If you didn't notice, that part there was in quotes, as in, it was something that somebody that was not the article writer said. Keep reading, and you'll see that the author of the article disagrees with the guy in the quote on a few points...
Your boss getting sued, and this type of behavior made illegal (if it isn't already).
Re:The best tools stay out of the way...
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I had no difficulty at all getting it installed on OS X with the DMG they have ont he wiki...shouldn't need to do anything about any dependencies manually either.
I'm getting really tired of reading this shit, and I'd just like to mention that this isn't really targetted at the "third world" where people are living in huts and trying to scrape out enough water to survive, but in developing nations, like many in South America, where the basic infrastructure is there, but the cost of technology and books are too expensive for students to get a decent education. You build a cheap laptop that the governments can distribute to children, and distribute the curriculum materials to them through it, and you've got yourself a good tool for education that will put these nations on the fast-track to catching up with the rest of the first-world. Add in a low power consumption, so that the laptop can work on battery power while the student is waiting to go back to school, and doesn't need to be plugged in to charge, and you have a way for the students to continue learning outside of the classroom without putting their parents in the poor-house by using exhorbitant amounts of electricity that they may or may not have.
Thanks. I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu, but some stuff annoys me here and there. Not really sure what Fedora has to offer that ubuntu doesn't besides a more customizable basic setup (from what I remember, anyway). I'll probably stick with it for now, considering I've never had an OS recognize my hardware and install the necessary software more easily.
Last version of Fedora I tried was FC4 and I haven't looked back since. I liked it, but installing software was hell, and I haven't wanted to go through the process of downloading 6 install discs in order to do it again.
Are the improvements that great that I should dump Ubuntu and install fedora when I reinstall my OS later this week, or should I just go back to gutsy?
Okay, "type ps space aux space, that little vertical bar character space grep office" and then "kill -9...." Wouldn't killall soffice.bin do the same thing? It's a lot friendlier to type in...
What people? I mean, does anyone that doesn't read Slashdot even know this guy exists or care what Apple's doing? The "reality distortion field" is pretty strong when the person being attacked is just some unknown blogger.
In any case, I'm pretty sure it's a satire and the guy's making it up anyway...
I was one of the people who was waiting to see Java 6 for the Mac. I'm a college student learning Java, and the instructional demos from sun require JRE 1.6 to run. I need Java 6 on mac so that I can take a peek at, and run, the example code.
It's good to hear that somebody has stepped up and provided the JVM that Apple decided not to bother releasing.
As did I.
It probably has something to do with the title of the video "Let's Go Crazy"...
Re:Gimp was never intended to be a PS clone
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And do you think I'd get that feature any faster if I did pay them? I hear they're going to be a part of GIMP 2.6, and in a few years when that releases, maybe I'll be able to use it. Maybe then I'll decide to send them a couple bucks as a donation for a job well done.
The point, of course, was not to complain about the GIMP, but to address the issue that people are saying that the GIMP doesn't need to have the same featureset, or at least a comparable one, to Photoshop. That's just obviously not true. The Free Software world needs a tool that can be used for professional graphics and photo editing. Eventually it may have one in the GIMP, only time will tell. But claiming that the GIMP is good, and in fact better, than Photoshop just because it's free is just silly.
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The problem, of course, is that GIMP is missing features that I use constantly in Photoshop. I'm not even going to complain about color depth, color profiles, or lack of CMYK support. Just give me adjustment layers, please?
Even worse, I'm a linux user and the lack of a photo editor that does what I need it to do means that I have to run Photoshop under Windows in a VM. I wouldn't mind learning how to access the features I'm accustomed to using in a new way, assuming those features exist, unfortunately they don't and I'm stuck running Photoshop.
I find it interesting how many people are saying that GIMP doesn't need to copy the features of photoshop, and that all the people whose needs aren't met by the GIMP should just stop whining and use Photoshop. I just think that a serious free alternative to Photoshop would spur linux adoption among graphics artists. I know damn well that Photoshop is one of the only things left tying me to Windows, I have to assume that's the same for a lot of other people too. Linux needs a Free alternative to Photoshop, the GIMP is trying, but it's not there yet and at the current rate of development, won't even be close for another 3-5 years. That's just too bad.
I've done it, because I didn't feel like messing with partitions and stuff for a quick install on my grandmother's machine. It's pretty slick.
And if you need to uninstall/reinstall for any reason, it's just as easy. I'd recommend anyone give it a shot if partitioning, etc. etc. seems like a nuisance or just too daunting.
No copyright notice is required for something to be under copyright, it's copyrighted at creation automatically. (See http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.html Paragraph 3 under "Use of the Copyright Notice") Also, a copyright, unlike a trademark, does not need to be defended/enforced in order to keep it. So basically, you're full of shit. He absolutely has the rights to his own content, and can show it whenever he likes.
Whether or not their use was fair is another matter entirely, but assuming that they did infringe on his copyright, their derivative work is not eligible for copyright and he was absolutely not infringing. Assuming they didn't infringe, his use was more likely than not still fair use, as he posted a small portion of their original work, for no profit, and that detracts nothing from the original value of their work as a whole.
