Yes, well indeed, "The lost levels" IS SMB2. The other one is an Arabian adventure called Doki Doki Panic, with sprites replaced. Thus, the Americans were fooled:P
I'll give you a counter proposal: Ubuntu minimal. If you hit f4 and choose command line, you'll get a base install, afterwards you can simply apt-get install xfce4 or whatever.
Whats the point? PPAs, The single thing Debian is sorely missing. PPAs in a Debian distro are like addons in a Mozilla browser, simply addicting.
The minimal installer is just 22MiB, and will save you from downloading a large ISO and then updates, so you can do more in less time.
The idea of a sudoer instead of root + user is an (expert) option of the Debian Installer, say no when it asks you if you want a root account. You might hate it, but others find it useful.
There are no "Ubuntu's wizards", It is called Network Manager and can be installed in Debian as well, or uninstalled/ignored in Ubuntu. Network Manager will not manage any device you define in/etc/network/interfaces by default, so you can go back to ifup/ifdown or direct ifconfig. Network Manager is very good with 3g modems so i don't agree with you in getting rid of it. Some people prefer wicd for wifi, its an option as well.
Like Linus, I also switched to XFCE. Sure it needs more polishing, but the more of us using it will make sure this happens. XFCE is actually better than gnome in some aspects: Window buttons to the right or left? You choose it with a drag and drop gui, not a cryptic gconf thing. How could gnome miss simple things like that?
The nationalizing trend started in the 60ies, about the time Opec formed; many countries found out they could earn much more by controlling the business directly, and in many, the private (often foreign) companies paid very little (or none) of taxes/royalties for extraction/processing/distribution/export, etc.
That was the case of Venezuela, for a hundred years, US corporations extracted the best lighter Oil and burned immense natural gas reserves and even heavier crude in the way. In 1975 the whole industry was nationalized, but it was done to benefit the foreigners and corrupt politicians of the time, because their (many decades long) permits were about the expire a few years later and the nation would not need to pay them to leave.
The current Venezuelan oil is heavier, and less valued because it needs more effort in processing, which is why Venezuela has so many (not very profitable) refineries, even in the USA.
Venezuela opened foreign private and state owned corporations the chance to form joint ventures with PDVSA to extract the heavier oil in the Orinoco belt, with the State owning a portion of shares, and higher royalties per barrel export. Only 2 US corporations left the zone when a previous deal was made void, everyone else stayed and even more came (from Asia and elsewhere).
Big state owned oil corporations are nothing new and will not go anytime soon. It is far more lucrative for most countries to have it that way. Political tensions with Venezuela are a decision of US administration, in line with their global policy for domination clashing with nationalistic positions (daring not let US corporations milk away all the profits). Nothing new and widely know outside USA for decades, if not centuries.
NATO did target knowingly clear civilian buildings, including hospitals and schools in Tripoli. Of course nothing can be worse than operation cast lead against Gaza, but still (at least Libyans are not walled and sieged off...) .
In fact Nato quickly ran out of military targets and don't know what else to blow to justify the war, so they increase civilian toll by going after whats left of the civilian infrastructure.
Would you like your country to be bombed with a radioactive dirty bomb? That is what modern day warfare AP bullets do. They remain there, for hundreds of years poisoning anything and everyone. So, not only did you kill thousands in your war, you will still be killing thousands more after you finally give up and leave...
There is no bigger idiot, and no bigger threat to world peace than the US, And Nato is one of their tools. For months, civilians dying in Libya are the result of Nato bombing "to protect civilians" (by killing them), bombing their schools, hospitals, homes, rebels, etc. The same can be said of many other places everywhere the US puts its nose.
N. Korea is isolated and does no harm unless messed with, such as doing stupid and unnecessary war games in front of them...
Venezuela is simply trading with those willing to. The US banned military sales? Well the Russians didn't; plus others are willing to transfer their technology unlike US corporations. Free market you know...
The Saudi monarchy is the biggest US ally in the middle east, freedom to the people is not important as long as they play... Just like nuclear weapons backed Pakistan.
Iran, without nuclear weapons, is constantly being harassed, and even sabotaged, inline to an Israeli agenda; has proven respectful to other countries, unlike Nato, has not invaded or attacked anyone and only threatens those who threaten.
Anonymous has not been targeted by any of those countries you mention, the US has. You do pick your enemies...
