It's a very heavyweight application, and it doesn't pretend to be otherwise. If you're going to try to just use it as a lightweight player for your local files, it's not going to suit you.
But when you're using it for what it's intended for, and you have the necessary hardware, it does a good job. Finding something interesting to watch isn't hard, and it's quick.
If your machine can't support having a media player, a heavily loaded bittorrent client, and an instance of firefox without running smoothly, it won't be able to handle Miro, because it's all these things and a bit more on the inside.
Canadian Loons do this too. They can't take off without speed, so they run across the surface of the lake until they're going fast enough.
I used to sit around watching them when I was a kid. Funny as hell when they're tearing across the lake like the devils on their tail, then they trip over a wave, face plant and disappear.
You might not hold other people accountable inside your own warped and evil little society, but yours is not the only society.
Why do you think people "hate your freedom?" It's because of what you do with it.
All this free software stuff is about attacking your enemy by ostracizing them. And if you're with them, you're against us. Not standing on a soapbox against us, but materially, physically, "Here MS, have some money, you make good products, keep up the good work" kind of against us.
Seriously. If you enable them, and you know what they're doing, and they wouldn't be able to do it without someone enabling them, then you're responsible.
This is simple cause and effect stuff, and you're responsible.
If Microsoft are deposed, fine. I honestly don't care. What I care about is having the right tool for what I'm doing. I play games, therefore it's Vista.
That makes you accountable for what MS is doing, because you're giving them money to do it.
When you find these people who have no integrity, sell out and lie to the public, find out where they live and smash their brains out with a blunt object.
There's nothing wrong with this culture that a few good old biblical stoning parties wouldn't fix.
I think what we're seeing is that organizations are creating stuff at very little cost that benefit vast numbers of people in society, and they're trying to bring it to everyone they can, but they're tripping over the fact that our society equates "plentifully available" with "utterly worthless" and has no economic mechanism to funnel resources to support these types of endeavors.
Which is a failing of the economic system. It shouldn't be so very hard for brilliant people to make our lives better, and it shouldn't be the case that those who try to make their achievements available to everyone are rewarded by economic abandonment.
One of the major issues of contention mentioned in the article was of binary formats, and distros like Red Hat not wanting to adhere to them.
I don't see what the problem is with Xen wanting to maintain a solid binary container format and requiring that those wishing to use their trademark respect it.
How is this different from Sun wishing to prevent MS from poisoning Java?
Microsoft made their.NET launch with an effort to bring the VB developers into the fold by making things familiar. Because there were a boatload of not-the-most-creative-but-very-numerous VB6 developers out there.
Now, we have a glut of web developers. They are not inclined to find the idea of having multiple servers instead of one intimidating, but rather liberating.
That's what I base my prediction on. That they all categorically won't learn from experience, and that the client-server developers are the ones most likely to thrive in their not learning.
Sure, but most desktops don't run more than one or two apps at a time. So, 2-4 cores is all that you get "for free" without new apps. Sure, if I'm building a web server application, it'll scale much more gracefully, but it already scales rather gracefully.
Are you serious? The idea is to have all your programs running all the time, and interact with them whenever you want with instantaneous response. Not to mention that most apps people run nowadays either are servers (P2P, LAN Shares, etc), clients that sit around listening to servers (IM) or querying them with frequent regularity (Email Client). And the progression is towards having personal servers that you can connect to using either a local or remote client.
The next generation of computing is going to come from the vast multitude of developers who are accustomed to writing client-server applications applying what they know to computers that behave like a server cluster. They are better equipped to approach the problems and rewards of this architectural progression than the guy who has been working in the traditional application space. Now, that's a generalization that's full of exceptions, but it'll be still be proven true on the wider scale.
As a Canadian, I want Americans dead. One and all. You fucking scumbags. You want pollution? Why don't we just pollute all the rivers here at the source for you, and you can all push up daises.
Fucking scumbags. God damn I hope some terrorist nukes you fucking bastards.
Who cares what Linus has to say? It's readily apparent that the inevitable consequence will be a shift away from Linux kernel under GPL2 towards Solaris under GPL3.
