You have 2.5Gb+ of RAM? My god man, thats close to double all RAM in the PCs I have in this house combined, including video RAM. However I can't even say I have occasion to think I could use more RAM for anything I do. Of course I actually have a machine doing useful work with 32Mb RAM, so WMP would hose it.
If it was aired on a channel with a "watermark" logo, myth could use that to reduce the spam/advertising rating of the scenes in question. It's also likely it would be cut without blank frames, so this would also lower it's spam rating. Of course, it probably only spoofs one ad at a time, myth looks for a series of rapid scene changes to detect adverts, if it's just one, it's less likely to trigger the commercial detection.
I fail to se your "point". Why should any white collar/non-violent criminals be imprisoned? Unless I have a different definition of white-collar/non-violent crime, I can't see how you would think these "criminals" need to be imprisoned? If there are no threats of violence, abuse of positions of power, or harm to others involved I fail to see the use of imprisoning the offender.
The thing is, the content being copied is almost 100% from the big content cartels who probably don't even really notice the peasants swapping tid-bits. Especially since the "artists" aren't always getting their share anyway, it makes little difference if your pirate or not. The other thing about copyright is the whole attitude of milking your product for all you can. People you make it big, earn more money then their descendants will ever need. What ever happend to creating something for the betterment of society?
In my opinion, a far more interesting variation on the questionis "How would you classify operating a motor vehicle under the influence of fatigue clinically proven to impair the drivers ability?"
Personally I think that people should be responsible for their actions, and they should be educated about potential pitfalls. The law widely varies in different jurisdictions as to what amount of intoxication is permissible when driving. And in some ways I believe that someone who doesn't harm anybody should not be penalised, even if they are behaving in a way that may increase their risk of causing harm. when you go down the road of penalising people for increasing the risk of an accident through intoxication, I see a logical evolution to other factors. e.g. If you didn't sleep 8 hours in the last 24 you can't drive. If you haven't done some kind of driver training in the last 12 months you shouldn't drive. If your not concentrating on the task at hand you shouldn't drive. Of course many of these other risk factors are harder to test for/enforce. Personally I think driver distraction causes many more accidents than statistics would have you believe, because drunk people are easily distracted.
While I think people are generally not behaving wisely if they drive intoxicated, there are many people who drive too poorly when sober, but there is no legislation against driving like a twat.
But lik-sang is not selling the electronic equipment in the United States or in Europe, they are selling it in Hong Kong, but they take orders from international customers. I wonder what the legal position would be if lik sang sold the devices, and then helped customers organise a freight company to get the items they already own into their possession.
They don't allow inspections, because this allows them to quietly hint to the people they wis to threaten that they do have nukes. If inspections were allowed, and they were found to be "clean" of nukes, their enemies would probably not believe their threats that they do.
What if I wanted to move to windows and: -Play frozen bubble (don't say wintetris! minesweeper doesn't count) -Run mythtv (don't say media centre, beyondtv, sagetv, gbpvr) etc etc...
At least most of the apps I like stand a chance of being ported to windows. Oh, and there are actually plenty of good games for linux (my current favourite is "nexuiz"), but they don't necessarily have the marketing clout you need to be successful. Mind you they tend to have the gameplay, and also let you play with your friends on other operating systems. (I play lots of doomsday as well, glad I still have my doom2 CD!)
You should do what I do, rock over to a friend who always has a well stocked bar, make a *perfect digital copy* of all his liquor, put it on my usb key, and sample it at home over the next few weeks. Pretty good since I don't have to deprive my friend of his bar stocks.
The wire gauge is determined by the current. The current is determined by the voltage (for a given power draw). So the gauge of the wires depends on the voltage!!!
It is fine if the candidate you would beat every other one-on-one can lose. This is how the system works in Australia (and while it's not perfect I like it better).
