national ID only identifies you are a legal US Citizen Nice propoganda, but no, that is not true. Seriously, think. Even if you know nothing about the National ID legislation(not surprising as it was slipped in with Tsunami relief when it was passed), you have to assume it would at least have my name on it. Probably age, place of birth, place of residence. Definitely machine readable, and tied into a national database. Oh, and it would be accessible to NSA, DHS, etc.
Also possibly party affiliation? just kidding, but this is not a kneejerk reaction, even if you don't agree and want the national ID.
Possible biometric identification, limiting access to noncritical Federal buildings, likely implementation of RFID; these are some of the concerns.
Let's hypothetically say I send an email that says, 'that's da bomb' (back in the 90's or so), threaten use of Tom Cruise missiles against the scientologists, and set off some m80's on Independence Day. I am then, officially, an e-terrorist, a regular terrorist, and a Lone Wolf Terrorist. Respectively. Next time I go to the registry I am identified. Maybe I go to Yellowstone National Park. Or try to. Or I'm at home and start googling for Candystriper Death Orgy on youtube. Or Cannibal Corpse's 3rd track on "the bleeding"
"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. . . . It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation . . . at the hand of an intolerant society." Supreme Court ruling in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, 1995. "There ought to be limits on freedom" George W. Bush
great link! I hope someone implements this as a plugin so I can hear if it works, or try to.
A lot of people can't hear above 18 kHz anyway, especially when lower frequencies or environmental noises mask the higher frequencies From another Wikipedia article:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_(sens e)#Hearing_in_humans/
some individuals are able to hear pitches up to 22 kHz and perhaps beyond, while others are limited to about 16 kHz. The ability of most adults to hear sounds above about 8 kHz begins to deteriorate in early middle age. So 16-18kHz would be a typical upper limit for young adults, but many filters in use in digital audio alter the phase or add noise in that region. It's important to note that those frequencies are not generally used for musical notes, more often they are harmonics that our brains use for sound localization.
Also from wiki:
Most of the brain's ability to localize sound depends on interaural (between ears) intensity differences and interaural temporal or phase differences. Here's a scenario:
Basically, a piano chord is played, recorded, reproduced and possibly listened to...
the harmonics are heard by a human pair of ears, hopefully, and the human brain begins comparing and contrasting the results of both ears...
the stereo recording contains many errors in phase, particular to individual stereo channels...
the brain cannot distinguish whether phase and intensity differences result from placement of the speakers in relation to the ears(actual ambience of room, etc.), differences that were present in the recording(the ambience of the recording you were trying to reproduce), and differences that are artificial errors resulting from inaccurate reproduction of the recording(these are most likely not decodable at all by the brain and likely confuse it)...
But, a recording made with a sampling rate of say, 96kHz will reproduce tones up to 48kHz. With a soft or slow filter, tones above this can be removed completely, and if I remember correctly often contain no errors in phase well into the high 30kHz range. (or it might be Super Audio CD players I'm thinking of. Sorry for the ambiguity.) CD sound is very good, but does not always provide lifelike simulation of the space of the room or placement of the instruments. But I'm still glad I don't live in the wax cylinder days!
Even if there were nothing else wrong with the format (that is hard to describe and justify), CDs do have inherent compromises in the choice of sampling and bit rate.
CDs are sampled 44,100 times per second. This means that nothing above half of that (22.05 kHz) should be reproduced. It's inaccurate noise that is not representing the music recorded. There was probably real musical information there, although most can't hear it.
The perfect solution is to throw away evrything above 22.05kHz and leave everything else untouched. However, the filters that are used can't do it. Steep filters that cut everything sharply "smear" the sound in a harsh way. They are only used by professionals for subwoofers where the notes are further apart and easier to deal with. A more gradual filter doesn't get rid of all the noise, gets rid of some of the music, and also degrades the sound to some degree.
Also, CD's 16 bits is a much lower number than what many musicians record in. I use 24 bit recording (as a hobbyist musician) and some even use 32 bits.
I would love to be able to give friends (when requested) the actual recording I made instead of having to create a lower quality CD or mp3 version that they can use more easily. But I freely admit that CD or mp3 versions almost always sound very similar to the original. I use 320kbps usually.
