Actually it does it in a rather neat way - by shortening the length of the burnt pits to increase the data density of the disc. This means that it can fit up to 40% more data. This does mean that you have a horrendously non-standard disc, but that's not that much of a problem if they are for you to keep.
And yes, yet another feature is on-the-fly encryption. Note that the article states that you need Plextor software to decrypt, which is a nice vendor lockin for them, I guess.
I just have a suspision that I will be able to decrypt them in Linux about when Satan is building snowmen...what's wrong with encrypting then burning?
How is it for video playback and 3d? Enquiring minds want to know...
I'm thinking of hooking up a slow P100 as a media access box, but I was wondering if it is possible to unload the video processing onto the remote X server.
I think Debian will survive as long as the guys who are building it now continue to be interested and new programmers take up the quest for the perfect OS, where perfect is defined more in terms of reliabilty, stablility and security than easy good looks.
What will get the mass market but never the geek market, are cheap (reliable) computers that are more compatible with people.
Yes. This is an example of where Debian-the-system can do well (preinstalled and modded with a custom GUI). A good thing would be a simple Knoppix-based liveCD with a OEOne style frontend designed for Your Mama(tm). This would fill a market need.
But I would hope you would see that this project would meed to be designed with a considerably different philosophy then Debian-as-distro is at the moment.
There is a fully GUI interface for them at the moment - a libgnome frontend that has clicky bits, back and forward etc) The point is that debconf questions are designed for technical users. The way that they are writen reflects this (technical terms without explanation, no nice icons, no suggestions or intelligent guesses/guides).
This is fine for me/other DDs who know what is going on, but is too technical for the average switcher, and is also limited to inital install.
Compare this to a proper GUI like Mandrake Control Centre. This has all of the options needed in one place, easy to access and change at a future date, and with normal english dicriptions and nice pretty graphics (this is important). For instance firewall setup is done through clicking on a labled flame icon, which then gives you firewall on/off radio buttons and a list of tick buttons for allowing various ports labled simply as RealPlayer etc access. This is because it was designed to be a high-level, easy-to-use option, unlike debconf, which is limited to inital install, and tends to assume that the end user is capable of just popping into/etc and changing settings later.
Again the problem is not with Debian technically (where it is excellent), but in the presentation of Deb to the end user. This is shown by the relative popularity of easier Debian-based distros such as Xandros with new users.
What Debian wants to end up with is something more like OSX. Nice eye-candy on the front-end, but with Deb's stability and ability to get dirty with text files for those that can.
I can see that it is clearly not disgned to have that much polish in GUI areas. Debian has been and will (IMHO) continue to be primarily designed for the technical user/Debian Developer, as these are the guys making the design choices. No walkthroughs, no neat GUI config a la Mangrake, not that much focus on usability as the assumption is that almost all users will be technically proficient.
This is a self-fullfilling prophecy, and to change this will take quite a major change from the existing Debian (fairly elitist) culture.
Where Debian will shine is not nessicarily as a mainstream distro itself, but as the basis of systems that are more widely used, such as Xandros and Knoppix. Is this a bad thing?
It does run the risk that Debian-as-distro/brand become marginalised, but all that needs to happen for the Debian project to stay healthy is that Debian-as-underlying-system is widespread.
This said, my Ideal World(tm) is every man and his dog running Deb...;)
Please note that it is almost always impossible to find reliable information on intelligence activites. However it would be prima facie illogical to spend quite large sums to havest intelligence from wireless voice/data transmissions and then fail to use it.
And no, I have no love at all for dictatorships, communist or not.
'Flamebait'? Not really; it's the way things are done in China. Sometimes people get so blinded that they assume any culture (i.e. Chinese) that differs to American culture is automatically "evil" and "oppressed", rather than actually practising tolerance for the fact that other cultures are different and not automatically better or worse. Perhaps we could have a bit more genuine tolerance here?
Next week - So they like to machete people to death in Rwanda, who are we to critisise, it's how they do things there.
Also followed by "Closed trial hijinks in Saudi Arabia" and "Killing fields, schmilling fields", a comedy drama set in 1970s Cambodia.
If you really believe that crushing freedom of speech and individual rights is equal to a society based on personal freedom, I have a bridge I would like to sell you.
