The Christian God isn't a killer? Umm... The bible states that people that wear two different fabrics should be killed. It also states that it is OK to kill your children if they disobey you too much. God demanded that Abraham kill Isaac. OH... and there was this whole "flood" thing. You know the one where everything on the planet but Noah, his family and some pairs of animals were killed by God?
Also, please point to anything that supports the idea that the Muslim god is based on some moon deity.
When you can take an afternoon jog and hit 2 other countries, it's pretty easy to get people to agree on things. The US has over 14,000 different banking companies. In order to get them to do things, it takes a considerably larger amount of time. Just like turning a battleship...
I wonder why all these MSFT bashers keep coming in as Anonymous.....NET managed code is NOT rare. People who write.NET code interfacing with unmanaged code are usually porting existing applications.
Comparing this security to a native Java app is like comparing a Java app with JNI calls to an exiting C or C++ app. The code is only as secure as the other code it is trusting.
MSFT has ported the.NET Framework to FreeBSD themselves!
AND, Mono and.GNU run on many platforms (Linux, Windows, BSD, OSX and Solaris). As long as you don't use System.Windows (the desktop app stuff), you can do cross-platform development in many languages!
I have written GTK# apps in VS.NET and run it on my Windows and SuSE box with ZERO modifications.
If you want to bash something, you should probably learn a bit more about it. That's the reason I read the Bible multiple times: so I can refute Bible thumpers' arguments.
Very telling that this is from an Anonmymous Coward. If.NET is just a wrapper for Windows, how is it that MSFT has an implementation for BSD? Oh.. and don't forget the Mono project which has the framework running on multiple others (Lunix, Windows, OSX, Solaris and BSD).
Yep... they must have rewritten all of Windows and ported it to 4 other platforms. I knew they were good, but not that good!
Based on the market and % of usage, this puts you in the EXTREME minority. Actually, if TCO is MUCH higher, it would actually be illegal for a publicly traded company to do it, since they have to look out for the stock holders' investment by law (at least in the US, I'd guess there are similar laws elsewhere though).
Of course it would need to be proved later. Besides, how is a CEO gonna get his fat bonus checks if they waste all their money on silly things like salaries and stuff?:)
Thank you. I've been playing with Ogle, can you post what your.oglerc looks like? I appreciate the help immensely. Both Xine and Ogle have been mute, but MythTV plays through the AC3 passthrough fine.
Hey... I saw a posting you had about the Chaintech 710 and using AC3 passthrough with mplayer in an old thread. I am trying to do the same thing but getting no sound. Can you tell me if you had to do anything specific to get it to work?
Tom
MODDERS: I had no other way of contacting the guy... cut me a break?
Who is "we" ? You and the other 3 people that are boycotting them? Do you really think the average mac user (desktop publisher or graphics designer or student) gives a rats ass who makes the machine? They want it to work and too look nice on their desks.
And I'm sure even the 4 of you will continue to buy them. You'll just whine about it a little more.
Not true. The difference is that he owns his house. You do not own content anymore, if it is protected with DRM (in the US). It is illegal to use anything to break any sort of protection mechanism, regardless of how easy it is (see: DeCSS). He admits on his blog to breaking the law.
That's why the DMCA is such a horrible law. It takes away all that makes sense. It's not illegal to break into your own house, but it is illegal to remove copy protection on files you've licensed or DVDs you have purchased whose contents you licensed.
I'm not crazy rich either, but when I was having my house built, I had a guy do all the low-voltage wiring and he wired my home theater room for 13.1 while walls were open. I also have some tubes in the walls for anything I missed.
I also have leads for audio and video transmission from a spot for a TV in the front of the room or a projector in the ceiling, pre-wired.
So, if it ever becomes a reality, I'm already set.
Of course, I went pretty crazy on the wiring here. (over 5000 feet of cat-5 in my walls too.. hehe -- we don't need no stinking wireless!)
It IS supported.. The problem is encoding the video into MPEG, which, with these crappy cards, is done by the CPU. THe video signal through those cards is usually shit too. So, you can buy a cheaper CPU and a more expensive card, or a cheaper card and a more expensive CPU. IT's up to you.
Of course, realize that you will need dedicated 400-600MHz worth of CPU time per card in order to encode the video. That is for LOW definition. Many people have multiple cards to record more than one channel at once. I have 4 cards myself.
The statement that US programmers ask more questions than Indian programmers and that's why give a better end product is biassed and inaccurate. Attention to details is more or less an individual trait.
