I'm not arguing the issues themselves here, yes, they are important. As I said below the list they are tools of manipulation to keep people voting Republicrat. It's as though the "Two parties" agree to never actually settle the issues just so they can make a big deal about them each election by dividing the company between the "two" parties, which in reality regardless of which one wins they achieve the same objectives, maybe some of the money gets filtered to one company instead of the other, but it's still same thing.
I actually like a vote against system, something akin to the Australian system, moves the most objectionable candidates down and the folks that are least objectionable to the top. Five votes of decreasing values, best vote to first choice, go down the line, the guy that winds up being everyone's second or third choice is the likely winner.
I have a Mac, I got a crap desktop experience, there's a lot of stupid "because Steve Jobs said so" barriers on a mac if you're a geek, and I don't like them. So yes, you could say Steve Jobs gave me that.
I'm not saying I haven't gotten a crap desktop experience on Linux before, but at least I can often fix those issues (not always) and there's usually a modular work around.
I would say both camps have frothing lunatics, go anyplace hipsters gather and tell them how underpowered for the price a Mac is and how much better Windows seven is in comparison and see what happens.
So deregulating by throwing open the doors and allowing competition and not caving to pressure put on by big companies to stomp new comers are mutually exclusive?
The government is supposed to represent the people.. and it's representing the corporations because they're placing their own representatives in there.
They're not doing it. We're the assholes electing the other assholes over and over again. If a new "uncorrupted" political party shows up the assholes will simply move from their sinking ship to the new party, but at least it will throw things off balance for a while. In the end, new boat, same people on it that were on the old boat, same problems again. The only way to fix it is for the people to take the power back, and we don't have the permission of our government to do that. If we try they'll sick the TSA on us.
I don't see how limiting the power of the government in places where it doesn't belong (most places not covered in the constitution, and no, this isn't a suggestion to increase the size of the constitution like they've done to the Texas one), is handing power to corporations. You've been drinking the liberal Kool-Aid, it's served from a donkey shaped pitcher, but don't worry, the conservative Kool-Aid is served in an elephant shaped pitcher and the pitchers are filled from the same tap and the Kool-Aid is made of both socialism and fascism.
I agree, unfortunately the dumasses don't quite comprehend this and get taken in on stupid things that are distractions from the real issues.
Abortion Gayness - all of it gun rights
These issues are important, but they're diversions from the real issues. As long as the "two parties" can keep those three things at the top of the list they're free to take turns winning and losing regions while making sure the real elephants in the room are ignored. As far as I'm concerned the "two parties" are co-operating on this strategy to protect the real money flow from our pockets, to the corporate pockets and back to their own.
The definition of insanity is repeating the same process repeatedly and expecting different results.
You're the one who wants to give the government more power. Enforce laws on their intent, stop making new laws, simplify the laws and get out of everyone's business.
Yes, something like the corruption around the early railroad would reoccur if we didn't enforce laws, but the American people will not allow corporations to control the country without holding the reigns of the government today. The reason we wont is because there are so many people like you against it. Giving the government power is still giving it to corporations. Take it from the government and act like groups of people in a local environment with ties to other local groups instead of one massive broken hoard. When companies try to take power that doesn't belong to them the people have the power to stop it as long as the companies do not wield the power of government. If we keep going your route we can keep dealing with politicians creating laws trying to force us to give our money to companies they designate. Health care bill? Military contracts? Lessening government power is the only way to slow the forced filtering of our money to the companies you want to stop.
Apple is big. Arguably the biggest player right now, but it's arguable and that's a good thing.
Microsoft is the has been that isn't forgotten and still wields power.
The previous two are big enough to keep Google from really taking over, and is the only player that has truly embraced what the public wants (though minus the draconian parts Apple does a good job of that too).
Linux is huge, what the public really wants even though the masses aren't smart enough to realize it's what they want. They're happy as long as we spoon feed it to them with Android phones and in embedded devices they use and love while calling Linux that freaking weird hard to use thing their nephew likes.
