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Everybody deserves a fair trial. That's what democratic states promise to their citizens, and their enemies.
This basic right used to by highly valued in the US, too. Of course, now suspects are declared "terrorists" and put away to Guantanamo and other places, or left to "friendly" governments for torturing.
The very reason that a few days ago a suspect 9/11-collaborator was set free by the court was a lack of proof against him (likely the US' fault for not allowing an important witness to testify because said witness is "interrogated" by the CIA at an unknown location).
In Germany, at least, people can be sure not to be held prisoner without evidence.
The value of democratic principles can be seen best whan you look at how a state treats its enemies.
"At this point, the "world" powers have lost the ability to take the initiative. The US gets to choose when battles occur, where they occur, and when they end." (quote)
So who chose Sep 11? Just imagine the terrorists had achieved their goal and destroyed the White House, the Pentagon (or, more of it), and the Senate-- that might still happen. No choice when it happens and what happens.
American Forces might be strong, but if they can only fight a limited number of wars before they're getting too thin stretched.
The Roman Empire also had a superior army and Navy, yet that didn't help against barbarian hordes.
Yet we must admire the Roman policy of bringing peace to conquered territories (just thnk of Pax Romana). This is an ability the US doesn't have at all. They're just nurturing more terrorists by planting hatred in people's minds.
... he wants to kill the Americans. He said actions like that make people hate the US' arrogance and make them commit desperate deeds like suicide bombing.
... so everybody prefers a Toyota?
Your Quote (insults ignored):"the GBA and GBA-SP even Outsell the Xbox!"
"play super monkey ball on it" (insults ignored).
The existence of a 3D game does NOT necessarily mean there is 3D acceleration. Fricking old idiots like me know that since Doom and Quake I.
Play this strange Star Wars game (forgot the name) on the GBA at 5-10 fps and you'll see there is NO hardware 3D acceleration.
Mobile phones are getting better and better for playing. So are PDAs. They have fast processors (well, relatively) and large color screens.
Therefore the GBA may become obsolete. If Nintendo isn't careful and offers some extra value (like 3D acceleration-- should be cheap, no?), there soon might be no reason left to buy a Gameboy.
"...but perhaps kids are too stupid to realize that."
Exactly. I don't say it all these things be of much benefit, but a few cool demos and clever advertising can make people believe the *need* 3d and whatever else.
For Video -- I see music videos as a good idea for content (easy to compress enough to fit on a CF or similiar card, especially considering the relatively small resolution of no more than 320x320).
And if the whole device is compatible to GBA, it could slowly replace it.
The GBA may be selling well but customers today expect 3D acceleration, MP3 and video playback... if Nintendo intruduces something like that while maintaining compatibility to GBA, it could be a big success.
Besides, as Nintendo is AFAIK not connected to any record- or film-company, that could mean a non-crippled non-DRM device.
No, no. You don't get the point.
The question is if it's not much more efficient to secure said transports "conventionally", i.e. policemen, security, trained personnel, than to rely on a computer-based system that, if it fails or gets hacked, can really f*** up things.
Did you download the binary version for Mac OS X? It's available here: http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/
I coudn't find information about it now, but it probably requires OS X 10.2.
I love this program, but I also use VLC, which you can get from videolan.org. Most videos look better in mplayer, but some (esp. with 2 audio tracks, i.e. two languages) play only in VLC.
I hope I could help you...?
If telephone service used GNU/PhoneService, it would be robust, it would almost never crash, it would be very reliable and fast and you could use it with many different kinds of hardware.
On the other hand, the interface would be terrible, like people would have to remember long cryptic numbers in order to use it.
I guess for most people who read slashdot the choice of OS is just a little more important than the selection of your favourite caffeinated brown sugar drink.
When, in the near future, private users are only running MS programs, because the OS scares them with losing guarantee and health and other things if they try to install other apps, they can only crash by MS' program's fault.
Of course, if IE crashes it can still be the web sites fault, when Word crashes it will be a wrong word document's fault...
"I sense an action movie in the making..."
Arnold Schwarzenegger IS Otzi. Btw, his hometown is not so far from the place wher Otzi was found.
First picture from the film:
http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,285228,00.jpg
"They chose two languages for the obvious reason: It's simple. It's easy to find a student who knows two languages. At least, easier than finding one who knows four."
