And how exactly is knowing that the NSA isn't under court-oversight, gonna help terrorists???? I guess Bin Laden is now gonna hold off on making all those phone calls to the States, now that he knows the NSA doesn't need to call a judge before starting the wiretap.
By assuming terrorists believe the U.S. uphelds principles not even the U.S. believes in anymore. You must admit it is kinda funny.
Probably depends on where you are from, and how that translation team works:) Cyric sounds like he could be from Eastern Europe somewhere, I dunno.
I usually select Norwegian as my default language after installing Ubuntu, but the mix of English and Norwegian in menus and preferences is an eyesore. It could be most of it is Ubuntu's -- not Gnome's -- fault, but when using KDE (Arch/Suse/Mandrake), lack of translations are hardly visible except for in special cases, like Amarok-SVN and Yast.
The whole "Apple" record company problem can go away by establishing a company called iTunes. The name is already established -- no brand building needed. And the quality of lot of the indie music out there more than matches the quality of the BMG/Sony/Warner/EMI/Universal -- the only thing making the RIAA artists "more valuable" is the marketing of those who has potential hits -- and that job iTunes can take over. Oh, what glory it would be.
gstreamer is in many ways better than DirectShow (except seeking, this works more reliable with DShow)
I've used several players on Linux (xine and different frontends, mplayer and different frontends, gstreamer, VLC, RealPlayer) and Windows (WMP, Media Player Classic, VLC, BSPlayer), and have encountered only two players where seeking doesn't suck: gmplayer on Linux and XBMC on Xbox (though backwards seeking is a bit broken). In XBMC I can use several methods of seeking (trigger, dpad, thumbstick) to navigate to exact places in movies, and on gmplayer I can use the scrollwheel to move quite smoothly backwards and forwards. Similar functions in other media players (even those with scroll wheel support for back/forwards) seems to make large uncontrolled jumps, possibly just going for the keyframes. Can anyone please point me to an alternative for Windows that works as smooth as gmplayer? This is an honest request, not a "Win sux Lin rulz" flame. I need one before I go insane!
In Windows, the media player automatically tries to download a suitable codec, and if there isn't any, it prints out an error message (which is not very helpful:)
Have anyone actually seen a codec getting downloaded this way? I've seen it fail so many times I'm starting to suspect Windows Media Player just displays the text without contacting the net at all.
Home users probably won't know what version they have, and that will complicate tech support calls of all types.
Been there, done that. - "So do you have service pack 2 installed?" - "Uhm, maybe you should speak to my son, I am not much into this..." - "Hold the little flag button on the bottom left of your keyboard, then push the Pause/Break button faaar up on the right at the same time" - "Oh, something happened." - "Can you read what is says under System?" - "Uh, yes, Windows... copyright, oh, Service pack 2"
Usually this does not take longer than 30 secs, and will most likely work on Vista too.
Later, we needed digital school money. We needed to have X computers per student, so what did they do? they went out and bought literally hundreds of P120's and P100's with 32MB ram, most of which ended up collecting dust in some back room in schools.
A lot of schools in Norway were in this situations, and came up with SkoleLinux ("School Linux") as a solution that is gaining popularity. Based on LTSP and Debian, it can really give new life to old computers. Check the web page, there is an English version too. Of course, if someone insists on a Windows enviroment, you probably can use something like Citrix for the exact same thing. Don't know how much Citrix demands of the client computers, though.
you always spend eevrything, bo over budget, get too little, then demand more next year. in fact, if principles have extra funds left over, they find dept chairs, etc., and see what they need. you can't have leftover money. eevry public school does this, even colleges.
I think it is like that everywhere. When I was in the army, they had the same thing: A weekend of spending ammo, where we just went up into the mountains to use it all, so the budget would not be cut.
What PC World doesn't want you to know, is that you can read articles how Tim intended by going straight for the printable version. I give you gold here.
or unless you're wanting to play games with Cedega
What about Enemy Territory? 1024x768 with the grass on "Radar" not causing jerkiness is all I ask. Or even 800x600? If there are alternatives to Nvidia, I would like to hear.
