I just use BitTorrent. I have a client that broadcatches my favorite shows from RSS feeds. They are always in matroska format 720p (half hour shows run about 500 MB, hour longs about 1 GB). I have a cron job that runs every 15 minutes detecting if a torrent has finished downloading and I am seeding. If it has, then the file is unrared, extracted from it's mkv format container, audio gets converted from AC3 -> 6 channel PCM -> 6 channel AAC, video is kept as is (H.264), then it is remuxed into mp4 format and served up to my media server (uShare). Then the file automatically shows up in my media server when I turn on the PS3 (I have a Perl script for all this). This whole process takes from 20 mins to 2 hours for the torrent download, then 10-15 minutes for the file conversion. The result is ad-free beautiful 720p shows that I can watch anytime. I thought this was the Slashdot way! Who needs a DVR? All you need are seeders... Seed plz!
This is very true. OOo hangs horribly on very large documents like project specifications that are typically > 5M. I am all for open source, and I am not a Microsoft sympathizer. That being said, Microsoft did at least one good thing in it's 33 year existence, and that is MS Word. MS Word really is hands down the best word processor in existence today. I use many of the features in it that people here would consider "bloat" too. Tracking changes is amazing and works wonders for productivity, and their new equation editor in 2007 is a welcomed improvement. If you haven't tried the new ribbon user interface in 2007 you don't know what you're missing! It takes a few days to get the hang of it, but once you do, it's another big boost for productivity.
This is not a flame post and I'm not bashing on OOo at all. OOo puts up a valiant effort that they should be commended for, but at the end of the day Microsoft actually got it right this time.
I don't think that the Chinese government wants to sensor the hotels connectivity is the big surprise here, after all it is the law over there and any business should be expected to follow suit.
windows and linux will have an unfair advantage over the other operating systems. What other operating systems? BSD? OS/2? I think you're missing the point. If hardware vendors open source their drivers (even if only a linux version) than at the very least reverse engineering and tweaking to make it work with other OSes becomes much easier. At least we'll have something to work with, even if it's an undocumented mess like nvidia's open source. Open sourcing helps level the playing field, and I think that's what the OSS community is after. Let's face it, for personal computing on x86 hardware, 99% is either Windows or Linux, the rest is a hodgepodge of obscureness with maybe the exception of FreeBSD. Just check out BOINC's statistics for proof of that. They've got some form of Windows running on 2.5 million systems, Linux in second at 290,282 systems, and FreeBSD a distant third at 3,605 systems.
Like all major OSes now do. I understand the copyright/IP laws that prevent this from becoming a reality, it's just unnecessarily frustrating. On the plus side it has become much easier to install this media support out of the box after a copyright warning notice pops up. Back in the days of RHL 8 this was not so trivial to enable.
If you're this worried about keyloggers than the safest thing is to just NOT use a public terminal. The public terminal could have a packet sniffer or something worse. I would say if you absolutely had no alternative you could use the suggested roboform... but that doesn't solve the packet sniffer problem. Basically, don't do anything you wouldn't be comfortable with having get compromised from a public terminal. The obvious stuff here... Do not access confidential work or sensitive material from a public terminal. Never use your credit card info from a public terminal, etc. Public terminals are not safe, and I would not use one for more than common surfing.
I was living in upstate New York at the time of that storm. I thought we got hit bad by it, but when I went up to Montreal for a weekend in May, it looked as if every tree on the horizon had been damaged from the ice storm, and there's probably still residual damage there today. I've never seen anything like that before.
This is only partially correct. It's only illegal if you do not have the original prescription information from the bottles in your position. So yes, if your father didn't have his scripts with him then he would have been in trouble, otherwise the security guards that questioned him were on their typical power trip.
That was my point though. We will never have widespread adaptation of Linux if you have to limit your hardware selection to insure compatibility. One of the reasons Windows is still dominating the desktop is the hardware support. I guess my point is, in the consumer market you never have to say "Will this printer work with Windows?" because there is a 99% chance it was designed specifically to run in Windows. Sure you can overcome this with some research before you buy your hardware, but wonder if we're trying to sell someone on Linux and their hardware isn't supported? That makes Linux a tough sell, and is defiantly one of the barriers to embracing Linux on the desktop. I know next time I upgrade to check for hardware compatibility, but in the meantime I'm shit outta luck, and Microsoft gets to keep their market share.
