Yeah. And just like the “market” is another way of saying “the law of the jungle”, “the market always finds a way” is another way of saying “A US SWAT unit will come to your shop, shoot everyone, including you, burn your buildings down, and have their way”. And nobody will do anything about it.
In my days, that was called bribery, and was punished with the same amount that murder was punished 10+ years for both sides.
I miss those days. (Not that it did not happen back then. And not that if it was found out, that punishmend strangely never became real. But at least in theory...)
Well, I still prefer the Japanese Coca Cola light. It’s made with Stevia instead of the very extremely unhealthy Aspartame. Because a study showed that if you feed a mouse about 50% of its body weight in Stevia, each day, it will partially lose the ability to reproduce. (Try that with salt, and see if it will reproduce. Hell, that amount of water could easily be deadly.)
Guess who owns Aspartame? Right! Monsanto. And who did the study? Exactly! Monsanto!
Well Einstein’s relativity already fucked it up pretty good. In a relative universe, there is little absolute truth.
But only in duet with Heisenberg was it finally a FUBAR of epic proportions. Now truth is only whatever you look at. And since everyone is standing at a different relative point in spacetime, everyone sees everything differently.;)
Without us constantly ignoring that all we know is interpreted by our brain, after being processed by our senses, after mostly coming out of a second or even third or fourth hand, with no proof at all that the result that we then store, defined trough its relativity, is in any way related to any “truth”, we would go completely and utterly crazy...
Doing nothing about it, but having this “great idea” of buying a computer with something that looks shiny does count as “poorly”. Nobody said, how poorly! O:-D
When I remember how my PHBs handled GUI interfaces in the past, my guess is: - MOAR BUTTONZ!!!!!!111one(lim (x->0) (sin(x)/x)) - Highlight this! It is important! - Oh noes! Now everything is highlighted!... Just make it red! - My clickiez iz 2 smal! Iz maek it huuuugeee! - Oh noes! No spaes left on full HD! Let’s splitz, wif 1 button in every modal windowz! - Nowz too compleecated! We needz MOAR WEEZARDZ!!!! - Yz ur program so sloow n stoopid! Me no can use! Plz 2 fix ASAP! U SUCK! KTHXBAI! *Original developer starts crying about... now*
P.S.: Yes, my PHBs were very similar to cats. Their behavior made no sense at all, and they ignored every advice or information you gave them. Except when it was about money. They they were all over you. The rest of the time they were outside the house until late at night, or asleep in their office.
France: Germany! Do as I say! Germany: Yes, yes, dear god yes, just please don’t call us Nazis! Same thing with the USA, UK and doubly so with Israel.
And then some German comes, and calls the government Nazi anyway!;)
It drove them so far off the left that we can basically say that with the recent totalitarian tendencies, it “wrapped around”. ^^ (Talking about the p.c. media and politics reality here. Not about what the man on the street thinks. We’re pretty normal.:)
Plus you are limited to 26 different filesystems, one for each alphabet letter. And you cannot use a name for mount points, just one letter.
That’s not true anymore. I can mount stuff wherever I want, and it works just fine in XP. But at least one can keep one’s home directory, or the temp directory, on a different partition. Which helps a lot. (Yes, you can also change them in the registry. But some applications ignore that, and then you got a mess.) I even have softlinks and hardlinks under NTFS. (With additional tools as the UI, but the support being in NTFS.)
Of course that still is a long way from being even in the same class an Linux. But hey, every positive change is good.
In a 2009 article in Nature Nanotechnology, Dr. Seeman shared the results of experiments performed by his lab,
So in the history books of the future, we can read: “The first generation of our glorious overlords, were conceived with the power of the giant intelligent Seemæn. All hail the Hypnobot!”
Well, why did the software engineer let the marketing shill drive the company in the first place? It’s his own damn fault. Should have manned up and said “NO“.