Enemy Territory is free, if not Free (There are some SDK sources out there, maybe with the Q3 source the whole source now is GPL), and it is all I need.
So true. I've also been reading the mailing list about this, and I can see Hans banging his head to the wall. I must admit the reasoning against implementing it -- why this-and-this should go in that layer and so on -- goes over my head, but I fear Hans will give up the same way Nemosoft Unv did regarding the PWC driver.
Where I feel Nemosoft was wrong (and that solved itself quite nicely), I do not think we can afford losing Hans Reiser. Mike (The real one) has a good point about letting Reiser4 prove itself: Quite a few run non-standard kernels, all you need is something like BEST/KAT (Tenor?) to be successful, and the users will start applying pressure to get Reiser4 included by default.
Photos of Valerie Plame has not exactly been floating around (Except that "mysterious" Vanity Fair photo), but a few weeks ago when using Google image search, I found this page. Scroll a bit down, and Valerie and Joseph is posing for the camera. Not only that, the web page author is scaling the picture with the img tag. Enter the image url directly, and voila -- 2048x1536 goodness. If not a fake, it must be the most detailed picture that can be found of her on the internet.
Even though I do have certain affection for people who cultivate and smoke their own grass crops, bragging about any breach of the local legal code in public is a demonstration of such sheer stupidity that they deserve to get caught.
The Karma plays both flac and ogg, fine, but it is NOT a mass-storage device, so you either need to bring around a special app for transfer, OR connect it to a network connector so you can access the web interface so you can access a java version of a special app. And don't get me started about the harddrives... The warranty is fine (For Europeans anyway, in the US I heard it is 90 days), but are you unlucky (as quite a few are), your Karma will spend most of its time travelling back and forth between you and the RMA department. Rio's new/other players does not support Ogg or Flac, but there were talk about a Karma 2 (All old features+sound quality, plus mass storage and not-so-crappy drives), and if that delievers, they have a sure winner among the geeks.
Since we like quotes from old American geezers ("...deserves no liberty at all"), here is one from Thomas Jefferson:
"He who receives an idea from me receives it without lessening me, as he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening me."
I'm sure he didn't refer to an iso of GTA: San Andreas found on a Swedish bittorrent page, but the counter-argument at that time also could have been "Candles cost MONEY, I think I deserve something back for the flame you just infringed upon" or "Do you know how much TIME I used to come up with that idea? Now I might have to work the fields instead of thinking out new stuff in the future"
The Catweasel is a PCI floppy controller (among other things), and boasts support for over 1100 disk formats. I plan to start backing up my old Amiga and C64 disks with this one "any day now".
Look, you can argue all you want, but WATER BOILS at 100 degrees C (212 F), and that is what you should expect when you receive a cup of coffee! If too hot, put it down for a minute, but don't be a retard and expect McDonalds will blow on it like your mom blew on your porridge when it was too hot.
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...they branch to a new address.
Probably depends on where you are from, and how that translation team works :) Cyric sounds like he could be from Eastern Europe somewhere, I dunno.
I usually select Norwegian as my default language after installing Ubuntu, but the mix of English and Norwegian in menus and preferences is an eyesore. It could be most of it is Ubuntu's -- not Gnome's -- fault, but when using KDE (Arch/Suse/Mandrake), lack of translations are hardly visible except for in special cases, like Amarok-SVN and Yast.
and here for Betty The Crow, bending a wire to gain access to food. Quite cool.
The whole "Apple" record company problem can go away by establishing a company called iTunes. The name is already established -- no brand building needed. And the quality of lot of the indie music out there more than matches the quality of the BMG/Sony/Warner/EMI/Universal -- the only thing making the RIAA artists "more valuable" is the marketing of those who has potential hits -- and that job iTunes can take over. Oh, what glory it would be.
Nah, by the time they wake up and understand something is wrong, their guns are gone, and lots of nice technology is in place to keep them in line.
