No, it isn't. The Council's decisions are largely not taken by the ministers, but by faceless bureaucrats holding secret meetings of which the results are often kept secret as long as possible
But it's not like there is no oversight by the ministers. The council votes according to the policies set by the national governments. Of course it is influenced by the people appointed to represent the ministers *but* these people are appointed by the governments for a reason. If what they did was somehow the contrary of what the countries wanted they would be replaced.
And of course, the ministers don't decide how to vote on texts by themselves, they have advisors. You can have two guesses who those advisers generally were in this case.
Yes but again. The problem with such "advisors" is not a European problem, it's a national problem *in this case*.
For example, one of the articles in that European Constitution simply states "Intellectual property shall be protected", without further specifying in any way what this intellectual property is. So forbidding software patents may actually become unconstitutional under that text. Maybe allowing free thoughts will become unconstitutional as well, since you may be using thought processes that someone else used before and he has a constitutional right to "protection" of those.
Of course. It may also mean that the RIAA has the right to kill all humans because they could infringe copyright. Don't be ridiculous. Most non-anarchists would support the phrase "Intellectual property shall be protected" what it really means depends on the interpretation. Actually I think it's a victory for opponents of the thought police that in the current political climate IP rights haven't been embraced stronger than that. If you look at the last 5 years most countries have been in a rush to protect every idea from breathing to shitting in woods.
Now I don't want to interrupt your rant *but* the council consists of ministers of the different EU countries. These governments are democratically elected so the council is democratic. Even better we should ask ourselves why the "more European" institution -the parliament- is apparently more interested in the good of the people than the council of national governments, which -following the accepted logic around here- are less removed from the local concerns and therefore somehow superior.
I also remind you that the Dutch government explicitly *ignored* a decision of the Dutch parliament on how to vote (which was binding iirc. It was on/. a few months ago but I don't remember exactly and I'm lazy so perhaps someone else could look it up). Me thinks we should be less concerned about what is wrong with the EU and more about what is wrong with our national governments. (doesn't mean that there aren't enough things that are wrong with the EU. Unfortunatly the constitution which would solve some of them -e.g. a more powerful parliament- has no chance of surviving the British referendum)
If you want to make a living from telling everyone that/. is dead you'll have to stand in line behind the "BSD is dead", "M$ sucks", "Repent, the Hurd is near", "Linux r00LZoRZ!!", "the Apple the better", "Krusading Gainst eStupid iPrefixes" etc people.
This place is not a serious discussion forum, actually sometimes it is and then it is good enough that I can overlook the rest of the time when/. is a heap of trolls.
Read this article someone linked above for more information. It's fundamentally different from designs like PPC970 or x86 architectures.
Vector operations on desktop processors are more or less an afterthought added for the additional buzzword and the odd photoshop filter. In short they are an extension of limited significance.
On the Cell processor the vector units *are* the processor. They do the computing for the applications, the general purpose processor that is the main part of a regular cpu only runs the OS and coordinates the vector units.
Actually, we outspend the next 15 biggest spenders combined. One-five. 10 plus 5. More than 14, but less than 16
Even better the whole world spends about 900 billions/yr for the military. Of that 900 the US spends 400 and other countries the US won't be fighting against in the next 100 years (basically the old core of NATO, Japan, Australia etc) around 300. That means the US has military expenditures twice as high as those of all potential targets *combined* and nevertheless fails to get a 20 million people country under control.
Jul 15, 2004 - Philips Develops All-in-one Optical Pick-up Unit
Philips announced that they have developed an optical pick-up unit (OPU) that will be able to read and write CD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW and the next-generation optical disc format Blu-ray Disc (BD). With its new OPU81, Philips has created the first important building block of the all-in-one recorder that can record and playback all popular consumer optical formats. By integrating the infrared, red and blue wavelength lasers and single detector into one single OPU concept, Philips has succeeded in developing a flexible triple-writer OPU design in a compact form factor. The OPU81 is designed for mass production and will meet mass consumer price levels. Mass production of the new OPU will start in 2006 when Philips anticipates that the mass-market demand for BD recorders will pick-up.
Actually the only thing that kept the economy going while there was still a gold standard was its constituents belief in gold. You can't eat gold, it's generally a bad material for tools (too heavy, not hard enough) the only reason it's valuable is that it's always been valuable. (and that it doesn't decay)
So we replaced the faith in some metal with the faith in the fact that the economy works because all participants profit if it works (The farmer gets machines and can produce more with less work the worker who produces the machines gets food etc).
In addition it's not like the US economy is the only economy out there which stabilizes the system somewhat but also introduces new problems (speculation etc)
but owed money is owed money in any monetary society, which helps keep the government in check (again, no pun intended).