***
As far as the whole LP debate, it has always seemed silly to me. I am an audiophile. I acknowledge that some records sound better than most CDs. But I insist that a master tape (reel to reel) sounds better still. CDs are more convenient and more durable. Plus if you record in CD format you can give out or sell the actual recording.
I'd say that the GPL says you can freely use software licensed under the GPL however you like. Unless you in anyway distribute the software, in original or modified form. In that case you have to provide source code and license it under the GPL license.
This ultimately means that you can do whatever you want until you want to get another user involved. In that case you have to make sure they can do whatever they want. Unless they want to get another user involved...
As a salesman I'd like to lump myself into your analogy. People would rather have politicians who seem dumber and less experienced than themselves instead of smarter and more experienced or even equal to them. Just like salespeople. People like Clnton (and me!) have to overcome this by pulling off this ludicrous amount of rapport with people just to break even.
Now I'm not saying I'm as smart as him, or anything like him. It's just that people know he's intelligent, and I always seem to get credit for having more than I do. maybe. I'm also a little arrogant (when I'm not being intentionally, ironically self-deprecating)
Sometimes if you want people to _work for you_ you have to give them the benefit of the doubt that they aren't trying to screw you. Either that or you can _hire_ someone who you feel is to incompetent to screw you.
Right now I'm downloading an opensuse iso and it's averaging under 100kbps. This is slowing my connection ridiculously, and I have "up to" 768kbps. Clearly Verizon doesn't value me and they advertise my service constantly.
Will AT&T even provide this much quality to their $10 subscribers? It's just speulation I guess, but somethying to think about.
And no, if this is 768, I'm not paying for 1.5 or 3Mbps.
although they cost more then then others ...more than the others...
Oh, and actually dell computers were typically advertised as cheaper than the Compaq, Sony, and HP boxes; at least that was the image they were apparently going for. Well, maybe not compared to Compaq.
And understand that if you don't like the support, it's because there's no profit. If I buy a guitar, it's 30-40% profit and good salespeople will value my business and treat me well in the hopes of a future sale or referral. With computers nowadays either you actually are "one in a million" or they'll be out of business.
The same analogy would work comparing speakers vs. TVs or houses vs. cars.
clicked on newsletters and scrolled through all 5/2007 links until I saw one that looked promising.
Assuming this is the correct one the poster is correct that at least on budget defecits, most agree that we're completely out of control.
IMHO the ultra rich are happy about their taxbreaks, and certain extremist liberals aren't concerned. Everyone else realizes that screwing over our grandkids is wrong. With our current (unconstitutional) system of letting banks "create" their own virtual money, and "lend" it to the government, not only are we spending money we shouldn't, we're also handing over future (not today's) money to the banks. Kennedy and Lincoln both tried to fix this, or at least admit the problem.
1. No proof at all has been given that global warming is caused by human activity. Correlation != proof. So you're saying circumtancial evidence let's you choose peaches now over your grankids possible welfare. Classy.
2. No evidence has been laid that the warming is unnatural. Here in Georgia we used to have 10x the peach crop we do now. The reason is its TOO COLD. Global warming will (does) have local consequences that are unpredictable. Whether it was true or not your peaches would be inconsequential and not even circmstantial evidence.
3. No evidence the fear-mongers' plans would do anything at all. A scientific test might involve actually trying to stop deforestation and the increase in the rate of co2 emmissions.
4. Water vapor is much better at trapping heat than C02. How are you going to stop that? I'd suggest stopping the importation of water from other planets even if they are also warming. Let the Martians deal with their own problems.
5. Its warming up on Mars and Jupiter too. Did cars cause that too? What kind do they sell there? So there are six planets that aren't warming? What are they doing right? I suggest matching their number of cars to be really scientific about this.
Hopefully others will submit comments. Here's what I sent:
"Re:Net Neutrality (for legislation of neutrlity)
Hi, thanks for reading this.
While I understand packetshaping could provide TV services (and other special features) without affecting email (and other basic features) too much, I do not agree with the tradoff of important net neutrality issues to accomplish an artificial boost of performance.
