loans and another parties sell them. You pay a competitive price (interest) which compensates the other party for delaying the use of their money.
In which way is Microsoft giving something away for free which is not already ours? Please enlighten me.
And don't forget that 91% [econop.org] of the taxes are paid by just the top 5% of the taxpayers. I know that our tax duties aren't philanthropic, but dammit, people want to act like the rich do _nothing_ but capitalize on those beneath them, and it just ain't true.
Has it ever occured to you that the reason you see that pattern is because that same exact 5% of the taxpayers earn 91% (or something like that) of all country profits each year?
But i'd mod this up. Why can a guy say "eliminate them by peacefully driving them to extinction" and another guy suggesting that he could take the first step gets modded as flamebait.
I believe you can't make a country better of by killing the "would-be-born" kids. You can make them better of by teaching them, educating them.
After all, there are a lot of low-population countries which are inmensely POOR and no-one's helping them either. So how reducing a country's population makes them better off? You could only say "then less of them will suffer".
Are you guys that modded this down being serious? I really think the best Bill Gates could do is to build a network of high quality schools in the poor countries. Eliminating their population by castration is NOT a solution and it's a proposal only an ANIMAL could push.
You can take my karma, but you can't take my dignity.
It's ok. Some of the problem is what you state, but some of it is related to the fact that competition is not always fair.
OSX is propietary whereas GNU, BSD are not. So OSX can take advantage on everything BSDsh while the real open ones can only rely on themselves.
Meaning real free alternatives have to share everything without getting anything back, and at the same time they should spend resources an people time on beign compatible with propietary formats and to fight in court or congress so that they can "legaly" try to be compatible.
You have cases where law prevents OSS for beign compatible, even after we've found out a convicted monopolist abused it's position for pushing their closed standards?
>The RHCE includes nearly a full day >of hands-on installation and troubleshooting, >making it quite difficult, much like Cisco's CCIE.
I guess many many people could get the RHCE without even taking any curse at all, and beat the "trained" ones by a huge margin. Would be good if the examn was FREE and the same for everyone (ie: the ones that took a course and the ones that did not).
I am an end user, is it dangerous for me? Or for any user that does might have "skipped over a few of the details"?
But well, to answer your question, yes, i have read it carefully. Maybe I'm dumb but at least I state my facts. And with the Lindows issue i'd not say it's all that clear as you may think, not even after reading it wthout skipping any details.
So you are granting me that i can "leak distribute" ANY GPL derived work in binary form and get away with it?
If, instead, the source code gets leaked, then it's an practical case where a derived work from a GPLd source thats been distributed changed the license to "illegal to use" and I am not accountable for it.
I'm probably wrong, but i think i should be able to prove i didn't distribute it (binary or source). Until I prove that, I'm just a GPL abuser and can be sued by the original authors copyright.
I can think of many similar or related ways to try to mud the GLP waters and this are just examples. Another short example: say i'm part of an organization "GPL Abusers Club". Can we all members of that club take GPLd source, modify it and use it without ever distributing the source and much less, making it available for free for everyone?
What if the club forced you to use Windows, OS-X or some other restriction that would make it impossible to join it freely?
I'm not trying to troll. I'm trying to lookahead and learn. I'd be very sad if all this hard work that is beign released as GPL gets abused by (lets say) evel minds.
You take some GLP program and improve it for your personal or comapny use. Someone steals a binary copy from you and post it in the web and many people start using it unknowingly.
So basically, this derived work IS STILL UNDER THE GPL, so EVERYONE will be able to use your leaked PRIVATE USE MODIFIED BINARY (or source eventually) for free (the leaked one). Not only that, YOU WILL BE FORCED TO RELEASE YOUR SOURCE CODE since your version has been distributed.
So this IS IN FACT unacceptable for any company that is taking advantage of the "free for non-distributors".
If you don't force this company to disclose the source, then everyone could just take advantage of the "leak" distribution method.
I don't know, but this alones scares me. Not because i want to break the GPL, but because all these kind of stuff if what big companies that don't like the GPL will be trying over the years untill some hole in it kills it.
