That's kind of what I had suggested when I say create a dvd player. So I guess I'm unclear with what you mean when you say "without using any existing multimedia libraries"...
On the other hand, there *are* commercial games for Linux. They're not GPLed. They use SDL for audio and video, and that seems to not be an issue. So it's not like they'd have to start completely from scratch.
I'm suprised nobody else has said this, or mentioned this, but whatever...
When you buy a DVD, you should be able to watch it. My Linux box has a DVD-ROM and a I use Xine to watch it, no issues. Yes, I know that by using Xine I am technically breaking the law. I also know that Intervideo has a pretty decent DVD player available for linux (LinDVD) but won't sell it. You can find it on some OEM boxes (ThinkPads used to come with it preinstalled, back when you could get a ThinkPad with Linux), but you can't buy it for love or money.
I emailed InterVideo back in the day, and they had no plans to sell it to consumers. So if you want to watch a video under Linux, you have to break the law (unless you were lucky enough to get LinDVD installed).
So why doesn't SuSE or Linspire or some other consumer oriented distro just license the decryption and create a DVD player? Then we could have a *legal* player available to users of that distro, and hopefully for a small price to anyone else who wanted to use it.
I was one of those people who wrote software that those data entry monkeys at bloomberg used to put data into the system so people like you could get the data out of the system with our API.
Well hell, let's abolish student loans entirely then.
Does it register, at all, that the govt makes money on these loans? Does it register, at all, that without loans a large percentage of the population couldn't afford to go to school.
And, to be honest, it's not like I didn't work during school. Had to pay for books, car insurance, etc.
Generally, the idea is that people who take out those student loans are paying them back when they graduate and not making as much money as they will be in the future. By cutting a break now, you're helping us get a leg up, and will be seeing far more in income tax in the future.
That said, he's not giving me a break, he's taking it away.
And, wtf dude... my parents couldn't really afford to send me off to school, so I paid my own way, and friggin sallie mae makes far more off my interest than the piddling 740 tax break than I would have gotten. The idea is that the govt is already making money off our student loan interest, why not cut us a slight break in the taxes.
I guess by your "live lean" bit, I shouldn't have gone to school at all, huh? And I guess all the money I pay in taxes, and the work I do at my company makes me a deadbeat, eh?
Like someone else did earlier, I'll call bullshit on this.
Kerry, among other Democrats, has taken great pains to point out that he favors a tax increase on only those household who take home more than $200K a year.
Just as a little personal example... I make a bit mroe than 28K a year, but less than 100K a year. I'll leave a little wiggle room in there for your imaginations. Last year, thanks to George W's tax cuts, I had to pay less income tax. Net savings was approx 300. Thanks!
But wait. Because W wasn't done yet, oh no sir. He lowered the amount of interest I pay on my student loans that I could deduct on my taxes. Net loss to me, approx 740. Apparently getting a (very slight) break on the interest of your student loans is too much to ask for. Thanks!
So thanks to George, I'm paying about 340 more than I did before, our deficit is through the roof, and it doesn't seem things will get better. If Kerry wants to raise taxes on people who make over 200K, and reset it so we middle class folks get our real advantages back while losing those superficial advantages, god bless him and good luck in November.
Without US involvement, the UK would would have been slightly more battered than it was, but Germany would have still lost the war.
The UK suvived and stopped the threat of Germany invasion *before* the US entered the war. Without US help, the war would have taken longer, and most of Europe would have fallen under the control of the Soviet Union. And the Russians never really benefited that heavily from lend lease.
US involvement helped to secure a democratic europe. A democratic UK was never in doubt, with or without US involvement.
FYI - I'm not european, I'm american. I happen to have a history degree, and a bit more knowledge than most armchair historians who get their facts from Rush and Sean.
I dunno, I've had the same buggy experience with RHEL. Apparently they used some kernel SMP fixes that they backported from 2.5.x, and they broke IBM Java (not Sun Java) on SMP boxes.
The great thing about that was, they shipped with IBM Java.
If I can get 1.4 on AIX and OS/2, I can't imagine what OS wouldn't have it.
