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On XP I liked Luna Element

"Artists don't use Gimp for painting these days, they use Krita, which is the best digital painter in the known universe."

That's called hyperbole, and not serious critical appraisal.

It's a fact, and you are out of touch. Krita is not only the best digital painting program on Linux, it's the best digital painting program period.

Nope. By default, foobar2000 looks better and is easier to use than Winamp or WMP. It can also be customised to look and work exactly the way the user wants. It can play *any* audio file format. It also has a large collection of components that extend its functionality.

Oh and it's the de facto player of choice on Hydrogenaudio, _the_ audio experts community.

Here are just some of the interfaces people have created for it.

I use my own custom interface which has evolved and grown with my needs over the past 15 years. This is something fundamental and wonderful that basic media players like Winamp simply can't ever do.

foobar2000 has changed the way I listen to my music. 20 years ago, I used to open my file manager, manually look for an audio file, double-click it and listen...for each and every song. Or I would create playlists and populate them by manually looking through all audio files in my file manager, then manually dragging them to the playlist one by one. Creating playlists based on specific criteria was a completely manual thing and took forever to do. That's still the Winamp way. With foobar2000, I can create a playlist with multiple specific criteria per track out of a library of tens of thousands of tracks in seconds.

BTW: The military-industrial complex died during Reagan years. Companies found that the U.S. military was small potatoes compared to the civilian economy and it shifted to it. Now, the Pentagon has to beg companies to produce for it since DoD's market is so small in comparison to the rest of the economy.

Do try to keep up, eh?

Here is a handy visual guide to US budget allocations from 2007.

Good luck with that. Because when organizations like the SPJ(society for professional journalists) got involved during Gamergate and pointed out these exact issues. The gaming press rallied their wagons around each other and started screeching "we're not journalists, we're bloggers." In many cases, just the week before sites like Kotaku, Polygon, RPS, and other ilk were stating proudly that they were journalists. It of course doesn't help that those same sites and their ilk have pissed off developers by leaking plots, preview only information, games, helped to feed copies to the front-end pirates(i.e. the people who initially crack the games), getting "morally outraged" and then virtue signaling about how xyz thing isn't diverse enough and so on. Simply showing that they don't really care for artistic freedom(remember save the boob plate? where journos and the morally offended got upset because tits), or what the developers, artists even want. Just whatever agenda they can push.

Straight up? If you're a developer your best chance at getting notice is to contact twitch and youtube streamers. Cut the gaming press right out and let them die.

I know slashdot is hurting, but now we're scraping the side of UHaul trucks for stories?

I still need to polish it up a bit, but this is my own custom fb2k theme. Note that it not only has album art for the currently playing tune, but smaller thumbs for albums in the main list and a coverflow-like selector at the bottom.

I'm still deciding whether I want to keep the coverflow part around, integrate it differently or remove it altogether. The top control bar (to the left of the progress bar, which is also the actual waveform of the playing tune) has a few placeholder stop symbols because I haven't created the art for them yet, but overall I'm nearly done with it.

If you don't want to bother learning fb2k's scripting language, you can download a lot of nice, premade themes from DeviantArt. You can make fb2k look and work just like any other player or make it work the exact way that you want it to.

Obligatory predator bonus link...

Actually, system of PINs has been hacked. Attackers had revealed all the PINs on the Internet. You can check yours, but it's there! Why are we still using them, if anyone can find them online??? http://l33tn3rdz.deviantart.co...

Nope. "Valentina Kerman" is a transsexual. See diagram of Kerbal Anatomy. Lacking secondary tentacles, females are unable to perform complex tasks.

Kerbal Anatomy

Females are only good for reproduction, and males have no reason to speak with females, because the Kerbal vagina is located on the back of the head.

I guess that means you didn't like "God Emperor" much. It was ok by me, and I liked where Herbert was going in the new series with "Heretics" and "Chapterhouse" (different, but it grew on me), but then death interfered, and now we must rely on Herbert's son Brian and Kevin J. Anderson to imagine what would have happened next. I haven't read any of those, but it seems reviews are decidedly mixed.

one will need a heavy duty wench

I'm afraid to ask...

Too Late...

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DeviantArt

Taught by 13 doctors

A grumpy old geezer, a shabby-looking chap with a recorder, a dandy, a Bohemian...

This Tuesday on a all-new House MD - one of my favorite comics.

Not all distros come with a windows manager. It's not needed, for example, in server installs and mini and recovery distros.

