1) When a person is mentally dedicated to a single task the certain things about the passage of time can be forgotten. I doubt that Sintel didn't realise that time was passing so much as didn't realise that the dragon she left behind would not be the dragon she saw (she was living in the past). It's also possible that dragons grow a lot faster than Sintel realised.
2)In many species male adults kill and sometimes eat infants of the same species. Usually this is so that the adult females become receptive to breeding but not always.
3) The man in the first scene is not a bandit per say (I will leave you to figure that one out). The old man eats soup and probably traps animals.
Not really a big deal. If Valve had made a native steam client for Linux I would certainly have taken a look to see what is available. The last native ports of games that were any good that I played were NeverWinter Nights and Unreal Tournament 2004.
I work most days on Linux in one of the few commercial game engines that supports Linux natively and I have to say that. 1) Graphics work well (for nvidia anyways - the game engine we are using targets DirectX 11/ OpenGL 4 hardware). 2) Sound needs some work (I wish they still made consumer soundcards that support hardware mixing). 3) The usual problems would be. Most Linux users are either poor and honest, cheep, don't have have premium pc graphics hardware or are ideologically opposed to closed software.
I guess that really just means I have one less distraction from doing productive things. Either that or my gaming dollar is going to be spent on my Wii rather than my PC.
Yes I have... On several desktops and a few laptops. Only one machine gave me any problems. For that I just used one of the USB wireless adapters I used for the desktops. My general experience is that more tends to work out of the box on Ubuntu than windows but for some hardware configurations it really sucks and if it isn't supported out of the box it is harder to get running [than windows].
I have a 23 inch monitor that supports multi-touch in front of me right now. As it happens I am running Ubuntu 10.4. So 10.10 may be worth upgrading to...
you had a better experience with Windows 7 than me. I recently built a new computer for my mum. Both Lan and sound were not detected out of the box unlike every Linux Distro I have used in the last 5 years. Don't get me wrong Ubuntu could do with a lot of improvement but Windows and even Mac are not perfect either.
There is a very important distinction here... There is a difference between having somebody try to disprove your stuff and somebody trying to wage a dirty PR war using arguments that have already been tested scientifically and have already been disproved (with the expectation that a large percentage of the intended audience will buy the argument). These issues would be worth revisiting if there was new data or new thinking on the problem but frequently the arguments put forwards but this tends not to be the case. I would like to see a non AGW explanation that fits the recent climate data that actually has scientific merit. It would hold a whole lot more weight than this being a global conspiracy between hundreds of scientific organisations and that everything was cooked up out of nothing.
I suspect however that making things more open if done properly in the long run will be an improvement all round.
I use gimp pretty much daily in my job it's a piece of software that I already am quite comfortable with and I don't have to bother the bosses to get me a photoshop license.
Most of what I do is either 3D textures or icons and user interface design. The GIMP handles these sorts of tasks perfectly adequately
I have previously used it to do print work and photographic work. It is fine for doing small print runs (too small to bother with offset printing) though I could see photoshop being a lot more useful in a heavier prepress environment.
The main problem that the gimp has is lack of man power. There are only a few people working on it and doing so in their spare time. Krita recently asked for donations to get a programmer to work full time on stability, speed issues. I have been quite impressed with the improvements that have been made.
a lot of users either want a free Photoshop clone which is not going to happen (creative problem solving is one of the more enjoyable aspects of coding and following cloning somebody else's work doesn't really allow for that). There is also the issue that if you create a free Photoshop clone you are just inviting trouble from Adobe's lawyers. Another group comes from Microsoft Paint and is looking for something considerably simpler with tools to draw rectangles and straight lines. This may a legitimate complaint though I personally find Inkscape better for these sorts of tasks.
The most bizarre complaint is the name - which happens to be an american slang word with negative connotations, I guess that means that people in the religious right might be a bit embarrassed using it... If you are that prissy then that's your problem. Meanwhile get a dictionary and look up the other non slang meanings of the word. You might be suprised
Having used both Photoshop and GIMP, on both Windows and Mac platforms, I can tell you that yes, GIMP is harder to learn. I spent more than half an hour in GIMP trying to figure out why, when removing the white to transparency in a picture, it made the whole thing translucent. I still don't know why or how it happened, since all I did was use the "colour to alpha" tool, which is supposed to turn that specific colour to transparent. Also, trying to manipulate text boxes is a bitch and a half.
