If Congress doesn't make a stupid law, the President will arrogantly dictate the stupidity. If the Congress and the President don't do it, the Supreme Court will make up some bullshit. If the feds don't do it, the states will - corrupt legislatures, tyrannical governors, and crappy state supreme courts. If the states don't do it, the counties will. If the counties don't do it, the cities and towns will.
The whole lot of them are a bunch of vile, corrupt pigs.
Sorry, you misunderstand how HTTP works. There is no "VLC video link". Those are links to video files or streams, and all they specify is a Content-Type. It is the configuration of your client that controls how various Content-Types get mapped to handlers locally.
How about NO. mplayer's shortcuts are marvelously efficient, vlc's are pointlessly cumbersome.
Jump forward and back 10 seconds: mplayer, right and left arrow. vlc, alt right and left arrow. Absolutely pointlessly cumbersome. Jump forward and back 1 minute: mplayer, up and down arrow. vlc, control right and left arrow. Absolutely pointlessly cumbersome. Jump forward and back 5 or 10 minutes: mplayer, page up and page down. vlc, supposed to be control-alt right and left arrow, but these switch my workspace to a different virtual screen, so they don't even work at all. If they did work, they would be grotesquely cumbersome.
I can't over-emphasize how cumbersome it is to control elementary realtime playback controls via awkward multiple keystrokes.
Other than this issue, I find vlc a very impressive piece of work. I do find mplayer much handier to run, but that's far from a make-or-break. Finally, yes, I'm aware I can customize my own shortcuts, and if I had a reason to run vlc instead of mplayer, I would just do so.
Sorry, no. Just no. All the way back to prehistoric wandering nomads, you were in trouble if you tried to steal Ugh's stone axe that Ugh created himself and Ugh jealously guarded as his personal property. But if Blarf painted a particular illustration in a cave, even if it took him years of labor, he wasn't coming after you if you copied the same illustration in another cave.
One is natural behavior. The other is the imposition of the heavy hand of The Man lording it over everyone. In one case, you're depriving someone of something. In the other case, you're just adding a copy of something, without depriving anyone of the original in any way.
Writing a novel easy takes ten years, some people need decades to compile a single album.
Oh BULLSHIT! Successful authors as opposed to hobbyist dabbler writers write AT LEAST a novel a year. Isaac Asimov got two novels published in 1983, one in 1984, 3 in 1985, 2 in 1986, 2 in 1987, 2 in 1988, 2 in 1989, and 2 in 1990. And most of those were shatteringly successful, like The Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire, Foundation and Earth, and Prelude to Foundation. And he was pumping out mystery short stories, anthologies, and nonfiction at the same time.
His lifetime total was 506. Stephen King has 54 novels and almost 200 short stories.
You can't make a living writing unless you you are unbelievably prolific, or your works are market blockbusters like Stephen King's. Yeah, it would take ME at least 10 years to generate a novel, and nobody would buy it.
I would like to know this too. The shortcut keys in mplayer are excellent. Just copy them. I am always pressing right arrow in vlc and nothing happens.
I don't CHOOSE to have a PO box, you objectionable, presumptuous person. It's the only way I can get mail. And yes, first class USPS is pretty fast, but Amazon won't ship first class. They ship by the method THEY choose. And don't presume to tell me where I live. I live on the East Coast, about 1-1/2 hours south of Boston.
By the way, Amazon only changed their shipping policy a couple of months ago. Up until then, Prime shipping worked like a dream.
By the way, where do you live in the U.S. where the USPS does not deliver to you?
You're the one guy who asked me nicely, so I'm glad to tell you. Eastern Massachusetts - Cape Cod - pretty heavily populated, but anywhere outside of the larger town centers there's no home delivery. I'm on a private road, so they won't even deliver to roadside mailboxes. In fact, they won't even deliver to a mailbox at the END of the road, where it joins a main town road. There are plenty of places in the US with no front door mailslot / front porch package delivery.
