If $100/year to not have to deal with Windows' virus/trojan/takeover bullshit is a lot for you then you might want to consider finding a job that pays more than minimum wage.
We do, it's used to (mostly) fund the BBC. I think it provides decent value for what we get, but it does seem wrong that even those who don't watch the BBC or use any of there services still have to pay it if they want to own a TV in the UK.
That's why it's a TV license and not a BBC license.
I love how you managed to talk about other people's ignorance, then wrote something like "Linux is the best thing that could happened to MS-Windows owners.", all in one post.
Love Linux all you want, but as a desktop OS it's place is pretty much in the statistical margin of error. Vista's competitor on the desktop (servers are something else) isn't Linux, it's first and foremost Windows XP. If anybody is switching away from MS, they're going to Apple.
(Keep in mind there's no evidence, just a number he writes down.)
Seriously? Every time (three? four?) I've had to blow a breathalyzer here in Poland, I've gotten back a printout (looks like a receipt), the officers got one and the machine recorded the time and date when a test was administered.
65TB isn't 'fucking huge' in the world of the 'scene'. Take any movie that comes out, it goes through a couple release cycles. First you get the CAM, which is some dude in a theater with a video camera in his lap. So that's 700mb for the divx and 4gb for the DVD-R of that. Then the TC, another 4.7gb, R5 or DVDSCR: 4.7gb, retail rip: 4.7gb + 4gb for the PAL DVD-R. Then somebody releases a divx internal: 1.4gb and a dvd9: 9gb. Then it comes out on blu-ray and there's a 720p rip at 4gb and a 1080p rip at 9gb. That's almost 50gb for the full lifespan of a single movie release, not counting kids movies that often come out in language-specific versions.
TV shows are huge too. Approx 10gb of new TV shows were released yesterday in xvid and x264. That's the major shows - you could easily double it counting Discovery Channel shows, British TV, etc. It's like that, day in, day out.
Games and applications come in at 1-14gb/pop, including almost-monthly releases of windows xp, windows xp64, vista x86 and 64bit.
And remember, this is all spread out over multiple servers, multiple copies, etc.
The fact is that there is just an incredible amount of data out there being produced every single day.
You mean the illegal immigrants that pay all consumption, property and ownership taxes while not getting any of the direct benefits from them? The immigrants that are hired by US citizens? Yeah, they're the problem, not no-bid gov't contracts, spiraling health care costs, corporate subsidies (both industry and agricultural) along with two wars.
This may or may not work for other people, but I too find that my most creative moments are in the shower... because there's no new stimuli there. The rest of the time, I'm usually getting information from somewhere: listening to the radio in the car, watching TV while I wash the dishes, etc. Those 15-25 minutes I'm in the shower, nothing else is happening and my mind wanders. That's when ideas form and it's quiet enough in there for them to be heard.
I dunno, I have a mac mini that's 2 years old and I use it for software development, graphics design, photo editing (including 4x5" LF neg scans), etc. Everything but playing games pretty much. The mac mini is much slower than any macbook or macbook pro you can buy from apple today. Obviously, YMMV.
Well, the moment Time magazine notices a trend is about the time everybody else has stopped caring.
I agree with you though, vinyl was bigger a couple of years ago, especially among my DJ friends. Right now they've switched to playing CDs a lot, thanks to the popularization of club-quality CD players (especially those from Pioneer), the fact that a lot of them buy music online (to get the latest club tracks from other countries quickly) and because they're just tired of carrying those heavy-ass bags full of plastic around. I have a friend who will regularly burn a couple CDs a few hours before playing a gig and doesn't have to worry about what will happen to the CDs should he lose them or whatever.
If it is decided that a certain film will not be dubbed (and there are many of these), there will never be the possibility of watching this film by Polish-speaking people, unless they speak English.
Unless... you know... THEY CAN READ. The fact that one guy does voice overs (not dubbing - that's a whole other industry, limited mainly to children's movies.) doesn't mean 95% of movies in the theaters are subtitled and you can buy thousands of movies that are, again, subtitled with neither a voice over or dubbed audio track. So let's put the myth of a single controlling body that allows or blocks foreign media into Poland away.