No, Photoshop's easier, even if it's expensive.
That's pretty much what the tool does... Color to alpha is a specialised tool. It takes a colour and calculates the similarity between that color and the color of the pixel it is looking at. The more similar the colors are the more transparent the result. This tool is great for semi transparent objects (eg a glass of liquid photographed against a white background). It is also good for removing halos from cut out objects when used in conjunction with a mask.
To do what you want to do - you want to make sure your image has transparency layers->transparency->add alpha channel. Use the color select tool then hit the delete key (or edit->clear).
You should perhaps install the Kernel Headers package. The current official nVidia drivers will automatically rebuild themselves for a new kernel but require the headers to be installed. This should probably be listed as a dependency of the binary nvidia drivers.
Also Ubuntu allows you to get back to previously installed kernels should you have a problem. I am not sure it shows them by default for a release.
I think so. Most of the anti AGW Stuff I have come across is psuedo scientific. It sounds plausible until you cross reference it with official records or do a direct comparison on pro AGW vs anti AGW on that particular topic.
In many cases the ANTI AGW camp deliberately quote scientists out of context. Cherry pick data in a way that is obvious should you go to the source of the data they are quoting (there has been no warming since 1998). Often they grab apon old ideas in scientific literature that have long since been disproven (CO2 won't matter because it will reach a saturation level very soon) or construct strawmen (CO2 lags temperature historically therefore it cannot be the cause of global warming) or hold that localised temperature changes invalidate AGW theory.
There are one or two good claims made by the anti AGW but the signal to noise ratio is terrible. Likewise there are few genuine skeptics who have a voice on the anti AGW side of the debate (and probably quite a few more people who are skeptics who don't speek publically on the subject). However the majority of what I see online is spreading of easily falsifiable propaganda.
There is a difference between "Skeptics" and "Deniers" most of the people who publish anti AGW stuff on the web are "Deniers", in that they have an agenda to specifically disprove AGW rather than simply disagreeing with the science. You can tell this by the number of articles published which don't even get basic fact checking. A Skeptic would not do that.
I tend to think of this as being given a pre packaged cake mix with instructions as opposed to being given flour, milk, eggs, chocolate and having to figure out what to do with them. If you are already a cook then this isn't a problem if not you are probably going to want to get yourself a cookbook.
With regards to ladspa effects the UI's are minimalistic rather than ugly. However they don't really clue you in to what you are supposed to be doing you either know or you don't know. I got around this by purchasing a few good audio engineering books which gave me the necessary information and decades of insight into industry best practice. If that is not the kind of thing that floats your boat, I completely understand. Complex effects can be built up from simple plugins. The situation is changing and LV2 plugins with custom UIs starting to show up calf being the best known examples but I would also add the linuxdsp set to the list. As far as reverbs go the best is not listed as a reverb but as a convolver (jconv) and is at present a bit cumbersome to use. In general it is accurate to say that Mac and Windows users have a much larger wealth of choice.
With regards to Synthesizers http://www.audiomasterclass.com/arc.cfm?a=how-many-different-types-of-synthesis-are-there-how-many-matter lists the most common forms of synthesis. Almost all synths fall into into minor variations of these types... ZynAddSubFX has very deep editing capabilities and can do Subtractive, Additive and Wavetable Synthesis. It's fairly easy to find fm synthesizers (though I personally don't think they are terribly useful). I would like to see at least one easy to use granular synthesizer and more physical modelling synths. (I have pianoteq but it is not particularly cheep and very piano centric but awesome). It would also be great to samplers that support more of the popular sample formats (so far I know of support for SF2 and gigasampler). In general I would say that you don't need many many different synths just a couple of good flexible ones (depending on how far you like to get from the presets) and if you head away from that direction then there are tools like puredata and csound. Again I completely understand if that is not what you want to do and you are right that linux does not provide the richness of choice that Mac or Windows does. I am currently looking for good books on synthesis I have found a few already but if anybody has links to share that would be great.
I guess at the end of the day Linux supports some approaches to music quite well and others not well at all. Mac and Windows will give you much greater flexibility but linux is there and can work for you if you really want it to.
