I can’t imagine that they didn’t come up with just attaching reverse wings / gigantic spoilers to it. If they did, then what’s the reason they don’t use them? Sounds extremely obvious to me...
Cheating in school also isn’t the problem. Getting busted is! Indeed evolutionary, there are many animals whose very successful strategy, is to cheat trough life.
You don’t get it! It does not have to include any video codec AT ALL. Under Linux, the package could simply have a dependency on ffmpeg, and on Windows/OSX, it could use the system codec facility (DirectMedia and CoreVideo).
There. Done. Plays EVERYTHING you throw at it. No license problems. Finito.
But fundamentalist idiots like you seem to deliberately ignore this, so their twisted reality doesn’t fall apart like a house of cards.
Be happy that you didn’t use MPC, as I did! (MPC beats every other codec, since it isn’t based on some bitrate limitation. so even a 320 kb/s MP3, Vorbis or AAC file, gets the shit beaten out of it by MPC.)
But luckily, I use a Java (J2ME) player software for my phone, which is also my music player (and a great quality one too). So I can play MPC, flac, and even APE files and CD images and RAR files with CUE indexes.:)
The reason citing sources is really bad, is that it makes arguments not a single bit more true. Zero. Nil. But an argument with cited sources is perceived as being more true, without anyone ever checking the actual sources, even he that is a must. (Just like the huge block of terms on the back side of a contract.)
Wikipedia (the admins, really) is notorious for this false belief. They protect it like a religious dogma. Because they know that it would make their whole false reality break down. (Just like with religious people.)
The proper way, is to make a complete argument, and base it on basic physics. Or define proper intermediate paradigms, defined elsewhere, that themselves are based on basic physics. But hey, how many people are able to actually do proper logic reasoning, and identify their paradigms?
Actually, nobody but a few evangelists, cares about Theora. If it at least was a good codec. But it’s weak and slow and ugly. If they bring me something that beats H.264 (including being hardware-accelerated and faster), I’ll jump on open source in a second. But until then, H.264 is my GIF. (Actually that’s not the best comparison, since GIF was a crappy format, while H.264 is a really great codec.)
This is a big day for web developers and the www as a whole! Something I didn’t think would ever happen. Of course we still have to check if they added deliberate incompatibilities to do their dirty EEE work. (If they don’t, I will not not acknowledge their work, just because it’s MS.)
But apart from that, this will finally mean full steam ahead for all the cool new features!
Remember that without the Mozilla team, and Firefox, this would never have happened. Ever! So thank you, thank you, thank you, every single one who worked to make Firefox so frightening that it woke the big dinosaur!
There was one terror attack. The following attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq killed more people than that in a month (or even less), AND did NOTHING against it. (As the “terrorists” were in Pakistan and Saudi Arabian states, who are our “friends”).
Oh, and another bit of interesting history: Who supplied the Afghanis with weapons, while the Russians attacked? Exactly. The US. (Which made the war not cold at all. Just fought with the lives of non-Americans.) I know first-hand.
Well good luck with that and president President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho’s predecessor, who only used grunting, obscene hand gestures, shooting guns while dancing, and a rare expletive in his speeches...
Well, they should simply offer tagging. Let them tag positions in the time line with keywords, and anchors to whole URLs. In both directions. Then everyone watching only a short segment, automatically can become a meta data generator, and if he does it well, others don’t have to watch it again, to find interesting stuff.
How is that not on topic... and in fact the only comment really on topic here?? The whole point of that camera/tongue device is gone, when we prevent pointless shit like this in the first place. Like the point of every symptom treatment in medicine is gone, when we fix the problem in a preventive manner. But I guess you (the moderators) still think that painkillers fix headache, and antipyretics are the silver bullet to “heal“ your fever (fever itself being a side-effect of healing, and antipyretics slowing down that healing). Instead of actually fixing what will cause it again and again in the future, if not prevented.
Exactly what I wanted to say. Nowadays the mob of idiots describe every remote-controlled machine as a robot. I wonder if they would call my door opener a “roboter”... since it’s obviously remotely controlled.
Yes yes, thank you Murphy’s law, for creating a typo right in the first sentence, when talking about education.;) And thank you too for me noticing it right between pressing “submit”, and the new page loading, so I can have a little moment of panic...
Why do they thing nature invented games? It’s training for reality. Or in other words: Learning?
The only question is: What do you learn? And that is a decision, parents have to make.
But hey, it’s so easy for incompetent parents and governments, to just blame games. Maybe those people should have played a bit more with puppets, dogs, and other children when they were young...