If the US doesn't like a government, it is none of their business meddling with. Its the people living there and only theirs. But the US has a global policy of interfering every nation in the planet (even allies), as shown by the wikileaks evidence; thus perpetuating conflict.
IMO, the US should be kicked out of the UN (for debt), and the headquarters moved to neutral grounds elsewhere. Then, as the entire world sides rightfully against the US, some sort of balance can be restored. Otherwise its up to the Chinese to fill the void left by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Hmm, no not really. It is easy to find samples where the mp3 codec will fail (produce audible enough artifact), even at 320kbps. In that regard, other lossy formats such as ogg vorbis fare much better (if even because it doesn't have that 320kbps ceiling limit, and some more tricks).
Of course, a lossless format such as flac makes sure a 44.1khz@16bit CD stays the same, for about half the size. If you compared that to 96khz/24bit audio then your comment would apply.
But, lossy can decode to higher bitrate, and that helps a tiny little bit (no puns:)). Also higher samplerates makes it easier to do filters (lowpass). Humans can't hear above 20khz (remember you need twice to reproduce, ie. 40Khz samplerate) and thats where most lowpass filters start in CDs.
As for downloading songs, try http://www.jamendo.com/ The Recording Industry (and its slavery) is obsolete.
Say you make 2000$ a month, and you need to spend in a sorely needed home appliance, which costs 1000$, + sales tax of, say. 10% this amounts to 1100$. Out of your 2000$, you had to give 100$ for the tax, or 5% your income.
Now say you make 20000$ a month, the appliance costs the same, and you pay the same 100$ tax, that amounts to 0,5% your income.
If you make 200000$ a month, the 100$ tax will set you back only 0,05%...
Thats what makes it regressive, for the rich its nothing, for the poor its a sacrifice of sorely needed money.
A tax based on income, can be considered flat or "fair", and a tax on luxuries is progressive. Yes, i am aware American politicians make it so the poor suffers more, is not like they have the money to lobby for better laws anyway... (gotta save it for sales tax:P)
No one declares anti-semitism, but anti-zionism. Zionism is the political movement to re-establish the Jewish State, contradicting the scriptures about staying away... (Why keep Sabbath then?).
In any case, the Zionists waged war and won the land by force, then proceed to get rid of locals, who naturally resisted the invasion in any way they could. Lots of slaughtering and struggle in the process; oh yes, the Zionists did started with terrorism when the land was controlled by the UK... Were you not told about King David Hotel bombing?
The methods the Israeli forces use are simply mass murdering people trapped and sieged in ghettos. Sounds familiar doesn't it? Yes, ethnic cleansing it is; and all sorts of air bombardment and land and even sea warfare against civilians, mostly armed with just rocks and pitiful glorified firecrackers. No NATO bombing, or no fly zones there... Thousands of innocent people die in Gaza, the UN doesn't care, even after Israel destroys UN facilities there.
Say what you like about Iran, they haven't dropped white phosphor cluster bombs against civilians, Israel has; everyone watched "Cast Lead". Israel once bombed a Nuclear power plant in Irak, but nothing of the sort has occurred to Israel from Irak. And before there were incidents like the Sabra and Shatilla massacre, guess who was involved? The current Prime Minister... Reality surpasses intentions.
Things like executions occur when you let religious extremists in power. It would be the same if you followed your traditions to the letter. Do not forget both religions have the same root, and Christianity as well. And all of them have committed atrocities in the past, and in that very same patch of land even.
The Islam scripture actually treat Jews (and Christians) with respect, and before the Zionists invaded, local Jews and Christians did live there just like they live in other countries.
You say Israel is "surrounded", No s*** Sherlock, Zionists invaded the land and waged war against all its neighbors (defeating them). Thats when a violent future for Israel was sealed; and you have fanatics killing their own leaders, when daring to reach peace after decades of bloodshed.
Zionists don't care about anything and anyone, they want their conquered land clean of Palestinians and anti-zionists and they don't care about the UN or even if the whole world declared war against them, they have the nukes ready should they ever lose.
"Anti-semitism" is Zionist propaganda against anyone who dares think different.
The flash memory format known as SD might as well be. Just make sure a reader/writter is installed everywhere, like most netbooks have. Multicard readers are very cheap and come in 3 1/2" size to use floppy slots.