My statements were meant as an observation, not as a bias. This has been the sum of my experience in the area.
I also don't agree that it's not culture-based. Looking people in the eye is a culture thing too. Touching other people is a culture thing. Some cultures don't have physical contact like shaking hands and patting each other on the back. There are differences in behavior that are cultural.
Yes, younger, inexperienced programmers tend to do these things more. This could also be part of the reason, since not too many of the people that stay in these jobs have a lot of experience. I've read before that most people with any experience leave and go to the US or Europe to make more money.
Whatever it is, my experience led me to the anecdote that I told. I have no issues with Indian people, I don't have any issues working with them inside the US. I just think that the American workplace is a lot different than the Indian or the Japanese or the Chinese or the Bulgarian and that, when there are culture differences, it's best not to attempt creation and design efforts. It forces the people to tackle harder "people issues" that manifest themselves in more social differences based in their cultures (not in their genetics). This applies to purple people with martian heritage living outside the US too.
The result, without illegal aliens, is called "allowing the genuine free market to reallocate resources".
Since when is arbitrarily disallowing wage competition a "genuine free market" ? Tarrifs, import taxes, minimum wage and many other factors prevent this from being a "genuine free market". If you really want a free market, there would be no taxes on imported goods from anywhere.
A consequence (and a good one at that) is that people in the unskilled labor market earn a decent wage allowing them to live livable lives.
You don't seem to get it. If the labor costs more, the product costs more, which costs people more to get it, which makes the increased wages not mean anything. This is called "inflation" as one other poster so astutely pointed out. Thus, your "decent wage" is actually the same amount as it used to be when adjusted for inflation.
The free market does indeed work and enables people (including those at the "bottom") to live acceptably -- as long as you ensure (by banning illegal aliens) that market forces are allowed to operate normally and freely (i.e. free of obliteration by Mexican-government policies).
And this is your definition of a "free market"? Maybe you should write for The Economist.
Genuine free trade, not fake free trade, works.
In theory, yes, but in practice, true free trade would result in a normalization of living standards across the globe, thus completely destroying the American way of life. Eventually, as the world recovers, things would progress back upwards, but we would he in for a very rough ride.
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Solo circumnavigation is an occasional extreme circumstance though, not a day-job.
:)
I bet you could make it a day job.... Just tattoo "GoldenPalace.com" on your ass and they'll probably fund you for life!
Hello, my name is Pandora, you seem to have opened my box.
Only after dinner and a few drinks, that is...
The Christian God isn't a killer? Umm... The bible states that people that wear two different fabrics should be killed. It also states that it is OK to kill your children if they disobey you too much. God demanded that Abraham kill Isaac. OH... and there was this whole "flood" thing. You know the one where everything on the planet but Noah, his family and some pairs of animals were killed by God?
Also, please point to anything that supports the idea that the Muslim god is based on some moon deity.
1) The Christian God is the same one as the Muslim one. Muslims believe in Moses and Jesus (just as a prophet) too.
2) These changes weren't made because they objected to the current Simpsons. The Simpsons' people wanted to expand there.
The only belly aching here is yours.
T
When you can take an afternoon jog and hit 2 other countries, it's pretty easy to get people to agree on things. The US has over 14,000 different banking companies. In order to get them to do things, it takes a considerably larger amount of time. Just like turning a battleship...
If you don't know that, you shouldn't be reading Slashdot :)
Eric Raymond... Google for him.
T
Uhh.. how about SourceGear?
.NET when it runs on Windows.
You know.. the guys who wrote Source Offsite to let people access SourceSafe remotely...
Their product, Vault (http://sourcegear.com/vault/index.html), uses Mono when it runs on Linux and
Any other things you'd like me to point you to? Like the "Login" button?
I was responding to this:
.NET is just a wrapper for Windows on the local machine, why didn't you just make native code you f**** idiots.
Piece of shit Nasa,
This is a completely untrue statement.
If, as you said, they re-implemented the API using POSIX, then it's NOT a wrapper of Windows calls, is it?
I wonder why all these MSFT bashers keep coming in as Anonymous.... .NET managed code is NOT rare. People who write .NET code interfacing with unmanaged code are usually porting existing applications.
Comparing this security to a native Java app is like comparing a Java app with JNI calls to an exiting C or C++ app. The code is only as secure as the other code it is trusting.
Apples and Oranges
P.S. Your last analogy makes no sense whatsoever
MSFT has ported the .NET Framework to FreeBSD themselves!