What’s a stupid idea, is to make it accessible without you having to jump to enough hoops to weed out the incompetent, and end it with a “Don’t change this, unless you know what you are doing‘
That’s why the Linux kernel is secure, despite there being tons of options in there to make it vulnerable like a sieve.
I also think that there isn’t a player out there that doesn’t have these functions. Players where I know it’s build in: - mplayer - vlc - media player classic - bsplayer - my xine frontend
And I just can’t imagine what that “horrible tearing” is, of which you speak.
I looked for it. I really did. Checked if it is really off. But I just can’t see it.
So I can just as well jump into my very own ultra-egocentric bubble, and say that I just can’t imagine why anyone would think there is a point to vsync.
Doesn’t make it right or better. In fact the AVI cancer should have died long ago!
Also, no modern move is distributed in AVI anymore. If you need any of: - stereo (aka 3d) video - multichannel audio (better than stereo) - chapters - integrated subtitles - streamability - multiple audio or video streams/languages...there is just no choice: You use MKV.
And if you look on EZTV, all HD shows are also usually uploaded as MKV. Only the lazy and the dim still upload AVIs. It’s the standard now. People are used to seeing it. And those who got no clue will not know the difference either. They will do what they did back then: Install the “codec thingy” and be done with it.
First: A player that plays H.264 may be available for less that 100 bucks. (Tip: The cheaper ones usually can do more, because the companies are not tied to any media industry pessure. They all use the same chips anyway.)
Or: You do what I do and use your computer for it. Every recent laptop can play H.264 in full HD. Just plug that into your TV. If you have to, put it where your DVD player stands now. It will even look nearly the same. And my guess is, that your laptop also supports spdif and analog audio out.
But maybe I’m just out of the TV+player world for too long. A projector costs practically the same as a good TV, you usually have an amplifier and speakers, and a PC does the rest. BitTorrent (and perhaps Hulu) is the replacement for the receiver card and TiVo. That’s my setup for years now. Can’t imagine going back. It would be like going back to Windows...
Well, correct me if I’m wrong, but ChromeOS is not a real actual full desktop OS. (Ok, some say Windows also isn’t.;) More a bare-bones kernel running a web browser as its graphical shell. It’s more like a nice frontend for limited devices like smartbooks. You can browse, mail, communicate, and use your movies/music/etc. (All in the browser. No connection, and you’re done. Google closing it down, and you’re done.)
But that’s about it.
P.S.: If you disagree, and actually care about changing my mind, I recommend telling me below, instead of moderating.;)
What you two completely ignored, probably with your minds fully in the windows world:
A installer?? For Linux??? How sick is that?
Linux has package managers. The package belongs into the repository, just like any other software. Installers are Windows speak.
And those packages are a source package (e.g. source or binaries in tar.bz2), and a description file. Sometimes wrapped in one (e.g. RPM.) This ensures comfortable installation, uninstallation, dependency management, updates/patches, etc.
Installers... silly, silly, silly... And whining about “having to use” the CLI. As if that was a bad thing... Oh boy, when minds are constrained, it’s hard to free them...
The most realistic thing to do, would be to not make any stupid assumptions at all, about things that you know nothing about.
But who cares for actualy facts, nowadays, right? As long as you strongly prescribe to a side... “doesn’t matter which, as long as it’s mine!”...you’re good. Right.:(
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Yeah. And just like the “market” is another way of saying “the law of the jungle”, “the market always finds a way” is another way of saying “A US SWAT unit will come to your shop, shoot everyone, including you, burn your buildings down, and have their way”.
And nobody will do anything about it.
In my days, that was called bribery, and was punished with the same amount that murder was punished 10+ years for both sides.
I miss those days. (Not that it did not happen back then. And not that if it was found out, that punishmend strangely never became real. But at least in theory...)
Well, I still prefer the Japanese Coca Cola light. It’s made with Stevia instead of the very extremely unhealthy Aspartame.