If you're a lawyer, like you're implying, then you're a really bad one.
In OOT you have to do the first three dungeons in order, but after becoming adult link, you can pretty much do whatever you want. Sometimes in involves popping into a dungeon just to get one specific item, then leaving again. For instance, you could go into the water temple before the forest temple, so that you can get the longshot, and then skip over large portions of the Forest temple because you can reach higher on the vines...you can also go into the fire temple before the forest temple, but I'm not sure how far you can get. I don't remember how to do these things too clearly, but it's definitely possible to go out of the expected order, it just takes a little bit a maneuvering.
If you think that the only thing that makes smash brothers hardcore is the unlock system, you have clearly never looked up any advanced play strategies. Smash Brothers is one of the most involved games I have ever played, and after hours and hours and hours of dedication to greatness, I would still get completely smoked at any tournament.
The amount of dedication and skill it takes to get seriously good at smash brothers is astounding, and there is almost no ceiling to your progress as the game allows you to get better almost indefinitely. There is always something else that you can improve on, and only somebody who hasn't given the game more thought than just unlocking all of the characters and stages could possibly call it anything but.
You wont' understand until you see some videos of people playing with more advanced techniques. I recommend looking for smash brothers combo videos on google video or youtube, here's a good one to start you off, it's called "Shined Blind".
My 5200+ just went down in price and I ordered it yesterday. If I could go back in time I'd wait till today and order a 6000+
Maybe I'll return it once it arrives (tomorrow or wednesday) and pick up a 6000+ since it'll still be in the box. That's a really substantial price cut, and I'd love to see that increase in performance for about $60...
I'm off to kick myself for not looking into price cuts >_>
Although I don't use the GIMP either, because it lacks a lot of features that I need and use (adjustment layers and layer styles are important, as well as a few other things) there is a plugin for RAW support based on dcRaw called "UFRaw". http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/ I've only used the standalone version, but it reads my files just fine, I assume that the GIMP plugin would be just as useful.
There's also a very cheap, multiplatform image editor out there that may someday be a competitor to photoshop for people with alternative OS choices. It's called Pixel Image Editor and you can get a trial here: http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/?page_id=12 I haven't personally paid for it, because when I used it under linux a few things were very buggy and crashed the app, but if the author keeps plugging away at it, it may be exactly what linux needs to be taken seriously. Unfortunately it isn't open source, but the author has expressed the possibility of it being open sourced in the future...
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If you didn't notice, that part there was in quotes, as in, it was something that somebody that was not the article writer said. Keep reading, and you'll see that the author of the article disagrees with the guy in the quote on a few points...
Your boss getting sued, and this type of behavior made illegal (if it isn't already).
I had no difficulty at all getting it installed on OS X with the DMG they have ont he wiki...shouldn't need to do anything about any dependencies manually either.
http://wiki.lyx.org/Mac/Mac?from=LyX.LyXOnMac#toc2
I'm getting really tired of reading this shit, and I'd just like to mention that this isn't really targetted at the "third world" where people are living in huts and trying to scrape out enough water to survive, but in developing nations, like many in South America, where the basic infrastructure is there, but the cost of technology and books are too expensive for students to get a decent education. You build a cheap laptop that the governments can distribute to children, and distribute the curriculum materials to them through it, and you've got yourself a good tool for education that will put these nations on the fast-track to catching up with the rest of the first-world. Add in a low power consumption, so that the laptop can work on battery power while the student is waiting to go back to school, and doesn't need to be plugged in to charge, and you have a way for the students to continue learning outside of the classroom without putting their parents in the poor-house by using exhorbitant amounts of electricity that they may or may not have.
Michael.
Thanks. I'm pretty happy with Ubuntu, but some stuff annoys me here and there. Not really sure what Fedora has to offer that ubuntu doesn't besides a more customizable basic setup (from what I remember, anyway). I'll probably stick with it for now, considering I've never had an OS recognize my hardware and install the necessary software more easily.
Last version of Fedora I tried was FC4 and I haven't looked back since. I liked it, but installing software was hell, and I haven't wanted to go through the process of downloading 6 install discs in order to do it again. Are the improvements that great that I should dump Ubuntu and install fedora when I reinstall my OS later this week, or should I just go back to gutsy?
There was a game called "Yoshi" for the NES and Gameboy as well. Another 8-bit appearance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshi_(video_game)
What people? I mean, does anyone that doesn't read Slashdot even know this guy exists or care what Apple's doing? The "reality distortion field" is pretty strong when the person being attacked is just some unknown blogger.
In any case, I'm pretty sure it's a satire and the guy's making it up anyway...
I was one of the people who was waiting to see Java 6 for the Mac. I'm a college student learning Java, and the instructional demos from sun require JRE 1.6 to run. I need Java 6 on mac so that I can take a peek at, and run, the example code. It's good to hear that somebody has stepped up and provided the JVM that Apple decided not to bother releasing.
As did I. It probably has something to do with the title of the video "Let's Go Crazy"...
