Hey, there is an interesting show on channel 2! *watch immediately and ad-hoc*
Hey, I saw an interesting podcast the other day... Shall I download it so we can watch it tonight / tomorrow?
The difference is that with "regular" TV content, I get to watch something that might interest me and broadens my horizons while I never would have gone through the hassle of searching for it and downloading it.
Which implies that your social network is as tech savvy (or at least as web minded) as you are. Most of my friends are not, none of my colleagues are and I won't even begin about my wife and further family.
Where I live, there is a sufficiently small subset of popular channels on cable-TV that the social impact of a show is still measurable. The Web 2.0 social thing is respectable in its own right, since it provides you with means to meet friends who fall in your genre-preference group. But that is the other way around.
Which is exactly my fear when the TV stops being profitable: that it disapears and be replaced by internet-TV (like Joost). Then there is no point anymore in socialising in front of the TV, watching shows with your children, talking with your colleagues about that great show that was on yesterday...
If I throw out the TV, I miss my primary source of news: it's more convenient than looking up the news online. I also miss some of the fun programs that I watch now which I never would bother to download. There would be less incentive to watch something which happens to be on air with my wife. I wouldn't partake in the benefit shows which are on air when a disaster happened and the people are asked to donate money (those are highly succesfull means fo charity here). All that is lost.
That might well be a threat to socialisation. Not because it disapears, but because it is replaced by a less social medium: the internet. Sure, you can socialise more while watching TV via the internet (channel based chats, program based discussions) but that is not the same as laughing about a show with the wife and / or friends, collectively as a nation worry about something that needs to be done (and doing so because of that) or discussing a controversial documentary with your colleagues.
That is offcourse perfectly true, but watch out for turning the debate the other way around: when I program some functionality into my website which MUST use JavaScript (since there is no other way) I absolutely hate it when people yell at me that I exclude JavaScript blocking visitors. They CHOOSE not to use enhanced functionality for the sake of (fake?) security.
If the kernel stays GPLv2, and Novell decides to postpone the move towards the "new" GNU tools because of the GPLv3 or even fork them to keep the GPLv2, then MS might be out of danger. They could even do something sneaky with the Auto-update functionality in SUSE. If the kernel moves to GPLv2 too, then there is no stopping SUSE from becoming GPLv3 "infected".
It might take a while for Novell to have need for GPLv3 licensed software. AFAIK, KDE4 will be GPLv2-ed. Dunno about Gnome or newer versions of OpenOffice.org. So if its only bash, GCC, libc and the like, it might take years before there is a pressing need.
Partly. When seriously working out on a bike, you use your arms for strength (pulling your arms while pushing with the legs). Steering on a bike is indeed done with the arms at low speeds, but less so at high speeds. You then use your arms for strength and stability and use weight displacing to steer.
When you apply any serious force on a bike you need your arms to prevent yourself from sliding backwards out the sadle. Gaming can then become... interesting.
Which means that there is indeed a story here: it goes to show how fucked up the laws regarding this and other powers are. I bet most Americans aren't even aware of the fact that this could be done differently (or even aware of the existence of other parties besides the big two).
To the mods: A post is NOT offtopic simply because it's the first. -1 offtopic is also not the same as 0 IDGI. Parents post might not be the best joke ever, but it certainly was on topic.
That is true. However, with a turntable it's quite easy to change the characteristics of the produced sound (presence, warmth) by just replacing the cartridge / stylus. This is why I still love hearing a good DJ use vinyl in a club: he knows what kind of cartridges he should use.
On a home system, I never heard a reasonably priced stock CD player produce the warmth and precense my turntable gives me. The filters used in stock CD players are too "commonplace" for my taste. My turntable gave just the right edge and warmth to my metal records (until the stylus broke). I have yet to come across a CD player that gives me the same experience.
That is not caused by bad technology, but by the fact that digital recordings imply the need for digital or DA filters. Since that is less "natural" than a good stylus / magnetic cartridge, it implies design desicions, which are most certainly not tailored for my taste. Most CD players focus on harmonics and fidelity in the higher ranges of sound (above 500 Hz) to improve quality while listening classical music or non-distorted pop / dance. I'm usually looking for warmth in the lower regions and smoothness in the higher. An average turntable cartridge either gives me just that or is as useless as a CD player. When I have a cartridge I like, you can be sure that Beethoven will sound horrible on it.
