It's a hole Jim, but not as we know it. This 'hole' exists/ed in the universe. Nothing on our world is comparable with it and language to try to deal with it ("a hole can exist on an object") fails here. The term 'hole' is a good way to describe what's seen but doesn't add to understanding it, in the PDF it's called a "cold spot".
compiling the code yourself to get better performance is BULLSHIT!!!
Probably, I don't know, don't think it's worth it indeed. "Bullshit" is a bit too strong, I guess. You mention GCC, see what you'll gain with an Intel compiler for an Intel chip, I think it'll make a noticeable performance improvement in some areas.
The game seems to be insanely huge and how is it that there can be an infinite amount of different creates created in the game? The answer is Procedural Programming.
Someone plagiarized that line from the description of my COBOL programs. Original: "The database seems to be insanely huge and how is it that there can be an infinite amount of different bugs created in the code? The answer is Procedural Programming."
1. I have 3 windows open at least. The main GIMP window with the tools and their properties, a window with layers, channels and paths and a window for the image I'm working on. The only way I can deal with it is by having all three open on my screen unless I really need to maximize the image but then I usually don't need to switch tool or layer. Also, with the normal shortcut for switching apps, I can call another part of the program. Every additional image is another window, some tools come in their own window and I definitely organize my workflow to have never more than 5 windows open for long, but it's not something I'd call a problem. I lost Photoshop when I moved to Linux and I had to get used to the GIMP with all the windows but with virtual desktops, I keep the GIMP out of the way of other applications and it's very manageable.
2. No comment really, I think it's about accepting the order of things. I wait for a dialog to start before I use it but delays haven't been particularly noticeable. GIMP hasn't crashed yet, despite some of the operations and image sizes being 'challenging' for my system. Haven't tried making my own plugins so far.
3. "no strategy at all". Now I'm really curious what's so confusing about the menus and options. Let's assume you know what a pixel is and what can be done with it, how long would it take you to find your way in the menus? 1 hour? A day? "nearly unusable"... I'm all for UI improvements but at some point the fault's with the user and not fixable with software anymore. We're not talking about a simple editor but about a powerful graphics tool, the complexity of the UI is far less than the possibilities of the tool and after a week or so, my thinking was completely on the image and not on the tool anymore.
I don't think using the CMYK colorspace is the point, but the lack of it in the GIMP, and the painful fact that it's taken years of work to get it still not fixed. I really doubt if every participant in a Photoshop vs. GIMP discussion really uses any of these programs to an extent where the differences matter, let alone to an extent where somebody could claim to need features that PS has, and PS alone.
What if you're not an professional designer with a considerable workload but someone with an opinion on everything and plenty of time to vent it on a tech forum? Photoshop is more extensive, of better quality and with an easier user interface, but that's not sufficient to 'dis' the GIMP. Mention lack of CMYK support though, and you know you hit an exposed nerve. My guess is the repeated mentioning of CMYK is because some of those people with an opinion lack intimate knowledge of other GIMP shortcomings, probably lack knowledge about the GIMP's capabilities in general. Maybe they feel 1337 about their PS skills and think equal GIMP skills are lame...
NB. This post comes to you in a strict black & white colorspace, not even shades of gray through dithering.
Chances are those designers mainly use features also present in the GIMP, as the GIMP is quite a powerful program. The thing you're missing is that CMYK support was recognized long ago as a useful feature of the GIMP. When thinking the design through, the developers determined they needed to overhaul the core of the GIMP and base it on an independent graphics library, "GEGL", to introduce CMYK but also more than 8-bit per channel graphics, for example. A GIMP on a GEGL was, afaik, scheduled to be released in 2000 but still hasn't emerged. Work on GIMP and GEGL is spare-time work and there aren't that many developers working on it.
It does make it look like a joke and, unfortunately, food for Photoshop fanboys (couldn't resist the alliteration and I'm a GIMP user).
I'd like to teach some graphic design and web production skills to my coworkers in the marketing department, and realize that most of them can't afford $2500 to buy Adobe's premium suite and, frankly, shouldn't need to because there should be competitive products on the market. But I can't seem to locate software for graphic design and printing that outputs CMYK files that printing companies will accept. And I'm not familiar with any products that are better than FrontPage yet still easy to use for Web design. Any suggestions?
