I'm a Canadian. I'm honestly not sure if the law applies to movies as well as music (I think it does), but in Canada, it's not copyright infringement if it's for personal use. You are free to download as much as you like if you aren't going to do anything bad with it (like sell it). If you are just going to watch it or listen to it, it's all good.
But we still have the CRIA ads in our theatres saying not to pirate the movies we just paid to watch. It has a tendency to piss us off. I have a friend who downloads a movie (any movie) before going to a theater to see a movie on general principles. The general consensus in Canada is that the CRIA is pure evil, and are kept on a very thin leash. We try not to give them money if we can at all help it. But we like to go to theatres, and we like our boxed DVDs, so most of us have extensive collections and go to the theatre frequently anyway.
But that being said, I'm sure that the vast majority of us pirates would be more than willing to pay a fair price for movies, if the price was fair, and the profits went to the artists instead of a cartel of gangsters.
The higher level graphing calculators are REALLY nice, and are sometimes a boon in the private sector, when you have to do some really fancy math. However, they are completely impractical for school. In high school, you NEED a Ti-83. A laptop is too powerful, and they aren't going to allow you to bring it with you for a test.
But I am a recent University graduate. I think I had something like 1 or 2 classes that allowed me to bring a Ti-83 into the test with me. Most of my math based classes specifically disallowed graphing calculators for obvious reasons. They are just too powerful, and make cheating very very easy. I had to buy a $10 scientific calculator for University.
So my advice? Don't buy the best calculator on the market. It will just collect dust, and you will be angry for having spent triple what a TI-83 would cost, and get far less use.
But if you really do want a good calculator, then I might suggest a TI-92. My math teacher in high school had one, and they were so very very sexy. The big difference between a TI92 and a TI-83 in my books is that a TI-92 does integrals. Which is mighty handy. It even does Vectors.
It's not the price. It's all the bad things that Sony has done. They have been arrogant as hell the whole time with the PS3. They've insulted the fans, and now the fans are enjoying watching them take a beating.
But I would argue that it was implied. I mean, he's saying how much better Photoshop is than the GIMP. Last I checked, Photoshop was NOT included with Windows. The professional video editing tools for Linux are more robust and mature than the ones for Windows.
The way I see Ubuntu Studio is that it's a collection of the finest open source artist's tools compiled into one package, on a Linux OS. If you want to install some third party software, like Maya or Renderman, you are perfectly free to do so. Just as you are with Windows.
Pixar doesn't render their movies on Macs or Windows PCs. Wanna take a wild guess what they use? Same goes for ILM. Linkie. So yeah, take your uninformed opinions and shove them.
You can actually create some pretty professional quality stuff with Cinelerra. I took a few new media classes when I was in school. I used both Cinelerra and Adobe Premiere. I found Cinelerra to be FAR easier to use, and supported some things that Premiere just didn't do.
I would imagine it would work much like Kubuntu or Xubuntu.
If you don't know, the only difference between Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu, is what packages are included on the disc, and what packages are installed at install time. If you are like me, and like to see what's going on on the other side of the fence, but like the vanilla Ubuntu for the most part... then you just install Ubuntu, like normal, and then simply install the kubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop meta-packages from the repositories. That will install the ENTIRE Kubuntu or Xubuntu system onto your existing Ubuntu install.
With some butter tarts. And a coffee crisp. And maybe some Smarties. And a pepperoni stick. And an O Henry. And a pizza pop. God I'm hungry. I've been in the US for too long. =(
On the subject of drinks though, I am a pop drinker as well. It depends on what's going on that day what I drink though. I will have a coke most days. But if I really need to be awake and alert, I will start the day off with a Bawls.
Addendum to my previous post. (I was right. It was never).
From TFA:
No passenger plane has ever been downed by a shoulder-fired missile outside of a combat zone. But terrorists linked with al Qaeda are believed to have fired two SA-7 missiles that narrowly missed an Israeli passenger jet after it took off from Mombasa, Kenya, in November 2002.
Probably never. Shoulder fired missiles are usually infra red seeking. Which is a passively homing missile. I honestly don't know how the hell you would detect such a missile tracking you. As far as I knew, even military jets have no early warning of IR missiles.
I'm not denying that many people disagree. I am saying it's bloody ridiculous to argue the premise. But just to emphasize my point further, I'll simplify it further.
Greenhouse gases cause temperatures to increase. People create a lot of greenhouse gases in various ways.
