Linux might be a bitch to run right, but when it does, it does. Quite unlike Windows.
It seems amazing to me that you haven't had stability issues with Windows and "tons of applications". Everyone else in the universe seems to have had that.
You're probably not the power-user-kind that has to, really feels the need, to maximize performance with high-performance drivers and registry tweaking:)
If it weren't for the fact that the US now has the most stupid president of all time, and that he specificly wants to combat the entire planet, I'd go for the same thing as well. Yeay.
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And you believe this will enter a stubborn/stupid/puppet/corrupt/paid-for/and-so-on Bush-mind?
Re:Uh, hello, you're wrong....what about WWII?
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How very unamerican of you:)
This probably is flamebait, but to me (a foreigner) it seems like America and its Americans seems to take its rights worldwide for granted.
For instance. If "terrorist"- or "evil" nations should be moving military forces, thats valid reason for an attack, pretty much at least.
If the US moves its entire fleet to a foreign nation and starts patrolling thats entirely OK.
To me it seems like most Americans just don't see why this is wrong.
People should be accounted for as stupid/incompetent until proven otherwise, especially when it comes to computers. Most people just "saves" the file from the toolbar/menu, writes a name, and will not even find the file ever again if the extension should be changed, or the working directory should be changed.
To believe that ordinary people will be able to handle different file formats "like that" (it's really just "like that") is to me like believing in Santa. I just don't see it happening any time soon.
Yeah. Today. They need to do this kinda of thing step by step. And I believe M$ will introduce mandatory DRM for everything, get the user used to this, before going further.
Yeah. It sure sounds insane an improbable, but all of this sounded just as crazy to me just some years ago.
To sum it up in a retro-futuristic untrendy fashion:
Then you might have noticed the little fact that he came up with the most of the idea -before- he entered the employment.
According to his own testemony 80% were done before beeing employed in that company. The last 20% was when he was on a vecation. He offered the idea to the company (that was the actual bad) and tried to negotiate a deal, giving him percentage of the savings it would introduce. Then they suited him.
So your honest opinion is like this:
If you get a bright idea, you should get a lawyer. Or else someone will screw you.
Or suit you. For all your assets and stuff. Because you had an idea that someone else, not at all invovled in any kind of way, probably might profit from it.
I mean WOW! ethics are going bad these days... If people need to have a standby lawyer just for ordinary thoughtprocesses to be legally safe. I mean... WOW!
And Oh! Yeah I do remember the Commodore 64 and the Amstrad, the ZX-Spectrum, the tandy Color-basic and all those nice little computers. Even monochrome Intel 8086-based PCs. Those before "IBM-compatible" were a known or even defined word....
And I think generalisation is usually done by ignorant people. But I don't have polls or coverage for that:)
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will symbolize, for all citizens of Linuxdom, liberty, democracy and the struggle against all forms of oppression!
And democracy isnt opression? Any kind of authority is opression, and boy do democracys have authorities!
Linux is freedom. Mircrosoft Windows is democracy (what suits most people is forced upon all)
I will not, for once, pay for MP3s. Bottomline. MP3s are for preview purposes only. If I was able to download a high-quality (192 kbps minimum) album and then preview it, I would have bought the actual CD if I thought it was worth listening to. And deleted those mp3s. Which I woulda done in any case. I dont keep music I dont listen to.
But I guess this is incomprihensible trolling and rubbish in the RIAAs eye's.
Yeah. So did I. And then I deleted the crap. Deleted the good ones, and bought have a record shop, and am now quite broke. But at least I get to have those nice CDs.
MP3s are pure preview. And I wouldnt have a bought a single of those CDs without Audiogalaxy. Now I guess I'll just have to copy my friends CDs instead. Bigtime money not going to the RIAA for this one.
Now you state that the the songwriter on the recording company have illegally infringed a melody.
Can you sing a few bars of this song, that you claim is your own,
here in the musicians court of law.
From Musical Infringement (by Amon Tobin @ Ninjatune)
All material is copyright.
*laughter*
From Wall Crawling Giant Insect Breaks (by The Herbaliser @ Ninjatune)
...a proper video card. The Matrox Dualhead cards with DVDMax-features are probably the best for watching movies on a PC ever. The TV-out is so neat:) Ofcourse the DVDMax works for any media at all, so I can watch DivX as well on my 29" telly.
You make alot of sense there, but I'd like to comment point 2 quite briefly.
That a disk can be easily copied should not be a viable excuse for forbidding you to do what you want with it. You bought it. Its yours.
Now if you choose to go ahead and make illegal copies of the disk that is an actual crime. Banning something that isnt illegal, but can lead to illegal acts is ridiculous! Free will can lead to illegal acts. Hey let's ban free will! Yeay.
And you obviously believe that the world is ruled by sane men?:) Isn't the existance of the DMCA enough proof that sane men with competance currently isn't ruling?