No suggestions, other than already mentioned by others. What about rethinking the scope of your teaching? $2500 is an investment for a professional or the cost of a hobby for a serious amateur. I don't see how teaching some graphics design and web production skills would require costly professional tools. GIMP et al are sufficient for teaching the basics, the concepts and techniques, and if your coworkers pick up on that fast and enthusiastically, you can perhaps convince your employer to pay for a few workstations with the best tools available.
I love the idea of giving the marketing department more insight in design and web production, and I can see how starting with tools that are considered as less than the best could make teaching more difficult. My perspective is that I'm not a professional designer nor web developer but an enthusiastic amateur. I try to achieve good results and I have an intrinsic motivation to learn my hobby, and so far tools like the GIMP and Inkscape have still more power than I can utilize. I can only hope to achieve a level where I find myself in need of the best programs and turning out results that deserve to be printed by a professional printer.
AFAIK, they could distinguish between normal characters and accented characters, most noticeably the 'è' which is in the name of the largest political party (Christen Democratisch Appèl). A reduced set of characters and more instructions to the voting committees ("Don't let anyone near with any kind of receiver!") solved this problem. The principle distrust of voting computers is not alleviated; we thus did gain a distrust of the people who distrusted the voting computers.
Let's assume you want to do something good for mankind, you have several 1000 IT personnel at your disposal, nearly unlimited funds and your core business is creating software anyway. I'd have my own Free Linux distro built. Embrace, Improve, Share!
This is very much my recommendation too. LinuxQuestions is excellent even if you don't have any questions; simply looking through old threads revealed so much information that I'd otherwise not had a clue it existed. Trying out various distro's and installing a few for few times can learn you a lot about what's available and possible, http://distrowatch.com/ provides information about which distro's are available and where to get them. Distrowatch's motto "Put the fun back into computing" proved to be true for me. Be careful when installing a dualboot system and make sure your Windows data is backed up. My favorite isn't Gentoo, it's Fedora Core 6, but chances are you're more bothered by a choice of windowmanager or software-update-mechanism than actual distribution. Enjoy!
This award goes to the spyware Zcodec which, among other actions, monitors whether users access certain web pages with pornographic content. This may simply be a way of determining whether the user is a frequent visitor to these types of pages in order to send personalized advertising. On the other hand, perhaps the author of the spyware just has voyeuristic tendencies.
In stead of being 'just curious' or 'habitually data collective'? But I suppose it is worth knowing that there's more to spyware than your credit card details and the like.
I'd so love to choose the db. But noooo. "Here's the COBOL manual." "Whut?" "We don't have a license for Fortran anymore. Oh, and we're behind on the documentation because we were going to migrate to." So OK, that was the worst example. Where ever I go, I always encounter legacy databases that have to be worked with. That and an Access 'thing' lovingly setup and maintained by dr. Clueless which managed to wurm itself into the production process.
Qt lets you use a layout tool to design your UI, and then export source code that you're not supposed to touch (and which is virtually impossible to read). To use it, you're supposed to import and subclass it. If you change the.ui file, you have to re-run the script to regenerate the source file again. You can't use the.ui file directly at runtime.
Yes. I've written some CLI 'tools' for code generation-and-then-add-some-missing-lines. It's a pity it has to work this way, although it does work.
I don't disagree with your post but fyi: the "Dutch" call themselves 'Nederlanders' (you wrote: "Netherlandians", not that far off) or 'Hollanders'. Officially it's called 'het koninkrijk der Nederlanden', in english 'the kingdom of the Netherlands'. So something like "kdnians" or "kotnians", I guess...
I'd want to have the source code though. Wouldn't want to have a trojan installing itself, I'd rather compile it into place. I may check the code, so Russian comments are not acceptable.
"I'm a software developer who writes a lot of freeware utilities in C/C++ which are all cross platform and work well. Lately some of my users have been pestering me to stop wasting precious development time supporting minority OSs like Linux, and get more work done for the majority -- the Windows users.
