Two weeks ago I've bought a simple, but nice DVD/XVID player Wiwa HD228. This little thing plays nearly all DIVX/XVID encoded media, from many possible sources: CD, CDR, VCD, SVCD, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW..., on big TV screen, with 5+1 audio. Without clumsy connections with PC and its noise.
Having a complete set of the Ghost in the shell episodes on one DVD is great. What is the point of using comercially available discs and/or media broadcasting services, when their content is usually not very different from DVD rental shops?
If I wish to watch some Nick Zedd videos, or something with equally unusual content, I have no chance to find them outside p2p community. So, what these media CEOs could offer me? They're outdated already.
According to synthetic theory of evolution (neodarwinism), the key to defining a biological species is that there is no significant cross-flow of genetic material between the two populations of animals (there are very different problems with the plants).
Interbreeding isn't an issue: just think about dogs and wolves. Their offspring is still fertile. But in nature, wolves and dogs have sex not very often:).
Actually, freedom of speech in Poland is just a myth. A week ago one popular journalist Jerzy Urban was convicted for the insult of pope John Paul II, because he wrote that pope is an old, ailing man, which should retire many years ago.
Journalist organistations accepted this judgement exultantly, ascertaining that Urban has no rights to write something like this about (sic!) greatest moral authority in the world.
And Wildstein list? My father-in-law worked in '70 for polish military intel. I didnt find his (rather unique!) name on internet list. I suppose its just a worthless provocation of some people connected with Jewish diaspora in Poland.
Hm, it seems your son has already failed Sexincars 101. You know, mathematics, although quite interesting subject, could not, and will not replace sex.
I'm shockey that you seem to think children are stupid little fuckers, which should be protected from sex, violence, drugs, and alternative ideologies, because that will kill them, or warp beyond recognition.
But how, tell me how little Johny could grow into someone smart and healthy, when you wish to cut him off from real life? You can only succeed in breeding real little fuckers, or mindless drones, good citizens who go into church and sign up to DMCA and Patriot Act:).
I've used to be a child. I remember we were interested in porn, violence and gore quite extensively. Bad kids. No fun for you anymore:).
Actually, a level of incoherence of the "science" involved in Trekkie technics cancels it aspirations to be SCI-fi.
Or maybe they're from the parallel universe? Laser beams visible in space, FTL with preservation of causality and general relativity, completely naive view of human psychology, most aliens are humanoid...
All of you forget about quite nicely working Russian GPS system. http://www.glonass-center.ru/ With all these shiny new Topol M ballistic missiles, I suppose GW Bush would think twice before attacking russian satelites.
I've used a GLONASS receiver. Quite cheap russian stuff, made by Electronica. Quite precise, quite good.
If so, why CDs/DVDs sell so well, especialy before Christmas?:) Would you give your mother as a gift ripped album of her favourite artist, burned on cheap CD-R?
Look, if nice stuff, in nice boxes would be sold on reasonable prices - reasonable to payments in our countries, there would be no problem with so called "piracy". In Poland, I earn maybe 300-400 USD monthly. New game cost here from 30 to 50 USD. New audio CD - 15.
Isn't this ridiculous? Hardware guys are happy with coming 3-5% over their costs. Why RIAA/MPAA/whatever shall get more? Why do they have to ride in silly, costly limos?
We gave our culture to corpocracy, and now they're responsible for bringing it to masses. If they failed us in this job, we can replace them. With p2p networking, for example.
My family desktop machines happily run hacked versions of win2k sp4, with removed IE, litestep as the shell of choice, firefox/thunderbird and open office. I also have one slackware box working as 24h/7 router/proxy server/edonkey client.
We don't have any other uses for linux/unix machines - I run graphic/multimedia workshop, and need industry-strength applications like Photoshop/Illustrator/Premiere combo, my father is engineer and uses quite extensively AutoCAD, and my sister need just office suite/games/movies platform. Is linux ready for this? Don't think so.
Still there is difference between considering illegality of so-called piracy and actively pursuing so-called pirates. In many larger cities of Poland and Germany, you can easily find a computer stockmarkets, usually run on weekends. An example would be my city, Wroclaw(Breslau), where Technical University - a goverment funded institution, runs such stockmarket. There you can get everything - from brand new DVD movies, cheap as 2$/piece, to cheap (3-5$) software packages like 3dsmax or Adobe CS.
