why is this moderated as Flamebait? isnt it against everyone's common sense that if you blacklist people on national papers (which I assume have quite a lot readers) it will ruin the youngsters (possibly the most of the filesharers are youngsters) future. you know, at least more people will remember them as "criminals"...
I have to say that I agree with the kicking out of EU idea.. Much strange, many see them as illegal and very questionable things have been done by their PM. Their prime minister owning the media.. That cannot be right. And those legistlation changes.
I think the EU should shake up Italia a bit. The people of the country are good, at least the ones I know, but the political leaders... Simply aren't.
Seriously, I think that this just means we won't have cancer & hiv problems anymore in the next 10..20 years. With this many cures coming at you at constant rate, something that actually works must come along at some point.
Let's just hope we don't end up hoping we wouldn't had eradicated cancer and hiv in the near future... Some disease has to come up, possibly even more lethal and easily spreading than any of the current virii, bacteria or other diseases.
Well, after eyeing quickly through the article at army.mil;
To make liquid armor, STF is soaked into all layers of the Kevlar vest. The Kevlar fabric holds the STF in place, and also helps to stop the bullet. The saturated fabric can be soaked, draped, and sewn just like any other fabric.
So when it's inside the vest, it is at least in dark.. How does the temperature affect the material, of that I've got no idea. Not much info on the degradation point you made..
As the scientists have been awarded with "-- the 2002 Paul A. Siple Award, the Army's highest award for scientific achievement --" I don't think this just some PR thingy, for making us all drool about l33t new armors..
I wonder if the "liquid" needs to be changed, like oil in 4-stroke engines:)
Wouldn't the board hold then prior art? Of course one can get inspiration from anywhere, but if a similiar patent is filed after it's been on the board, I guess the patent is pretty meaningless.
Great, I thought I was the only one with bad artsd performance.. I haven't yet given -mm tree a shot but I guess I should.
However mplayer performs nicely under whatever load, reading from wherever. I blame artsd's performance on it's horrible mp3 plugin which doesn't seem to buffer reads at all, nor does it "silence" errors in mp3 files, when compared to mplayer's every supported mp3 lib for example.
BTW I haven't investigated this a bit, artsd just has been skipping for forever, and I that's just what I've conclueded in time..
Do you have a reason to use the commericial DivX for Linux? I bet I'm not the only one wanting to know it..
Or you just haven't heard about lavc mpeg4 of ffmpeg? Or XViD? Those two are both much better options, not only because of their opensourceness but better quality IMHO -- especially lavc, although it's pretty unknown. lavc is used in xine and mplayer at least as main decoder, also ffdshow for windows is based on lavc [video] codecs. At least mencoder supports encoding with lavc, with some neat advanced options. AFAIK lavc is used as the main decoder (for mpeg4 atleast) because it's the fastest there is.
Yes but also the warranty will then be void! That's what this is all about.
Better not to buy the frigging volvo at all I guess..
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Or even better, wait until there's at least one mirror accepting connections.. *sigh* no mirror seems to have been updated.. Here are the release notes.
Yes you are correct there. But here, it doesn't seem that cases are actually ruled by the *AA. Luckily for the guy who finally did what had to be done is norwegian, not american for example, we all know what the result would had been.
Not sure about those entertaining laws here, strange that if there was any, none have popped up.. Though I could say that some ridiculous stuff has been going on lately, as in the senteces for nice deeds like rape, murder, manslaughter.. Here the goverment almost awards (free meals, living in a free hotel for a few laughable months etc.) you for deeds like that -- if you ever get convicted or even prosecuted. That's what I like about the States, senteces are real.
By judging from up here in Scandinavia, only bad laws get set in America. This once again proves that the saying "Americans have the best goverment money can buy" and your politicians aren't even being ashamed, no, they'r are busy setting the next best record for stupid laws.
Not that it mattered else but usually the stupid laws enforced there end up here, luckily with a big lag. As pointed out before, filming in private place like the cinema is the problem ought to be taken care by the Cinema, not by the goverment. And the penalties for a huge people destroying crime like that are just absurd.
It's clear that no one is going to feel satisfied by the quality of those CAM and TS releases, even PROPERs are plain shitty (while being as good as they can given the circumstances) which makes it really hard to enjoy or understand the film. But as the CAM or TS works as a preview, less people will see it. As this also works the other way around, Hollywood people should be more engouraged into hiring more talented scriptwrites and new directors than lawyers and lobbiers.
Merging QT and KDE would be like merging Linux and one of the BSDs.
By this you must mean that actually BSDs are built on an api provided by Linux? Nah, I don't think so. A better would be:
"Merging QT and KDE would be like merging Linux and one of the X11 servers."
The online documentation was no help, either, namely because there is none.
Did you bother to check out the quickstart part of the blender3d.org?