No, not everything is made by other players. Don't forget: 1) The pre-seeded stuff (with fixed prices). 2) Item dropped by NPCs (including the most expensive ones).
f2p could work with Eve. Certain things could be unlocked with single payments, including skills, and regions, not just items. Of course monthly payers have access to all already. Purchasing things should also be doable with game money, but the farming required would take lots of real time.
A new f2p player could, for example be only allowed to roam the high secs of its starting race, needing to unlock both the other regions and lower secs, and the better skills and better ship items (and the ships themselves).
The idea behind this is providing a constant flow of player base, don't forget older games like Eve need this to remain relevant. It also allows for casual gaming, with monthly subscriptions it feels more an obligation, and you know this game is horribly time consuming.
I know its possible to purchase game time with game money, perhaps that should also remain, but you know that also is time limited and constrained, and forces you to farm or be kicked.
I in fact would go back if this model gets adopted. So in the end they have more to gain than to lose. People have had much worse things to complain in this game before anyway (metagaming drama comes to mind).
What is the point of a bigger image when most of the data you are installing is already obsolete? Sure it makes sense if you have no connectivity, but otherwise its redundant and will not be used if you tick the download updates box.
It makes more sense if they make ubuntu minimal launch a bare X or framebuffer with ubiquity (graphical installer), leaving the option for text mode. This way you can also ask people if they want another flavor (eg. KDE or XFCE, or even architecture).
Optical discs should be discouraged in favor of USB memory sticks, simply to reduce pollution, frustration and waste of time. Every 6 months download the image and put it in the USB stick you used 6 months ago, instead of wasting plastic, wearing burners, waiting cd reading, hoping it burned ok, etc, etc.
If machines all came with SD readers, which happen to behave the same as usb (mass storage) sticks, i see no point of using other media. Many machines already fit their 3 1/2" floppy slot with a card reader, which is very cheap and plug to a regular USB port (inside).
A tool funded by the US will have a backdoor in place, so it's useless. If you want to make sure a tool is safe, you have to break the law there and not get caught before attempting to deploy it elsewhere.
Open projects such as freenet, gnunet might have a better chance, as they make a "no one's land" suitable for secure communication.
No matter how much are you against certain ppl, Say, Gadaffi, the amount of mockery getting spread to justify wanton bombing is getting ludicrous. Seriously, viagra?
NATO is killing more civilians (even rebels) right now than whatever the regime was being accused of...
Just a little remainder no power is to be trusted, only the community can provide a reliable tool, once you establish that its safe.
Even if you do this, you have to make sure you switch to XFCE, because sooner or later, Debian will have gnome3, and unless you love the new gnome shell, you won't like it. This is the same for the people switching to Linux Mint and others.
The reason i would prefer an Ubuntu based distro is the PPA system. I'll wait for Debian to implemented this officially, then ppl could just install Stable and have current versions of specific apps.
It is very easy to install Ubuntu minimal (command line) and then add the XFCE package, if only to have proper PPA support and your favored Ubuntu things.
BTW: Wayland is not a Canonical's project, more like Red Hat/Intel.
Yes, because in the next version (11.10) this will be gone. Once in XFCE, make sure you disable compositing in the window manager settings if it gives you problems.
Publishers to developers, are like labels to musicians. They need a product to sell, they don't like risks and you become slave. They rather not try "too different" until somebody else in the industry had.
Like some musicians, who think without labels (and their controlled promotion/distribution channels) they can't never succeed, some developers think they need the publishers, to hold an 8 figure project of pretty graphics and very non challenging repetitive game play.
Most sales are related to consoles, and consoles have historically been very hostile to indie developing, as opposed to, say, mobile apps.
Also the lack of creativity for games have gotten so low, they are doing many remakes, just like Hollywood... Unable to innovate or think beyond.
Update: June 7th, 2011 - Several important things to note, the BC-H series H.264 cards do not have at traditional firmware that is loaded. Everything is accessed directly from the driver / user space applications. Secondly, we report sales of each encoder to MPEGLA and pay any necessary patent fees for the sale of each encoder, meaning that any cards purchased from Bluecherry already have the patent protection from MPEGLA for the device level encoder.
Update: June 7th, 2011 - Several important things to note, the BC-H series H.264 cards do not have at traditional firmware that is loaded. Everything is accessed directly from the driver / user space applications. Secondly, we report sales of each encoder to MPEGLA and pay any necessary patent fees for the sale of each encoder, meaning that any cards purchased from Bluecherry already have the patent protection from MPEGLA for the device level encoder.