And can we learn about you certifications Linux? Is it some LTCE or LKMLCE secret course or something?
You don't have certifications for Linux. There's no such thing as a valid "shut-up, this papers certifies i know more than you" kind of document.
I literally HATE the stupid certifications programs when used as a way to discredit someone knowledgeable in a field that also has the ability to learn for himself and in an open minded non-canned manner.
Do you have more fun, or it just that it looks a bit prettier? I found out i enjoyed Doom I and (specially) Doom II more than any other game. Quake was better as it had more freedom, breaking the 2D maps structure.
Unreal was beautifull and i like the music. So i enjoyed it on my (rip) Voodoo II. After that, better graphics just make me bored after the initial "cool graphics" experience.
As another guy already said, not even the Voodoo II has been maxed out yet. AA looks _definetly_ good, but are those games more fun? If the game experience (what you do, how inmersive) doesn't get better, then better graphics just ruin the game.
Another thought: I still like the pixel in Doom II combined with high framerate. It's like real life through a wet lens. But a high framerate with AA and everything, if the game is not really really we done (Unreal II level or upper) just looks like a crappy movie seen through a high quality microscope.
Patents costs are never accounted for. Whenever you decide to invest in some new product, you have to research an ever increasing number of patents.
So the base cost of everthing grows proportional to the number of patents. After some time, patents are something that is hurting competition in those patent intensive countries.
It's not the cost of the patent, the problem is you must spend a LOT of money just to know you are not infringing. And sometimes, you can't even know if you are infringing: only a trial could solve the issue. This adds risk to returns which in turn hurts patent heavy industry.
Also, people that invent but don't have the resources to patent are raped by big companies. And after beign raped those same companies prevent this low budget players for doing everything. Send a bunch of lawers against a small start-up and you are done with them.
In the end, you'll find you just can't do anything without infringing someones right to collect money from you.
Just great. I guess some country will realice this at some point and become a patent free country. No pressure or economical penalties will be able to harm this coutry, because mostly everyone will want to be there.
If you really look at what is happening is that that SOT distribution has chosen OpenOffice as the office suit. So that's the only (default) choice for that distro's users. It's obviously openoffice so it's oo compatible as well as msoffice compatible.
If anyone else wants to custom install this SOT on other distro, it may be someone that is not the average user. Don't be folled by the apparent number of competitors. You only have. The KDE suit, the Gnome suit, and openoffice. Everything else is next to unusuable.
If sun bundles gnome with sun computers, you will get openoffice. If it's not a corporate targeted distro you may have gnumeric, abiword. If the distro focuses on KDE, kword and family.
I like having 3 alternatives. In the opensource arena you can't can't afford to put everything into one basquet. If you do that you risk losing everithing if a project fades away. And that has already happened.
Anyway i agree that 1 perfect aplication is better than 3 half working ones!
They made us lose time and money. The told us to weaken and revert to NO SSL and no Sendmail 8.12 (sendmail as root, no antispam, etc).
If they make you wait in McDonalds, they offer you some simbolic free coke or whatever (i don't care). In this case, they just stated the email with "I know it may sound inapropiate but...". I found it irritating, we lost time and money.
That comes after literaly FIGHTING with the product to get it working.
Also, i do NOT find it usefull if a product that is supposed to enhence your (Windoze) security it forces you to weaken security in you secure box (Linux). It's not funny sending plaintext logins to a box where you actually have shells under those same accounts (thus SSL).
Also, RedHat my ass. If they call it Linux, it should suport Linux, not RedHat. When did this all started I don't know but I don't like it...
As for Sendmail, we what can i say. Go ahead, revert to a weaker version of sendmail because the guys haven't learned how to EVEN CONFIGURE IT at least. Then why am I even talking to this support personel?!?!?!?!
I don't need you to agree with me. I just KNOW a big corporation the size of Trend, that is providing antivirus solutions to other big corporation should know what support is.
Anyway, the post was to ilustrate how bad support can be, even for a company that is supporting high cost, corporate products.