The technology world is at a happy place. I don't know if smacking Microsoft down with the court system enabled this or not, really I can't guess how things would have worked out without the regulation they got. One of the few things mafia tactics worked on after the break up was making sure mobile music players, especially those in cars, didn't support OGG/Vorbis, but the only reason they succeeded was because Apple was the biggest player and was on the same page without actually having to conspire with Microsoft to do it. I'm certain other software companies were still bullied, but they did keep it on the down low, the PC vendor bullying was put into the spotlight, not fixed, but at least suppressed and lessened.
I think we're finally in a happy place were OS and hardware vendors are concerned.
Now we need to move on to communications companies, deregulation is good, but we need to deregulate enough to allow new competitors to breach the market and we have to stop the big players form bullying local co-ops and count/local level players from building networks where the big guys won't.
If you are still under the delusion the United States has "two political parties" you're stupid. We have one political party in power with two sudo oppositional sides both of which are owned by different sets of corporations. It is obvious who owned this politician. If you think your politician isn't owned by a company or two and you vote Republicrat you're stupid.
More government regulation is the problem, not the solution, I don't really care where you're looking.
You want corporations to have less power? The only way to remove power from corporations is to remove it from the government, there really isn't much of a dividing line anymore. The corporations that are the most regulated are the ones that have the most government protection against new competition. Corporate power and government power are the same thing.
If you vote Democrat OR Republican you are part of the problem, not the solution.
They're long term storage for me. They go in and they almost never come out - archived. Back in the early/mid 90's there were a bunch of crappy cases that would eat the artwork off the disk, stick to the disk, and were generally all around bad ideas. Of course back in that era you actually had to use your disk. Now days I treat optical media more like the box the data came in instead of media in and of itself.
I use Handbrake, works great. Occasionally I do hit a disk, about 1 in 100 that are nearly impossible to rip with the GUI. Gods and Generals was one of them and I had a couple of more. When the GUI doesn't work the command line interface still rips them fine, I've had to command line about 5 of them out of ~ 400.
Advice - use the AC3 pass through on sound if you're going to play back on a PC or a player that can play it, the surround sound conversion caused a few oddities that I like to avoid. If you want to put the movies on an iProduct or even an Android device the pass through doesn't work, but if you scale it down and convert to stereo before putting it on one of those devices the problem is solved and the file is much smaller. You can do that with the files you've already converted without pulling out the original disk.
I understand where you're coming from. I have basic blue prints for multiple houses in my head, in case I ever land on my ass into a pile of money, and more than one of the designs includes a library. Since I'm currently an apartment dweller that moves occasionally and lost everything I own twice during a five year period due to a targeted robbery and a hurricane I'm seeing the value of virtual goods and less absorbent storage media. My pre-hurricane optical stuff if still good with the exception of burned disk that flaked off their backings and one lone commercial music disk that did the same. Most of that got put in cases ahead of the stuff that came after.
I literally scooped up my book collection with a shovel to get rid of it a few years back, including autographed copies and school year books. Turns out it's not worth the time and effort to recover from 4 1/2 feet of salt water where mass produced paper media is concerned.
When I reach that status I'll fill the library, until then I'm staying mobile.
I'm talking about a big zipper case I can hide in a closet and forget about. I've ripped all my DVD's to a NAS drive which I view on my BluRay player over UPNP and DLNA, I even use my Android phone to select media from the drive and display on the player, I can also use the phone as a standard remote.
I have a single box setup for things like TV series. Some TV series come in standard DVD cases, in which case they get put in a zipper case, but some of them are actually quite compact they way they come to me so they get put in the one remaining media box.
I still buy audio CD's also BTW. I figure I'm better off paying $3 for an entire used album at a resale shop instead of paying by the song and having a backup that last indefinately instead of relying on a DRM server not to break.