The can't see a reason why three languages are necessary. Some translations are bad, even wrong, but the sheer amount of data the system checks eliminates most errors.
It learns like a human child-- if a child hears somebody making a mistake, it still doesn't necessarily make the same mistake. As long as the majority of translations is correct, errors don't matter.
However, if there are translation errors that are more frequent than the correct translation, the system will think that this ist correct.
"I'd hazard a guess that this system will also have trouble with a high-context language such as Japanese."
I think that's exactly what his system is about, it also analyzes context, so it works similiar to the human thinking. It takes the surrounding words into consideration and checks given translation.
E.g., wrong translations for the German word "Bank" which can mean both "bench" or "bank" are less likely, as a context like "sit, park..." would favor the translation "bench" while a context with "money, stock..." would lead the system to assume the meaning "bank" is more likely.
This way, it should be far superior to word-to-word based translation systems.
I hope this is true, but that's how he explained it to me about 7 years ago when he started the project:-)
That's just what I'm curious about. Has anybody actually tried? VLC plays so many formats, even proprietary ones, that I wonder if it's able to play this stuff.
It can even play.asf files. So maybe also these films...
If not, maybe it can do in a few weeks:-)
It's just a technical problem, I guess...
BTW, in case one of the developers reads this, a big THANK YOU for VLC and mplayer!
I wonder if I can watch these movies with VLC (Videolan Player, www.videolan.org), which is my preferred movie player on my Mac OS X machine.
It seems they're adding new codecs on a weekly basis, and when I'm lucky they left out the DRM-thing.
I think the reason that WMA wasn't included is that they only tested AAC. No MP3, no WMA, no OGG, no whatever-else-is-out-there.
Or did I misunderstand something?
I think a test of all these would be interesting.
Ah... sorry.
But before suspecting me to run Windows, I'm running Mac OS X:-)
I hope Mozilla progresses quickly with SVG, this is a killer XML-implementation.
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Everybody deserves a fair trial. That's what democratic states promise to their citizens, and their enemies.
This basic right used to by highly valued in the US, too. Of course, now suspects are declared "terrorists" and put away to Guantanamo and other places, or left to "friendly" governments for torturing.
The very reason that a few days ago a suspect 9/11-collaborator was set free by the court was a lack of proof against him (likely the US' fault for not allowing an important witness to testify because said witness is "interrogated" by the CIA at an unknown location).
In Germany, at least, people can be sure not to be held prisoner without evidence.
The value of democratic principles can be seen best whan you look at how a state treats its enemies.
this story is clearly offtopic. where can i rate ist so?
So who chose Sep 11? Just imagine the terrorists had achieved their goal and destroyed the White House, the Pentagon (or, more of it), and the Senate-- that might still happen. No choice when it happens and what happens.
American Forces might be strong, but if they can only fight a limited number of wars before they're getting too thin stretched.The Roman Empire also had a superior army and Navy, yet that didn't help against barbarian hordes.
Yet we must admire the Roman policy of bringing peace to conquered territories (just thnk of Pax Romana).
This is an ability the US doesn't have at all. They're just nurturing more terrorists by planting hatred in people's minds.
... he wants to kill the Americans.
He said actions like that make people hate the US' arrogance and make them commit desperate deeds like suicide bombing.
... so everybody prefers a Toyota?
Your Quote (insults ignored):"the GBA and GBA-SP even Outsell the Xbox!"
"play super monkey ball on it" (insults ignored).
The existence of a 3D game does NOT necessarily mean there is 3D acceleration. Fricking old idiots like me know that since Doom and Quake I.
Play this strange Star Wars game (forgot the name) on the GBA at 5-10 fps and you'll see there is NO hardware 3D acceleration.
Mobile phones are getting better and better for playing. So are PDAs. They have fast processors (well, relatively) and large color screens.
Therefore the GBA may become obsolete. If Nintendo isn't careful and offers some extra value (like 3D acceleration-- should be cheap, no?), there soon might be no reason left to buy a Gameboy.
"...but perhaps kids are too stupid to realize that."
Exactly. I don't say it all these things be of much benefit, but a few cool demos and clever advertising can make people believe the *need* 3d and whatever else.
For Video -- I see music videos as a good idea for content (easy to compress enough to fit on a CF or similiar card, especially considering the relatively small resolution of no more than 320x320).