I am not entirely sure that the spins backwards thing is true (as that would mean that the normal GC discs wouldn't play on the Panasonic model) but assuming that it is, why not just make a program that modifies the ISO before burning?
I hate to say this. I have good karma and it makes me sound a bit immature. But...
Suck it up bitches, I'm looking forward to seeing IBM rip you into small pieces and feed you to the dogs. I only hope that considerable finacial harm can also come to Daryl et al personally.
A more accurate comparison would be if I start giving photocopies of a collage of images. (ie. Linux) If I (SCO) start giving out photocopies of these images under the GPL, these are free. Yes?
What has happened (assuming the case has technical merit) is that I have given another party a picture that I do not want distributed. If the other party adds that image to the collage, they are breaking our contract. If, after looking at the new collage (and remember, Caldera did kernel hacking) I then distribute that under a free licence with the other picture included, I cannot get the slightest bit pissy about any reproduction of the new, GPL'd image after that date.
It is therefore difficult to see that SCO can have a case against anyone but IBM, and even that can only strech to the breach of NDA and distribution up to the point that SCO released that revision of kernel.
I would feel that this is an *even more* accurate representation of the situation, and you will notice that I have not made one single insult so far. You see what you could do if you tried?
I do often wonder why specialised hardware is not used more often for tasks that are often performed. I recall that the Mac used to have some add-on cards that spead some Photoshop operations up to modern levels 3-4 years ago.
Why buy a big processor when the only intensive computational tasks are video en/decoding and games, tasks that can easily be farmed off to other, cheaper units?
However the US does not appear to be suffering as a result of this, and the economic benefits to them are clear compared to the many currencies that were present when money was contolled by each state.
I would also quote China and Russia as two countries that are at least the size of the EU that do not seem to be suffering from the issue of having a single currency. I would particually point to China in this. It is also noticable that many countries around the world choose to peg their currencies to the dollar or euro, so there is clearly an economic/stablility incentive to them in doing so, and these are economies that are far more divorced from the EU/US then the UK is.
My Third point would be that I think it is somewhat of a fallacy to believe that the alternative to the Euro is the status quo. The UK is currently viewed as a "pre-in" rather then an "out" country, and I think that this is why we have not yet seen many of the problems that would be expected to come from not entering. After all, a business like Ford that is considering putting a factory within the UK is going to have somewhat of an additional risk factor if it is subject to unpredicable production costs relative to the market it is selling into. In this case, the only logical move is to site the factory in a Eurozone country with a flexible labour market (maybe Italy) where the smaller market (the UK) is the only one affected in the EU.
It is true to say that there are drawbacks to the Euro, particually as the ECB is set up at the moment (too much focus on inflation only), but I can certainly picture an ECB running more along the lines of Brown's Golden Rule doing very well. Maybe even run by Brown himself.
...against voyeurs ...against stalkers ...for false allegations made by watchers ...by Logitech et. al. as they realise *noone wants a cam any more
I mean come on. Is this meant to be a satire comparing the modern state to Orwell's 1984 (also with monitored cams in the home) or have things really become that bizarrely stupid?
Criminal guide to avoiding measure (sorry if this is too subversive):
Step 1: Don't make evil plans near a webcam or mike.
Step 2: Don't perform evil plans without mask if near said webcams.
Step 2: Profit! from misdeeds.
If you use this guide while copying music, does this mean I have broken the DMCA?
Yes, thankfully we get to lose all kinds of inward investment due to currency instablity, and have sterling made unstable by both the dollar AND the Euro, which is rapidly becoming the major currency of world speculation.
What a sucess for Mr Murdoch and zenephobic Sun readers everywhere!
This does seem to be one of the moves that will most antagonise gamers etc of any chip company ever. It is difficult to see this as anything but another way to ban overclocking by the back door, as overclocking is quite difficut to do with the default heatsink. Never the less, I personally would be quite prepared to sue if AMD failed to replace a broken processor for this reason.
You know, between this and AMDs support for paladium, those Chinese Dragon procs are looking more and more attractive...