I used to think so. I'm an incredibly hard core geek. A couple of years ago I took the Leatherman off my belt and put it in my pocket, I took the mobile phone out of the belt case and put it in the leg pocket of my carpenter pants (and moved to carpenters exclusively). Now I'm looking around my apartment. I'm getting rid of most of the media, except for a few things like the LOTR boxes that look like books and a couple of things like it. I'm leaving the framed picture of Einstein sticking out his tongue, the framed "Homer Simpson Scream" picture, I'm leaving my B9 Robot, my Slinky and my Cylon on the shelf, but I'm hiding most of my media. I was going to hide my computers, I was going to take an old console stereo and set it up so that there were new modern speakers where the original speaker went, I was going to have the LCD come out from where the turn table used to be and I was going to have the drives accessible where the TV doors used to be but I realised I didn't actually have the time to undertake the project, though I would still love to do it.
I guess as I reach my mid 30's I'm learning to dial it back a couple of notches.
Just got my Kindle last week, so far I'm liking it, and yes, one whole bookshelf devoted to the Dark Tower Series is part of the reason I did it. I'm keeping those books for the awesome artwork BTW, not just the novels but the Marvel Comics, those are something Kindle can't replace. For the rest of it? To the electronic gizmo!
I was take really good care of my media and storing it all really nicely on shelves in the boxes they came in like a good little OCD meticulous collector.
Fuck that.
A couple of months ago I got a bunch of Case Logic Zipper cases, not only can I put a whole bunch more DVD's and CD's into the same physical area when it comes time to move they can all fit into a single box that I would have held about 1/10th of the collection before hand. This guy needs to go that route to squeeze even more functionality out of what he has.
No, I'm talking about Android and Bluetooth. Until audio is used beyond just regular phone calls and music streaming I'm keeping my perspective.
I've been able to pass any audio via BT on my HTC Desire and Motorola Milestone to a laptop? The inbuilt video player and Rock Player automatically passed through audio to a Windows laptop.
What are you on about.
That's nice, I don't have a Windows laptop shoved in my ear when I want to try a really cool video conference. Having one around would sort of defeat the purpose of wanting to do that with my phone. It doesn't stream music to my normal Jawbone Bluetooth headset either, but I'm not complaining about that because that's what my Cy-Fy speaker rig is for. It does an excellent job with that BTW, but I don't want to use that for Qik or Skype either.
The general overall speech to text engine?
Has nothing to do with BT?
No, but it should and does on other phones, especially older pre-smart phones and voice dialing, it's like modern phones lost features older ones have. It's audio, and it's audio that would be more easily used while looking at the phone instead of having it pressed to your face, or could benefit people who need to remain hands free. Do you work for Google on the Android project and don't want the extra work or something?
it's nice but I generally use the USB cable because it's faster
BT FTP is for the times where you don't have a cable or are sending to another device. Doesn't happen every day but it does happen so it's a very nice feature to have.
No argument there. I would, and have used it in a pinch. Don't get me started on my other Bluetooth rant about how it's largely overlooked, undervalued, and Logitech doesn't produce enough mouse or game control models that support it.
No, I'm talking about Android and Bluetooth. Until audio is used beyond just regular phone calls and music streaming I'm keeping my perspective. The general overall speech to text engine? No Bluetooth, any voice application that isn't a normal phone call? No Bluetooth. Android is incredibly limited on it's audio Bluetooth support beyond the basics. My really really crappy Motorola Q cleaned up where Bluetooth was concerned, then promptly locked up, crashed, or overheated and generally all around sucked at everything else. My old Kyocera, the Moto Q, and my BlackBerry let me simply hit the button on my headset and say who I wanted to call. My Android based HTC phone is by far the absolute best phone I've ever used not counting its limited Bluetooth support.
I am root on my EVo. I have FTP'ed over Bluetooth, it's nice but I generally use the USB cable because it's faster, I haven't teathered over it, I use WiFi, I've tried teathering over USB, but to be frank I gave up on troubleshooting quickly and easily because WiFi already worked perfectly.
All things said, every phone I've mentioned thus far stomps the 3G iPhone I had where Bluetooth is concerned.