.GNU run on many platforms (Linux, Windows, BSD, OSX and Solaris). As long as you don't use System.Windows (the desktop app stuff), you can do cross-platform development in many languages!
AND, Mono and
I have written GTK# apps in VS.NET and run it on my Windows and SuSE box with ZERO modifications.
If you want to bash something, you should probably learn a bit more about it. That's the reason I read the Bible multiple times: so I can refute Bible thumpers' arguments.
Very telling that this is from an Anonmymous Coward. If .NET is just a wrapper for Windows, how is it that MSFT has an implementation for BSD? Oh.. and don't forget the Mono project which has the framework running on multiple others (Lunix, Windows, OSX, Solaris and BSD).
Yep... they must have rewritten all of Windows and ported it to 4 other platforms. I knew they were good, but not that good!
It runs on BSD and on Linux (through Mono), so... uhh... what's your point?
Based on the market and % of usage, this puts you in the EXTREME minority. Actually, if TCO is MUCH higher, it would actually be illegal for a publicly traded company to do it, since they have to look out for the stock holders' investment by law (at least in the US, I'd guess there are similar laws elsewhere though).
:)
Of course it would need to be proved later. Besides, how is a CEO gonna get his fat bonus checks if they waste all their money on silly things like salaries and stuff?
Actually, it turns out that ogle's configure script was wrong. I found a patch online to fix it (I have alsa 1.0.3 right now).
:(
But now I get:
ERROR[ogle_audio]: Unable to update the IEC958 control: No such file or directory
so, it's still not working
turns out my alsa is too old 0.5.X...
didn't know it needed a higher version.
That'd probably do it.
T
P.S. Comments on the journal, when enabled, only works on new posts to it
2 unfortunate things:
1) can't comment on your journal stuff (maybe I'm doing something wrong)
2) with your audio section, I get errors and it exits without playing the movie. With the --debug flag added, I get this:
Note[ogle_audio]: Audio driver 'alsa' not found -- ????????????????
Note[ogle_audio]: Using audio driver 'oss'
*** format: 8
SNDCTL_DSP_GETCHANNELMASK: Invalid argument
ERROR[ogle_audio]: wanted sample resolution 16, got 0
ERROR[ogle_audio]: wanted byte order 1, got 0
ERROR[ogle_audio]: wanted encoding 2, got 0
Debug[ogle_audio]: channels 2, encoding 0, resolution 0
Debug[ogle_audio]: byte order 0, rate 48000
Debug[ogle_audio]: fragments 16, size 4096
Debug[ogle_audio]: 2 channels decoded: Left Right
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: child: 20791 killed (/usr/local/lib/ogle/ogle_audio)
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: pid: 20791 terminated on signal: 11 (/usr/local/lib/ogle/ogle_audio)
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: child: 20753 killed (/usr/local/lib/ogle/ogle_nav)
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: pid: 20753 terminated on signal: 2 (/usr/local/lib/ogle/ogle_nav)
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: child: 20752 killed (/usr/local/lib/ogle/ogle_cli)
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: pid: 20752 terminated on signal: 2 (/usr/local/lib/ogle/ogle_cli)
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: child: 20756 exited with 0 (/usr/local/lib/ogle/ogle_mpeg_vs)
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: pid: 20756 exited with status: 0 (/usr/local/lib/ogle/ogle_mpeg_vs)
Debug[ogle_vout]: set_sync_point()
Debug[ogle_vout]: set_sync_point()
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: child: 20755 exited with 0 (/usr/local/lib/ogle/ogle_vout)
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: pid: 20755 exited with status: 0 (/usr/local/lib/ogle/ogle_vout)
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: child: 20754 killed (/usr/local/lib/ogle/ogle_mpeg_ps)
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: pid: 20754 terminated on signal: 2 (/usr/local/lib/ogle/ogle_mpeg_ps)
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: removing shmid: 222953474
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: removing shmid: 222986243
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: removing shmid: 223019012
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: removing shmid: 223051781
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: removing shmid: 223084550
ctrl: ipc_rmid: Invalid argument
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: removing shmid: 223117319
Debug[ogle_ctrl]: removing shmid: 223150088
Note[ogle_ctrl]: exiting
Thank you. I've been playing with Ogle, can you post what your .oglerc looks like? I appreciate the help immensely. Both Xine and Ogle have been mute, but MythTV plays through the AC3 passthrough fine.