Linus is a tool. He goes on about how he picked his methodology because of efficiencies, not morality. But the fact of the matter is, other people have spent all this time assisting him because of the morality of the license. If they just wanted open-code efficiency, they would have went with the tried and true BSD license.
Linus doesn't even write code anymore. If not for the perceived morality of having a kernel under the GPL, and the droves of developers who participated for that very reason, he would be a complete non-entity.
The thing is, they're not going to stop data mining, any more than you would wear blinders walking around because I like to privately sunbathe on my front lawn.
Privacy is dead.
Policy makers and people in the public eye who fight for privacy at this point aren't fighting for privacy. It's gone. They know. What they're fighting for at this point is the right to keep you ignorant, and keep making their mutually-assured-destruction back-room deals.
It's only because of the ignorance, gullibility and flat out stupidity of the larger population that this topic is even being treated as something worthy of debate... because it really already is a moot point.
The big thing about privacy, it lets people live with illusions. That's pretty important to a lot of people.
There are a lot of people in positions of power and authority who do not deserve to be there, and are only there because they've tricked everyone around them.
Those people are not going to be advantaged by the inevitable loss of privacy.
The more influence they have, the more they are wielding their power with flagrant disregard for their fellows, the more that the truth will hurt them.
None of this, however, means that we're better off with things the way they are.
It doesn't matter anyway... Despite the snide remarks, the podcast actually doesn't answer the parents question. Unless you call "OEMS and hardware manufacturers who distribute GPLv3 software should of course speak with their lawyers" an answer.
Privacy is only a way to protect you IF THE DATA ISN'T COLLECTED AT ALL.
Having the government keep it under wraps doesn't mean you have privacy.
It means that you are easily isolated.
If everyone is smoking pot, and the government knows through their surveillance who is smoking pot, but for reasons of privacy they do not disclose what they know to the general population, then any time they want to take you in, they can just grab you up, and you will stand alone.
That's what this is all about.
1) Make so many laws that everyone is guilty of something.
2) Convince everyone that it's better to keep things private.
3) Keep watching all the people and correlating data, but keep what you find secret.
4) Now everyone is isolated with their guilt, just like everyone else.
5) Now you can then selectively enforce the laws against those who threaten your power.
This is how totalitarian states are assembled.
Now, you may be a believer in privacy. Personally, I am not.
But if you are going to support privacy, be practical about it. Demand that the data not be collected at all in those cases where it hasn't already being collected, and demand enough transparency of process that you can know absolutely that it never is.
Don't, however, be idealistic about it and let the governments and corporations keep all the secrets they've already collected.
If you've already been caught doing something that is technically illegal, and the proof is in some government database somewhere, which would you rather?
a) Over 50% of the population is also technically guilty of the same thing that you're being judged for doing, but no one outside government offices knows that.
b) Over 50% of the population is also technically guilty of the same thing that you're being judged for doing, and everyone knows that.
Be specific about what you support, and don't be led to think that keeping it as a government secret now that it's too little too late is actually giving you any privacy or security. Because it isn't.
The thing that the article doesn't appear to touch on, and the real reason for the fact that you can perform most actions using both a pointing device like a mouse and a button/chord device like a keyboard, is that the most time consuming part of operating a computer is switching back and forth between them.
If you really wanted to sit down and build yourself something that would be highly efficient, you'd use a chording keyboard on the one hand, a pointer with gesture support on the other hand, and never take your hands off either until you were ready to step away from your machine.
Having a trackball embedded into the lower section of the keyboard where you could manipulate it with either thumb without having to take your index fingers off the home row would be pretty efficient too. I'd buy one.
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It's a very heavyweight application, and it doesn't pretend to be otherwise. If you're going to try to just use it as a lightweight player for your local files, it's not going to suit you.
But when you're using it for what it's intended for, and you have the necessary hardware, it does a good job. Finding something interesting to watch isn't hard, and it's quick.
If your machine can't support having a media player, a heavily loaded bittorrent client, and an instance of firefox without running smoothly, it won't be able to handle Miro, because it's all these things and a bit more on the inside.
