I agree Synaptic is the first installation program that has proven superior to my windows software gathering method (piracy). It's actually easier than piracy! Go Linux!
Go to Storage Media and check out some of the pricing, it seems that the levy isn't in effect?
Personally for me the ideal would be to pay the levy (I know you think it's an indiscriminate tax) and then have the money be put towards supporting Canadian arts such as the CBC, poets, musicians etc.
Give back to the world for stealing their music, unlike the BBC which taxes indiscriminately, creates content and only shares it with U.K. citizens.
I think offering Canadian media as free media is very much in keeping with the Canadian ethos, we don't want to use our tool to convert the world to our view of capitalism or consumerism, however shows like "Little Mosque on the Prarie" do say that Canadians are interested in showing the world our view of Multi-Culturalism and in this way differentiating ourselves from the American "Melting Pot".
I don't care if it's 65nm, 45nm or 10mm - that's a completely irrelevant (to me as a user and purchaser) implementation detail. I care about the results - how fast is it for my workloads? How much is it? How much power does it use?
Obsession about process size is sillier than obsession over clock speeds.
If AMD can produce a better performing chip at 65nm, then who the hell cares if Intel - or anyone else - move to a 45nm process?
If you move to a smaller transistor size you get more processors per wafer (Thus it gets much much cheaper) you lose less of your wafer to small defects (Again Cheaper). Moving data around smaller chips is faster( perhaps better for your workload possibly not).
It will also use less power to change transistor state and will use less voltage ( though increased leakage until recently minimized this effect).
Now there are dozens of other characteristics but by saying "we've moved to a lower die size" they are pretty much addressing all of your "simple" concerns.
Although the idea that our universe is a non repeating system (We live in the only universe ever, almost Christian religious hubris) doesn't it seem more likely that we are looking at a series of repeating circumstances?
Putting aside the concept of consciousness it seems likely that any ordered system would produce something that would seem like life.
Inside the sun for example systems of fission are created and destroyed almost instantly, those systems are in a very real way as much like "life" as what we accept to be so.
Just as our numbering system comes from the number of digits we posses so our concept of time comes from the strength of gravity we experience (hence authors fascination with the concept of size and time relations, see Alice in Wonderland or Gulliver's Travels).
Any system of ordered and disordered events with cause and effect can give rise to a system which intimates life, with time as simply another dimension there could be eddies in the time continuum that parralel our own eddies in the physical continuum.
In other words time and space and all dimensions are totally relative, we only perceive and interact with a tiny subset of the dimensions and because of the nature of our internal and physical (I.E. chemical) processes.
I don't propose interactions with things that see the third dimension the way we see our fourth (That's crazy talk:P) but an examination of the way individual people perceive themselves and their world clearly indicates that relativity exists.
Assuming the big bang/crunch theory is correct and (here's the unlikely bit) time and space are not relative (unlikely I know) what are our odds of ever being able to detect the preceding receeding universe "shells".
Now obviously this question is based on a physical model of our universe rather than all that funny quantum physics stuff.
From the perspective of an atom inside the earth the rest of the world or even solar system is so many orders of magnitude closer than the nearest star system that it raises the question of whether they would be apparent at all?
Final stupid question, with the constant speed of light providing an indication of a "stopped" position in space is the centre of the known universe stationary or moving?
Seems to me General motors doesn't care about any Minivan designs that won't earn a 5 Star crash test rating, so can they please just give out the designs so the third world can start producing them?
Everything points to North America (And much of the developed world) switching to hydrogen or bio-fuels in the next few years.
They could give out the plans for their car from 5 years ago and it wouldn't be competition by the time other companies got their manufacturing working.
I think the parent was suggesting that most slashdotters are using winamp 2.71(x) before the monstrosity that was winamp 3.
Winamp4 and 5 both play video files and have about 2-3x the memory footprint, the video files thing is annoying because I like to open directories which sometimes contain video files as well, it's distracting when a video window pops up during my music.
Not to mention all the bombs probably hidden in major cities around the world.
I live in a big City and I'd like to be sure we have some way of finding weapons which were say, burried during the building of our subway system before I go mixing it up with post nuclear powers.
We are damn lucky MAD works and we should stick with it, if the U.S. wasn't such a bunch of assholes (making countries continue with treaties signed decades or even centuries ago) we wouldn't need to worry about counties trying for nuclear proliferation.
When the U.S. pulls it's army bases out of Somalia the Somalians will stop trying to hide Nukes in New York until then please chill out.
First off as an Encoder the encoding tools used to be TERRIBLE! Terrible! Like manually confguring hundreds of settings for each rip I did. (Chinese movies not available through mainstream distribution methods)...
