But it is kind of remarkable that the RIAA has become so annoying that marketing uses them to hype features. Some time ago, it was all about "protect your valuable projectdata", now they are running campaigns to get people buying to avoid lawsuits, "Hide your copyright infringements". Wonder if RIAA will respond to this.
Would you then care to explain why Hitler's first order of business was to imprison/execute every communist in Germany? Hitler had an immense support from the liberal/conservative parties, mostly because of his antisocialistic views.
I've read quite a few of Lenin's works, as well as writings by Trotsky. What is stated in these works are things similar to Marx and Engels' conclusions: That the current minority ruling must be overthrowed and replaced with a worker's government, which will eventually wither away. Unfortunately, the term "dictatorship of the proletariat" has been used to describe this, which leads people to draw somewhat wrong conclusions (it would be a dictatorship, but a dictatorship of the majority)
Secondly, I can't think of many political parties that have been subjected to as many internal debates, votes and internal discussion as the RSDWP was during the beginning of the 20th century.
Most Americans are poorly educated regarding the Russian revolution (or just about any historical event really). Stalin was the one who founded the dictatorship model, something which Lenin warned people about. Lenin's last writing contatins a warning about the growing bureucracy, and specifically mentions Stalin as a highly unsuitable successor. Due to Russias underdevelopment in the industrial area, Lenin predicted that a reaction to the revolution would follow if countries in Europe didn't join the revolution. The tool for this reaction became Stalin, whose ideology very few marxists support.
Actually, I find myself needing both xine and mplayer. Mplayer plays just about anything you throw at it, without problems. Xine on the other hand has a somewhat flakier playback, sometimes with frames dropped, at least on my system, but it's way better than mplayer for dvd:s.
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The problem is that the naming isn't consistent all over. For example, some apps are named k*, but requires only qtlib, not kde, and one never knows if an application named g* requires gnome, gtk or gtk2. If everyone stuck 100% to a naming scheme it would work, but right now the names doesn't divulge exactly what an application requires, only what family of libs they use. :end rant
No, I meant EBM - Electric Body Music (Or in some cases European Body Music). It could be it's a Europe only phenomenon, but it was a style of synth pop which saw it's top somewhere around end of the eighties beginnig of nineties, although it's still somewhat popular among the synthheads. The foremost bands were Front 242 and Frontline Assembly. Reading your comment I realize this wave might have never reached the US. Oh well, it's your loss, but do check out those bands if you like synth.
Parent should probably be modded insightful, although I can understand the funny mod. Warhol is probably the most known example of this kind of art, but there's also cut-up artists, and the EBM musicians with their sampled clips from the media. Makes me wonder how much an artist today could get away with...
No, you are way off. I don't know where people keep getting these ideas about codecs, one would think the word "lossy" would tip you off. Lossy codecs work by utilizing the masking effect, which you describe correctly as getting rid of frequencies covered by louder frequency bands (The masking effect also functions in the time domain btw). What happens is that the codec tries to place distorsion introduced with the compression in such places where the masking effect hides them, but there is a limit where the artifacts become audible. It is in no way possible to get a second pass aac to be identical to the original, since the coder has to start all over with a linear wave-file, and try to achieve that 1:10 compression. Only difference is, this wave now has artifacts from the first pass (ie it is not "prepared for the aac compression phase", it _is already_ compressed once). I suggest you try to compare the new aac to the original (and to the original wave). You will find that they are in no way identical, and if you have a good set of speakers, the differences in sound quality will be audible.
Who modded this interesting? If you uncompress aac, and re-compress it you will have the first round of artifacts, along with new artifacts introduced by the second rip. That is what lossy compression means: You can never get the original, uncompressed audio back, and with aac, which is a very sophisticated format,the artifacts introduced after two passes will definitely be audible.
Firstly, I don't think wma is seen as an alternative to anything, as I hardly see it used anywhere. I have seen.mp4 (aac) files a few times on p2p nets, but in general I think ogg vorbis is the prefered format, even among windows users.