When I first signed up for service I had a 28k connection. Because that was the norm, a webpage that had a simple, low quality, tiny animation was special. Net Neutrality kept images loading slowly and medium sized images had very poor performance. At the same time the text files that comprised the webpages themselves loaded quickly, with more than enough bandwidth. Because of this apparent discrepency we now have dynamic webpages that can be updated much more effectively. Other services that were not available or anticipated became commonplace. And images are now loaded quickly, and sound and video function well.
ISP's and network owners can't be expected to anticipate the future of the internet, nor can they be generally counted upon to make decisions on content that will benefit the far future.
If a text file becomes a second class transportee over the internet because it is small, no web designers will be able to innovate in a way that required a full bandwidth, fast delivery.
Additionally, the above is only a practical consideration. I strongly believe that internet service is an important communication device for this nation (and planet) and we need legislation to protect it from immediate exploitation by temporarily powerful forces, who are more accountable to marketing departments and public whim than true benefits to society."
Kate works great for html and css WYWIWYG (what you WRITE is what you get). And yes, I remember cutehtml and LOVED it too.
Bluefish and Quanta Plus are excellent wysiwyg editors, but I don't often desire that function.
The GIMP might not do CMYK (I don't know) but is my favorite graphics tool since Photoshop and photofiltre. I guess krita does CMYK but all this may be out of date.
In any case, if someone doesn't want to pay for software they shouldn't steal it. Excellent alternatives are certainly available.
Exactly; assuming you mean the hd-dvd key that the industry tried to hide.
I didn't even hear about it until the press changed from someone breaking the protection to the fact that there was a key that no one was supposed to post.
There was also a case of a drug company trying to hide the details of deaths surrounding a certain drug treatment. A judge even ruled it was illegal to disseminate, but that didn't stop and probably encouraged its widespread availability.
It might be off-topic, but I get the feeling that the temptation of security by obscurity, just like with web browsers, makes people dream of getting the genie back in the bottle. ("If I can't see you, you can't see me.")
Like a security flaw, if the information was out there it will most likely be utilized. Someone will have a copy.
Why shouldn't power companies be forced to rent your roof space and even provide maintenance, in exchange for the power it produces? They could keep a percentage of the power and let you use the rest.
You probably couldn't force people to allow the companies to rent out their roof, but the option could be there. I think most people would do this, if it wasn't an eyesore.
As it stands now, the companies have to buy any excess power that you don't use and it gets pooled into the power grid. My father has been looking into this for a while now for his roof.
I have a PS2 and wii (brother's) and suppose I could get an xbox360 or ps3 if I wanted. I don't really play games all that much and while I respect your decisions, I don't think it is taken for granted that gaming should be a key factor in everyone else's estimate.
I'll put linux firewalls up against windows games and suggest they cancel (feel I'm being generous here) and your other problems? I'm most interested in recent fedora/redhat, suse, or ubuntu failings.
I'm definitely not saying linux is perfect, I'm just curious. I first tried Red Hat 5 like 10 years ago or something and it took another 5 before I tried again. It was pretty rough. But installs now are nothing like back then and I think they're quicker and easier than Windows now, or at least comparable.
compares pretty favorably to Windows's Add/Remove Programs system I think he meant...contrasts favorably...
I didn't RTFA, but he didn't actually claim to have actually installed
applications like Adobe Reader and the Thunderbird mail client through Windows's Add/Remove Programs system did he?
and don't get me started on the remove part. I'm pretty sure they forgot the re- and use that option to move install stuff around your/system/ or/system32/ folders. You know; like a game or something...
just trying to give TFA the benefit of the doubt and all
Sorry, that was kind of the point. I can see exactly what you're saying, and was trying to be tongue-in-cheek.
I thought if I asked for something(s) unreasonable people would get it.
And the fp thing is first-post. People seem to have to point out that they 'got it'.
It also totally ruins the joke I guess so does trying to explain it...
Anyway, welcome; stick around, most don't care about karma. And it's better to have karma-whores than trolls. They're generally the same attention-grubbing types, but now they're spending all that effort NOT trying to piss people off.