Xvid used to require 2 passes at about 8-9 hours each (on my medium speced pc)... So two days to do an encode... Not cool.
Then they came out with a new version cutting it
It encodes a 100min 640x480 700MB file in 4 hours, they got there first, like MP3 did and it seems open, I don't understand why more products don't support it (If they have the processing power to handle decryption of course) and it has become the standard.
Back in the day the Warez scene was a mess, conflicting Divx, Divx:), DivX 3.1 (The old warez standard),.mov (Why would ANYONE use this POS) and of course the dreaded.rm.
No one wants to go back to that,
XVID can be decoded on a p3 or a p4 Celeron (or a used laptop)...
H.264 for all it's vaunted superiority (In what sense, Xvid looks good mp3 sounds good do we really need to make movies SMALLER than the size of a CD [Why? Unless we can get down to.5 of a CD then yea that would be nice but it's not likely] plus you'd be looking at re-encoding a huge backlog for no reason!) so yea XVID will be the standard until HD starts shipping and people really are trying to fit HD movies on CDs (Not DVD's which might be possible but technology will eventually reach the point where 1024x768 x 100min = 720 MB will be a reality.
Or watch Canadian content, we're big on that up here.
We don't produce as much as the BBC but we do produce some good stuff, (Kenny vs Spenny, This is Wonderland, Bon Cop - Bad Cop, Battlestar Galactica etc.) and since it's produced with public funding the idea is that as many people as possible should see it.
In a country embracing multi-culturalism and having a hard time staying in front of the American media barrage I just don't see us stopping piracy when it means more people watching cultural content.
Dude, bittorrenting a movie takes less than 2x the time it takes to play it.
Download a season of TV and it'll all be right there.
I haven't downloaded a corrupt file in about 3-4 years, yes bittorrent fixed that just fine (I did download a spanish version once:), and a password protected file once).
Unless the video store is right next store, well even then, it's faster to download a movie (in terms of your time spent) the selection is way better.
Plus you don't have to worry about it, imagine all the things in your life you wouldn't do if they cost money (going to the park, looking at a flower etc.) and add one more.
"Cannot be stored in a banking system which uses "Free Software"".
Why is it fair for Microsoft to discriminate against people without $200 for VISTA but OSS developers can't descriminate against people who don't share and are evil.
My understanding has always been that Hip-Hop usually refers to music with a time signature of 3/3 (The same as most Jazz, blues, waltz, some latin music) rather than the 4/4 of Rap (Also found in Rock, classical etc)...
4/4 is much easier for most people used to listening to western music and is a sign of the "selling out" of rap over hip-hop...
Third world countries are pretty hard to come by in Western Europe, however you could use the remove to deal with a country that has a good history of standing up to the U.S. for example Sweden, or perhaps France or Germany (for redundancy) you wouldn't be able to host child porn (you're small enough that they could hold your entire country responsible) but would you would have a certain level of independance as a seperate nation with only a transitory (and probably paying) communication link through another country.
Your assumption that another country is going to regulate the information passing through it's lines with no respect for the sovreignty of the other country or respect for their laws or values is very Bush/Kafka/1984 esque and is actually a pretty scary thing for anyone to be assuming.
Once they establish one link (likely with Denmark, Germany or Sweden, Liberal countries not under the thumb of the U.S.) getting additional links will be fine and protecting them from the wrath of U.S. IP imperialism will become a "fun thing"(Protect the lil' guy!) and a mark of pride for those countries.
And I'm a bit upset about the money going to the music industry, it should either go to the most downloaded artists (There are some fairly decent statistics) or to Canadian public content supports (CBC, Canadian endowment for the arts).
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I agree Synaptic is the first installation program that has proven superior to my windows software gathering method (piracy).
It's actually easier than piracy! Go Linux!
http://www.filtechcomputer.com/
Go to Storage Media and check out some of the pricing, it seems that the levy isn't in effect?
Personally for me the ideal would be to pay the levy (I know you think it's an indiscriminate tax) and then have the money be put towards supporting Canadian arts such as the CBC, poets, musicians etc.
Give back to the world for stealing their music, unlike the BBC which taxes indiscriminately, creates content and only shares it with U.K. citizens.
I think offering Canadian media as free media is very much in keeping with the Canadian ethos, we don't want to use our tool to convert the world to our view of capitalism or consumerism, however shows like "Little Mosque on the Prarie" do say that Canadians are interested in showing the world our view of Multi-Culturalism and in this way differentiating ourselves from the American "Melting Pot".
I don't care if it's 65nm, 45nm or 10mm - that's a completely irrelevant (to me as a user and purchaser) implementation detail. I care about the results - how fast is it for my workloads? How much is it? How much power does it use?
