I dunno about you, but my local public library has a pretty good DVD and BluRay selection. I can rent pretty much anything I want for 3 weeks and it's free. Dealing with discs seems outdated, but it's worth it.
Get this: Socialism simply can not exist without authoritarian statism - socialism is based on authoritarian statism.
I guess that means the Scandinavian socialist countries like Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are authoritarian hellholes, no different from Pol Pot's Cambodia, right?
At this point, Netflix is primarily focused on its own content. I'm sure this is cheaper for Netflix, but it's not good for customers. The UI is also terrible; not only does it push Netflix content over what you want to watch, it does a bad job of profiling users. I have to use instantwatcher.com to figure out what to watch because the UI hides everything I want to watch.
I lived next to Wilson, NC (one of those evil municipal broadband localities) for a couple of years. Wilson begged and pleaded with Time Warner to build out infrastructure there. Time Warner repeatedly declined.
Wilson's response was great: they built a municipal broadband network that was ~10x the speed of Time Warner's biggest offering in Raleigh (closest large city), at about 1/5 the price.
Spurred by competition, Time Warner used the power of the free market to innovate and provide cheaper solutions to the good citizens of North Carolina...just kidding. They bought off the Republican-controlled legislature and got a law prohibiting municipal broadband.
Municipal broadband is the cost-effective answer to the "rural internet divide." This is a solved problem in other countries, but of course Republicans cry about socialism. If the same attitude existed in the 50's, we wouldn't have the Interstate highway system or the original telephone infrastructure.
>>And thus far, every improvement in productivity has resulted in the creation, not the destruction, of jobs, and that's been true since the industrial revolution started.
This response isn't for you, it's for anyone else reading. I read this and very quickly decided that squiggleslash might not understand reality.
There are two sides to every connection, and TFlan91 is correct that Xbox Live has historically been a much better service than PSN, based on speed and availability.
Microsoft has been uninterested in cross-platform gameplay since....well, forever. They've actively tried to kill PC gaming (or at the very least, make it a second-class gaming experience to the Xbox). Not to mention they double-dip with their accessories ( For example, Xbox One Kinect having a proprietary connector so they can sell the USB 3.0 Windows Kinect).
Now Microsoft has suddenly seen the light! They want to enable cross-platform play with Sony! Hmm, I wonder if that has anything to do with the low sales for Xbox One compared to PS4. Sony's refusal makes them the "closed" bad guy now. Great marketing, but it doesn't actually improve anyone's gaming experience. Psyonix's leadership is either naive about the console business or willfully acting as Microsoft's proxy to attack Sony.
You don't buy expensive, power-hungry [hard]ware that's going to cost an arm and a leg to store, power, and cool for the next year when you only need its brute force for a few hours.
But he is planning to do conversions over and over, one after another, handling problems as they occur. As such, one of his goals is that the conversion be as speedy as possible, and he specifically said that he doesn't want to share a CPU with other cloud users. He wants one fast CPU devoted 100% to his project.
Makes sense to me.
.
Cloud servers with no virtualization and 100% of the CPU? That's what OnMetal is for, motherfuckers!
Try making a minor typo in the syntax, then restart networking. You will lose all network connectivity on ALL interfaces.
Fix your typo and try to start networking again. It won't work until you reboot.
Or you can try adding your config to one of the seemingly infinite network config subdirectories (ifup.d, post-ifup.d, etc). Make the same typo anywhere in the subdirectories and you'll still mess up all networking and have to reboot.
I guess this is acceptable if you haven't used any OS besides Windows 98. For the rest of us it's maddening.
Shuttleworth has done nothing but help the open source community in every way imaginable.
You really consider a distro that can't change basic network configuration without a reboot to be 'helping'? Worse yet, some insane people are even using it as a server OS.
Haven't tested the other video outputs, but who the fuck wants to play on composite or component on an HD system?) and I haven't had a chance to find out if it can be fixed, and if so for what cost.
Component video is an HD output. It can do the same 1080p that your HDMI can. It's just that the media hardware cartel doesn't like it because "it's analog and easy to copy." There's no Macrovision on component. It's a pretty nice interface. actually.
Choose Android or iPhone-or you could have a Palm Pre with a full Linux-based OS. You can root it with the blessing of the developer, and you still have a monolithic app store for non-power users. Also, cloud-aware contacts management that whips the buttocks of any other address book. But you idiots got all wet for Apple or Google and forgot who the true innovator was!