FTFA 'H-P disputes Kodak's testing methodology and claims that Kodak's printout costs are "about the same or only slightly lower than H-P's." '
It's interesting because Epson's claims are not generally disputed by hp, and both companies have clearly shown remarkable effort on their websites in explaining their print testing methods. hp has also proposed and worked with others on starting a standard for testing. People get skeptical when they read the tests for different reasons. With hp and Epson I believe, the page coverage for black text printing is 5% and that sounds crazy. But look at a page and imagine how useless it would be to test how many pages you get when you use a solid sheet of black with full coverage borderless-printing.
When I bought my first hp printer the model (Deskjet 920c) that particular piece was not their best at cost per page, but I eliminated the ink drying up from non-use issue. I no longer wasted cartridges.
My current model (Deskjet 6520) uses an optional higher capacity cartridge that costs $30, but seems to last forever. (I think they claim 800 pages and it certainly doesn't seem exaggerated.) And there's a $35 color cartridge.
Before you think I'm crazy, I did research and bought this model precisely to be compatible with these cartridges. hp model #'s are 96 and 97.
Now, I'll probably have to do a lot of printing to see much benefit over the Lexmarks and Kodaks, etc. but I also feel that it prints very fast and warms up almost immediately. And if I had to buy a printer and wasn't buying an hp I'd get an Epson. Remember, Kodak is the company that almost tanked because they apparently thought digital cameras were a fad. One good thing is that hp and epson will probably lower their prices whether it's a fair comparison or not, because of perception! I just hope their quality doesn't suffer.
BTW, I don't mean to imply that they're the only good companies. they're just the only ones I know are good.
even then I knew there had to be a solution, but it was tough to stick it out back then. often I'd run into problems even coming at it from different angles. I first wanted to save the data, and the mbr probably would have worked since I had separate partitions. then I tried to do a low level format.
even now, knowing about needing to restore the mbr, I have the impression that the lilo mbr would get wiped. Of course it would be easy to believe I'd have screwed it up.
-I've tried a few distro's and come to prefer fedora core (for now) -rpm was rough, then I settled on yum to install software. I prefer yumex over kyum, not sure why. -not so much with the compiling sources and the terminals and such but yakuake is a great improvement to konsole -I've only added choices with livna, freshrpms, and atrpms for 3rd party repos -amarok, xmms, xine, kplayer, and vlc are the finalists for media players out of how many? I have 15 apps that I could call "mp3 players" but don't know how many I've uninstalled as well. oops forgot mpd and mythtv -can't decide between konqueror, opera, and ff. but I won't uninstall mozilla or dillo -evolution, kmail, or thunderbird -gaim or kopete -alsa (with or without arts) and jack offer similar functions but aren't fun together; I guess it's more that I can't use jack all the time or live without it, but I usually leave alsa running -koffice or ooo -I've setled on kate -kde or fluxbox
I'm not complaining about any of this. Without this mindset I wouldn't be so loyal to Seagate hdd's and Antec power supplies. I LIKE choice. My computer experience has evolved through trial and error, survival of the fittest. You might even suspect intelligent design. But there's a sacrifice of effort. And only weeks ago I was confused about skype and Vonage and SIP(?!) and I still don't know what I want. But I wouldn't have it any other way.
Users who need more direction, like Joe from T-Mobile or Joe from T-Mobile can find someone like me and I'll choose for him and pick the apps I currently prefer, or flip a coin, when I install fedora or yellowdog on a PS3 or mepis on a laptop. Whatever.
Perhaps there's too much choice. Or maybe irresolute doubtmonkeys shouldn't install software at all -- even windows apps!
Maybe somewhere in between. I like that I have to add 3rd party repos for some of this. what's that universe thing some people use? you get the idea...
Now; I think Windows users should be using Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office Dot Org, foobar, Miranda, Photofiltre, and VLC. NOT IE, outlook, msoffice, wmp, msmessenger, mspaint, or mediaplayer. They should replace all windows utilities possible with stuff from portablefreeware.com or tinyapps.org and zonealarm and adaware are necessary. I don't think this paragraph gave anyone any difficult choices, but neither I nor slashdot nor cmmndrtco (sic) can be held accountable for DANGEROUS information you come across on the tubes of the interweb.
