1) Agreed. When I did my first install, I tried KnoppMyth and it just gave me blinking keyboard lights, so I went with Gentoo instead. Lirc worked fine for my remote, but I did have to hack an addtional instance to get my IRBlaster working so I can change channels on the cable box.
2) I haven't seen this, but obviously one little differnce in one little component (hardware or software) can make a big difference.
3) I haven't noticed this either. I have digital cable with a fairly large number of channels (well, relative to broadcast anyhow.) although, I don't actually record off of that many. I have a Terabyte between recorded shows, videos, and MP3s.
4) OK, MythMusic playlist functions are probably about the worst I've seen in any program so you'll get no argument there;-). With MythBrowser, I think it's designed primarilly with a remote in mind which I find it works fairly well for...well apart from that the fonts suck on a TV.
5) I haven't noticed any changes to zap2it that affected me. I get an email when my subscription is about to expire so that works for me.
6) I don't think I've ever actually tried to use this. I'll keep it in mind if I do.
7) True, fonts on TV aren't great. The only things I really notice as a problem are web pages, but they're not designed for TV at all.
8) Hmmm, never thought about this one either.
9) I doubt this will ever be perfect. Do any commercial offereings even offer this feature at all?
10) True, it takes some work. I managed to get transcoding and commercial flagging offloaded to my Opteron, which is very handy although not complely trivial. Again,do any commercial offerings even let you do this at all?
11) I've seen this happen. I'm not sure if the recording is bad or if the machine was just lagging during playback.
Thanks for your input. I certainly agree with some of your points and as to the rest, it's largely that I just haven't noticed them either due to different useage patterns, different versions, or maybe I just have lower standards;-)
One thing I'm curious about if you happen to know is whether any commercial offerings even have all of these features (better worse, or equal). From what I've seen, most seem to be just glorified VCRs, although, like I said, I'm not very familiar with what's out there.
I think Democrats might look at this, too, if they were the ones at the helm.
Absolutely they would. The thing that makes the Democrats far and away better than the Republicans isn't that they're all good legislators looking to do their service to their country and all that la de da crap. It's that they aren't as good at being evil as the Republicans are. It's not for lack of trying though.
What I mean is this. The first 10 Amendments, those are the Bill of Rights. Those essentially tell us what rights we have as citizens.
The Constitution is what limits the government, what they are restricted to, so they don't overstep their bounds. Don't 11+ tend to do more with the Constitution than being something like the Bill of Rights?
No, no, a thousand times no!!
The constitution explicitly lays out the few powers the government is allowed to have. You have pretty much every right you can possibly conceive of barring things like murder, theft and the like which harm others. The bill of rights is the first ten amendments, but the constitution never really existed without them since it wasn't ratified by the states until they were added due to some loony paranoid conspiracy freaks (to use the current popular lingo) who wouldn't shut up about potential abuses.
The bill of rights came about something like this:
Well, there it is. Damn fine job, don't you think folks? Hmmm... don't you think we should put in something with a little more oomph to explicitly limit governmental powers? What..why? We explicitly granted it very limited powers. It can't do any more. Well, call me crazy but,we just got done dealing with a power hungry government...plus don't forget the religious extremists we've dealy with over the years. Murdering innocent people for being witches?!? I mean WTF.
OK, fine, Free speech and the arms to defend it. If the people can talk about the problems then word'll get out. Freedom of religion, that'll keep the religious extremists in check always torturing and murdering decent people who don't believe exactly what they do. Crime is real and needs dealing with, but that's always a convenient excuse for abuse, so let's throw in a few things making sure people won't get horse and buggied (railroaded, heh) on made up nonsense with no evidence. A few other things here and there and we're good.
Well, I'm still not satisfied. What, why not now? Well, let's put in the fact that apart from the limited powers this government has, that the people have all other rights.
WTF are you, a n00b or something? That was the whole point of writing it. It already says that plain as day. What, do you think people are stupid or something?!?
Call me what you want but I ain't signing it until we have that in there.
Fine, whatever, are you happy now?
Not really, but it'll have to do. It's getting late and there's this new bar wench down at the Kite and Key who looks "friendly" if you know what I mean.
I mean seriously, it probably won't be a problem anyhow but if it is, with those there the people will rise up and kill the son of a bitch who even steps near that line.
So, the answer to all of your questions is "no". The less polite answer is that the fact that you even asked such utterly insane questions that demonstrate your complete and total misunderstanding of the entire point of this country rather than just reading it for yourslef makes you part of the problem.
Back in the day Bush, his entire administration both houses of Congress and the cowards who defend them (as well as many other prior public servants; don't kid yourself that it started with the current Traitor in Chief) would have been dragged out in the streets and shot.
As rough-around-the-edges as MythTV can be as compared to a commercial offering,
I'm curious what about MythTV you consider to be "rough-around-the-edges" (apart from the fact that you have to install it yourself) compared to which commercial offerings. My only experience with commercial offerings is seeing a friend's DirectTivo in action a few times and It seemed primitive in comparison, so I'm certainly not claiming you're wrong or anything;-) I just have very limited exposure to commercial alternatives to MythTV.