Because a study showed that if you feed a mouse about 50% of its body weight in Stevia, each day, it will partially lose the ability to reproduce. (Try that with salt, and see if it will reproduce. Hell, that amount of water could easily be deadly.)
Guess who owns Aspartame? Right! Monsanto.
And who did the study? Exactly! Monsanto!
Yay for revolving doors with the government!
Well Einstein’s relativity already fucked it up pretty good. In a relative universe, there is little absolute truth. ;)
But only in duet with Heisenberg was it finally a FUBAR of epic proportions. Now truth is only whatever you look at. And since everyone is standing at a different relative point in spacetime, everyone sees everything differently.
Without us constantly ignoring that all we know is interpreted by our brain, after being processed by our senses, after mostly coming out of a second or even third or fourth hand, with no proof at all that the result that we then store, defined trough its relativity, is in any way related to any “truth”, we would go completely and utterly crazy...
Did you just woosh yourself? Because you’re the only one I see that did not get it. ^^
Doing nothing about it, but having this “great idea” of buying a computer with something that looks shiny does count as “poorly”. Nobody said, how poorly! O:-D
For anyone who cares: Her name was: Amélie Poulain.
___ ;)
*Waiting for the about 3 french female geeks who get it*
When I remember how my PHBs handled GUI interfaces in the past, my guess is:
- MOAR BUTTONZ!!!!!!111one(lim (x->0) (sin(x)/x))
- Highlight this! It is important!
- Oh noes! Now everything is highlighted!... Just make it red!
- My clickiez iz 2 smal! Iz maek it huuuugeee!
- Oh noes! No spaes left on full HD! Let’s splitz, wif 1 button in every modal windowz!
- Nowz too compleecated! We needz MOAR WEEZARDZ!!!!
- Yz ur program so sloow n stoopid! Me no can use! Plz 2 fix ASAP! U SUCK! KTHXBAI!
*Original developer starts crying about... now*
P.S.: Yes, my PHBs were very similar to cats. Their behavior made no sense at all, and they ignored every advice or information you gave them. Except when it was about money. They they were all over you. The rest of the time they were outside the house until late at night, or asleep in their office.
Nah, it goes like this:
France: Germany! Do as I say!
Germany: Yes, yes, dear god yes, just please don’t call us Nazis!
Same thing with the USA, UK and doubly so with Israel.
And then some German comes, and calls the government Nazi anyway! ;)
It drove them so far off the left that we can basically say that with the recent totalitarian tendencies, it “wrapped around”. ^^ :)
(Talking about the p.c. media and politics reality here. Not about what the man on the street thinks. We’re pretty normal.
I still think, especially with Microsoft, there is some truth in:
“Those who don’t understand Unix are doomed to reinvent it, poorly.”
Plus you are limited to 26 different filesystems, one for each alphabet letter. And you cannot use a name for mount points, just one letter.
That’s not true anymore. I can mount stuff wherever I want, and it works just fine in XP. But at least one can keep one’s home directory, or the temp directory, on a different partition. Which helps a lot. (Yes, you can also change them in the registry. But some applications ignore that, and then you got a mess.)
I even have softlinks and hardlinks under NTFS. (With additional tools as the UI, but the support being in NTFS.)
Of course that still is a long way from being even in the same class an Linux. But hey, every positive change is good.
In a 2009 article in Nature Nanotechnology, Dr. Seeman shared the results of experiments performed by his lab,
So in the history books of the future, we can read: “The first generation of our glorious overlords, were conceived with the power of the giant intelligent Seemæn. All hail the Hypnobot!”
Opposite to Linux servers, the user directory is the only valuable part of the whole file system for the average Joe’s computer. ^^
So it’s not 100% accuracy. Obviously. It’s accurate on an atomic level.
Not on a quantum level. Because that is impossible.
Well, why did the software engineer let the marketing shill drive the company in the first place? It’s his own damn fault. Should have manned up and said “NO“.