Odd, I started out trying to see it from their side, but ended up losing patience and sympathy. These are valuable if you're trying to help people but all I can say is...
Slashdot Mirror
Also possibly party affiliation? just kidding, but this is not a kneejerk reaction, even if you don't agree and want the national ID.
Possible biometric identification, limiting access to noncritical Federal buildings, likely implementation of RFID; these are some of the concerns.
Let's hypothetically say I send an email that says, 'that's da bomb' (back in the 90's or so), threaten use of Tom Cruise missiles against the scientologists, and set off some m80's on Independence Day.
I am then, officially, an e-terrorist, a regular terrorist, and a Lone Wolf Terrorist. Respectively. Next time I go to the registry I am identified. Maybe I go to Yellowstone National Park. Or try to.
Or I'm at home and start googling for Candystriper Death Orgy on youtube. Or Cannibal Corpse's 3rd track on "the bleeding"
"Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority. . . . It thus exemplifies the purpose behind the Bill of Rights, and of the First Amendment in particular: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation . . . at the hand of an intolerant society."
Supreme Court ruling in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, 1995.
"There ought to be limits on freedom"
George W. Bush
There's some Freedom of Speech stuff...
Basically, a piano chord is played, recorded, reproduced and possibly listened to...
the harmonics are heard by a human pair of ears, hopefully, and the human brain begins comparing and contrasting the results of both ears...
the stereo recording contains many errors in phase, particular to individual stereo channels...
the brain cannot distinguish whether phase and intensity differences result from placement of the speakers in relation to the ears(actual ambience of room, etc.), differences that were present in the recording(the ambience of the recording you were trying to reproduce), and differences that are artificial errors resulting from inaccurate reproduction of the recording(these are most likely not decodable at all by the brain and likely confuse it)...
But, a recording made with a sampling rate of say, 96kHz will reproduce tones up to 48kHz. With a soft or slow filter, tones above this can be removed completely, and if I remember correctly often contain no errors in phase well into the high 30kHz range. (or it might be Super Audio CD players I'm thinking of. Sorry for the ambiguity.) CD sound is very good, but does not always provide lifelike simulation of the space of the room or placement of the instruments. But I'm still glad I don't live in the wax cylinder days!
Even if there were nothing else wrong with the format (that is hard to describe and justify), CDs do have inherent compromises in the choice of sampling and bit rate.
CDs are sampled 44,100 times per second. This means that nothing above half of that (22.05 kHz) should be reproduced. It's inaccurate noise that is not representing the music recorded. There was probably real musical information there, although most can't hear it.
The perfect solution is to throw away evrything above 22.05kHz and leave everything else untouched. However, the filters that are used can't do it. Steep filters that cut everything sharply "smear" the sound in a harsh way. They are only used by professionals for subwoofers where the notes are further apart and easier to deal with. A more gradual filter doesn't get rid of all the noise, gets rid of some of the music, and also degrades the sound to some degree.
Also, CD's 16 bits is a much lower number than what many musicians record in. I use 24 bit recording (as a hobbyist musician) and some even use 32 bits.
I would love to be able to give friends (when requested) the actual recording I made instead of having to create a lower quality CD or mp3 version that they can use more easily.
But I freely admit that CD or mp3 versions almost always sound very similar to the original. I use 320kbps usually.
***
As far as the whole LP debate, it has always seemed silly to me. I am an audiophile. I acknowledge that some records sound better than most CDs. But I insist that a master tape (reel to reel) sounds better still. CDs are more convenient and more durable. Plus if you record in CD format you can give out or sell the actual recording.
My 2 cents.
I'd say that the GPL says you can freely use software licensed under the GPL however you like.
Unless you in anyway distribute the software, in original or modified form.
In that case you have to provide source code and license it under the GPL license.
This ultimately means that you can do whatever you want until you want to get another user involved. In that case you have to make sure they can do whatever they want. Unless they want to get another user involved...
As a salesman I'd like to lump myself into your analogy. People would rather have politicians who seem dumber and less experienced than themselves instead of smarter and more experienced or even equal to them. Just like salespeople. People like Clnton (and me!) have to overcome this by pulling off this ludicrous amount of rapport with people just to break even.