Not that it was me that made the original comment, but:
self involved
Because he is taking his own situation as the only relevant one. ill-informed
The strong implication that the negro population was being taxed large amounts by 'the man' (which, being British, I will hazard a guess represents the caucasians of the world) to pay for the space program which, in addition to having large tech spinoff benefits that enrich all of a society, were a very small part of the US tax bill, either through direct payment or via 'the man'. resentful
The entire song is centered around the fact that one ethinc group is percieved as keeping another down. This is a gross oversimplification of an economy, and blaming all of your ills on one ethic group (see 'the man') is both racist and self-deluding. and bigotted
See above points. Also see that all white members of society are portrayed as 'the man' which is quite offensive, both as a generalisation and as a rasist stereotype. Consioder if I was to charaterise the Negro population as 'poor slave trash'. This, while being a view that I emphatically do not agree with, is merely this attitude reversed.
Racism is not only bad going in one direction.
Oh, tell the truth. A racist cracker like you was never going to listen to any black man's music ever. Not unless it's first filtered through Elvis or Bobby Darin or The Rolling Stones someother whitebread pop-music motherfucker.
Actually one of my favorite artists is Nina Simone, but thank you for demonstrating that racial stereotypes, slurs and tensions remain a problem in American society better then I ever could have.
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And yes, yet another feature is on-the-fly encryption. Note that the article states that you need Plextor software to decrypt, which is a nice vendor lockin for them, I guess.
I just have a suspision that I will be able to decrypt them in Linux about when Satan is building snowmen...what's wrong with encrypting then burning?
I'm thinking of hooking up a slow P100 as a media access box, but I was wondering if it is possible to unload the video processing onto the remote X server.
Many thanks in advance.
Have you tried this recently?
Because it was you that compiled it???(!)
What will get the mass market but never the geek market, are cheap (reliable) computers that are more compatible with people.
Yes. This is an example of where Debian-the-system can do well (preinstalled and modded with a custom GUI). A good thing would be a simple Knoppix-based liveCD with a OEOne style frontend designed for Your Mama(tm). This would fill a market need.
But I would hope you would see that this project would meed to be designed with a considerably different philosophy then Debian-as-distro is at the moment.
This is fine for me/other DDs who know what is going on, but is too technical for the average switcher, and is also limited to inital install.
Compare this to a proper GUI like Mandrake Control Centre. This has all of the options needed in one place, easy to access and change at a future date, and with normal english dicriptions and nice pretty graphics (this is important). For instance firewall setup is done through clicking on a labled flame icon, which then gives you firewall on/off radio buttons and a list of tick buttons for allowing various ports labled simply as RealPlayer etc access. This is because it was designed to be a high-level, easy-to-use option, unlike debconf, which is limited to inital install, and tends to assume that the end user is capable of just popping into /etc and changing settings later.
Again the problem is not with Debian technically (where it is excellent), but in the presentation of Deb to the end user. This is shown by the relative popularity of easier Debian-based distros such as Xandros with new users.
What Debian wants to end up with is something more like OSX. Nice eye-candy on the front-end, but with Deb's stability and ability to get dirty with text files for those that can.
This is a self-fullfilling prophecy, and to change this will take quite a major change from the existing Debian (fairly elitist) culture.
Where Debian will shine is not nessicarily as a mainstream distro itself, but as the basis of systems that are more widely used, such as Xandros and Knoppix. Is this a bad thing?
It does run the risk that Debian-as-distro/brand become marginalised, but all that needs to happen for the Debian project to stay healthy is that Debian-as-underlying-system is widespread.
This said, my Ideal World(tm) is every man and his dog running Deb... ;)
And no, I have no love at all for dictatorships, communist or not.
Next week - So they like to machete people to death in Rwanda, who are we to critisise, it's how they do things there.
Also followed by "Closed trial hijinks in Saudi Arabia" and "Killing fields, schmilling fields", a comedy drama set in 1970s Cambodia.
If you really believe that crushing freedom of speech and individual rights is equal to a society based on personal freedom, I have a bridge I would like to sell you.
Surely this is the simpler method...
Suck it up bitches, I'm looking forward to seeing IBM rip you into small pieces and feed you to the dogs. I only hope that considerable finacial harm can also come to Daryl et al personally.
And I don't think I'm alone in this viewpoint.
2 words - Bull, china.
