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  1. Re:do they support ..... on Video Editor Kdenlive 0.9.6 Released · · Score: 2

    Different camcorders use different types of AVCHD. For a complete list of supported AVCHD formats look here

  2. Re:Hopefully it fixed a lot of bugs .... on Video Editor Kdenlive 0.9.6 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    I love Kdenlive, and hate it sometimes too. It is by far the best editor on Linux as of now.. however the Lightworks beta is coming very soon. http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=19&id=42353&Itemid=81#42353

  3. Re:Question on Video Editor Kdenlive 0.9.6 Released · · Score: 1

    This seems a strange question. Perhaps I don't understand. You can import clips and re-use the clips anywhere in the time line. You can import the same clip more than once. Or just use snippets in different places. Some modern compression schemas are not necessarily linear. That is why they cannot be concatenated. So the idea of clipping them into sections without re-encoding is unrealistic.

  4. Re:SHOCKING on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 1

    Yes but remember, politicians still control the IRS. Those are appointed positions. Don't think for a second that any politician is going to allow their funding sources to be harmed in any way.

  5. Re:Survival of the Fittest on Wayland/Weston Gets Forked As Northfield/Norwood · · Score: 1

    Look.. the web is filled with dead projects. Most of which have never been forked. The fact that a project is forked is not statistically or empirically linked to failed projects. Whether or not a project survives or fails is mainly determined by the project lead's desire to make it happen. If anything has an influence on how a project get's on, I would say it is more about user base and the amount of people willing to help it/use it, that gives devs the drive to work on.

  6. nice hippie poster award on 2012 Free Software Award Winners Announced · · Score: 0

    Stallman cracks me up.. I just love the paper hippie poster award that he is handing out. It's also funny because besides smiling the recipients look as if they barely want to touch it..

  7. Re:OSS graphics tools on Blender 2.66 Released · · Score: 1

    Though I love all of those programs, I do have one complaint about Inkscape in that it quickly becomes overwhelmed when using effects or blur in multiple layers, and becomes completely non responsive. I don't know what can be done to overcome this but it is a serious problem if you are trying to do large or complex projects as they are at this time out of reach for the product.

  8. Re:Please specify why the Maya UI is easier to use on Blender 2.66 Released · · Score: 1

    Here you go. http://wiki.cgsociety.org/index.php/Comparison_of_3d_tools
    Blender compares extremely well with other sweets, especially now with it's new dynamic topology sculpting
    http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.66/Dynamic_Topology_Sculpting

  9. Re: Usability on Blender 2.66 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    Are you even talking about the same product? Or have you actually tried Blender in the last few years? The non overlapping window layout can be modified any way that you desire. Import is on the main file menu in the upper right hand corner at all times.. You can even change the key keymapping to that of Maya with one click in the preferences. I understand when people have valid complaints about products, but what you are saying neither makes any sense or is in any way even truthful.

  10. Re:The speed difference between them is huge... on NY Times' Broder Responds To Tesla's Elon Musk · · Score: 1

    10-15 mph is really slow. The reporter may not be that smart.. and may not have been able to notice the station. He also may have not been able to figure out what a gas gauge does and by extrapolation doesn't undersand when the car says it only has a few miles left in it. Sounds credible to me..

  11. Re:What the tyrants need to understand... on Printable AR-15 Mag Gets More Reliable; YouTube Pulls Video of Demo · · Score: 1

    I own a colt 1911, and an actual armalite ar15.. I just don't go around threatening to shoot people..

  12. Re:What the tyrants need to understand... on Printable AR-15 Mag Gets More Reliable; YouTube Pulls Video of Demo · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that would make your neighbors feel safe to know that the person next door is ready to start shooting other people as soon as he feels slighted.. I'm glad I live in a place where I know people would try to help each other instead

  13. Re:very very stealthy on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 0

    It's also quite obvious to anyone with material knowledge that the shell/skin of the aircraft is made of composites (carbon figre/fibreglass). My point is that a supersonica aircraft it is not, because the friction heat would destroy a composite skin. The f22 uses a titanium skin, for the heat problems, and some internal carbon fibre parts.