It does take a little work to get the first backend set up properly, which is an issue, but once it's running, I find it to be one of (if not the) slickest programs I've ever run.
Once you have your backend, installing it on other computers as a frontend is completely trivial. In my case, I can get a new frontend up and running in under a minute (plus compile time as I'm running Gentoo). A simple `emerge mythtv mythvideo mythphone mythmusic mythdvd mythphoto mythweather myth... myth... etc depending on which additional features I want, start it and enter the IP of the backend and not only do I have access to all my shows, videos and music, but I can stick a CD, DVD etc. in any computer in the house and have it ripped to the same central location accessible from anywhere.
So, what am I missing out on by not going with a commercial offering? Are you running the latest version (0.19)?
Depends on your DVR...on my MythTV box, I just hit a button, and it automagically skips ALL commercials instantly...there is no FF'ing..one button and ZAP you're back at your program.
Heck, turn on auto skip and you don't even have to hit the button.
My kids are 8 and 11, and the 'You wouldn't steal a car, so you shouldn't steal movies' featurette at the start of some films has them in stitches.
Oh Jebus, I haven't seen those....really?!
And no more 'But how do I steal a car?' questions from the 8-year-old.
It's like "Reefer Madness" or extremist anti-drug commercials.
Once they find out they were lied to, they're likely to think the whole thing is crap as opposed to a realistic assessment of the problems with drug use and an honest explanation of why some people choose to use them where they'd be more willing and able to decide to avoid harmful things.
Only difference is, we have a very corporation-friendly administration AND Congress right now in Washington. They might actually succeed in removing the fast-forward button from every video recording and playback device known to man. How ridiculous would that be?
Dude, I hate Bush as much as any decent human being, but to act like this type of thing is new is as much part of the problem as anything. We've been slowly spiraling into fascism since WW2. It accelerated massively with Reagan, and continues worsening to this day, but Clinton certainly didn't even try to do anything to slow it down. Yes, you're right that it's a problem. Yes, you're right that it didn't use to be anywhere near as bad. This administration didn't cause the problem even though they're doing everything in their power to accelerate it past the point of no return.
Ignoring the historical context helps make the problem worse.
Given you live in California, you do pay far more than your share in federal taxes since it's one of the states that's a net tax provider to the welfare states. Given that you live in a rural area, you get heavily subsidised compared to people in urban areas.
Again, corporations are allowed to exist at the sufferance of the populace. There is no reason they shouldn't be forced to serve the populace, not just the privileged. I can only afford to live in the boonies.
They will serve you just fine without government intervention provided that you're willing to pay what it costs. "Civilization" doesn't mean that I should be forced to pay for your *luxury* items. I mean, seriously, how is it even remotely reasonable that I should pay for you to have high speed internet?!?
I also live in a net tax provider state, so you're not paying for me.
And, on the subject of the state cable franchising, that means they will simply be able to ignore any area with low population density completely. I live in the boonies,
You do know that by asking that they not ignore you what you are saying is that *I* should be forced to pay for *you* to have a high speed internet connection, right?
Frankly, I'm getting pretty tired of paying for people who choose to live in rural areas to have electricity, phones, cell phones, high speed internet connections and a whole huge variety of other services which they are neither willing to pay for themselves, nor are they willing to move somewhere where they can actually afford to live without leeching off of me.
Sorry for the rant, as you do make good points, but the fact is that us urban dwellers are paying your bills for you and I'm having a hard enough time getting ahead without that anchor tied around my neck. Seriously, either find a way to deal with all of your bills getting multiplied by 4 or 5, or do without services that you can't afford without robbing me.
If it was possible for us to ask him a question right now (I am an atheist and don't believe in souls or god or anything,) would he have done it the same way again given a chance, I wonder what his answer would have been. Life taught me however, that no matter how much regret people feel because of something that, given a chance they would have done a better job at concealing the evidence but they most likely would have still done the same thing.
Any thoughts?
I think that regardless of what he would or would have not done differently that he would have looked you right in the eye and lied to you. It's just the sort of person he was.
Kenneth Lay was obviously not a great humanitarian but comparing him to one of the most notorious serial killers in history is a bit much.
No it isn't. A sociopath is a sociopath is a sociopath. Bundy did worse crimes to fewer people, Lay did lesser crimes to *millions*. Their utter lack of conscience is identical. Their willingless to fuck anyone and everyone for their own desires is identical.
I grow a bit weary of hearing ex-Enron employees wail about how their life-savings are gone thanks to Lay. These poor people need to accept a bit of responsibility for their mess. You never invest all your money in a single company. Diversification is simple Financial Planning 101.
Yes, but Lay refused to let the employees sell their stock while he was dumping his like mad. That's the crime of a subhuman scumbag with none of the feelings that a real whole human being has.
And please spare me the responses about how I'm being cold-hearted. I feel for these people.