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I'm not arguing the issues themselves here, yes, they are important. As I said below the list they are tools of manipulation to keep people voting Republicrat. It's as though the "Two parties" agree to never actually settle the issues just so they can make a big deal about them each election by dividing the company between the "two" parties, which in reality regardless of which one wins they achieve the same objectives, maybe some of the money gets filtered to one company instead of the other, but it's still same thing.
I actually like a vote against system, something akin to the Australian system, moves the most objectionable candidates down and the folks that are least objectionable to the top. Five votes of decreasing values, best vote to first choice, go down the line, the guy that winds up being everyone's second or third choice is the likely winner.
I have a Mac, I got a crap desktop experience, there's a lot of stupid "because Steve Jobs said so" barriers on a mac if you're a geek, and I don't like them. So yes, you could say Steve Jobs gave me that.
I'm not saying I haven't gotten a crap desktop experience on Linux before, but at least I can often fix those issues (not always) and there's usually a modular work around.
I would say both camps have frothing lunatics, go anyplace hipsters gather and tell them how underpowered for the price a Mac is and how much better Windows seven is in comparison and see what happens.
So deregulating by throwing open the doors and allowing competition and not caving to pressure put on by big companies to stomp new comers are mutually exclusive?
The government is supposed to represent the people.. and it's representing the corporations because they're placing their own representatives in there.
They're not doing it. We're the assholes electing the other assholes over and over again. If a new "uncorrupted" political party shows up the assholes will simply move from their sinking ship to the new party, but at least it will throw things off balance for a while. In the end, new boat, same people on it that were on the old boat, same problems again. The only way to fix it is for the people to take the power back, and we don't have the permission of our government to do that. If we try they'll sick the TSA on us.
I don't see how limiting the power of the government in places where it doesn't belong (most places not covered in the constitution, and no, this isn't a suggestion to increase the size of the constitution like they've done to the Texas one), is handing power to corporations. You've been drinking the liberal Kool-Aid, it's served from a donkey shaped pitcher, but don't worry, the conservative Kool-Aid is served in an elephant shaped pitcher and the pitchers are filled from the same tap and the Kool-Aid is made of both socialism and fascism.
What you say, confused I am.
--Yoda
Funny how that door revolved.....
I agree, unfortunately the dumasses don't quite comprehend this and get taken in on stupid things that are distractions from the real issues.
Abortion
Gayness - all of it
gun rights
These issues are important, but they're diversions from the real issues. As long as the "two parties" can keep those three things at the top of the list they're free to take turns winning and losing regions while making sure the real elephants in the room are ignored. As far as I'm concerned the "two parties" are co-operating on this strategy to protect the real money flow from our pockets, to the corporate pockets and back to their own.
The definition of insanity is repeating the same process repeatedly and expecting different results.
You're the one who wants to give the government more power. Enforce laws on their intent, stop making new laws, simplify the laws and get out of everyone's business.
Yes, something like the corruption around the early railroad would reoccur if we didn't enforce laws, but the American people will not allow corporations to control the country without holding the reigns of the government today. The reason we wont is because there are so many people like you against it. Giving the government power is still giving it to corporations. Take it from the government and act like groups of people in a local environment with ties to other local groups instead of one massive broken hoard. When companies try to take power that doesn't belong to them the people have the power to stop it as long as the companies do not wield the power of government. If we keep going your route we can keep dealing with politicians creating laws trying to force us to give our money to companies they designate. Health care bill? Military contracts? Lessening government power is the only way to slow the forced filtering of our money to the companies you want to stop.
Apple is big. Arguably the biggest player right now, but it's arguable and that's a good thing.
Microsoft is the has been that isn't forgotten and still wields power.
The previous two are big enough to keep Google from really taking over, and is the only player that has truly embraced what the public wants (though minus the draconian parts Apple does a good job of that too).
Linux is huge, what the public really wants even though the masses aren't smart enough to realize it's what they want. They're happy as long as we spoon feed it to them with Android phones and in embedded devices they use and love while calling Linux that freaking weird hard to use thing their nephew likes.
