As an aside, does anyone know where you can find Canadian-oriented information about bad laws relating to technology? I mean, like the YRO section of/. with a Canadian focus..
Well, things aren't bad at the moment here but I'm not optimistic; we have CD-R levies, which, even though they aren't particularly important are annyoing, but more importantly we've given the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) the power to arrest people without charging them, as long as they cite terrorism as a concern.
That's about as bad as it is at the moment though, unless you consider dealing with married pot-smoking lesbian hippies a problem;).
Well, 2.4 will probably take a couple weeks to make it to it, but Dropline Gnome is a very nice GNOME system for Slackware that has an installer and everything.
For those of us who know little about Japanese+computers, could you explain what exactyly it is that you input Japanese kanji? It seems to me that it can't be incredibly convenient..
This won't make them cheaper - the price is mostly markup. Do you think that it really is so expensive to produce the textbook that they need to charge >CDN$125 for it?
I'm not sure the stupid people who don't know who the US president is, I don't think they SHOULD vote.
How are these people supposed to make a choice about who they think should govern the country? I'd think they'd be a lot easier to manipulate them into voting for a certain party.
The whole bit about MB or Mb is silly, and reasonable people can't be expected to differentiate between megabyte and megabit using a difference in case in one letter. Do you insist that kilobytes are 1000 bytes and kibibytes are 1024? You know damn well that you can't get 10Mb per second out of ADSL.. Anyway, my mistake, it's the Business class DSL that is listed as 1.5mbit..
Read, and you will see that there is no installation fee. If you want them to install it on your computer for you, (which if you read Slashdot I'm sure you don't need..) it is $50.
You do realize I am talking Canadian funds, right? That's what CDN$ means..
At current market rates, at your estimate of CDN$49/month, that is ~USD$35.50. The real price (no install fee) would be ~USD$32.50.
For Verizon DSL, it is only 768kbit service. It is USD$35.95.
And, at IGS you deal with somebody who KNOWS what they're doing at tech support.
Unfortunately, this screwball frame rate causes real problems when you convert film to color video. Instead of simply duplicating every 4th frame (to expand 24 fps into 30fps) you have to add an extra rule to not duplicate every 1000th frame.
Funny, everything I've read says that they slow the film down to 23.976fps and then telecine to 29.97fps. Problem solved.
Also, (see parent) isn't is 59.94 fields per second? I'm assuming this was just a typo..
Please don't be a grammar-nazi. If everyone says "begging the question" means provokes one to ask the question, then that's what it means, regardless of whether or not it is defined like this.
For christ's sake, you know, I know, the employee knows, your brother knows, everyone knows that if it's a silvery-looking thing that is 12cm wide and has music on it, it's a CD!
What exactly is the point of doing this? Do forks have to be labelled 'fork' for you to know it is a fork?
Amen. I tried to use my dial-up connection with Mandrake. It was so screwed up I just installed wvdial.
Red Hat has this problem too, though. Using it's Network Configuration tool to configure my dial-up connection, it worked, but for some reason I was expected to go into the Network Configuration tool everytime I wanted to dial-up. I went to use KPPP, but discovered it wasn't installed. Neither was wvdial. Nor anything else. I downloaded a wvdial rpm from another machine and installed it to get online.
What I would like to see in Mandrake's wizards are a better display control (offers little to no choice regarding resolution/refresh rate) and a font installer that make sense and works properly all the time.
Err.. no. That would me the DMCA applies in Canada, by your logic. The Berne (there is an 'e' at the end) Convention sets out a set of basic set of rules that protect copyrights in the member nations.
How 'bout another comparison? Care to explain how a virgin Mandrake install (Mandrake is worse than this than RedHat, IMHO) is siginifigantly slower (in KDE) than a virgin RedHat install?
Also note that Mandrake comes with the kitchen sink, while RedHat installs a more reasonable default set of packages..
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As an aside, does anyone know where you can find Canadian-oriented information about bad laws relating to technology? I mean, like the YRO section of /. with a Canadian focus..