(the average salary here is about 300$US a month or 5zl an hour so their parents don't have much to give them)
The official average salary in Poland as of December 2006 was 2031PLN net - $726/month take home pay. Calculate in the high number of dual-income households in Poland, along with the HUGE gray market, and suddenly it turns out families are making $12-15k/year in a country where my 550 sq ft flat in Warsaw costs me $200/month, all utilities+internet included. Of course, students are broke in Poland - they're broke everywhere. But a full time student goes to school for free and night school students (weekend students) usually work. And almost nobody leaves school after 5 years (the standard route in Poland is a 3 year batchelor's degree nobody cares about and a 2 year masters) with their family in debt (unlike the US).
Please don't quote me official unemployment rates and moan about students not being able to find work - in every industry I know people are SOL looking for employees, even those that are marginally qualified. Those rates are bullshit, just like the $300/month salary you quoted. There are help wanted signs in every other window in Krakow and Warsaw. Although you probably live in Lodz... but comparing Lodz to the rest of Poland is like going to Detroit and being amazed at how poor the USA is.
They need to think about their labour laws and how much people are being paid (in an EU country, no less!), but instead they worry about some young people doing the people of Poland a service by writing subtitles for those who don't know English (or Turkish, or Greek, or Hindi).
If you had read any of the articles in the Polish media, you would've known that the copyright holders filed an official complaint that the police had to act upon. It's the copyright holders right to do that, and the police's responsibility to execute the law. Is the law imperfect? Sure, but put the blame where it needs to be placed: with the studios that went after the site.
And please don't forget, nobody was downloading subtitles to watch their legally purchased movie.
1. A code of conduct will be created. 2. The code will spread as a meme between blogs. 3. Some of the more popular bloggers/blogs will pick up on it and implement it, adding a bit graphical/text certification. 4. Typepad/Wordpress/Moveabletype will implement the code as a feature. 5. Boingboing will rally against it. 5a. Slashdotters will bitch about it. 6. It'll stay around as a tool - like creative commons, trackbacks, pings, etc. Some people will use it/live by it, others will rally against it, most will ignore it. 7. Everything will go back to normal.
except that if the real pro is shooting sports, then the best camera + system for them would be the 1D MkII N - that's only $3k. and to really have to go $15k+, you need to move into MF camera + digital back territory. the truth is that most of the $15k+ camera pros don't do their own post processing, but work with a specialist, and those specialists know about video cards and raw processing and so on.
and i can pretty much guarantee that the number of pros working with $3k cameras exceeds the rest of them 10 fold.
While it was true back in the 80's that the United States was far behind in mobile phone service, that has changed radically over time.
It has changed and gotten a lot better for the US, but don't kid yourself into believing that the US has better phones/coverage than the rest of the world. The fact that there are dozens of posts on here about coverage is in itself sort of curiosity to us euros - we just have it everywhere. The last time I had a coverage issue was 2 years ago when I didn't have GPRS in this totally out-of-the-way vacation spot... so I just swapped simcards and got online without any more problems.
That said, cell phone service in the US is crazy cheap (just like telephony in general). I know a couple of people who would KILL for $60/500 minute plan (w/free nights and weekends and in-network calls). I have an 80/80 minute plan (80 min in network/80 to other networks) which costs me $30 and I'm glad I got such a deal.
EDGE can carry data speeds up to 236.8 kbit/s for 4 timeslots
The maximum speed of a GPRS connection (as offered in 2003) is the same as modem connection in an analog wire telephone network, about 4-5 kB/s (depending on the phone used).
Funny, no mention of that "peace dividend from a war product" in the actual story, which instead cites compassion for starving Japanese on soup lines after atomic war devastated their country
Two atomic bombs were dropped on two cities in Japan. Atomic war didn't devastate the Japanese economy, waging and losing a conventional war did.
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If $100/year to not have to deal with Windows' virus/trojan/takeover bullshit is a lot for you then you might want to consider finding a job that pays more than minimum wage.
We do, it's used to (mostly) fund the BBC. I think it provides decent value for what we get, but it does seem wrong that even those who don't watch the BBC or use any of there services still have to pay it if they want to own a TV in the UK.
That's why it's a TV license and not a BBC license.
I feel like I'm downshifting into 2nd from 3rd gear.
so you're getting more acceleration? sweet!
(car analogies don't really work with computers)
I love how you managed to talk about other people's ignorance, then wrote something like "Linux is the best thing that could happened to MS-Windows owners.", all in one post.
Love Linux all you want, but as a desktop OS it's place is pretty much in the statistical margin of error. Vista's competitor on the desktop (servers are something else) isn't Linux, it's first and foremost Windows XP. If anybody is switching away from MS, they're going to Apple.
