It's no secret to anyone who has provided feedback and bug reports that Sun's developers engage in big-time douchebaggery toward the OOo userbase and volunteer developers. In responses to various bug reports (especially I/O performance-related) they come out and say that they're more interested in putting in new features rather than fix broken architecture issues.
Try a modern Myth setup, it's a LOT easier to deal with than it used to be. I'm running it as our sole PVR at this point with an antenna for OTA channels and it's working very well. I used Mythbuntu, it was as easy to set up as a standard Ubuntu install.
The last time I tried Myth was just under two years ago. It was just WAY too much work. I finally got it working but the lag when using digital cable was just unbearable, to the point where the guide was unusable. Even just 500ms lag makes guides painfully slow. In fact, I had spent ~~130 on a Hauppauge card and also ~$30 on an MSI TV@nywhere card, and the MSI card was FAR better because it lagged less, and CPU utilization was about the same either way. (note: the lag was due to the on-card compression on both, not due to the CPU or HDD IO. The PC has a workstation board, 2GB RAM, a then-high-end Nvidia card, and an E6600 overclocked to 3.02Ghz, and all the drives had NCQ)
I'd buy the Scientific Atlanta DVR I have now if it were available for sale - it's a great DVR and handles switching aspect ratios and upcale settings very nicely. If it were available for outright purchase it would probably include more functionality, i.e., recordings would be available even when cable is out (in my town cable goes out more than power), I'd be able to manage files more easily, and transfer them to any firewire device, and would probably not be blocked from recording on demand video. The cable companies cripple their DVRs. The Scientific Atlantas not quite as much as the Motorolas, but if one could buy them outright I'd wager they'd be a lot better than they are now.
I don't like Tivo - mainly because of their business practices. If you buy a lifetime subscription and the DVR dies, you're SOL. On top of that, while they abide by the letter of the GPL, they totally violate the spirit of it by DRMing their kernel, so I'd rather get a proprietary DVR than support one which uses F/OSS only for the end result to be a proprietary solution ANYHOW.
Ideally I'd use a cablecard with a Linux/Myth-based HTPC, but myth is an abysmal piece of software from the setup perspective, and are there even tuner cards with cable card AND support two-way communication for on demand and guides AND are supported by Myth?
It was a feature in SGI's Irix (the Indigo Magic Desktop) well before 2001 (pre-1995 even!), and was present in Windows 95 for bitmap images if you enable it via a registry key.
A typical rule of thumb is to bundle twice the number of fibers that you actually need. In an undersea cable, I wouldn't be surprised if they include four or even ten times what is needed to take occasional breaks and even future expansion into account. However, no amount of dark fiber will help when the whole bundle is severed by saboteurs^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hanchors.
Government officials have long since forgotten that they are, according to the Constitution, answerable to us, not vice versa. Having said that I am glad things went the way of the students, and it should ALWAYS be the case. I would not consider those students who pointed out a security issue to be evildoers who need punishment. They are citizens or legal residents who are afforded the right to free speech, which includes alerting folks of poor designs implemented by government agencies.
They (Warner) are angry because they are getting FREE hosting of their music advertisements (promotional music videos) and their own customers taking the initiative to provide them with free advertising campaigns?
The simple solution to this is to bankrupt the RIAA members. It worked for the big three - they've been producing crap cars for decades now, while the Japanese took our advice that our own people would not receive, and have been producing fantastic, high-quality cars.
That's not to say that the the big three produce all crap - but the high-quality reliable vehicles they do produce (the 'Vette, a few caddies and other luxury cars) are vehicles that Joe Sixpack can't afford. On top of that, the reliable vehicles they DO have and are utilitarian and comfortable (such as Pontiac Vibe, the Saturn Astra) are made by Japanese or European manufacturers (OK the Astra is a rebadged Opel, but it's still not what I'd consider part of the big three).
The RIAA, truthfully, is producing mostly crap nowadays. If an artist can't produce a mega-hit or won't sell out to do so, then they won't get air play. Oh, they'll get signed, but that's only for the label to bind them so they can't go elsewhere to an indie label who will make that long-term investment.
Just say no. Don't listen top top 40 radio, don't buy their crap, and don't download their crap either, because you're only fueling their argument. Just stop being a customer. Buy used records/CDs. Sure, it'll drive the price of used media up a little, but guess what? The labels won't live through a year or two of an outright boycott. They'll try to legislate a used media tax, but there is no way that would fly (right of first sale: when you buy a CD or DVD, you OWN it. They know this and cop to it in their own adverts. Britney spears, own it today on CD! Narnia/Prince Caspian, own it today on DVD! They KNOW you own that copy, not just license it).