But hey... to them, school is still considered good education. When all it is, is drill, to create obeying little drones. Just like Bismarck wanted it when he invented it as some form of military training, but for children. (And you wondered why the grading system is so fucked up, and why you hated some things in school, that you later found out you loved. [Math, writing, team sports, etc.])
By the way: init is the quickest way, to make your own linux-kernel-based OS from scratch. Just have a boot partition with grub and the kernel like normal. and then a root partition with just your program called trough init, and all you need around it.
I quick trick is to use python by setting init=python or something like that. But I recommend starting out out with a generic hardware abstraction layer that offers a simple data graph of everything as an interface. And a generic graphical shell (using kernel-included drivers). Done right you have a good start for making your own complete OS.:)
As someone not living in the USA’s power zone, I seriously doubt that. And the Aryan Nations can kiss my ass. Last time I saw a Nazi dude, he got his ass kicked by 1. a lot of foreigners and 2. 3000 cops in swat uniforms surrounding the building (he had a rocket launcher with him). And this land here invented the Nazis. We know how to deal with them.;)
Assuming he was a soldier in an offensive or other greed-based war: Not going and trying to kill people for the power and money of a couple of douches telling lies?
Frankly, we don’t use credit cards much. Exactly because of the fees.
We use EuroCheque (EC) cards. Which, as the name suggests, are a replacement for checks. As long as you use you own bank’s ATMs, or that of partner banks (usually enough so you don’t have to go far to find such an ATM), it costs absolutely nothing. Zero. (With non-partner ATMs, it’s around 4€. But nobody uses that, unless pretty desperate.)
No. Removing your profile is really easy. Just edit it into a troll profile. Replace all images with the pain series, 50 hitlers / swastikas, etc. Edit all texts to the most offensive ones possible. And don’t forget to put a “song” “owned” by the biggest douche out there on your site. Something by Warner Music or the like.
Will get you deleted in less than an hour. Guaranteed. ^^
But don’t forget to “unfriend” all your friends before you do so!;)
Maybe you can inform us of how you 'change' to accomodate the fact that people are takuing your output for free and not paying a single penny? Perhaps all of the very experienced business owners here at slashdot could emerge from moms basement and explain how you make a living that way with music?
I’ll bite, even if it looks like trolling.
First we clarify the actual physics:
Music, Films, Book, etc, are Information. Their physical container is a separate thing.
Information is not a object of “meatspace”. You can’t touch it. It’s a object of “bitspace”. Data.
Bitspace has other rules as meatspace:
Information can only be copied. Moving can only be simulated trough copying plus deletion. Which often is impossible (e.g. in the human mind).
Information that can not be copied, can not be proven to exist at all. Because that involves copying it. Only copying a sample only proves the existence of that part.
Information, when copied to someone else, is now under control of both parties. And there is nothing any party can ever do about it. As long as you let it out in a form that the destination can process, this processing can involve giving it away to someone else. That is a simple physical fact.
Hence information — which is not a physical good — can not be owned by anyone. There is no such thing as “intellectual property”. It’s a physically impossible and absurd concept.
So the obvious consequence is, that if that information has some worth for you, and you don’t want to give it away for nothing, you have to demand something in return right at the first completely simultaneous release to x “clients”. After that, you have just shared the information with x people. Who can not be stopped from doing to it, whatever they please. If you’re not happy, tough shit, cause it’s too late! Go ahead, and fight basic physics. Next up: Gravity!;)
Now we must clarify something else: The production and marketing industry, the media reproduction industry and the musician industry, are three distinct things! The first two are usually combined into the “music industry”. The reproduction industry obviously lost its purpose and struggles with inevitable death. The music industry as a whole on the other hand... The illusion is, that they would be for the musicians. Ask musicians. They will tell you, that they get around 3.5% of the whole profits. While the stupid producer gets 60!!! Plus they still have to pay the studio time from that! And as if this were not bad enough, the MI fights, to get the 3.5% even lower! Now add the typical extortion contracts of the MI to it, and you get a mix that screams “the music industry is the enemy of the musician industry!”. Why do you think so many artist run away from than at their first chance to get out? The same is true for every likewise industry. Films, games, books, you name it.
Finally to the basis of your arguments: The business model of the media industry. Their fault was, that they handled information like a product. A good. Because when they started it, it always came in a container that could be a product. That was what they knew, so they ran with it. To the painful end. All the problem are based on that single misunderstanding of basic physics of bitspace/information. And now they are treating the artist like crap, treating the clients like crap... in a struggle to continue their delusion they walk over dead bodies (ACTA vs constitutional rights).
This all has nothing to do with taking any rightful compensation away from the artists. (The MI is working hard on that one anyway!) If the artists wanted something, they should have asked for it when they first passed it on. Now we have it, and it’? too late. It has to do with the delusion.