But as the citizens are just as good as deficit spending the US government doesn't owe money to its people but to China and Japan. Which doesn't mean that you're wrong.
The reason could be that every time there's a discussion about iPod, iTMS or iTunes a bunch of Apple fans chimes in that the really cool thing about iPod, iTMS and iTunes is that it's groovy synchronized vibes mean that it's mostly the same thing.
I'm sad about the end of Winamp, I like iTunes but I prefer a persistent "current playlist". If there's additionally a playlist management like iTunes all the better. Winamp 5 offered both so IMHO it was a great player (not as good as amaroK though, brilliant piece of work).
Well I don't know about philosophy or politics but in economics we've learned that a boom will end even if we start putting e's and i's in front of everything we sell. I'd call that pretty revolutionary, I mean, who'd've thunkit?
Leave it to a AC to find a astonishingly boring explanation to a question with so much potential.
I see room for half a dozen dissertations on this subject for example analysing the parallels between the turtle dudes in Finding Nemo and the SS Totenkopf division.
While he would have been on the wrong side for this one I nevertheless want to remember of Strom Thurmond's 24 hour 18 min filibuster in 1957. This whole rule allowing filibusters is as crazy as it is cool =)
Controlling the tracker is as good as controlling the d/l server. Streaming doesn't solve anything as there are simple (i.e. joe sixpack ready) stream-dump apps for every file type.
It makes no difference whether they use bt or not.
Of course you can crack DRM but unlike getting the encrypted file that's actually a non-trivial task
Because he can be a $%$%/&*'+#+. Which doesn't make him wrong it just makes him being right all the more annoying and blows instances when he's wrong out of proportion because a lot of people consider them national holidays.
JFTR I've used reiserfs for a long time I have a reiser4 partition and I think implementing file attributes and metadata as files by having file/directory hybrids is the unix way of doing things =)
For the same reason the day after 9/11 there were suddenly thousands of pages of "anti-terror" bills on the table everywhere and not a single one of them could have prevented 9/11. The hawks saw the chance of a decade and seized it. Lobbying is so much easier when you're supposedly in a crisis and thousands of jobs are at risk...
They *could*, but they won't, because it deprives them the means to control distribution
No it doesn't. They have the tracker so they control the swarm. Of course someone can set up a new tracker but the same someone could start a bt swarm for the movie file if it wasn't distributed by bittorrent but downloaded from a central server (or with a stream dump if it is streaming-only). The real way to control content is DRM.
"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
And it even is older than the Gandhi quote. So while his quote was correct it still doesn't make sense. I can't remember the RIAA ever ridiculing p2p instead they opposed it violently in the beginning they violently oppose it today and they'll oppose it with violence the day they file for chapter 11
The advantage of tar:/ is not that joe average now can open tars in his web browser but that it can be invoked transparently by all apps. You click on a.tar.gz in konqueror and it opens like a regular directory, you do the same in kate because you need a text file from the archive and it treats it like a directory, you have an archive with images of your different trips you can open them like a directory in gwenview or any other kde image viewer. It's the same for any other protocol supported by kio-slaves.
There are a LOT of things you can try. First of all, I would add "vstrict=1" to your lavcopts, and a keyint much less than the lavc default (250).
vstrict could help but if his player supports more than strict mpeg4 avc it shouldn't be the real reason. I-frame interval neither. Lowering the bitrate could help some players don't like more than 1500 video.
You don't seem to be using any inverse telecine, even though you're recording NTSC video. Insert 'ivtc' or one of the other inverse telecine filters before you deinterlacer (pp=lb) and your picture will look far better.
But unless you have a really fast PC you get too many framedrops. Especially when you're encoding. linearblend is an excellent deinterlacing filter and the result's probably better than with ivtc
I also bet the video you are getting look rather squished. You need to specify an aspect ratio. 1.333 (4/3) is correct for 720x480, but with 640x480, you need about 1.185 to get things to look right.
The TV picture is 4:3. (Unless it's 16:9 or even higher with some DVDs of course =)
If he crops the black parts he should encode the rest in 4:3 (but for TV playback leaving a bit of black around the picture can be better.)
Finally, your crop parameters give you dimentions that aren't multiples of 16, so you are wasting lots and lots of bits for no reason...