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Well, i can think of a remote thingy that wouldn't bother me much. Imagine how much fun you could have had at class: looking at the board and teacher but seen some great pr0n "internally" :)
They don't make it to the bestsellers lists because the human IQ numbers follow the gauss distribution. I could even go to argue that the _really_ best titles sell less that the dumbed down "sci-fi" titles like Neal Stephenson (spelling may be wrong) and the like.
But I think that at least some awards do make a great way to tell what are the good titles.
Are there any closed source software echo cancelation utils already done? Are they practical?
People are arguing that the software solutions are to limited or to expensive to implmement so that hardware echo cancelation is what we have now.
Try AAlib. You can watch any video or DVD right in the term you are using. You'll want to stand away from the computer to be able to "understand" the image.
:)
You don't need X, you don't even need a video card. You don't even need a terminal at that computer. You can watch a remote "aalib" though telnet
Mplayer uses aalib, and i think Xine can use it too.
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Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Gürer Özen
Sinek is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
Sinek is a GTK+ video/audio player, capable of supporting all formats libxine supports. At the moment, this includes; Audio MPEG 1, 2, and 3, Vorbis (.ogg), Video MPEG 1 and 2, MPEG 4 (aka OpenDivX), MS MPEG 4 (aka DivX) and motion jpeg.
One of the main differences between Sinek and other popular multimedia players is that it doesn't use skins; instead, it has a standard GTK+ interface. In other words, it doesn't clash with your GTK+ theme.
Other features are
* scriptable with scheme language,
* supports text subtitles,
* you can adjust font (any X font!) and placement of subtitles on the fly,
* playlist with repeat, repeat current, and shuffle options,
* configurable key bindings,
* changing the volume with the mouse wheel,
* want something else? just tell on our mailing list
...a solution? Maybe you already figured out (it's easy). Just open the pop-ups into tabs. If you haven't called for it, you can close them WITHOUT even taking a look at them. I do it with Galeon.
Besides, they don't know it didn't work. It does harm online ads because they will think it's an uneffective add. They'll figure out one day the must embedd the ads into the page (i an ok with adds as long as they are in-page).
Then they are not creding welfare or money valued 200B. That would only happen if they left the money one coaches.
Mhh...reminds me of my country (argentina). We have destroyed 60B in bank and are saving them on coaches. Pity on us...
I can understand they sometimes have 15 children and now way to feed them so they are beign irresponsible (or ignorant).
Just that i don't find sterilizing the way to solve poverty. They will always be poor that way. So it's hypocrat. If you don't care, then do nothing. But don't suggest sterilizing their women.
How would you like it if someone suggested sterilizing America? Not funny, of course.
Tax laws have a spirit. If you cleverly avoid the need to pay taxes, you are screwing the american public. The fact that you CAN get away for free means that they are playing nice with you. But you avoinding to pay taxes is not playing nice with your country.
It is often the case that tax elusion is an investment in it's own sense. Say you have to spend $400.000 in accountants and lawers to pay 1% less of taxes. If you make $1B a year, the "investment" is worth. But if you are just a normal guy, you can't afford it.
So the Average Joe is the one that can't take advantage of the tax "avoiding" holes. So eventually, law gets more complicated, and more A.J. get screwed, and big corps just need to "invest" a little more.
That mean that if they decide to use their money, they'd be destroying $200B worth of credits? Wouldn't the USA collapse in such an event and would caos reign supreme?
At least, a lot of people would find they can't pay their loans back and will be forced to sell their houses and everything if Microsoft ever decided to "suddenly" spent their hard earned money.
How is a loan a gift? Please exmplain me this as i thought loans where just another market. Some people shop for loans and another parties sell them. You pay a competitive price (interest) which compensates the other party for delaying the use of their money.
In which way is Microsoft giving something away for free which is not already ours? Please enlighten me.
And don't forget that 91% [econop.org] of the taxes are paid by just the top 5% of the taxpayers. I know that our tax duties aren't philanthropic, but dammit, people want to act like the rich do _nothing_ but capitalize on those beneath them, and it just ain't true.