Basically you vote in order of preference for all of the candidates (1-John, 2-James, 3-Jim, 4-Jake). As the votes are counted, the candidate with the lowest votes is eliminated from the running. Any votes for him are redistributed according to the voters preference. In this case if john was running last, my vote would be allocated to James after the first round.
Now, lets assume that 30% of the population voted for Jake as their number one preference, ~20% for all the others (With john getting the least, then James, and finally jim getting slightly more). Also in this example the 60% of the population who didn't vote jake as number 1, voted him as their last preference. John has the least votes, and so gets eliminated. The voters preferences go to James and Jim (since all these people had Jake as their last preference.) Eventually James is eliminated, leaving just Jim and Jake, and Jim now has 60% of the votes.
So in this case, while Jake was preferred on first preferences, he won't be elected. Now here is the important part, 60% of the population *HATE* jake. Even though they don't agree on who the best guy for the job is, they know who is worst. Jake has some good PR though, and has a lot of voters fooled, to the point that in a two-party system, he would have won. The saying is something like "you don't vote for who you want to get in, you vote against who you want to keep out".
Even so in the current political climate there are still only two parties worth a damn, the Liberal/National Coaliation, and the Labor party. (Please note "liberal" is not in the same sense as in the US, it's our more conservative party). Basically they get such a large portion of the primary vote that it becomes a two-party system anyway.
It is my belief that people should vote for parties who are organised around a more specific issue first, and the large parties should be lower in the preferences. This would give a chance for a particular issue to actually be resolved, and failing enough support for that more people can agree on the larger parties policies (or disagree, they both seem just as bad).
Have you thought about a mini-itx fanless EPIA machine, running knoppmyth or similar?
I am netbooting EPIA machines, into a mythfrontend setup, from a server running 500 Gbs of RAID, and the tuners. They can schedule recordings, watch live tv or recordings, Divx, rmvb, mp3 ogg and (non-drm) wma..... They come with TV-out sound and network built in...
If you want a no fuss solution, go buy a plutohome setup (Not that it would be hard to install yourself), it does myth etc, and can follow you between rooms with whatever your watching or listening to, and it just boots your "extender" devices over the network.
To me that does seem a bit pointless: getting a distro customised to run Myth, and Myth *only* then complaining it can't do anything else.... Of course it can't do anything else, it was designed not to.....
Most distros already do sound card checks etc themselves, myth should really only handle any extra requirements it has. It's not like myth can fix a problem with any given distro it is running on anyway.
If you want to use a pc for myth and other things, just install from apt-get or install from RPMS. It's quite quick and easy to turn a currently useful box into a mythbox without losing the existing functionality./me awaits the 0.20 packages being built...
IT is *not* easier to get media center to play Divx and Xvid videos. Especially when media center crashes, or ignores the installation of your mpeg4 decoder, or whinges about hardware changes and this version of windows not being licensed etc etc....
IF you have problems with mythtv, you can wait for the new release (this weekend as I understand it), or you can try different packages. I also find it hard to believe "mythtv-setup" crashes without giving you a decent explanation of what the crash was, whereas everytime I've had a good crash on windows it a "generic error". If you don't have the time and patience to debug the problem, I presume this would be true for windows as well. What are you going to do when windows MCE gives you a problem? Like for instance where i live, Microsoft couldn't organise an EPG for MCE, but I've been running one on mythtv for a while? (I believe this has been resolved now, but not supported by microsoft).
There are going to be problems on any kind of computer set up. I don't believe the problems you encounter on knoppmyth (or variants) are more common or obtrusive than those on MCE, and if they are, it is still cheaper to by a prebuild mythbox from d1.com.au, than a media centre PC. And you can run a myth frontend on an EPIA machine, and that is not going to happen on MCE (as far as I can tell).
I've been using mythtv since I think version 0.17 on a multi frontend and multi backend set up, with a mix of DVB and analogue capture cards, and I haven't once seen a mysql database corrupted with mythtv....
