Sorry, but there are no Linux video editing suites that don't suck compared to Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro. The ones that have the most features - and most don't even have enough for real consumer home video editing, let alone professional video editing - are ridiculously unstable - even compared to Adobe products which are notorious crap.

There is only ONE former commercial product which has been recently open sourced which seems adequate - LightWorks:
http://www.lightworksbeta.com/

Check out these features:

Editing

        Resolution, format and codec independent timeline
        Edit at 23.976, true 24, 25, 29.97, 30, 50, or 60 fps
        Advanced Multicam editing with unlimited sources
        Source/Record three-point editing
        Insert and Overwrite editing
        Replace, t to ll, backfill
        Drag-and-drop replace editing
        Extend and Split edits
        A/V Sync indicators on timeline
        Single-click re-sync of whole timeline
        Multi-colored markers for edits and clips
        Matchframe for clips and subclips

Trimming

        Ripple
        Roll
        Slip and Slide
        Remove and Delete
        Asymmetric, multitrack trimming
        Dynamic trimming during playback
        JKL trimming
        Trim window
        Timeline trimming
        Keyboard and numeric moving and trimming
        Close Gap

Effects

        Third Party Plugin Support
        Alpha Channel Matte Transitions
        Global Transitions adds effects between In and Out points
        Real-time effects in SD, HD and 2K
        Speed Tool for varispeed changes
        Keyframe graphs
        Transitions, effects, and filters included
        Unlimited effects user templates
        Copy and paste effect attributes to multiple clips
        Effects layers with node-based compositing tool
        Bezier curves with movable motion paths
        Numeric control and keyframe capabilities

Tools

        Real-time, hardware accurate video vectorscopes and waveform monitors
        Multitrack Audio Mixer with full bus routing and multiple mixes
        Keyboard and user interface customization tool with templates for Avid and FCP keyboard mappings
        On-screen console controls
        Voice Over tool for adding narration directly to timeline
        Multi-split screen Viewer for original shot comparison
        Shot Sync - sync two sources for playback comparison
        Customisable BITC timecode and film footage overlays in Viewer

Colour Correction

        Real time Primary color correctors
        Real time Secondary color correctors
        Image control filters

Audio

        Subframe audio keyframing
        Real-time audio adjustments during playback
        OMF audio export with pan and volume levels
        Real-time, software-based audio normalization
        Onscreen multitrack mixing console
        External Mackie control surface support
        Real time fader automation
        Real-time audio filters and effects
        Mixed bit-rates and samples on timeline
        Audio level meters per track
        Pan controls
        Mute and solo controls
        Pre and Post Audio waveform display with realtime update

Application

        Full-screen, real-time SD, HD, and 2K preview on single or secondary display
        Multiple timelines open simultaneously
        Unlimited undo levels
        Unlimited video and FX tracks
        User preferences that can be moved from system to system
        Customizable keyboard and user interface buttons
        Customizable real-time effects settings
        Customizable render settings
        Customizable layouts
        Customizable track layouts
        Full Unicode support

Film

        Import RED media and DPX image sequences directly
        Include timecode and keycode in the same list
        Support for 35mm 3-perf, 35mm 4-perf, and 16mm-20 and mixed film formats
        View feet and frames in edit
        View keycode and ink number overlays on video
        24-fps EDL import and export
        24-fps EDL conversion to and from 29.97 fps
        Import ALE, FLX, and CSV files
        Track key numbers, ink numbers, video and audio timecode
        Output Cut list, Change list, Optical list, Pull list, Dupe list, Audio EDL

Media Management

        Media management tools for moving, copying, and consolidating media at edit or project level
        Powerful search capabilities
        Rename Clips to match media and vice versa
        Maintain master clips across multiple projects
        Clip colors in edit (match by source, reel or timecode)
        Custom comment fields
        Automatic reconnect to high-resolution media
        EDL and AAF import and export for metadata exchange
        Instant Save – no need to save project
        Batch export

3rd Party Support

        Inscriber Titlemotion
        Boris
        Combustion
        After Effects
        Premiere Plugins
        Digital Fusion
        Sapphire