These have not been suggested as substitutes for a desktop distro in the way that Android often has been. Once netbooks were discontinued at the end of 2012, people have recommended that netbook users instead buy an Android tablet and a keyboard, which doesn't fit my work flow well. So I have been trying to come up with a precise yet concise name that includes desktop distros while excluding Android, and the closest I have is "X11/Linux" or (when already in the topic of daily-use GUI distros) "GNU/Linux".

android tablets can already run two apps side-by-side

All Android tablets? My Nexus 7 (2012) got Lollipop but never got this feature. I know a tiling window manager ships with some tablets, such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab A that I bought a week ago. When I tap the Recents button, each app's title bar has an icon for whether it supports the tiling window manager. This icon looks like the logo of the Nintendo DS, and tapping it activates the tiling window manager. But a lot of apps that I use do not have this icon, because the app's manifest does not explicitly opt into the tiling window manager, and can thus run only in the full-screen. Examples of incompatible apps include the official Stack Exchange app. If I open a tiling-compatible app in one window and press Recents in the other window, only those few tiling-compatible apps appear in the resulting Recents list. Nor can I run two instances of the same app in tiled windows on the same device.

linux, freebsd, android, osx, windows, microsoft, apple, os/2, pc, mac - people will figure it out. :-)

There's a certain pedantic personality endemic to Slashdot, people who think "technically correct" is the best kind of correct, as Number 1.0 from Futurama put it. They see the success of Android, claim it as a victory for Linux, and ignore the fact that a tablet is not always a close substitute for a laptop, especially in their respective support for offline use. In Chromium or Firefox for X11/Linux, for example, I can load a dozen web pages in tabs, put my laptop on suspend, resume later, and read the pages even while offline. (The city bus that I ride to and from work does not provide Wi-Fi, and I currently do not subscribe to a cellular Internet service plan that allows tethering.) When it runs out of memory, it swaps the affected pages' memory to disk. But in Chrome or Firefox for Android, the browser is likely to purge the pages from memory instead of swapping them to the device's SSD, with the intent of reloading them when I switch back to the page's tab. But when it tries to reload a purged page, I get an error that I am offline. And even when I'm online, reloading the page is likely to erase the contents of text areas, especially on Slashdot's comment form.

Stupid internet explorers are not in the minority.

Are you kidding? It'll work out great! Think of the cuddling potential! Okay, okay, sometimes it might be a bit awkward...

Are you kidding? It'll work out great! Think of the cuddling potential! Okay, okay, sometimes it might be a bit awkward...

Windows 7 has the Home Basic version, install that and you only get the 2D desktop.

Changing visual style? with Windows 8 they removed classic look, and with Windows 7 they removed the color schemes in clasic look.. I could use a very old third party tool but it didn't include the old styles only additional ugly ones.
With Windows 8 you can get such train wreck of a theme http://kizo2703.deviantart.com...

So with Windows the easy way I found is to install 7 Home Basic and leave it alone ("Aero Basic"). I don't put it on my PC though.

With Hillary, it's pretty self-evident:

http://jdelgado.deviantart.com...

I don't expect to read such long post! ;)
1. My previous post is simple, and my respond for this point is also simple.
All of actions of all sides are known in history, it's just matter if one want to learn from this.
Why I compare Kosovo with Cambodia and Syria? All the Western powers did/do for their own interest, not for people. That why they need (so-called) *allies*, despite how bastard they are.
Look at how Libya become, much worse than Quaddafi era, and they, the "free" medias called this "the path to democracy are not always with roses". More and more people died to seek asylum in Europe, which is the result of Western intervention.

2. I did not assume that the pro-separatists are good, pro-government are bad. When I see young people in both side are going to die, I feel sorry for them.
Yes, I saw videos before, but like Maidan events, the matter of "who did this first" is not important, compare to who shot the policemen, and protesters, in this case, who burnt more than 40 people alive.
After almost year, no one is went to jail for these. Just blaming!

3. In "Great Patriot War" everyone loved Stalin? Not so much, right!?
Every soldier were ready to died for their Motherland? Some of them were not, right!?
Every German Nazis soldier were truly sympathy toward Nazis ideology? No, right!?
If you use "cherry-picking" method, there is countless example for "nazis" on both side.

While pro-separatist are mostly in the East, where is known for many people with Soviet nostalgia, with support of Communists. Many of leftists in Europe support and eventually voluntary fighting side-by-side with the separatists.

I know a Ukrainian of minor ethnic group, lived in the Western Ukraine. When Soviet broke-up, she (was young), there something of "witch-hunt" in there, toward every "non-Ukrainian" group. She moved to USA. I have never heard such thing in Eastern Ukraine.