Stop coding for those ungrateful... er... oh, I see. Never mind. Keep up the good job!
That's the beauty. It's promised as 'free as in beer' but then you find it's "of low-quality software with lots of bugs", as this ICT minister seems to think. So you end up contributing 'free as in speech' just to have a product.
What am I missing here? (And I'm not being sarcastic with that, I genuinely don't understand why anyone would want to share the fundamentals of their creation in a way that would compromise any potential future earnings.)
You could look at software from a different perspective than it being a regular product. There's virtually no natural resource waisted on production and distribution per extra product. It's a create once, distribute infinitely product.
The potential for Free Software is huge as you can satisfy the majority of computing desire with a relatively low number of applications. Phrased differently: the market for which you won't find enough people willing to contribute from their own need is small. Typically the need for an operating system, webserver, browser, office suit, etc. is so large that a FLOSS approach would work.
The kind of product we're talking about is code. Writing good code is a job and to some extent an art. But it's also just an application of logic. Logic isn't exclusive to the first person to come up with it, hence you could also ask why software isn't Free/Libre/Open by definition.
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It's a hole Jim, but not as we know it. This 'hole' exists/ed in the universe. Nothing on our world is comparable with it and language to try to deal with it ("a hole can exist on an object") fails here. The term 'hole' is a good way to describe what's seen but doesn't add to understanding it, in the PDF it's called a "cold spot".
The ionic wind turbine.
On my Linux machine, Konqueror failed to show anything. Happens sometimes, and not just with Java applets, unfortunately.
One of these, but a lot cheaper and with a DVD writer built in. No more quieting the pc or modding the case, just hide it in a closet.
1. I have 3 windows open at least. The main GIMP window with the tools and their properties, a window with layers, channels and paths and a window for the image I'm working on. The only way I can deal with it is by having all three open on my screen unless I really need to maximize the image but then I usually don't need to switch tool or layer. Also, with the normal shortcut for switching apps, I can call another part of the program. Every additional image is another window, some tools come in their own window and I definitely organize my workflow to have never more than 5 windows open for long, but it's not something I'd call a problem. I lost Photoshop when I moved to Linux and I had to get used to the GIMP with all the windows but with virtual desktops, I keep the GIMP out of the way of other applications and it's very manageable.
2. No comment really, I think it's about accepting the order of things. I wait for a dialog to start before I use it but delays haven't been particularly noticeable. GIMP hasn't crashed yet, despite some of the operations and image sizes being 'challenging' for my system. Haven't tried making my own plugins so far.
3. "no strategy at all". Now I'm really curious what's so confusing about the menus and options. Let's assume you know what a pixel is and what can be done with it, how long would it take you to find your way in the menus? 1 hour? A day? "nearly unusable"... I'm all for UI improvements but at some point the fault's with the user and not fixable with software anymore. We're not talking about a simple editor but about a powerful graphics tool, the complexity of the UI is far less than the possibilities of the tool and after a week or so, my thinking was completely on the image and not on the tool anymore.
I don't think using the CMYK colorspace is the point, but the lack of it in the GIMP, and the painful fact that it's taken years of work to get it still not fixed. I really doubt if every participant in a Photoshop vs. GIMP discussion really uses any of these programs to an extent where the differences matter, let alone to an extent where somebody could claim to need features that PS has, and PS alone.
What if you're not an professional designer with a considerable workload but someone with an opinion on everything and plenty of time to vent it on a tech forum? Photoshop is more extensive, of better quality and with an easier user interface, but that's not sufficient to 'dis' the GIMP. Mention lack of CMYK support though, and you know you hit an exposed nerve. My guess is the repeated mentioning of CMYK is because some of those people with an opinion lack intimate knowledge of other GIMP shortcomings, probably lack knowledge about the GIMP's capabilities in general. Maybe they feel 1337 about their PS skills and think equal GIMP skills are lame...
NB. This post comes to you in a strict black & white colorspace, not even shades of gray through dithering.
Yes.
