Enough with the waxing poetic! It's a blue dot! It could be any blue dot! We know we're on a planet. We know how tiny our planet is. This isn't news, and your post certainly isn't insightful:-P
How the heck is that insightful? It's a guy, clearly off his rocker, trying to thank NASA for sending something to mars, which apparently makes the fact he never went to mars OK. Even though NASA won't read it, and looking at JPEGs of something on the net isn't the same as seeing it in person... sheesh.
Errr... the guy you just yelled at didn't say the video quality would be better either, "jackass". He said "They just assume it makes things better since that's what the hype claims", which doesn't even mention quality. However, when you're encoding something faster==better (as well as quality, which he never mentioned or even implied), so unfortunately he's right and you're wrong. sorry!
Yes, but the how the video gets to be MPEG4 is the big difference... A JPEG is a JPEG, but a JPEG saved in Photoshop is of better quality than one saved in Paint.
The difference between the MPEG4-based codecs is the encoding process. That's why you see such a difference in encoding times. All encoders cut corners to improve speed, and depending on which corners were cut, the encoded video's quality changes dramatically.
However, once encoded, any MPEG4 decoder can play them (just like any JPEG decoder can show a Photoshop JPEG and a Paint one, no problem).
Obviously, not everyone's having these problems, which points the finger at something other than the OS... Lots of people in the world who are proficient in UNIX/linux (and who can develop on those platforms) prefer to use Windows over their open-source counterparts. That single fact alone shows your points aren't prolific throughout the Windows userbase. I've had bad times trying to get a redhat box to do what I wanted, but I know it's probably something wrong I'm doing, not the OS. I didn't go on slashdot saying how "linux is a shitty operating system and all users are complete shitheads" - I don't use my experiences to condemn an OS.
You say that, but all the redhat installs I've done have been larger than any of the XP installs i've done. It seems this windows==bloat stuff is ages old, and wrong.
I'm not trolling or nothin', just stating the facts.
It's insane that a country that touts itself as a bastion of freedom is trying to change its constitution to ban an activity that has abosolutely no negative effect on anyone. Land of the free - my arse!
Isn't Dick Cheney's daughter gay? Gotta love karma...
There's a difference between having laws in place and being able to enforce them. Of course California was covered by the same federal laws, but if there were only 3 feds in CA, they couldn't enforce the federal laws...
There's a difference in downloading a ROM you already own and making a backup directly from the ROM you own... Whether the end product is the same, the means by which you acquired it are different, and that's where the problem lies. You're not backing up your copy, but copying someone else's...
The Walt Disney concert hall is in trouble, after near-by residents are complaining its off-angles are reflecting the sunshine and heat into their buildings. It looks like it's going to have to get a coat of paint to soak up some of them thar rays... it seems non-right-angles come with some issues of their own;)
People always put down criticising of the CMU team as jealousy... For one to be jealous, they must want what CMU have. That's certainly not the case here.
Comparing the car's maps to the memory of a human is ridiculous. The human didn't have that information uploaded to their brain - they first navigated it themselves, and stored the info in their own brain. I don't remember hearing about how the CMU robot drove itself around the desert compiling the map itself. It's a brute-force approach. Is that really winning? I don't think so. You can solve any problem on this earth by throwing cash and brute effort at it. Solving the same problems with real intelligence is a different matter.
Seeing as they have over $3m in financial support, it's not surprising they opted for the easier approach.
The mayor's incredible! 3,700 (?) marriages in SF! I've never seen such happy people being married before. I'm so glad people are standing up to Bush's nazi politics. DOMA? Don't make me laugh.
I hope this keeps on until Bush concedes. Stupid monkey-face. grr.
"Do you know the number of people killed when we used smartbombs to take out the specific buildings"
Are we talking the number of people you meant to kill, or the number of people accidentally killed when the bomb hits an orphanage because the CIA intelligence is so woefully out of date and inaccurate it renders even the smartest of bombs stupid?
Do you even know what a luddite is? Obviously not...