4. Azov, Right Sector, etc... are official small number. But they are the most active groups.
Remember, or if you don't know, search for action of Oleh Lyashko (funny that Wikipedia lists them as "left-wing" as Democratic Party of U.S.A), and Right Sector illegal captured, beaten oppositions, force officials to resign. They are useful tools, just not need to be the head of nation.

On the other side, despite that Eastern Ukraine was part of Russia, before Lenin change this. I don't think the separatists are right to be independent. But they are right to have their voices on things happened on Maidan, which they did *NOT* have, completely ignored.
Everyone against the "move to the West" were branded "tituska", were public beaten. Search youtube, if you like.

I would support the changes of Ukraine, if like in Myanmar, the woman who fought for people of Myanmar was released, former communist (or socialist), who may not really influenced by the West.
But in Ukraine, there something like "president vows to fight oligarchs" appears frequently in "free" medias like comedy shows. No, I don't swallow this.
And I think if those people, who withstood on days under below zero temperature, to demand "bright future", and "fight like heroes, they would do this right now. But where are they!? Who pay them now? Who send them winter clothes and boot? Who give them cookies now?

Oh, they did, but what happened to them:
http://rt.com/news/265648-ukra...

Do you work for the Huffington Post? Why not link directly to the DeviantART page of DirkLoechel?

http://tanuki-tinka-asai.devia...
http://tanuki-tinka-asai.devia...

Better than Neo:
http://tanuki-tinka-asai.devia...

http://tanuki-tinka-asai.devia...
http://tanuki-tinka-asai.devia...

Better than Neo:
http://tanuki-tinka-asai.devia...

http://tanuki-tinka-asai.devia...
http://tanuki-tinka-asai.devia...

Better than Neo:
http://tanuki-tinka-asai.devia...

Then install the theme you like.

You're welcome

Take a look at these, a couple of links away from TFA. http://dtafalonso.deviantart.c...

They're all fapping off about them, but look how faint some of the differentiators for the folder contents are; several of them look pretty much he same.

Also, why is everything turned as if it's facing someone six feet to my left? Well, actually it's only nearly everything, which is even worse.

The ones they're griping about are better IMO.

See these too.

Why am I not seeing anything about the Solaris clones like Illumos/OpenIndiana? I've had great fun playing with OpenIndiana. This from three years ago might help address the OP's questions http://viritxian.deviantart.co...

This goes way beyond offending people, though. This is abuse and harassment, which is not the not the same thing at all.

Anyone who has been paying even passing attention to Gamergate knows by now that in the vast, vast majority of cases, this doesn't go beyond offending people. This doesn't extend into the territory of abuse or "harassment" at all for any sane definition of these terms. Claims that it does are being used as a tool to censor and shut-down discussion around this issue. Case in point.

Since you obviously can't tell the difference, you are directly part of the problem. There is no right to make rape threats.

Case in point. A slashdotter makes a comment about the right not to be offended, and is all but called a rape supporter within 4 sentences. This is the standard, now tired tactic gamers have been exposed to for over three months now: Kafkatrapping. Refuse to agree, and you must support rape and need to "sit in a corner and think quietly before joining the rest of the online community again". Discussion terminating cliches like this would not be so serious if the main stream media hadn't engaged in a propaganda carpet-bombing of gamers and indeed wider geek communities on the internet over the last three months.

I defer to sci-fi author John C Wright's description of these tactics. "You are the boy who cries wolf"

And boys like you have cried about "misogyny" in video games for years, from accusing Super Mario of objectifying women all the way up to using absurdly unrepresentative footage to accuse gamers of being out to "derive a perverse pleasure from desecrating the bodies of unsuspecting virtual female characters". When most gamers object, protest, or declare these arguments absurd, we are accused of harassment, "mansplaining", "internalized misogyny", or inevitably "supporting rape culture". This has simply kicked into overdrive in the MSM since gamers resisted the pulpit declaration that "Gamers are Dead".

And the reason is simple. Money.

What Gamergate has uncovered, more so than any other factor, is how tactics such as the parent's post are being used to censor artists, blacklist developers, and stifle creativity and competition in the games industry. Even when industry professionals know that misogyny is not a problem in gaming, these tired claims are repeated with the express intetion of shutting out competitors, even those who ostensibly support the same causes.

These tactics and other forms of cultural scarring are being used across other geek communities and only now, in the wake of gamers consumer revolt and continued resistance, do other communities finally feel safe enough to stand up to intellectual bullying of the new Internet Red Guard and the cultural revolution it has declared on geeks.