You don't like the tutorials there? Checking out the oldsite tutorials won't harm you either.. I remember learning tons of stuff from the community written ones, this was something like 1.6 version at that time.
By the way, your post sounds a bit too much like troll.. There's no way you couldn't see that bar in the top of the window where you've got "File" etc.. Or then you just stared at it and screamed "fuck this doesn't look like 3dsmax at all!" and killed it through task manager..
I think that it should be "Gotta love ". Konqueror has a blocker, Mozilla and it's relatives have it too, Opera AFAIR has it.. Plus all the ones I don't know about have it too.
It seems again that everyone else than Microsoft care about their users.
... but we should really be debating how we get this right on an OSS platform. If I put RedHat9 next to Windows Server 2003 I have significantly more updates to apply to my Linux box.
I think most of the people don't mind updates/patches, but when it comes to stopping all the services, closing all connections and rebooting and doing all that few times, it becomes annoying. I though only use LFS based system on desktop stuff, not running any servers, but IIRC and AFAIK a restart of server/service (only matter of seconds) is needed with Debian, Redhat and others.
because if you have every used a Symantec product like Norton Internet Security (NIS) or Norton Antivirus (NAV) you must have realized how easy those have been to install on multiple computers.
I've bought one back home and run it on all of my (2) home Windowsses, after all Norton is almost a synonym for quality when it comes to Windows utilities. I've also installed few from some public www page, where NIS 2003 (includes NAV 2003) was spread in 40MB fully working package.
Maybe they are just playing it wisely, waiting for the fuzz about M$ fascistic moves calmed down and then switching their own system on.. Can't blame them, this is IMHO the only way to go, no other realistic options.. However, I doubt that this will give them much more money, as hopefully most of the commericial side is already using their products legally so this would mostly target home and lifeless w4r3z d00ds:)
Though I have to admit that I haven't read any recent statistics about pirated stuff used at workplaces, only heard news that it'd be going down all the time (at least here in Finland or Scandinavia.. I have very bad memory:)).
Microsoft should instead be focusing completely on security, performance, interoperability, stability, and flexibility - you know, all of the things that are allowing Linux to kill Microsoft on the server side.
I'd say you are somewhat correct, but what would all those UI developers and researchers do then? Focus on security? For Bills sake I hope not.
As much I like to hate Windows OSes, and as little I have used Apple products, I have to say that the their UIs nicer than even the latest KDE. Open source developers can be innovative in both technical and user interface related problems, but they can never gain the upperhand (I'm trying to mean "advantage") on the UI design because they are facing researchers and dedicated teams at both Apple and Microsoft. Where as with the technical problems (security problems etc.) the OSS community will always have the advantage of many eyes reading the code etc..
So what I'm trying to say here is that designing and developing good and better UIs isn't totally irrelevant.
I see the good and easy to learn UI and easy (well not always, rarely actually) configurability as the main reasons why Microsoft products are used. I don't think that the security issue will ultimately kill Windows.
Just some of my thoughts. And I'm fucking tired.
-rzei
Who actually cares shit about DivX? We've had ffmpeg for some time! If you are honestly watching videos using windows system.. You need ffdshow directshow filter (yes, it's based on ffmpeg).
WHY are there headlines like this on the front page? For those who are looking for encoder, mplayer comes with the famous mencoder. If my memory serves me right, latest stable (pre-)release supports latest xvid and DivX encoding options.
To decode some Mpeg4 stuff, it uses native Windows DLLs, which to legally use, you must have Windows.
i don't actually think so, afaik all mpeg-4 video is decoded with lavc from ffmpeg project, which is is LGPL if i read correctly from their homepage. for mpeg-4 audio, there is an opensource decoder too, faad2.
another good link could be mplayer's (excellent) documents starting from here or in DOCS/ in source dir.
i'm running a box that has 333MHz Pentium-II inside with 384MB RAM with memclock 66MHz. My GNU/Linux "distribution" is LFS-type (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org), the newest afaik with patched gcc 3.2.
Since this is a "workstation" as in for movie watching (mplayer playes all divx's without framedrops:) I don't have any unused services running and eating up my cpu. KDE-3.0.4 runs here very fast, it takes 5-10 seconds to open a Konqueror window no matter I'm listening to noatun playing my mp3s, ircing, running qtella or dcgui and or browsing the web already.. And I'm not even using objprelinked binaries. Konqueror starting in 5-10 seconds satisfies me. The QT/KDE style I'm using is dotNET style, looks nice me and is fast.