Either your ISP is supporting IPv6, or your OS is using a tunnel. Windows Vista and 7 by default do by try 6to4 and teredo tunnels if the ISP doesn't assign an ipv6.
Linux users can just install miredo to have a teredo tunnel. It is nice to use ipv6 capable DNS, such as OpenNIC; do these and you'll get 10/10 score at http://test-ipv6.com/
More ISPs should be supporting dual stacks by now, that means an ipv6 capable DNS and assign both ipv6 and ipv4 to clients. That will ensure a transparent switchover and ease ipv6 only services, which will start slowly, but will growth with time; especially with regions like Asia running out of ipv4 addys.
It makes sense even if the ISP itself is using a tunnel for all its customers, while their upstream providers get a clue. Of course that also can be done in any LAN, which is why doing it in your home to get the starting knowledge is a good idea...
Simple: The vast majority of works while still in copyright, are out of print. You can't pay to get it, period. Also, it is difficult if not impossible in some countries to buy foreign things, because you can't obtain US$, much less in electronic form; and the importing can be limited or even blocked/forbidden (think of countries in USA's black list for example).
An eBook reader makes much more sense than iPADs or any sort of LCD/LED screen device for many reasons; but not the Kindle and its wireless junk.
The Chinese Hanlin and similar devices, accept open formats and don't have any wireless connectivity. Being true eReaders, they don't spend energy showing content in the screen, only changing it. They also have no backlight so they must be used just like printed paper, with a source of light.
Such an eReader could be reliably used for running checklists or having plenty of information available in a light, maybe rugged device; which could be "Class 2" (strapped in place). Those things can change like 8000 pages on a single AA battery.
As for "Flight Control HD", one could argue thats what a glass cockpit is, so you are kinda late... How useful the cockpit remains if the glass cockpit shuts off (ie loss of power) is another issue.
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Yes, well indeed, "The lost levels" IS SMB2. The other one is an Arabian adventure called Doki Doki Panic, with sprites replaced. Thus, the Americans were fooled :P
See: http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/dokidokipanic.html
I'll give you a counter proposal: Ubuntu minimal. If you hit f4 and choose command line, you'll get a base install, afterwards you can simply apt-get install xfce4 or whatever.
Whats the point? PPAs, The single thing Debian is sorely missing. PPAs in a Debian distro are like addons in a Mozilla browser, simply addicting.
The minimal installer is just 22MiB, and will save you from downloading a large ISO and then updates, so you can do more in less time.
The idea of a sudoer instead of root + user is an (expert) option of the Debian Installer, say no when it asks you if you want a root account. You might hate it, but others find it useful.
There are no "Ubuntu's wizards", It is called Network Manager and can be installed in Debian as well, or uninstalled/ignored in Ubuntu. Network Manager will not manage any device you define in /etc/network/interfaces by default, so you can go back to ifup/ifdown or direct ifconfig. Network Manager is very good with 3g modems so i don't agree with you in getting rid of it. Some people prefer wicd for wifi, its an option as well.
Like Linus, I also switched to XFCE. Sure it needs more polishing, but the more of us using it will make sure this happens. XFCE is actually better than gnome in some aspects: Window buttons to the right or left? You choose it with a drag and drop gui, not a cryptic gconf thing. How could gnome miss simple things like that?
The nationalizing trend started in the 60ies, about the time Opec formed; many countries found out they could earn much more by controlling the business directly, and in many, the private (often foreign) companies paid very little (or none) of taxes/royalties for extraction/processing/distribution/export, etc.
That was the case of Venezuela, for a hundred years, US corporations extracted the best lighter Oil and burned immense natural gas reserves and even heavier crude in the way. In 1975 the whole industry was nationalized, but it was done to benefit the foreigners and corrupt politicians of the time, because their (many decades long) permits were about the expire a few years later and the nation would not need to pay them to leave.
The current Venezuelan oil is heavier, and less valued because it needs more effort in processing, which is why Venezuela has so many (not very profitable) refineries, even in the USA.
Venezuela opened foreign private and state owned corporations the chance to form joint ventures with PDVSA to extract the heavier oil in the Orinoco belt, with the State owning a portion of shares, and higher royalties per barrel export. Only 2 US corporations left the zone when a previous deal was made void, everyone else stayed and even more came (from Asia and elsewhere).