Linux is becoming a more viable and user friendly desktop solution with every release. I am absolutely amazed with the progress in the last five years. The major roadblock of widespread adaptation of Linux as a desktop has been and always will be lack of hardware drivers. I can't tell you how many times a certain network card, printer, tv capture card, or other device that is critical to my productivity is either not supported at all under Linux, or supported poorly with missing functionality. This is not from a lack of effort from OSS projects, but from a lack of useful documentation from hardware vendors who want to keep their hardware designs secret and refuse to release their specs to OSS projects even under a NDA. Without good specifications, writing good drivers is damn near impossible, and reverse engineering only gets you so far. I'm venting but this has been and continues to be a major obstacle for Linux becoming a full blown Windows killer. This is yet another chicken-and-egg problem for Linux. Widespread adaptation will not happen until we get better driver support, and better (any) driver support won't come from vendors until widespread adaptation.
I don't know about you, but it has been my experience that when a spokesperson says ".... the current plan is to continue with blah blah...." it usually means that they are still in discussions, those discussions are well along, and the current plan will be jettisoned with high probability! If you read that article you posted, it looks like this may in fact be the case for Paramount.
It's only weak NOW. Once the analog shutoff happens, all the digital broadcasts (who right now are transmitting in the fringe zones of the current spectrum) will be able to have their power turned up, and more channels will come up. At least that's how it will go down on this side of the pond.
Congress is subsidizing anyone that needs help purchasing a digital to analog converter box for their TV. The people will notice that digital TV comes in crystal clear, with much less issues then analog ever had. The only problem I have with this is that the cable companies are using this as an excuse to encrypt all of their digital basic channels (except the ones you could get OTA). This is bullshit compared to the analog basic cable we can get on any TV set in our house without a digital box. Even if I go out and buy a brand new TV that has the digital ATSC and clear QAM tuner built in, I still need a damn box from the cable co so I can get my extended basic channels. The only reason the cable companies should be forcing boxes on you should be if you want to pay for on demand, or premium channels. I never have and never will. The cable companies are screwing us over by forcing us to pay for set top boxes that we never used to need, all because they want more control over their content. Well fuck that. I will be canceling my cable the moment they require me to rent a set top box for every TV I own. I will stick to OTA digital broadcasts and my DVD collection. I understand it's a business, but when you take something away from your consumers that you have supplied since the beginning, it pisses them off. Fuck you Comcast, start putting the "enhanced basic" channels in the clear.
OK so piracy is an issue for the MPAA, but I would love to see the numbers that show which act of pirating is costing them the most money. Is is Joe Schmo on bit torrent in his mom's basement seeding away, or is it some not-so-underground pirating company churning out copy after copy of bootlegged movies to anyone and everyone for pennies on the dollar somewhere over in Asia. It seems obvious to you and I what the correct answer is here, but the MPAA wants you to believe otherwise.
My other point is, that while piracy is a concern for the MPAA, their bigger concern should be getting a quality product to consumers. I think the real money is lost on crappy movies that nobody wants to see. I'm sure they also love to blame that loss of revenue conveniently on oh noes teh piratez!!!111!
The ideology behind SETI is great, but they're listening on a frequency that is restricted for us (an intelligent species) to broadcast on. What makes us think that some other intelligent species isn't doing the same thing. Listening on a frequency that should be "so obvious" to broadcast on, yet they themselves aren't broadcasting on it! Furthermore, the odds of any intelligent lifeforms using RF communications and we manage to detect it within the ~30 year window that we have been listening is simply outrageous. A project like this needs to go on for hundreds if not thousands of years just to have a decent sample size. Don't expect SETI to find anyone out there ever in our lifetimes. It's a nice thought, but probably futile.
shoots out fiber optic cable to teach those bastards a lesson in tech support, spotted fleeing the scene in a white van driven by a disgruntled Comcast customer
if you manage to crash your virtual windows it won't take your host macos down.
What are you idiots doing with your Windows boxes that are causing them to crash? I haven't seen a BSoD since Windows ME and that was 7 years ago! I can't speak for Vista, but I have never had any problems with XP Pro in the 6 years I've owned it.