Seriously... QUICKTIME?!? (Yes. I know that's unfriednly caps) That format sucks bigtime donkeybars. It's sluggish. It's player is ugly and sluggish. It cant play movies fullscreen, even on a decent computer.
But Ogg might do. I aplaud that. Why are we pirates using a M$-format anyway?
And what's the deal with these anime music-videos? If I wanted manga I'd download manga. If I wanted mange, I wouldn't download Björk... There's alot of spoof there.
Maybe p2p-software should have better preview-capabilities, and network-wide "spam"-filters (filesize/crc)? Just a thought.
Oh yeah. EXTREMELY hard. To achieve guaranteed dvd-quality, I need to compress movies (in dvd-resolution) with at least 1 Mbit/s when using DivX.
And HDTV is 1920 x 1024. That means at least 5 times the information. You'll need alot more than 1mbit.
And what about the ordinary dvd-players? Not everyone got PC-dvd and just upgrade their software. Anyhow, you might not even possess the CPU-power to decompress at this resolution realtime. And finally, noone is going to alter an established format, if it means that the entire public will have to buy a new dvd-player. People -would- be pissed.
You didn't read the HDTV bit, did you? Thats a slightly better format with slightly better resolution and all. It's a high end thing. Some people care enough to pay for the difference.
Actually... If you put a bit of tape... maybe one or just a half centimeter (yeah, I do metrics) from the center of the cd and out, in a straight line, you can still hear the audio playing.
A scratch is pretty bad. It makes the cd-player loose track. But without the error-correction, a seemingly perfect cd just wouldnt play at all. You'd have jitter and noise and all hell would be loose. You'd summon dark forces over all digital audio-mediums.
But luckily that never happended, because people were smart enough to put in error correction.
One question leaps to mind here... This D-VHS shit (yeay) is capable of recording HDTV content at full resolution. Which is alot more than DVD-resolution.
And as long as the resolution of a DVD-movie is a quarter of what a D-VHS movie may be, a progressive scan player will not give you more details.
Get me right. I hate tape. Tape is by defintion bad. But you all seem to ignore the fact that this is a pretty sweet device, if not unique, technically speaking. As long as you just ignore the tape!
Obviously, you don't know much about error-correcting encoding. On a CD almost 70% (if I remember correctly:) is error-protecting code. If the cd wasn't protected in this way, you'd have 3 times the capacity. And almost 0% reliability.
You can check that out, unless it's information protected by patents and all...
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If machines running Windows can't communicate with non-secure computers, Windows-machines shouldn't be able to communicate with each other at all!
(IE, the latest IE-bug, letting anyone delete your files with a standard url....)
Linux might be a bitch to run right, but when it does, it does. Quite unlike Windows.
It seems amazing to me that you haven't had stability issues with Windows and "tons of applications". Everyone else in the universe seems to have had that.
You're probably not the power-user-kind that has to, really feels the need, to maximize performance with high-performance drivers and registry tweaking :)
I support the American war on intelligence
If it weren't for the fact that the US now has the most stupid president of all time, and that he specificly wants to combat the entire planet, I'd go for the same thing as well. Yeay.
And you believe this will enter a stubborn/stupid/puppet/corrupt/paid-for/and-so-on Bush-mind?
How very unamerican of you :)
This probably is flamebait, but to me (a foreigner) it seems like America and its Americans seems to take its rights worldwide for granted.
For instance. If "terrorist"- or "evil" nations should be moving military forces, thats valid reason for an attack, pretty much at least.
If the US moves its entire fleet to a foreign nation and starts patrolling thats entirely OK.
To me it seems like most Americans just don't see why this is wrong.
People should be accounted for as stupid/incompetent until proven otherwise, especially when it comes to computers. Most people just "saves" the file from the toolbar/menu, writes a name, and will not even find the file ever again if the extension should be changed, or the working directory should be changed.
To believe that ordinary people will be able to handle different file formats "like that" (it's really just "like that") is to me like believing in Santa. I just don't see it happening any time soon.
Yeah. Today. They need to do this kinda of thing step by step. And I believe M$ will introduce mandatory DRM for everything, get the user used to this, before going further.
Yeah. It sure sounds insane an improbable, but all of this sounded just as crazy to me just some years ago.
To sum it up in a retro-futuristic untrendy fashion:
I hate the future allready
RTFA: Read the f...ing article!
Then you might have noticed the little fact that he came up with the most of the idea -before- he entered the employment.
According to his own testemony 80% were done before beeing employed in that company. The last 20% was when he was on a vecation. He offered the idea to the company (that was the actual bad) and tried to negotiate a deal, giving him percentage of the savings it would introduce. Then they suited him.
Read and learn.
So your honest opinion is like this:
If you get a bright idea, you should get a lawyer. Or else someone will screw you.
Or suit you. For all your assets and stuff. Because you had an idea that someone else, not at all invovled in any kind of way, probably might profit from it.
I mean WOW! ethics are going bad these days... If people need to have a standby lawyer just for ordinary thoughtprocesses to be legally safe. I mean... WOW!