Now I'm not saying I'm as smart as him, or anything like him. It's just that people know he's intelligent, and I always seem to get credit for having more than I do. maybe. I'm also a little arrogant (when I'm not being intentionally, ironically self-deprecating)
Sometimes if you want people to _work for you_ you have to give them the benefit of the doubt that they aren't trying to screw you. Either that or you can _hire_ someone who you feel is to incompetent to screw you.
So I shouldn't complain that it dropped to 89KB/s then?
Right now I'm downloading an opensuse iso and it's averaging under 100kbps. This is slowing my connection ridiculously, and I have "up to" 768kbps. Clearly Verizon doesn't value me and they advertise my service constantly.
Will AT&T even provide this much quality to their $10 subscribers? It's just speulation I guess, but somethying to think about.
And no, if this is 768, I'm not paying for 1.5 or 3Mbps.
Oh, and actually dell computers were typically advertised as cheaper than the Compaq, Sony, and HP boxes; at least that was the image they were apparently going for. Well, maybe not compared to Compaq.
And understand that if you don't like the support, it's because there's no profit. If I buy a guitar, it's 30-40% profit and good salespeople will value my business and treat me well in the hopes of a future sale or referral. With computers nowadays either you actually are "one in a million" or they'll be out of business.
The same analogy would work comparing speakers vs. TVs or houses vs. cars.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/05/ruy _deficit.html
clicked on newsletters and scrolled through all 5/2007 links until I saw one that looked promising.
Assuming this is the correct one the poster is correct that at least on budget defecits, most agree that we're completely out of control.
IMHO the ultra rich are happy about their taxbreaks, and certain extremist liberals aren't concerned. Everyone else realizes that screwing over our grandkids is wrong. With our current (unconstitutional) system of letting banks "create" their own virtual money, and "lend" it to the government, not only are we spending money we shouldn't, we're also handing over future (not today's) money to the banks. Kennedy and Lincoln both tried to fix this, or at least admit the problem.
off topic, but...
1. No proof at all has been given that global warming is caused by human activity. Correlation != proof.
So you're saying circumtancial evidence let's you choose peaches now over your grankids possible welfare. Classy.
2. No evidence has been laid that the warming is unnatural. Here in Georgia we used to have 10x the peach crop we do now. The reason is its TOO COLD.
Global warming will (does) have local consequences that are unpredictable. Whether it was true or not your peaches would be inconsequential and not even circmstantial evidence.
3. No evidence the fear-mongers' plans would do anything at all.
A scientific test might involve actually trying to stop deforestation and the increase in the rate of co2 emmissions.
4. Water vapor is much better at trapping heat than C02. How are you going to stop that?
I'd suggest stopping the importation of water from other planets even if they are also warming. Let the Martians deal with their own problems.
5. Its warming up on Mars and Jupiter too. Did cars cause that too? What kind do they sell there?
So there are six planets that aren't warming? What are they doing right? I suggest matching their number of cars to be really scientific about this.
Hopefully others will submit comments. Here's what I sent:
"Re:Net Neutrality (for legislation of neutrlity)
Hi, thanks for reading this.
While I understand packetshaping could provide TV services (and other special features) without affecting email (and other basic features) too much, I do not agree with the tradoff of important net neutrality issues to accomplish an artificial boost of performance.
When I first signed up for service I had a 28k connection. Because that was the norm, a webpage that had a simple, low quality, tiny animation was special. Net Neutrality kept images loading slowly and medium sized images had very poor performance. At the same time the text files that comprised the webpages themselves loaded quickly, with more than enough bandwidth. Because of this apparent discrepency we now have dynamic webpages that can be updated much more effectively. Other services that were not available or anticipated became commonplace. And images are now loaded quickly, and sound and video function well.
ISP's and network owners can't be expected to anticipate the future of the internet, nor can they be generally counted upon to make decisions on content that will benefit the far future.
If a text file becomes a second class transportee over the internet because it is small, no web designers will be able to innovate in a way that required a full bandwidth, fast delivery.