Obsession about process size is sillier than obsession over clock speeds.
If AMD can produce a better performing chip at 65nm, then who the hell cares if Intel - or anyone else - move to a 45nm process?
If you move to a smaller transistor size you get more processors per wafer (Thus it gets much much cheaper) you lose less of your wafer to small defects (Again Cheaper). Moving data around smaller chips is faster( perhaps better for your workload possibly not).
It will also use less power to change transistor state and will use less voltage ( though increased leakage until recently minimized this effect).
Now there are dozens of other characteristics but by saying "we've moved to a lower die size" they are pretty much addressing all of your "simple" concerns.
Second Encounter with Aliens:
Dooooodddd! Let's hotbox the airlock!
Which isn't quite so paranoid dealt with something similar.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=bgsqOVSrVFU
Note the final words are "Serve and Protect" without sarcasm, something I haven't seen in American media in ages.
If I got the police to shoot you it would only be an over-reaction if you weren't thinking of doing as you said.
The real equation goes probability of bad thing x consequences vs cost of reaction.
In this case probability -> 0
QED.
Why not?
:P) but an examination of the way individual people perceive themselves and their world clearly indicates that relativity exists.
Although the idea that our universe is a non repeating system (We live in the only universe ever, almost Christian religious hubris) doesn't it seem more likely that we are looking at a series of repeating circumstances?
Putting aside the concept of consciousness it seems likely that any ordered system would produce something that would seem like life.
Inside the sun for example systems of fission are created and destroyed almost instantly, those systems are in a very real way as much like "life" as what we accept to be so.
Just as our numbering system comes from the number of digits we posses so our concept of time comes from the strength of gravity we experience (hence authors fascination with the concept of size and time relations, see Alice in Wonderland or Gulliver's Travels).
Any system of ordered and disordered events with cause and effect can give rise to a system which intimates life, with time as simply another dimension there could be eddies in the time continuum that parralel our own eddies in the physical continuum.
In other words time and space and all dimensions are totally relative, we only perceive and interact with a tiny subset of the dimensions and because of the nature of our internal and physical (I.E. chemical) processes.
I don't propose interactions with things that see the third dimension the way we see our fourth (That's crazy talk
Assuming the big bang/crunch theory is correct and (here's the unlikely bit) time and space are not relative (unlikely I know) what are our odds of ever being able to detect the preceding receeding universe "shells".
Now obviously this question is based on a physical model of our universe rather than all that funny quantum physics stuff.
From the perspective of an atom inside the earth the rest of the world or even solar system is so many orders of magnitude closer than the nearest star system that it raises the question of whether they would be apparent at all?
Final stupid question, with the constant speed of light providing an indication of a "stopped" position in space is the centre of the known universe stationary or moving?
Seems to me General motors doesn't care about any Minivan designs that won't earn a 5 Star crash test rating, so can they please just give out the designs so the third world can start producing them?
Everything points to North America (And much of the developed world) switching to hydrogen or bio-fuels in the next few years.
They could give out the plans for their car from 5 years ago and it wouldn't be competition by the time other companies got their manufacturing working.
Ah but you can impress the other nations of the world, like the romans did... no one was more badass than the romans and everyone was scared of them.
Until the huns didn't care, then they destroyed em...
The U.S. loves using media for marketting of this type and it gets more and more obvious the more you know about military hardware and policies.
I think the parent was suggesting that most slashdotters are using winamp 2.71(x) before the monstrosity that was winamp 3.
Winamp4 and 5 both play video files and have about 2-3x the memory footprint, the video files thing is annoying because I like to open directories which sometimes contain video files as well, it's distracting when a video window pops up during my music.
Perhpaps those people just need a better browser? May I suggest Opera?
:)
It's like teh mac of browsers
Actually I'm kind of glad that a guy didn't write this perhaps when she was putting herself in mens shoes she thought they meant cavemen.
Seriously can we get some better writting? Throw an English Major at it, stop with the crap, and stop letting women write for men's games.
Men certainly aren't successful in writting trashy romance novels.
Allright I don't care who can do it but something who can write needs to get involved in this process.
Not to mention all the bombs probably hidden in major cities around the world.
I live in a big City and I'd like to be sure we have some way of finding weapons which were say, burried during the building of our subway system before I go mixing it up with post nuclear powers.
We are damn lucky MAD works and we should stick with it, if the U.S. wasn't such a bunch of assholes (making countries continue with treaties signed decades or even centuries ago) we wouldn't need to worry about counties trying for nuclear proliferation.
When the U.S. pulls it's army bases out of Somalia the Somalians will stop trying to hide Nukes in New York until then please chill out.