You are right, but I think as a whole things have become more and more skewed towards the lowest common denominator, and as you say it is because of the immense shoving from Hollywood et al. I realize there still exists good movies and music, and in particular many good books. It's just that I find it increasingly hard to filter them out from the static
Ever notice that the lack of build-anything-lego coincides with charts being dominated by brainless lolita pop and one crappy Hollywood movie remake after another being spammed out? Lego isn't the only thing using small numbers of custom-made pieces nowadays. I sense some kind of connection.
divs. Done properly, they make layouting much easier than tables. Using tables is not wrong, but it is an old, deprecated way of getting a page layouted.
I may be way off base, but I see the need to have a existing non-journalling file system. Someone stop me if I'm wrong, but in my mind things like audio recording, video capturing and the likes would suffer performancewise from being run on journalled file systems
I thought that particular Isengard shot was beautifully made. OTOH, I watch a lot of Italian giallo, and I kind of like the impossible camera stuff. When done properly it can really heighten the mood of a film. Watch films by Dario Argento or Mario Bava for example.
It is a guitar with digital output, the power is needed for adc and such. more info here On a sidenote guitars with active pickups sometimes can get their power through phantom power via the signal cord, in addition to the more common solution of a battery.
But those three reasons are more or less why people pay for Widows, or any other proprietary software:
1. Philisophical/moral reasons: They don't want to freeload
2. CD vs p2p/warez-site
3. They are not paying for Windows, but to keep the BSA out of their hair, or they got their legal windows when they bought their computer Laws aside (And in this case they are somewhat irrelevant) nobody will pay for commercial/proprietary software either, unless for moral reasons
Not really. The radio and TV stations pay the record and movie makers for permissions to broadcast movies/songs. They expect to cover this with the money they get from companys buying adspace, so technically if you are stealing from someone, it's thetv/radio stations.
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But it is kind of remarkable that the RIAA has become so annoying that marketing uses them to hype features. Some time ago, it was all about "protect your valuable projectdata", now they are running campaigns to get people buying to avoid lawsuits, "Hide your copyright infringements". Wonder if RIAA will respond to this.
Not really support, but you can get kazaalite to run with wine.Here's documantation.Haven't tried it myself, though.
Would you then care to explain why Hitler's first order of business was to imprison/execute every communist in Germany? Hitler had an immense support from the liberal/conservative parties, mostly because of his antisocialistic views.
I've read quite a few of Lenin's works, as well as writings by Trotsky. What is stated in these works are things similar to Marx and Engels' conclusions: That the current minority ruling must be overthrowed and replaced with a worker's government, which will eventually wither away.
Unfortunately, the term "dictatorship of the proletariat" has been used to describe this, which leads people to draw somewhat wrong conclusions (it would be a dictatorship, but a dictatorship of the majority)
Secondly, I can't think of many political parties that have been subjected to as many internal debates, votes and internal discussion as the RSDWP was during the beginning of the 20th century.
Most Americans are poorly educated regarding the Russian revolution (or just about any historical event really). Stalin was the one who founded the dictatorship model, something which Lenin warned people about. Lenin's last writing contatins a warning about the growing bureucracy, and specifically mentions Stalin as a highly unsuitable successor. Due to Russias underdevelopment in the industrial area, Lenin predicted that a reaction to the revolution would follow if countries in Europe didn't join the revolution. The tool for this reaction became Stalin, whose ideology very few marxists support.
Yes, and perhaps USB high compliance and USB full compliance
Actually, I find myself needing both xine and mplayer. Mplayer plays just about anything you throw at it, without problems. Xine on the other hand has a somewhat flakier playback, sometimes with frames dropped, at least on my system, but it's way better than mplayer for dvd:s.
:begin rant
:end rant
The problem is that the naming isn't consistent all over. For example, some apps are named k*, but requires only qtlib, not kde, and one never knows if an application named g* requires gnome, gtk or gtk2. If everyone stuck 100% to a naming scheme it would work, but right now the names doesn't divulge exactly what an application requires, only what family of libs they use.