Doesn’t matter if it’s any body part, or a card or anything “that you have”. As long as there is no accompanying “that you know”, it’s insecure. Period.
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I can’t imagine that they didn’t come up with just attaching reverse wings / gigantic spoilers to it.
If they did, then what’s the reason they don’t use them? Sounds extremely obvious to me...
No. They only get busted, if someone finds it!
Cheating in school also isn’t the problem. Getting busted is!
Indeed evolutionary, there are many animals whose very successful strategy, is to cheat trough life.
You don’t get it! It does not have to include any video codec AT ALL.
Under Linux, the package could simply have a dependency on ffmpeg, and on Windows/OSX, it could use the system codec facility (DirectMedia and CoreVideo).
There. Done. Plays EVERYTHING you throw at it. No license problems. Finito.
But fundamentalist idiots like you seem to deliberately ignore this, so their twisted reality doesn’t fall apart like a house of cards.
Be happy that you didn’t use MPC, as I did! (MPC beats every other codec, since it isn’t based on some bitrate limitation. so even a 320 kb/s MP3, Vorbis or AAC file, gets the shit beaten out of it by MPC.)
But luckily, I use a Java (J2ME) player software for my phone, which is also my music player (and a great quality one too). So I can play MPC, flac, and even APE files and CD images and RAR files with CUE indexes. :)
The reason citing sources is really bad, is that it makes arguments not a single bit more true. Zero. Nil.
But an argument with cited sources is perceived as being more true, without anyone ever checking the actual sources, even he that is a must. (Just like the huge block of terms on the back side of a contract.)
Wikipedia (the admins, really) is notorious for this false belief. They protect it like a religious dogma. Because they know that it would make their whole false reality break down. (Just like with religious people.)
The proper way, is to make a complete argument, and base it on basic physics. Or define proper intermediate paradigms, defined elsewhere, that themselves are based on basic physics. But hey, how many people are able to actually do proper logic reasoning, and identify their paradigms?
Actually, nobody but a few evangelists, cares about Theora. If it at least was a good codec. But it’s weak and slow and ugly. If they bring me something that beats H.264 (including being hardware-accelerated and faster), I’ll jump on open source in a second.
But until then, H.264 is my GIF. (Actually that’s not the best comparison, since GIF was a crappy format, while H.264 is a really great codec.)
This is a big day for web developers and the www as a whole! Something I didn’t think would ever happen.
Of course we still have to check if they added deliberate incompatibilities to do their dirty EEE work. (If they don’t, I will not not acknowledge their work, just because it’s MS.)
But apart from that, this will finally mean full steam ahead for all the cool new features!
Remember that without the Mozilla team, and Firefox, this would never have happened. Ever!
So thank you, thank you, thank you, every single one who worked to make Firefox so frightening that it woke the big dinosaur!
There was one terror attack. The following attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq killed more people than that in a month (or even less), AND did NOTHING against it. (As the “terrorists” were in Pakistan and Saudi Arabian states, who are our “friends”).
Oh, and another bit of interesting history: Who supplied the Afghanis with weapons, while the Russians attacked?
Exactly. The US. (Which made the war not cold at all. Just fought with the lives of non-Americans.) I know first-hand.
Well good luck with that and president President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho’s predecessor, who only used grunting, obscene hand gestures, shooting guns while dancing, and a rare expletive in his speeches...
Well, they should simply offer tagging. Let them tag positions in the time line with keywords, and anchors to whole URLs. In both directions.
Then everyone watching only a short segment, automatically can become a meta data generator, and if he does it well, others don’t have to watch it again, to find interesting stuff.
How is that not on topic... and in fact the only comment really on topic here??
The whole point of that camera/tongue device is gone, when we prevent pointless shit like this in the first place.
Like the point of every symptom treatment in medicine is gone, when we fix the problem in a preventive manner.
But I guess you (the moderators) still think that painkillers fix headache, and antipyretics are the silver bullet to “heal“ your fever (fever itself being a side-effect of healing, and antipyretics slowing down that healing). Instead of actually fixing what will cause it again and again in the future, if not prevented.
Exactly what I wanted to say. Nowadays the mob of idiots describe every remote-controlled machine as a robot.
I wonder if they would call my door opener a “roboter”... since it’s obviously remotely controlled.
Yes yes, thank you Murphy’s law, for creating a typo right in the first sentence, when talking about education. ;)
And thank you too for me noticing it right between pressing “submit”, and the new page loading, so I can have a little moment of panic...
Why do they thing nature invented games? It’s training for reality. Or in other words: Learning?
The only question is: What do you learn?
And that is a decision, parents have to make.
But hey, it’s so easy for incompetent parents and governments, to just blame games.