Don't even do Rhapsody, because the labels are using them to try to get you to embrace DRM, because then you WON'T own the music, it will be licensed under that model - under contract law, because it's a rental.
Just say no. Spend your money on DVDs - better value. You get an entire movie for less than the cost of a DVD. Check out hulu.com - free movies and TV series archives.
Break the record companies. It can be done. Don't download their crap and they won't have any basis to sue, and don't buy their crap because it will bankrupt them. Just say no. It didn't work for drugs, but it did work for the auto industry and it can work in the music industry.
Yes, but does it have to do with instigating endorphine release, or does it have to do with "energy" or "chi" mumbo jumbo? If it's the former, which would be more scientific, just go to a body piercer. Not only will you get a natural high, you'll have some nice jewelry when you're done.:)
Re:Herbal medicine has limited value
on
Trick or Treatment
·
· Score: 4, Insightful
Don't forget the new "social anxiety disorder"
That's right: if you are an introvert and/or feel shy in new situations, you have a treatable (profitable) "disorder." Hell, I can treat that for $5.00. Go drink a beer or a glass of wine. I'll only charge $15.00 for the consultation. Don't worry, the bill will be coming in the mail.
The inventive designing method of the Ecofont - ommitting spaces in each letter to decrease the black surface of the letter and thus save ink by printing - is intellectual property of SPRANQ creative communications, Utecht, The Netherlands. Imitation of this technique is prohibited.
They pretty much fucked their own limitation over by releasing this under GPL (which they had to do, starting out with a GPL typeface to begin with). By releasing under the GPL they cannot place such restrictions on use, forking, renaming, imitating, etc. by definition. You can do what you want with this, so long as it remains GPL.
In summary: imitate at will, per the license they released this under.
On a completely unrelated note: since this is obviously just a "green" publicity stunt, where are the "donations" going?
But the drillers were shocked - not only to hit magma but to also hit such a big heat source at the relatively shallow depth of 2.5km.
I'm sorry, call me naive. However, would any of you here be shocked if you drill into a frigging volcano and discover - gasp - magma?
I mean, isn't all of Hawaii just a bunch of volcanos? How can anyone be "shocked" to find magma close to the surface of a volcano? Especially geologists? Like, isn't geology their field? Doesn't it stand to reason that a volcano, you know, a mountain made of lava flows, lava which when underground is called magma, just might -- might -- have magma relatively close to the surface?
Folks who invested thousands to tens of thousands (or even more) in VBA script development in documents and templates which are deployed throughout an enterprise have a very hard time justifying dumping that investment and re-implementing in OOo Basic or Javascript (or Java) just to use "free" software. They've been vendor-locked, know it, and weigh the cost. due to the lack of compatibility they know they're firmly entrenched in Microsoft's court.
Office 2007 and OpenOffice.org 3.0 are both very good, and the shared feature set they offer is quite large, but there is also a scad of features in each that the other does not possess.
Plus, there are user training issues. While you could argue that organizations deal with this even more so with Office 2007 than OOo 3, some people drop 20-30 IQ points when faced with software that has a new name; they hate or are intimidated by technology and set up a mental block for themselves. That is not to say that they're stupid, but they make it very difficult for themselves to learn new things, or even to reapply their existing skill set with a slightly different situation.
Lastly, there is VBA compatibility. I haven't been able to get even basic VBA (sorry about the redundancy) macrosd to run unmodified in Openoffice.org - whether 2.0 or 3.0. Also, some automation features present in VBA are absent from OpenOffice basic.
Why would anyone need MSIE 7? compatibility testing, ActiveX capability, and there are STILL sites to this day which check for MSIE and go beyond user agent sniffing to check for browser version. Also what if one wishes to access Netflix, Rhapsody, etc?
It is as much of a Windows emulator as Windows 95+ is a Win16 emulator; mechanisms similar to the Windows "Thunking" process simply translate API calls from the Win16/32/64 calls to equivalent Linux calls.
I say: Bring on the Ethernet-connected mice, keyboards, hard drives, flash readers, and MP3 players. It doesn't have to be IP and require a weighty protocol stack. It doesn't have to be secure. It just has to be Ethernet.
I don't forsee see any potential problems with that. Certainly not any security implications, nor logistics. Does everyone get a gigabit switch at the desk? Or, 15 lan ports to the server closet, requiring massively large banks of switches? What happens if the ports are on different segments because the switch has outgrown? How long with MAC address space last, and how likely is it you would end up with multiple devices with identical MAC addresses (MAC is not globally unique, it's just that unlike slashdot articles, the chances are relatively low that you would get a dupe)
Slashdot Mirror
This is good to know - I didn't know where Novell hosted their fork of OOo.
