Right you are. He chose a really bad example. How could someone not know about netstat on Windows? It's even got a way to set the delay before it updates, I'd like to see that on my linux netstat for sure. I get a bit tired of "netstat -anc" with no way to set the delay.
I agree. mc is a great reason to use the console for almost everything. I love it. Now if I could figure out how to have the command line in mc behave more like bash, and less like DOS.
Currently down from 6262 when I first checked it a few hours back, to 409 when I looked 30 seconds ago. Doh! And I'm supposed to trust this guy to code me a console-based windowing system?;)
There are plenty of uses for this besides piracy. Such as legal taping of concerts, like on http://etree.org/. Hopefully the linux version comes around soon as I'm looking foward to trying this out.
Nice to see that you know enough about the lives of Todd Beamer, "Mohammed of Iraq", and Jessica Lynch to rate them "inflexible people of the best kind."
I won't even get into your comparing Bush and Blair to MLK and Ghandi.
Hopefully the mods will do their part on that one.
No, actually that's a very common myth that is perpetuated by a shitty education system. The Americans fought that way at first because they had no real military or training to speak of. After "we" got French, Prussian, and Polish officers to teach us about fortifications, drilling, formations, cavalry tactics, etc., we became a much more effective fighting force. Although I will agree that willingness to use/ability to think up unconventional tactics in warfare is a plus.
The actual budget? What I posted WAS the actual budget. Bush and the Senate just upped it to $15.5 billion, so your numbers are a bit off.
Wow NASA's budget is going UP you say?! At this rate we'll be on Mars in no time...
The administration of is requesting $396.1 billion for the military in fiscal year 2003. This is $45.5 billion above current levels, an increase of 13 percent. It is also 15 percent above the Cold War average, to fund a force structure that is one-third smaller than it was a decade ago.
Watch out military, NASA's on your ass!
The term "cold-war relic" is not something I came up with. Relic does not mean that the submarines are tow-tech 70's era boats. Quite the opposite is the case, they are indeed state of the art. But the thing is that what are we going to do with $2.5 billion worth of all new super submarines? The cold war is over, we have new enemies who fight a different way than the USSR. Do a search for what Rumsfeld has said about the modernizing our military.
I'm not the one who came up with the word "cold-war relics" to describe these programs, hence the quotations. That line is straight from Rumsfeld. Like I said in my post, Bush said on the campaign trail that not all of these new programs were necessary.
Now I want the USA to have the best weapons in the world. I also want us to have the best space program. I think we can do both.
We obviously needed something "better" than the Columbia. The whole world now knows that. Do we "need" all of the weapons I mentioned in my post? Do we need all of them now? Probably not.
The aim of my post is not to say we should divert money away from the military, but to bring attention to how our money is being spent. You can decide for yourself what is more important.
Just read my own post...
the "they spend it, (money) like water, and on things that we do not need." part works for NASA too, (ISS, inefficent shuttles, etc.).
But damn it I want a space elevator! Plus if there's some money left over, a shuttle with photon torpedoes.
Money certainly is the problem. NASA, and space exploration needs to be a higher priority than some of the garbage we pour money into. Here's some numbers -
NASA's budget for 2003 - now $15.5 billion after the Columbia tragedy
Military budget for 2003 - $396 billion
Now of course I think the military needs a massive amount of money, but they spend it like water, and on things that we do not need.
Here's an example of new weapons we are buying that are included in the 2003 budget -
the Army's RAH-66 Comanche helicopter (Boeing and the Sikorsky Aircraft Division of United Technologies, $941 million); the Air Force's F-22 Raptor (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and the Pratt and Whitney Division of United Technologies, $5.2 billion); the Navy's F-18E/F fighter plane (Boeing, General Electric, and Northrop Grumman, $3.3 billion); Joint Strike Fighter/F-35 (Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, $3.5 billion); the V-22 Osprey (Boeing Vertol and the Bell Helicopter Division of Textron, $2 billion) the DDG-51 destroyer (Bath Iron Works and the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Northrop Grumman, $2.7 billion); the Virginia class attack submarine (Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics and the Newport News Shipbuilding division of Northrop Grumman, $2.5 billion); the Trident II Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, $626 million); and the Crusader artillery system (Carlyle Group/United Defense, $475 million).
Total - $21.2 billion
These are known as "cold-war relic" programs. In fact, many of these systems were mentioned as candidates for major reductions or cancellation during the Bush campaign and during the early months of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's defense review. In addition they have been criticized in the past by Bush advisors or independent advocates of military reform as being too heavy (the Crusader), redundant (the three new fighter plane programs), or otherwise out of step with our current situation.