(Keep in mind there's no evidence, just a number he writes down.)
Seriously? Every time (three? four?) I've had to blow a breathalyzer here in Poland, I've gotten back a printout (looks like a receipt), the officers got one and the machine recorded the time and date when a test was administered.
I even got the single-use nozzle to keep.
Alright, but you do leave the retail xvid with dvd-r, dvd9, 720p and 1080p at once.
65TB isn't 'fucking huge' in the world of the 'scene'. Take any movie that comes out, it goes through a couple release cycles. First you get the CAM, which is some dude in a theater with a video camera in his lap. So that's 700mb for the divx and 4gb for the DVD-R of that. Then the TC, another 4.7gb, R5 or DVDSCR: 4.7gb, retail rip: 4.7gb + 4gb for the PAL DVD-R. Then somebody releases a divx internal: 1.4gb and a dvd9: 9gb. Then it comes out on blu-ray and there's a 720p rip at 4gb and a 1080p rip at 9gb. That's almost 50gb for the full lifespan of a single movie release, not counting kids movies that often come out in language-specific versions.
TV shows are huge too. Approx 10gb of new TV shows were released yesterday in xvid and x264. That's the major shows - you could easily double it counting Discovery Channel shows, British TV, etc. It's like that, day in, day out.
Games and applications come in at 1-14gb/pop, including almost-monthly releases of windows xp, windows xp64, vista x86 and 64bit.
And remember, this is all spread out over multiple servers, multiple copies, etc.
The fact is that there is just an incredible amount of data out there being produced every single day.
Russia left a trail of rape not only through Germany but the Ukraine, Belarus and Poland as well.
You mean the illegal immigrants that pay all consumption, property and ownership taxes while not getting any of the direct benefits from them? The immigrants that are hired by US citizens? Yeah, they're the problem, not no-bid gov't contracts, spiraling health care costs, corporate subsidies (both industry and agricultural) along with two wars.
This may or may not work for other people, but I too find that my most creative moments are in the shower... because there's no new stimuli there. The rest of the time, I'm usually getting information from somewhere: listening to the radio in the car, watching TV while I wash the dishes, etc. Those 15-25 minutes I'm in the shower, nothing else is happening and my mind wanders. That's when ideas form and it's quiet enough in there for them to be heard.
You're kidding, right? Any browser worth its salt will resize absolute font sizes by %.
Polish, which is quite a modern and used language (40 million native speakers) uses a similar construction:
pencil:
1 olowek
2 olowki
5 olowkow
(polish letters dropped because /. is obviously menarded. how the fuck can you not use utf-8 in 2008?)
I dunno, I have a mac mini that's 2 years old and I use it for software development, graphics design, photo editing (including 4x5" LF neg scans), etc. Everything but playing games pretty much. The mac mini is much slower than any macbook or macbook pro you can buy from apple today. Obviously, YMMV.
Well, the moment Time magazine notices a trend is about the time everybody else has stopped caring.
I agree with you though, vinyl was bigger a couple of years ago, especially among my DJ friends. Right now they've switched to playing CDs a lot, thanks to the popularization of club-quality CD players (especially those from Pioneer), the fact that a lot of them buy music online (to get the latest club tracks from other countries quickly) and because they're just tired of carrying those heavy-ass bags full of plastic around. I have a friend who will regularly burn a couple CDs a few hours before playing a gig and doesn't have to worry about what will happen to the CDs should he lose them or whatever.
Nie wynajmuje, ale takie s opaty. :)
Can you back up the statement that size does not correllate with safety?
There's this article about how unsafe SUVs are for their occupants and there was a whole thing about how much better it is to be in an accident in a (tiny, by American standards) BMW Mini vs a huge Ford F-150.
Pure size does not equal safety the same way that raw megahertz don't equal performance.
It sounds like you're in Poznan or Wroclaw :)
I think at 700k he lives in Krakow (in which case he is seriously full of shit) or in Lodz (and I feel sorry for him).
If it is decided that a certain film will not be dubbed (and there are many of these), there will never be the possibility of watching this film by Polish-speaking people, unless they speak English.
Unless... you know... THEY CAN READ. The fact that one guy does voice overs (not dubbing - that's a whole other industry, limited mainly to children's movies.) doesn't mean 95% of movies in the theaters are subtitled and you can buy thousands of movies that are, again, subtitled with neither a voice over or dubbed audio track. So let's put the myth of a single controlling body that allows or blocks foreign media into Poland away.