Other than BeOS, but who uses that anyway.:)
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A diesel Excursion is going to get good milage because it's diesel. Diesels are more fuel efficient than a normal gasoline based engine.
Try looking up the milage on a Hummer H2. Can't find it? Oh right, it's so big and large that they actually don't have to list it. Best guesses say it gets between 8-12 mpg.
No. While VIFFing *could* cause an enemy to overshoot, it bleeds so much energy that it makes the Harrier a sitting duck. It was not used during the Falklands (source: Cdr `Sharky' Ward, 800 Sqn). The current consensus, accepted by P. Bowen (an ex-Harrier pilot) is that VIFFing might be usable in a `once-off save your life' manoeuvre, but it is generally a poor combat tactic.
*IF* a Sea Harrier had VIFFed in combat, it would have been a sitting duck. The second you put those flight nozzles to hover, or move them to any point where you're not using all your thrust for forward flight, you bleed speed.
So I think Sharkey was probably right. The British pilots were simply better trained and had no need for desperation VIFFing tactics.
Would you consider reading "Sea Harrier over the Falklands" by Sharkey Ward bullshit? The squadron commander of the 801 air group who stated, quite specifically, that no pilots in the falklands used VIFFing. Period.
That'd be great, but no harriers VIFFed in the falklands.
The superior performance of the Sea Harrier in the air to air combat role was entirely due to superior armament and pilot training. Not to mention a superior radar.
Also, the current Sea Harrier (FA2) is every bit as good as the F/A-18 in terms of armament and slightly superior in it's radar kit. It doesn't have the speed or range, but it is a fleet defense fighter, not a strike fighter.
Psion blew it when they got out of the handheld market. And they blew it totally when they gave up Symbian.
Linux is often touted as the "next big thing" for handhelds, but it isn't, and it shouldn't be. For handhelds you want and need simplicity like the old Psion handhelds and the PalmOS based devices. You can dress Linux up all you want, but at the end of the day, you're running Linux.
I have both a Zaurus and a Revo Plus. When I got the Zaurus, I put the Revo into storage figuring the Zaurus would take over it's functions. I gave it a good go, but 6 months later I was forced to give up and switch back to the Revo.
Why? The revo can go weeks on a charge. The revo can go 12 hours or so without the battery draining. It has a great agenda appliction, a good address book, a good email program, it can do Word and Excel. It syncs. The Zaurus had a bunch of subpar applications (and I'm being generous there) and things never really improved. Sure it could play MP3s and had a great screen, but that doesn't mean anything when it loses appointments and your email program scrolls thru big emails at the rate of a line every 3 seconds.
Maybe if Psion starts using Linux they'll improve some of the PIM applications. It's a shame to reinvent the wheel when you had a really simple and robust OS in the first place.
Well, they do still make "industrial" portables, like the Netbook. Shame of that is, the Netbook now runs Windows Mobile (Windows CE, PocketPC, whatever it is now).
It really is a loss, as my Psion (Revo+) is still the best organiser I have ever used. I bought a Sharp Zaurus because I was suckered in by the Linux angle, but it couldn't hold a candle to the Revo. And nobody seems to be releasing any Symbian based organisers anymore, which makes Palm the default next best choice.
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I can explain that one away as a "fog of war" kinda thing. With the banditos as confused and nervous as they were, the ragged costumes could appear, especially at a distance and with the wearers popping in and out of hiding spots, to be the actual amigo costumes.
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There are some things in this world you can't explain. Invisible swordsmen would be one of those.
The villagers had no apparent supernatural powers, thus the rapid rebuilding of their village can't easily be explained away.
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That's kind of what I had suggested when I say create a dvd player. So I guess I'm unclear with what you mean when you say "without using any existing multimedia libraries"...
On the other hand, there *are* commercial games for Linux. They're not GPLed. They use SDL for audio and video, and that seems to not be an issue. So it's not like they'd have to start completely from scratch.
I'm suprised nobody else has said this, or mentioned this, but whatever...
