What on Earth is the chance of encountering a ship on the high seas that carries scientific papers? And then you go ahead and brutally rob the owners of said papers? I'm sorry but this sounds like pure fantasy, at least in the 21st century. Unless the author fell prey to decades of propaganda and actually meant to refer to copyright infringement.
This is a reconstruction of the 1977 theatrical version of STAR WARS. The original shots were painstakingly restored using various sources (listed below) and the film received an extensive shot by shot colour correction based on a fade free 1977 I.B. Technicolor Print.
This fan edit is compiled from many sources, including an earlier scan by Team Negative1, the group this article is also about.
VIDEO SOURCES:
STAR WARS Episode IV A New Hope Official Blu-Ray 2011 (Preliminary colour correction by You_Too)
STAR WARS 2006 Bonus DVD (sourced from the 1993 Definitive Edition Laser Disc Master - upscales by Dark Jedi, You_Too and Harmy)
Star.Wars.Episode.IV.A.New.Hope.1977.720p.HDTV.x264-DON (2004 DVD Version)
STAR WARS 1997 Special Edition (Reivax DTV capture)
Custom mattes, 35mm and 70mm film cell scans etc.
Team Negative1 35mm LPP print scan of the Mos Eisley sequence
Puggo Grande (1977 16mm print transfer)
Harmy has since released restored edits of Episode V and VI as 720p MKV. The MKVs also include many subtitles and alternative audio tracks. It is currently the definite edition of the original trilogy.
I hope FTDI continues to block counterfeit devices. This will alert buyers who then can demand refunds, or sue the vendors who sold them low quality fakes.
The FOSS drivers for Nvidia ("nouveau") and AMD ("amdgpu") have come a long way. They are outperforming the proprietary drivers in some games already. That is, at least with the latest pre-release kernel, for amdgpu, and Mesa 11. Quirks are getting fewer and fewer. OpenCL support is progressing.
However the most important advantage is that the open drivers can support old hardware forever.
Publishers often refer to copying they don't approve of as "piracy." In this way, they imply that it is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them. Based on such propaganda, they have procured laws in most of the world to forbid copying in most (or sometimes all) circumstances. (They are still pressuring to make these prohibitions more complete.)
If you don't believe that copying not approved by the publisher is just like kidnapping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word "piracy" to describe it. Neutral terms such as "unauthorized copying" (or "prohibited copying" for the situation where it is illegal) are available for use instead.
I think we all agree that attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them should be prosecuted. Please don't confound copyright infringement with piracy. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Piracy
My virtual server apparently used to be owned by spammers before I rented it. Several web sites ban its IPv4 due to alleged proxies and/or spam. Thinking it might be a one-off false positive, I cancelled the server and got a new one within the same network, to no avail.
So I contacted the admin of one of the websites that banned it. Turns out they blacklisted the whole network of cheap virtual servers years ago. IP blacklists should have expiration dates. Apparently most don't.
KeepassX does not use the clipboard but instead simulates actual typing, with a configurable delay. When you select a password entry and press Ctrl-v in KeepassX, it hides itself, switches the focus to the last active window and types the password. This also protects you from accidentally leaking password to remote desktop sessions or virtual machines that synchronize the clipboards.
I'd also recommend The Day After Trinity for a touching portrait of the project's human side. >Scientists and witnesses involved in the creation and testing of the first ever atomic bomb reflect on the Manhattan project and its fascinating leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who upon completion of his wonderful and horrible invention became a powerful spokesperson against the nuclear arms race. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
"You may well ask: Why people with a kind heart and humanist feelings... why they would go and work on weapons of mass destruction."
[updated on 28-5-2015] Since yesterday, SourceForge Gimp-Win mirror downloads only the original software without any offers. We also invite the Gimp-Win developer to take back control of the project if that is his desire, while respectfully asking that he maintain any project updates or allow us to do so.
The most urgent deficiency in most music software and the MIDI protocol itself is the fixation on the 12-TET scale. The new MIDI HD protocol fixes this issue with its "Direct Pitch" feature that lets you define arbitrary notes. However most composing software still offers no practical way to edit music in other scales.
It's time for music to evolve. The grim reality however is that popular music has been getting more bland for the last 50 years: http://www.nature.com/srep/201...
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What on Earth is the chance of encountering a ship on the high seas that carries scientific papers?
And then you go ahead and brutally rob the owners of said papers?
I'm sorry but this sounds like pure fantasy, at least in the 21st century. Unless the author fell prey to decades of propaganda and actually meant to refer to copyright infringement.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...
US Supreme Court rules that copyright infringement does not easily equate to theft:
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/...
Stop perpetuating propaganda.
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence at sea.
We should not tolerate marine thuggery.
Copyright infringement, however, can't be easily equated to piracy or theft.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/...
HTTP/2 might be the actual main motive for this switch. HTTP/2 is more efficient than HTTP/1 but requires TLS encryption.
Indeed, wordpress.com does offer HTTP/2:
url="https://www.wordpress.com" /dev/null "$url" 2>&1 |grep ALPN
curl -v --http2 -I -o
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* ALPN, server accepted to use h2
The currently best reproduction of the original Star Wars trilogy is a fan edit compiled by Harmy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://originaltrilogy.com/top...
https://docs.google.com/docume...
This is a reconstruction of the 1977 theatrical version of STAR WARS. The original shots were painstakingly restored using various sources (listed below) and the film received an extensive shot by shot colour correction based on a fade free 1977 I.B. Technicolor Print.
This fan edit is compiled from many sources, including an earlier scan by Team Negative1, the group this article is also about.