Additionally, the above is only a practical consideration. I strongly believe that internet service is an important communication device for this nation (and planet) and we need legislation to protect it from immediate exploitation by temporarily powerful forces, who are more accountable to marketing departments and public whim than true benefits to society."
Kate works great for html and css WYWIWYG (what you WRITE is what you get). And yes, I remember cutehtml and LOVED it too.
Bluefish and Quanta Plus are excellent wysiwyg editors, but I don't often desire that function.
The GIMP might not do CMYK (I don't know) but is my favorite graphics tool since Photoshop and photofiltre. I guess krita does CMYK but all this may be out of date.
In any case, if someone doesn't want to pay for software they shouldn't steal it. Excellent alternatives are certainly available.
Exactly; assuming you mean the hd-dvd key that the industry tried to hide.
I didn't even hear about it until the press changed from someone breaking the protection to the fact that there was a key that no one was supposed to post.
There was also a case of a drug company trying to hide the details of deaths surrounding a certain drug treatment. A judge even ruled it was illegal to disseminate, but that didn't stop and probably encouraged its widespread availability.
It might be off-topic, but I get the feeling that the temptation of security by obscurity, just like with web browsers, makes people dream of getting the genie back in the bottle. ("If I can't see you, you can't see me.")
Like a security flaw, if the information was out there it will most likely be utilized. Someone will have a copy.
what'd i do, i'm just l337
Why shouldn't power companies be forced to rent your roof space and even provide maintenance, in exchange for the power it produces? They could keep a percentage of the power and let you use the rest.
You probably couldn't force people to allow the companies to rent out their roof, but the option could be there. I think most people would do this, if it wasn't an eyesore.
As it stands now, the companies have to buy any excess power that you don't use and it gets pooled into the power grid. My father has been looking into this for a while now for his roof.
http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articl eID=000998FD-65C6-1C71-9EB7809EC588F2D7/
The word wormhole is being used inappropriately somewhere...
They make horrible voting machines, and in TFA it's claimed they tabulate results at the precinct level not the machine level. DUMB.
/. articles will likely continue until they're no longer used, for obvious reasons.
I do understand why Republicans get so defensive about this,but these machines have to GO.
The
I have a PS2 and wii (brother's) and suppose I could get an xbox360 or ps3 if I wanted. I don't really play games all that much and while I respect your decisions, I don't think it is taken for granted that gaming should be a key factor in everyone else's estimate.
I'll put linux firewalls up against windows games and suggest they cancel (feel I'm being generous here) and your other problems? I'm most interested in recent fedora/redhat, suse, or ubuntu failings.
I'm definitely not saying linux is perfect, I'm just curious. I first tried Red Hat 5 like 10 years ago or something and it took another 5 before I tried again. It was pretty rough. But installs now are nothing like back then and I think they're quicker and easier than Windows now, or at least comparable.
I didn't RTFA, but he didn't actually claim to have actually installed applications like Adobe Reader and the Thunderbird mail client through Windows's Add/Remove Programs system did he?
and don't get me started on the remove part. I'm pretty sure they forgot the re- and use that option to move install stuff around your
just trying to give TFA the benefit of the doubt and all
still waiting for the virtual-reality head.
I thought if I asked for something(s) unreasonable people would get it.
And the fp thing is first-post. People seem to have to point out that they 'got it'. It also totally ruins the joke I guess so does trying to explain it...
Anyway, welcome; stick around, most don't care about karma. And it's better to have karma-whores than trolls. They're generally the same attention-grubbing types, but now they're spending all that effort NOT trying to piss people off.
I always heard talk of a 3rd arm, now I can get one.
But where should I put it?
If you think I'm funny, mod me insightful so I get the karma points. or underrated because most people won't notice I didn't write fp!
FTFA
'H-P disputes Kodak's testing methodology and claims that Kodak's printout costs are "about the same or only slightly lower than H-P's." '
It's interesting because Epson's claims are not generally disputed by hp, and both companies have clearly shown remarkable effort on their websites in explaining their print testing methods. hp has also proposed and worked with others on starting a standard for testing. People get skeptical when they read the tests for different reasons. With hp and Epson I believe, the page coverage for black text printing is 5% and that sounds crazy. But look at a page and imagine how useless it would be to test how many pages you get when you use a solid sheet of black with full coverage borderless-printing.