If our space shuttles could bomb Iraq we would be getting new ones all the time.
Questionable you say? Well to answer your question make an md5 of your favorite wav file, now compress said wav file with FLAC. Now get rid of that original wav file, (mv, rm, or shred -vuzx -n 1000... your choice). Now you have a FLAC file that's ready to decompress, do so, and then check it against your md5 file of the original wav. There's your answer.
Remember yesterday's story about the LOC and the massive sound archive? If you want to preserve recordings in a digital format use something lossless like SHN or FLAC, check the md5's and you have a "perfect" copy of that Kaiser Wilhelm speech. Making an mp3 or even an ogg rip of the same speech would be an act of historical vandalism IMO. Lossless means what it says, nothing is lost, the sound is preserved. Plus with a 50% savings in file size you can store almost twice as much data on the same media. As others have already pointed out you can't just zip, or gzip audio data, the reduction in size is next to nothing. As for the your objections re quality, the people who are going to be using FLAC are audiophiles and folks who will be making a FLAC copy DIRECT from the source. Check out http://etree.org for more info about lossless compression and the people who use it.
Mandrake 9.0 no longer has Bastille firewall. At least in the download version I have. It now comes with shorewall, which can be brought up from the control center, which is good for newbies. But IMO bastille was better for a number of reasons, including stealthing your ports, whereas shorewall merely closes them.
My local theater charges $1.50 to see a movie on one of their two screens, it might be up to $2 now since I haven't been their in a year or two. Right now they're showing Barbershop and something else. So why is it that they are making money and staying in buisness charging apx $2 to see a movie, and the megaplexes are whining about just breaking even on admissions? Someone is making bank on that shit.
Free is the way for a low buudget tv show that broadcasts over the web should be. They might just be able to build an audience that way. If enough "geeks" and "suits" watch the show he might eventually be able to make some money. Of course it all depends on the show being good enough for people to want to watch their divx and mpeg rips of the show. Especially the "raw footage" edition. All the fun of editing out the garbage yourself.
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So are the people who are thinking twice about it right? For $4K I sure hope so.
Right you are. He chose a really bad example. How could someone not know about netstat on Windows? It's even got a way to set the delay before it updates, I'd like to see that on my linux netstat for sure. I get a bit tired of "netstat -anc" with no way to set the delay.
I agree. mc is a great reason to use the console for almost everything. I love it. Now if I could figure out how to have the command line in mc behave more like bash, and less like DOS.
Currently down from 6262 when I first checked it a few hours back, to 409 when I looked 30 seconds ago. Doh! And I'm supposed to trust this guy to code me a console-based windowing system? ;)
There are plenty of uses for this besides piracy. Such as legal taping of concerts, like on http://etree.org/. Hopefully the linux version comes around soon as I'm looking foward to trying this out.
Time to change the sig perhaps? cat /mountain/icculus/HPB | less
Thanks for the info AC.
Nice to see that you know enough about the lives of Todd Beamer, "Mohammed of Iraq", and Jessica Lynch to rate them "inflexible people of the best kind." I won't even get into your comparing Bush and Blair to MLK and Ghandi. Hopefully the mods will do their part on that one.
No, actually that's a very common myth that is perpetuated by a shitty education system. The Americans fought that way at first because they had no real military or training to speak of. After "we" got French, Prussian, and Polish officers to teach us about fortifications, drilling, formations, cavalry tactics, etc., we became a much more effective fighting force. Although I will agree that willingness to use/ability to think up unconventional tactics in warfare is a plus.
No reports of fraudulent use?
It might take awhile for the 2.2 million victims to check their credit card statements.
The actual budget? What I posted WAS the actual budget. Bush and the Senate just upped it to $15.5 billion, so your numbers are a bit off. Wow NASA's budget is going UP you say?! At this rate we'll be on Mars in no time... The administration of is requesting $396.1 billion for the military in fiscal year 2003. This is $45.5 billion above current levels, an increase of 13 percent. It is also 15 percent above the Cold War average, to fund a force structure that is one-third smaller than it was a decade ago. Watch out military, NASA's on your ass!
The term "cold-war relic" is not something I came up with. Relic does not mean that the submarines are tow-tech 70's era boats. Quite the opposite is the case, they are indeed state of the art. But the thing is that what are we going to do with $2.5 billion worth of all new super submarines? The cold war is over, we have new enemies who fight a different way than the USSR. Do a search for what Rumsfeld has said about the modernizing our military.