Then why are you defending a person who knows nothing about those feelings except how to use them against others?
But placing all the blame on one man and comparing him to Ted Bundy sickens me. It's just another example of our victimization culture.
Oh the fuck it is. He *is* more like Bundy than he is like a normal functioning human being. Smart, stupid, greedy, kind ignorant, or what have you, we all have feelings. Monsters like Bundy and Lay do not even have them. They can recognize them well enough to use them to prey upon people, but they do not even really understand what they are.
Get some persepective and quit defending an amoral subhuman monster.
didn't go far enough, right? And the recent shift toward open XML-based formats doesn't amount to nothing short of rolling over on their back and exposing their bellies to the pack?
Putting tags around a proprietary binary blob does not an open format make.
Microsoft abused their position 5-10 years ago (though, until deemed a monopoly, they hadn't done anything any other comapny wouldn't also do if given half a chance). Not only does it appear they stopped when caught.
The reason you get accused of fanboyism is right there. I mean seriously, look at that utter crap you just spewed. When you spout off idiotic nonsense lies as if they were even sane, then you might be a fanboy.
They have continually abused their position since they first had one and continue to do so to this day with no improvement in their behavior whatsoever.
It does not "appear" that they stopped. They absolutely didn't. Just look at the fucking SCO case for Christ's sake.
but MS has since started moving to open formats
The fuck they have. They have moved to DRMk pushing for legislation to criminalize reverse engineering.
Seriously, Dude. There are arguments to be made in favor of MS, but just spouting off lies that are so transparently false to anybody who has paid any attention to the issue does just make you look like a fanboy and a fool.
OK, now you're just talking crap. Redhat wasn't/isn't an attempt to build desktop linux?
No, Redhat is not and has never been in any way shape or form an attempt to build a desktop Linux. They have publically stated this on several occasions. They are after the server market, have always been after the server market and by most accounts are doing a good job of it. They've certainly added features that can help a desktop user, but that has never been their focus.
This doesn't mean that Ubuntu was the first as Mandrake, Lindows and others come to mind. It also doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of people who happily use Redhat (Fedora etc.) as their desktop. But it does mean that Redhat has never tried to position themselves as a desktop OS. Look at the "official" numbers for Linux servers. Redhat dominates that market compared to any other distribution. While there may be a number of reasons for their success, one of the primary ones is that is where they have consistently been focused.
In the vein of the graphics issue: I can change my resolution and bit depth on a mac in a few seconds. Neither could I find out how do to it (short of editing the X11 config file), nor could I find help on the system, or a reference online how to do it.
CTRL-ALT-+ (or - it just scrolls through the other way)
Faster and arguably easier.
As to how you would find that out.....hmmmmm.... not sure actually it's been a long time;-)
The best world for my desktop is the one that runs any application I want, and you can argue that the best for that is Windows or a Mac, but it's certainly not any flavor of Linux.
Well, not really. "you", being me, can't argue that the best for "I", being you, is anything as I don't know your needs. I can argue that Linux is the best for me as there are applications that do everything I need a computer to do which are available. If your needs are specific to a given area, then it's entirely possible that you *need* Windows, or that you *need* MacOS. It's not an absolute for everybody by any stretch. It's certainly not true that "it's certainly not any flavor of Linux." for everybody.
Once again it must be said (and why is this so hard for Linux advocates to understand?): People use applications, not operating systems, and Linux absolutely sucks compared to Windows or even Macs when it comes to normal user applications by nearly any metric you name (choices, ease of use, ease of installation, consistency of operation, etc, etc, etc).
Certainly for some metrics it's true, but it's not even true for all of the ones you named. "choices": In general, you have more choices for an application for a given task in Linux than you do for any other OS (most times you have "Gapp" and "Kapp" and often plenty of others). Many people even argue that this is a bad thing. Distros like Ubuntu and the like actually work to limit the blatantly obvious choices in order to address that issue while providing mechanisms to make it easy for those who are aware of the options available to avail themselves of them. Yes, there are cases where there is not an app available for Linux that will meet your needs, but for the vast majority of cases, this isn't true. Usually, when this is the case there is no choice at all regardless of platform.
"ease of use": This is tougher to address as a general issue. Mostly, if you're used to a platform, you're used to how the applications for that platform perform. It's certainly true that you could list off a number of applications for Windows or MacOS for which the "best" comparable Linux app is less mature. In many cases though, the comparable Linux app is far more configurable and thereby for a given user's needs far more easy to use. Additionally, odds are that it's far more scriptable under Linux, so far more useful at least for the power users.