And do you think I'd get that feature any faster if I did pay them? I hear they're going to be a part of GIMP 2.6, and in a few years when that releases, maybe I'll be able to use it. Maybe then I'll decide to send them a couple bucks as a donation for a job well done.
The point, of course, was not to complain about the GIMP, but to address the issue that people are saying that the GIMP doesn't need to have the same featureset, or at least a comparable one, to Photoshop. That's just obviously not true. The Free Software world needs a tool that can be used for professional graphics and photo editing. Eventually it may have one in the GIMP, only time will tell. But claiming that the GIMP is good, and in fact better, than Photoshop just because it's free is just silly.
The problem, of course, is that GIMP is missing features that I use constantly in Photoshop. I'm not even going to complain about color depth, color profiles, or lack of CMYK support. Just give me adjustment layers, please?
Even worse, I'm a linux user and the lack of a photo editor that does what I need it to do means that I have to run Photoshop under Windows in a VM. I wouldn't mind learning how to access the features I'm accustomed to using in a new way, assuming those features exist, unfortunately they don't and I'm stuck running Photoshop.
I find it interesting how many people are saying that GIMP doesn't need to copy the features of photoshop, and that all the people whose needs aren't met by the GIMP should just stop whining and use Photoshop. I just think that a serious free alternative to Photoshop would spur linux adoption among graphics artists. I know damn well that Photoshop is one of the only things left tying me to Windows, I have to assume that's the same for a lot of other people too. Linux needs a Free alternative to Photoshop, the GIMP is trying, but it's not there yet and at the current rate of development, won't even be close for another 3-5 years. That's just too bad.
I've done it, because I didn't feel like messing with partitions and stuff for a quick install on my grandmother's machine. It's pretty slick.
And if you need to uninstall/reinstall for any reason, it's just as easy. I'd recommend anyone give it a shot if partitioning, etc. etc. seems like a nuisance or just too daunting.
No copyright notice is required for something to be under copyright, it's copyrighted at creation automatically. (See http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.html Paragraph 3 under "Use of the Copyright Notice") Also, a copyright, unlike a trademark, does not need to be defended/enforced in order to keep it. So basically, you're full of shit. He absolutely has the rights to his own content, and can show it whenever he likes.
Whether or not their use was fair is another matter entirely, but assuming that they did infringe on his copyright, their derivative work is not eligible for copyright and he was absolutely not infringing. Assuming they didn't infringe, his use was more likely than not still fair use, as he posted a small portion of their original work, for no profit, and that detracts nothing from the original value of their work as a whole.
If you're a lawyer, like you're implying, then you're a really bad one.
OS/2?
In OOT you have to do the first three dungeons in order, but after becoming adult link, you can pretty much do whatever you want. Sometimes in involves popping into a dungeon just to get one specific item, then leaving again. For instance, you could go into the water temple before the forest temple, so that you can get the longshot, and then skip over large portions of the Forest temple because you can reach higher on the vines...you can also go into the fire temple before the forest temple, but I'm not sure how far you can get. I don't remember how to do these things too clearly, but it's definitely possible to go out of the expected order, it just takes a little bit a maneuvering.
If you think that the only thing that makes smash brothers hardcore is the unlock system, you have clearly never looked up any advanced play strategies. Smash Brothers is one of the most involved games I have ever played, and after hours and hours and hours of dedication to greatness, I would still get completely smoked at any tournament.
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The amount of dedication and skill it takes to get seriously good at smash brothers is astounding, and there is almost no ceiling to your progress as the game allows you to get better almost indefinitely. There is always something else that you can improve on, and only somebody who hasn't given the game more thought than just unlocking all of the characters and stages could possibly call it anything but.
You wont' understand until you see some videos of people playing with more advanced techniques. I recommend looking for smash brothers combo videos on google video or youtube, here's a good one to start you off, it's called "Shined Blind".
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=690969615
"...it doesn't compress multiple windows into one button on the task bar."
Right-click on the taskbar, uncheck "group similar taskbar buttons".
My 5200+ just went down in price and I ordered it yesterday. If I could go back in time I'd wait till today and order a 6000+
Maybe I'll return it once it arrives (tomorrow or wednesday) and pick up a 6000+ since it'll still be in the box. That's a really substantial price cut, and I'd love to see that increase in performance for about $60...
I'm off to kick myself for not looking into price cuts >_>
Although I don't use the GIMP either, because it lacks a lot of features that I need and use (adjustment layers and layer styles are important, as well as a few other things) there is a plugin for RAW support based on dcRaw called "UFRaw". http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/ I've only used the standalone version, but it reads my files just fine, I assume that the GIMP plugin would be just as useful.
There's also a very cheap, multiplatform image editor out there that may someday be a competitor to photoshop for people with alternative OS choices. It's called Pixel Image Editor and you can get a trial here: http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/?page_id=12 I haven't personally paid for it, because when I used it under linux a few things were very buggy and crashed the app, but if the author keeps plugging away at it, it may be exactly what linux needs to be taken seriously. Unfortunately it isn't open source, but the author has expressed the possibility of it being open sourced in the future...