So which of #1 or #2 do you have a problem with? #3 is just very convincing evidence that the processes illustrated in #1 and #2 are not complete nonsense.
1) Greenhouse gases create a greenhouse effect. What this means is that if you have a lot of C02 in the air, it will trap the heat, creating higher temperatures in the area. Our sister planet, Venus, has a runaway greenhouse gas problem. There are so many greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, that the planet keeps getting warmer and warmer. This in turn, creates more greenhouse gases. The place isn't very hospitable.
2) People create a lot of greenhouse gases, and pump them directly into the atmosphere. This comes by way of car exhaust, factory air pollution, power plants, and a host of other things. Automobile pollution is probably the single biggest cause though.
3) This has been going on for a very long time. Accordingly, the Earth has shown a HUGE spike in global temperatures since the Industrial Revolution.
I visited Torrentbox earlier today, and got a VERY similar message to that described in the article. Are they ran by the same people? If so, I really didn't know that. Torrentbox was my tracker of choice, but I still have to say that despite its issues, I really like torrentspy for searching. So I'm still good.
I installed IE7 on my Windows box. I use Firefox exclusively. The only reason that I installed it was because the automatic update manager wanted to, and since IE is a deeply embedded component of Windows, a security update for IE is a security update for Windows. Otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered.
I switched (mostly) to Linux to get away from IE. But I still installed IE7. So no, I don't consider this news to be surprising in the slightest.
California. I got used to 100=40 this summer, when everyone was whining about how hot it was, and I would be forced to give my trademarked blank stare.
I'm a Canadian living in the US. Temperatures are about the biggest thing that bothers me down here. Most groceries have the metric equivalents written in smaller letters, and portion sizes are usually the same as in Canada anyways. So it doesn't bother me very often, unless I am buying fountain pop, and someone tells me the drink sizes in ounces. Then I will just give them a blank look for a minute, and ask to see the cups. I also had difficulty when mailing a letter. I was quoted prices by the ounce. But the guy working there converted it to grams for me right off the top of his head (I was grateful).
But I have a fast way of converting Fahrenheit to Celsius, with a reasonably small margin of error for common values. 100F is more or less the same as 40C. Every degree in Celsius is about 2 degrees Fahrenheit. So if someone tells you that it's 80 degrees, you can guess that it's about 30C. It isn't exact, but it's within about 5 degrees, which is good enough for the most part. It at least tells you what to wear.
CLASSIC American scare-mongering to any sort of change. I have bookmarked that site, and I will have to look at all those later. =) Thanks for the link.
Canada switched to the metric system decades ago. Being a British commonwealth for such a long time, of course most of us were well accustomed to Imperial units. I still remember as a kid, how my Mom was one of the holdouts for the Imperial system for a long time. She would tell me to get a quart or gallon of milk, and I would have to ask her how many liters that was.
The thing is that the metric system is officially used everywhere. Road signs, groceries, public schools, the works. The only basis that we have for even knowing the Imperial system is our parents. I've used the metric system my entire life. I know my height and weight in feet and lbs, but couldn't tell you what it is in metric units. But I can guess fairly accurately how much something weighs in kilograms, but I'm not so good with pounds. Likewise, I'm more comfortable with measuring things in meters, rather than feet.
A rather amusing story though. I am currently living in the US, trying to get by without using the old ways. I am not always successful. But I try. Anyways, I was on the phone with my Mom the other day, and she asked how warm it was here. I googled the answer, and got it in Fahrenheit (46F). I laughed, and said she would be right at home here, and gave her the answer in Fahrenheit without doing the conversion. I was rather amazed at her response. She told me that it's been so long since she's used the Imperial system that she's forgotten it. She honestly didn't remember what 46F was.
Anyways, my point is that it doesn't matter if the older people don't use the metric system. Teach it to the young, and switch the entire country to the metric system on all official items. It will all sort itself out in time.
I just tried the ACID2 test on my computer again after you said that. It would seem that the new Mozilla finally renders it flawlessly. I've previously tried it in Konqueror and Opera, and it displays fine there as well.
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I'm a Canadian. I'm honestly not sure if the law applies to movies as well as music (I think it does), but in Canada, it's not copyright infringement if it's for personal use. You are free to download as much as you like if you aren't going to do anything bad with it (like sell it). If you are just going to watch it or listen to it, it's all good.