So this is news reporting marketing that will reveal more marketing in 12 hours. The MS PR agency is cheering, Walter Lippman is crying in his grave.
KDE 3.5 feature plan. Green is finished, yellow is in progress, red not started.
Anyone tried the MSN and Yahoo webcam support in Kopete yet?
Been there, done that.
- "So do you have service pack 2 installed?"
- "Uhm, maybe you should speak to my son, I am not much into this..."
- "Hold the little flag button on the bottom left of your keyboard, then push the Pause/Break button faaar up on the right at the same time"
- "Oh, something happened."
- "Can you read what is says under System?"
- "Uh, yes, Windows... copyright, oh, Service pack 2"
Usually this does not take longer than 30 secs, and will most likely work on Vista too.
Of course, if someone insists on a Windows enviroment, you probably can use something like Citrix for the exact same thing. Don't know how much Citrix demands of the client computers, though. I think it is like that everywhere. When I was in the army, they had the same thing: A weekend of spending ammo, where we just went up into the mountains to use it all, so the budget would not be cut.
What PC World doesn't want you to know, is that you can read articles how Tim intended by going straight for the printable version. I give you gold here.
Enemy Territory is free, if not Free (There are some SDK sources out there, maybe with the Q3 source the whole source now is GPL), and it is all I need.
So true. I've also been reading the mailing list about this, and I can see Hans banging his head to the wall. I must admit the reasoning against implementing it -- why this-and-this should go in that layer and so on -- goes over my head, but I fear Hans will give up the same way Nemosoft Unv did regarding the PWC driver. Where I feel Nemosoft was wrong (and that solved itself quite nicely), I do not think we can afford losing Hans Reiser. Mike (The real one) has a good point about letting Reiser4 prove itself: Quite a few run non-standard kernels, all you need is something like BEST/KAT (Tenor?) to be successful, and the users will start applying pressure to get Reiser4 included by default.
Photos of Valerie Plame has not exactly been floating around (Except that "mysterious" Vanity Fair photo), but a few weeks ago when using Google image search, I found this page. Scroll a bit down, and Valerie and Joseph is posing for the camera. Not only that, the web page author is scaling the picture with the img tag. Enter the image url directly, and voila -- 2048x1536 goodness. If not a fake, it must be the most detailed picture that can be found of her on the internet.
The Karma plays both flac and ogg, fine, but it is NOT a mass-storage device, so you either need to bring around a special app for transfer, OR connect it to a network connector so you can access the web interface so you can access a java version of a special app. And don't get me started about the harddrives... The warranty is fine (For Europeans anyway, in the US I heard it is 90 days), but are you unlucky (as quite a few are), your Karma will spend most of its time travelling back and forth between you and the RMA department. Rio's new/other players does not support Ogg or Flac, but there were talk about a Karma 2 (All old features+sound quality, plus mass storage and not-so-crappy drives), and if that delievers, they have a sure winner among the geeks.
Since we like quotes from old American geezers ("...deserves no liberty at all"), here is one from Thomas Jefferson:
"He who receives an idea from me receives it without lessening me, as he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening me."
I'm sure he didn't refer to an iso of GTA: San Andreas found on a Swedish bittorrent page, but the counter-argument at that time also could have been "Candles cost MONEY, I think I deserve something back for the flame you just infringed upon" or "Do you know how much TIME I used to come up with that idea? Now I might have to work the fields instead of thinking out new stuff in the future"
The Catweasel is a PCI floppy controller (among other things), and boasts support for over 1100 disk formats. I plan to start backing up my old Amiga and C64 disks with this one "any day now".
What if you stop applying binary logic to law, and understand that they will ask for anything that looks interesting, no mater the medium?
The cd label said "FINAL FANTASY", but only until she selected a bolder typeface.
Look, you can argue all you want, but WATER BOILS at 100 degrees C (212 F), and that is what you should expect when you receive a cup of coffee! If too hot, put it down for a minute, but don't be a retard and expect McDonalds will blow on it like your mom blew on your porridge when it was too hot.