The technology world is at a happy place. I don't know if smacking Microsoft down with the court system enabled this or not, really I can't guess how things would have worked out without the regulation they got. One of the few things mafia tactics worked on after the break up was making sure mobile music players, especially those in cars, didn't support OGG/Vorbis, but the only reason they succeeded was because Apple was the biggest player and was on the same page without actually having to conspire with Microsoft to do it. I'm certain other software companies were still bullied, but they did keep it on the down low, the PC vendor bullying was put into the spotlight, not fixed, but at least suppressed and lessened.
I think we're finally in a happy place were OS and hardware vendors are concerned.
Now we need to move on to communications companies, deregulation is good, but we need to deregulate enough to allow new competitors to breach the market and we have to stop the big players form bullying local co-ops and count/local level players from building networks where the big guys won't.
QUIT VOTING REPUBLICRAT
If you are still under the delusion the United States has "two political parties" you're stupid. We have one political party in power with two sudo oppositional sides both of which are owned by different sets of corporations. It is obvious who owned this politician. If you think your politician isn't owned by a company or two and you vote Republicrat you're stupid.
More government regulation is the problem, not the solution, I don't really care where you're looking.
You want corporations to have less power? The only way to remove power from corporations is to remove it from the government, there really isn't much of a dividing line anymore. The corporations that are the most regulated are the ones that have the most government protection against new competition. Corporate power and government power are the same thing.
If you vote Democrat OR Republican you are part of the problem, not the solution.
They're long term storage for me. They go in and they almost never come out - archived. Back in the early/mid 90's there were a bunch of crappy cases that would eat the artwork off the disk, stick to the disk, and were generally all around bad ideas. Of course back in that era you actually had to use your disk. Now days I treat optical media more like the box the data came in instead of media in and of itself.
I use Handbrake, works great. Occasionally I do hit a disk, about 1 in 100 that are nearly impossible to rip with the GUI. Gods and Generals was one of them and I had a couple of more. When the GUI doesn't work the command line interface still rips them fine, I've had to command line about 5 of them out of ~ 400.
Advice - use the AC3 pass through on sound if you're going to play back on a PC or a player that can play it, the surround sound conversion caused a few oddities that I like to avoid. If you want to put the movies on an iProduct or even an Android device the pass through doesn't work, but if you scale it down and convert to stereo before putting it on one of those devices the problem is solved and the file is much smaller. You can do that with the files you've already converted without pulling out the original disk.
That does look nice, I am impressed with the 16 shades of gray and what they can do with them.
I understand where you're coming from. I have basic blue prints for multiple houses in my head, in case I ever land on my ass into a pile of money, and more than one of the designs includes a library. Since I'm currently an apartment dweller that moves occasionally and lost everything I own twice during a five year period due to a targeted robbery and a hurricane I'm seeing the value of virtual goods and less absorbent storage media. My pre-hurricane optical stuff if still good with the exception of burned disk that flaked off their backings and one lone commercial music disk that did the same. Most of that got put in cases ahead of the stuff that came after.
I literally scooped up my book collection with a shovel to get rid of it a few years back, including autographed copies and school year books. Turns out it's not worth the time and effort to recover from 4 1/2 feet of salt water where mass produced paper media is concerned.
When I reach that status I'll fill the library, until then I'm staying mobile.
Ahh, AC, how brave you must feel telling others to STFU anonymously.
I got the new "With special offers" version. When I lock my screen it tries to get me to buy Oil of Olay.
I'm talking about a big zipper case I can hide in a closet and forget about. I've ripped all my DVD's to a NAS drive which I view on my BluRay player over UPNP and DLNA, I even use my Android phone to select media from the drive and display on the player, I can also use the phone as a standard remote.
I have a single box setup for things like TV series. Some TV series come in standard DVD cases, in which case they get put in a zipper case, but some of them are actually quite compact they way they come to me so they get put in the one remaining media box.
I still buy audio CD's also BTW. I figure I'm better off paying $3 for an entire used album at a resale shop instead of paying by the song and having a backup that last indefinately instead of relying on a DRM server not to break.
Something from Neca or ThinkGeek beats a bunch of media spines any day.