When you buy a DVD, you should be able to watch it. My Linux box has a DVD-ROM and a I use Xine to watch it, no issues. Yes, I know that by using Xine I am technically breaking the law. I also know that Intervideo has a pretty decent DVD player available for linux (LinDVD) but won't sell it. You can find it on some OEM boxes (ThinkPads used to come with it preinstalled, back when you could get a ThinkPad with Linux), but you can't buy it for love or money.
I emailed InterVideo back in the day, and they had no plans to sell it to consumers. So if you want to watch a video under Linux, you have to break the law (unless you were lucky enough to get LinDVD installed).
So why doesn't SuSE or Linspire or some other consumer oriented distro just license the decryption and create a DVD player? Then we could have a *legal* player available to users of that distro, and hopefully for a small price to anyone else who wanted to use it.
Ah....
:)
I was one of those people who wrote software that those data entry monkeys at bloomberg used to put data into the system so people like you could get the data out of the system with our API.
That was the best job I ever left.
This will undo my moderation, but oh well...
The Bloomberg APIs? Do you actually use them? Do they work any better now than they did? Believe it or not, this is pretty exciting....
Well hell, let's abolish student loans entirely then.
Does it register, at all, that the govt makes money on these loans? Does it register, at all, that without loans a large percentage of the population couldn't afford to go to school.
And, to be honest, it's not like I didn't work during school. Had to pay for books, car insurance, etc.
Generally, the idea is that people who take out those student loans are paying them back when they graduate and not making as much money as they will be in the future. By cutting a break now, you're helping us get a leg up, and will be seeing far more in income tax in the future.
That said, he's not giving me a break, he's taking it away.
And, wtf dude... my parents couldn't really afford to send me off to school, so I paid my own way, and friggin sallie mae makes far more off my interest than the piddling 740 tax break than I would have gotten. The idea is that the govt is already making money off our student loan interest, why not cut us a slight break in the taxes.
I guess by your "live lean" bit, I shouldn't have gone to school at all, huh? And I guess all the money I pay in taxes, and the work I do at my company makes me a deadbeat, eh?
Like someone else did earlier, I'll call bullshit on this.
Kerry, among other Democrats, has taken great pains to point out that he favors a tax increase on only those household who take home more than $200K a year.
Just as a little personal example... I make a bit mroe than 28K a year, but less than 100K a year. I'll leave a little wiggle room in there for your imaginations. Last year, thanks to George W's tax cuts, I had to pay less income tax. Net savings was approx 300. Thanks!
But wait. Because W wasn't done yet, oh no sir. He lowered the amount of interest I pay on my student loans that I could deduct on my taxes. Net loss to me, approx 740. Apparently getting a (very slight) break on the interest of your student loans is too much to ask for. Thanks!
So thanks to George, I'm paying about 340 more than I did before, our deficit is through the roof, and it doesn't seem things will get better. If Kerry wants to raise taxes on people who make over 200K, and reset it so we middle class folks get our real advantages back while losing those superficial advantages, god bless him and good luck in November.
What about the russian juggernaut? Did you read my previous post?
Please.
Without US involvement, the UK would would have been slightly more battered than it was, but Germany would have still lost the war.
The UK suvived and stopped the threat of Germany invasion *before* the US entered the war. Without US help, the war would have taken longer, and most of Europe would have fallen under the control of the Soviet Union. And the Russians never really benefited that heavily from lend lease.
US involvement helped to secure a democratic europe. A democratic UK was never in doubt, with or without US involvement.
FYI - I'm not european, I'm american. I happen to have a history degree, and a bit more knowledge than most armchair historians who get their facts from Rush and Sean.
I dunno, I've had the same buggy experience with RHEL. Apparently they used some kernel SMP fixes that they backported from 2.5.x, and they broke IBM Java (not Sun Java) on SMP boxes.
The great thing about that was, they shipped with IBM Java.
Hello, RH QA? Anyone home?
Yeah, because we should have to work around lazy package maintainers. Or maybe RH should just do things the right way to begin with.
If I can get 1.4 on AIX and OS/2, I can't imagine what OS wouldn't have it.
Other than BeOS, but who uses that anyway.
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That's great, but it's wrong.