I'd recommend you to check what version you are running (kde2 is slow, i admit, at least compared to kde3) and perhaps updating your qt too could help? One thing more.. What I noticed when I upgraded from gcc 2.95.3 system to a gcc 3.2 system was a HUGE performance boost, a lot bigger than I excpected, so gcc 3.2 is what I recommend for KDE to be compiled with, because at least with this little cpu to spare.. Optimization (KDE's default) matters:)
-rzei
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why is this moderated as Flamebait? isnt it against everyone's common sense that if you blacklist people on national papers (which I assume have quite a lot readers) it will ruin the youngsters (possibly the most of the filesharers are youngsters) future. you know, at least more people will remember them as "criminals"...
I have to say that I agree with the kicking out of EU idea.. Much strange, many see them as illegal and very questionable things have been done by their PM. Their prime minister owning the media.. That cannot be right. And those legistlation changes.
I think the EU should shake up Italia a bit. The people of the country are good, at least the ones I know, but the political leaders... Simply aren't.
Seriously, I think that this just means we won't have cancer & hiv problems anymore in the next 10..20 years. With this many cures coming at you at constant rate, something that actually works must come along at some point.
Let's just hope we don't end up hoping we wouldn't had eradicated cancer and hiv in the near future... Some disease has to come up, possibly even more lethal and easily spreading than any of the current virii, bacteria or other diseases.
As the scientists have been awarded with "-- the 2002 Paul A. Siple Award, the Army's highest award for scientific achievement --" I don't think this just some PR thingy, for making us all drool about l33t new armors..
I wonder if the "liquid" needs to be changed, like oil in 4-stroke engines
Wouldn't the board hold then prior art? Of course one can get inspiration from anywhere, but if a similiar patent is filed after it's been on the board, I guess the patent is pretty meaningless.
Great, I thought I was the only one with bad artsd performance.. I haven't yet given -mm tree a shot but I guess I should.
However mplayer performs nicely under whatever load, reading from wherever. I blame artsd's performance on it's horrible mp3 plugin which doesn't seem to buffer reads at all, nor does it "silence" errors in mp3 files, when compared to mplayer's every supported mp3 lib for example.
BTW I haven't investigated this a bit, artsd just has been skipping for forever, and I that's just what I've conclueded in time..
Do you have a reason to use the commericial DivX for Linux? I bet I'm not the only one wanting to know it..
Or you just haven't heard about lavc mpeg4 of ffmpeg? Or XViD? Those two are both much better options, not only because of their opensourceness but better quality IMHO -- especially lavc, although it's pretty unknown. lavc is used in xine and mplayer at least as main decoder, also ffdshow for windows is based on lavc [video] codecs. At least mencoder supports encoding with lavc, with some neat advanced options. AFAIK lavc is used as the main decoder (for mpeg4 atleast) because it's the fastest there is.
Yes but also the warranty will then be void! That's what this is all about.
Better not to buy the frigging volvo at all I guess..
Or even better, wait until there's at least one mirror accepting connections.. *sigh* no mirror seems to have been updated.. Here are the release notes.
torrent anyone?
Yes you are correct there. But here, it doesn't seem that cases are actually ruled by the *AA. Luckily for the guy who finally did what had to be done is norwegian, not american for example, we all know what the result would had been.
Not sure about those entertaining laws here, strange that if there was any, none have popped up.. Though I could say that some ridiculous stuff has been going on lately, as in the senteces for nice deeds like rape, murder, manslaughter.. Here the goverment almost awards (free meals, living in a free hotel for a few laughable months etc.) you for deeds like that -- if you ever get convicted or even prosecuted. That's what I like about the States, senteces are real.
By judging from up here in Scandinavia, only bad laws get set in America. This once again proves that the saying "Americans have the best goverment money can buy" and your politicians aren't even being ashamed, no, they'r are busy setting the next best record for stupid laws.
Not that it mattered else but usually the stupid laws enforced there end up here, luckily with a big lag. As pointed out before, filming in private place like the cinema is the problem ought to be taken care by the Cinema, not by the goverment. And the penalties for a huge people destroying crime like that are just absurd.
It's clear that no one is going to feel satisfied by the quality of those CAM and TS releases, even PROPERs are plain shitty (while being as good as they can given the circumstances) which makes it really hard to enjoy or understand the film. But as the CAM or TS works as a preview, less people will see it. As this also works the other way around, Hollywood people should be more engouraged into hiring more talented scriptwrites and new directors than lawyers and lobbiers.
Just my 0,10e
Merging QT and KDE would be like merging Linux and one of the BSDs.
By this you must mean that actually BSDs are built on an api provided by Linux? Nah, I don't think so. A better would be:
"Merging QT and KDE would be like merging Linux and one of the X11 servers."
The online documentation was no help, either, namely because there is none.
Did you bother to check out the quickstart part of the blender3d.org? You don't like the tutorials there? Checking out the oldsite tutorials won't harm you either.. I remember learning tons of stuff from the community written ones, this was something like 1.6 version at that time.
By the way, your post sounds a bit too much like troll.. There's no way you couldn't see that bar in the top of the window where you've got "File" etc.. Or then you just stared at it and screamed "fuck this doesn't look like 3dsmax at all!" and killed it through task manager..