Anyone who wants to know more about the re

I thought about him. http://studiojsculpts.devianta...

Just wait until some hacker starts drawing images of gaping anuses and penises on your Etch-a-Sketch.

The sci-fi going for "unlike human" almost always goes to insect (Starship Troopers, Aliens),

Pierson's Puppeteer anyone? Do you want one to be your bar tender? After you realise that they prepare your drink with their mouth?

but nearly all Sci-Fi stays human-like for the purposes of depicting it on TV/ screen.

That, I would hope to see change as producers and artists explore the capabilities of CGI. Particularly "live action" CGI.

...their rumored sequel to Frozen:

Anna the Fire Princess

Hey, fans of the movie already blamed the exceptionally cold winter on Elsa.

http://spiritplumber.deviantar... This is a SLIGHT fictionalization of what happened to me when faced with a derpy administrator -- the dates and names have been changes but you can probably guess my age by the stuff referenced in. Ultimately, teachers and administrators operate in loco parentis; the parents have to get mad.

I think we're a little late to the game on this one.

Except when it stops looking like that: http://www.deviantart.com/customization/skins/?q=foobar

Foobar is eminently customizable. I use a Metro-ish theme which meshes quite well with the Windows 8 interface and looks really, really good. It's also got the most powerful search this side of Google, supports ReplayGain, AccurateRip and much more, and out of the box can read just about any format under the sun, batch fix the metadata on songs, rename them according to presets you define, and again a lot more. It's defined by how flexible it is and I have yet to see a music player that can match it.

I'm planning a Crowd fund to fund some more development on a side project of mine, and if I hit $100k I'd be hiring a CPA anyway, if only to see how much of the money I can keep tax free.

As for a cost/benefit analysis is just a more formal review of the risks involved.

Besides, these rules don't kick in until $100k. My buddy's upcoming kickstarter to print a tiny run of a 15 page comic he's drawing isn't going to be affected. OTOH there's been a few high profile failures and it's be nice to get some of the artistic types to spend some time thinking about how much money they'll really need.

Ponies are nice, good idea!

No, it is easy to know what is acceptable. If you're unsure, it isn't acceptable.

Potentially offensive creative expression should be going to some place that is for that, like http://deviantart.com/

If it is only offensive because you have lots of globals and gotos, then it is fine for github. If it is a parody that is not offensive but instead chooses a technology topic, then that is probably also acceptable.

It should be obvious that unless your intent is to be offensive, once you find out it is offensive to the audience there should be no trouble in moving it to an appropriate venue. It sortof proves itself. Especially as here where there is no functional value at all,100% of the claimed value is as a creative work, and where github's claimed purpose is for functional work.

But this isn't a site promoting an alternative distro or selling a product. It's site about Ubuntu. So how does its presence weaken the Ubuntu trademark? It's like saying that this post weakens the trademark because it uses the term "Ubuntu". I bet Canonical won't bother going after http://ubuntu-artists.deviantart.com/ or http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/

Would you believe The Credible Hulk ?

http://www.deviantart.com/customization/skins/windows7/visualstyle/

You're welcome.

I actually have a favorite little graphic I printed out and hung in my cube. Link is work safe, but if you don't trust me do an image search for "common sense is tingling" and you'll find it, it's unmistakable.

It looks like this

There's a simple trick to magic eye.
They're really similar to earlier "3D" images, that required you to look at two slightly different images, then cross your vision until you created a third image between the two that is an overlap.When you first start crossing your eyes, you will see four images. Make the moving middle ones overlap perfectly, and that image will be in 3D. Make sure you're facing the screen straight when you try. Those magic eye photos just hide this with gibberish backgrounds.
See this page for example: http://aidavdbrake.deviantart.com/art/Cross-Eyed-stereoscopic-3D-146914737
Just try doing that with the magic eye images, it should work.

I'm not sure why anyone would see this and think "I want to eat that!" Shameless plug: I took that photo.

You may as well say the same about a prawn or crab, since that's just as "yuk" in some cultures.

I've tried waxworms and crickets (at the insect museum in New Orleans) and something on a stick in China. The waxworms and crickets tasted of cajun seasoning and fudge, since the museum was trying to make them palatable to unadventurous American children*, but the thing-on-a-stick was OK -- surprisingly meaty, like a prawn.

* They failed. The two teenage boys there at the same time as me ran away when they were told the fudge with insects in wasn't a joke. More for me!

And really, is there any insect more horrifying in appearance than a crab or lobster?

Oh yes. There most certainly are.

I'm not sure why anyone would see this and think "I want to eat that!" Shameless plug: I took that photo.