Erm, look at his settings. He is encoding in 640x480. The problem's more that the scaling isn't really necessary but I don't know how good mencoder scales the image and whether scaling or a black border is worse for encoding in this case. 64kbit audio for a 2000kbit video are a bit weak though =)
blahblah lameness filter blahblah/-code sucks get unicode support and use pngs before you go around bitching it has never stopped a troll anyway blahblah
I've found one. For some reason using the key words they've used in the faq don't return the book as a result but if I've use the title of that book I get one. Very strange. I'd call it alpha instead of beta =)
It doesn't kill the context menu (at least if you've forbidden javascript to do that in the settings) but as the page is the background image and there's a layer of transparent gifs above it that doesn't help you. You've got to view the document source and get the url for the background image. I'd imagine archiving the webpage with the Konqueror tool would work also but I haven't tried it. Back to amazon =P
Which is a great thing. It's the same way the better bookstores work. They offer you some seats, a cafe and all that stuff and don't try to keep you from reading entire books right in the store without buying anything but if you've ever tried to do that (guilty as charged - hey I was a student, no money and that thing was expensive =) you'll know that there comes the time around page 145 when you think "oh screw it" and buy that damn thing.
Oh I've not read through the whole thread but does anyone have a link to a google-print page? I've used some search terms but none has returned results. Is it offline? Do I have to register somewhere?
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But it's not like there is no oversight by the ministers. The council votes according to the policies set by the national governments. Of course it is influenced by the people appointed to represent the ministers *but* these people are appointed by the governments for a reason. If what they did was somehow the contrary of what the countries wanted they would be replaced.
And of course, the ministers don't decide how to vote on texts by themselves, they have advisors. You can have two guesses who those advisers generally were in this case.
Yes but again. The problem with such "advisors" is not a European problem, it's a national problem *in this case*.
For example, one of the articles in that European Constitution simply states "Intellectual property shall be protected", without further specifying in any way what this intellectual property is. So forbidding software patents may actually become unconstitutional under that text. Maybe allowing free thoughts will become unconstitutional as well, since you may be using thought processes that someone else used before and he has a constitutional right to "protection" of those.
Of course. It may also mean that the RIAA has the right to kill all humans because they could infringe copyright. Don't be ridiculous. Most non-anarchists would support the phrase "Intellectual property shall be protected" what it really means depends on the interpretation. Actually I think it's a victory for opponents of the thought police that in the current political climate IP rights haven't been embraced stronger than that. If you look at the last 5 years most countries have been in a rush to protect every idea from breathing to shitting in woods.
I also remind you that the Dutch government explicitly *ignored* a decision of the Dutch parliament on how to vote (which was binding iirc. It was on /. a few months ago but I don't remember exactly and I'm lazy so perhaps someone else could look it up). Me thinks we should be less concerned about what is wrong with the EU and more about what is wrong with our national governments. (doesn't mean that there aren't enough things that are wrong with the EU. Unfortunatly the constitution which would solve some of them -e.g. a more powerful parliament- has no chance of surviving the British referendum)
This place is not a serious discussion forum, actually sometimes it is and then it is good enough that I can overlook the rest of the time when /. is a heap of trolls.
Vector operations on desktop processors are more or less an afterthought added for the additional buzzword and the odd photoshop filter. In short they are an extension of limited significance.
On the Cell processor the vector units *are* the processor. They do the computing for the applications, the general purpose processor that is the main part of a regular cpu only runs the OS and coordinates the vector units.
Even better the whole world spends about 900 billions/yr for the military. Of that 900 the US spends 400 and other countries the US won't be fighting against in the next 100 years (basically the old core of NATO, Japan, Australia etc) around 300. That means the US has military expenditures twice as high as those of all potential targets *combined* and nevertheless fails to get a 20 million people country under control.
Jul 15, 2004 - Philips Develops All-in-one Optical Pick-up Unit
Philips announced that they have developed an optical pick-up unit (OPU) that will be able to read and write CD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW and the next-generation optical disc format Blu-ray Disc (BD). With its new OPU81, Philips has created the first important building block of the all-in-one recorder that can record and playback all popular consumer optical formats. By integrating the infrared, red and blue wavelength lasers and single detector into one single OPU concept, Philips has succeeded in developing a flexible triple-writer OPU design in a compact form factor. The OPU81 is designed for mass production and will meet mass consumer price levels. Mass production of the new OPU will start in 2006 when Philips anticipates that the mass-market demand for BD recorders will pick-up.
Anymore FUD you want to share with us?
So we replaced the faith in some metal with the faith in the fact that the economy works because all participants profit if it works (The farmer gets machines and can produce more with less work the worker who produces the machines gets food etc).
In addition it's not like the US economy is the only economy out there which stabilizes the system somewhat but also introduces new problems (speculation etc)
but owed money is owed money in any monetary society, which helps keep the government in check (again, no pun intended).
But as the citizens are just as good as deficit spending the US government doesn't owe money to its people but to China and Japan. Which doesn't mean that you're wrong.