Big state owned oil corporations are nothing new and will not go anytime soon. It is far more lucrative for most countries to have it that way. Political tensions with Venezuela are a decision of US administration, in line with their global policy for domination clashing with nationalistic positions (daring not let US corporations milk away all the profits). Nothing new and widely know outside USA for decades, if not centuries.
NATO did target knowingly clear civilian buildings, including hospitals and schools in Tripoli. Of course nothing can be worse than operation cast lead against Gaza, but still (at least Libyans are not walled and sieged off...) .
In fact Nato quickly ran out of military targets and don't know what else to blow to justify the war, so they increase civilian toll by going after whats left of the civilian infrastructure.
Would you like your country to be bombed with a radioactive dirty bomb? That is what modern day warfare AP bullets do. They remain there, for hundreds of years poisoning anything and everyone. So, not only did you kill thousands in your war, you will still be killing thousands more after you finally give up and leave...
There is no bigger idiot, and no bigger threat to world peace than the US, And Nato is one of their tools. For months, civilians dying in Libya are the result of Nato bombing "to protect civilians" (by killing them), bombing their schools, hospitals, homes, rebels, etc. The same can be said of many other places everywhere the US puts its nose.
N. Korea is isolated and does no harm unless messed with, such as doing stupid and unnecessary war games in front of them...
Venezuela is simply trading with those willing to. The US banned military sales? Well the Russians didn't; plus others are willing to transfer their technology unlike US corporations. Free market you know...
The Saudi monarchy is the biggest US ally in the middle east, freedom to the people is not important as long as they play... Just like nuclear weapons backed Pakistan.
Iran, without nuclear weapons, is constantly being harassed, and even sabotaged, inline to an Israeli agenda; has proven respectful to other countries, unlike Nato, has not invaded or attacked anyone and only threatens those who threaten.
Anonymous has not been targeted by any of those countries you mention, the US has. You do pick your enemies...
If the US doesn't like a government, it is none of their business meddling with. Its the people living there and only theirs. But the US has a global policy of interfering every nation in the planet (even allies), as shown by the wikileaks evidence; thus perpetuating conflict.
IMO, the US should be kicked out of the UN (for debt), and the headquarters moved to neutral grounds elsewhere. Then, as the entire world sides rightfully against the US, some sort of balance can be restored. Otherwise its up to the Chinese to fill the void left by the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Hmm, no not really. It is easy to find samples where the mp3 codec will fail (produce audible enough artifact), even at 320kbps. In that regard, other lossy formats such as ogg vorbis fare much better (if even because it doesn't have that 320kbps ceiling limit, and some more tricks).
Of course, a lossless format such as flac makes sure a 44.1khz@16bit CD stays the same, for about half the size. If you compared that to 96khz/24bit audio then your comment would apply.
But, lossy can decode to higher bitrate, and that helps a tiny little bit (no puns :)). Also higher samplerates makes it easier to do filters (lowpass). Humans can't hear above 20khz (remember you need twice to reproduce, ie. 40Khz samplerate) and thats where most lowpass filters start in CDs.
As for downloading songs, try http://www.jamendo.com/
The Recording Industry (and its slavery) is obsolete.
Say you make 2000$ a month, and you need to spend in a sorely needed home appliance, which costs 1000$, + sales tax of, say. 10% this amounts to 1100$. Out of your 2000$, you had to give 100$ for the tax, or 5% your income.
Now say you make 20000$ a month, the appliance costs the same, and you pay the same 100$ tax, that amounts to 0,5% your income.
If you make 200000$ a month, the 100$ tax will set you back only 0,05%...
Thats what makes it regressive, for the rich its nothing, for the poor its a sacrifice of sorely needed money.
A tax based on income, can be considered flat or "fair", and a tax on luxuries is progressive. Yes, i am aware American politicians make it so the poor suffers more, is not like they have the money to lobby for better laws anyway... (gotta save it for sales tax :P)
No one declares anti-semitism, but anti-zionism.
Zionism is the political movement to re-establish the Jewish State, contradicting the scriptures about staying away... (Why keep Sabbath then?).
In any case, the Zionists waged war and won the land by force, then proceed to get rid of locals, who naturally resisted the invasion in any way they could. Lots of slaughtering and struggle in the process; oh yes, the Zionists did started with terrorism when the land was controlled by the UK... Were you not told about King David Hotel bombing?