"Installation": On the Linux side, this varies with distribution and again with your familiarity with your platform. For the large number of servers I manage using Gentoo, local rsync server + portage proxy (http-replicator) + cross-compiling distcc makes it a snap to install and *know* that everything is at the same versions. It's also fast as hell even with compiling when I have a few idle Opties available when done at the right time. For my home uses, it's as simple as reading about $NEAT_APP, alt-tab emerge $NEAT_APP, alt tab read on for a bit, run $NEAT_APP. For those without my inclinations (and spare hardware lying around), there are distros geared toward them (like Ubuntu) where the $NEAT_APP stuff above is replaced by clicky-clicky download and install $NEAT_APP and everything else it needs. Heck, compare to an install on Windows of a (for the sake of equivalence) freely downloadable app. Find it, download it, then click through the installation screens. Both are easy, but the Windows one takes a few more clicks.
"Consistency of operation": This is much more difficult for me to address in any general sense. I assume you're talking about keyboard shortcuts and the like in GUI apps. In my experience, there are apps on every platform that fail to conform to "standards", while most do. Maybe you have a bunch of examples I'm not familiar with, maybe you were talking about something else entirely.
Call me when the major application houses (Adobe, as an example) port their product lines to Linux. Then we have something to talk about.
Well, I'll just say that the main reason you shouldn't sit by your phone holding your breath waiting for my call *isn't* that you didn't leave your phone number;-)
It's neither ironic, nor is it childish in the least. Were it actually so, I'm sure you could have pointed out how.
To answer your other questions would take a lot more time to explain, but it does make perfect sense to those who believe.
Well, duh. Once you arbitrarilly decide to believe in something, or more likely were told over and over that it was truth as a child before your cognitive skills developed, then any number of silly things could make sense to you. That does not in any way, shape, or form imply that it actually makes rational sense to one who is just looking at the facts without a predetermined conclusion.
Your lack of understanding comes from not understanding the immensity of who God is - His holiness, justice, love, mercy... He gave us free will, but it comes at a price.
I understand perfectly. He's all powerful, created the entire universe and everything in it. Your claim though, is that even though he is so great and powerful, his sole interest in us in terms of not torturing us forever is that he hides *all* evidence of his existence and then we have to blindly accept it as true in the face of all of the evidence to the contrary.
Think with me a minute. If there is an all powerfull God, would it not be too much to assume that he knows a lot more than us, and may have motives that are vastly beyond our understanding?
Would it be too much to ask for any real evidence of his existence besides known forged documents and a long history of brutal oppression using his name?
If you are truly interested in understanding, let me know... but I sense that you are just trolling.
I understand just fine as I have researched it extensively. You clearly have not as you proved in your response to my other post:
Also, there's plenty of evidence that Jesus existed. Probably the most historically accepted text comes from the Jewish historian Josephus.
There is not "plenty" of evidence. There is *only* the Josephus text, and the half ass mention of Jesus has been debunked as a forgery added hundreds of years later. Seriously, Dude. That's what I mean when I suggest you do *some* research into something which is clearly so important to you.
Here's another question for you.
Why do so many Christians wear a pagan symbol around their necks? You do know that the Romans did not nail people to crosses, don't you? It's a fact. They nailed people to straight sticks with no cross bars.
If you didn't know that, then how can you possibly have the audacity to claim that you've done any research whatsoever?
I know you desperately want to believe what you do, and it is your right, but pretending that there's any factual basis for it is entirely dishonest.
There is nothign on that site showing the administration planned ot invade irtaq before 9/11.
Nothing? So in the 2 1/2 hours between my post and yours you read the whole thing? Wow, you're truly amazing. Or more likely you're a cowardly shill defending the fascist traitors currently running our country. Do you really think they'll pat you on the head and throw you a bone? Are you that deeply stupid and ignorant of all of human history?
You didn't read the site since you're too cowardly to be a good citizen, and you won't read this document either, but the facts are there, Sparky. Your failure to take your responsibilities seriously won't change that.
I'm 100% certain your jumping to conslusion based on your desire to put this administration in a bad light.
Yet every single fact backs me up and not one single fact backs you up.
I'm speaking out because I am a patriot who cares about my duties as a citizen and therefore I *know* that there isn't a good light to cast this administration in. Your failure to understand cause and effect is entirely your own.
To gain eternal life, all that one must do is accept the gift that Jesus provided and follow Him. Nothing else.
The beauty of Christianity is that there is nothing that we can do do gain eternal life; all of our efforts fall short. It is only by the grace and gift of God that we can gain eternal life - a freely given gift that we can never deserve nor gain on our own. And all we have to do is accept it.
And it's never once struck you as ridiculous that an all powerful being has *nothing* better he can come up with to forgive us for the heinous crime of acting in accordance with how he made us than to believe some silly story which we are fully capable of tracing the origin of to completely different sources?!?
Seriously, do you worship a god or a petulant 6 year old?
Um, no. He knew who he was; He showed and proclaimed many times that he was God incarnate. Also, many of His miracles were of a nature that only the God and Creator of the universe could do.
Ummm, no. The whole deity part was added much much later than the alleged time of Jesus. The fact that there is *no* legitimate evidence that there ever was a Jesus at all is a completely separate fact. If you're going to buy in to a religion, at least have the decency to research it a bit first. I mean seriously, you're claiming to speak for god and you can't even bother to look into what he did or didn't say?!?
