The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say "representative republic"
Republican the party and republican the system of government have nothing to do with one another. The US was founded as a republic, therefore our system of government is referred to as republican. If you'd read the Constitution you'd know this.
National Security Letters are a pretty blatent violation of the Fourth Amendment. Their entire purpose was to give the FBI the power of a warrant without judicial oversight.
There's an easy way to test this. Open up regedit, search for a key named "EnablePrefetcher" and modify its value to 0. Go to C:\windows\prefetch and delete the files in there. Reboot, and the caching feature will be disabled.
I don't think you have very much experience with Portage. I've used both Debian and Gentoo extensively and I've actually screwed up Debian more often than Gentoo. In fact, I've never screwed up Gentoo at all, because of the nature of its package management. Because Debian is a binary package based system, there is the possibility of installing a package that depends on something you don't have. But with Gentoo, that package doesn't even install if there is a problem, and resolving it is as simple as editing a text file. I've had to do some fiddling with ebuild files in Gentoo, but mostly because I run a lot of bleeding-edge software.
There are two reasons why Gentoo would not be a suitable choice for a production environment: 1, installing a package can be time (and resource) consuming because you're compiling it from scratch. 2, there isn't really any commercial support available for it. However, in my experience, Gentoo is as stable as Debian.
I'm going to 1-up it by saying that even though the quality to file size ratio is a little larger than say, mpeg, the quality at the high end of the spectrum is far greater than any other format for web.
I sincerely doubt that, considering that no Quicktime codec supports B-frames. I can't seem to find a good objective comparison, however.
The standard use of XviD is combined with mp3 audio and stored in an AVI container. This arrangement is very limiting (constant bitrate mp3, only one audio track) so there are other containers in use as well including Matroska and OGM that allow multiple variable bitrate mp3, AAC, AC3 or whatever audio tracks as well as features like subtitles. In the future, MP4 may become the standard way to encapsulate MPEG4 video, but that's yet to be determined.
If there's ever anything you want to know about video encoding, Doom9 is a good place to go.
I understand, I'm merely saying that just because the EU thinks copyright is a natural Right doesn't make it so.
A natural Right is something which you have the sovereign authority to do. You don't have to ask anyone's permission. Copyright is granted to you by a higher power, therefore not a Right--a privilege.
If you tried really hard, you might be able to be more confused than this. We're not talking about property rights. We're talking about copyright.
Property can only be owned by one person at a time. If someone takes the property, the previous person is deprived of it. This is not so with artistic works and such.
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Isaac McPherson, said the following: "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it."
Believing that copyright is a natural right is absolute folly. Copyrights expire (that is, after all, the subject of the article above). A natural Right does not expire!
Let's look at the United States Constitution: "[Congress shall have the power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" A Right, as recognized by the Constitution, is inalienable, endowed by our creator. What the aforementioned passage does is gives people the privilege of a government-granted monopoly over their idea as an incentive to think up more ideas. You need to go here and watch the first video, which covers the difference between Rights and privileges.
There is no natural right associated with copywrite. In fact, copywrite goes against the natural use of information. It is a bargain struck between the creators and the consumers of artistic works, nothing more.
Unfortunately, both B5 and Farscape suffer from the same problem: they start out bad but turn awesome later (In B5's case, REALLY bad). Firefly is great from beginning to regrettably short end, but they perhaps overdo the western theme a little and it puts some people off.
You've known for over a year that Steam would be required for HL2. Why didn't you have it pre-installed?
I didn't preinstall, and here's why. My primary operating system is Linux. Since Windows is only used for games, I don't give it very much disk space. So space is a premium under Windows, and HL2 is a big game. I don't want all that space taken up by useless data that could otherwise be used to install a game that actually works at the time.
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There's a Firefox plugin that takes care of that.
Article IV, Section 4:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it say "representative republic"
Republican the party and republican the system of government have nothing to do with one another. The US was founded as a republic, therefore our system of government is referred to as republican. If you'd read the Constitution you'd know this.
National Security Letters are a pretty blatent violation of the Fourth Amendment. Their entire purpose was to give the FBI the power of a warrant without judicial oversight.
There's an easy way to test this. Open up regedit, search for a key named "EnablePrefetcher" and modify its value to 0. Go to C:\windows\prefetch and delete the files in there. Reboot, and the caching feature will be disabled.
I'll believe the iPod is capable of playing 720x480 high-quality video when I see it. It doesn't even have the power to play Ogg Vorbis audio.
:-P
And even if someone does shoehorn such a capability into the iPod, it would still be a dumb idea.
There's no way in hell an iPod has the processing power to play a movie file good enough to display on a television. You're dreaming.
Gentoo has two trees: arch (x86, amd64, sparc etc) and ~arch for unstable. Very comparable to Debian Stable and Unstable branches.
I don't think you have very much experience with Portage. I've used both Debian and Gentoo extensively and I've actually screwed up Debian more often than Gentoo. In fact, I've never screwed up Gentoo at all, because of the nature of its package management. Because Debian is a binary package based system, there is the possibility of installing a package that depends on something you don't have. But with Gentoo, that package doesn't even install if there is a problem, and resolving it is as simple as editing a text file. I've had to do some fiddling with ebuild files in Gentoo, but mostly because I run a lot of bleeding-edge software.
There are two reasons why Gentoo would not be a suitable choice for a production environment: 1, installing a package can be time (and resource) consuming because you're compiling it from scratch. 2, there isn't really any commercial support available for it. However, in my experience, Gentoo is as stable as Debian.
I sincerely doubt that, considering that no Quicktime codec supports B-frames. I can't seem to find a good objective comparison, however.
If there's ever anything you want to know about video encoding, Doom9 is a good place to go.
Use Koepi's Build.
Oh, sorry. I thought you misunderstood me, it looks like you're just an idiot.
A natural Right is something which you have the sovereign authority to do. You don't have to ask anyone's permission. Copyright is granted to you by a higher power, therefore not a Right--a privilege.
Property can only be owned by one person at a time. If someone takes the property, the previous person is deprived of it. This is not so with artistic works and such.
Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to Isaac McPherson, said the following: "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it."
Believing that copyright is a natural right is absolute folly. Copyrights expire (that is, after all, the subject of the article above). A natural Right does not expire!
Let's look at the United States Constitution: "[Congress shall have the power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;" A Right, as recognized by the Constitution, is inalienable, endowed by our creator. What the aforementioned passage does is gives people the privilege of a government-granted monopoly over their idea as an incentive to think up more ideas. You need to go here and watch the first video, which covers the difference between Rights and privileges.
There is no natural right associated with copywrite. In fact, copywrite goes against the natural use of information. It is a bargain struck between the creators and the consumers of artistic works, nothing more.
I'm compelled to point out that 2005 isn't that far away ;)
Not in Sweden.
Unfortunately, both B5 and Farscape suffer from the same problem: they start out bad but turn awesome later (In B5's case, REALLY bad). Firefly is great from beginning to regrettably short end, but they perhaps overdo the western theme a little and it puts some people off.
It's been pushed back, probably September 2005 :(
I'm not exaggerating.
I didn't preinstall, and here's why. My primary operating system is Linux. Since Windows is only used for games, I don't give it very much disk space. So space is a premium under Windows, and HL2 is a big game. I don't want all that space taken up by useless data that could otherwise be used to install a game that actually works at the time.
Deus is Latin for God, not ghost.
What's wrong with it? Looks fine in Firefox.
Actually, they're all druggies. Keanu plays a narc.