I've also been stuck with UPS and FedEx dropping my packages at the post office on quite a number of occasions. Not all the time, by any means. Usually, it was an Amazon delivery, as a matter of fact. UPS gives them a cheaper option if they let them take all the packages to the nearest post office and avoid the last mile. If the USPS delivers where you are, the package still shows up at your front door. For those of us who are out of luck, we have to drive to the post office and fetch the packages.
Fat lot of good Walmart free pickup does me. The nearest Walmart is 50 miles away in blindingly congested traffic, and I don't drive much. Their basic shipping is mostly USPS and is as slow as watching paint dry.
Amazon's Prime went to absolute shit when one day with no warning they changed from sending everything UPS or FedEx to my door, and started using horrible, dog-slow USPS service. There is no USPS delivery here, it is hell to get to the post office, try to find a parking space, wait forever at the counter, drag that heavy shit to the car, get it all the way home, and drag it from the driveway to the door. Also, USPS beats the hell out of their packages, which UPS and FedEx never used to do.
Fact: when you give Amazon a post office box number to ship to, poof; there goes your Prime 2-day shipping. It magically changes to 7 days. I pay GOOD MONEY for Prime, and except for streaming, it is now all wasted.
I used to love Amazon. Now I blanking HATE them. Amazon, you SUCK!
Jet did have a recurring membership fee for a time. They dropped it, but they still wanted to retain my credit card info and did not accept PayPal. I gave them one of those "fake card" numbers you can get from your credit card provider, funded with only a small prepayment, and with a short expiration time.
Bullcrap. A boo-boo this massive is BY DEFINITION a management fuck-up. It is management's [only] job to ensure all departments are doing their jobs competently. They don't get to say "well gosh, engineering told us they knew what they were doing". Yeah, it isn't EASY, but it's why they get the obscene compensation levels.
In a pig's eye will we ever acquire 2443 of these gold-plated overpriced pieces of shit. That's la-la land. As of March 2016, only 171 had been built, and the program is HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars over budget.
That works just as long as the opponent really is a "stupid fucker". Toward the end of WWII, a hell of a lot of Fw 190 pilots, poorly trained kids fresh from the farm, were on fire and going down before they knew they were under attack. The Mustang pilots marveled how they flew straight and level, not even looking around, even after bullets had started to strike them.
A competent opponent is trained to be aware at all times, and not to fly predictably. He will spot that missile from miles away, and just outmaneuver it.
"Claims" be stuffed. The REALITY is that the vaunted long range Sparrow radar homers were SHIT. They NEVER hit ANYTHING. The small, cheap Sidewinder infrared homers were a lot better, but they were short range. Fact is, if a highly maneuverable fighter with a good pilot sees that almighty giveaway smoke trail of a missile coming for him, ANY type of missile which is nothing more than a pointy stick with rudders and elevators on the end, but no airfoil up front, he stands a damn good chance of outmaneuvering it, because the fighter has an airfoil and can pull a lot of Gs turning.
Long range missile kills against a bunch of ignorant savages like Libya or Iraq, who are just meat on the table, are a piece of cake. Against guys who know what the fuck they are doing, like the US, Europe, Russia, and Israel - forget it.
Bugger off. No Marine platoon pinned down under heavy enemy fire wants to see air support arrive in the form of goddam toy airplanes, blundering and pussyfooting around. They want to see A-10s, driven by seasoned pilots, well experienced in CAS. They want to hear that BRRRRRRRRRRP of death shredding the enemy.
You can't aim at an aircraft with your eyes and a projectile.
What utter nonsense; of course you can. It's true, you better be damn good at leading your target to have any success with a SINGLE PROJECTILE. But that is a stupid visualization. Close air support is extreme low level. Close air support is brought down by filling the air in the vicinity with fire. Lots of Mustangs were brought down by multiple free-fired ground machine guns. Can you avoid a hailstorm by flying fast but directly toward the target at low level? Of course not.
WWI CAS was under 100 knots. By WWII it had risen to 200-400 knots. Today it is very little faster; 350-500 knots; no matter if the aircraft is capable of supersonic dash or not, that just isn't how you strafe ground targets. It's not that much harder to hit something at 500 knots than it was at 400, especially when it's much bigger now.
