That's not been my experience, but of course it may depend a lot on the version and platform. In any case, if you think a brand new project is likely to crash less, I've got news for you...
Avidemux always seemed like a natural partner to VLC to me. Based off the same FFMPEG code, QT or GTK interfaces, straightforward design, and despite the name it can do many file types. It's excellent for simple cut and paste editing, very much a Linux equivalent of Virtualdub. Why do so many free software projects try to reinvent the wheel rather reuse and improve on the code that is out there? I always thought that was the point of free software.
The UK DPA also requires that he have a legitimate reason to hold this data in the first place, which would be either a direct customer relationship, or a third party one like a credit reference agency (where the customer gives permission for the third party data-sharing as part of their credit applications). It also requires that he hold it for no longer than strictly necessary for the purposes of said business relationship. The law in question thankfully makes this an explicitly opt-in thing, outside of government no-one can legally collect your data without your permission and then require you to opt out.
It is not required for you to give a shit. You either believe there is a God, believe there is no God, or don't know. Therefore you are either a believer, an atheist or an agnostic.
You don't have any religion, you don't actually believe in god, you just don't rule one out.
Yep, and that bit I highlighted in bold is what makes me an agnostic rather than an Atheist. If that's your position too, then so are you, whatever you call yourself.
the agnostic treats arbitrary claims as meriting cognitive consideration and epistemological respect. He treats the arbitrary as on a par with the rational and evidentially supported.
Bullshit. Being Agnostic does not mean you treat all ideas as worthy of equal consideration. I'm agnostic, but readily acknowledge that every religion I have ever been exposed to is utter nonsense.
The difference between an Agnostic and an Atheist is that the Agnostic remains open to new ideas, whilst the Atheist treats the absence of evidence to support the existence of any sort of God / supernatural power as proof of the opposite. The problem is, lack of proof does not equate to proof of absence. I'll readily concede that there is plenty enough evidence to discredit the fairy-tales told by the major religions, but beyond that you're into the unknown.
Are you telling me to keep 836 KB of data as a live page takes 12MB? What am I missing?
Quite a lot. HTML and JPEG are no use to a graphics card. Those pages have to be rendered. A single screen of 1280x1024 @ 24-bit color uses 3.75MB uncompressed in memory. Now think how much you need to scroll that up and down. I don't personally know the details of how Firefox manages memory, but I know your comparison is not valid.
Not exactly "stolen", the problem is that the mumbo-jumbo had prior claim. People were looking at the stars and making predictions (and I'm sure considered it perfectly scientific) for millenia before the modern scientific method was developed and we actually began to understand what stars are.
What I want to know is, why don't these morons put their money where their mouths are and stop consuming any chemicals themselves? It would do the world a favor.
a company that has rapidly expanded to the point where they need a full time sysad, and then felt the kaboom of the subprime mortgage debacle, since they consult to the property market.
That pretty much covers the "crappy company with limited growth potential" angle.
You don't think that CPU speakers are supposed to pick up cell phone calls, do you? Well, I've heard that BRRRRRRRP noise coming from the audio system on a airliner.
Just thought I'd highlight this sentence because I don't believe anyone who really knew what they were talking about would refer to "CPU speakers".
My speakers also make that noise when my GSM phone is near. Strangely though, my system unit - which is just as close - remains 100% stable and passes memtest or any other diagnostics I throw at it. I guess what this proves is that when it comes to RF interference, inducing an audible signal on analogue speaker systems and flipping random bits in digital control systems are very different things.
This does look like a very early example, but the technique is not as novel and amazing as the article makes out.
For example, in the UK around 1989 there was a magazine for Atari ST and Amiga users called "ST/Amiga Format" that used a hybrid format on 3.5" coverdisks. The ST used a PC-like 720MB format, whereas the Amiga had its own filesystem that fitted 880MB on the same disk. The hybrid disks weren't flippable, they were read double-sided on both systems and just marked the part of the disk used for the other filesystem as bad.
Indeed, there was in fact plenty of warning of the shape it would be in. As an added warning, there were much publicised release candidates in November and December 2007 that were available as live CDs from several distros. These led to many reactions of "this doesn't look ready for release" and corresponding reminders from the KDE devs that it was more of a developers release.
The version numbering may be a bit odd, but anyone who was shocked by the state of KDE 4.0 just hadn't paid attention.
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Pah. One and zero are the only keys that *are* essential.
That's not been my experience, but of course it may depend a lot on the version and platform. In any case, if you think a brand new project is likely to crash less, I've got news for you...
Avidemux always seemed like a natural partner to VLC to me. Based off the same FFMPEG code, QT or GTK interfaces, straightforward design, and despite the name it can do many file types. It's excellent for simple cut and paste editing, very much a Linux equivalent of Virtualdub. Why do so many free software projects try to reinvent the wheel rather reuse and improve on the code that is out there? I always thought that was the point of free software.
Fail. USB2 is 480Mbps - note the lower case b. That's 60MB per second. Hard drives from 4 years ago exceed this, so it is indeed a bottleneck.