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Thanks for the polite well thought out response.
;-). With MythBrowser, I think it's designed primarilly with a remote in mind which I find it works fairly well for...well apart from that the fonts suck on a TV.
,do any commercial offerings even let you do this at all?
;-)
1) Agreed. When I did my first install, I tried KnoppMyth and it just gave me blinking keyboard lights, so I went with Gentoo instead. Lirc worked fine for my remote, but I did have to hack an addtional instance to get my IRBlaster working so I can change channels on the cable box.
2) I haven't seen this, but obviously one little differnce in one little component (hardware or software) can make a big difference.
3) I haven't noticed this either. I have digital cable with a fairly large number of channels (well, relative to broadcast anyhow.) although, I don't actually record off of that many. I have a Terabyte between recorded shows, videos, and MP3s.
4) OK, MythMusic playlist functions are probably about the worst I've seen in any program so you'll get no argument there
5) I haven't noticed any changes to zap2it that affected me. I get an email when my subscription is about to expire so that works for me.
6) I don't think I've ever actually tried to use this. I'll keep it in mind if I do.
7) True, fonts on TV aren't great. The only things I really notice as a problem are web pages, but they're not designed for TV at all.
8) Hmmm, never thought about this one either.
9) I doubt this will ever be perfect. Do any commercial offereings even offer this feature at all?
10) True, it takes some work. I managed to get transcoding and commercial flagging offloaded to my Opteron, which is very handy although not complely trivial. Again
11) I've seen this happen. I'm not sure if the recording is bad or if the machine was just lagging during playback.
Thanks for your input. I certainly agree with some of your points and as to the rest, it's largely that I just haven't noticed them either due to different useage patterns, different versions, or maybe I just have lower standards
One thing I'm curious about if you happen to know is whether any commercial offerings even have all of these features (better worse, or equal). From what I've seen, most seem to be just glorified VCRs, although, like
I said, I'm not very familiar with what's out there.
Thanks again,
Darby
I think Democrats might look at this, too, if they were the ones at the helm.
Absolutely they would. The thing that makes the Democrats far and away better than the Republicans isn't that they're all good legislators looking to do their service to their country and all that la de da crap.
It's that they aren't as good at being evil as the Republicans are. It's not for lack of trying though.
What I mean is this. The first 10 Amendments, those are the Bill of Rights. Those essentially tell us what rights we have as citizens.
The Constitution is what limits the government, what they are restricted to, so they don't overstep their bounds. Don't 11+ tend to do more with the Constitution than being something like the Bill of Rights?
No, no, a thousand times no!!
The constitution explicitly lays out the few powers the government is allowed to have.
You have pretty much every right you can possibly conceive of barring things like murder, theft and the like which harm others.
The bill of rights is the first ten amendments, but the constitution never really existed without them since it wasn't ratified by the states until they were added due to some loony paranoid conspiracy freaks (to use the current popular lingo) who wouldn't shut up about potential abuses.
The bill of rights came about something like this:
So, the answer to all of your questions is "no".
The less polite answer is that the fact that you even asked such utterly insane questions that demonstrate your complete and total misunderstanding of the entire point of this country rather than just reading it for yourslef makes you part of the problem.
Back in the day Bush, his entire administration both houses of Congress and the cowards who defend them (as well as many other prior public servants; don't kid yourself that it started with the current Traitor in Chief) would have been dragged out in the streets and shot.
As rough-around-the-edges as MythTV can be as compared to a commercial offering,
;-) I just have very limited exposure to commercial alternatives to MythTV.
I'm curious what about MythTV you consider to be "rough-around-the-edges" (apart from the fact that you have to install it yourself) compared to which commercial offerings. My only experience with commercial offerings is seeing a friend's DirectTivo in action a few times and It seemed primitive in comparison, so I'm certainly not claiming you're wrong or anything
It does take a little work to get the first backend set up properly, which is an issue, but once it's running, I find it to be one of (if not the) slickest programs I've ever run.
Once you have your backend, installing it on other computers as a frontend is completely trivial. In my case, I can get a new frontend up and running in under a minute (plus compile time as I'm running Gentoo). A simple `emerge mythtv mythvideo mythphone mythmusic mythdvd mythphoto mythweather myth... myth... etc depending on which additional features I want, start it and enter the IP of the backend and not only do I have access to all my shows, videos and music, but I can stick a CD, DVD etc. in any computer in the house and have it ripped to the same central location accessible from anywhere.
So, what am I missing out on by not going with a commercial offering?
Are you running the latest version (0.19)?
Might not parse for you, but we're here, and we're WAY too smart to pick a boyfriend (husband) dumb enough to not know what a pad is.
;-)
Good lord, if you have to teach them *that* your problems have only just begun
That show about the priest who lives on the island that i forget the name of...
;-)
Father Ted.
No, no, no, Craggy Island.
Dangling modifiers are fun
toss the fat little fuckers outside and make them exercise some...
;-)
Damn, Dude.