El Presidente can commute or pardon anyone he damn well pleases at risk of being publicly scrutinized (like Bush isn't used to that). This is something that lame duck presidents do frequently. Don't tell me you nerds didn't see this one coming a mile away. If he really wanted to stick it up everyone's ass he could have full out pardoned the bastard. I guess Bush thought he was being fair by just taking away the jail time. Whatever. Yes we all know the system isn't worth a damn. If you have power and money you get off scott free in this great country of ours, end of story. Move along, nothing techworthy to see here people!
I'd agree with that assessment more or less, but what gets me every time is what created/caused the original universe? If it's derived from a purely quantum state, then doesn't that have to had been caused by something as well? There always are more questions than answers, I guess that's what makes science fun though.
There are no implications of nonexistence of time and space. Nothingness is just that simple... nothing. Something out of nothing seems awfully philosophical and not very scientific don't you think? So the Big Bang states that The Universe pulled itself out of it's ass? Nice. I thought that energy can't be created nor destroyed, but I guess before The Universe was around all bets were off right? Something really did get created out of nothing and then the Big Bang happened. Or maybe the Big Bang is the something created from nothing. I know scientists like to hypothesize and test theories about every fucking thing, but it sounds to me like they just gave up when they got to zero i.e. the Big Bang.
I don't see a problem there since the observer cannot see beyond the speed of light relative to where he is currently located. So it took him 10 weeks to travel 1 light year and back. But everyone on planet A will be exactly one year older by the time he returned, but he will only have aged 10 weeks, assuming that he instantaneously turns around once he arrives on planet B. You're assuming that the universe is a common point of reference here, but is it really? It's possible that time is actually affected by or is related to gravitational forces. If the observer originates from planet A in system A, it is possible that once he gets to planet B in system B the "rules" of the universe are different then system A knows them to be. It's just a thought, but it's possible that everything we know or think we know about the universe could in fact be localized to our own solar system. Has anyone been outside our solar system that can prove otherwise? Not yet. Look at the unexplained phenomena that are happening to spacecraft that begin to leave our solar system such as The Pioneer Anomaly. We need to expand our scientific knowledge and continuously refine our "Laws of Physics" in order to help answer questions. And, as always, experimentation is needed to help prove our theories. FTL travel may in fact be impossible, hell maybe even 1/2 speed of light travel is impossible. We will never know for sure until we try.
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Sure thing. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4961511&posted=1#post4961511
I just use BitTorrent. I have a client that broadcatches my favorite shows from RSS feeds. They are always in matroska format 720p (half hour shows run about 500 MB, hour longs about 1 GB). I have a cron job that runs every 15 minutes detecting if a torrent has finished downloading and I am seeding. If it has, then the file is unrared, extracted from it's mkv format container, audio gets converted from AC3 -> 6 channel PCM -> 6 channel AAC, video is kept as is (H.264), then it is remuxed into mp4 format and served up to my media server (uShare). Then the file automatically shows up in my media server when I turn on the PS3 (I have a Perl script for all this). This whole process takes from 20 mins to 2 hours for the torrent download, then 10-15 minutes for the file conversion. The result is ad-free beautiful 720p shows that I can watch anytime. I thought this was the Slashdot way! Who needs a DVR? All you need are seeders... Seed plz!
This is not a flame post and I'm not bashing on OOo at all. OOo puts up a valiant effort that they should be commended for, but at the end of the day Microsoft actually got it right this time.
OTOH I think the big surprise here is that the Chinese government doesn't filter the internet themselves at the ISP level. Why do they even need to ask for the hotel's cooperation on this? I was under the impression that the Great Firewall is implemented at the ISP level? Interesting... if this is not the case than what is preventing bootleg ISPs from selling unrestricted access at premium prices in order to turn a profit off of this government imposed censorship? I guess penalty of death would be a good deterrent there. The only reason for censoring your people is for fear that they will become educated to "the outside", realize how good it could be, and stage a Coup d'état. If I were the Chinese government I'd think twice about this and many other policies that inhibit human rights.
as a European, I'm not comfortable with a critical infrastructure like GPS in the hands of the US.
If you don't like it then you should launch your own damn satellites and... oh wait never mind.
And you're gonna need a lot more than just two! Better steal some more money from the farmers...