But we still have the CRIA ads in our theatres saying not to pirate the movies we just paid to watch. It has a tendency to piss us off. I have a friend who downloads a movie (any movie) before going to a theater to see a movie on general principles. The general consensus in Canada is that the CRIA is pure evil, and are kept on a very thin leash. We try not to give them money if we can at all help it. But we like to go to theatres, and we like our boxed DVDs, so most of us have extensive collections and go to the theatre frequently anyway.
But that being said, I'm sure that the vast majority of us pirates would be more than willing to pay a fair price for movies, if the price was fair, and the profits went to the artists instead of a cartel of gangsters.
The higher level graphing calculators are REALLY nice, and are sometimes a boon in the private sector, when you have to do some really fancy math. However, they are completely impractical for school. In high school, you NEED a Ti-83. A laptop is too powerful, and they aren't going to allow you to bring it with you for a test.
But I am a recent University graduate. I think I had something like 1 or 2 classes that allowed me to bring a Ti-83 into the test with me. Most of my math based classes specifically disallowed graphing calculators for obvious reasons. They are just too powerful, and make cheating very very easy. I had to buy a $10 scientific calculator for University.
So my advice? Don't buy the best calculator on the market. It will just collect dust, and you will be angry for having spent triple what a TI-83 would cost, and get far less use.
But if you really do want a good calculator, then I might suggest a TI-92. My math teacher in high school had one, and they were so very very sexy. The big difference between a TI92 and a TI-83 in my books is that a TI-92 does integrals. Which is mighty handy. It even does Vectors.
We could try mass mailing them. I've had some success with that in the past. =)
You're one of those people who wakes up in the morning with a big smile, likes to laugh and talk a lot, and is all excited by the new day, aren't you?
It's not the price. It's all the bad things that Sony has done. They have been arrogant as hell the whole time with the PS3. They've insulted the fans, and now the fans are enjoying watching them take a beating.
But I would argue that it was implied. I mean, he's saying how much better Photoshop is than the GIMP. Last I checked, Photoshop was NOT included with Windows. The professional video editing tools for Linux are more robust and mature than the ones for Windows.
The way I see Ubuntu Studio is that it's a collection of the finest open source artist's tools compiled into one package, on a Linux OS. If you want to install some third party software, like Maya or Renderman, you are perfectly free to do so. Just as you are with Windows.
His point was that Linux was useless to the professional artist. It isn't.
Pixar doesn't render their movies on Macs or Windows PCs. Wanna take a wild guess what they use? Same goes for ILM. Linkie. So yeah, take your uninformed opinions and shove them.
You can actually create some pretty professional quality stuff with Cinelerra. I took a few new media classes when I was in school. I used both Cinelerra and Adobe Premiere. I found Cinelerra to be FAR easier to use, and supported some things that Premiere just didn't do.
I would imagine it would work much like Kubuntu or Xubuntu.
If you don't know, the only difference between Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu, is what packages are included on the disc, and what packages are installed at install time. If you are like me, and like to see what's going on on the other side of the fence, but like the vanilla Ubuntu for the most part... then you just install Ubuntu, like normal, and then simply install the kubuntu-desktop and xubuntu-desktop meta-packages from the repositories. That will install the ENTIRE Kubuntu or Xubuntu system onto your existing Ubuntu install.
With some butter tarts. And a coffee crisp. And maybe some Smarties. And a pepperoni stick. And an O Henry. And a pizza pop. God I'm hungry. I've been in the US for too long. =(
On the subject of drinks though, I am a pop drinker as well. It depends on what's going on that day what I drink though. I will have a coke most days. But if I really need to be awake and alert, I will start the day off with a Bawls.
Addendum to my previous post. (I was right. It was never).
From TFA:
No passenger plane has ever been downed by a shoulder-fired missile outside of a combat zone. But terrorists linked with al Qaeda are believed to have fired two SA-7 missiles that narrowly missed an Israeli passenger jet after it took off from Mombasa, Kenya, in November 2002.
(Please note that SA-7 missiles are IR guided).
Probably never. Shoulder fired missiles are usually infra red seeking. Which is a passively homing missile. I honestly don't know how the hell you would detect such a missile tracking you. As far as I knew, even military jets have no early warning of IR missiles.
I'm not denying that many people disagree. I am saying it's bloody ridiculous to argue the premise. But just to emphasize my point further, I'll simplify it further.
Greenhouse gases cause temperatures to increase. People create a lot of greenhouse gases in various ways.