No, I meant EBM - Electric Body Music (Or in some cases European Body Music). It could be it's a Europe only phenomenon, but it was a style of synth pop which saw it's top somewhere around end of the eighties beginnig of nineties, although it's still somewhat popular among the synthheads. The foremost bands were Front 242 and Frontline Assembly. Reading your comment I realize this wave might have never reached the US. Oh well, it's your loss, but do check out those bands if you like synth.
Parent should probably be modded insightful, although I can understand the funny mod. Warhol is probably the most known example of this kind of art, but there's also cut-up artists, and the EBM musicians with their sampled clips from the media. Makes me wonder how much an artist today could get away with...
No, you are way off. I don't know where people keep getting these ideas about codecs, one would think the word "lossy" would tip you off. Lossy codecs work by utilizing the masking effect, which you describe correctly as getting rid of frequencies covered by louder frequency bands (The masking effect also functions in the time domain btw).
What happens is that the codec tries to place distorsion introduced with the compression in such places where the masking effect hides them, but there is a limit where the artifacts become audible. It is in no way possible to get a second pass aac to be identical to the original, since the coder has to start all over with a linear wave-file, and try to achieve that 1:10 compression. Only difference is, this wave now has artifacts from the first pass (ie it is not "prepared for the aac compression phase", it _is already_ compressed once). I suggest you try to compare the new aac to the original (and to the original wave). You will find that they are in no way identical, and if you have a good set of speakers, the differences in sound quality will be audible.
Who modded this interesting? If you uncompress aac, and re-compress it you will have the first round of artifacts, along with new artifacts introduced by the second rip. That is what lossy compression means: You can never get the original, uncompressed audio back, and with aac, which is a very sophisticated format,the artifacts introduced after two passes will definitely be audible.
Firstly, I don't think wma is seen as an alternative to anything, as I hardly see it used anywhere. I have seen .mp4 (aac) files a few times on p2p nets, but in general I think ogg vorbis is the prefered format, even among windows users.
IANAL, but AFAIK e-mails have no legal significance whatsoever
You are right, but I think as a whole things have become more and more skewed towards the lowest common denominator, and as you say it is because of the immense shoving from Hollywood et al. I realize there still exists good movies and music, and in particular many good books. It's just that I find it increasingly hard to filter them out from the static
Ever notice that the lack of build-anything-lego coincides with charts being dominated by brainless lolita pop and one crappy Hollywood movie remake after another being spammed out? Lego isn't the only thing using small numbers of custom-made pieces nowadays. I sense some kind of connection.
PEDANTIC: Zeus was a greek god. It's Roman counterpart was Jupiter
divs. Done properly, they make layouting much easier than tables. Using tables is not wrong, but it is an old, deprecated way of getting a page layouted.
Why not K#? ;)
I may be way off base, but I see the need to have a existing non-journalling file system. Someone stop me if I'm wrong, but in my mind things like audio recording, video capturing and the likes would suffer performancewise from being run on journalled file systems
Yes, as we all know the capitalistic USA has never been the cause of any death or destruction whatsoever.
I thought that particular Isengard shot was beautifully made. OTOH, I watch a lot of Italian giallo, and I kind of like the impossible camera stuff. When done properly it can really heighten the mood of a film. Watch films by Dario Argento or Mario Bava for example.
It is a guitar with digital output, the power is needed for adc and such. more info here
On a sidenote guitars with active pickups sometimes can get their power through phantom power via the signal cord, in addition to the more common solution of a battery.
But those three reasons are more or less why people pay for Widows, or any other proprietary software:
1. Philisophical/moral reasons: They don't want to freeload
2. CD vs p2p/warez-site
3. They are not paying for Windows, but to keep the BSA out of their hair, or they got their legal windows when they bought their computer
Laws aside (And in this case they are somewhat irrelevant) nobody will pay for commercial/proprietary software either, unless for moral reasons
Not really. The radio and TV stations pay the record and movie makers for permissions to broadcast movies/songs. They expect to cover this with the money they get from companys buying adspace, so technically if you are stealing from someone, it's thetv/radio stations.