It's no secret to anyone who has provided feedback and bug reports that Sun's developers engage in big-time douchebaggery toward the OOo userbase and volunteer developers. In responses to various bug reports (especially I/O performance-related) they come out and say that they're more interested in putting in new features rather than fix broken architecture issues.
If you MUST use Windows:
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en
If you're partial to macs you have the same options:
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
http://www.inkscape.org/download/?lang=en
If you're fed up with Microsoft and don't have a Mac (or if you have a Mac but are tiring of OS X):
http://www.opensuse.org/en/
http://www.kubuntu.org/
http://www.xandros.com/
http://www.centos.org/
http://fedoraproject.org/
The last time I tried Myth was just under two years ago. It was just WAY too much work. I finally got it working but the lag when using digital cable was just unbearable, to the point where the guide was unusable. Even just 500ms lag makes guides painfully slow. In fact, I had spent ~~130 on a Hauppauge card and also ~$30 on an MSI TV@nywhere card, and the MSI card was FAR better because it lagged less, and CPU utilization was about the same either way. (note: the lag was due to the on-card compression on both, not due to the CPU or HDD IO. The PC has a workstation board, 2GB RAM, a then-high-end Nvidia card, and an E6600 overclocked to 3.02Ghz, and all the drives had NCQ)
I'd buy the Scientific Atlanta DVR I have now if it were available for sale - it's a great DVR and handles switching aspect ratios and upcale settings very nicely. If it were available for outright purchase it would probably include more functionality, i.e., recordings would be available even when cable is out (in my town cable goes out more than power), I'd be able to manage files more easily, and transfer them to any firewire device, and would probably not be blocked from recording on demand video. The cable companies cripple their DVRs. The Scientific Atlantas not quite as much as the Motorolas, but if one could buy them outright I'd wager they'd be a lot better than they are now.
I don't like Tivo - mainly because of their business practices. If you buy a lifetime subscription and the DVR dies, you're SOL. On top of that, while they abide by the letter of the GPL, they totally violate the spirit of it by DRMing their kernel, so I'd rather get a proprietary DVR than support one which uses F/OSS only for the end result to be a proprietary solution ANYHOW.
Ideally I'd use a cablecard with a Linux/Myth-based HTPC, but myth is an abysmal piece of software from the setup perspective, and are there even tuner cards with cable card AND support two-way communication for on demand and guides AND are supported by Myth?
It was a feature in SGI's Irix (the Indigo Magic Desktop) well before 2001 (pre-1995 even!), and was present in Windows 95 for bitmap images if you enable it via a registry key.
What a country!
So, what you're telling us is that Windows Vista is the Rocky V or Highlander II of the computer operating system world. :)
A typical rule of thumb is to bundle twice the number of fibers that you actually need. In an undersea cable, I wouldn't be surprised if they include four or even ten times what is needed to take occasional breaks and even future expansion into account. However, no amount of dark fiber will help when the whole bundle is severed by saboteurs^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hanchors.
They use something called a "fusion splicer" to weld the fibres together.
I had an Abit motherboard (VP6) that went to 11. Unfortunately it ended with a little fireworks show. :( Stupid bad caps, lousy Abit QC.
Government officials have long since forgotten that they are, according to the Constitution, answerable to us, not vice versa. Having said that I am glad things went the way of the students, and it should ALWAYS be the case. I would not consider those students who pointed out a security issue to be evildoers who need punishment. They are citizens or legal residents who are afforded the right to free speech, which includes alerting folks of poor designs implemented by government agencies.
Let me see if I understand the situation:
They (Warner) are angry because they are getting FREE hosting of their music advertisements (promotional music videos) and their own customers taking the initiative to provide them with free advertising campaigns?
The simple solution to this is to bankrupt the RIAA members. It worked for the big three - they've been producing crap cars for decades now, while the Japanese took our advice that our own people would not receive, and have been producing fantastic, high-quality cars.
That's not to say that the the big three produce all crap - but the high-quality reliable vehicles they do produce (the 'Vette, a few caddies and other luxury cars) are vehicles that Joe Sixpack can't afford. On top of that, the reliable vehicles they DO have and are utilitarian and comfortable (such as Pontiac Vibe, the Saturn Astra) are made by Japanese or European manufacturers (OK the Astra is a rebadged Opel, but it's still not what I'd consider part of the big three).
The RIAA, truthfully, is producing mostly crap nowadays. If an artist can't produce a mega-hit or won't sell out to do so, then they won't get air play. Oh, they'll get signed, but that's only for the label to bind them so they can't go elsewhere to an indie label who will make that long-term investment.