One thing about this that really amuses me. If you go to realclimate.org you and read the comments you will see real debate going on... Comments may be moved but opinions that have some merit to the discussion seem to be left in. In contrast I have been trying to find websites from the other side of the debate and so far I haven't found any that seem to have any sort of dissenting opinion - it's just one massive circle jerk.
if you are talking about what I think you are talking about - I was relatively suprised to find out that a certain filesystem might making it into linux proper sometime next year. It appears that it not as dead as I originally thought afterall.
Doesn't the fact that you have a scrollbar just mean you have too much shit in your desktop folder? If the scrollbar wasn't there - how would the desktop deal with it. I know how Mac OS X deals with it... and that is to stack the extra icons on top of the existing icons. I know which behaviour seems less of a Pita to me.
Your point about icons not showing up is valid though the problem is plasma taking it's sweet time rather than any slowness in kwin. As for the other Desktop containment (the default one) not being a valid design decision. I like having my desktop unobstructed the rediculous amounts of garbage that seems to accumulate on most (windows users) desktops. I prefer to have my files organised so I can find them easily and I like the ability to add multiple folder views to the desktop that way I can quickly get to the files I actually need access to (if I am working on a particular job I will have a folderview on my desktop containing the files for that job)...
I haven't been able to get the share function to work either. As far as the powermanagement goes adding the battery plasmoid to your desktop or panel will give you quick access to your power settings. Most distros load this plasmoid by default. from this it becomes one click to manage the most common settings and two to get the full control panel.
With the name editing - I do agree that this could be done as you specified, however you can set dolphin not to do renaming inline and it will work as you suggested. Just not as nicely as doing it inline.
There are two pieces of information you are forgetting or are not aware of.... Gnome and KDE both use the same intra application messaging system DBUS... KDE moved from it's own system DKOP when it moved from 3 to 4...
The second thing is that QT runs glib's (that is the bottom most library in the GTK stack) event loop as well as it's own.
But yes, apps may have to be significantly rewritten. But you could also mix qt and gtk apps in the same system and the user would find it different to tell the difference.
Actually I am experiencing somewhat the opposite - I have used Kubuntu for a conciderably amount of time and I am trying out Arch along with kdemod.... Kubuntu has been pretty much solid for me as far as basic desktop functionality is concerned (I know a lot of the extra software is crap)... But I am getting strange behaviour on Arch at the basic window managment level.
I do like what arch is doing and like the idea of being on a rolling distro again...
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1) When a person is mentally dedicated to a single task the certain things about the passage of time can be forgotten. I doubt that Sintel didn't realise that time was passing so much as didn't realise that the dragon she left behind would not be the dragon she saw (she was living in the past). It's also possible that dragons grow a lot faster than Sintel realised.
2)In many species male adults kill and sometimes eat infants of the same species. Usually this is so that the adult females become receptive to breeding but not always.
3) The man in the first scene is not a bandit per say (I will leave you to figure that one out). The old man eats soup and probably traps animals.
Not really a big deal. If Valve had made a native steam client for Linux I would certainly have taken a look to see what is available. The last native ports of games that were any good that I played were NeverWinter Nights and Unreal Tournament 2004.
I work most days on Linux in one of the few commercial game engines that supports Linux natively and I have to say that.
1) Graphics work well (for nvidia anyways - the game engine we are using targets DirectX 11/ OpenGL 4 hardware).
2) Sound needs some work (I wish they still made consumer soundcards that support hardware mixing).
3) The usual problems would be. Most Linux users are either poor and honest, cheep, don't have have premium pc graphics hardware or are ideologically opposed to closed software.
I guess that really just means I have one less distraction from doing productive things. Either that or my gaming dollar is going to be spent on my Wii rather than my PC.
Yes I have...
On several desktops and a few laptops. Only one machine gave me any problems. For that I just used one of the USB wireless adapters I used for the desktops. My general experience is that more tends to work out of the box on Ubuntu than windows but for some hardware configurations it really sucks and if it isn't supported out of the box it is harder to get running [than windows].
I have a 23 inch monitor that supports multi-touch in front of me right now. As it happens I am running Ubuntu 10.4. So 10.10 may be worth upgrading to...
you had a better experience with Windows 7 than me. I recently built a new computer for my mum. Both Lan and sound were not detected out of the box unlike every Linux Distro I have used in the last 5 years.
Don't get me wrong Ubuntu could do with a lot of improvement but Windows and even Mac are not perfect either.