And if the whole device is compatible to GBA, it could slowly replace it.
The GBA may be selling well but customers today expect 3D acceleration, MP3 and video playback... if Nintendo intruduces something like that while maintaining compatibility to GBA, it could be a big success.
Besides, as Nintendo is AFAIK not connected to any record- or film-company, that could mean a non-crippled non-DRM device.
No, no. You don't get the point.
The question is if it's not much more efficient to secure said transports "conventionally", i.e. policemen, security, trained personnel, than to rely on a computer-based system that, if it fails or gets hacked, can really f*** up things.
What happens if the system is hacked? Disabled trucks/ships/planes crashing into cities?
Did you download the binary version for Mac OS X? It's available here: http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/
I coudn't find information about it now, but it probably requires OS X 10.2.
I love this program, but I also use VLC, which you can get from videolan.org. Most videos look better in mplayer, but some (esp. with 2 audio tracks, i.e. two languages) play only in VLC.
I hope I could help you...?
If telephone service used GNU/PhoneService, it would be robust, it would almost never crash, it would be very reliable and fast and you could use it with many different kinds of hardware.
On the other hand, the interface would be terrible, like people would have to remember long cryptic numbers in order to use it.
They actually work?
Next thing they find out is the new generation of penis enlargement devices actually work, too...
I guess for most people who read slashdot the choice of OS is just a little more important than the selection of your favourite caffeinated brown sugar drink.
When, in the near future, private users are only running MS programs, because the OS scares them with losing guarantee and health and other things if they try to install other apps, they can only crash by MS' program's fault.
Of course, if IE crashes it can still be the web sites fault, when Word crashes it will be a wrong word document's fault...
"I sense an action movie in the making..."
Arnold Schwarzenegger IS Otzi. Btw, his hometown is not so far from the place wher Otzi was found.
First picture from the film:
http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,285228,00.jpg
But should still be easy to clone. Just use "cp".
Yes, mod me off-topic. See if I care.
"They chose two languages for the obvious reason: It's simple. It's easy to find a student who knows two languages. At least, easier than finding one who knows four."
The can't see a reason why three languages are necessary. Some translations are bad, even wrong, but the sheer amount of data the system checks eliminates most errors.
It learns like a human child-- if a child hears somebody making a mistake, it still doesn't necessarily make the same mistake. As long as the majority of translations is correct, errors don't matter.
However, if there are translation errors that are more frequent than the correct translation, the system will think that this ist correct.
Just like children do.
"I'd hazard a guess that this system will also have trouble with a high-context language such as Japanese."
:-)
I think that's exactly what his system is about, it also analyzes context, so it works similiar to the human thinking. It takes the surrounding words into consideration and checks given translation.
E.g., wrong translations for the German word "Bank" which can mean both "bench" or "bank" are less likely, as a context like "sit, park..." would favor the translation "bench" while a context with "money, stock..." would lead the system to assume the meaning "bank" is more likely.
This way, it should be far superior to word-to-word based translation systems.
I hope this is true, but that's how he explained it to me about 7 years ago when he started the project
That's just what I'm curious about. Has anybody actually tried? VLC plays so many formats, even proprietary ones, that I wonder if it's able to play this stuff. .asf files. So maybe also these films... :-)
It can even play
If not, maybe it can do in a few weeks
It's just a technical problem, I guess...
BTW, in case one of the developers reads this, a big THANK YOU for VLC and mplayer!
I wonder if I can watch these movies with VLC (Videolan Player, www.videolan.org), which is my preferred movie player on my Mac OS X machine.
It seems they're adding new codecs on a weekly basis, and when I'm lucky they left out the DRM-thing.
I think the reason that WMA wasn't included is that they only tested AAC. No MP3, no WMA, no OGG, no whatever-else-is-out-there.
Or did I misunderstand something?
I think a test of all these would be interesting.
Ah... sorry. :-)
But before suspecting me to run Windows, I'm running Mac OS X
I hope Mozilla progresses quickly with SVG, this is a killer XML-implementation.
This is the example I always use to impress people of SVG's capabilities (like convincing my boss of using it instead of Flash) :-) n a
http://www.karto.ethz.ch/neumann/cartography/vien
A lot of useful information here: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Overview.htm8
Why do we have to hack nomads? By hand?
Doesn't Pentagon have bombs and missiles that do this job much better?