The F-35 is an utter piece of garbage at close air support as well as at dogfighting. The only role it could be any good at is flying high, engaging enemy aircraft at long range with missiles. And it's complete overkill for that. Not to mention that no air force on earth outside of the US, Europe, Russia, and Israel has the slightest competency whatsoever at air to air combat.
Poor brainwashed intimidated scared Ghostmail: THERE ARE NO "wrong users". Freedom of personal life against spying is a HUMAN RIGHT. If you only allow cheery apple pie free speech that you agree with, then it's not free speech. And if you deny freedom from spying to random people because, heavens to murgatroyd, they MIGHT POSSIBLY be "bad" people, then you don't believe in freedom, and if you don't believe in freedom then you believe in subjugation.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. The extremes may be obvious, but the line of separation in the middle is thin and ill defined. You may think you "know one when you see him", but you don't even know how to define what a "bad guy" is. Don't categorize. Punish the transgressions, not the thoughts and traits.
Seriously, the Moon may look like it's "well within Earth's gravity well", but in terms of velocities, it really is pretty close to the outer edge of same.
I assume you're well aware that a gravity well is asymptotic and has no "outer edge" at all.
So in other words, Atlas, the canonical, original US ICBM, which wasn't even two stages, was "multi stage" in your mind. Never mind that all of the motors were started together at the moment of launch. And "some" MRBMs means basically all the original IRBMs, like the Jupiter and Thor. They were straight single-stage, single-motor.
Now you're just arguing for its own sake. We all know the difference between acceleration and velocity. Since V is the time integral of A, the way you get V is by applying A for a period of time. "More acceleration" to get into a higher orbit is not an incorrect concept.
WTF are you on about? From the fucking site, "The package includes : ClearFog Base + MicroSoM A388", and it starts at $90.
And who in the HELL would compare this in any way to a Raspberry Pi? The Pi has one 100-megabit (actually more like half of one 100-megabit). This has two gigabits.
Finally, what kind of lightweight thinks that "serious networking" requires WiFi, or that something with one half of one ethernet port is usable in any way as a router? Nobody said anything about wireless access points.
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If Congress doesn't make a stupid law, the President will arrogantly dictate the stupidity.
If the Congress and the President don't do it, the Supreme Court will make up some bullshit.
If the feds don't do it, the states will - corrupt legislatures, tyrannical governors, and crappy state supreme courts.
If the states don't do it, the counties will.
If the counties don't do it, the cities and towns will.
The whole lot of them are a bunch of vile, corrupt pigs.
Sorry, you misunderstand how HTTP works. There is no "VLC video link". Those are links to video files or streams, and all they specify is a Content-Type. It is the configuration of your client that controls how various Content-Types get mapped to handlers locally.
I'm going to assume this was meant as a sarcastic joke.
How about NO. mplayer's shortcuts are marvelously efficient, vlc's are pointlessly cumbersome.
Jump forward and back 10 seconds: mplayer, right and left arrow. vlc, alt right and left arrow. Absolutely pointlessly cumbersome.
Jump forward and back 1 minute: mplayer, up and down arrow. vlc, control right and left arrow. Absolutely pointlessly cumbersome.
Jump forward and back 5 or 10 minutes: mplayer, page up and page down. vlc, supposed to be control-alt right and left arrow, but these switch my workspace to a different virtual screen, so they don't even work at all. If they did work, they would be grotesquely cumbersome.
I can't over-emphasize how cumbersome it is to control elementary realtime playback controls via awkward multiple keystrokes.
Other than this issue, I find vlc a very impressive piece of work. I do find mplayer much handier to run, but that's far from a make-or-break. Finally, yes, I'm aware I can customize my own shortcuts, and if I had a reason to run vlc instead of mplayer, I would just do so.
Sorry, no. Just no. All the way back to prehistoric wandering nomads, you were in trouble if you tried to steal Ugh's stone axe that Ugh created himself and Ugh jealously guarded as his personal property. But if Blarf painted a particular illustration in a cave, even if it took him years of labor, he wasn't coming after you if you copied the same illustration in another cave.
