Re:Explanation of 'swedish liberal'
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Right = anti-immigration, being tough on crime, corporate interests etc. Racism to keep the rabble happy while the rich suck them dry.
I'm Swedish and I'm pretty leftist, but that is plain FUD.
Anti-immigration and racism: It holds true to the extreme right-wing parties that are not in the Swedish Riksdag, such as Nationaldemokraterna (openly racist, pseudo-nazi party), Sverigedemokraterna (ultra-nationalists) and such, but not the etablished right-wing parties. If you count HBQT-intolerance (homo/bi/queer/trans) and general bigotism you can put Kristdemokraterna (The Christian Democrats, ultra-conservative) in this group though...
Corporate interests: That holds true to both sides. The exceptions are Miljöpartiet (The Greens, centre liberals currently allied with the left-wing parties) and Vänsterpartiet (former communist party). The Social Democrats are very much on the right (non-left) side of the scale in regard to corporate interests.
Being touch on crime: All parties want to be tough on crime, they only differ on what type of crimes to prioritize. The Social Democrats (left, currently the biggest party in Sweden) have (obviously) made filesharing one of their top priorities. As they have shown the last years they also want to abandon our famous open and liberal society by removing our constitutional right to anonymous communication and privacy at home by creating insane surveillance laws allowing the police to bug anyone they like, even if they aren't suspected of a crime. What's even worse is that the right block's minister of justice (if they win the election) is just as bad or worse in this regard... Both sides are sucking Bush's and Blair's asses in the war-against-terrorism-nonsence.
That's why I voted for Piratpartiet - The Pirate Party, the only party that REALLY care about your freedom of speech, freedom of expression, your right to privacy and will fight against patents and reform the copyright law to make it reasonable for both customers and authors. (no, lifetime + 70 years isn't reasonable. ~20 years after release is reasonable.)
a portable KDE? [...] Can I replace the windows shell with it? (explorer.exe)
No. The KDE libraries are being ported so you can code/port KDE applications for Windows and MacOS X using features of KDE such as KParts, KIO (ssh://, audiocd://) and so on. More or less with just a recompile. That will give you a native app for that OS, not the whole environment.
I'm sure someone will port things like Konqueror and Kicker though (KWin is very X11-specific), so maybe you'll be able to run the complete KDE desktop on Windows as a shell replacement in the future but that is AFAIK not in the todo-list at the moment.
Has ANYONE here ever been able to succesfully view a coral cached page? Either times out for me or just takes so long that I guve up (I.E. 20 minutes later the html is still loading.)
That sounds like outgoing connections to port 8080/8090 are blocked for you. Are you behind a restrictive corporate firewall?
The case with NVidia is very different. NVidia is a hardware company and their "software" is nothing more than a bridge to make their hardware work in various operating systems. Their revenue comes from their hardware, open sourcing their driver can only help them sell more hardware...
Also, it runs inside the kernel which means a bug in the software can kill the whole OS. The kernel is GPL meaning that a closed source module is illegal. They use a GPLed wrapper though, putting it in the legal grayzone instead...
Personally I love the proprietary NVidia driver, it works great for me! What annoys me is that it has bugs, limitations and unimplemented features that would had been solved a long time ago if it was Open Source. One example is that I can't configure the height+width of the TV-out signal which is possible in Windows. The Linux driver can only set a "zoom" level. I can choose between cropping the left and right sides of the screen or have black bars on the top and bottom... Also, you can't use NVidia cards on AIGLX or fully accelerated on XGL because they haven't implemented the necessary OpenGL extensions yet.. They have always been VERY slow to implement new features of X11 while the Open Source drivers get them immediatly.
User-space applications are a completly different thing.
BTW, most people with a clue aren't bitching to make NVidia OSS their code, only to document the specs of their cards so the OSS community can write their own drivers.
If your desktop is configured and working as you want to there is no real reason to switch. For me, the reason to switch to Ubuntu on the desktop is that just about everything (except media codecs and flash on x86_64) works out of the box and is nicely configured. If I put my iPod in it will ask if I want to open Rhythmbox, just mount it or ignore it. If I connect an external USB drive it will mount and open in Nautilus. I get a great (perfectly and working!) interface to install patches and updates, very similar to Windows' automatic updates. The proprietary NVidia driver is already installed by default, I just have to run "nvidia-xconfig" to activate it. etc... Just less fiddling.
Blaming Karl Marx for the murders committed by Stalin, Mao and other fascists abusing the word "communism" would be like blaming Jesus or the bible authors for the murders committed in the name of Christianity. No wait, the bible actually encourages murder in many cases, the communist manifesto don't.