Check your facts, try a decent distro (Kubuntu, openSUSE), watch it roll. You're talking about Linux eight years ago or vanilla *BSD for a desktop PC now.
Completely offtopic, but I predict that one of the two main parties in the US will be replaced within a decade. I suspect it will be the Republicans, and I fear they will be replaced by the Libertarians. Lookup the history of politics in the US, it has happened many times before.
Not when the service is out. No signal, no connection, no matter how urgent your emergency is.
When you live in an area prone to (natural) disasters, it's probably a good idea to have both a cellphone and a landline phone available. And indeed, you don't need an account then.
This patent is not the point. Software patents in general are the point. Especially those which are so patently obvious that any examiner who deems it patentable should be taken out and shot.
That's even more ridiculous, since said company spends valuable man-hours on researching a fix from a vendor for a bug in a program from said vendor that might break another program from the very same vendor. The vendor should have done that testing thoroughly and repeatedly, and should have made the results public.
If such a thing happened with any other software package, we would charge the vendor with the costs and lost revenue. I really long for the day that we replace all of the MS crap floating around on our systems. We are getting there.
Actually, we have a similar problem: the update from IE 6 to IE 7 breaks our mailapp (third party). To fix this, we are told to upgrade said mailapp for the tiny sum of 8,000.00. So IE 7 costs us eight grand (which upper management is not prepared to pay, since the mailapp sucks already and we probably will replace it with something homebrew).
Isn't that the supposed upper speed limit for objects? Electric signals in a wire can go faster than the electrons are moving, or so I think (electrons "hopping" to atoms, as such not travelling the width of the atom, etcetc... might be terribly wrong here). If that is true, electrical signals can in theory travel faster than light.
I once heard of a experiment at CERN (I think) where they managed to push a particle beyond the speed of light in that enviroment, creating a light-wave very much akin to an ultrasonic boom. Don't know the details.
I might be wrong, but for all I know, light has nothing to do with it. We're not talking photon-computing, right?
How fast electrical signals travel through the wires is depending on the material the wires are made of. Light has nothing to do with it. I highly doubt that the conductors used are up to the 16GHz challenge, but they might be at those temperatures.
Most (if not all) printers in the Netherlands are requiring one of the following formats for decent output: CMYK-JPEG, EPS, PDF, PSD, AI. Even InDesign is badly supported overall. I have not yet met a printer who actually knew about PNG and SVG.
The guys at the printshops all use Macs with Photoshop and Illustrator. Anything else that comes their way is "unprofessional", "not adhering to standards in the branche" and "unprocessable". So a print-ready file is one made up in Illustrator, using CMYK, with all text converted to pad (or else their Mac-version will screw it up). Don't dare to insert one single RGB JPEG, or else they'll return it immediately.
There are OSS programs out there with support for CMYK. KOffice (Krita?) comes to mind, but I'm not too sure. In most programs though, support is lacking.
I KNOW that open souce only works when I, and all other users, contribute. Point is: I can only contribute for as far as my knowledge and skills go, not? I'm not a C++-programmer, I'm a webprogrammer and graphic designer. Whenever I can contribute with bug-reports or pieces of code I actually understand, I do it. But that doesn't occur much.
I'm much better at evangelising Open Source. And sorry, but whining about me whining doesn't help the talk one bit.
Unfortunately, the GP is right about PS vs Gimp. I love the Gimp, use it daily in combination with Inkscape. But when playtime is over and I actually have to produce results, I'm forced to convert it all to Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign so that the printer can handle it.
It is especially the lack of decent support for CMYK in most OSS apps that causes that. And PDF-export in all OSS apps just misses the features that are needed for professional printing, even if CMYK where into place.
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Which implies that your social network is as tech savvy (or at least as web minded) as you are. Most of my friends are not, none of my colleagues are and I won't even begin about my wife and further family.
