I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "simplistic" -- or what in your post is "insightful." But I have worked for both the government and for government contractors -- and it was/is an honor. I was surrounded by bright people working on projects that they believed in -- projects that provide my nation (any many others) the security we enjoy today. These people are making a difference.
I'm sorry your experience "wasn't pretty" but without more information, I can't really comment on the experience. Perhaps you simply don't agree with the current administration. If so, I would suggest you take that thought to the ballot box. When your candidate wins, s/he can proudly wield the fruits of our labors as s/he see fit as well.
Scaled Composites has already done enough Pentagon projects to fully qualify as a member of the Military Industrial Complex.
I fail to see why this is bad. Being a part of the US Military Industrial Complex is an honor. I'm glad that a smart organization liked Scaled is helping defend my country. Most likely, they are helping to defend yours as well.
Perhaps you were just making a simple observation - but I thought I detected a sneer...
I've been using Bacula without any reliability issues for over a year. It hasn't failed once. Do you have any data to support your implication that Bacula is less than rock solid?
Still waiting for the reference to "interplanetary vehicle." Perhaps your "father" was German and the "plans" were written in the 40s? There was a relatively recent version that included a dry dock of sorts for orbital transfer tugs -- but that is/was hardly "interplanetary."
The whole point of the Space Station was to build an interplanetary ship...
Give me a reference where this was a requirement much less the "whole point."
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DVD playback is not performed by MythTV -- it is performed by the player you select. MythTV with mplayer will still play the DVD, it just won't play the menus. It's not a flaw with MythTV, it's a flaw (well, kind of) with mplayer.
We don't get upset that you aren't wearing a DUHIMCLUELESS tatoo on your forehead, so we won't push for mplayer to "proximately" document this "flaw." Plus, this stuff is all free in case you haven't noticed, so I'm not sure bitching at the coders is a winning strategy here anyway...
There's a big difference from installing from the MythTV site than, well, someplace random. Some guy named "TheHunter.ws"...
But hey, like I said, YMMV. And you are right -- building the debs yourself from the MythTV.org CVS is a much better idea. Plus, you can get the debs from Ubuntu anyway -- they'll get the latest update sometime soon...
I'm with you brother. Unfortunately, I don't see the cable companies streaming intellectual property in lossless format down my broadband connection anytime soon. Thankfully, the analog hole will not introduce much noise -- certainly not enough for me to care much. In fact, I suspect I will introduce more noise via compression than by DRM avoidance via the hole.
Most people just accept the current way (I've got to buy a Tivo and pay for listings and I can't move touch the files, etc.) and move on to other things in their lives. I guess they think as long as I'm not getting screwed a whole lot, I'm okay getting screwed a little bit.
Me, my last MS product was Win2K. I subscribe to basic cable. I have cable broadband. I give my cable connection away via wireless in return for an occasional dinner/beer and pet-sitting. It all comes out to nothing anyway.
Good info -- I didn't knw that. I would be interested in knowing how to get the filenames into human readable format and out of the.nuv container into a standard.avi or.mpeg file. I can do it now via nuvexport, but I do that manually on a file by file basis. I suspect there is a way to include this in the transcoding or other post-processing job within MythTV -- but I haven't figured it out yet.
MythTV is great. I would never suggest it to someone new to linux, but with a bit of knowledge and some persistance, this software is a gem.
All true, but this where do the filenames get changed to something human readable? Right now, all my files are like this: 1008_20060212110000_20060212113000.nuv -- which basically is [channel # + 1000]_[startdatetime]_[enddatetime].nuv.
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DVDs with menus are difficult (impossible) to get to work using mplayer. However, xine does a great job with them. You can change the player in MythTV to xine -- combine that with CSS libs and it will work fine.
RTFA -- he's earning a return, therefore it's not stuffed under a mattress. The money is either invested in a company, or is earning interest in a bank -- and therefore is being used.
But all this is meaningless -- if I have $10M I can use it to stuff my pants if I want to. It's my money. I don't have to "use" any of my assets if I don't want to.
If he is investing the capital while he's on ice, it's hardly useless. Since he is generating a return, someone is using the capital. The idea of keeping property from "being tied up and being useless for long periods of time" sounds like a euphemism for theft. If I want to stuff $10M under my mattress for 1,000 years it's my own damn business you commie pink ass.
Americans conveniently overlook the fact that Europeans have chosen to be a bit more socialist in their economic policies in order to build kinder and gentler societies. Just compare the crime rates between the USA and Europe. The Europeans have largely succeeded.
Right... Did you happen to notice the Paris riots? Kinder and gentler my ass -- more like "stay over there and rot in silence."
And European socialism does stifle economic growth.
If one man can cause pain to another man with no risk to himself, then it's basically torture.
Why is this torture? Unless you consider causing any pain at all torture, what does the inflictors risk level have to do with it? Let's assume that B-2 bombers bombed Tora Bora without any real risk (a close approximation) -- would that be torture? I don't think so.