I'm sad about the end of Winamp, I like iTunes but I prefer a persistent "current playlist". If there's additionally a playlist management like iTunes all the better. Winamp 5 offered both so IMHO it was a great player (not as good as amaroK though, brilliant piece of work).
Well I don't know about philosophy or politics but in economics we've learned that a boom will end even if we start putting e's and i's in front of everything we sell. I'd call that pretty revolutionary, I mean, who'd've thunkit?
I see room for half a dozen dissertations on this subject for example analysing the parallels between the turtle dudes in Finding Nemo and the SS Totenkopf division.
While he would have been on the wrong side for this one I nevertheless want to remember of Strom Thurmond's 24 hour 18 min filibuster in 1957. This whole rule allowing filibusters is as crazy as it is cool =)
It makes no difference whether they use bt or not.
Of course you can crack DRM but unlike getting the encrypted file that's actually a non-trivial task
And a Cheetah is a Gepard
So, Steve Jobs really seems to have a unhealthy obsession with German WWII tanks =)
JFTR I've used reiserfs for a long time I have a reiser4 partition and I think implementing file attributes and metadata as files by having file/directory hybrids is the unix way of doing things =)
For the same reason the day after 9/11 there were suddenly thousands of pages of "anti-terror" bills on the table everywhere and not a single one of them could have prevented 9/11. The hawks saw the chance of a decade and seized it. Lobbying is so much easier when you're supposedly in a crisis and thousands of jobs are at risk...
No it doesn't. They have the tracker so they control the swarm. Of course someone can set up a new tracker but the same someone could start a bt swarm for the movie file if it wasn't distributed by bittorrent but downloaded from a central server (or with a stream dump if it is streaming-only). The real way to control content is DRM.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
And it even is older than the Gandhi quote. So while his quote was correct it still doesn't make sense. I can't remember the RIAA ever ridiculing p2p instead they opposed it violently in the beginning they violently oppose it today and they'll oppose it with violence the day they file for chapter 11
The advantage of tar:/ is not that joe average now can open tars in his web browser but that it can be invoked transparently by all apps. You click on a .tar.gz in konqueror and it opens like a regular directory, you do the same in kate because you need a text file from the archive and it treats it like a directory, you have an archive with images of your different trips you can open them like a directory in gwenview or any other kde image viewer. It's the same for any other protocol supported by kio-slaves.
You read the article that blu-ray requires vc-1 codec support (aka wmv9)?
We know Sony's NIH syndrome and with mpeg4 avc there was no real need to support wmv too. If that doesn't sound like some behind the scenes dealing...
vstrict could help but if his player supports more than strict mpeg4 avc it shouldn't be the real reason. I-frame interval neither. Lowering the bitrate could help some players don't like more than 1500 video.
You don't seem to be using any inverse telecine, even though you're recording NTSC video. Insert 'ivtc' or one of the other inverse telecine filters before you deinterlacer (pp=lb) and your picture will look far better.
But unless you have a really fast PC you get too many framedrops. Especially when you're encoding. linearblend is an excellent deinterlacing filter and the result's probably better than with ivtc
I also bet the video you are getting look rather squished. You need to specify an aspect ratio. 1.333 (4/3) is correct for 720x480, but with 640x480, you need about 1.185 to get things to look right.
The TV picture is 4:3. (Unless it's 16:9 or even higher with some DVDs of course =) If he crops the black parts he should encode the rest in 4:3 (but for TV playback leaving a bit of black around the picture can be better.)
Finally, your crop parameters give you dimentions that aren't multiples of 16, so you are wasting lots and lots of bits for no reason...
Erm, look at his settings. He is encoding in 640x480. The problem's more that the scaling isn't really necessary but I don't know how good mencoder scales the image and whether scaling or a black border is worse for encoding in this case. 64kbit audio for a 2000kbit video are a bit weak though =)
blahblah lameness filter blahblah /-code sucks get unicode support and use pngs before you go around bitching it has never stopped a troll anyway blahblah
Unfortunately they're wrong. KMail has a wizard to integrate spamassassin and some other anti-spam tools.
It doesn't kill the context menu (at least if you've forbidden javascript to do that in the settings) but as the page is the background image and there's a layer of transparent gifs above it that doesn't help you. You've got to view the document source and get the url for the background image. I'd imagine archiving the webpage with the Konqueror tool would work also but I haven't tried it. Back to amazon =P
Oh I've not read through the whole thread but does anyone have a link to a google-print page? I've used some search terms but none has returned results. Is it offline? Do I have to register somewhere?
Almost any institution that has the resources for large scale medical research will do more than one project at a time and depend on government money.