That belongs on a T shirt or bumper sticker or something
I mean, 40% of 70 million people is only 28 million children in the USA!!! TV is clearly about to become a minority market!!!
Based solely on those numbers and ignoring 20 odd other things, it already *is* a minority market.
Depends on your DVR...on my MythTV box, I just hit a button, and it automagically skips ALL commercials instantly...there is no FF'ing..one button and ZAP you're back at your program.
Heck, turn on auto skip and you don't even have to hit the button.
My wife kisses me everytime that happens
My kids are 8 and 11, and the 'You wouldn't steal a car, so you shouldn't steal movies' featurette at the start of some films has them in stitches.
Oh Jebus, I haven't seen those....really?!
And no more 'But how do I steal a car?' questions from the 8-year-old.
It's like "Reefer Madness" or extremist anti-drug commercials.
Once they find out they were lied to, they're likely to think the whole thing is crap as opposed to a realistic assessment of the problems with drug use and an honest explanation of why some people choose to use them where they'd be more willing and able to decide to avoid harmful things.
Who thinks up that loony stuff?
Only difference is, we have a very corporation-friendly administration AND Congress right now in Washington. They might actually succeed in removing the fast-forward button from every video recording and playback device known to man. How ridiculous would that be?
Dude, I hate Bush as much as any decent human being, but to act like this type of thing is new is as much part of the problem as anything. We've been slowly spiraling into fascism since WW2. It accelerated massively with Reagan, and continues worsening to this day, but Clinton certainly didn't even try to do anything to slow it down.
Yes, you're right that it's a problem. Yes, you're right that it didn't use to be anywhere near as bad. This administration didn't cause the problem even though they're doing everything in their power to accelerate it past the point of no return.
Ignoring the historical context helps make the problem worse.
How well does Eve work using Linux/Cedega? I've made the switch away from Windows -- I really don't want to have to boot back into that world...
Not all that well from what I've read on the Cedega forums, but I haven't tried it personally so YMMV
Given you live in California, you do pay far more than your share in federal taxes since it's one of the states that's a net tax provider to the welfare states. Given that you live in a rural area, you get heavily subsidised compared to people in urban areas.
Again, corporations are allowed to exist at the sufferance of the populace. There is no reason they shouldn't be forced to serve the populace, not just the privileged. I can only afford to live in the boonies.
They will serve you just fine without government intervention provided that you're willing to pay what it costs. "Civilization" doesn't mean that I should be forced to pay for your *luxury* items. I mean, seriously, how is it even remotely reasonable that I should pay for you to have high speed internet?!?
I also live in a net tax provider state, so you're not paying for me.
And, on the subject of the state cable franchising, that means they will simply be able to ignore any area with low population density completely. I live in the boonies,
You do know that by asking that they not ignore you what you are saying is that *I* should be forced to pay for *you* to have a high speed internet connection, right?
Frankly, I'm getting pretty tired of paying for people who choose to live in rural areas to have electricity, phones, cell phones, high speed internet connections and a whole huge variety of other services which they are neither willing to pay for themselves, nor are they willing to move somewhere where they can actually afford to live without leeching off of me.
Sorry for the rant, as you do make good points, but the fact is that us urban dwellers are paying your bills for you and I'm having a hard enough time getting ahead without that anchor tied around my neck.
Seriously, either find a way to deal with all of your bills getting multiplied by 4 or 5, or do without services that you can't afford without robbing me.
If it was possible for us to ask him a question right now (I am an atheist and don't believe in souls or god or anything,) would he have done it the same way again given a chance, I wonder what his answer would have been. Life taught me however, that no matter how much regret people feel because of something that, given a chance they would have done a better job at concealing the evidence but they most likely would have still done the same thing.
Any thoughts?
I think that regardless of what he would or would have not done differently that he would have looked you right in the eye and lied to you.
It's just the sort of person he was.
Kenneth Lay was obviously not a great humanitarian but comparing him to one of the most notorious serial killers in history is a bit much.
No it isn't. A sociopath is a sociopath is a sociopath. Bundy did worse crimes to fewer people, Lay did lesser crimes to *millions*.
Their utter lack of conscience is identical. Their willingless to fuck anyone and everyone for their own desires is identical.
I grow a bit weary of hearing ex-Enron employees wail about how their life-savings are gone thanks to Lay. These poor people need to accept a bit of responsibility for their mess. You never invest all your money in a single company. Diversification is simple Financial Planning 101.
Yes, but Lay refused to let the employees sell their stock while he was dumping his like mad.
That's the crime of a subhuman scumbag with none of the feelings that a real whole human being has.
And please spare me the responses about how I'm being cold-hearted. I feel for these people.
Then why are you defending a person who knows nothing about those feelings except how to use them against others?
But placing all the blame on one man and comparing him to Ted Bundy sickens me. It's just another example of our victimization culture.
Oh the fuck it is. He *is* more like Bundy than he is like a normal functioning human being. Smart, stupid, greedy, kind ignorant, or what have you, we all have feelings. Monsters like Bundy and Lay do not even have them. They can recognize them well enough to use them to prey upon people, but they do not even really understand what they are.