I/O Support

        MXF Op1a, MXF OpAtom, Quicktime and AVI
        DV25, DVCPRO 25, DVCPRO 50, and DVCPRO HD
        MPEG-2 I-Frame SD and HD
        Uncompressed SD and HD at 8 bit and 10 bit
        Avid DNxHD*
        Apple ProRes*
        AVC-Intra*
        RED R3D*
        DPX 10 bit* and 16 bit*
        Sony IMX
        Sony XDCAM HD*
        Sony XDCAM EX*
        Sony XDCAM HD422*
        Panasonic P2
        Image Import and Export as stills or sequences (DPX, BMP, TARGA, JPEG, GIF, PSD, TIFF, DPX, JPEG2000, PICT, QT Image, SGI, and PNG)
        Export presets for Apple TV, iPhone, iPod
        Broadcast Wave Format with drop and non-drop frame timecode options
        Import and Export OMF I and OMF II
        Import and Export AAF
        MDA support for Edit While Capture with Geevs servers
        Telecine 29.97i to 24p pulldown removal
        30fps and 25fps import to 24fps project
        Frame-accurate capture tool with support for batch, clip, and on-the-fly capturing
        Frame-accurate insert and assemble edit-to-tape
        Serial device control (RS-422, RS-232)
        FireWire device control

* available separately at extra cost

It seems the only way to get a complex, niche open source product is for a commercial product to go out of business and be open sourced.

Completely idiotic problem.

LONG before we get the chance to colonize some other interstellar planet, the human species will be replaced by entities that don't procreate using current biological methods.

Another example of idiot scientists inventing problems that will be made utterly obsolete by other developments long before they will occur.

Must be a slow day at the lab.

I CAN testify to the fact that tempers get hot when the DM is an butt-hole, or other players are too stupid to handle even simple situations. The problem is especially acute with DMs. DMs in my understanding can be cool or not cool. Given the nature of criminals, DM criminals tend to not be cool. However, during my experiences with D&D in a Federal joint, at least one DM that I knew wasn't that bad. But most of the rest easily tended to be either brutal on their players (within the game that is) or just bizarre.

I know back in the '90's several Federal prisons banned D&D because of the incidence of shankings that occurred. So the potential for violence in a violent place is definitely real. Several inmates I played D&D with said they didn't mind playing at a FCI (a Federal Correctional Institute, a medium security facility) but wouldn't consider playing at a Penitentiary (a high security facility) due to the risk of playing with more violent offenders.

But "stimulating gang activity"? That's just ridiculous. You're either in a gang or you're not in the joint. The decision is made by your background on the street, not by some game. By far most prison D&D players in my experience were white urban criminals, many of whom probably weren't gang members on the street, although some undoubtedly were. Whether they would participate in gang activities in the joint would be totally determined by their previous gang membership or their wish to join a prison gang for support reasons. D&D is purely a recreational activity the same as weight lifting or basketball or card playing in the joint. Who you do it with is determined by your social connections in the joint, not the reverse.

"Release crap. Often"

I just read today they're also removing the Profile Manager from Firefox 4.0. You will need a third party tool to manage your profiles now.

Programmers have become hair dressers who only know how to REMOVE things like hair and features rather than STYLE them. Every new piece of software is now gutted of features rather than improved.

I upgraded my openSUSE 11.0 to 11.3, switching from KDE 3.5 to 4.4 in the process. End result: Gwenview, my preferred image viewer, no longer shows the image sizes in the thumbnails. KRename, my preferred file renamer, no longer allows inserting number increments greater than 2 digits. I had to switch to Picasa and Metamorphose2 to recover this functionality. (And don't get me started on the weird Picasa user interface.)

I tried using Dolphin, the new file manager. Next to useless. I switched back to Konqueror, discovered moving files between the two pane view was absurdly slow Then I discovered if I just used straight cut and paste into the folder the speed came back. Obviously it spends more time trying to figure out how to update the display than it does moving the files. Worse, it DOESN'T update the display. The Kongueror in KDE 3.5 had no problem updating the display when files were added or renamed (most of the time anyway.) The current KDE is so bloated it can't keep up.

It no longer matters - commercial or open source - it's all utter crap now. Untested, insecure, unreliable, buggy, poor user interfaces, useless error messages.

The software industry produces total shit.

The real "overhead" for many, many Web sites now is the linking to fifty ad servers on every page - and THOSE servers are either down or slow, so they don't finish responding to the browser request in less than ten minutes.

Which is why your browser "busy" indicator stays that way even though the page appears to have been fully loaded - or worse, the page never loads.

This makes a difference when you try to save a page on your hard drive - that last little bit won't save and the browser will tell you the save "failed" - in reality you got most of it except for one lousy little ad.

All of this is just the effect of the Internet industry running on too little server horsepower and too little bandwidth - and WAY too little brains.