The parent poster was complaining about the ethics of the competition, as opposed to the actual technology.
'Luddites' was a term given to a group of out-of-work labourers in England, during the industrial revolution. They attacked the machinery that was going to replace them, out of fear for their jobs. They didn't have a problem with how the machinery was constructed, or who paid for what, or what was said on whatever internet geek board, but that the technology was specifically designed to replace them. For the parent poster to be a real luddite, he'd have to be a military transport driver, complaining that the competition is going to lead to him/her being fired. As you can clearly see, the problem is ethical, not financial.
Don't make it sound like they're fighting against the odds - they have backing from Boeing and Intel to the tune of over $3million...
From what I've read, their system is more of a brute-force approach than an actual intelligent system, anyway. They're only in the lead as their technology is simpler (just more of it, which they didn't pay for - along with the red team sponsors/partners, DARPA is indirectly funding them via a third party).
"Upgrading from 2.4 to 2.6 is like upgrading from the Windows 2000 kernel to the Windows XP kernel, which you can't even do"
You can do this, it's called upgrading windows. It takes about an hour, requires 2 mouse clicks, and doesn't install "over" your old one, but upgrades it as necessary.
Believe me - I'm not slamming linux. I love it! I just think there are key areas of linux that need to be addressed before it can go mainstream, and it appears voicing those concerns gets one branded a troll. We're not going to progress if this keeps on. We'll be to complaining what sco is to litigation...:-P
First of all, "Add/Remove software" has nothing to do with updating/upgrading windows. You mean Windows Update, which the last time I checked did a hell of a better job than the update agent in RedHat, for example (like when they changed the RedHat certificates, and it stopped the update agent working - hardly newbie-proof).
The fact you're trashing "Add/Remove programs" shows how much you know about it;) Coupled with MS's.MSI format, it's one of the best software management tools out there.
I love slashdot logic. I reply to a post which was based on straight-up misinformation (which was modded insightful, +5 no less), and get modded flamebait in the process. This place makes no sense! I didn't make anything up, just pointed out some short-commings in Linux, and corrected the poster's "strange" take on windows. Apparently, that's enough to be a flamebaiter around here. go figure.
The fact he can't tell one side of the globe from another means he's not the most enlightened or knowledgeable person around, which does cast doubt on the strength of his original argument;)
Why on earth do you need to carry a knife around anyway? Dinosaurs? Sabre-toothed tigers? Most guys' penises are big enough to not warrant such feelings of inadequacy... I guess I was wrong.:-P
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Modded as OVERRATED?? The mind boggles...
The limit is 1000 queries per day, not per result...
Enough with the waxing poetic! It's a blue dot! It could be any blue dot! We know we're on a planet. We know how tiny our planet is. This isn't news, and your post certainly isn't insightful :-P
How the heck is that insightful? It's a guy, clearly off his rocker, trying to thank NASA for sending something to mars, which apparently makes the fact he never went to mars OK. Even though NASA won't read it, and looking at JPEGs of something on the net isn't the same as seeing it in person... sheesh.
Seriously, getting all riled up is one thing, but being able to blow something up in space is something completely different.
Most people here hate Microsoft yet they've not been blown up and they're on Earth. :-P
Errr... the guy you just yelled at didn't say the video quality would be better either, "jackass". He said "They just assume it makes things better since that's what the hype claims", which doesn't even mention quality. However, when you're encoding something faster==better (as well as quality, which he never mentioned or even implied), so unfortunately he's right and you're wrong. sorry!
The difference between the MPEG4-based codecs is the encoding process. That's why you see such a difference in encoding times. All encoders cut corners to improve speed, and depending on which corners were cut, the encoded video's quality changes dramatically.
However, once encoded, any MPEG4 decoder can play them (just like any JPEG decoder can show a Photoshop JPEG and a Paint one, no problem).