A diesel Excursion is going to get good milage because it's diesel. Diesels are more fuel efficient than a normal gasoline based engine.
Try looking up the milage on a Hummer H2. Can't find it? Oh right, it's so big and large that they actually don't have to list it. Best guesses say it gets between 8-12 mpg.
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Subject: C.18. Do Harriers VIFF in combat?
No. While VIFFing *could* cause an enemy to overshoot, it bleeds so much energy that it makes the Harrier a sitting duck. It was not used during the Falklands (source: Cdr `Sharky' Ward, 800 Sqn). The current consensus, accepted by P. Bowen (an ex-Harrier pilot) is that VIFFing might be usable in a `once-off save your life' manoeuvre, but it is generally a poor combat tactic.
Well, dumbass, when you have a large object flying thru the air, and you divert power from forward flight, you lose momentum fast.
Show me one source/interview with a pilot who was in the Falklands and used VIFFing while in combat. That's all I ask.
*IF* a Sea Harrier had VIFFed in combat, it would have been a sitting duck. The second you put those flight nozzles to hover, or move them to any point where you're not using all your thrust for forward flight, you bleed speed.
So I think Sharkey was probably right. The British pilots were simply better trained and had no need for desperation VIFFing tactics.
Would you consider reading "Sea Harrier over the Falklands" by Sharkey Ward bullshit? The squadron commander of the 801 air group who stated, quite specifically, that no pilots in the falklands used VIFFing. Period.
That'd be great, but no harriers VIFFed in the falklands.
The superior performance of the Sea Harrier in the air to air combat role was entirely due to superior armament and pilot training. Not to mention a superior radar.
Also, the current Sea Harrier (FA2) is every bit as good as the F/A-18 in terms of armament and slightly superior in it's radar kit. It doesn't have the speed or range, but it is a fleet defense fighter, not a strike fighter.
Wow... I coulda sworn my copy of SUSE had a copy of the Java SDK with it.
Oh wait, it does.
Psion blew it when they got out of the handheld market. And they blew it totally when they gave up Symbian.
Linux is often touted as the "next big thing" for handhelds, but it isn't, and it shouldn't be. For handhelds you want and need simplicity like the old Psion handhelds and the PalmOS based devices. You can dress Linux up all you want, but at the end of the day, you're running Linux.
I have both a Zaurus and a Revo Plus. When I got the Zaurus, I put the Revo into storage figuring the Zaurus would take over it's functions. I gave it a good go, but 6 months later I was forced to give up and switch back to the Revo.
Why? The revo can go weeks on a charge. The revo can go 12 hours or so without the battery draining. It has a great agenda appliction, a good address book, a good email program, it can do Word and Excel. It syncs. The Zaurus had a bunch of subpar applications (and I'm being generous there) and things never really improved. Sure it could play MP3s and had a great screen, but that doesn't mean anything when it loses appointments and your email program scrolls thru big emails at the rate of a line every 3 seconds.
Maybe if Psion starts using Linux they'll improve some of the PIM applications. It's a shame to reinvent the wheel when you had a really simple and robust OS in the first place.
Great phone, but who carries it? Do any of the major carriers sell this? If they do, I'd really consider it when my verizon contract is up next month.
On second look, it's apparently not available in the States... (at least the 9290).
Well, they do still make "industrial" portables, like the Netbook. Shame of that is, the Netbook now runs Windows Mobile (Windows CE, PocketPC, whatever it is now).
It really is a loss, as my Psion (Revo+) is still the best organiser I have ever used. I bought a Sharp Zaurus because I was suckered in by the Linux angle, but it couldn't hold a candle to the Revo. And nobody seems to be releasing any Symbian based organisers anymore, which makes Palm the default next best choice.
I can explain that one away as a "fog of war" kinda thing. With the banditos as confused and nervous as they were, the ragged costumes could appear, especially at a distance and with the wearers popping in and out of hiding spots, to be the actual amigo costumes.
There are some things in this world you can't explain. Invisible swordsmen would be one of those.
The villagers had no apparent supernatural powers, thus the rapid rebuilding of their village can't easily be explained away.