Get some persepective and quit defending an amoral subhuman monster.
didn't go far enough, right? And the recent shift toward open XML-based formats doesn't amount to nothing short of rolling over on their back and exposing their bellies to the pack?
Putting tags around a proprietary binary blob does not an open format make.
Microsoft abused their position 5-10 years ago (though, until deemed a monopoly, they hadn't done anything any other comapny wouldn't also do if given half a chance). Not only does it appear they stopped when caught.
The reason you get accused of fanboyism is right there.
I mean seriously, look at that utter crap you just spewed. When you spout off idiotic nonsense lies as if they were even sane, then you might be a fanboy.
They have continually abused their position since they first had one and continue to do so to this day with no improvement in their behavior whatsoever.
It does not "appear" that they stopped. They absolutely didn't. Just look at the fucking SCO case for Christ's sake.
but MS has since started moving to open formats
The fuck they have. They have moved to DRMk pushing for legislation to criminalize reverse engineering.
Seriously, Dude. There are arguments to be made in favor of MS, but just spouting off lies that are so transparently false to anybody who has paid any attention to the issue does just make you look like a fanboy and a fool.
I'd say, "Nice try", but it wasn't even that.
If you think a goverment is anything more than a corporation with guns, you're fooling yourself.
All the more reason to keep the corps and the gov against each other since when gang up together against us it's the worst of both worlds.
OK, now you're just talking crap. Redhat wasn't/isn't an attempt to build desktop linux?
No, Redhat is not and has never been in any way shape or form an attempt to build a desktop Linux. They have publically stated this on several occasions. They are after the server market, have always been after the server market and by most accounts are doing a good job of it. They've certainly added features that can help a desktop user, but that has never been their focus.
This doesn't mean that Ubuntu was the first as Mandrake, Lindows and others come to mind. It also doesn't mean that there aren't a lot of people who happily use Redhat (Fedora etc.) as their desktop.
But it does mean that Redhat has never tried to position themselves as a desktop OS.
Look at the "official" numbers for Linux servers. Redhat dominates that market compared to any other distribution. While there may be a number of reasons for their success, one of the primary ones is that is where they have consistently been focused.
In the vein of the graphics issue: I can change my resolution and bit depth on a mac in a few seconds. Neither could I find out how do to it (short of editing the X11 config file), nor could I find help on the system, or a reference online how to do it.
;-)
CTRL-ALT-+ (or - it just scrolls through the other way)
Faster and arguably easier.
As to how you would find that out.....hmmmmm.... not sure actually it's been a long time
The best world for my desktop is the one that runs any application I want, and you can argue that the best for that is Windows or a Mac, but it's certainly not any flavor of Linux.
;-)
Well, not really. "you", being me, can't argue that the best for "I", being you, is anything as I don't know your needs. I can argue that Linux is the best for me as there are applications that do everything I need a computer to do which are available. If your needs are specific to a given area, then it's entirely possible that you *need* Windows, or that you *need* MacOS. It's not an absolute for everybody by any stretch.
It's certainly not true that "it's certainly not any flavor of Linux." for everybody.
Once again it must be said (and why is this so hard for Linux advocates to understand?): People use applications, not operating systems, and Linux absolutely sucks compared to Windows or even Macs when it comes to normal user applications by nearly any metric you name (choices, ease of use, ease of installation, consistency of operation, etc, etc, etc).
Certainly for some metrics it's true, but it's not even true for all of the ones you named.
"choices": In general, you have more choices for an application for a given task in Linux than you do for any other OS (most times you have "Gapp" and "Kapp" and often plenty of others). Many people even argue that this is a bad thing. Distros like Ubuntu and the like actually work to limit the blatantly obvious choices in order to address that issue while providing mechanisms to make it easy for those who are aware of the options available to avail themselves of them.
Yes, there are cases where there is not an app available for Linux that will meet your needs, but for the vast majority of cases, this isn't true. Usually, when this is the case there is no choice at all regardless of platform.
"ease of use": This is tougher to address as a general issue. Mostly, if you're used to a platform, you're used to how the applications for that platform perform. It's certainly true that you could list off a number of applications for Windows or MacOS for which the "best" comparable Linux app is less mature. In many cases though, the comparable Linux app is far more configurable and thereby for a given user's needs far more easy to use. Additionally, odds are that it's far more scriptable under Linux, so far more useful at least for the power users.
"Installation": On the Linux side, this varies with distribution and again with your familiarity with your platform. For the large number of servers I manage using Gentoo, local rsync server + portage proxy (http-replicator) + cross-compiling distcc makes it a snap to install and *know* that everything is at the same versions. It's also fast as hell even with compiling when I have a few idle Opties available when done at the right time. For my home uses, it's as simple as reading about $NEAT_APP, alt-tab emerge $NEAT_APP, alt tab read on for a bit, run $NEAT_APP. For those without my inclinations (and spare hardware lying around), there are distros geared toward them (like Ubuntu) where the $NEAT_APP stuff above is replaced by clicky-clicky download and install $NEAT_APP and everything else it needs.