As you suspect, we have some fundamental disagreements:
1) I don't think it is wrong, unfair, or even bad that corporations attempt to influence legislation. Often, corporations are closest to an issue to provide legislators real information. Any information provider to a legislator will have a bias. In fact, knowledge and bias go hand-in-hand. It also seems unrealistic to say that only unemployed individuals can lobby. It is ultimately up to the elected representative to know when they are receiving good or bad information.
2) There is nothing wrong with corporations benefiting from new laws. What is wrong, and I think we can agree on, is when this benefit causes wider costs to uninvolved parties. This is complicated though -- there are very few uninvolved parties. When a car manufacturer benefits from a less restrictive pollution law, people benefit from, say, less expensive cars. But they also see an increase in respiratory illness -- for example.
3) Shareholder value is all that I want corporations to think about (except being legal). Corporations will do more good by pursuing shareholder value and more evil by pursuing something else, say, full employment. Some things are not managed well by corporations -- these include national defence for example. These things should be agressively trimmed to a minimum list and handed over to a government buearucracy.
All perfectly legal. Sounds like you don't like the way goodwill is amortized and expensed. Talk to the SEC and the Accounting Boards about your gripe -- not MS. MS still pays almost 30% US fed and state taxes in 2005. Again, tax avoidance != tax fraud. Yours biggest gripe seems to be the way MS pays European taxes -- which I cannot comment on -- nor do I care much about.
Disclaimer: I do believe corporations pay too much taxes. Anything that can be done legally to reduce the amount of taxes paid by corporations is good for economic growth. Hell, that's true for individual taxes too.
By bogus, if you mean that employees of Firestone (I thought they were a Japanese company now?) were criminally negligent in the way the made tires then, yes, you can charge them with murder and other serious, jail time, offensese.
From Microsoft's 2005 10-K (that's their annual report to the SEC):
Our effective tax rate for the full fiscal year 2005 was 26% compared with 33% for fiscal year 2004.
Furthermore MS isn't typical because they are expensing intangibles (goodwill) from acquisitions which lowers the taxable income.
You are also high on your "even more" comment -- quoting only federal tax stats. Nice to simply drop the substantial state taxes.
KPMG found that the United States has the fourth highest corporate income tax rate in the 30-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The combined U.S. federal and average state rate of 40 percent is almost 9 percentage points higher than the average OECD top corporate rate of 31.4 percent.
Finally, profit != taxable income. There is a big difference.
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I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "simplistic" -- or what in your post is "insightful." But I have worked for both the government and for government contractors -- and it was/is an honor. I was surrounded by bright people working on projects that they believed in -- projects that provide my nation (any many others) the security we enjoy today. These people are making a difference.
I'm sorry your experience "wasn't pretty" but without more information, I can't really comment on the experience. Perhaps you simply don't agree with the current administration. If so, I would suggest you take that thought to the ballot box. When your candidate wins, s/he can proudly wield the fruits of our labors as s/he see fit as well.
I fail to see why this is bad. Being a part of the US Military Industrial Complex is an honor. I'm glad that a smart organization liked Scaled is helping defend my country. Most likely, they are helping to defend yours as well.
Perhaps you were just making a simple observation - but I thought I detected a sneer...
I've been using Bacula without any reliability issues for over a year. It hasn't failed once. Do you have any data to support your implication that Bacula is less than rock solid?
Real men build hardware -- they don't write software.
Still waiting for the reference to "interplanetary vehicle." Perhaps your "father" was German and the "plans" were written in the 40s? There was a relatively recent version that included a dry dock of sorts for orbital transfer tugs -- but that is/was hardly "interplanetary."
I probably worked with your father.
Give me a reference where this was a requirement much less the "whole point."
DVD playback is not performed by MythTV -- it is performed by the player you select. MythTV with mplayer will still play the DVD, it just won't play the menus. It's not a flaw with MythTV, it's a flaw (well, kind of) with mplayer.
We don't get upset that you aren't wearing a DUHIMCLUELESS tatoo on your forehead, so we won't push for mplayer to "proximately" document this "flaw." Plus, this stuff is all free in case you haven't noticed, so I'm not sure bitching at the coders is a winning strategy here anyway...
There's a big difference from installing from the MythTV site than, well, someplace random. Some guy named "TheHunter.ws"...
But hey, like I said, YMMV. And you are right -- building the debs yourself from the MythTV.org CVS is a much better idea. Plus, you can get the debs from Ubuntu anyway -- they'll get the latest update sometime soon...
I'm with you brother. Unfortunately, I don't see the cable companies streaming intellectual property in lossless format down my broadband connection anytime soon. Thankfully, the analog hole will not introduce much noise -- certainly not enough for me to care much. In fact, I suspect I will introduce more noise via compression than by DRM avoidance via the hole.
Most people just accept the current way (I've got to buy a Tivo and pay for listings and I can't move touch the files, etc.) and move on to other things in their lives. I guess they think as long as I'm not getting screwed a whole lot, I'm okay getting screwed a little bit.
Me, my last MS product was Win2K. I subscribe to basic cable. I have cable broadband. I give my cable connection away via wireless in return for an occasional dinner/beer and pet-sitting. It all comes out to nothing anyway.