Your comments about libdvdcss are probably something to forward to the creators of knoppmyth, it could include libdvdcss, or if the legal cloudiness is a problem, pop up a dialog on first boot asking if the user would like to play commercial DVDs.
As far as listings running out, I think it's fairly clear that if your subscribing to a listings service, and the data stops coming, they want more money. In the same way as when you don't pay your electricity, and the electricity stops coming.
I haven't used knoppmyth myself, but I believe if you don't think it's easy enough to use, and you want to be able to point people to it, you can either help make it easier to use, or choose to support those people you recommend it to. Personally I've always found it easiest to apt-get mythtv, and spend 20-30 mins setting it up for someone. On debian stable, I've only had a couple of people come back asking questions (The channels they could receive changed when they moved house), because it tends to just stay running.
Is the dark darker in the USA or something? The only place I can recall a >60W light in use indoors is at my grandparents house in a reading light, because they are blind. Maybe it's worth being into the "depressed goth" thing so I don't need to suck down 10 times as much electricity. Current prices here are $AUD9/Watt for solar panels, so cutting out the extra lighting saves you a lot on solar needs.
That gives me some perspective. I think our house might have 8 normal light sockets, plus a twin bar flourescent (in the kitchen). None of these are over 60 watts. There are compact flourescents (15w/60W equivalent) in any socket it was possible (some of the light fittings were obviously designed without that in mind). We probably never have more than two or three lights on at a time, and even if we had all the lights in the house on we'd likely come in at under 450 watts...... I was getting frustrated by not being able to change the other fittings to compact flourescents, seems pointless when someone has a 2500W kitchen.....
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I've yet to see a music player that rips cds as well as a dedicated cd ripping application. Besides Cds are so last millenium.
Last I checked you could have your keyboard shortcuts as well placed as you like, and it affects the mouse interface 0%.
You have 2.5Gb+ of RAM? My god man, thats close to double all RAM in the PCs I have in this house combined, including video RAM. However I can't even say I have occasion to think I could use more RAM for anything I do. Of course I actually have a machine doing useful work with 32Mb RAM, so WMP would hose it.
It's *in* the article.
Yeah, we should wait for the tags!!! "haha" "itsatrap"!!!!!
If it was aired on a channel with a "watermark" logo, myth could use that to reduce the spam/advertising rating of the scenes in question. It's also likely it would be cut without blank frames, so this would also lower it's spam rating. Of course, it probably only spoofs one ad at a time, myth looks for a series of rapid scene changes to detect adverts, if it's just one, it's less likely to trigger the commercial detection.
I fail to se your "point". Why should any white collar/non-violent criminals be imprisoned? Unless I have a different definition of white-collar/non-violent crime, I can't see how you would think these "criminals" need to be imprisoned? If there are no threats of violence, abuse of positions of power, or harm to others involved I fail to see the use of imprisoning the offender.
The thing is, the content being copied is almost 100% from the big content cartels who probably don't even really notice the peasants swapping tid-bits. Especially since the "artists" aren't always getting their share anyway, it makes little difference if your pirate or not. The other thing about copyright is the whole attitude of milking your product for all you can. People you make it big, earn more money then their descendants will ever need. What ever happend to creating something for the betterment of society?
In my opinion, a far more interesting variation on the questionis "How would you classify operating a motor vehicle under the influence of fatigue clinically proven to impair the drivers ability?" Personally I think that people should be responsible for their actions, and they should be educated about potential pitfalls. The law widely varies in different jurisdictions as to what amount of intoxication is permissible when driving. And in some ways I believe that someone who doesn't harm anybody should not be penalised, even if they are behaving in a way that may increase their risk of causing harm. when you go down the road of penalising people for increasing the risk of an accident through intoxication, I see a logical evolution to other factors. e.g. If you didn't sleep 8 hours in the last 24 you can't drive. If you haven't done some kind of driver training in the last 12 months you shouldn't drive. If your not concentrating on the task at hand you shouldn't drive. Of course many of these other risk factors are harder to test for/enforce. Personally I think driver distraction causes many more accidents than statistics would have you believe, because drunk people are easily distracted. While I think people are generally not behaving wisely if they drive intoxicated, there are many people who drive too poorly when sober, but there is no legislation against driving like a twat.