Just say no. Don't listen top top 40 radio, don't buy their crap, and don't download their crap either, because you're only fueling their argument. Just stop being a customer. Buy used records/CDs. Sure, it'll drive the price of used media up a little, but guess what? The labels won't live through a year or two of an outright boycott. They'll try to legislate a used media tax, but there is no way that would fly (right of first sale: when you buy a CD or DVD, you OWN it. They know this and cop to it in their own adverts. Britney spears, own it today on CD! Narnia/Prince Caspian, own it today on DVD! They KNOW you own that copy, not just license it).
Don't even do Rhapsody, because the labels are using them to try to get you to embrace DRM, because then you WON'T own the music, it will be licensed under that model - under contract law, because it's a rental.
Just say no. Spend your money on DVDs - better value. You get an entire movie for less than the cost of a DVD. Check out hulu.com - free movies and TV series archives.
Break the record companies. It can be done. Don't download their crap and they won't have any basis to sue, and don't buy their crap because it will bankrupt them. Just say no. It didn't work for drugs, but it did work for the auto industry and it can work in the music industry.
Yes, but does it have to do with instigating endorphine release, or does it have to do with "energy" or "chi" mumbo jumbo? If it's the former, which would be more scientific, just go to a body piercer. Not only will you get a natural high, you'll have some nice jewelry when you're done. :)
Don't forget the new "social anxiety disorder"
That's right: if you are an introvert and/or feel shy in new situations, you have a treatable (profitable) "disorder." Hell, I can treat that for $5.00. Go drink a beer or a glass of wine. I'll only charge $15.00 for the consultation. Don't worry, the bill will be coming in the mail.
On that note, check out their license page:
They pretty much fucked their own limitation over by releasing this under GPL (which they had to do, starting out with a GPL typeface to begin with). By releasing under the GPL they cannot place such restrictions on use, forking, renaming, imitating, etc. by definition. You can do what you want with this, so long as it remains GPL.
In summary: imitate at will, per the license they released this under.
On a completely unrelated note: since this is obviously just a "green" publicity stunt, where are the "donations" going?
I'm sorry, call me naive. However, would any of you here be shocked if you drill into a frigging volcano and discover - gasp - magma?
I mean, isn't all of Hawaii just a bunch of volcanos? How can anyone be "shocked" to find magma close to the surface of a volcano? Especially geologists? Like, isn't geology their field? Doesn't it stand to reason that a volcano, you know, a mountain made of lava flows, lava which when underground is called magma, just might -- might -- have magma relatively close to the surface?
Well, it's been 15 years. See the C= Amiga-based CD32 console. Well, the previous year brought both CD-I and the Sega CD.
Why? 1.84467441 x 10^19 bytes ought to be enough for anyone!
Folks who invested thousands to tens of thousands (or even more) in VBA script development in documents and templates which are deployed throughout an enterprise have a very hard time justifying dumping that investment and re-implementing in OOo Basic or Javascript (or Java) just to use "free" software. They've been vendor-locked, know it, and weigh the cost. due to the lack of compatibility they know they're firmly entrenched in Microsoft's court.
Office 2007 and OpenOffice.org 3.0 are both very good, and the shared feature set they offer is quite large, but there is also a scad of features in each that the other does not possess.
Plus, there are user training issues. While you could argue that organizations deal with this even more so with Office 2007 than OOo 3, some people drop 20-30 IQ points when faced with software that has a new name; they hate or are intimidated by technology and set up a mental block for themselves. That is not to say that they're stupid, but they make it very difficult for themselves to learn new things, or even to reapply their existing skill set with a slightly different situation.
Lastly, there is VBA compatibility. I haven't been able to get even basic VBA (sorry about the redundancy) macrosd to run unmodified in Openoffice.org - whether 2.0 or 3.0. Also, some automation features present in VBA are absent from OpenOffice basic.
Why would anyone need MSIE 7? compatibility testing, ActiveX capability, and there are STILL sites to this day which check for MSIE and go beyond user agent sniffing to check for browser version. Also what if one wishes to access Netflix, Rhapsody, etc?
It is as much of a Windows emulator as Windows 95+ is a Win16 emulator; mechanisms similar to the Windows "Thunking" process simply translate API calls from the Win16/32/64 calls to equivalent Linux calls.
It's kind of like a magnetic sleeveless trench coat. I mean, it is a cloak, right?
I don't forsee see any potential problems with that. Certainly not any security implications, nor logistics. Does everyone get a gigabit switch at the desk? Or, 15 lan ports to the server closet, requiring massively large banks of switches? What happens if the ports are on different segments because the switch has outgrown? How long with MAC address space last, and how likely is it you would end up with multiple devices with identical MAC addresses (MAC is not globally unique, it's just that unlike slashdot articles, the chances are relatively low that you would get a dupe)