This would seem to be a bad idea -- installing .debs from someplace random... YMMV.
Good info -- I didn't knw that. I would be interested in knowing how to get the filenames into human readable format and out of the .nuv container into a standard .avi or .mpeg file. I can do it now via nuvexport, but I do that manually on a file by file basis. I suspect there is a way to include this in the transcoding or other post-processing job within MythTV -- but I haven't figured it out yet.
MythTV is great. I would never suggest it to someone new to linux, but with a bit of knowledge and some persistance, this software is a gem.
I will find your analog hole.
All true, but this where do the filenames get changed to something human readable? Right now, all my files are like this: 1008_20060212110000_20060212113000.nuv -- which basically is [channel # + 1000]_[startdatetime]_[enddatetime].nuv.
DVDs with menus are difficult (impossible) to get to work using mplayer. However, xine does a great job with them. You can change the player in MythTV to xine -- combine that with CSS libs and it will work fine.
Are you referring to nuvexport, or is there something that does this during the transcoding job?
RTFA -- he's earning a return, therefore it's not stuffed under a mattress. The money is either invested in a company, or is earning interest in a bank -- and therefore is being used.
But all this is meaningless -- if I have $10M I can use it to stuff my pants if I want to. It's my money. I don't have to "use" any of my assets if I don't want to.
If he is investing the capital while he's on ice, it's hardly useless. Since he is generating a return, someone is using the capital. The idea of keeping property from "being tied up and being useless for long periods of time" sounds like a euphemism for theft. If I want to stuff $10M under my mattress for 1,000 years it's my own damn business you commie pink ass.
Americans conveniently overlook the fact that Europeans have chosen to be a bit more socialist in their economic policies in order to build kinder and gentler societies. Just compare the crime rates between the USA and Europe. The Europeans have largely succeeded.
Right... Did you happen to notice the Paris riots? Kinder and gentler my ass -- more like "stay over there and rot in silence."
And European socialism does stifle economic growth.
Home of the brave.
You forgot:
6. You enjoy the umbrella protection of our military at no charge.
7. You enjoy the benefits of the global economic boom brought about by the US.
and
8. You enjoy the technological progress made possible by the US.
But your #5 pretty much covers the whole world anyway. Ungrateful slob.
If one man can cause pain to another man with no risk to himself, then it's basically torture.
Why is this torture? Unless you consider causing any pain at all torture, what does the inflictors risk level have to do with it? Let's assume that B-2 bombers bombed Tora Bora without any real risk (a close approximation) -- would that be torture? I don't think so.
I think your last paragraph is spot on.
As you suspect, we have some fundamental disagreements:
1) I don't think it is wrong, unfair, or even bad that corporations attempt to influence legislation. Often, corporations are closest to an issue to provide legislators real information. Any information provider to a legislator will have a bias. In fact, knowledge and bias go hand-in-hand. It also seems unrealistic to say that only unemployed individuals can lobby. It is ultimately up to the elected representative to know when they are receiving good or bad information.
2) There is nothing wrong with corporations benefiting from new laws. What is wrong, and I think we can agree on, is when this benefit causes wider costs to uninvolved parties. This is complicated though -- there are very few uninvolved parties. When a car manufacturer benefits from a less restrictive pollution law, people benefit from, say, less expensive cars. But they also see an increase in respiratory illness -- for example.
3) Shareholder value is all that I want corporations to think about (except being legal). Corporations will do more good by pursuing shareholder value and more evil by pursuing something else, say, full employment. Some things are not managed well by corporations -- these include national defence for example. These things should be agressively trimmed to a minimum list and handed over to a government buearucracy.
All perfectly legal. Sounds like you don't like the way goodwill is amortized and expensed. Talk to the SEC and the Accounting Boards about your gripe -- not MS. MS still pays almost 30% US fed and state taxes in 2005. Again, tax avoidance != tax fraud. Yours biggest gripe seems to be the way MS pays European taxes -- which I cannot comment on -- nor do I care much about.
Disclaimer: I do believe corporations pay too much taxes. Anything that can be done legally to reduce the amount of taxes paid by corporations is good for economic growth. Hell, that's true for individual taxes too.
By bogus, if you mean that employees of Firestone (I thought they were a Japanese company now?) were criminally negligent in the way the made tires then, yes, you can charge them with murder and other serious, jail time, offensese.
You're high.
From Microsoft's 2005 10-K (that's their annual report to the SEC):
Our effective tax rate for the full fiscal year 2005 was 26% compared with 33% for fiscal year 2004.
Furthermore MS isn't typical because they are expensing intangibles (goodwill) from acquisitions which lowers the taxable income.
You are also high on your "even more" comment -- quoting only federal tax stats. Nice to simply drop the substantial state taxes.
KPMG found that the United States has the fourth highest corporate income tax rate in the 30-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The combined U.S. federal and average state rate of 40 percent is almost 9 percentage points higher than the average OECD top corporate rate of 31.4 percent.
Finally, profit != taxable income. There is a big difference.
The more you learn!