My desktop power user workflow wrt video is:
cat (unix command) to piece together the 2gb splices the camcorder makes (avchd)
ffmpeg to change the container from whatever the camcorder uses to a more editor friendly mkv, you can use the copy option for blazing fast remuxing without reencoding.
kdenlive or cinelerra. They are both prone to crash so save often. Cinelerra has best curves for fading but it's a very peculiar GUI.

If you know your stuff, you can do pretty decent videos.

> it is written in the US constitution that international treaties become part of US law. Where that introduces contradictions the treaty law applies.

OT: we have a similar provision in Italian constitution, but I thought it was so because we lost the war.

It is good to give devs the option of realistic audio, but for games in medium - big settings, the relative slowness of sound propagation is a problem. Getting a headshot and later hearing the sound is counter intuitive, at least for the hollywood generations. I guess that realistic effects with no delay in sound propagation is the way to go.

Err, if taking a server offline, no matter the reason, is a serious problem, then you are not a good - or properly funded - sysadmin.

And I thought I was cool when I reboot servers around the world thinking I am rebooting mine.

yo dawg, I herd you'd like a fork of a fork of mozilla, so I recommend a fork of a fork of mozilla called seamonkey, which is basically mozilla. You get to keep many firefox extensions with it too.

If people volunteered a couple more complete themes for it, that would be great.

"It's simple.
We kill the bitcoin."

I would be less concerned about BTC and more about cryptocurrencies in general. If people get used to that concept, using money as a totalitarian weapon and keeping the pretenses of democracy will be quite difficult.

> This seems to be a publishing system for people with nothing to say.

Facebook and Twitter are now officially concerned about this newfangled competition.

Ok, but then let's consider the fact that in 2002 you could install the powerpc port of linux on a powerbook and have everything, gigabit ethernet, 3d, wireless, sound, firewire, working with open source drivers (the modem required a blob). While now you have trouble with firmware, drivers, boot process, even finding the keys to boot into bios/uefi mode. No I am not talking about the crypto keys, the KEYBOARD keys are not so well documented for new laptops.

In other words, if hardware makers hadn't all these advantages with OSes where upgrading is a commercial, not technical matter (windows, OSX, and possibly systemd/linux if I know my onions) you'd already have had a trouble free desktop linux experience 10 years ago. I switched around that time and am quite satisfied. Captcha: "prouder"

> I have been growing whole, working organs in my own body since at least 1984.

"Whole, working organs growing in your mom 9 months earlier" jokes in 3..2..1..

It's actually quite easy.
Gamer : playing games = Photographer : taking photos.

Actually for my definition, people who spend time in any game where rewards depend on investment of time or money instead of skill and time devoted to improve it, are NOT gamers. Your WOW stats are irrelevant, your tempest high-scores definitely not.

>> "The rover has reached its planned mission life, everything beyond this is a bonus."
> I agree with the rest of your post, but this part is tricky to evaluate.

This says "mission accomplished".

Heresy! Alpha 64 is the bestest ever.

> I'm not sure why Slashdot is bothering to cover a distro whose claim to fame is ripping off somebody elses design

Because covering only xerox workstations would be painfully boring.

Another thing not mentioned is that ammonia and a lot of other useful fertilizing substances are quite prevalent in ... piss.