Oh. There was a poll? Stupid me didnt know.
And Oh! Yeah I do remember the Commodore 64 and the Amstrad, the ZX-Spectrum, the tandy Color-basic and all those nice little computers. Even monochrome Intel 8086-based PCs. Those before "IBM-compatible" were a known or even defined word....
And I think generalisation is usually done by ignorant people. But I don't have polls or coverage for that :)
will symbolize, for all citizens of Linuxdom, liberty, democracy and the struggle against all forms of oppression!
And democracy isnt opression? Any kind of authority is opression, and boy do democracys have authorities!
Linux is freedom. Mircrosoft Windows is democracy (what suits most people is forced upon all)
I will not, for once, pay for MP3s. Bottomline. MP3s are for preview purposes only. If I was able to download a high-quality (192 kbps minimum) album and then preview it, I would have bought the actual CD if I thought it was worth listening to. And deleted those mp3s. Which I woulda done in any case. I dont keep music I dont listen to.
But I guess this is incomprihensible trolling and rubbish in the RIAAs eye's.
Yeah. So did I. And then I deleted the crap. Deleted the good ones, and bought have a record shop, and am now quite broke. But at least I get to have those nice CDs.
MP3s are pure preview. And I wouldnt have a bought a single of those CDs without Audiogalaxy. Now I guess I'll just have to copy my friends CDs instead. Bigtime money not going to the RIAA for this one.
I've never used the 3d-features of my board to any extreme level... There should be enough tests on the net for a /.er to find out :)
Now you state that the the songwriter on the recording company have illegally infringed a melody.
Can you sing a few bars of this song, that you claim is your own,
here in the musicians court of law.
From Musical Infringement (by Amon Tobin @ Ninjatune)
All material is copyright.
*laughter*
From Wall Crawling Giant Insect Breaks (by The Herbaliser @ Ninjatune)
And btw... They're quite cheap too.
You make alot of sense there, but I'd like to comment point 2 quite briefly.
That a disk can be easily copied should not be a viable excuse for forbidding you to do what you want with it. You bought it. Its yours.
Now if you choose to go ahead and make illegal copies of the disk that is an actual crime. Banning something that isnt illegal, but can lead to illegal acts is ridiculous! Free will can lead to illegal acts. Hey let's ban free will! Yeay.
And you obviously believe that the world is ruled by sane men? :) Isn't the existance of the DMCA enough proof that sane men with competance currently isn't ruling?
Seriously... QUICKTIME?!? (Yes. I know that's unfriednly caps) That format sucks bigtime donkeybars. It's sluggish. It's player is ugly and sluggish. It cant play movies fullscreen, even on a decent computer.
But Ogg might do. I aplaud that. Why are we pirates using a M$-format anyway?
And what's the deal with these anime music-videos? If I wanted manga I'd download manga. If I wanted mange, I wouldn't download Björk... There's alot of spoof there.
Maybe p2p-software should have better preview-capabilities, and network-wide "spam"-filters (filesize/crc)? Just a thought.
Oh yeah. EXTREMELY hard. To achieve guaranteed dvd-quality, I need to compress movies (in dvd-resolution) with at least 1 Mbit/s when using DivX.
And HDTV is 1920 x 1024. That means at least 5 times the information. You'll need alot more than 1mbit.
And what about the ordinary dvd-players? Not everyone got PC-dvd and just upgrade their software. Anyhow, you might not even possess the CPU-power to decompress at this resolution realtime. And finally, noone is going to alter an established format, if it means that the entire public will have to buy a new dvd-player. People -would- be pissed.
You didn't read the HDTV bit, did you? Thats a slightly better format with slightly better resolution and all. It's a high end thing. Some people care enough to pay for the difference.
Actually... If you put a bit of tape... maybe one or just a half centimeter (yeah, I do metrics) from the center of the cd and out, in a straight line, you can still hear the audio playing.
A scratch is pretty bad. It makes the cd-player loose track. But without the error-correction, a seemingly perfect cd just wouldnt play at all. You'd have jitter and noise and all hell would be loose. You'd summon dark forces over all digital audio-mediums.
But luckily that never happended, because people were smart enough to put in error correction.
One question leaps to mind here... This D-VHS shit (yeay) is capable of recording HDTV content at full resolution. Which is alot more than DVD-resolution.
And as long as the resolution of a DVD-movie is a quarter of what a D-VHS movie may be, a progressive scan player will not give you more details.
Get me right. I hate tape. Tape is by defintion bad. But you all seem to ignore the fact that this is a pretty sweet device, if not unique, technically speaking. As long as you just ignore the tape!
Obviously, you don't know much about error-correcting encoding. On a CD almost 70% (if I remember correctly :) is error-protecting code. If the cd wasn't protected in this way, you'd have 3 times the capacity. And almost 0% reliability.
You can check that out, unless it's information protected by patents and all...