I used to think so. I'm an incredibly hard core geek. A couple of years ago I took the Leatherman off my belt and put it in my pocket, I took the mobile phone out of the belt case and put it in the leg pocket of my carpenter pants (and moved to carpenters exclusively). Now I'm looking around my apartment. I'm getting rid of most of the media, except for a few things like the LOTR boxes that look like books and a couple of things like it. I'm leaving the framed picture of Einstein sticking out his tongue, the framed "Homer Simpson Scream" picture, I'm leaving my B9 Robot, my Slinky and my Cylon on the shelf, but I'm hiding most of my media. I was going to hide my computers, I was going to take an old console stereo and set it up so that there were new modern speakers where the original speaker went, I was going to have the LCD come out from where the turn table used to be and I was going to have the drives accessible where the TV doors used to be but I realised I didn't actually have the time to undertake the project, though I would still love to do it.
I guess as I reach my mid 30's I'm learning to dial it back a couple of notches.
Just got my Kindle last week, so far I'm liking it, and yes, one whole bookshelf devoted to the Dark Tower Series is part of the reason I did it. I'm keeping those books for the awesome artwork BTW, not just the novels but the Marvel Comics, those are something Kindle can't replace. For the rest of it? To the electronic gizmo!
I was take really good care of my media and storing it all really nicely on shelves in the boxes they came in like a good little OCD meticulous collector.
Fuck that.
A couple of months ago I got a bunch of Case Logic Zipper cases, not only can I put a whole bunch more DVD's and CD's into the same physical area when it comes time to move they can all fit into a single box that I would have held about 1/10th of the collection before hand. This guy needs to go that route to squeeze even more functionality out of what he has.
As a Slashdotter GP has a long ways to go. ....wait.....
I've been able to pass any audio via BT on my HTC Desire and Motorola Milestone to a laptop? The inbuilt video player and Rock Player automatically passed through audio to a Windows laptop.
What are you on about.
That's nice, I don't have a Windows laptop shoved in my ear when I want to try a really cool video conference. Having one around would sort of defeat the purpose of wanting to do that with my phone. It doesn't stream music to my normal Jawbone Bluetooth headset either, but I'm not complaining about that because that's what my Cy-Fy speaker rig is for. It does an excellent job with that BTW, but I don't want to use that for Qik or Skype either.
The general overall speech to text engine?
Has nothing to do with BT?
No, but it should and does on other phones, especially older pre-smart phones and voice dialing, it's like modern phones lost features older ones have. It's audio, and it's audio that would be more easily used while looking at the phone instead of having it pressed to your face, or could benefit people who need to remain hands free. Do you work for Google on the Android project and don't want the extra work or something?
it's nice but I generally use the USB cable because it's faster
BT FTP is for the times where you don't have a cable or are sending to another device. Doesn't happen every day but it does happen so it's a very nice feature to have.
No argument there. I would, and have used it in a pinch. Don't get me started on my other Bluetooth rant about how it's largely overlooked, undervalued, and Logitech doesn't produce enough mouse or game control models that support it.
No, I'm talking about Android and Bluetooth. Until audio is used beyond just regular phone calls and music streaming I'm keeping my perspective. The general overall speech to text engine? No Bluetooth, any voice application that isn't a normal phone call? No Bluetooth. Android is incredibly limited on it's audio Bluetooth support beyond the basics. My really really crappy Motorola Q cleaned up where Bluetooth was concerned, then promptly locked up, crashed, or overheated and generally all around sucked at everything else. My old Kyocera, the Moto Q, and my BlackBerry let me simply hit the button on my headset and say who I wanted to call. My Android based HTC phone is by far the absolute best phone I've ever used not counting its limited Bluetooth support.
I am root on my EVo. I have FTP'ed over Bluetooth, it's nice but I generally use the USB cable because it's faster, I haven't teathered over it, I use WiFi, I've tried teathering over USB, but to be frank I gave up on troubleshooting quickly and easily because WiFi already worked perfectly.
All things said, every phone I've mentioned thus far stomps the 3G iPhone I had where Bluetooth is concerned.