But lik-sang is not selling the electronic equipment in the United States or in Europe, they are selling it in Hong Kong, but they take orders from international customers. I wonder what the legal position would be if lik sang sold the devices, and then helped customers organise a freight company to get the items they already own into their possession.
They don't allow inspections, because this allows them to quietly hint to the people they wis to threaten that they do have nukes. If inspections were allowed, and they were found to be "clean" of nukes, their enemies would probably not believe their threats that they do.
What if I wanted to move to windows and:
-Play frozen bubble (don't say wintetris! minesweeper doesn't count)
-Run mythtv (don't say media centre, beyondtv, sagetv, gbpvr)
etc etc...
At least most of the apps I like stand a chance of being ported to windows. Oh, and there are actually plenty of good games for linux (my current favourite is "nexuiz"), but they don't necessarily have the marketing clout you need to be successful. Mind you they tend to have the gameplay, and also let you play with your friends on other operating systems. (I play lots of doomsday as well, glad I still have my doom2 CD!)
You should do what I do, rock over to a friend who always has a well stocked bar, make a *perfect digital copy* of all his liquor, put it on my usb key, and sample it at home over the next few weeks. Pretty good since I don't have to deprive my friend of his bar stocks.
Aside from the potential "russian mob" ties, there is that site, allofmp3.com.
The wire gauge is determined by the current. The current is determined by the voltage (for a given power draw). So the gauge of the wires depends on the voltage!!!
In my eyes John Howard already looks about as stupid as he can. I welcome any event which will make that more obvious to more of the voting public.
It is fine if the candidate you would beat every other one-on-one can lose. This is how the system works in Australia (and while it's not perfect I like it better). Basically you vote in order of preference for all of the candidates (1-John, 2-James, 3-Jim, 4-Jake). As the votes are counted, the candidate with the lowest votes is eliminated from the running. Any votes for him are redistributed according to the voters preference. In this case if john was running last, my vote would be allocated to James after the first round. Now, lets assume that 30% of the population voted for Jake as their number one preference, ~20% for all the others (With john getting the least, then James, and finally jim getting slightly more). Also in this example the 60% of the population who didn't vote jake as number 1, voted him as their last preference. John has the least votes, and so gets eliminated. The voters preferences go to James and Jim (since all these people had Jake as their last preference.) Eventually James is eliminated, leaving just Jim and Jake, and Jim now has 60% of the votes. So in this case, while Jake was preferred on first preferences, he won't be elected. Now here is the important part, 60% of the population *HATE* jake. Even though they don't agree on who the best guy for the job is, they know who is worst. Jake has some good PR though, and has a lot of voters fooled, to the point that in a two-party system, he would have won. The saying is something like "you don't vote for who you want to get in, you vote against who you want to keep out". Even so in the current political climate there are still only two parties worth a damn, the Liberal/National Coaliation, and the Labor party. (Please note "liberal" is not in the same sense as in the US, it's our more conservative party). Basically they get such a large portion of the primary vote that it becomes a two-party system anyway. It is my belief that people should vote for parties who are organised around a more specific issue first, and the large parties should be lower in the preferences. This would give a chance for a particular issue to actually be resolved, and failing enough support for that more people can agree on the larger parties policies (or disagree, they both seem just as bad).