The UK DPA also requires that he have a legitimate reason to hold this data in the first place, which would be either a direct customer relationship, or a third party one like a credit reference agency (where the customer gives permission for the third party data-sharing as part of their credit applications). It also requires that he hold it for no longer than strictly necessary for the purposes of said business relationship. The law in question thankfully makes this an explicitly opt-in thing, outside of government no-one can legally collect your data without your permission and then require you to opt out.
If this was a "post-retirement" project he's been working on, then it would be legal.
No it wouldn't. This guy has no legal basis to acquire or retain this data, he's in very serious breach of the UK Data Protection Act.
It is not required for you to give a shit. You either believe there is a God, believe there is no God, or don't know. Therefore you are either a believer, an atheist or an agnostic.
You don't have any religion, you don't actually believe in god, you just don't rule one out.
Yep, and that bit I highlighted in bold is what makes me an agnostic rather than an Atheist. If that's your position too, then so are you, whatever you call yourself.
the agnostic treats arbitrary claims as meriting cognitive consideration and epistemological respect. He treats the arbitrary as on a par with the rational and evidentially supported.
Bullshit. Being Agnostic does not mean you treat all ideas as worthy of equal consideration. I'm agnostic, but readily acknowledge that every religion I have ever been exposed to is utter nonsense.
The difference between an Agnostic and an Atheist is that the Agnostic remains open to new ideas, whilst the Atheist treats the absence of evidence to support the existence of any sort of God / supernatural power as proof of the opposite. The problem is, lack of proof does not equate to proof of absence. I'll readily concede that there is plenty enough evidence to discredit the fairy-tales told by the major religions, but beyond that you're into the unknown.
Throughout your little anecdote, there's one thing you neglected to point out: she was a free actor who made her own choices.
I neglected to point it out because it both goes without saying, and is only part of the story.
Ok...
Does that mean it's okay to intentionally coerce her into doing something she doesn't want to do
Make your mind up. Was she a free actor, or was she coerced?
I suspect this Law is intended to protect Ukrainian men from discovering what their wives/girlfriends/daughters got up to on that weekend in Budapest.
I've clocked over 400 tabs at my worst.
Are you telling me to keep 836 KB of data as a live page takes 12MB? What am I missing?
Quite a lot. HTML and JPEG are no use to a graphics card. Those pages have to be rendered. A single screen of 1280x1024 @ 24-bit color uses 3.75MB uncompressed in memory. Now think how much you need to scroll that up and down. I don't personally know the details of how Firefox manages memory, but I know your comparison is not valid.
Not exactly "stolen", the problem is that the mumbo-jumbo had prior claim. People were looking at the stars and making predictions (and I'm sure considered it perfectly scientific) for millenia before the modern scientific method was developed and we actually began to understand what stars are.
It's there. Knetworkmanager was replaced by the network manager plasmoid.
What I want to know is, why don't these morons put their money where their mouths are and stop consuming any chemicals themselves? It would do the world a favor.
his or (very unlikely her) own prejudices.
Palpable irony.
Just make sure that you don't accidentally your fleshlight.
You're suffering from some data retrieval issues:
Maxtor bought Quantum in 2000.
Seagate bought Maxtor in 2006.
Hitachi bought IBM HDD division in 2002.
But asking Slashdot to design your systems can't be wise.
a company that has rapidly expanded to the point where they need a full time sysad, and then felt the kaboom of the subprime mortgage debacle, since they consult to the property market.
That pretty much covers the "crappy company with limited growth potential" angle.
You don't think that CPU speakers are supposed to pick up cell phone calls, do you? Well, I've heard that BRRRRRRRP noise coming from the audio system on a airliner.
Just thought I'd highlight this sentence because I don't believe anyone who really knew what they were talking about would refer to "CPU speakers".
My speakers also make that noise when my GSM phone is near. Strangely though, my system unit - which is just as close - remains 100% stable and passes memtest or any other diagnostics I throw at it. I guess what this proves is that when it comes to RF interference, inducing an audible signal on analogue speaker systems and flipping random bits in digital control systems are very different things.
LOL, ok that KB, not MB.
This does look like a very early example, but the technique is not as novel and amazing as the article makes out.
For example, in the UK around 1989 there was a magazine for Atari ST and Amiga users called "ST/Amiga Format" that used a hybrid format on 3.5" coverdisks. The ST used a PC-like 720MB format, whereas the Amiga had its own filesystem that fitted 880MB on the same disk. The hybrid disks weren't flippable, they were read double-sided on both systems and just marked the part of the disk used for the other filesystem as bad.
Indeed, there was in fact plenty of warning of the shape it would be in. As an added warning, there were much publicised release candidates in November and December 2007 that were available as live CDs from several distros. These led to many reactions of "this doesn't look ready for release" and corresponding reminders from the KDE devs that it was more of a developers release.
The version numbering may be a bit odd, but anyone who was shocked by the state of KDE 4.0 just hadn't paid attention.