I know personally such places in Warsaw, Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden.
So, announcements are one thing. Realpolitik is just another. Our countries have interest in allowing for nearly-free software/multimedia distribution, and this lies in the roots of educational policy. Simple lies told to BSA/RIAA are just - lies.
Actually, even with mediocre command of German, you can easily communicate in Czech Republic, Hungary, western part of Poland, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia and Albania.
Outside large centers of demographically younger population, English is not well known there. Even if Yankee think different:). its all due to old Habsburgs Empire, and in Europe history does matter.
You're a kind of leecher, don't you?:) In Kazaa, it is impossible to upload to someone a partial file, it isnt Overnet or Edonkey 2000. So, if you turn your kazaa client off, after downloading, you're problably not giving anything to anyone at all.
And what is the point of peer2peer filesharing, if not to give something to the People?:) Say with me: Property is impossible. Property is illegal. Property is unthinkable.
"Based on empirical evidence and theoretical interpretation of modern genetics and physiology, crossbreeding between subspecies of caucasian and negroid humans should be banned, due to tendency to degeneration of the immunological system found in children from mixed parents?"
AFAIK, from my evolutionist and genetics classes its truth. So can I say such non-politically correct statements?
What is more important, scientific truth (which is usually construct of conventions, our perceptions of nature and social pressure) or political harmony (based on lies and social pressure)?
I can justify any "hate-crime" from viable scientific and philosophic viewpoint.
There is not such thing as limited freedom of speech. There is not such thing as parlament democracy. There is no such thing as politically correct public discourse.
LISP seems very popular in community of mathematicians, logicians and philosophers, due to its structure based on so called lambda-calculus, a formal way of describing recurential functions, developed in '30 of 20th century by Alonzo Church.
I had to learn it on seminar on artificial intelligence, and can only say its quite elegant and powerful on its own language. Maybe not something best for writing another Quake clone, but for automatic proofing of math and metamath theorems - quite nice:).
but we are exposed not to beauty of their code, but some - in my eyes - random graphical effects. you're just expanding concept of the art to level, where anything goes.
I know, its quite stylish today, postmodernism... but I prefer here to be conservatist.:)
AFAIK, in central Europe (Germany, Poland, Czech) most people use other players (often BSPlayer combined with some kind of combo codec pack like KazaLite), due to inability of WMP to display subtitles in viewed movies. Even technically inept users know what divX movies are, and pc-based home-theater systems are quite common here.
I suppose its true for other countries too, but have immediate knowledge only for these places (I lived there)
Player without good subtitles handling is almost useless to non-anglophone people: read most folks on this globe.
So if you wish to beat WMP, you need something which will give functionality unknown before. like Mozilla, which become popular here very quickly. (finally, even in my conservative University, library turned its machines to Mozilla 1.6)
anyone remember Holy Fire? It is a Bruce Sterling novel, giving few insights into working of society "blessed" with potential of immortality (or, at least longevity).
Main bohater come through experimental surgery, which has practically reset her biological clock so she is twenty again instead of fifty. And then, she meets really young people, impoverished of most civil laws. Conflict of generations - anyone?
how tough could be relation with someone 30 years older most of us know. How tough could be same relation with someone 300 years older? I dont see possibility to establish any democratic society based on such diversions: it will rather go into class system, similiar to old Hindu society.
If it's possible to patent the wheel, maybe someone should try to patent Patents Office institution; He then should be owner of all patents hold by them:).
No. It will not cost them; Germans generally dont spoke, and dont like English:). Only if DarlMcDummkopf says whatever covered by these rules in Deutsch, SCO will be targeted with this 10000 EUR fine:>
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Two weeks ago I've bought a simple, but nice DVD/XVID player Wiwa HD228. This little thing plays nearly all DIVX/XVID encoded media, from many possible sources: CD, CDR, VCD, SVCD, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW..., on big TV screen, with 5+1 audio. Without clumsy connections with PC and its noise.
Having a complete set of the Ghost in the shell episodes on one DVD is great. What is the point of using comercially available discs and/or media broadcasting services, when their content is usually not very different from DVD rental shops?