(the average salary here is about 300$US a month or 5zl an hour so their parents don't have much to give them)
The official average salary in Poland as of December 2006 was 2031PLN net - $726/month take home pay. Calculate in the high number of dual-income households in Poland, along with the HUGE gray market, and suddenly it turns out families are making $12-15k/year in a country where my 550 sq ft flat in Warsaw costs me $200/month, all utilities+internet included. Of course, students are broke in Poland - they're broke everywhere. But a full time student goes to school for free and night school students (weekend students) usually work. And almost nobody leaves school after 5 years (the standard route in Poland is a 3 year batchelor's degree nobody cares about and a 2 year masters) with their family in debt (unlike the US).
Please don't quote me official unemployment rates and moan about students not being able to find work - in every industry I know people are SOL looking for employees, even those that are marginally qualified. Those rates are bullshit, just like the $300/month salary you quoted. There are help wanted signs in every other window in Krakow and Warsaw. Although you probably live in Lodz... but comparing Lodz to the rest of Poland is like going to Detroit and being amazed at how poor the USA is.
They need to think about their labour laws and how much people are being paid (in an EU country, no less!), but instead they worry about some young people doing the people of Poland a service by writing subtitles for those who don't know English (or Turkish, or Greek, or Hindi).
If you had read any of the articles in the Polish media, you would've known that the copyright holders filed an official complaint that the police had to act upon. It's the copyright holders right to do that, and the police's responsibility to execute the law. Is the law imperfect? Sure, but put the blame where it needs to be placed: with the studios that went after the site.
And please don't forget, nobody was downloading subtitles to watch their legally purchased movie.
1. A code of conduct will be created.
2. The code will spread as a meme between blogs.
3. Some of the more popular bloggers/blogs will pick up on it and implement it, adding a bit graphical/text certification.
4. Typepad/Wordpress/Moveabletype will implement the code as a feature.
5. Boingboing will rally against it.
5a. Slashdotters will bitch about it.
6. It'll stay around as a tool - like creative commons, trackbacks, pings, etc. Some people will use it/live by it, others will rally against it, most will ignore it.
7. Everything will go back to normal.
Just like with everything else...
a real "pro" (i.e the camera is already $15k+)
except that if the real pro is shooting sports, then the best camera + system for them would be the 1D MkII N - that's only $3k. and to really have to go $15k+, you need to move into MF camera + digital back territory. the truth is that most of the $15k+ camera pros don't do their own post processing, but work with a specialist, and those specialists know about video cards and raw processing and so on.
and i can pretty much guarantee that the number of pros working with $3k cameras exceeds the rest of them 10 fold.
Yeah, they might actually start being a republican party again, instead of just being the Republican Party.
Not bad.
I had my car broken into last week as I left my cell phone inside by accident. (I know, dumb move.)
Stolen: cell phone - bought new for $130 w/o contract, spare change, olympus mju II film camera - $40 used (I got it for free)
Left behind: 6 DVDs in a box from amazon on the rear seat, 60 GB 4th gen iPod.
While it was true back in the 80's that the United States was far behind in mobile phone service, that has changed radically over time.
It has changed and gotten a lot better for the US, but don't kid yourself into believing that the US has better phones/coverage than the rest of the world. The fact that there are dozens of posts on here about coverage is in itself sort of curiosity to us euros - we just have it everywhere. The last time I had a coverage issue was 2 years ago when I didn't have GPRS in this totally out-of-the-way vacation spot... so I just swapped simcards and got online without any more problems.
That said, cell phone service in the US is crazy cheap (just like telephony in general). I know a couple of people who would KILL for $60/500 minute plan (w/free nights and weekends and in-network calls). I have an 80/80 minute plan (80 min in network/80 to other networks) which costs me $30 and I'm glad I got such a deal.
actually, edge is a LOT faster than gprs:
EDGE can carry data speeds up to 236.8 kbit/s for 4 timeslots
The maximum speed of a GPRS connection (as offered in 2003) is the same as modem connection in an analog wire telephone network, about 4-5 kB/s (depending on the phone used).
from wikipedia
Funny, no mention of that "peace dividend from a war product" in the actual story, which instead cites compassion for starving Japanese on soup lines after atomic war devastated their country
Two atomic bombs were dropped on two cities in Japan. Atomic war didn't devastate the Japanese economy, waging and losing a conventional war did.