The methods the Israeli forces use are simply mass murdering people trapped and sieged in ghettos. Sounds familiar doesn't it? Yes, ethnic cleansing it is; and all sorts of air bombardment and land and even sea warfare against civilians, mostly armed with just rocks and pitiful glorified firecrackers. No NATO bombing, or no fly zones there... Thousands of innocent people die in Gaza, the UN doesn't care, even after Israel destroys UN facilities there.
Say what you like about Iran, they haven't dropped white phosphor cluster bombs against civilians, Israel has; everyone watched "Cast Lead". Israel once bombed a Nuclear power plant in Irak, but nothing of the sort has occurred to Israel from Irak. And before there were incidents like the Sabra and Shatilla massacre, guess who was involved? The current Prime Minister... Reality surpasses intentions.
Things like executions occur when you let religious extremists in power. It would be the same if you followed your traditions to the letter. Do not forget both religions have the same root, and Christianity as well. And all of them have committed atrocities in the past, and in that very same patch of land even.
The Islam scripture actually treat Jews (and Christians) with respect, and before the Zionists invaded, local Jews and Christians did live there just like they live in other countries.
You say Israel is "surrounded", No s*** Sherlock, Zionists invaded the land and waged war against all its neighbors (defeating them). Thats when a violent future for Israel was sealed; and you have fanatics killing their own leaders, when daring to reach peace after decades of bloodshed.
Zionists don't care about anything and anyone, they want their conquered land clean of Palestinians and anti-zionists and they don't care about the UN or even if the whole world declared war against them, they have the nukes ready should they ever lose.
"Anti-semitism" is Zionist propaganda against anyone who dares think different.
The flash memory format known as SD might as well be. Just make sure a reader/writter is installed everywhere, like most netbooks have. Multicard readers are very cheap and come in 3 1/2" size to use floppy slots.
No, not everything is made by other players. Don't forget:
1) The pre-seeded stuff (with fixed prices).
2) Item dropped by NPCs (including the most expensive ones).
f2p could work with Eve. Certain things could be unlocked with single payments, including skills, and regions, not just items. Of course monthly payers have access to all already. Purchasing things should also be doable with game money, but the farming required would take lots of real time.
A new f2p player could, for example be only allowed to roam the high secs of its starting race, needing to unlock both the other regions and lower secs, and the better skills and better ship items (and the ships themselves).
The idea behind this is providing a constant flow of player base, don't forget older games like Eve need this to remain relevant. It also allows for casual gaming, with monthly subscriptions it feels more an obligation, and you know this game is horribly time consuming.
I know its possible to purchase game time with game money, perhaps that should also remain, but you know that also is time limited and constrained, and forces you to farm or be kicked.
I in fact would go back if this model gets adopted. So in the end they have more to gain than to lose. People have had much worse things to complain in this game before anyway (metagaming drama comes to mind).
What is the point of a bigger image when most of the data you are installing is already obsolete? Sure it makes sense if you have no connectivity, but otherwise its redundant and will not be used if you tick the download updates box.
It makes more sense if they make ubuntu minimal launch a bare X or framebuffer with ubiquity (graphical installer), leaving the option for text mode. This way you can also ask people if they want another flavor (eg. KDE or XFCE, or even architecture).
Optical discs should be discouraged in favor of USB memory sticks, simply to reduce pollution, frustration and waste of time. Every 6 months download the image and put it in the USB stick you used 6 months ago, instead of wasting plastic, wearing burners, waiting cd reading, hoping it burned ok, etc, etc.
If machines all came with SD readers, which happen to behave the same as usb (mass storage) sticks, i see no point of using other media. Many machines already fit their 3 1/2" floppy slot with a card reader, which is very cheap and plug to a regular USB port (inside).
Thats why you are better off not telling, and not using voice chat; just ignore/report abusive behavior.
Don't forget bombing and killing innocent people of foreign nations.
The entire world combined doesn't reach US military spending...
A tool funded by the US will have a backdoor in place, so it's useless. If you want to make sure a tool is safe, you have to break the law there and not get caught before attempting to deploy it elsewhere.
Open projects such as freenet, gnunet might have a better chance, as they make a "no one's land" suitable for secure communication.
No matter how much are you against certain ppl, Say, Gadaffi, the amount of mockery getting spread to justify wanton bombing is getting ludicrous. Seriously, viagra?
NATO is killing more civilians (even rebels) right now than whatever the regime was being accused of...
Just a little remainder no power is to be trusted, only the community can provide a reliable tool, once you establish that its safe.
