I don't call any celebrities by their real names. I remember that one guy as Jean-Luc Picard, and that one guy as Daniel Jackson, and that one guy as Doctor Who Number 12, and that one guy as the guy that played the water boy and the demon guy and stuff.
I now perfectly well who John Travolta and Tom Cruise are, but I just call them "those Scientologist bastards". Funny thing is the only movie I really liked Travolta in was Battlefield Earth. Hmm...
Yeah, those Jews ought to stop remembering the holocaust because it only shows how bitter they are and hating Nazis won't do them any good.
I know it's not the best analogy, but some people take Microsoft pretty seriously. The people who don't take them seriously are the ones who use their products.
It's such a superficial thing, too. There's little doubt that GIMP has the same functionality as Photoshop, or at least the stuff I care about, but with how hard it is to do the simplest things... I just can't use it for anything more than cropping images.
The worst part is when I criticize GIMP, and apparently when anyone else does, I get Hell rained down on me.
You can't expect to improve on something if you aren't willing to listen to what's wrong with it. A golden-plated piece of shit is still a piece of shit. Fortunately, GIMP is a piece of gold that just needs the shit washed off.
What the article really brought to mind was trajectories in games. FPS's, despite the classification, don't have a lot of shots to calculate, but something like Supreme Commander would definitely stand to save on trajectory calculation where hundreds out thousands of 'bullets' can be 'flying' at once.
Maybe it could apply to Fourier transforms too, but I don't dare claim to know the process behind them.
That's where the effects of free software comes in. More reliable, peer reviewed, more powerful, any number of people can participate on a single project.
However, it must not be ignored that these are results of copyleft licensing! If it was not for the legal ramifications of software freedoms already discussed, Microsoft and friends might have eliminated open source before it even existed. There may have never even been a Microsoft.
It's Free Software we must adhere to and appeal unto people, not just Firefox the magic browser that mysteriously came into view by no apparent action of thousands of F/OSS advocates. It isn't Open Office without the "Open". GIMP is arguably immature compared to Photoshop, but had everyone who supported it dropped their faith in it entirely there might be no free/free alternative.
If it wasn't for the very idea of Software Libre we may very well have never witnessed an operating system given away Gratis.
I've never printed things until recently, then suddenly I was enamored with CUPS working with my printer perfectly.
Uhh... until now where I have this thing where every first line of the first page I print it prints garbage. It's like the top half of the line is garbage then the lower half is stuff I actually meant to print. I have to print 2 pages of everything.
It doesn't have to be a primary processor. Much like graphics, sound, and supposedly physics processing outgrew the CPU, so could fast, wobbly processing.
I know when I shoot a blinn shader with a ray I want a certain result, but it doesn't have to be a perfect result to be appealing... in fact... I can think of many times when an imperfect result is desirable.
What? I seem to have a problem with my probability networking setup. Sometimes my packets are mangled and go to the wrong places, and it takes a few dozen tries to log into Gmail, but it sure is fast!
My 'audiophile' friend really did try to change my mind on the difference, and I really did give it a genuine chance. I sat, listened for a while to the different things he played for me. He swore they were different bitrates, frequencies, that there was a clear difference, but I just could not perceive it.
However, I have had my hearing checked. I can hear a full range of sound, a little better than most my age (3 years ago). I'm fully aware of every little sound that happens around me, I depend on my hearing far more than my sight when walking or riding a bike.
I'm like a damned radar, I keep my eyes closed when I'm swimming underwater and never run into anything or anyone. I'm fine in pitch black. I can even hear people talk across noisy rooms with high ceilings.
A lot of noise does frustrate me, like people talking and stuff or cars or sirens. I really do hear everything just fine, it gets really distracting.
As sure as I am that my hearing is just fine, even better than fine, I swear whatever deity you might care to imagine: I do not hear the difference between these supposed audio qualities.
OO.o blasts me with 'too many options', that's why I use AbiWord. I agree, it sucks, but that's because I have a repulsion to software interrupting my train of thought to 'fix' my numbering or spelling or anything. I don't need any suggestions, and when I format something a certain way it sure as fuck needs to stay that way.
Red squiggly lines are awesome, though.
ODF is spectacular and F/OSS wouldn't have a chance to even pray if there wasn't open, broadly accepted standards to work on, like ANSI and C and PCI. ODF is an important standard and needs all the support it can get.
If you can't understand why ODF trounces.doc or.xls, then take a deep breath and try to imagine what would happen if F/OSS survived only on the Microsoft say-so.
Oh, shut up. You're being even less fair than he is. He doesn't have an agenda, he's complaining about how difficult it is to use these programs. If anything, his criticism can only lead to progress.