VIDEO SOURCES:
STAR WARS Episode IV A New Hope Official Blu-Ray 2011 (Preliminary colour correction by You_Too)
STAR WARS 2006 Bonus DVD (sourced from the 1993 Definitive Edition Laser Disc Master - upscales by Dark Jedi, You_Too and Harmy)
Star.Wars.Episode.IV.A.New.Hope.1977.720p.HDTV.x264-DON (2004 DVD Version)
STAR WARS 1997 Special Edition (Reivax DTV capture)
Custom mattes, 35mm and 70mm film cell scans etc.
Team Negative1 35mm LPP print scan of the Mos Eisley sequence
Puggo Grande (1977 16mm print transfer)
Harmy has since released restored edits of Episode V and VI as 720p MKV.
The MKVs also include many subtitles and alternative audio tracks.
It is currently the definite edition of the original trilogy.
I hope FTDI continues to block counterfeit devices.
This will alert buyers who then can demand refunds, or sue the vendors who sold them low quality fakes.
Want guaranteed genuine chips? FTDI runs an online shop, reasonably priced too.
http://www.ftdichip.com/
I for one was burned once with a fake Prolific PL2302 that crashes frequently and reproducibly. Never again.
https://soylentnews.org/
The FOSS drivers for Nvidia ("nouveau") and AMD ("amdgpu") have come a long way.
They are outperforming the proprietary drivers in some games already.
That is, at least with the latest pre-release kernel, for amdgpu, and Mesa 11.
Quirks are getting fewer and fewer. OpenCL support is progressing.
However the most important advantage is that the open drivers can support old hardware forever.
I do wonder why they're not mining CPU coins like Monero on their zombies instead?
nutty conspiracy rant
Except that Intel had been caught sabotaging AMD performance in the past.
http://www.agner.org/optimize/...
It seems there is not even one ARM or Intel single-board computer that respects your freedom.
https://www.fsf.org/resources/...
Please prove this wrong.
1. Not news. Story reheated too many times. Older articles:
http://www.theotherside.co.uk/...
http://www.voanews.com/content...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/his...
2. The Russians did it too.
https://books.google.de/books?...
3. The Germans/Axis did it too:
http://www.track-link.com/foru...
This is also mentioned in the monumental 1970s British documentary "The World At War", which I strongly suggest to watch instead of reading this drivel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The protocol is free and open source. You're free to reimplement it in C.
Publishers often refer to copying they don't approve of as "piracy." In this way, they imply that it is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them. Based on such propaganda, they have procured laws in most of the world to forbid copying in most (or sometimes all) circumstances. (They are still pressuring to make these prohibitions more complete.)
If you don't believe that copying not approved by the publisher is just like kidnapping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word "piracy" to describe it. Neutral terms such as "unauthorized copying" (or "prohibited copying" for the situation where it is illegal) are available for use instead.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy...
If you're working with GNU/Linux, consider Zim, the desktop wiki.
Some points for Zim:
I'm looking for an ARM laptop:
Does this exist?
The question is why anyone would want non-free software.
I think we all agree that attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them should be prosecuted.
Please don't confound copyright infringement with piracy.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#Piracy
My virtual server apparently used to be owned by spammers before I rented it. Several web sites ban its IPv4 due to alleged proxies and/or spam.
Thinking it might be a one-off false positive, I cancelled the server and got a new one within the same network, to no avail.
So I contacted the admin of one of the websites that banned it. Turns out they blacklisted the whole network of cheap virtual servers years ago.
IP blacklists should have expiration dates. Apparently most don't.
I uninstalled Flash in 2009 and for some reason I'm still alive! :-O
youtube-dl downloads and streams video and audio from about 500 legacy sites in the quality of your choice.
livestreamer streams live video from about 70 legacy sites such as the popular "Twitch".
VLC and mpv also can play video from some sites directly, e.g. YouTube.
KeepassX does not use the clipboard but instead simulates actual typing, with a configurable delay.
When you select a password entry and press Ctrl-v in KeepassX, it hides itself, switches the focus to the last active window and types the password.
This also protects you from accidentally leaking password to remote desktop sessions or virtual machines that synchronize the clipboards.
I'd also recommend The Day After Trinity for a touching portrait of the project's human side.
>Scientists and witnesses involved in the creation and testing of the first ever atomic bomb reflect on the Manhattan project and its fascinating leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer, who upon completion of his wonderful and horrible invention became a powerful spokesperson against the nuclear arms race.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
"You may well ask: Why people with a kind heart and humanist feelings... why they would go and work on weapons of mass destruction."
This one will stay with you.
https://soylentnews.org/
all crypto currencies are in fact traceable via their block chain.
Monero has built-in mixing.
https://getmonero.org/home
https://www.reddit.com/r/moner...
SoylentNews picked it up: https://soylentnews.org/articl...
SourceForge has since removed the adware from GIMP-Win: https://sourceforge.net/blog/g...
[updated on 28-5-2015] Since yesterday, SourceForge Gimp-Win mirror downloads only the original software without any offers. We also invite the Gimp-Win developer to take back control of the project if that is his desire, while respectfully asking that he maintain any project updates or allow us to do so.
The most urgent deficiency in most music software and the MIDI protocol itself is the fixation on the 12-TET scale.
The new MIDI HD protocol fixes this issue with its "Direct Pitch" feature that lets you define arbitrary notes.
However most composing software still offers no practical way to edit music in other scales.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's time for music to evolve. The grim reality however is that popular music has been getting more bland for the last 50 years:
http://www.nature.com/srep/201...