Even if you do this, you have to make sure you switch to XFCE, because sooner or later, Debian will have gnome3, and unless you love the new gnome shell, you won't like it. This is the same for the people switching to Linux Mint and others.
The reason i would prefer an Ubuntu based distro is the PPA system. I'll wait for Debian to implemented this officially, then ppl could just install Stable and have current versions of specific apps.
It is very easy to install Ubuntu minimal (command line) and then add the XFCE package, if only to have proper PPA support and your favored Ubuntu things.
BTW: Wayland is not a Canonical's project, more like Red Hat/Intel.
Yes, because in the next version (11.10) this will be gone.
Once in XFCE, make sure you disable compositing in the window manager settings if it gives you problems.
Publishers to developers, are like labels to musicians. They need a product to sell, they don't like risks and you become slave. They rather not try "too different" until somebody else in the industry had.
Like some musicians, who think without labels (and their controlled promotion/distribution channels) they can't never succeed, some developers think they need the publishers, to hold an 8 figure project of pretty graphics and very non challenging repetitive game play.
Most sales are related to consoles, and consoles have historically been very hostile to indie developing, as opposed to, say, mobile apps.
Also the lack of creativity for games have gotten so low, they are doing many remakes, just like Hollywood... Unable to innovate or think beyond.
Again, read the update:
Update: June 7th, 2011 - Several important things to note, the BC-H series H.264 cards do not have at traditional firmware that is loaded. Everything is accessed directly from the driver / user space applications. Secondly, we report sales of each encoder to MPEGLA and pay any necessary patent fees for the sale of each encoder, meaning that any cards purchased from Bluecherry already have the patent protection from MPEGLA for the device level encoder.
http://www.bluecherrydvr.com/2011/05/multi-input-h-264-linux-supported-encoder-cards/
That said, not every country accept such patents. I know mine doesn't, and its proudly listed in the 301 report.
Read the update:
Update: June 7th, 2011 - Several important things to note, the BC-H series H.264 cards do not have at traditional firmware that is loaded. Everything is accessed directly from the driver / user space applications. Secondly, we report sales of each encoder to MPEGLA and pay any necessary patent fees for the sale of each encoder, meaning that any cards purchased from Bluecherry already have the patent protection from MPEGLA for the device level encoder.
http://www.bluecherrydvr.com/2011/05/multi-input-h-264-linux-supported-encoder-cards/
Either your ISP is supporting IPv6, or your OS is using a tunnel. Windows Vista and 7 by default do by try 6to4 and teredo tunnels if the ISP doesn't assign an ipv6.
Linux users can just install miredo to have a teredo tunnel. It is nice to use ipv6 capable DNS, such as OpenNIC; do these and you'll get 10/10 score at http://test-ipv6.com/
More ISPs should be supporting dual stacks by now, that means an ipv6 capable DNS and assign both ipv6 and ipv4 to clients. That will ensure a transparent switchover and ease ipv6 only services, which will start slowly, but will growth with time; especially with regions like Asia running out of ipv4 addys.
It makes sense even if the ISP itself is using a tunnel for all its customers, while their upstream providers get a clue. Of course that also can be done in any LAN, which is why doing it in your home to get the starting knowledge is a good idea...
And yet, they provide an invaluable service by pointing out the weakness in your security...
Simple: The vast majority of works while still in copyright, are out of print. You can't pay to get it, period. Also, it is difficult if not impossible in some countries to buy foreign things, because you can't obtain US$, much less in electronic form; and the importing can be limited or even blocked/forbidden (think of countries in USA's black list for example).
Hmm, didn't Japan announced their new radioactive disposal facility: Fukushima Daichi?
An eBook reader makes much more sense than iPADs or any sort of LCD/LED screen device for many reasons; but not the Kindle and its wireless junk.
The Chinese Hanlin and similar devices, accept open formats and don't have any wireless connectivity. Being true eReaders, they don't spend energy showing content in the screen, only changing it. They also have no backlight so they must be used just like printed paper, with a source of light.
Such an eReader could be reliably used for running checklists or having plenty of information available in a light, maybe rugged device; which could be "Class 2" (strapped in place). Those things can change like 8000 pages on a single AA battery.
As for "Flight Control HD", one could argue thats what a glass cockpit is, so you are kinda late... How useful the cockpit remains if the glass cockpit shuts off (ie loss of power) is another issue.