Obviously, not everyone's having these problems, which points the finger at something other than the OS... Lots of people in the world who are proficient in UNIX/linux (and who can develop on those platforms) prefer to use Windows over their open-source counterparts. That single fact alone shows your points aren't prolific throughout the Windows userbase. I've had bad times trying to get a redhat box to do what I wanted, but I know it's probably something wrong I'm doing, not the OS. I didn't go on slashdot saying how "linux is a shitty operating system and all users are complete shitheads" - I don't use my experiences to condemn an OS.
I'm not trolling or nothin', just stating the facts.
Isn't Dick Cheney's daughter gay? Gotta love karma...
There's a difference between having laws in place and being able to enforce them. Of course California was covered by the same federal laws, but if there were only 3 feds in CA, they couldn't enforce the federal laws...
There's a difference in downloading a ROM you already own and making a backup directly from the ROM you own... Whether the end product is the same, the means by which you acquired it are different, and that's where the problem lies. You're not backing up your copy, but copying someone else's...
The Walt Disney concert hall is in trouble, after near-by residents are complaining its off-angles are reflecting the sunshine and heat into their buildings. It looks like it's going to have to get a coat of paint to soak up some of them thar rays... it seems non-right-angles come with some issues of their own ;)
Speaks jbum, using his Amish computer and Amish ISP... ;)
Comparing the car's maps to the memory of a human is ridiculous. The human didn't have that information uploaded to their brain - they first navigated it themselves, and stored the info in their own brain. I don't remember hearing about how the CMU robot drove itself around the desert compiling the map itself. It's a brute-force approach. Is that really winning? I don't think so. You can solve any problem on this earth by throwing cash and brute effort at it. Solving the same problems with real intelligence is a different matter.
Seeing as they have over $3m in financial support, it's not surprising they opted for the easier approach.
I hope this keeps on until Bush concedes. Stupid monkey-face. grr.
Are we talking the number of people you meant to kill, or the number of people accidentally killed when the bomb hits an orphanage because the CIA intelligence is so woefully out of date and inaccurate it renders even the smartest of bombs stupid?
The parent poster was complaining about the ethics of the competition, as opposed to the actual technology.
'Luddites' was a term given to a group of out-of-work labourers in England, during the industrial revolution. They attacked the machinery that was going to replace them, out of fear for their jobs. They didn't have a problem with how the machinery was constructed, or who paid for what, or what was said on whatever internet geek board, but that the technology was specifically designed to replace them. For the parent poster to be a real luddite, he'd have to be a military transport driver, complaining that the competition is going to lead to him/her being fired. As you can clearly see, the problem is ethical, not financial.
From what I've read, their system is more of a brute-force approach than an actual intelligent system, anyway. They're only in the lead as their technology is simpler (just more of it, which they didn't pay for - along with the red team sponsors/partners, DARPA is indirectly funding them via a third party).
"Upgrading from 2.4 to 2.6 is like upgrading from the Windows 2000 kernel to the Windows XP kernel, which you can't even do"
You can do this, it's called upgrading windows. It takes about an hour, requires 2 mouse clicks, and doesn't install "over" your old one, but upgrades it as necessary.
Believe me - I'm not slamming linux. I love it! I just think there are key areas of linux that need to be addressed before it can go mainstream, and it appears voicing those concerns gets one branded a troll. We're not going to progress if this keeps on. We'll be to complaining what sco is to litigation... :-P
The fact you're trashing "Add/Remove programs" shows how much you know about it ;) Coupled with MS's .MSI format, it's one of the best software management tools out there.
I love slashdot logic. I reply to a post which was based on straight-up misinformation (which was modded insightful, +5 no less), and get modded flamebait in the process. This place makes no sense! I didn't make anything up, just pointed out some short-commings in Linux, and corrected the poster's "strange" take on windows. Apparently, that's enough to be a flamebaiter around here. go figure.
Why on earth do you need to carry a knife around anyway? Dinosaurs? Sabre-toothed tigers? Most guys' penises are big enough to not warrant such feelings of inadequacy... I guess I was wrong. :-P