One is natural behavior. The other is the imposition of the heavy hand of The Man lording it over everyone. In one case, you're depriving someone of something. In the other case, you're just adding a copy of something, without depriving anyone of the original in any way.
Oh BULLSHIT! Successful authors as opposed to hobbyist dabbler writers write AT LEAST a novel a year. Isaac Asimov got two novels published in 1983, one in 1984, 3 in 1985, 2 in 1986, 2 in 1987, 2 in 1988, 2 in 1989, and 2 in 1990. And most of those were shatteringly successful, like The Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire, Foundation and Earth, and Prelude to Foundation. And he was pumping out mystery short stories, anthologies, and nonfiction at the same time.
His lifetime total was 506. Stephen King has 54 novels and almost 200 short stories.
You can't make a living writing unless you you are unbelievably prolific, or your works are market blockbusters like Stephen King's. Yeah, it would take ME at least 10 years to generate a novel, and nobody would buy it.
I would like to know this too. The shortcut keys in mplayer are excellent. Just copy them. I am always pressing right arrow in vlc and nothing happens.
Wha? Truth in Direct Rendering Manager labeling?
I don't CHOOSE to have a PO box, you objectionable, presumptuous person. It's the only way I can get mail. And yes, first class USPS is pretty fast, but Amazon won't ship first class. They ship by the method THEY choose. And don't presume to tell me where I live. I live on the East Coast, about 1-1/2 hours south of Boston.
By the way, Amazon only changed their shipping policy a couple of months ago. Up until then, Prime shipping worked like a dream.
You're the one guy who asked me nicely, so I'm glad to tell you. Eastern Massachusetts - Cape Cod - pretty heavily populated, but anywhere outside of the larger town centers there's no home delivery. I'm on a private road, so they won't even deliver to roadside mailboxes. In fact, they won't even deliver to a mailbox at the END of the road, where it joins a main town road. There are plenty of places in the US with no front door mailslot / front porch package delivery.
I've also been stuck with UPS and FedEx dropping my packages at the post office on quite a number of occasions. Not all the time, by any means. Usually, it was an Amazon delivery, as a matter of fact. UPS gives them a cheaper option if they let them take all the packages to the nearest post office and avoid the last mile. If the USPS delivers where you are, the package still shows up at your front door. For those of us who are out of luck, we have to drive to the post office and fetch the packages.
Fat lot of good Walmart free pickup does me. The nearest Walmart is 50 miles away in blindingly congested traffic, and I don't drive much. Their basic shipping is mostly USPS and is as slow as watching paint dry.
Amazon's Prime went to absolute shit when one day with no warning they changed from sending everything UPS or FedEx to my door, and started using horrible, dog-slow USPS service. There is no USPS delivery here, it is hell to get to the post office, try to find a parking space, wait forever at the counter, drag that heavy shit to the car, get it all the way home, and drag it from the driveway to the door. Also, USPS beats the hell out of their packages, which UPS and FedEx never used to do.
Fact: when you give Amazon a post office box number to ship to, poof; there goes your Prime 2-day shipping. It magically changes to 7 days. I pay GOOD MONEY for Prime, and except for streaming, it is now all wasted.
I used to love Amazon. Now I blanking HATE them. Amazon, you SUCK!
Jet did have a recurring membership fee for a time. They dropped it, but they still wanted to retain my credit card info and did not accept PayPal. I gave them one of those "fake card" numbers you can get from your credit card provider, funded with only a small prepayment, and with a short expiration time.
Bullcrap. A boo-boo this massive is BY DEFINITION a management fuck-up. It is management's [only] job to ensure all departments are doing their jobs competently. They don't get to say "well gosh, engineering told us they knew what they were doing". Yeah, it isn't EASY, but it's why they get the obscene compensation levels.
Absolutely ... WRONG.
25 years of combat, my ass. 24-1/2 years of mugging helpless savages and maybe 1/2 year of combat.
In a pig's eye will we ever acquire 2443 of these gold-plated overpriced pieces of shit. That's la-la land. As of March 2016, only 171 had been built, and the program is HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars over budget.