So which of #1 or #2 do you have a problem with? #3 is just very convincing evidence that the processes illustrated in #1 and #2 are not complete nonsense.
It's very simple.
1) Greenhouse gases create a greenhouse effect. What this means is that if you have a lot of C02 in the air, it will trap the heat, creating higher temperatures in the area. Our sister planet, Venus, has a runaway greenhouse gas problem. There are so many greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, that the planet keeps getting warmer and warmer. This in turn, creates more greenhouse gases. The place isn't very hospitable.
2) People create a lot of greenhouse gases, and pump them directly into the atmosphere. This comes by way of car exhaust, factory air pollution, power plants, and a host of other things. Automobile pollution is probably the single biggest cause though.
3) This has been going on for a very long time. Accordingly, the Earth has shown a HUGE spike in global temperatures since the Industrial Revolution.
To deny that this is going on is quite insane.
I visited Torrentbox earlier today, and got a VERY similar message to that described in the article. Are they ran by the same people? If so, I really didn't know that. Torrentbox was my tracker of choice, but I still have to say that despite its issues, I really like torrentspy for searching. So I'm still good.
I installed IE7 on my Windows box. I use Firefox exclusively. The only reason that I installed it was because the automatic update manager wanted to, and since IE is a deeply embedded component of Windows, a security update for IE is a security update for Windows. Otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered.
I switched (mostly) to Linux to get away from IE. But I still installed IE7. So no, I don't consider this news to be surprising in the slightest.
Thanks. I have milk all over my face now from trying not to spray it on the screen. I'm way too tired to be reading jokes this terrible. =P
California. I got used to 100=40 this summer, when everyone was whining about how hot it was, and I would be forced to give my trademarked blank stare.
Yeah, that works a lot better. I should have thought of that myself. I always try to over-simplify things, and get it completely wrong. Thanks man.
I'm a Canadian living in the US. Temperatures are about the biggest thing that bothers me down here. Most groceries have the metric equivalents written in smaller letters, and portion sizes are usually the same as in Canada anyways. So it doesn't bother me very often, unless I am buying fountain pop, and someone tells me the drink sizes in ounces. Then I will just give them a blank look for a minute, and ask to see the cups. I also had difficulty when mailing a letter. I was quoted prices by the ounce. But the guy working there converted it to grams for me right off the top of his head (I was grateful).
But I have a fast way of converting Fahrenheit to Celsius, with a reasonably small margin of error for common values. 100F is more or less the same as 40C. Every degree in Celsius is about 2 degrees Fahrenheit. So if someone tells you that it's 80 degrees, you can guess that it's about 30C. It isn't exact, but it's within about 5 degrees, which is good enough for the most part. It at least tells you what to wear.
Is Metric a Communist Plot?
CLASSIC American scare-mongering to any sort of change. I have bookmarked that site, and I will have to look at all those later. =) Thanks for the link.
Canada switched to the metric system decades ago. Being a British commonwealth for such a long time, of course most of us were well accustomed to Imperial units. I still remember as a kid, how my Mom was one of the holdouts for the Imperial system for a long time. She would tell me to get a quart or gallon of milk, and I would have to ask her how many liters that was.
The thing is that the metric system is officially used everywhere. Road signs, groceries, public schools, the works. The only basis that we have for even knowing the Imperial system is our parents. I've used the metric system my entire life. I know my height and weight in feet and lbs, but couldn't tell you what it is in metric units. But I can guess fairly accurately how much something weighs in kilograms, but I'm not so good with pounds. Likewise, I'm more comfortable with measuring things in meters, rather than feet.
A rather amusing story though. I am currently living in the US, trying to get by without using the old ways. I am not always successful. But I try. Anyways, I was on the phone with my Mom the other day, and she asked how warm it was here. I googled the answer, and got it in Fahrenheit (46F). I laughed, and said she would be right at home here, and gave her the answer in Fahrenheit without doing the conversion. I was rather amazed at her response. She told me that it's been so long since she's used the Imperial system that she's forgotten it. She honestly didn't remember what 46F was.
Anyways, my point is that it doesn't matter if the older people don't use the metric system. Teach it to the young, and switch the entire country to the metric system on all official items. It will all sort itself out in time.
I just tried the ACID2 test on my computer again after you said that. It would seem that the new Mozilla finally renders it flawlessly. I've previously tried it in Konqueror and Opera, and it displays fine there as well.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20061219 Minefield/3.0a2pre