I'm not at all communist but the communist manifesto have some good ideas in theory. It has almost nothing to do with the implementations of the "communist" regimes we've seen so far. You should read it, seriously.
At my previous work as a UNIX sysadmin a project manager for a developer team asked me to install IIS on a HP-UX server. I kindly told him that it wasn't possible to install IIS on HP-UX because IIS is Windows-only software. He looked annoyed and asked me WHY I couldn't do it. Once again I told him that IIS is for Windows and this particular server run HP-UX, not windows. He muttered things about me being stupid, then walked to my boss and told him I was useless and stupid and should be fired because I couldn't even install IIS on his HP-UX server...
Luckily my boss was fairly technical minded and was laughing out loud while he told me about the manager.:)
Re:freedb has sucked for ages, though...
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FWIW, I've found much the same problems with Musicbrainz, except that it's much more likely to tag a track totally incorrectly than CDDB/Gracenote or FreeDB ever were...
Yes, if you use the TRM audio fingerprinting you'll get several possible matches for many songs. If your software automatically use the first or most likely match without letting you choose you'll get some totally incorrect tags.
If you use their freedb/cddb-like TOC lookup it's actually MORE accurate than freedb/cddb.
What would be REALLY cool is if it can be shown on the major TV channels (during commercial breaks) every once in a while... How much money would be needed for that?
The world doesn't need more people, we are way too many already. Too many couples get children just to get some focus in their miserable lives or to get a feeling of accomplishment. It's just selfish.
My point (although I failed to write it) was that most people (except those who pirate every game they can find) only have maybe 1-5 games and there are still plenty of gems for them to find.
At least in Sweden the NES is still very very popular, even among people who weren't even born when it was released and even (especially?) among non-nerd, non-techie, non-gamer type of people. These people aren't "collectors" or anything like that, they like it because the games are fun and simple but mostly because so many of the games can be played as two-player games.
Boxed mint condition NES consoles and games sell for almost the same prices as the current generation consoles/games...
Yes, that is a great extension! However,.FLV-files aren't seekable by any non-official flash players AFAIK. You can convert it non-lossy to ASF (yes, ASF, because I think.FLV-files can have variable framerate, and neither the Matroska- nor OGM-tools support.FLV yet) with FFMPEG like this:
Slashdot Mirror
I'm Swedish and I'm pretty leftist, but that is plain FUD.
Anti-immigration and racism:
It holds true to the extreme right-wing parties that are not in the Swedish Riksdag, such as Nationaldemokraterna (openly racist, pseudo-nazi party), Sverigedemokraterna (ultra-nationalists) and such, but not the etablished right-wing parties. If you count HBQT-intolerance (homo/bi/queer/trans) and general bigotism you can put Kristdemokraterna (The Christian Democrats, ultra-conservative) in this group though...
Corporate interests:
That holds true to both sides. The exceptions are Miljöpartiet (The Greens, centre liberals currently allied with the left-wing parties) and Vänsterpartiet (former communist party). The Social Democrats are very much on the right (non-left) side of the scale in regard to corporate interests.
Being touch on crime:
All parties want to be tough on crime, they only differ on what type of crimes to prioritize. The Social Democrats (left, currently the biggest party in Sweden) have (obviously) made filesharing one of their top priorities. As they have shown the last years they also want to abandon our famous open and liberal society by removing our constitutional right to anonymous communication and privacy at home by creating insane surveillance laws allowing the police to bug anyone they like, even if they aren't suspected of a crime. What's even worse is that the right block's minister of justice (if they win the election) is just as bad or worse in this regard... Both sides are sucking Bush's and Blair's asses in the war-against-terrorism-nonsence.
That's why I voted for Piratpartiet - The Pirate Party, the only party that REALLY care about your freedom of speech, freedom of expression, your right to privacy and will fight against patents and reform the copyright law to make it reasonable for both customers and authors. (no, lifetime + 70 years isn't reasonable. ~20 years after release is reasonable.)
Yeah, I agree that they are assholes. Stupid fucking idiot scumbags. And so is the guy torturing monkeys.
a portable KDE? [...] Can I replace the windows shell with it? (explorer.exe)
No. The KDE libraries are being ported so you can code/port KDE applications for Windows and MacOS X using features of KDE such as KParts, KIO (ssh://, audiocd://) and so on. More or less with just a recompile. That will give you a native app for that OS, not the whole environment.
I'm sure someone will port things like Konqueror and Kicker though (KWin is very X11-specific), so maybe you'll be able to run the complete KDE desktop on Windows as a shell replacement in the future but that is AFAIK not in the todo-list at the moment.
We already knew that dolphins are stupid, especially on land...