Canadian Loons do this too. They can't take off without speed, so they run across the surface of the lake until they're going fast enough.
I used to sit around watching them when I was a kid. Funny as hell when they're tearing across the lake like the devils on their tail, then they trip over a wave, face plant and disappear.
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Yes. You are.
You might not hold other people accountable inside your own warped and evil little society, but yours is not the only society.
Why do you think people "hate your freedom?" It's because of what you do with it.
All this free software stuff is about attacking your enemy by ostracizing them. And if you're with them, you're against us. Not standing on a soapbox against us, but materially, physically, "Here MS, have some money, you make good products, keep up the good work" kind of against us.
Get into the real world with the rest of us, eh?
Seriously. If you enable them, and you know what they're doing, and they wouldn't be able to do it without someone enabling them, then you're responsible.
This is simple cause and effect stuff, and you're responsible.
If Microsoft are deposed, fine. I honestly don't care. What I care about is having the right tool for what I'm doing. I play games, therefore it's Vista.
That makes you accountable for what MS is doing, because you're giving them money to do it.
Does anybody still think the terrorists were the bad guys?
When you find these people who have no integrity, sell out and lie to the public, find out where they live and smash their brains out with a blunt object.
There's nothing wrong with this culture that a few good old biblical stoning parties wouldn't fix.
I think what we're seeing is that organizations are creating stuff at very little cost that benefit vast numbers of people in society, and they're trying to bring it to everyone they can, but they're tripping over the fact that our society equates "plentifully available" with "utterly worthless" and has no economic mechanism to funnel resources to support these types of endeavors.
Which is a failing of the economic system. It shouldn't be so very hard for brilliant people to make our lives better, and it shouldn't be the case that those who try to make their achievements available to everyone are rewarded by economic abandonment.
Unfortunately, that's how it is.
One of the major issues of contention mentioned in the article was of binary formats, and distros like Red Hat not wanting to adhere to them.
I don't see what the problem is with Xen wanting to maintain a solid binary container format and requiring that those wishing to use their trademark respect it.
How is this different from Sun wishing to prevent MS from poisoning Java?
Microsoft made their .NET launch with an effort to bring the VB developers into the fold by making things familiar. Because there were a boatload of not-the-most-creative-but-very-numerous VB6 developers out there.
Now, we have a glut of web developers. They are not inclined to find the idea of having multiple servers instead of one intimidating, but rather liberating.
That's what I base my prediction on. That they all categorically won't learn from experience, and that the client-server developers are the ones most likely to thrive in their not learning.
Sure, but most desktops don't run more than one or two apps at a time. So, 2-4 cores is all that you get "for free" without new apps. Sure, if I'm building a web server application, it'll scale much more gracefully, but it already scales rather gracefully.
Are you serious? The idea is to have all your programs running all the time, and interact with them whenever you want with instantaneous response. Not to mention that most apps people run nowadays either are servers (P2P, LAN Shares, etc), clients that sit around listening to servers (IM) or querying them with frequent regularity (Email Client). And the progression is towards having personal servers that you can connect to using either a local or remote client.
The next generation of computing is going to come from the vast multitude of developers who are accustomed to writing client-server applications applying what they know to computers that behave like a server cluster. They are better equipped to approach the problems and rewards of this architectural progression than the guy who has been working in the traditional application space. Now, that's a generalization that's full of exceptions, but it'll be still be proven true on the wider scale.
As a Canadian, I want Americans dead. One and all. You fucking scumbags. You want pollution? Why don't we just pollute all the rivers here at the source for you, and you can all push up daises.
Fucking scumbags. God damn I hope some terrorist nukes you fucking bastards.
So, now no other operating systems are allowed to do this?
Sweet! MS did something good for once.
I'm sure they didn't mean to.
We're sorry, your hospital didn't pay its monthly software bills on time. There must have been a mix up.
The Baby Boomers are the largest demographic, and will be until more than half of them are dead.
In a democracy, their interests will be deferred to in all things.
They also hold most of the money, and therefore dictate where the economy goes, and there isn't much a young person can do about that either.
There are rock star exceptions you can point at, but they are the exception.