Has it ever occured to you that the reason you see that pattern is because that same exact 5% of the taxpayers earn 91% (or something like that) of all country profits each year?
I know that our tax duties aren't philanthropic
Agreed!
But i'd mod this up. Why can a guy say "eliminate them by peacefully driving them to extinction" and another guy suggesting that he could take the first step gets modded as flamebait.
I believe you can't make a country better of by killing the "would-be-born" kids. You can make them better of by teaching them, educating them.
After all, there are a lot of low-population countries which are inmensely POOR and no-one's helping them either. So how reducing a country's population makes them better off? You could only say "then less of them will suffer".
Are you guys that modded this down being serious? I really think the best Bill Gates could do is to build a network of high quality schools in the poor countries. Eliminating their population by castration is NOT a solution and it's a proposal only an ANIMAL could push.
You can take my karma, but you can't take my dignity.
It's ok. Some of the problem is what you state, but some of it is related to the fact that competition is not always fair.
OSX is propietary whereas GNU, BSD are not. So OSX can take advantage on everything BSDsh while the real open ones can only rely on themselves.
Meaning real free alternatives have to share everything without getting anything back, and at the same time they should spend resources an people time on beign compatible with propietary formats and to fight in court or congress so that they can "legaly" try to be compatible.
You have cases where law prevents OSS for beign compatible, even after we've found out a convicted monopolist abused it's position for pushing their closed standards?
>The RHCE includes nearly a full day
>of hands-on installation and troubleshooting,
>making it quite difficult, much like Cisco's CCIE.
I guess many many people could get the RHCE without even taking any curse at all, and beat the "trained" ones by a huge margin. Would be good if the examn was FREE and the same for everyone (ie: the ones that took a course and the ones that did not).
This would be a good certificate.
I am an end user, is it dangerous for me? Or for any user that does might have "skipped over a few of the details"?
But well, to answer your question, yes, i have read it carefully. Maybe I'm dumb but at least I state my facts. And with the Lindows issue i'd not say it's all that clear as you may think, not even after reading it wthout skipping any details.
So you are granting me that i can "leak distribute" ANY GPL derived work in binary form and get away with it?
If, instead, the source code gets leaked, then it's an practical case where a derived work from a GPLd source thats been distributed changed the license to "illegal to use" and I am not accountable for it.
I'm probably wrong, but i think i should be able to prove i didn't distribute it (binary or source). Until I prove that, I'm just a GPL abuser and can be sued by the original authors copyright.
I can think of many similar or related ways to try to mud the GLP waters and this are just examples. Another short example: say i'm part of an organization "GPL Abusers Club". Can we all members of that club take GPLd source, modify it and use it without ever distributing the source and much less, making it available for free for everyone?
What if the club forced you to use Windows, OS-X or some other restriction that would make it impossible to join it freely?
I'm not trying to troll. I'm trying to lookahead and learn. I'd be very sad if all this hard work that is beign released as GPL gets abused by (lets say) evel minds.
That's not a monopoly. a Mac is a computer and they don't have a monopoly over it. MacOS is an OS and they don't have the monopoly either.
Thy just have a brand of computer/software that is kind of sucessfull and below 15% market share.
Please read some basic economy introduction to microecomics (or better yet, common sense) and you'll see.
Wonder if Stallman could answer this case:
You take some GLP program and improve it for your personal or comapny use. Someone steals a binary copy from you and post it in the web and many people start using it unknowingly.
So basically, this derived work IS STILL UNDER THE GPL, so EVERYONE will be able to use your leaked PRIVATE USE MODIFIED BINARY (or source eventually) for free (the leaked one). Not only that, YOU WILL BE FORCED TO RELEASE YOUR SOURCE CODE since your version has been distributed.
So this IS IN FACT unacceptable for any company that is taking advantage of the "free for non-distributors".
If you don't force this company to disclose the source, then everyone could just take advantage of the "leak" distribution method.
I don't know, but this alones scares me. Not because i want to break the GPL, but because all these kind of stuff if what big companies that don't like the GPL will be trying over the years untill some hole in it kills it.