Does anyone buy a new Mac and throw a fit when they can't get OS X 10.0 on it? No, that'd be idiotic.
The problem is, the current Mac OS X is far, far better than Mac OS X 10.0. And I would tell you that Vista is inferior, but I can't so much shake the mouse on my 2 year old laptop with 2GB of RAM without Vista going into swap spasms. It's a dog, even on new hardware.
Yes, as I said in the subject line, I tethered with your mom last night. It was a hard-wired connection, however. I avoided Palm Pre-mature ejaculation by thinking about CIDR notation. It works every time!
Slashdot: It just keeps getting shittier and shittier. Slashdot going all Web 2.0 just exposes what imcompetent programmers they all are, and how lucky CmdrTaco was to get some of that first-wave Internet Bubble money. Content's still great but they should have stopped "improving" the site design in about 2001.
As it tends to enlighten people to the necessity of better computer security... but when it involves things like airport control towers and hospital equipment and files it is totally not cool.
Yeah, it's "totally not cool." Just like drinking the last beer. Or wearing a Nehru jacket. Dude, they crashed a plane into the World Trade Center, I might just have to leave a note on the fridge next time.
Slashdot, a weapon of unbelievable pomposity and stupidity. You knuckleheads would be beating rocks together if it wasn't for me. For I am your God of the Laser!
That doesn't make sense. Plain text emails indicate expertise, while HTML in mail indicates an amateur. HTML in email is an abomination and an extreme violation of netiquette. It's not a good thing.
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I dunno about you, but my local public library has a pretty good DVD and BluRay selection. I can rent pretty much anything I want for 3 weeks and it's free. Dealing with discs seems outdated, but it's worth it.
Get this: Socialism simply can not exist without authoritarian statism - socialism is based on authoritarian statism. I guess that means the Scandinavian socialist countries like Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are authoritarian hellholes, no different from Pol Pot's Cambodia, right?
At this point, Netflix is primarily focused on its own content. I'm sure this is cheaper for Netflix, but it's not good for customers. The UI is also terrible; not only does it push Netflix content over what you want to watch, it does a bad job of profiling users. I have to use instantwatcher.com to figure out what to watch because the UI hides everything I want to watch.
I lived next to Wilson, NC (one of those evil municipal broadband localities) for a couple of years. Wilson begged and pleaded with Time Warner to build out infrastructure there. Time Warner repeatedly declined.
Wilson's response was great: they built a municipal broadband network that was ~10x the speed of Time Warner's biggest offering in Raleigh (closest large city), at about 1/5 the price.
Spurred by competition, Time Warner used the power of the free market to innovate and provide cheaper solutions to the good citizens of North Carolina...just kidding. They bought off the Republican-controlled legislature and got a law prohibiting municipal broadband.
Municipal broadband is the cost-effective answer to the "rural internet divide." This is a solved problem in other countries, but of course Republicans cry about socialism. If the same attitude existed in the 50's, we wouldn't have the Interstate highway system or the original telephone infrastructure.
I don't have time to look up the name but just a few years ago one of the top Democratic Party vote "getters" was caught on camera
But you do have time to make wild, unsubstantiated claims about voter fraud. That speaks a lot about your credibility-thanks!
>> Is there more automation than 30 years ago?
Yes.
>> Are there fewer jobs per capita?
Yes.
>>And thus far, every improvement in productivity has resulted in the creation, not the destruction, of jobs, and that's been true since the industrial revolution started.
This response isn't for you, it's for anyone else reading. I read this and very quickly decided that squiggleslash might not understand reality.
There are two sides to every connection, and TFlan91 is correct that Xbox Live has historically been a much better service than PSN, based on speed and availability.
Microsoft has been uninterested in cross-platform gameplay since....well, forever. They've actively tried to kill PC gaming (or at the very least, make it a second-class gaming experience to the Xbox). Not to mention they double-dip with their accessories ( For example, Xbox One Kinect having a proprietary connector so they can sell the USB 3.0 Windows Kinect).