When I bought my first hp printer the model (Deskjet 920c) that particular piece was not their best at cost per page, but I eliminated the ink drying up from non-use issue. I no longer wasted cartridges.
My current model (Deskjet 6520) uses an optional higher capacity cartridge that costs $30, but seems to last forever. (I think they claim 800 pages and it certainly doesn't seem exaggerated.) And there's a $35 color cartridge.
Before you think I'm crazy, I did research and bought this model precisely to be compatible with these cartridges. hp model #'s are 96 and 97.
Now, I'll probably have to do a lot of printing to see much benefit over the Lexmarks and Kodaks, etc. but I also feel that it prints very fast and warms up almost immediately. And if I had to buy a printer and wasn't buying an hp I'd get an Epson. Remember, Kodak is the company that almost tanked because they apparently thought digital cameras were a fad. One good thing is that hp and epson will probably lower their prices whether it's a fair comparison or not, because of perception! I just hope their quality doesn't suffer.
BTW, I don't mean to imply that they're the only good companies. they're just the only ones I know are good.
even then I knew there had to be a solution, but it was tough to stick it out back then. often I'd run into problems even coming at it from different angles. I first wanted to save the data, and the mbr probably would have worked since I had separate partitions. then I tried to do a low level format.
even now, knowing about needing to restore the mbr, I have the impression that the lilo mbr would get wiped.
Of course it would be easy to believe I'd have screwed it up.
I haven't used anything but grub for years.
-I've tried a few distro's and come to prefer fedora core (for now)
-rpm was rough, then I settled on yum to install software. I prefer yumex over kyum, not sure why.
-not so much with the compiling sources and the terminals and such but yakuake is a great improvement to konsole
-I've only added choices with livna, freshrpms, and atrpms for 3rd party repos
-amarok, xmms, xine, kplayer, and vlc are the finalists for media players out of how many? I have 15 apps that I could call "mp3 players" but don't know how many I've uninstalled as well. oops forgot mpd and mythtv
-can't decide between konqueror, opera, and ff. but I won't uninstall mozilla or dillo
-evolution, kmail, or thunderbird
-gaim or kopete
-alsa (with or without arts) and jack offer similar functions but aren't fun together; I guess it's more that I can't use jack all the time or live without it, but I usually leave alsa running
-koffice or ooo
-I've setled on kate
-kde or fluxbox
I'm not complaining about any of this. Without this mindset I wouldn't be so loyal to Seagate hdd's and Antec power supplies. I LIKE choice. My computer experience has evolved through trial and error, survival of the fittest. You might even suspect intelligent design. But there's a sacrifice of effort. And only weeks ago I was confused about skype and Vonage and SIP(?!) and I still don't know what I want.
But I wouldn't have it any other way.
Users who need more direction, like Joe from T-Mobile or Joe from T-Mobile can find someone like me and I'll choose for him and pick the apps I currently prefer, or flip a coin, when I install fedora or yellowdog on a PS3 or mepis on a laptop. Whatever.
Perhaps there's too much choice.
Or maybe irresolute doubtmonkeys shouldn't install software at all -- even windows apps!
Maybe somewhere in between. I like that I have to add 3rd party repos for some of this. what's that universe thing some people use? you get the idea...
Now; I think Windows users should be using Firefox, Thunderbird, Open Office Dot Org, foobar, Miranda, Photofiltre, and VLC. NOT IE, outlook, msoffice, wmp, msmessenger, mspaint, or mediaplayer. They should replace all windows utilities possible with stuff from portablefreeware.com or tinyapps.org and zonealarm and adaware are necessary. I don't think this paragraph gave anyone any difficult choices, but neither I nor slashdot nor cmmndrtco (sic) can be held accountable for DANGEROUS information you come across on the tubes of the interweb.
Odd, I started out trying to see it from their side, but ended up losing patience and sympathy. These are valuable if you're trying to help people but all I can say is...
"Life is used, get confusing to it"