I agree, GIMP is a BITCH to use. I can use it, but Photoshop's UI just obliterates GIMP's. It's not just that I have to learn something new, it's much harder to learn with a confusing approach to how to use tools.
Yeah, and I've never, ever, ever heard anyone ever say "photog" ever, and it does sound stupid.
Get people using Open Office. Start with students, especially those using non MSOffice to complete their papers. Sell the export to pdf feature.
Show Firefox, inkscape, and gimp.. along with Open Office these programs all load on standard Windows.
Then look at LTSP.org. There are some case studies in there that show cost savings. The biggest after licenses is the need for IT support - it goes way down.
You state this as if it's been known to work perfectly before.
You can't show anyone something fancy and new, especially when it just emulates the old, and expect them to suddenly (or even slowly) fall over and love F/OSS.
Everyone says not to sell the ideology, to avoid the religious confrontation. That's all that it takes to make Free Software, and then it is that freedom to change the software that has lead to the incredible rate of advancement that things like Linux (the kernel) result in.
It is the freedom to change that makes all these free and wonderful alternatives, and that's the point that must be sold.
Every person I've managed to get to at least try Ubuntu didn't budge when I tried to explain it was more powerful or free of cost or any of those other mere side effects of the real goal.
It took the ideology of Free Software to get every person to even take a CD from me and stick it in their computer, and while most didn't keep using it, they all promised to recommend it to anyone interested in 'that sort of thing'.
The other three were happy to dual boot; They felt good about themselves when they used Free Software normally, and forgave themselves for using Windows to play games and other things.
History has already proven that religion, no matter how irrational or meaningless, has more influence over the masses than any other intellectual concept.
Microsoft has accidentally built a series of autonomic micro-worshipping in Microsoft software. A little moral influence is just the budge most people need to see 'what the point' in Free Software is.
Microsoft is evil, not like guns or western culture or television or heavy metal. It's evil in that it is built exactly from a system that requires exploitation, illusion, anti-competition, and elimination of user rights.
Microsoft's way detracts from humanity, it breeds ignorance and apathy, whether that apathy is for the law or for fellow humans who can't afford to pay for the next version of Microsoft Bullshit every 4 years.
The same Microsoft Bullshit that's pervasive and ubiquitous to the point many people don't even know, and it is simply staggering how many people don't know, that what they are using on a computer is Windows.
Oooooo... I just found one more reason to hate Microsoft and love Ubuntu all that much more.
From the Microsoft help site.
With additional language files, you can change the display language on your computer so that you can view wizards, dialog boxes, menus, Help topics, and other items in Windows in a different language.
There are two types of language files:
Windows Vista Multilingual User Interface Pack (MUI).âOE Windows Vista MUIs provide a translated version of most of the user interface. MUIs require a license to be used and are only available with Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Enterprise. If you are using Windows Vista Ultimate, you can download MUIs by using Windows Update. If you are using Windows Vista Enterprise, contact your system administrator for information about installing additional languages.
Windows Vista Language Interface Pack (LIP).âOE Windows Vista LIPs provide a translated version of the most widely used areas of the user interface. LIPs are freely available to download, and most LIPs can be installed and used on any edition of Windows Vista. Because not all of the user interface is translated, LIPs require at least one parent language. The parts of the user interface that are not translated into the LIP language are displayed in the parent language. When you download a LIP, you get the parent language requirements for that language. The parent language pack needs to be installed before the LIP can be installed. For more information, including a list of languages available for downloading, go to the Microsoft Local Language website.
MUIs and LIPs will only work on a genuine copy of Windows Vista.
So, what I get from this is that if you don't have Vista Ultimate, you don't get localization to the fullest extent they offer it.
How can you draw the line with licensing bullshit like this? Either you support your users, all of your users, fully or you don't.
This is a damn insult, there are several foreign students at the college I'm working at and if they buy a laptop with Vista sans Ultimate at the local best buy, and they're already struggling with costs and language barriers, now they have to buy a copy of Vista Ultimate or a version of Vista Home or whatever in their language.
I don't know to what extent any language is covered in LIPs versus MUIs, but to claim there is a technical or a legal difference at all is just disgusting.
It's fucking beautiful! They CREATE the profit margin with every thing they take away for a small discount, and I have little doubt people will eat it up. First, anyone will say "... But that's bullshit!", and then most will fall into it justifying the "cost reduction".
Microsoft resembles Vegas far more than Wall Street.
You say what you say, but for the life of me, I have never felt concerned with the supposed quality of audio. I just can't tell the difference between 128kbps and 256kbps, MP3 from FLAC, 22khz from 44khz.