That's because Canadians are the chosen people Eh?
Like that's what it's all aboot...
First off as an Encoder the encoding tools used to be TERRIBLE! Terrible! Like manually confguring hundreds of settings for each rip I did. (Chinese movies not available through mainstream distribution methods)...
.mov (Why would ANYONE use this POS) and of course the dreaded .rm.
.5 of a CD then yea that would be nice but it's not likely] plus you'd be looking at re-encoding a huge backlog for no reason!) so yea XVID will be the standard until HD starts shipping and people really are trying to fit HD movies on CDs (Not DVD's which might be possible but technology will eventually reach the point where 1024x768 x 100min = 720 MB will be a reality.
Xvid used to require 2 passes at about 8-9 hours each (on my medium speced pc)... So two days to do an encode... Not cool.
Then they came out with a new version cutting it
It encodes a 100min 640x480 700MB file in 4 hours, they got there first, like MP3 did and it seems open, I don't understand why more products don't support it (If they have the processing power to handle decryption of course) and it has become the standard.
Back in the day the Warez scene was a mess, conflicting Divx, Divx:), DivX 3.1 (The old warez standard),
No one wants to go back to that,
XVID can be decoded on a p3 or a p4 Celeron (or a used laptop)...
H.264 for all it's vaunted superiority (In what sense, Xvid looks good mp3 sounds good do we really need to make movies SMALLER than the size of a CD [Why? Unless we can get down to
Or watch Canadian content, we're big on that up here.
We don't produce as much as the BBC but we do produce some good stuff, (Kenny vs Spenny, This is Wonderland, Bon Cop - Bad Cop, Battlestar Galactica etc.) and since it's produced with public funding the idea is that as many people as possible should see it.
In a country embracing multi-culturalism and having a hard time staying in front of the American media barrage I just don't see us stopping piracy when it means more people watching cultural content.
We do have Isohunt, (by far?) the largest bittorrent tracker and indexing website in the world.
:(
Depending on how they measure we could be number one... well I hope we're number one... Go Canada!
Stupid RIAA not realeasing real metrics
Piracy is the new Freedom of Information olympics! I think Canada deserves a gold!
Well if SED or OLED deliver on their promises and I get the TV for $500 I'll probably try to find some way to get super sexy media on it.
:().
Or of course I could buy a projector (1024x768
Either way I'm gonna hook my Xbox or PC up to it not a new DVD player but someone might conceivably do so I guess.
Dude, bittorrenting a movie takes less than 2x the time it takes to play it.
:), and a password protected file once).
Download a season of TV and it'll all be right there.
I haven't downloaded a corrupt file in about 3-4 years, yes bittorrent fixed that just fine (I did download a spanish version once
Unless the video store is right next store, well even then, it's faster to download a movie (in terms of your time spent) the selection is way better.
Plus you don't have to worry about it, imagine all the things in your life you wouldn't do if they cost money (going to the park, looking at a flower etc.) and add one more.
"Cannot be stored in a banking system which uses "Free Software"".
Why is it fair for Microsoft to discriminate against people without $200 for VISTA but OSS developers can't descriminate against people who don't share and are evil.
French might be useful in your case.
My understanding has always been that Hip-Hop usually refers to music with a time signature of 3/3 (The same as most Jazz, blues, waltz, some latin music) rather than the 4/4 of Rap (Also found in Rock, classical etc)...
4/4 is much easier for most people used to listening to western music and is a sign of the "selling out" of rap over hip-hop...
I could be wrong of course.
Third world countries are pretty hard to come by in Western Europe, however you could use the remove to deal with a country that has a good history of standing up to the U.S. for example Sweden, or perhaps France or Germany (for redundancy) you wouldn't be able to host child porn (you're small enough that they could hold your entire country responsible) but would you would have a certain level of independance as a seperate nation with only a transitory (and probably paying) communication link through another country.
Your assumption that another country is going to regulate the information passing through it's lines with no respect for the sovreignty of the other country or respect for their laws or values is very Bush/Kafka/1984 esque and is actually a pretty scary thing for anyone to be assuming.
Once they establish one link (likely with Denmark, Germany or Sweden, Liberal countries not under the thumb of the U.S.) getting additional links will be fine and protecting them from the wrath of U.S. IP imperialism will become a "fun thing"(Protect the lil' guy!) and a mark of pride for those countries.
Then Why we still getting sued,
l ?id=28f6a01c-084c-4fc4-9594-a5d3dd1ff02e&k=13592.
And I'm a bit upset about the money going to the music industry, it should either go to the most downloaded artists (There are some fairly decent statistics) or to Canadian public content supports (CBC, Canadian endowment for the arts).
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/story.htm