Take it if you want but don't fo
Was that one of those jokes where you pretend getting disconnected or dying in the middle of posting?
Has ANYONE here ever been able to succesfully view a coral cached page? Either times out for me or just takes so long that I guve up (I.E. 20 minutes later the html is still loading.)
That sounds like outgoing connections to port 8080/8090 are blocked for you. Are you behind a restrictive corporate firewall?
The case with NVidia is very different. NVidia is a hardware company and their "software" is nothing more than a bridge to make their hardware work in various operating systems. Their revenue comes from their hardware, open sourcing their driver can only help them sell more hardware...
Also, it runs inside the kernel which means a bug in the software can kill the whole OS. The kernel is GPL meaning that a closed source module is illegal. They use a GPLed wrapper though, putting it in the legal grayzone instead...
Personally I love the proprietary NVidia driver, it works great for me! What annoys me is that it has bugs, limitations and unimplemented features that would had been solved a long time ago if it was Open Source. One example is that I can't configure the height+width of the TV-out signal which is possible in Windows. The Linux driver can only set a "zoom" level. I can choose between cropping the left and right sides of the screen or have black bars on the top and bottom... Also, you can't use NVidia cards on AIGLX or fully accelerated on XGL because they haven't implemented the necessary OpenGL extensions yet.. They have always been VERY slow to implement new features of X11 while the Open Source drivers get them immediatly.
User-space applications are a completly different thing.
BTW, most people with a clue aren't bitching to make NVidia OSS their code, only to document the specs of their cards so the OSS community can write their own drivers.
If your desktop is configured and working as you want to there is no real reason to switch. For me, the reason to switch to Ubuntu on the desktop is that just about everything (except media codecs and flash on x86_64) works out of the box and is nicely configured. If I put my iPod in it will ask if I want to open Rhythmbox, just mount it or ignore it. If I connect an external USB drive it will mount and open in Nautilus. I get a great (perfectly and working!) interface to install patches and updates, very similar to Windows' automatic updates. The proprietary NVidia driver is already installed by default, I just have to run "nvidia-xconfig" to activate it. etc... Just less fiddling.
Blaming Karl Marx for the murders committed by Stalin, Mao and other fascists abusing the word "communism" would be like blaming Jesus or the bible authors for the murders committed in the name of Christianity. No wait, the bible actually encourages murder in many cases, the communist manifesto don't.
I'm not at all communist but the communist manifesto have some good ideas in theory. It has almost nothing to do with the implementations of the "communist" regimes we've seen so far. You should read it, seriously.
At my previous work as a UNIX sysadmin a project manager for a developer team asked me to install IIS on a HP-UX server. I kindly told him that it wasn't possible to install IIS on HP-UX because IIS is Windows-only software. He looked annoyed and asked me WHY I couldn't do it. Once again I told him that IIS is for Windows and this particular server run HP-UX, not windows. He muttered things about me being stupid, then walked to my boss and told him I was useless and stupid and should be fired because I couldn't even install IIS on his HP-UX server...
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Luckily my boss was fairly technical minded and was laughing out loud while he told me about the manager.
Yes, if you use the TRM audio fingerprinting you'll get several possible matches for many songs. If your software automatically use the first or most likely match without letting you choose you'll get some totally incorrect tags.
If you use their freedb/cddb-like TOC lookup it's actually MORE accurate than freedb/cddb.
What would be REALLY cool is if it can be shown on the major TV channels (during commercial breaks) every once in a while... How much money would be needed for that?
Hey, we weren't supposed to talk about IDEs!
I run 1.5.0.3 and I can't see what's "messed up". It looks fine to me...
That's a new one!
I'm pretty sure AJAX® is already trademarked...
The correct URL is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_Ma rio.
The world doesn't need more people, we are way too many already. Too many couples get children just to get some focus in their miserable lives or to get a feeling of accomplishment. It's just selfish.
My point (although I failed to write it) was that most people (except those who pirate every game they can find) only have maybe 1-5 games and there are still plenty of gems for them to find.
At least in Sweden the NES is still very very popular, even among people who weren't even born when it was released and even (especially?) among non-nerd, non-techie, non-gamer type of people. These people aren't "collectors" or anything like that, they like it because the games are fun and simple but mostly because so many of the games can be played as two-player games.
Boxed mint condition NES consoles and games sell for almost the same prices as the current generation consoles/games...
There are at least 573 games already released for it. I doubt you have already played through all of them...
drop him an e-mail at (remove the spam parts) maldaSPAM@SPAMslashdot.org.
You mean like this? malda@slashdot.org
Saying Java is nice because it works on all OS's is like saying anal sex is nice because it works on all genders
:)
Was there supposed to be a point somewhere in there?