I also can not tell the difference between HD and upscaled SD when in motion.
It just feels so ridiculous, I swear people are only fooling themselves in this high-def nonsense. I can't be sure of that, maybe there really is something I'm missing I'm unaware of.
Many people seem to underestimate Microsoft's true power. You can't fight them with money, you have to fight them with ideology.
Normally something rare and highly demanded is valuable. Microsoft, and many other software companies, create an artificial value with high costs and licensing.
Microsoft can then exert this power by 'reducing' the cost of something unnecessarily expensive because it doesn't cost jack shit for them to make another copy.
Schools are the best angle of attack for Microsoft. Everyone is already in the belief that you must know how to use MICROSOFT Word to make it in the business world, AbiWord and OpenOffice just "can't possibly cut it", should anyone even hear of them.
If Microsoft can make students feel comfortable in their software, it's an easy, virtually mandatory sell later.
But what Microsoft can't fight and what makes this fight even more difficult is these practices of theirs are immoral. They eliminate selection and competition. Most importantly, they take away the freedom of the user with their proprietary licenses.
It's a slow uptake, but it's not impossible to convince anyone that software freedom is an important thing to support. It's also not impossible to pray on peoples' emotions to make them switch.. or make them stay.
Logic is so, so important but few seem to accept that there's such a thing as rules to what makes things make sense. Fortunately, someone doesn't need logic to see the benefits in not getting fucked over and over again, they just need it made clear that they're getting fucked.
Americans could then focus on eating vegetables. I'm not a vegetarian, I'm a pragmatist; The closer you get to the sun in what you eat the more energy you will receive from the food, potentially.
They're both pretty accurate, I suppose. I might try KDE4 again if there's more control like you say. I expect there's a better selection of Plasmoids by now, too.
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I don't call any celebrities by their real names. I remember that one guy as Jean-Luc Picard, and that one guy as Daniel Jackson, and that one guy as Doctor Who Number 12, and that one guy as the guy that played the water boy and the demon guy and stuff.
I now perfectly well who John Travolta and Tom Cruise are, but I just call them "those Scientologist bastards". Funny thing is the only movie I really liked Travolta in was Battlefield Earth. Hmm...
Yeah, those Jews ought to stop remembering the holocaust because it only shows how bitter they are and hating Nazis won't do them any good.
I know it's not the best analogy, but some people take Microsoft pretty seriously. The people who don't take them seriously are the ones who use their products.
Yeah, it's good no one else does so it's more obvious that Microsoft is... oh, damnit, you tricked me! DAMN YOU AC!
OUR ECOSYSTEM ROCKS!!
It's such a superficial thing, too. There's little doubt that GIMP has the same functionality as Photoshop, or at least the stuff I care about, but with how hard it is to do the simplest things... I just can't use it for anything more than cropping images.
The worst part is when I criticize GIMP, and apparently when anyone else does, I get Hell rained down on me.
You can't expect to improve on something if you aren't willing to listen to what's wrong with it. A golden-plated piece of shit is still a piece of shit. Fortunately, GIMP is a piece of gold that just needs the shit washed off.
What the article really brought to mind was trajectories in games. FPS's, despite the classification, don't have a lot of shots to calculate, but something like Supreme Commander would definitely stand to save on trajectory calculation where hundreds out thousands of 'bullets' can be 'flying' at once.
Maybe it could apply to Fourier transforms too, but I don't dare claim to know the process behind them.
Where's the Marketing Monkey moderation option...
That's where the effects of free software comes in. More reliable, peer reviewed, more powerful, any number of people can participate on a single project.
However, it must not be ignored that these are results of copyleft licensing! If it was not for the legal ramifications of software freedoms already discussed, Microsoft and friends might have eliminated open source before it even existed. There may have never even been a Microsoft.
It's Free Software we must adhere to and appeal unto people, not just Firefox the magic browser that mysteriously came into view by no apparent action of thousands of F/OSS advocates. It isn't Open Office without the "Open". GIMP is arguably immature compared to Photoshop, but had everyone who supported it dropped their faith in it entirely there might be no free/free alternative.
If it wasn't for the very idea of Software Libre we may very well have never witnessed an operating system given away Gratis.
I've never printed things until recently, then suddenly I was enamored with CUPS working with my printer perfectly.
Uhh... until now where I have this thing where every first line of the first page I print it prints garbage. It's like the top half of the line is garbage then the lower half is stuff I actually meant to print. I have to print 2 pages of everything.