Where I live, there is a sufficiently small subset of popular channels on cable-TV that the social impact of a show is still measurable. The Web 2.0 social thing is respectable in its own right, since it provides you with means to meet friends who fall in your genre-preference group. But that is the other way around.
Which is exactly my fear when the TV stops being profitable: that it disapears and be replaced by internet-TV (like Joost). Then there is no point anymore in socialising in front of the TV, watching shows with your children, talking with your colleagues about that great show that was on yesterday...
If I throw out the TV, I miss my primary source of news: it's more convenient than looking up the news online. I also miss some of the fun programs that I watch now which I never would bother to download. There would be less incentive to watch something which happens to be on air with my wife. I wouldn't partake in the benefit shows which are on air when a disaster happened and the people are asked to donate money (those are highly succesfull means fo charity here). All that is lost.
That might well be a threat to socialisation. Not because it disapears, but because it is replaced by a less social medium: the internet. Sure, you can socialise more while watching TV via the internet (channel based chats, program based discussions) but that is not the same as laughing about a show with the wife and / or friends, collectively as a nation worry about something that needs to be done (and doing so because of that) or discussing a controversial documentary with your colleagues.
That is offcourse perfectly true, but watch out for turning the debate the other way around: when I program some functionality into my website which MUST use JavaScript (since there is no other way) I absolutely hate it when people yell at me that I exclude JavaScript blocking visitors. They CHOOSE not to use enhanced functionality for the sake of (fake?) security.
Just the 0.02 of a webdeveloper.
If the kernel stays GPLv2, and Novell decides to postpone the move towards the "new" GNU tools because of the GPLv3 or even fork them to keep the GPLv2, then MS might be out of danger. They could even do something sneaky with the Auto-update functionality in SUSE. If the kernel moves to GPLv2 too, then there is no stopping SUSE from becoming GPLv3 "infected".
It might take a while for Novell to have need for GPLv3 licensed software. AFAIK, KDE4 will be GPLv2-ed. Dunno about Gnome or newer versions of OpenOffice.org. So if its only bash, GCC, libc and the like, it might take years before there is a pressing need.
Partly. When seriously working out on a bike, you use your arms for strength (pulling your arms while pushing with the legs). Steering on a bike is indeed done with the arms at low speeds, but less so at high speeds. You then use your arms for strength and stability and use weight displacing to steer.
When you apply any serious force on a bike you need your arms to prevent yourself from sliding backwards out the sadle. Gaming can then become... interesting.
Which means that there is indeed a story here: it goes to show how fucked up the laws regarding this and other powers are. I bet most Americans aren't even aware of the fact that this could be done differently (or even aware of the existence of other parties besides the big two).
To the mods: A post is NOT offtopic simply because it's the first. -1 offtopic is also not the same as 0 IDGI. Parents post might not be the best joke ever, but it certainly was on topic.
That is true. However, with a turntable it's quite easy to change the characteristics of the produced sound (presence, warmth) by just replacing the cartridge / stylus. This is why I still love hearing a good DJ use vinyl in a club: he knows what kind of cartridges he should use.
On a home system, I never heard a reasonably priced stock CD player produce the warmth and precense my turntable gives me. The filters used in stock CD players are too "commonplace" for my taste. My turntable gave just the right edge and warmth to my metal records (until the stylus broke). I have yet to come across a CD player that gives me the same experience.
That is not caused by bad technology, but by the fact that digital recordings imply the need for digital or DA filters. Since that is less "natural" than a good stylus / magnetic cartridge, it implies design desicions, which are most certainly not tailored for my taste. Most CD players focus on harmonics and fidelity in the higher ranges of sound (above 500 Hz) to improve quality while listening classical music or non-distorted pop / dance. I'm usually looking for warmth in the lower regions and smoothness in the higher. An average turntable cartridge either gives me just that or is as useless as a CD player. When I have a cartridge I like, you can be sure that Beethoven will sound horrible on it.
Xenix, offcourse.
*COUGH* bullshit *COUGH*
Check your facts, try a decent distro (Kubuntu, openSUSE), watch it roll. You're talking about Linux eight years ago or vanilla *BSD for a desktop PC now.