And can we learn about you certifications Linux? Is it some LTCE or LKMLCE secret course or something?
You don't have certifications for Linux. There's no such thing as a valid "shut-up, this papers certifies i know more than you" kind of document.
I literally HATE the stupid certifications programs when used as a way to discredit someone knowledgeable in a field that also has the ability to learn for himself and in an open minded non-canned manner.
Do you have more fun, or it just that it looks a bit prettier? I found out i enjoyed Doom I and (specially) Doom II more than any other game. Quake was better as it had more freedom, breaking the 2D maps structure.
Unreal was beautifull and i like the music. So i enjoyed it on my (rip) Voodoo II. After that, better graphics just make me bored after the initial "cool graphics" experience.
As another guy already said, not even the Voodoo II has been maxed out yet. AA looks _definetly_ good, but are those games more fun? If the game experience (what you do, how inmersive) doesn't get better, then better graphics just ruin the game.
Another thought: I still like the pixel in Doom II combined with high framerate. It's like real life through a wet lens. But a high framerate with AA and everything, if the game is not really really we done (Unreal II level or upper) just looks like a crappy movie seen through a high quality microscope.
Patents costs are never accounted for. Whenever you decide to invest in some new product, you have to research an ever increasing number of patents.
So the base cost of everthing grows proportional to the number of patents. After some time, patents are something that is hurting competition in those patent intensive countries.
It's not the cost of the patent, the problem is you must spend a LOT of money just to know you are not infringing. And sometimes, you can't even know if you are infringing: only a trial could solve the issue. This adds risk to returns which in turn hurts patent heavy industry.
Also, people that invent but don't have the resources to patent are raped by big companies. And after beign raped those same companies prevent this low budget players for doing everything. Send a bunch of lawers against a small start-up and you are done with them.
In the end, you'll find you just can't do anything without infringing someones right to collect money from you.
Just great. I guess some country will realice this at some point and become a patent free country. No pressure or economical penalties will be able to harm this coutry, because mostly everyone will want to be there.
Please lecture me. I'm still learning the vocavulary. It's quite extensive and i make mistakes. Anyway...
Federico
If you really look at what is happening is that that SOT distribution has chosen OpenOffice as the office suit. So that's the only (default) choice for that distro's users. It's obviously openoffice so it's oo compatible as well as msoffice compatible.
If anyone else wants to custom install this SOT on other distro, it may be someone that is not the average user. Don't be folled by the apparent number of competitors. You only have. The KDE suit, the Gnome suit, and openoffice. Everything else is next to unusuable.
If sun bundles gnome with sun computers, you will get openoffice. If it's not a corporate targeted distro you may have gnumeric, abiword. If the distro focuses on KDE, kword and family.
I like having 3 alternatives. In the opensource arena you can't can't afford to put everything into one basquet. If you do that you risk losing everithing if a project fades away. And that has already happened.
Anyway i agree that 1 perfect aplication is better than 3 half working ones!
They made us lose time and money. The told us to weaken and revert to NO SSL and no Sendmail 8.12 (sendmail as root, no antispam, etc).
...". I found it irritating, we lost time and money.
If they make you wait in McDonalds, they offer you some simbolic free coke or whatever (i don't care). In this case, they just stated the email with "I know it may sound inapropiate but
That comes after literaly FIGHTING with the product to get it working.
Also, i do NOT find it usefull if a product that is supposed to enhence your (Windoze) security it forces you to weaken security in you secure box (Linux). It's not funny sending plaintext logins to a box where you actually have shells under those same accounts (thus SSL).
Also, RedHat my ass. If they call it Linux, it should suport Linux, not RedHat. When did this all started I don't know but I don't like it...
As for Sendmail, we what can i say. Go ahead, revert to a weaker version of sendmail because the guys haven't learned how to EVEN CONFIGURE IT at least. Then why am I even talking to this support personel?!?!?!?!
I don't need you to agree with me. I just KNOW a big corporation the size of Trend, that is providing antivirus solutions to other big corporation should know what support is.
Anyway, the post was to ilustrate how bad support can be, even for a company that is supporting high cost, corporate products.