It doesn't have to be a primary processor. Much like graphics, sound, and supposedly physics processing outgrew the CPU, so could fast, wobbly processing.
I know when I shoot a blinn shader with a ray I want a certain result, but it doesn't have to be a perfect result to be appealing... in fact... I can think of many times when an imperfect result is desirable.
What? I seem to have a problem with my probability networking setup. Sometimes my packets are mangled and go to the wrong places, and it takes a few dozen tries to log into Gmail, but it sure is fast!
My 'audiophile' friend really did try to change my mind on the difference, and I really did give it a genuine chance. I sat, listened for a while to the different things he played for me. He swore they were different bitrates, frequencies, that there was a clear difference, but I just could not perceive it.
However, I have had my hearing checked. I can hear a full range of sound, a little better than most my age (3 years ago). I'm fully aware of every little sound that happens around me, I depend on my hearing far more than my sight when walking or riding a bike.
I'm like a damned radar, I keep my eyes closed when I'm swimming underwater and never run into anything or anyone. I'm fine in pitch black. I can even hear people talk across noisy rooms with high ceilings.
A lot of noise does frustrate me, like people talking and stuff or cars or sirens. I really do hear everything just fine, it gets really distracting.
As sure as I am that my hearing is just fine, even better than fine, I swear whatever deity you might care to imagine: I do not hear the difference between these supposed audio qualities.
Seconded. You'll never get anywhere driving it from the top down with mandatory "we're switching to XYZ campus-wide" decrees.
Yeah, I've had two English teachers demand I use Office 2007 and they've never been able to notice I've been using AbiWord.
OO.o blasts me with 'too many options', that's why I use AbiWord. I agree, it sucks, but that's because I have a repulsion to software interrupting my train of thought to 'fix' my numbering or spelling or anything. I don't need any suggestions, and when I format something a certain way it sure as fuck needs to stay that way.
Red squiggly lines are awesome, though.
ODF is spectacular and F/OSS wouldn't have a chance to even pray if there wasn't open, broadly accepted standards to work on, like ANSI and C and PCI. ODF is an important standard and needs all the support it can get.
If you can't understand why ODF trounces .doc or .xls, then take a deep breath and try to imagine what would happen if F/OSS survived only on the Microsoft say-so.
Oh, shut up. You're being even less fair than he is. He doesn't have an agenda, he's complaining about how difficult it is to use these programs. If anything, his criticism can only lead to progress.
I agree, GIMP is a BITCH to use. I can use it, but Photoshop's UI just obliterates GIMP's. It's not just that I have to learn something new, it's much harder to learn with a confusing approach to how to use tools.
Yeah, and I've never, ever, ever heard anyone ever say "photog" ever, and it does sound stupid.
Get people using Open Office. Start with students, especially those using non MSOffice to complete their papers. Sell the export to pdf feature.
Show Firefox, inkscape, and gimp.. along with Open Office these programs all load on standard Windows.
Then look at LTSP.org. There are some case studies in there that show cost savings. The biggest after licenses is the need for IT support - it goes way down.
You state this as if it's been known to work perfectly before.
You can't show anyone something fancy and new, especially when it just emulates the old, and expect them to suddenly (or even slowly) fall over and love F/OSS.
Everyone says not to sell the ideology, to avoid the religious confrontation. That's all that it takes to make Free Software, and then it is that freedom to change the software that has lead to the incredible rate of advancement that things like Linux (the kernel) result in.
It is the freedom to change that makes all these free and wonderful alternatives, and that's the point that must be sold.
Every person I've managed to get to at least try Ubuntu didn't budge when I tried to explain it was more powerful or free of cost or any of those other mere side effects of the real goal.
It took the ideology of Free Software to get every person to even take a CD from me and stick it in their computer, and while most didn't keep using it, they all promised to recommend it to anyone interested in 'that sort of thing'.
The other three were happy to dual boot; They felt good about themselves when they used Free Software normally, and forgave themselves for using Windows to play games and other things.
History has already proven that religion, no matter how irrational or meaningless, has more influence over the masses than any other intellectual concept.
Microsoft has accidentally built a series of autonomic micro-worshipping in Microsoft software. A little moral influence is just the budge most people need to see 'what the point' in Free Software is.
Microsoft is evil, not like guns or western culture or television or heavy metal. It's evil in that it is built exactly from a system that requires exploitation, illusion, anti-competition, and elimination of user rights.
Microsoft's way detracts from humanity, it breeds ignorance and apathy, whether that apathy is for the law or for fellow humans who can't afford to pay for the next version of Microsoft Bullshit every 4 years.