Thanks in advance,
Tom
Hey... I saw a posting you had about the Chaintech 710 and using AC3 passthrough with mplayer in an old thread. I am trying to do the same thing but getting no sound. Can you tell me if you had to do anything specific to get it to work?
Tom
MODDERS: I had no other way of contacting the guy... cut me a break?
oh yes, we buy apples because we boycott Intel,
Who is "we" ? You and the other 3 people that are boycotting them?
Do you really think the average mac user (desktop publisher or graphics designer or student) gives a rats ass who makes the machine? They want it to work and too look nice on their desks.
And I'm sure even the 4 of you will continue to buy them. You'll just whine about it a little more.
T
Not true. The difference is that he owns his house. You do not own content anymore, if it is protected with DRM (in the US). It is illegal to use anything to break any sort of protection mechanism, regardless of how easy it is (see: DeCSS). He admits on his blog to breaking the law.
That's why the DMCA is such a horrible law. It takes away all that makes sense. It's not illegal to break into your own house, but it is illegal to remove copy protection on files you've licensed or DVDs you have purchased whose contents you licensed.
It's a new world. And it sucks.
I'm not crazy rich either, but when I was having my house built, I had a guy do all the low-voltage wiring and he wired my home theater room for 13.1 while walls were open. I also have some tubes in the walls for anything I missed.
I also have leads for audio and video transmission from a spot for a TV in the front of the room or a projector in the ceiling, pre-wired.
So, if it ever becomes a reality, I'm already set.
Of course, I went pretty crazy on the wiring here. (over 5000 feet of cat-5 in my walls too.. hehe -- we don't need no stinking wireless!)
It IS supported.. The problem is encoding the video into MPEG, which, with these crappy cards, is done by the CPU. THe video signal through those cards is usually shit too. So, you can buy a cheaper CPU and a more expensive card, or a cheaper card and a more expensive CPU. IT's up to you.
Of course, realize that you will need dedicated 400-600MHz worth of CPU time per card in order to encode the video. That is for LOW definition. Many people have multiple cards to record more than one channel at once. I have 4 cards myself.
T
What a prick!
The statement that US programmers ask more questions than Indian programmers and that's why give a better end product is biassed and inaccurate.
Attention to details is more or less an individual trait.
My statements were meant as an observation, not as a bias. This has been the sum of my experience in the area.
I also don't agree that it's not culture-based. Looking people in the eye is a culture thing too. Touching other people is a culture thing. Some cultures don't have physical contact like shaking hands and patting each other on the back. There are differences in behavior that are cultural.
Yes, younger, inexperienced programmers tend to do these things more. This could also be part of the reason, since not too many of the people that stay in these jobs have a lot of experience. I've read before that most people with any experience leave and go to the US or Europe to make more money.
Whatever it is, my experience led me to the anecdote that I told. I have no issues with Indian people, I don't have any issues working with them inside the US. I just think that the American workplace is a lot different than the Indian or the Japanese or the Chinese or the Bulgarian and that, when there are culture differences, it's best not to attempt creation and design efforts. It forces the people to tackle harder "people issues" that manifest themselves in more social differences based in their cultures (not in their genetics). This applies to purple people with martian heritage living outside the US too.
And, again, what's with the Coward posting?
I don't normally reply to Cowards, but...
The result, without illegal aliens, is called "allowing the genuine free market to reallocate resources".
Since when is arbitrarily disallowing wage competition a "genuine free market" ? Tarrifs, import taxes, minimum wage and many other factors prevent this from being a "genuine free market". If you really want a free market, there would be no taxes on imported goods from anywhere.
A consequence (and a good one at that) is that people in the unskilled labor market earn a decent wage allowing them to live livable lives.
You don't seem to get it. If the labor costs more, the product costs more, which costs people more to get it, which makes the increased wages not mean anything. This is called "inflation" as one other poster so astutely pointed out. Thus, your "decent wage" is actually the same amount as it used to be when adjusted for inflation.
The free market does indeed work and enables people (including those at the "bottom") to live acceptably -- as long as you ensure (by banning illegal aliens) that market forces are allowed to operate normally and freely (i.e. free of obliteration by Mexican-government policies).
And this is your definition of a "free market"? Maybe you should write for The Economist.
Genuine free trade, not fake free trade, works.
In theory, yes, but in practice, true free trade would result in a normalization of living standards across the globe, thus completely destroying the American way of life. Eventually, as the world recovers, things would progress back upwards, but we would he in for a very rough ride.