If I wish to watch some Nick Zedd videos, or something with equally unusual content, I have no chance to find them outside p2p community. So, what these media CEOs could offer me? They're outdated already.
According to synthetic theory of evolution (neodarwinism), the key to defining a biological species is that there is no significant cross-flow of genetic material between the two populations of animals (there are very different problems with the plants).
:).
Interbreeding isn't an issue: just think about dogs and wolves. Their offspring is still fertile. But in nature, wolves and dogs have sex not very often
:) Of course I am. Jerzy Urban is a Jew. If I defend a Jew, that makes me a filthy antisemite. Perfect logic.
Actually, freedom of speech in Poland is just a myth. A week ago one popular journalist Jerzy Urban was convicted for the insult of pope John Paul II, because he wrote that pope is an old, ailing man, which should retire many years ago.
Journalist organistations accepted this judgement exultantly, ascertaining that Urban has no rights to write something like this about (sic!) greatest moral authority in the world.
And Wildstein list? My father-in-law worked in '70 for polish military intel. I didnt find his (rather unique!) name on internet list. I suppose its just a worthless provocation of some people connected with Jewish diaspora in Poland.
Hm, it seems your son has already failed Sexincars 101. You know, mathematics, although quite interesting subject, could not, and will not replace sex.
I'm shockey that you seem to think children are stupid little fuckers, which should be protected from sex, violence, drugs, and alternative ideologies, because that will kill them, or warp beyond recognition.
:).
:).
But how, tell me how little Johny could grow into someone smart and healthy, when you wish to cut him off from real life? You can only succeed in breeding real little fuckers, or mindless drones, good citizens who go into church and sign up to DMCA and Patriot Act
I've used to be a child. I remember we were interested in porn, violence and gore quite extensively. Bad kids. No fun for you anymore
Actually, a level of incoherence of the "science" involved in Trekkie technics cancels it aspirations to be SCI-fi.
Or maybe they're from the parallel universe? Laser beams visible in space, FTL with preservation of causality and general relativity, completely naive view of human psychology, most aliens are humanoid...
If you're into science-fiction, better check "Culture" series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture by Iain M. Banks. or for real hard sci-fi, Orion's Arm http://orionsarm.com/
Star Trek belongs to the techno-fantasy genre, not sci-fi.
All of you forget about quite nicely working Russian GPS system. http://www.glonass-center.ru/ With all these shiny new Topol M ballistic missiles, I suppose GW Bush would think twice before attacking russian satelites. I've used a GLONASS receiver. Quite cheap russian stuff, made by Electronica. Quite precise, quite good.
If so, why CDs/DVDs sell so well, especialy before Christmas? :) Would you give your mother as a gift ripped album of her favourite artist, burned on cheap CD-R?
Look, if nice stuff, in nice boxes would be sold on reasonable prices - reasonable to payments in our countries, there would be no problem with so called "piracy". In Poland, I earn maybe 300-400 USD monthly. New game cost here from 30 to 50 USD. New audio CD - 15.
Isn't this ridiculous? Hardware guys are happy with coming 3-5% over their costs. Why RIAA/MPAA/whatever shall get more? Why do they have to ride in silly, costly limos?
We gave our culture to corpocracy, and now they're responsible for bringing it to masses. If they failed us in this job, we can replace them. With p2p networking, for example.
My family desktop machines happily run hacked versions of win2k sp4, with removed IE, litestep as the shell of choice, firefox/thunderbird and open office. I also have one slackware box working as 24h/7 router/proxy server/edonkey client.
We don't have any other uses for linux/unix machines - I run graphic/multimedia workshop, and need industry-strength applications like Photoshop/Illustrator/Premiere combo, my father is engineer and uses quite extensively AutoCAD, and my sister need just office suite/games/movies platform. Is linux ready for this? Don't think so.
Still there is difference between considering illegality of so-called piracy and actively pursuing so-called pirates. In many larger cities of Poland and Germany, you can easily find a computer stockmarkets, usually run on weekends. An example would be my city, Wroclaw(Breslau), where Technical University - a goverment funded institution, runs such stockmarket. There you can get everything - from brand new DVD movies, cheap as 2$/piece, to cheap (3-5$) software packages like 3dsmax or Adobe CS.
I know personally such places in Warsaw, Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden.