And yet people think they can run a business "in the cloud" - not with these morons running the cloud.

The reality is that the Internet is now as fast as an old monochrome green screen dumb terminal hooked up to a mainframe circa 1975 - except it's in color. You still spend a minute waiting for a Web page to load, no different than waiting for an overloaded mainframe to respond to a dumb terminal. And this despite the fact that the servers running a Web site are a thousand times more powerful than that 1970's mainframe.

And there may be an entire server FARM running that Web site - it's STILL slow. Because somebody else's server ISN'T.

As Woody Allen summed up the human situation, "Nothing works and nobody cares."

Just out of curiosity, why is her age surprising? Did you think she was younger or older?

She's only been acting for eight years. She seems younger than 29 because she's so quiet and shy and a bit socially awkward because of her history of shyness. When she first came to Los Angeles, she had to take assertiveness courses. I find her amazing for being able to do what she does despite being so shy, as well as for her amazing physical abilities.

One interesting thing about her is her facial expressions. If you watch a series of screencaps from some TV show, such as Dollhouse, you'll notice that she almost never has the same facial expression twice. She has an amazingly fluid, expressive and constantly changing face. It's almost creepy. It's one of the things that makes her an impressive actress. The other main thing is her ability to physically express a role. She has said that she approaches most roles first in a physical way and only then via her voice, as a result of her ballet training.

Add Josh Friedman since he screwed up the show and got it canceled.

A lot of people have argued that is true but I don't agree. A cyborg is an organism which has had an organic part completely or partially replaced by a mechanism. So the first items you suggest (watches, eyeglasses, etc.) wouldn't qualify, but, yes, a guy with a prosthetic arm is a cyborg. A guy with a pin in his ankle is a gray area - I'd say not so much because the modification is so minor and not so much a replacement of existing organics. If he had a fully prosthetic ankle, you could say he was a cyborg.

In SF games, usually you have distinctions like "partial cyborg" (robot arms, robot legs, implanted body armor) vs "full cyborg" (wherein almost everything is mechanical except the significant parts of the brain).

Deathlok in Marvel Comics is a cyborg. He was a human who had most of his organic parts replaced by robotic parts except for his brain. The brain was hooked to a computer which did most of the controlling of the body.

The key is what did the entity start out as: an organism or a machine. If it started as an organism, it's a cyborg. If it started as a machine, it's a robot.

Another distinction is how well does it function if you remove the organic or machine component. If you remove the skin of a Terminator, it functions perfectly well, as demonstrated by Chromartie in T:SCC. That indicates the skin is only important for its function as an infiltrator, not for its ability to function at all. In fact, most of the Terminators in the movies shown in the future don't even have ANY organic parts - they're pure robots as shown in the battle scenes. How one can call them "cyborgs" is incomprehensible. Just adding a layer of tissue doesn't seem sufficient to make them a "cyborg" any more than covering them with clothes or whatever would do so. The tissue is superfluous to their primary functioning.

Now one COULD I suppose make the argument that if you took Cameron the Terminator in T:SCC and replaced all or most of her critical robotic parts with human tissue and human systems except the CPU chip, that she would be a "cyborg". But I think this is stretching it. The key to a human cyborg is the presence of most of the original functioning organic brain. Cameron never had a human brain.

The same applies to Star Trek's Data. He was never an organism in the biological sense.

Although that does raise the question: once robotics becomes PERFECT at imitating BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES, will the distinction become moot? If you have nanotech devices perfectly mimicking organic cells, does that make the nanotech "organic"? Note: I'm not talking here about "nanoorganic", i.e., controlling organic components through some sort of cybernetics or mechanics, I'm talking non-organic components mimicking organic processes.

I think again the issue is origin. Biology and organisms arose from evolution. A nanotech device not composed of the same chemical components as a biological cell and not structured identically to an organic cell simply isn't "biological" - it's an IMITATION of biology. From a functional standpoint, it may be a perfect imitation - but it's still an imitation.

Distinctions matter (except of course where they don't depending on specific perspective.)

(sigh) Terminators were never organisms to begin with. Sam Worthington is not your classical Terminator.

Well, I screwed those goddamn links up!