Now Microsoft has suddenly seen the light! They want to enable cross-platform play with Sony! Hmm, I wonder if that has anything to do with the low sales for Xbox One compared to PS4. Sony's refusal makes them the "closed" bad guy now. Great marketing, but it doesn't actually improve anyone's gaming experience. Psyonix's leadership is either naive about the console business or willfully acting as Microsoft's proxy to attack Sony.
Still hooking newbs even though this troll is old enough to smoke (first saw it in '98).
Congrats!
Business. And he earned his billions a lot more honestly than most billionaires...
People do not really understand the first amendment at all do they?
OK, I like where you're going with this...
In short, it's protection from being executed by the government for speaking ill of the government.
(facepalm) So you've never read it either
http://constitutioncenter.org/...
Dude, it's 3 lines of text. At least read it before you try to sound smart.
You don't buy expensive, power-hungry [hard]ware that's going to cost an arm and a leg to store, power, and cool for the next year when you only need its brute force for a few hours.
But he is planning to do conversions over and over, one after another, handling problems as they occur. As such, one of his goals is that the conversion be as speedy as possible, and he specifically said that he doesn't want to share a CPU with other cloud users. He wants one fast CPU devoted 100% to his project.
Makes sense to me.
.
Cloud servers with no virtualization and 100% of the CPU? That's what OnMetal is for, motherfuckers!
Yes, it's in one monolithic file.
Try making a minor typo in the syntax, then restart networking. You will lose all network connectivity on ALL interfaces.
Fix your typo and try to start networking again. It won't work until you reboot.
Or you can try adding your config to one of the seemingly infinite network config subdirectories (ifup.d, post-ifup.d, etc). Make the same typo anywhere in the subdirectories and you'll still mess up all networking and have to reboot.
I guess this is acceptable if you haven't used any OS besides Windows 98. For the rest of us it's maddening.
Shuttleworth has done nothing but help the open source community in every way imaginable.
You really consider a distro that can't change basic network configuration without a reboot to be 'helping'? Worse yet, some insane people are even using it as a server OS.
Don't you mean Little Green Packets of Death? Incompetent fools!
Haven't tested the other video outputs, but who the fuck wants to play on composite or component on an HD system?) and I haven't had a chance to find out if it can be fixed, and if so for what cost.
Component video is an HD output. It can do the same 1080p that your HDMI can. It's just that the media hardware cartel doesn't like it because "it's analog and easy to copy." There's no Macrovision on component. It's a pretty nice interface. actually.
Choose Android or iPhone-or you could have a Palm Pre with a full Linux-based OS. You can root it with the blessing of the developer, and you still have a monolithic app store for non-power users. Also, cloud-aware contacts management that whips the buttocks of any other address book. But you idiots got all wet for Apple or Google and forgot who the true innovator was!
I could even be masturbating in there, misusing the time,
Either you're masturbating or you're misusing the time. It can't be both!
Does anyone buy a new Mac and throw a fit when they can't get OS X 10.0 on it? No, that'd be idiotic.
The problem is, the current Mac OS X is far, far better than Mac OS X 10.0. And I would tell you that Vista is inferior, but I can't so much shake the mouse on my 2 year old laptop with 2GB of RAM without Vista going into swap spasms. It's a dog, even on new hardware.
Yes, as I said in the subject line, I tethered with your mom last night. It was a hard-wired connection, however. I avoided Palm Pre-mature ejaculation by thinking about CIDR notation. It works every time!
Slashdot: It just keeps getting shittier and shittier. Slashdot going all Web 2.0 just exposes what imcompetent programmers they all are, and how lucky CmdrTaco was to get some of that first-wave Internet Bubble money. Content's still great but they should have stopped "improving" the site design in about 2001.
As it tends to enlighten people to the necessity of better computer security... but when it involves things like airport control towers and hospital equipment and files it is totally not cool.
Yeah, it's "totally not cool." Just like drinking the last beer. Or wearing a Nehru jacket. Dude, they crashed a plane into the World Trade Center, I might just have to leave a note on the fridge next time.
Slashdot, a weapon of unbelievable pomposity and stupidity. You knuckleheads would be beating rocks together if it wasn't for me. For I am your God of the Laser!
That doesn't make sense. Plain text emails indicate expertise, while HTML in mail indicates an amateur. HTML in email is an abomination and an extreme violation of netiquette. It's not a good thing.
Don't be a luddite, scro!
Who was Justin Bailey anyway? Samus' denuding boyfriend?