Maybe those people should have played a bit more with puppets, dogs, and other children when they were young...
But hey... to them, school is still considered good education. When all it is, is drill, to create obeying little drones. Just like Bismarck wanted it when he invented it as some form of military training, but for children.
(And you wondered why the grading system is so fucked up, and why you hated some things in school, that you later found out you loved. [Math, writing, team sports, etc.])
By the way: init is the quickest way, to make your own linux-kernel-based OS from scratch. Just have a boot partition with grub and the kernel like normal. and then a root partition with just your program called trough init, and all you need around it.
I quick trick is to use python by setting init=python or something like that. :)
But I recommend starting out out with a generic hardware abstraction layer that offers a simple data graph of everything as an interface. And a generic graphical shell (using kernel-included drivers). Done right you have a good start for making your own complete OS.
As someone not living in the USA’s power zone, I seriously doubt that. ;)
And the Aryan Nations can kiss my ass. Last time I saw a Nazi dude, he got his ass kicked by 1. a lot of foreigners and 2. 3000 cops in swat uniforms surrounding the building (he had a rocket launcher with him). And this land here invented the Nazis. We know how to deal with them.
Well, let him lick my epic plate of OWW and death! Let’s see how he likes that. ;)
On another note: Can that soldier now tell us, how photons taste? ^^
Homer: Mmmmhhh.... photons...
Assuming he was a soldier in an offensive or other greed-based war: Not going and trying to kill people for the power and money of a couple of douches telling lies?
Frankly, we don’t use credit cards much. Exactly because of the fees.
We use EuroCheque (EC) cards. Which, as the name suggests, are a replacement for checks. As long as you use you own bank’s ATMs, or that of partner banks (usually enough so you don’t have to go far to find such an ATM), it costs absolutely nothing. Zero.
(With non-partner ATMs, it’s around 4€. But nobody uses that, unless pretty desperate.)
No. Removing your profile is really easy. Just edit it into a troll profile. Replace all images with the pain series, 50 hitlers / swastikas, etc. Edit all texts to the most offensive ones possible. And don’t forget to put a “song” “owned” by the biggest douche out there on your site. Something by Warner Music or the like.
Will get you deleted in less than an hour. Guaranteed. ^^
But don’t forget to “unfriend” all your friends before you do so! ;)
Uuum, browsers have nothing to do with e-mail!
I think you mean Enigmail.
I thought with the army’s aggressive recruiting, there now was at least one solider in every household. ;)
Maybe you can inform us of how you 'change' to accomodate the fact that people are takuing your output for free and not paying a single penny? Perhaps all of the very experienced business owners here at slashdot could emerge from moms basement and explain how you make a living that way with music?
I’ll bite, even if it looks like trolling.
First we clarify the actual physics:
So the obvious consequence is, that if that information has some worth for you, and you don’t want to give it away for nothing, you have to demand something in return right at the first completely simultaneous release to x “clients”. ;)
After that, you have just shared the information with x people. Who can not be stopped from doing to it, whatever they please. If you’re not happy, tough shit, cause it’s too late! Go ahead, and fight basic physics. Next up: Gravity!
Now we must clarify something else: The production and marketing industry, the media reproduction industry and the musician industry, are three distinct things! The first two are usually combined into the “music industry”. The reproduction industry obviously lost its purpose and struggles with inevitable death. The music industry as a whole on the other hand...
The illusion is, that they would be for the musicians. Ask musicians. They will tell you, that they get around 3.5% of the whole profits. While the stupid producer gets 60!!! Plus they still have to pay the studio time from that! And as if this were not bad enough, the MI fights, to get the 3.5% even lower!
Now add the typical extortion contracts of the MI to it, and you get a mix that screams “the music industry is the enemy of the musician industry!”. Why do you think so many artist run away from than at their first chance to get out?
The same is true for every likewise industry. Films, games, books, you name it.
Finally to the basis of your arguments: The business model of the media industry.
Their fault was, that they handled information like a product. A good. Because when they started it, it always came in a container that could be a product. That was what they knew, so they ran with it. To the painful end.
All the problem are based on that single misunderstanding of basic physics of bitspace/information.
And now they are treating the artist like crap, treating the clients like crap... in a struggle to continue their delusion they walk over dead bodies (ACTA vs constitutional rights).
This all has nothing to do with taking any rightful compensation away from the artists. (The MI is working hard on that one anyway!) If the artists wanted something, they should have asked for it when they first passed it on. Now we have it, and it’? too late.
It has to do with the delusion.
So a religion is still a cult. Just as popular music is still music.
Doesn’t matter if it’s any body part, or a card or anything “that you have”. As long as there is no accompanying “that you know”, it’s insecure. Period.