Like all major OSes now do. I understand the copyright/IP laws that prevent this from becoming a reality, it's just unnecessarily frustrating. On the plus side it has become much easier to install this media support out of the box after a copyright warning notice pops up. Back in the days of RHL 8 this was not so trivial to enable.
If you're this worried about keyloggers than the safest thing is to just NOT use a public terminal. The public terminal could have a packet sniffer or something worse. I would say if you absolutely had no alternative you could use the suggested roboform... but that doesn't solve the packet sniffer problem. Basically, don't do anything you wouldn't be comfortable with having get compromised from a public terminal. The obvious stuff here... Do not access confidential work or sensitive material from a public terminal. Never use your credit card info from a public terminal, etc. Public terminals are not safe, and I would not use one for more than common surfing.
I was living in upstate New York at the time of that storm. I thought we got hit bad by it, but when I went up to Montreal for a weekend in May, it looked as if every tree on the horizon had been damaged from the ice storm, and there's probably still residual damage there today. I've never seen anything like that before.
This is only partially correct. It's only illegal if you do not have the original prescription information from the bottles in your position. So yes, if your father didn't have his scripts with him then he would have been in trouble, otherwise the security guards that questioned him were on their typical power trip.
That was my point though. We will never have widespread adaptation of Linux if you have to limit your hardware selection to insure compatibility. One of the reasons Windows is still dominating the desktop is the hardware support. I guess my point is, in the consumer market you never have to say "Will this printer work with Windows?" because there is a 99% chance it was designed specifically to run in Windows. Sure you can overcome this with some research before you buy your hardware, but wonder if we're trying to sell someone on Linux and their hardware isn't supported? That makes Linux a tough sell, and is defiantly one of the barriers to embracing Linux on the desktop. I know next time I upgrade to check for hardware compatibility, but in the meantime I'm shit outta luck, and Microsoft gets to keep their market share.
Linux is becoming a more viable and user friendly desktop solution with every release. I am absolutely amazed with the progress in the last five years. The major roadblock of widespread adaptation of Linux as a desktop has been and always will be lack of hardware drivers. I can't tell you how many times a certain network card, printer, tv capture card, or other device that is critical to my productivity is either not supported at all under Linux, or supported poorly with missing functionality. This is not from a lack of effort from OSS projects, but from a lack of useful documentation from hardware vendors who want to keep their hardware designs secret and refuse to release their specs to OSS projects even under a NDA. Without good specifications, writing good drivers is damn near impossible, and reverse engineering only gets you so far. I'm venting but this has been and continues to be a major obstacle for Linux becoming a full blown Windows killer. This is yet another chicken-and-egg problem for Linux. Widespread adaptation will not happen until we get better driver support, and better (any) driver support won't come from vendors until widespread adaptation.
Knowing how capitalism works, we'll see it end up more like: You use more you pay more... you use less, you pay what you currently pay.
I don't know about you, but it has been my experience that when a spokesperson says ".... the current plan is to continue with blah blah...." it usually means that they are still in discussions, those discussions are well along, and the current plan will be jettisoned with high probability! If you read that article you posted, it looks like this may in fact be the case for Paramount.
It's only weak NOW. Once the analog shutoff happens, all the digital broadcasts (who right now are transmitting in the fringe zones of the current spectrum) will be able to have their power turned up, and more channels will come up. At least that's how it will go down on this side of the pond.
Congress is subsidizing anyone that needs help purchasing a digital to analog converter box for their TV. The people will notice that digital TV comes in crystal clear, with much less issues then analog ever had. The only problem I have with this is that the cable companies are using this as an excuse to encrypt all of their digital basic channels (except the ones you could get OTA). This is bullshit compared to the analog basic cable we can get on any TV set in our house without a digital box. Even if I go out and buy a brand new TV that has the digital ATSC and clear QAM tuner built in, I still need a damn box from the cable co so I can get my extended basic channels. The only reason the cable companies should be forcing boxes on you should be if you want to pay for on demand, or premium channels. I never have and never will. The cable companies are screwing us over by forcing us to pay for set top boxes that we never used to need, all because they want more control over their content. Well fuck that. I will be canceling my cable the moment they require me to rent a set top box for every TV I own. I will stick to OTA digital broadcasts and my DVD collection. I understand it's a business, but when you take something away from your consumers that you have supplied since the beginning, it pisses them off. Fuck you Comcast, start putting the "enhanced basic" channels in the clear.