No it’s not. It’s called freedom.
What’s a stupid idea, is to make it accessible without you having to jump to enough hoops to weed out the incompetent, and end it with a “Don’t change this, unless you know what you are doing‘
That’s why the Linux kernel is secure, despite there being tons of options in there to make it vulnerable like a sieve.
I also think that there isn’t a player out there that doesn’t have these functions. Players where I know it’s build in:
- mplayer
- vlc
- media player classic
- bsplayer
- my xine frontend
And I just can’t imagine what that “horrible tearing” is, of which you speak.
I looked for it. I really did. Checked if it is really off. But I just can’t see it.
So I can just as well jump into my very own ultra-egocentric bubble, and say that I just can’t imagine why anyone would think there is a point to vsync.
To me, vsync makes as much sense, as this: http://www.audio-consulting.ch/?Parts:Woodlenses
I raise you by...
Well, my (second) PC is a laptop, and my screen is a 3 x 2 meter projector. With a comfy sofa in front of it. And 6 speakers around it.
What is a TV?
Doesn’t make it right or better. In fact the AVI cancer should have died long ago!
Also, no modern move is distributed in AVI anymore. If you need any of: ...there is just no choice: You use MKV.
- stereo (aka 3d) video
- multichannel audio (better than stereo)
- chapters
- integrated subtitles
- streamability
- multiple audio or video streams/languages
And if you look on EZTV, all HD shows are also usually uploaded as MKV.
Only the lazy and the dim still upload AVIs.
It’s the standard now. People are used to seeing it. And those who got no clue will not know the difference either.
They will do what they did back then: Install the “codec thingy” and be done with it.
Sure you have.
First: A player that plays H.264 may be available for less that 100 bucks. (Tip: The cheaper ones usually can do more, because the companies are not tied to any media industry pessure. They all use the same chips anyway.)
Or: You do what I do and use your computer for it. Every recent laptop can play H.264 in full HD. Just plug that into your TV. If you have to, put it where your DVD player stands now. It will even look nearly the same.
And my guess is, that your laptop also supports spdif and analog audio out.
But maybe I’m just out of the TV+player world for too long. A projector costs practically the same as a good TV, you usually have an amplifier and speakers, and a PC does the rest. BitTorrent (and perhaps Hulu) is the replacement for the receiver card and TiVo. That’s my setup for years now. Can’t imagine going back. It would be like going back to Windows...
You mean like when it becomes clear that extreme right is not a good idea, extreme left suddenly becomes not such a bad thing?
It’s still just as wrong. Only in the other direction.
Well, correct me if I’m wrong, but ChromeOS is not a real actual full desktop OS. (Ok, some say Windows also isn’t. ;)
More a bare-bones kernel running a web browser as its graphical shell.
It’s more like a nice frontend for limited devices like smartbooks. You can browse, mail, communicate, and use your movies/music/etc. (All in the browser. No connection, and you’re done. Google closing it down, and you’re done.)
But that’s about it.
P.S.: If you disagree, and actually care about changing my mind, I recommend telling me below, instead of moderating. ;)
What you two completely ignored, probably with your minds fully in the windows world:
A installer?? For Linux???
How sick is that?
Linux has package managers. The package belongs into the repository, just like any other software.
Installers are Windows speak.
And those packages are a source package (e.g. source or binaries in tar.bz2), and a description file. Sometimes wrapped in one (e.g. RPM.)
This ensures comfortable installation, uninstallation, dependency management, updates/patches, etc.
Installers... silly, silly, silly...
And whining about “having to use” the CLI. As if that was a bad thing...
Oh boy, when minds are constrained, it’s hard to free them...
The most realistic thing to do, would be to not make any stupid assumptions at all, about things that you know nothing about.
But who cares for actualy facts, nowadays, right? As long as you strongly prescribe to a side... “doesn’t matter which, as long as it’s mine!” ...you’re good. Right. :(
This world depresses me.