Chances are those designers mainly use features also present in the GIMP, as the GIMP is quite a powerful program. The thing you're missing is that CMYK support was recognized long ago as a useful feature of the GIMP. When thinking the design through, the developers determined they needed to overhaul the core of the GIMP and base it on an independent graphics library, "GEGL", to introduce CMYK but also more than 8-bit per channel graphics, for example. A GIMP on a GEGL was, afaik, scheduled to be released in 2000 but still hasn't emerged. Work on GIMP and GEGL is spare-time work and there aren't that many developers working on it.
It does make it look like a joke and, unfortunately, food for Photoshop fanboys (couldn't resist the alliteration and I'm a GIMP user).
Andy Tanenbaum was too busy releasing Minix 3.13.a to reply.
I love the idea of giving the marketing department more insight in design and web production, and I can see how starting with tools that are considered as less than the best could make teaching more difficult. My perspective is that I'm not a professional designer nor web developer but an enthusiastic amateur. I try to achieve good results and I have an intrinsic motivation to learn my hobby, and so far tools like the GIMP and Inkscape have still more power than I can utilize. I can only hope to achieve a level where I find myself in need of the best programs and turning out results that deserve to be printed by a professional printer.
AFAIK, they could distinguish between normal characters and accented characters, most noticeably the 'è' which is in the name of the largest political party (Christen Democratisch Appèl). A reduced set of characters and more instructions to the voting committees ("Don't let anyone near with any kind of receiver!") solved this problem.
The principle distrust of voting computers is not alleviated; we thus did gain a distrust of the people who distrusted the voting computers.
Let's assume you want to do something good for mankind, you have several 1000 IT personnel at your disposal, nearly unlimited funds and your core business is creating software anyway. I'd have my own Free Linux distro built.
Embrace, Improve, Share!
I could've known Gates' "Open Letter to Hobbyists" is in a closed format.
This is very much my recommendation too. LinuxQuestions is excellent even if you don't have any questions; simply looking through old threads revealed so much information that I'd otherwise not had a clue it existed. Trying out various distro's and installing a few for few times can learn you a lot about what's available and possible, http://distrowatch.com/ provides information about which distro's are available and where to get them. Distrowatch's motto "Put the fun back into computing" proved to be true for me.
Be careful when installing a dualboot system and make sure your Windows data is backed up.
My favorite isn't Gentoo, it's Fedora Core 6, but chances are you're more bothered by a choice of windowmanager or software-update-mechanism than actual distribution.
Enjoy!
And as long as MS dominates in the browser field with their products, the web isn't anything serious yet. Perhaps with web 7.0 or something.
Go Go Gadget Go Pill!
I'd so love to choose the db. But noooo. ."
"Here's the COBOL manual." "Whut?" "We don't have a license for Fortran anymore. Oh, and we're behind on the documentation because we were going to migrate to
So OK, that was the worst example. Where ever I go, I always encounter legacy databases that have to be worked with. That and an Access 'thing' lovingly setup and maintained by dr. Clueless which managed to wurm itself into the production process.
I don't disagree with your post but fyi: the "Dutch" call themselves 'Nederlanders' (you wrote: "Netherlandians", not that far off) or 'Hollanders'. Officially it's called 'het koninkrijk der Nederlanden', in english 'the kingdom of the Netherlands'.
So something like "kdnians" or "kotnians", I guess...
I'd want to have the source code though. Wouldn't want to have a trojan installing itself, I'd rather compile it into place.
I may check the code, so Russian comments are not acceptable.
You could look at software from a different perspective than it being a regular product. There's virtually no natural resource waisted on production and distribution per extra product. It's a create once, distribute infinitely product.
The potential for Free Software is huge as you can satisfy the majority of computing desire with a relatively low number of applications. Phrased differently: the market for which you won't find enough people willing to contribute from their own need is small. Typically the need for an operating system, webserver, browser, office suit, etc. is so large that a FLOSS approach would work.
The kind of product we're talking about is code. Writing good code is a job and to some extent an art. But it's also just an application of logic. Logic isn't exclusive to the first person to come up with it, hence you could also ask why software isn't Free/Libre/Open by definition.