That's about as bad as it is at the moment though, unless you consider dealing with married pot-smoking lesbian hippies a problem ;).
Yes, I do.. but CD's will last a lot longer than CD-R. CD-R has difficulty lasting 5 years. My CD's from the 80's are mostly fine.
Well, 2.4 will probably take a couple weeks to make it to it, but Dropline Gnome is a very nice GNOME system for Slackware that has an installer and everything.
For those of us who know little about Japanese+computers, could you explain what exactyly it is that you input Japanese kanji? It seems to me that it can't be incredibly convenient..
This project is da bomb!
This won't make them cheaper - the price is mostly markup. Do you think that it really is so expensive to produce the textbook that they need to charge >CDN$125 for it?
How are these people supposed to make a choice about who they think should govern the country? I'd think they'd be a lot easier to manipulate them into voting for a certain party.
Well, Canadians have the right to copy. Unfortunately, this comes with heavy levies that double the price of CD-Rs. "Audio" CD-Rs are even more..
The whole bit about MB or Mb is silly, and reasonable people can't be expected to differentiate between megabyte and megabit using a difference in case in one letter. Do you insist that kilobytes are 1000 bytes and kibibytes are 1024? You know damn well that you can't get 10Mb per second out of ADSL.. Anyway, my mistake, it's the Business class DSL that is listed as 1.5mbit..
Read, and you will see that there is no installation fee. If you want them to install it on your computer for you, (which if you read Slashdot I'm sure you don't need..) it is $50.
You do realize I am talking Canadian funds, right? That's what CDN$ means..
At current market rates, at your estimate of CDN$49/month, that is ~USD$35.50. The real price (no install fee) would be ~USD$32.50.
For Verizon DSL, it is only 768kbit service.
It is USD$35.95.
And, at IGS you deal with somebody who KNOWS what they're doing at tech support.
So, shut the hell up.
Sorry, then. These things don't come through very clearly in text.
Funny, everything I've read says that they slow the film down to 23.976fps and then telecine to 29.97fps. Problem solved.
Also, (see parent) isn't is 59.94 fields per second? I'm assuming this was just a typo..
Well, I can get DSL from IGS.net for CDN$34.95. 1.5mbit/128kbit, no caps. Mac/Linux friendly. Yay.
Is The Matrix music?
No?
This sort of thing won't be a problem until DVD-Audio (or SACD) becomes mainstream.
Funny, forward compatibility hasn't been a problem for WordPefect.. the file format has NOT changed since version 6. That's 1994, AFAIK.
Please don't be a grammar-nazi. If everyone says "begging the question" means provokes one to ask the question, then that's what it means, regardless of whether or not it is defined like this.
What exactly is the point of doing this? Do forks have to be labelled 'fork' for you to know it is a fork?
Amen. I tried to use my dial-up connection with Mandrake. It was so screwed up I just installed wvdial.
Red Hat has this problem too, though. Using it's Network Configuration tool to configure my dial-up connection, it worked, but for some reason I was expected to go into the Network Configuration tool everytime I wanted to dial-up. I went to use KPPP, but discovered it wasn't installed. Neither was wvdial. Nor anything else. I downloaded a wvdial rpm from another machine and installed it to get online.
What I would like to see in Mandrake's wizards are a better display control (offers little to no choice regarding resolution/refresh rate) and a font installer that make sense and works properly all the time.
I think he meant 3 gibibytes...
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Nice idea, but either this will never happen or their will suddenly be a campus-wide Windows-only policy when it comes time to write the client..
Also note that Mandrake comes with the kitchen sink, while RedHat installs a more reasonable default set of packages..
Wow, you're scary. Do you have a pair of plastic Spock ears, by chance?
Hey, as long as they're still turning out tentacle rape porn, I'm happy.
Of course, if somebody drops a nuke on your city I'd think you should have bigger concerns than some computer data. ;)