Heck, compare to an install on Windows of a (for the sake of equivalence) freely downloadable app. Find it, download it, then click through the installation screens. Both are easy, but the Windows one takes a few more clicks.
"Consistency of operation": This is much more difficult for me to address in any general sense. I assume you're talking about keyboard shortcuts and the like in GUI apps. In my experience, there are apps on every platform that fail to conform to "standards", while most do. Maybe you have a bunch of examples I'm not familiar with, maybe you were talking about something else entirely.
Call me when the major application houses (Adobe, as an example) port their product lines to Linux. Then we have something to talk about.
Well, I'll just say that the main reason you shouldn't sit by your phone holding your breath waiting for my call *isn't* that you didn't leave your phone number
Ironic that this sounds more childish.
It's neither ironic, nor is it childish in the least. Were it actually so, I'm sure you could have pointed out how.
To answer your other questions would take a lot more time to explain, but it does make perfect sense to those who believe.
Well, duh. Once you arbitrarilly decide to believe in something, or more likely were told over and over that it was truth as a child before your cognitive skills developed, then any number of silly things could make sense to you.
That does not in any way, shape, or form imply that it actually makes rational sense to one who is just looking at the facts without a predetermined conclusion.
Your lack of understanding comes from not understanding the immensity of who God is - His holiness, justice, love, mercy... He gave us free will, but it comes at a price.
I understand perfectly. He's all powerful, created the entire universe and everything in it. Your claim though, is that even though he is so great and powerful, his sole interest in us in terms of not torturing us forever is that he hides *all* evidence of his existence and then we have to blindly accept it as true in the face of all of the evidence to the contrary.
Think with me a minute. If there is an all powerfull God, would it not be too much to assume that he knows a lot more than us, and may have motives that are vastly beyond our understanding?
Would it be too much to ask for any real evidence of his existence besides known forged documents and a long history of brutal oppression using his name?
If you are truly interested in understanding, let me know... but I sense that you are just trolling.
I understand just fine as I have researched it extensively. You clearly have not as you proved in your response to my other post:
Also, there's plenty of evidence that Jesus existed. Probably the most historically accepted text comes from the Jewish historian Josephus.
There is not "plenty" of evidence. There is *only* the Josephus text, and the half ass mention of Jesus has been debunked as a forgery added hundreds of years later. Seriously, Dude. That's what I mean when I suggest you do *some* research into something which is clearly so important to you.
Here's another question for you.
Why do so many Christians wear a pagan symbol around their necks?
You do know that the Romans did not nail people to crosses, don't you? It's a fact. They nailed people to straight sticks with no cross bars.
If you didn't know that, then how can you possibly have the audacity to claim that you've done any research whatsoever?
I know you desperately want to believe what you do, and it is your right, but pretending that there's any factual basis for it is entirely dishonest.
There is nothign on that site showing the administration planned ot invade irtaq before 9/11.
Nothing? So in the 2 1/2 hours between my post and yours you read the whole thing? Wow, you're truly amazing. Or more likely you're a cowardly shill defending the fascist traitors currently running our country.
Do you really think they'll pat you on the head and throw you a bone? Are you that deeply stupid and ignorant of all of human history?
Here's one of the primary smoking guns
You didn't read the site since you're too cowardly to be a good citizen, and you won't read this document either, but the facts are there, Sparky. Your failure to take your responsibilities seriously won't change that.
I'm 100% certain your jumping to conslusion based on your desire to put this administration in a bad light.
Yet every single fact backs me up and not one single fact backs you up.
I'm speaking out because I am a patriot who cares about my duties as a citizen and therefore I *know* that there isn't a good light to cast this administration in.
Your failure to understand cause and effect is entirely your own.
To gain eternal life, all that one must do is accept the gift that Jesus provided and follow Him. Nothing else.
The beauty of Christianity is that there is nothing that we can do do gain eternal life; all of our efforts fall short. It is only by the grace and gift of God that we can gain eternal life - a freely given gift that we can never deserve nor gain on our own. And all we have to do is accept it.
And it's never once struck you as ridiculous that an all powerful being has *nothing* better he can come up with to forgive us for the heinous crime of acting in accordance with how he made us than to believe some silly story which we are fully capable of tracing the origin of to completely different sources?!?
Seriously, do you worship a god or a petulant 6 year old?
Um, no. He knew who he was; He showed and proclaimed many times that he was God incarnate. Also, many of His miracles were of a nature that only the God and Creator of the universe could do.
Ummm, no. The whole deity part was added much much later than the alleged time of Jesus.
The fact that there is *no* legitimate evidence that there ever was a Jesus at all is a completely separate fact.
If you're going to buy in to a religion, at least have the decency to research it a bit first. I mean seriously, you're claiming to speak for god and you can't even bother to look into what he did or didn't say?!?