You don't just charge in with all-out accusations, you politely ask and see if something can be worked out.
What has happened (assuming the case has technical merit) is that I have given another party a picture that I do not want distributed. If the other party adds that image to the collage, they are breaking our contract. If, after looking at the new collage (and remember, Caldera did kernel hacking) I then distribute that under a free licence with the other picture included, I cannot get the slightest bit pissy about any reproduction of the new, GPL'd image after that date.
It is therefore difficult to see that SCO can have a case against anyone but IBM, and even that can only strech to the breach of NDA and distribution up to the point that SCO released that revision of kernel.
I would feel that this is an *even more* accurate representation of the situation, and you will notice that I have not made one single insult so far. You see what you could do if you tried?
Why buy a big processor when the only intensive computational tasks are video en/decoding and games, tasks that can easily be farmed off to other, cheaper units?
*cough* Google? Big enough for ya? *cough*
I would also quote China and Russia as two countries that are at least the size of the EU that do not seem to be suffering from the issue of having a single currency. I would particually point to China in this. It is also noticable that many countries around the world choose to peg their currencies to the dollar or euro, so there is clearly an economic/stablility incentive to them in doing so, and these are economies that are far more divorced from the EU/US then the UK is.
My Third point would be that I think it is somewhat of a fallacy to believe that the alternative to the Euro is the status quo. The UK is currently viewed as a "pre-in" rather then an "out" country, and I think that this is why we have not yet seen many of the problems that would be expected to come from not entering. After all, a business like Ford that is considering putting a factory within the UK is going to have somewhat of an additional risk factor if it is subject to unpredicable production costs relative to the market it is selling into. In this case, the only logical move is to site the factory in a Eurozone country with a flexible labour market (maybe Italy) where the smaller market (the UK) is the only one affected in the EU.
It is true to say that there are drawbacks to the Euro, particually as the ECB is set up at the moment (too much focus on inflation only), but I can certainly picture an ECB running more along the lines of Brown's Golden Rule doing very well. Maybe even run by Brown himself.
I mean come on. Is this meant to be a satire comparing the modern state to Orwell's 1984 (also with monitored cams in the home) or have things really become that bizarrely stupid?
Criminal guide to avoiding measure (sorry if this is too subversive):
Step 1: Don't make evil plans near a webcam or mike.
Step 2: Don't perform evil plans without mask if near said webcams.
Step 2: Profit! from misdeeds.
If you use this guide while copying music, does this mean I have broken the DMCA?
What a sucess for Mr Murdoch and zenephobic Sun readers everywhere!
You know, between this and AMDs support for paladium, those Chinese Dragon procs are looking more and more attractive...
I want to mod all slackbacks redundant as all you have to do is wait for the story to come round again...
self involved
Because he is taking his own situation as the only relevant one.
ill-informed
The strong implication that the negro population was being taxed large amounts by 'the man' (which, being British, I will hazard a guess represents the caucasians of the world) to pay for the space program which, in addition to having large tech spinoff benefits that enrich all of a society, were a very small part of the US tax bill, either through direct payment or via 'the man'.
resentful
The entire song is centered around the fact that one ethinc group is percieved as keeping another down. This is a gross oversimplification of an economy, and blaming all of your ills on one ethic group (see 'the man') is both racist and self-deluding.
and bigotted
See above points. Also see that all white members of society are portrayed as 'the man' which is quite offensive, both as a generalisation and as a rasist stereotype. Consioder if I was to charaterise the Negro population as 'poor slave trash'. This, while being a view that I emphatically do not agree with, is merely this attitude reversed.
Racism is not only bad going in one direction.
Oh, tell the truth. A racist cracker like you was never going to listen to any black man's music ever. Not unless it's first filtered through Elvis or Bobby Darin or The Rolling Stones someother whitebread pop-music motherfucker.
Actually one of my favorite artists is Nina Simone, but thank you for demonstrating that racial stereotypes, slurs and tensions remain a problem in American society better then I ever could have.
Please, please, please detail. You can't just dangle something so interesting...
That's just messed up.
Just move to the UK, we've had this for a couple of years largely because we have a regualtor with teeth...
You know that remote windows thing in X that trolls are always bitching about? Might come in useful here. Just stream video down the network.