  14. Re: A true union built aircraft on FAA To Investigate 787 Dreamliner · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've worked in both union and non union shipyards my whole life. For the past twelve years I've worked non union. As far as quality of work, its tough to say if one is better than the other. As far as qualified journeymen there is no doubt that unions provide people with an already appreciable skill level. Whereas non union yards have an enormous turn over rate. The yards here in Seattle can send someone back to the hall if they feel they are unqualified and if you're sent back from three sequential jobs the union will drop you. The yards get the benefit of qualified workers as well as lower employee medical costs as the group rate covered by the union is lower. On the flip side after nearly thirty years of working in the industry since I have chosen to work non union my pension now amounts to the few thousand dollars I've been able to scrape into my 401k (profit sharing has been offered more than once then stripped again) and I can feel my body slowly deteriorating. There is no job security and as I have seen before when you can no longer produce there will be no more work. I hope every day that my coding skills will get good enough that I will come to the attention of someone, because when I cannot carry 100lbs up a ladder I'm done.

  15. Re:Love linux, but this is stupid on Hands On With Ubuntu For SmartPhones · · Score: 1

    I don't want a Shuttleworth phone, I want a linux capable phone.

    I don't want a phone at all.. I want a cellular computer device that makes calls over the data link, so that I can use any protocol I want, and talk to anyone anywhere I want.

  16. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on NASA Considers Putting an Asteroid Into Orbit Around the Moon · · Score: 1

    Well that depends on whether or not you could find a competent team of oil rig men to go up there and take care of it for us.

  17. Re:Fair for the goose... on Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    Microsoft knew they would lose those court cases. Just like the huge settlement they had to pay to Mosaic for not paying licensing fees, because they gave (the browser they made from it) away for free. So if Google goes to court and has to pay Microsoft, but in the years in between windows phone has no access to youtube.. then yes Google would be playing Microsofts game. It is worth mentioning that Microsoft won using those tactics, as dirty as they were.. don't expect a lot of folks to feel sorry for them.

  18. Sounds like the plot of a book on Researcher Warns That Military Must Prepare For "Mutant" Future · · Score: 1

    For a more in depth look into the imaginary future of mutant cyborg warfare might I suggest the Germline series by T. C. McCarthy.

  19. Re:Oldspace got fat and lazy on Lockheed, SpaceX Trade Barbs · · Score: 0

    Lockheed, is also very much in bed with the government. SpaceX may have a future with NASA on the budget end of the spectrum but don't expect any of the "cost is no limit" military projects to head their way. The Air force will test the waters with SpaceX just so that they can say they tried and it didn't work, thereby justifying all the money they've spent with Lockheed. It's not a matter of money, it's a matter of whose money, is going where. And you kinda have to wonder how much of the money that Lockheed gets for a launch goes right back into the pockets of the polititians that keep them alive.

  20. Re:A map for crime on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 1

    Not to worry, there are thousands of open positions in the high paying field of crime going unfilled for lack of qualified applicants. I would be suprised if any would be smart enought to use this method. Besides, it doesn't mean the house is unarmed, just they don't have a handgun. For those who may be worried that someone would use this map to steal a gun, think about the fact that any "sane" gun owner keeps their weapons locked in a safe.

  21. Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 0

    Or that pedophile you're housing near a school

  22. Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership on New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe so, but as justice Scalia has stated on numerous occasions, 'concealed weapons should be legal especially if it's like a totally bad ass maching gun being hidden under a trench coat like in the matrix'.

  23. Re:There would be no need... on How Do You Give a Ticket To a Driverless Car? · · Score: 1

    Devil's advocate here. For insurance/liability reasons shouldn't the car refuse to operate unless it's operating with 100% safety compliance? If it does, than it would be a manufacturer that would be liable. A car should sense when maintenence is required and, if it's prudent to, drive itself to the repair shop

    Ok, so if the driver doesn't fix his car, it will be the coporation that built it's fault... hehe.. sure, and then JimBob, is going to just let his car "drive" itself to the repair shop for scheduled maintenence instead of buying beer.. ha.. I love the world you live in.. funny ..

  24. Re:videogames are like #3 or lower on that list on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    Though by any logical account, countries with stricter gun control do not seem to have as many shootings in general. While it might be vague to say that video games can cause someone to have violent thoughts, it is merely acedemic to understand that without a gun you can't shoot someone.

    Now while I do understand that the semantics of gun control are far more convoluted than just, "making them illegal". If you are being serious about the issue you cannot simply deny out of hand the part that the ease of this kind of killing has. Perhaps you could make an argument for legalizing mustard gas, as it is not the mustard gas that kills.. it's the person releasing the mustard gas, but it is still more difficult to kill people with mustard gas when you have none

  25. Re:when will it end on IE 10 Almost Finished For Windows 7 With Final Preview · · Score: 1

    Actually that has nothing to do with alpha. It's a method for centering an image background in a div.