I'm not the one who came up with the word "cold-war relics" to describe these programs, hence the quotations. That line is straight from Rumsfeld. Like I said in my post, Bush said on the campaign trail that not all of these new programs were necessary. Now I want the USA to have the best weapons in the world. I also want us to have the best space program. I think we can do both. We obviously needed something "better" than the Columbia. The whole world now knows that. Do we "need" all of the weapons I mentioned in my post? Do we need all of them now? Probably not. The aim of my post is not to say we should divert money away from the military, but to bring attention to how our money is being spent. You can decide for yourself what is more important.
Just read my own post... the "they spend it, (money) like water, and on things that we do not need." part works for NASA too, (ISS, inefficent shuttles, etc.). But damn it I want a space elevator! Plus if there's some money left over, a shuttle with photon torpedoes.
Money certainly is the problem. NASA, and space exploration needs to be a higher priority than some of the garbage we pour money into. Here's some numbers -
NASA's budget for 2003 - now $15.5 billion after the Columbia tragedy
Military budget for 2003 - $396 billion
Now of course I think the military needs a massive amount of money, but they spend it like water, and on things that we do not need.
Here's an example of new weapons we are buying that are included in the 2003 budget -
the Army's RAH-66 Comanche helicopter (Boeing and the Sikorsky Aircraft Division of United Technologies, $941 million); the Air Force's F-22 Raptor (Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and the Pratt and Whitney Division of United Technologies, $5.2 billion); the Navy's F-18E/F fighter plane (Boeing, General Electric, and Northrop Grumman, $3.3 billion); Joint Strike Fighter/F-35 (Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, $3.5 billion); the V-22 Osprey (Boeing Vertol and the Bell Helicopter Division of Textron, $2 billion) the DDG-51 destroyer (Bath Iron Works and the Ingalls Shipbuilding Division of Northrop Grumman, $2.7 billion); the Virginia class attack submarine (Electric Boat Division of General Dynamics and the Newport News Shipbuilding division of Northrop Grumman, $2.5 billion); the Trident II Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile (Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, $626 million); and the Crusader artillery system (Carlyle Group/United Defense, $475 million).
Total - $21.2 billion
These are known as "cold-war relic" programs. In fact, many of these systems were mentioned as candidates for major reductions or cancellation during the Bush campaign and during the early months of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's defense review. In addition they have been criticized in the past by Bush advisors or independent advocates of military reform as being too heavy (the Crusader), redundant (the three new fighter plane programs), or otherwise out of step with our current situation.
If our space shuttles could bomb Iraq we would be getting new ones all the time.
Wow, way to go genius! Thank you for pointing out what was amazingly obvious to those of us who read the front page of slashdot every now and then.
Questionable you say? Well to answer your question make an md5 of your favorite wav file, now compress said wav file with FLAC. Now get rid of that original wav file, (mv, rm, or shred -vuzx -n 1000... your choice). Now you have a FLAC file that's ready to decompress, do so, and then check it against your md5 file of the original wav. There's your answer.
Remember yesterday's story about the LOC and the massive sound archive? If you want to preserve recordings in a digital format use something lossless like SHN or FLAC, check the md5's and you have a "perfect" copy of that Kaiser Wilhelm speech. Making an mp3 or even an ogg rip of the same speech would be an act of historical vandalism IMO. Lossless means what it says, nothing is lost, the sound is preserved. Plus with a 50% savings in file size you can store almost twice as much data on the same media. As others have already pointed out you can't just zip, or gzip audio data, the reduction in size is next to nothing. As for the your objections re quality, the people who are going to be using FLAC are audiophiles and folks who will be making a FLAC copy DIRECT from the source. Check out http://etree.org for more info about lossless compression and the people who use it.
Mandrake 9.0 no longer has Bastille firewall. At least in the download version I have. It now comes with shorewall, which can be brought up from the control center, which is good for newbies. But IMO bastille was better for a number of reasons, including stealthing your ports, whereas shorewall merely closes them.
My local theater charges $1.50 to see a movie on one of their two screens, it might be up to $2 now since I haven't been their in a year or two. Right now they're showing Barbershop and something else. So why is it that they are making money and staying in buisness charging apx $2 to see a movie, and the megaplexes are whining about just breaking even on admissions? Someone is making bank on that shit.
Free is the way for a low buudget tv show that broadcasts over the web should be. They might just be able to build an audience that way. If enough "geeks" and "suits" watch the show he might eventually be able to make some money. Of course it all depends on the show being good enough for people to want to watch their divx and mpeg rips of the show. Especially the "raw footage" edition. All the fun of editing out the garbage yourself.