Have you thought about a mini-itx fanless EPIA machine, running knoppmyth or similar? I am netbooting EPIA machines, into a mythfrontend setup, from a server running 500 Gbs of RAID, and the tuners. They can schedule recordings, watch live tv or recordings, Divx, rmvb, mp3 ogg and (non-drm) wma..... They come with TV-out sound and network built in... If you want a no fuss solution, go buy a plutohome setup (Not that it would be hard to install yourself), it does myth etc, and can follow you between rooms with whatever your watching or listening to, and it just boots your "extender" devices over the network.
To me that does seem a bit pointless: getting a distro customised to run Myth, and Myth *only* then complaining it can't do anything else.... Of course it can't do anything else, it was designed not to..... Most distros already do sound card checks etc themselves, myth should really only handle any extra requirements it has. It's not like myth can fix a problem with any given distro it is running on anyway. If you want to use a pc for myth and other things, just install from apt-get or install from RPMS. It's quite quick and easy to turn a currently useful box into a mythbox without losing the existing functionality. /me awaits the 0.20 packages being built...
IT is *not* easier to get media center to play Divx and Xvid videos. Especially when media center crashes, or ignores the installation of your mpeg4 decoder, or whinges about hardware changes and this version of windows not being licensed etc etc.... IF you have problems with mythtv, you can wait for the new release (this weekend as I understand it), or you can try different packages. I also find it hard to believe "mythtv-setup" crashes without giving you a decent explanation of what the crash was, whereas everytime I've had a good crash on windows it a "generic error". If you don't have the time and patience to debug the problem, I presume this would be true for windows as well. What are you going to do when windows MCE gives you a problem? Like for instance where i live, Microsoft couldn't organise an EPG for MCE, but I've been running one on mythtv for a while? (I believe this has been resolved now, but not supported by microsoft). There are going to be problems on any kind of computer set up. I don't believe the problems you encounter on knoppmyth (or variants) are more common or obtrusive than those on MCE, and if they are, it is still cheaper to by a prebuild mythbox from d1.com.au, than a media centre PC. And you can run a myth frontend on an EPIA machine, and that is not going to happen on MCE (as far as I can tell).
I've been using mythtv since I think version 0.17 on a multi frontend and multi backend set up, with a mix of DVB and analogue capture cards, and I haven't once seen a mysql database corrupted with mythtv.... Your comments about libdvdcss are probably something to forward to the creators of knoppmyth, it could include libdvdcss, or if the legal cloudiness is a problem, pop up a dialog on first boot asking if the user would like to play commercial DVDs. As far as listings running out, I think it's fairly clear that if your subscribing to a listings service, and the data stops coming, they want more money. In the same way as when you don't pay your electricity, and the electricity stops coming. I haven't used knoppmyth myself, but I believe if you don't think it's easy enough to use, and you want to be able to point people to it, you can either help make it easier to use, or choose to support those people you recommend it to. Personally I've always found it easiest to apt-get mythtv, and spend 20-30 mins setting it up for someone. On debian stable, I've only had a couple of people come back asking questions (The channels they could receive changed when they moved house), because it tends to just stay running.
Is the dark darker in the USA or something? The only place I can recall a >60W light in use indoors is at my grandparents house in a reading light, because they are blind. Maybe it's worth being into the "depressed goth" thing so I don't need to suck down 10 times as much electricity. Current prices here are $AUD9/Watt for solar panels, so cutting out the extra lighting saves you a lot on solar needs.
That gives me some perspective. I think our house might have 8 normal light sockets, plus a twin bar flourescent (in the kitchen). None of these are over 60 watts. There are compact flourescents (15w/60W equivalent) in any socket it was possible (some of the light fittings were obviously designed without that in mind). We probably never have more than two or three lights on at a time, and even if we had all the lights in the house on we'd likely come in at under 450 watts...... I was getting frustrated by not being able to change the other fittings to compact flourescents, seems pointless when someone has a 2500W kitchen.....
There was at one stage a "mod_torrent" for apache. A quick google shows there still is at http://mod-torrent.sourceforge.net/.
And how would one obtain the text to post once it had gone down?