Let's try again:

http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/3936/summerglau232tw3.jpg

http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/9497/summerglau1514gg2.jpg

http://img205.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=54834_summer-fire_230B78_122_111lo.jpg

http://img45.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=39069_Summer-G001_122_72lo.jpg

When they start looking like this, email me.

http://blog.hdscreencaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/summer_glau_0002.jpg/

http://usemycomputer.com/indeximages/2009/May/SummerGlauTerminatorSecondSeasonMay2009114.jpg/

http://www.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/babes/1920x1200/summer_glau_20090725_0161.jpg/

http://www.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/babes/1280x800/summer_glau_20091211_2158_1280x800.jpg/

No, no, no.

A Terminator is NOT a cyborg. A cyborg is an ORGANISM which has been ENHANCED or even REPLACED by cybernetic machinery. The key is that the original entity was a living biologically based organism.

A Terminator is merely a ROBOT covered by an organic covering. The covering is no more significant than if the robot were just wearing clothes. It's just covering. The machine underneath is not a living organism and never was.

Just because James Cameron doesn't know his technology, the word cyborg has been debased beyond all recognition. It's probably a waste of time to try to correct it any more, but I like wasting my time.

Back when Vista was being developed, they shared the code with the NSA in order to detect vulnerabilities.

So obviously what did NSA do? They found X vulnerabilities - and told Microsoft about X minus Y vulnerabilities.

Now Microsoft wants Mossad, an organization known for conducting massive espionage - both political, military and economic - against the US to have the same capability.

Dumbest mofo's in industry.

This client does video and film conversion to digital storage. They archive the customer stuff for months in case the customer needs a redo or something. So they eat a fair amount of storage.

For archival purposes, they couldn't spend tens of thousands on a SAN or anything like that, so I pitched a Burley (also known as MacGurus) enclosure a la this: MGBurly8PM - Burly 8 Bay w/Port Multiplier http://www.burlystorage.com/ccp0-prodshow/MGBurly8PM.html with 8 750GB hard drives (the biggest around a couple years ago). This is an expensive enclosure but well designed. With today's hard drives, you can cram 8TB of storage in it for another $800. It's worked very well except for one hard drive which had to be replaced with a 1TB drive, and another component which we had to replace when it failed.

Piece of advice: do not try to mix and match port multipliers, enclosures and hard drives. This is a recipe for failure. There are issues with the multipliers firmware, the drive firmware and other bugs. Buy the lot from one source and make sure they test it before they ship it to you. Burley knows what they are doing and we've gotten great support from them.

We also wanted to serve up some 8TB of space to some Macs for video editing using iSCSI. First we bought some Micronet external enclosures, two enclosures with four drives each. The Mac drivers didn't work at all with the Macs, and Micronet had ZERO support for that issue. We tried using the boxes on the Windows XP video editing machines - Adobe Premiere 1.5 (ancient, I know, but the client can't afford to upgrade yet because they're using older Matrox video cards) does NOT like that kind of thing at all. So I took one of the older XP machines and put OpenFiler on it to serve up the space as iSCSI for the Macs. This has worked very well. Final Cut Pro uses the iSCSI storage without any problems at all. OpenFiler was installed, configured and has not been updated for the last year or so and it has faithfully served up iSCSI storage to four Macs without a single hiccup (except when a staff member plugged in an air conditioner to an overloaded circuit and dropped every machine in the room - restarting the OpenFiler box, it went right back to work.)

To archive and serve up a bunch of videos, just get a big enclosure (or several smaller ones), load them up with big drives, hook them up to any reasonably cheap box with a couple GB of RAM and just serve up that storage any way you want. OpenFiler can do it.

One caveat: Do not use Seagate drives. Their quality control these days absolutely sucks. We just installed a HD video machine recently with four 1TB Seagate drives in a RAID 0 array, and one of the drives started giving read errors within the first few days. Reviews of the Seagate drives over 1TB on most of the retail sites like Newegg show either DOA or clicking within six months. They're selling Seagate 1.5TB drives for $125, which is a good price - except the customer reviews are dismal. I wouldn't touch a 2TB drive yet with a ten-foot pole, by any manufacturer, until I see good reviews on the retail sites - and I mean a hundred or more reviews with 75% or more being 4 or 5 stars.

Contrary to one person's viewpoint above, Hitachi tends to get good reviews. I'm going to be using a new one this weekend to back up my stuff on my home machine.

My two cents.

only slightly less than Microsoft...

Until people wake up and realize that ALL IP laws are BS, human civilization will continue to grind down into the mud until only the lawyers remain, scrabbling like nude female mud wrestlers (without the sexual attractiveness, if any - I've never like nude mud wrestling.)