Completely offtopic, but I predict that one of the two main parties in the US will be replaced within a decade. I suspect it will be the Republicans, and I fear they will be replaced by the Libertarians. Lookup the history of politics in the US, it has happened many times before.
When you live in an area prone to (natural) disasters, it's probably a good idea to have both a cellphone and a landline phone available. And indeed, you don't need an account then.
Jeff Bezos, is that you?!?
This patent is not the point. Software patents in general are the point. Especially those which are so patently obvious that any examiner who deems it patentable should be taken out and shot.
That's even more ridiculous, since said company spends valuable man-hours on researching a fix from a vendor for a bug in a program from said vendor that might break another program from the very same vendor. The vendor should have done that testing thoroughly and repeatedly, and should have made the results public.
If such a thing happened with any other software package, we would charge the vendor with the costs and lost revenue. I really long for the day that we replace all of the MS crap floating around on our systems. We are getting there.
Actually, we have a similar problem: the update from IE 6 to IE 7 breaks our mailapp (third party). To fix this, we are told to upgrade said mailapp for the tiny sum of 8,000.00. So IE 7 costs us eight grand (which upper management is not prepared to pay, since the mailapp sucks already and we probably will replace it with something homebrew).
Reuterian selection?
Read up the article about Tallin. It will become clear to you then. Estonia is nowadays a pretty advanced and democratic nation, Scandinavia style.
If the current owner has a mind at all, he will realize that he might just have a silver bullet if Shell is that interested. That means he won't sell.
As long as a company doesn't have 66% of its shares on the market, it's not that easy to buy out a potential competitor.
More than just my physics, I can tell you that...
It's still amazing how much you learn by being corrected. The beer will have washed away all that by the morning, but still...
Isn't that the supposed upper speed limit for objects? Electric signals in a wire can go faster than the electrons are moving, or so I think (electrons "hopping" to atoms, as such not travelling the width of the atom, etcetc... might be terribly wrong here). If that is true, electrical signals can in theory travel faster than light.
I once heard of a experiment at CERN (I think) where they managed to push a particle beyond the speed of light in that enviroment, creating a light-wave very much akin to an ultrasonic boom. Don't know the details.
I might be wrong, but for all I know, light has nothing to do with it. We're not talking photon-computing, right?
How fast electrical signals travel through the wires is depending on the material the wires are made of. Light has nothing to do with it. I highly doubt that the conductors used are up to the 16GHz challenge, but they might be at those temperatures.
Most (if not all) printers in the Netherlands are requiring one of the following formats for decent output: CMYK-JPEG, EPS, PDF, PSD, AI. Even InDesign is badly supported overall. I have not yet met a printer who actually knew about PNG and SVG.
The guys at the printshops all use Macs with Photoshop and Illustrator. Anything else that comes their way is "unprofessional", "not adhering to standards in the branche" and "unprocessable". So a print-ready file is one made up in Illustrator, using CMYK, with all text converted to pad (or else their Mac-version will screw it up). Don't dare to insert one single RGB JPEG, or else they'll return it immediately.
There are OSS programs out there with support for CMYK. KOffice (Krita?) comes to mind, but I'm not too sure. In most programs though, support is lacking.
I KNOW that open souce only works when I, and all other users, contribute. Point is: I can only contribute for as far as my knowledge and skills go, not? I'm not a C++-programmer, I'm a webprogrammer and graphic designer. Whenever I can contribute with bug-reports or pieces of code I actually understand, I do it. But that doesn't occur much.
I'm much better at evangelising Open Source. And sorry, but whining about me whining doesn't help the talk one bit.
Unfortunately, the GP is right about PS vs Gimp. I love the Gimp, use it daily in combination with Inkscape. But when playtime is over and I actually have to produce results, I'm forced to convert it all to Photoshop/Illustrator/InDesign so that the printer can handle it.
It is especially the lack of decent support for CMYK in most OSS apps that causes that. And PDF-export in all OSS apps just misses the features that are needed for professional printing, even if CMYK where into place.