OK so piracy is an issue for the MPAA, but I would love to see the numbers that show which act of pirating is costing them the most money. Is is Joe Schmo on bit torrent in his mom's basement seeding away, or is it some not-so-underground pirating company churning out copy after copy of bootlegged movies to anyone and everyone for pennies on the dollar somewhere over in Asia. It seems obvious to you and I what the correct answer is here, but the MPAA wants you to believe otherwise.
My other point is, that while piracy is a concern for the MPAA, their bigger concern should be getting a quality product to consumers. I think the real money is lost on crappy movies that nobody wants to see. I'm sure they also love to blame that loss of revenue conveniently on oh noes teh piratez!!!111!
The ideology behind SETI is great, but they're listening on a frequency that is restricted for us (an intelligent species) to broadcast on. What makes us think that some other intelligent species isn't doing the same thing. Listening on a frequency that should be "so obvious" to broadcast on, yet they themselves aren't broadcasting on it! Furthermore, the odds of any intelligent lifeforms using RF communications and we manage to detect it within the ~30 year window that we have been listening is simply outrageous. A project like this needs to go on for hundreds if not thousands of years just to have a decent sample size. Don't expect SETI to find anyone out there ever in our lifetimes. It's a nice thought, but probably futile.
shoots out fiber optic cable to teach those bastards a lesson in tech support, spotted fleeing the scene in a white van driven by a disgruntled Comcast customer
if you manage to crash your virtual windows it won't take your host macos down.
What are you idiots doing with your Windows boxes that are causing them to crash? I haven't seen a BSoD since Windows ME and that was 7 years ago! I can't speak for Vista, but I have never had any problems with XP Pro in the 6 years I've owned it.
El Presidente can commute or pardon anyone he damn well pleases at risk of being publicly scrutinized (like Bush isn't used to that). This is something that lame duck presidents do frequently. Don't tell me you nerds didn't see this one coming a mile away. If he really wanted to stick it up everyone's ass he could have full out pardoned the bastard. I guess Bush thought he was being fair by just taking away the jail time. Whatever. Yes we all know the system isn't worth a damn. If you have power and money you get off scott free in this great country of ours, end of story. Move along, nothing techworthy to see here people!
I'd agree with that assessment more or less, but what gets me every time is what created/caused the original universe? If it's derived from a purely quantum state, then doesn't that have to had been caused by something as well? There always are more questions than answers, I guess that's what makes science fun though.
There are no implications of nonexistence of time and space. Nothingness is just that simple... nothing. Something out of nothing seems awfully philosophical and not very scientific don't you think? So the Big Bang states that The Universe pulled itself out of it's ass? Nice. I thought that energy can't be created nor destroyed, but I guess before The Universe was around all bets were off right? Something really did get created out of nothing and then the Big Bang happened. Or maybe the Big Bang is the something created from nothing. I know scientists like to hypothesize and test theories about every fucking thing, but it sounds to me like they just gave up when they got to zero i.e. the Big Bang.
I don't see a problem there since the observer cannot see beyond the speed of light relative to where he is currently located. So it took him 10 weeks to travel 1 light year and back. But everyone on planet A will be exactly one year older by the time he returned, but he will only have aged 10 weeks, assuming that he instantaneously turns around once he arrives on planet B. You're assuming that the universe is a common point of reference here, but is it really? It's possible that time is actually affected by or is related to gravitational forces. If the observer originates from planet A in system A, it is possible that once he gets to planet B in system B the "rules" of the universe are different then system A knows them to be. It's just a thought, but it's possible that everything we know or think we know about the universe could in fact be localized to our own solar system. Has anyone been outside our solar system that can prove otherwise? Not yet. Look at the unexplained phenomena that are happening to spacecraft that begin to leave our solar system such as The Pioneer Anomaly. We need to expand our scientific knowledge and continuously refine our "Laws of Physics" in order to help answer questions. And, as always, experimentation is needed to help prove our theories. FTL travel may in fact be impossible, hell maybe even 1/2 speed of light travel is impossible. We will never know for sure until we try.
I guess it's pretty fucking useless against Parkinson's then isn't it?