Buy a license then. Then you can do whatever you want with it, right?
Who cares what Linus has to say? It's readily apparent that the inevitable consequence will be a shift away from Linux kernel under GPL2 towards Solaris under GPL3.
Linus is a tool. He goes on about how he picked his methodology because of efficiencies, not morality. But the fact of the matter is, other people have spent all this time assisting him because of the morality of the license. If they just wanted open-code efficiency, they would have went with the tried and true BSD license.
Linus doesn't even write code anymore. If not for the perceived morality of having a kernel under the GPL, and the droves of developers who participated for that very reason, he would be a complete non-entity.
Easy enough to mouth off at this point.
The summary is wrong, as anyone who looked at the front page of the article could tell you.
2 PCI Express x16 slots
1 PCI Express x8 slot
1 PCI Express x1 slot
3 PCI slots
The thing is, they're not going to stop data mining, any more than you would wear blinders walking around because I like to privately sunbathe on my front lawn.
Privacy is dead.
Policy makers and people in the public eye who fight for privacy at this point aren't fighting for privacy. It's gone. They know. What they're fighting for at this point is the right to keep you ignorant, and keep making their mutually-assured-destruction back-room deals.
It's only because of the ignorance, gullibility and flat out stupidity of the larger population that this topic is even being treated as something worthy of debate... because it really already is a moot point.
The big thing about privacy, it lets people live with illusions. That's pretty important to a lot of people.
There are a lot of people in positions of power and authority who do not deserve to be there, and are only there because they've tricked everyone around them.
Those people are not going to be advantaged by the inevitable loss of privacy.
The more influence they have, the more they are wielding their power with flagrant disregard for their fellows, the more that the truth will hurt them.
None of this, however, means that we're better off with things the way they are.
It doesn't matter anyway... Despite the snide remarks, the podcast actually doesn't answer the parents question. Unless you call "OEMS and hardware manufacturers who distribute GPLv3 software should of course speak with their lawyers" an answer.
I live in Canada. It is cold.
Privacy is only a way to protect you IF THE DATA ISN'T COLLECTED AT ALL.
Having the government keep it under wraps doesn't mean you have privacy.
It means that you are easily isolated.
If everyone is smoking pot, and the government knows through their surveillance who is smoking pot, but for reasons of privacy they do not disclose what they know to the general population, then any time they want to take you in, they can just grab you up, and you will stand alone.
That's what this is all about.
1) Make so many laws that everyone is guilty of something.
2) Convince everyone that it's better to keep things private.
3) Keep watching all the people and correlating data, but keep what you find secret.
4) Now everyone is isolated with their guilt, just like everyone else.
5) Now you can then selectively enforce the laws against those who threaten your power.
This is how totalitarian states are assembled.
Now, you may be a believer in privacy. Personally, I am not.
But if you are going to support privacy, be practical about it. Demand that the data not be collected at all in those cases where it hasn't already being collected, and demand enough transparency of process that you can know absolutely that it never is.
Don't, however, be idealistic about it and let the governments and corporations keep all the secrets they've already collected.
If you've already been caught doing something that is technically illegal, and the proof is in some government database somewhere, which would you rather?
a) Over 50% of the population is also technically guilty of the same thing that you're being judged for doing, but no one outside government offices knows that.
b) Over 50% of the population is also technically guilty of the same thing that you're being judged for doing, and everyone knows that.
Be specific about what you support, and don't be led to think that keeping it as a government secret now that it's too little too late is actually giving you any privacy or security. Because it isn't.
The thing that the article doesn't appear to touch on, and the real reason for the fact that you can perform most actions using both a pointing device like a mouse and a button/chord device like a keyboard, is that the most time consuming part of operating a computer is switching back and forth between them.
If you really wanted to sit down and build yourself something that would be highly efficient, you'd use a chording keyboard on the one hand, a pointer with gesture support on the other hand, and never take your hands off either until you were ready to step away from your machine.
Having a trackball embedded into the lower section of the keyboard where you could manipulate it with either thumb without having to take your index fingers off the home row would be pretty efficient too. I'd buy one.