That works just as long as the opponent really is a "stupid fucker". Toward the end of WWII, a hell of a lot of Fw 190 pilots, poorly trained kids fresh from the farm, were on fire and going down before they knew they were under attack. The Mustang pilots marveled how they flew straight and level, not even looking around, even after bullets had started to strike them.
A competent opponent is trained to be aware at all times, and not to fly predictably. He will spot that missile from miles away, and just outmaneuver it.
"Claims" be stuffed. The REALITY is that the vaunted long range Sparrow radar homers were SHIT. They NEVER hit ANYTHING. The small, cheap Sidewinder infrared homers were a lot better, but they were short range. Fact is, if a highly maneuverable fighter with a good pilot sees that almighty giveaway smoke trail of a missile coming for him, ANY type of missile which is nothing more than a pointy stick with rudders and elevators on the end, but no airfoil up front, he stands a damn good chance of outmaneuvering it, because the fighter has an airfoil and can pull a lot of Gs turning.
Long range missile kills against a bunch of ignorant savages like Libya or Iraq, who are just meat on the table, are a piece of cake. Against guys who know what the fuck they are doing, like the US, Europe, Russia, and Israel - forget it.
Bugger off. No Marine platoon pinned down under heavy enemy fire wants to see air support arrive in the form of goddam toy airplanes, blundering and pussyfooting around. They want to see A-10s, driven by seasoned pilots, well experienced in CAS. They want to hear that BRRRRRRRRRRP of death shredding the enemy.
What utter nonsense; of course you can. It's true, you better be damn good at leading your target to have any success with a SINGLE PROJECTILE. But that is a stupid visualization. Close air support is extreme low level. Close air support is brought down by filling the air in the vicinity with fire. Lots of Mustangs were brought down by multiple free-fired ground machine guns. Can you avoid a hailstorm by flying fast but directly toward the target at low level? Of course not.
WWI CAS was under 100 knots. By WWII it had risen to 200-400 knots. Today it is very little faster; 350-500 knots; no matter if the aircraft is capable of supersonic dash or not, that just isn't how you strafe ground targets. It's not that much harder to hit something at 500 knots than it was at 400, especially when it's much bigger now.
The F-35 is an utter piece of garbage at close air support as well as at dogfighting. The only role it could be any good at is flying high, engaging enemy aircraft at long range with missiles. And it's complete overkill for that. Not to mention that no air force on earth outside of the US, Europe, Russia, and Israel has the slightest competency whatsoever at air to air combat.
Poor brainwashed intimidated scared Ghostmail: THERE ARE NO "wrong users". Freedom of personal life against spying is a HUMAN RIGHT. If you only allow cheery apple pie free speech that you agree with, then it's not free speech. And if you deny freedom from spying to random people because, heavens to murgatroyd, they MIGHT POSSIBLY be "bad" people, then you don't believe in freedom, and if you don't believe in freedom then you believe in subjugation.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. The extremes may be obvious, but the line of separation in the middle is thin and ill defined. You may think you "know one when you see him", but you don't even know how to define what a "bad guy" is. Don't categorize. Punish the transgressions, not the thoughts and traits.
I assume you're well aware that a gravity well is asymptotic and has no "outer edge" at all.
So in other words, Atlas, the canonical, original US ICBM, which wasn't even two stages, was "multi stage" in your mind. Never mind that all of the motors were started together at the moment of launch. And "some" MRBMs means basically all the original IRBMs, like the Jupiter and Thor. They were straight single-stage, single-motor.
Now you're just arguing for its own sake. We all know the difference between acceleration and velocity. Since V is the time integral of A, the way you get V is by applying A for a period of time. "More acceleration" to get into a higher orbit is not an incorrect concept.
WTF are you on about? From the fucking site, "The package includes : ClearFog Base + MicroSoM A388", and it starts at $90.
And who in the HELL would compare this in any way to a Raspberry Pi? The Pi has one 100-megabit (actually more like half of one 100-megabit). This has two gigabits.
Finally, what kind of lightweight thinks that "serious networking" requires WiFi, or that something with one half of one ethernet port is usable in any way as a router? Nobody said anything about wireless access points.