So, announcements are one thing. Realpolitik is just another. Our countries have interest in allowing for nearly-free software/multimedia distribution, and this lies in the roots of educational policy. Simple lies told to BSA/RIAA are just - lies.
Actually, even with mediocre command of German, you can easily communicate in Czech Republic, Hungary, western part of Poland, Ukraine, former Yugoslavia and Albania.
:). its all due to old Habsburgs Empire, and in Europe history does matter.
Outside large centers of demographically younger population, English is not well known there. Even if Yankee think different
You're a kind of leecher, don't you? :) In Kazaa, it is impossible to upload to someone a partial file, it isnt Overnet or Edonkey 2000. So, if you turn your kazaa client off, after downloading, you're problably not giving anything to anyone at all.
:) Say with me: Property is impossible. Property is illegal. Property is unthinkable.
And what is the point of peer2peer filesharing, if not to give something to the People?
So tell me, it is rightful to say something like:
"Based on empirical evidence and theoretical interpretation of modern genetics and physiology, crossbreeding between subspecies of caucasian and negroid humans should be banned, due to tendency to degeneration of the immunological system found in children from mixed parents?"
AFAIK, from my evolutionist and genetics classes its truth. So can I say such non-politically correct statements?
What is more important, scientific truth (which is usually construct of conventions, our perceptions of nature and social pressure) or political harmony (based on lies and social pressure)?
I can justify any "hate-crime" from viable scientific and philosophic viewpoint.
There is not such thing as limited freedom of speech. There is not such thing as parlament democracy. There is no such thing as politically correct public discourse.
LISP seems very popular in community of mathematicians, logicians and philosophers, due to its structure based on so called lambda-calculus, a formal way of describing recurential functions, developed in '30 of 20th century by Alonzo Church.
:).
I had to learn it on seminar on artificial intelligence, and can only say its quite elegant and powerful on its own language. Maybe not something best for writing another Quake clone, but for automatic proofing of math and metamath theorems - quite nice
Dont use such silly concept as programming language. They manually set content of memory chips through arrays of switches :)
:).
Think, what Mozilla could be with this adventurous programming technique
but we are exposed not to beauty of their code, but some - in my eyes - random graphical effects. you're just expanding concept of the art to level, where anything goes.
:)
I know, its quite stylish today, postmodernism... but I prefer here to be conservatist.
Art isn't about being pretty. Art is about emotional, spiritual communication between an artist, his culture, work of art, and public.
some random images are no more art than some randomly placed things on my workbench.
AFAIK, in central Europe (Germany, Poland, Czech) most people use other players (often BSPlayer combined with some kind of combo codec pack like KazaLite), due to inability of WMP to display subtitles in viewed movies. Even technically inept users know what divX movies are, and pc-based home-theater systems are quite common here.
I suppose its true for other countries too, but have immediate knowledge only for these places (I lived there)
Player without good subtitles handling is almost useless to non-anglophone people: read most folks on this globe.
So if you wish to beat WMP, you need something which will give functionality unknown before. like Mozilla, which become popular here very quickly. (finally, even in my conservative University, library turned its machines to Mozilla 1.6)
How else these people shouty people on chats could write? No chat between normals will be complete WITHOUT THESE AGE SEX LOCATION questions.
Don't be so elite. John and Mary Smiths need their CAPS LOCKS.
anyone remember Holy Fire? It is a Bruce Sterling novel, giving few insights into working of society "blessed" with potential of immortality (or, at least longevity).
Main bohater come through experimental surgery, which has practically reset her biological clock so she is twenty again instead of fifty. And then, she meets really young people, impoverished of most civil laws. Conflict of generations - anyone?
how tough could be relation with someone 30 years older most of us know. How tough could be same relation with someone 300 years older? I dont see possibility to establish any democratic society based on such diversions: it will rather go into class system, similiar to old Hindu society.
If it's possible to patent the wheel, maybe someone should try to patent Patents Office institution; He then should be owner of all patents hold by them :).
No. It will not cost them; Germans generally dont spoke, and dont like English :). Only if DarlMcDummkopf says whatever covered by these rules in Deutsch, SCO will be targeted with this 10000 EUR fine :>
so Caesar was unable to ping his localhost? Zero came to Europe in medieval age...
Didn't they? Look at patients in US military hospitals. They will tell you something about being crushed. :)