Thanks for your time,
-rzei
I think that it should be "Gotta love ". Konqueror has a blocker, Mozilla and it's relatives have it too, Opera AFAIR has it.. Plus all the ones I don't know about have it too.
It seems again that everyone else than Microsoft care about their users.
-rzei
ISP or is newsforge.net already down? Could someone do some karmawhoring or mirror, google doesn't have a cache of this document yet it seems.. :(
-rzei
I think most of the people don't mind updates/patches, but when it comes to stopping all the services, closing all connections and rebooting and doing all that few times, it becomes annoying. I though only use LFS based system on desktop stuff, not running any servers, but IIRC and AFAIK a restart of server/service (only matter of seconds) is needed with Debian, Redhat and others.
-rzei
because if you have every used a Symantec product like Norton Internet Security (NIS) or Norton Antivirus (NAV) you must have realized how easy those have been to install on multiple computers.
:)
:)).
I've bought one back home and run it on all of my (2) home Windowsses, after all Norton is almost a synonym for quality when it comes to Windows utilities. I've also installed few from some public www page, where NIS 2003 (includes NAV 2003) was spread in 40MB fully working package.
Maybe they are just playing it wisely, waiting for the fuzz about M$ fascistic moves calmed down and then switching their own system on.. Can't blame them, this is IMHO the only way to go, no other realistic options.. However, I doubt that this will give them much more money, as hopefully most of the commericial side is already using their products legally so this would mostly target home and lifeless w4r3z d00ds
Though I have to admit that I haven't read any recent statistics about pirated stuff used at workplaces, only heard news that it'd be going down all the time (at least here in Finland or Scandinavia.. I have very bad memory
-rzei
i can see a Microsoft ad right below the news :)
Microsoft should instead be focusing completely on security, performance, interoperability, stability, and flexibility - you know, all of the things that are allowing Linux to kill Microsoft on the server side.
I'd say you are somewhat correct, but what would all those UI developers and researchers do then? Focus on security? For Bills sake I hope not.
As much I like to hate Windows OSes, and as little I have used Apple products, I have to say that the their UIs nicer than even the latest KDE. Open source developers can be innovative in both technical and user interface related problems, but they can never gain the upperhand (I'm trying to mean "advantage") on the UI design because they are facing researchers and dedicated teams at both Apple and Microsoft. Where as with the technical problems (security problems etc.) the OSS community will always have the advantage of many eyes reading the code etc..
So what I'm trying to say here is that designing and developing good and better UIs isn't totally irrelevant. I see the good and easy to learn UI and easy (well not always, rarely actually) configurability as the main reasons why Microsoft products are used. I don't think that the security issue will ultimately kill Windows.
Just some of my thoughts. And I'm fucking tired.
-rzei
Who actually cares shit about DivX? We've had ffmpeg for some time! If you are honestly watching videos using windows system.. You need ffdshow directshow filter (yes, it's based on ffmpeg).
WHY are there headlines like this on the front page? For those who are looking for encoder, mplayer comes with the famous mencoder. If my memory serves me right, latest stable (pre-)release supports latest xvid and DivX encoding options.
-rzei
To decode some Mpeg4 stuff, it uses native Windows DLLs, which to legally use, you must have Windows.
i don't actually think so, afaik all mpeg-4 video is decoded with lavc from ffmpeg project, which is is LGPL if i read correctly from their homepage. for mpeg-4 audio, there is an opensource decoder too, faad2. another good link could be mplayer's (excellent) documents starting from here or in DOCS/ in source dir.
-rzei
um.. just to englighten something to you..
:) I don't have any unused services running and eating up my cpu. KDE-3.0.4 runs here very fast, it takes 5-10 seconds to open a Konqueror window no matter I'm listening to noatun playing my mp3s, ircing, running qtella or dcgui and or browsing the web already.. And I'm not even using objprelinked binaries. Konqueror starting in 5-10 seconds satisfies me. The QT/KDE style I'm using is dotNET style, looks nice me and is fast.
:)
i'm running a box that has 333MHz Pentium-II inside with 384MB RAM with memclock 66MHz. My GNU/Linux "distribution" is LFS-type (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org), the newest afaik with patched gcc 3.2.
Since this is a "workstation" as in for movie watching (mplayer playes all divx's without framedrops
I'd recommend you to check what version you are running (kde2 is slow, i admit, at least compared to kde3) and perhaps updating your qt too could help? One thing more.. What I noticed when I upgraded from gcc 2.95.3 system to a gcc 3.2 system was a HUGE performance boost, a lot bigger than I excpected, so gcc 3.2 is what I recommend for KDE to be compiled with, because at least with this little cpu to spare.. Optimization (KDE's default) matters
-rzei