The same Microsoft Bullshit that's pervasive and ubiquitous to the point many people don't even know, and it is simply staggering how many people don't know, that what they are using on a computer is Windows.
Oooooo... I just found one more reason to hate Microsoft and love Ubuntu all that much more.
From the Microsoft help site.
With additional language files, you can change the display language on your computer so that you can view wizards, dialog boxes, menus, Help topics, and other items in Windows in a different language.
There are two types of language files:
Windows Vista Multilingual User Interface Pack (MUI).âOE Windows Vista MUIs provide a translated version of most of the user interface. MUIs require a license to be used and are only available with Windows Vista Ultimate and Windows Vista Enterprise. If you are using Windows Vista Ultimate, you can download MUIs by using Windows Update. If you are using Windows Vista Enterprise, contact your system administrator for information about installing additional languages.
Windows Vista Language Interface Pack (LIP).âOE Windows Vista LIPs provide a translated version of the most widely used areas of the user interface. LIPs are freely available to download, and most LIPs can be installed and used on any edition of Windows Vista. Because not all of the user interface is translated, LIPs require at least one parent language. The parts of the user interface that are not translated into the LIP language are displayed in the parent language. When you download a LIP, you get the parent language requirements for that language. The parent language pack needs to be installed before the LIP can be installed. For more information, including a list of languages available for downloading, go to the Microsoft Local Language website.
MUIs and LIPs will only work on a genuine copy of Windows Vista.
So, what I get from this is that if you don't have Vista Ultimate, you don't get localization to the fullest extent they offer it.
How can you draw the line with licensing bullshit like this? Either you support your users, all of your users, fully or you don't.
This is a damn insult, there are several foreign students at the college I'm working at and if they buy a laptop with Vista sans Ultimate at the local best buy, and they're already struggling with costs and language barriers, now they have to buy a copy of Vista Ultimate or a version of Vista Home or whatever in their language.
I don't know to what extent any language is covered in LIPs versus MUIs, but to claim there is a technical or a legal difference at all is just disgusting.
It's fucking beautiful! They CREATE the profit margin with every thing they take away for a small discount, and I have little doubt people will eat it up. First, anyone will say "... But that's bullshit!", and then most will fall into it justifying the "cost reduction".
Microsoft resembles Vegas far more than Wall Street.
You say what you say, but for the life of me, I have never felt concerned with the supposed quality of audio. I just can't tell the difference between 128kbps and 256kbps, MP3 from FLAC, 22khz from 44khz.
I also can not tell the difference between HD and upscaled SD when in motion.
It just feels so ridiculous, I swear people are only fooling themselves in this high-def nonsense. I can't be sure of that, maybe there really is something I'm missing I'm unaware of.
Many people seem to underestimate Microsoft's true power. You can't fight them with money, you have to fight them with ideology.
Normally something rare and highly demanded is valuable. Microsoft, and many other software companies, create an artificial value with high costs and licensing.
Microsoft can then exert this power by 'reducing' the cost of something unnecessarily expensive because it doesn't cost jack shit for them to make another copy.
Schools are the best angle of attack for Microsoft. Everyone is already in the belief that you must know how to use MICROSOFT Word to make it in the business world, AbiWord and OpenOffice just "can't possibly cut it", should anyone even hear of them.
If Microsoft can make students feel comfortable in their software, it's an easy, virtually mandatory sell later.
But what Microsoft can't fight and what makes this fight even more difficult is these practices of theirs are immoral. They eliminate selection and competition. Most importantly, they take away the freedom of the user with their proprietary licenses.
It's a slow uptake, but it's not impossible to convince anyone that software freedom is an important thing to support. It's also not impossible to pray on peoples' emotions to make them switch.. or make them stay.
Logic is so, so important but few seem to accept that there's such a thing as rules to what makes things make sense. Fortunately, someone doesn't need logic to see the benefits in not getting fucked over and over again, they just need it made clear that they're getting fucked.
We'll be well fed and they'll be desperate and starving.
...China and India would easily take our 75% of energy.
Let them have it. It is against each other they will then fight between when energy becomes scarce, while the US will have learned to live frugally.
Americans could then focus on eating vegetables. I'm not a vegetarian, I'm a pragmatist; The closer you get to the sun in what you eat the more energy you will receive from the food, potentially.
I'm horrified people are assuming no action is better than any action just because they're too busy trying to deny it's Humanity's fault.
It does not matter why, all that matters is, yes, what can be done about it, but more importantly knowing what effect warming will have.
They're both pretty accurate, I suppose. I might try KDE4 again if there's more control like you say. I expect there's a better selection of Plasmoids by now, too.