There is a very important distinction here... There is a difference between having somebody try to disprove your stuff and somebody trying to wage a dirty PR war using arguments that have already been tested scientifically and have already been disproved (with the expectation that a large percentage of the intended audience will buy the argument). These issues would be worth revisiting if there was new data or new thinking on the problem but frequently the arguments put forwards but this tends not to be the case. I would like to see a non AGW explanation that fits the recent climate data that actually has scientific merit. It would hold a whole lot more weight than this being a global conspiracy between hundreds of scientific organisations and that everything was cooked up out of nothing.
I suspect however that making things more open if done properly in the long run will be an improvement all round.
I use gimp pretty much daily in my job it's a piece of software that I already am quite comfortable with and I don't have to bother the bosses to get me a photoshop license. Most of what I do is either 3D textures or icons and user interface design. The GIMP handles these sorts of tasks perfectly adequately
I have previously used it to do print work and photographic work. It is fine for doing small print runs (too small to bother with offset printing) though I could see photoshop being a lot more useful in a heavier prepress environment.
The main problem that the gimp has is lack of man power. There are only a few people working on it and doing so in their spare time. Krita recently asked for donations to get a programmer to work full time on stability, speed issues. I have been quite impressed with the improvements that have been made.
a lot of users either want a free Photoshop clone which is not going to happen (creative problem solving is one of the more enjoyable aspects of coding and following cloning somebody else's work doesn't really allow for that). There is also the issue that if you create a free Photoshop clone you are just inviting trouble from Adobe's lawyers. Another group comes from Microsoft Paint and is looking for something considerably simpler with tools to draw rectangles and straight lines. This may a legitimate complaint though I personally find Inkscape better for these sorts of tasks.
The most bizarre complaint is the name - which happens to be an american slang word with negative connotations, I guess that means that people in the religious right might be a bit embarrassed using it... If you are that prissy then that's your problem. Meanwhile get a dictionary and look up the other non slang meanings of the word. You might be suprised
Thankyou very much - This is something I did not know that the gimp did...
Having used both Photoshop and GIMP, on both Windows and Mac platforms, I can tell you that yes, GIMP is harder to learn. I spent more than half an hour in GIMP trying to figure out why, when removing the white to transparency in a picture, it made the whole thing translucent. I still don't know why or how it happened, since all I did was use the "colour to alpha" tool, which is supposed to turn that specific colour to transparent. Also, trying to manipulate text boxes is a bitch and a half.
No, Photoshop's easier, even if it's expensive.
That's pretty much what the tool does... Color to alpha is a specialised tool. It takes a colour and calculates the similarity between that color and the color of the pixel it is looking at. The more similar the colors are the more transparent the result. This tool is great for semi transparent objects (eg a glass of liquid photographed against a white background). It is also good for removing halos from cut out objects when used in conjunction with a mask.
To do what you want to do - you want to make sure your image has transparency layers->transparency->add alpha channel. Use the color select tool then hit the delete key (or edit->clear).
That Conroy et al are not so much interested in controlling what we do as much as they are shills for internet security software.
Actually remembering the last time I was involved with a government technology program and who was involved that wouldn't surprise me in the least.
just install the kernel headers.... Ubuntu will take care of the rest.
You should perhaps install the Kernel Headers package. The current official nVidia drivers will automatically rebuild themselves for a new kernel but require the headers to be installed. This should probably be listed as a dependency of the binary nvidia drivers. Also Ubuntu allows you to get back to previously installed kernels should you have a problem. I am not sure it shows them by default for a release.
Unless you choose a very yellow orange and a very blue purple in which case you have a complimentary colour scheme.
A case study of that petition. Should give some more balanced information on how it put forward and what a breakdown of the results actually mean.
I think so. Most of the anti AGW Stuff I have come across is psuedo scientific. It sounds plausible until you cross reference it with official records or do a direct comparison on pro AGW vs anti AGW on that particular topic.
In many cases the ANTI AGW camp deliberately quote scientists out of context. Cherry pick data in a way that is obvious should you go to the source of the data they are quoting (there has been no warming since 1998). Often they grab apon old ideas in scientific literature that have long since been disproven (CO2 won't matter because it will reach a saturation level very soon) or construct strawmen (CO2 lags temperature historically therefore it cannot be the cause of global warming) or hold that localised temperature changes invalidate AGW theory.
There are one or two good claims made by the anti AGW but the signal to noise ratio is terrible. Likewise there are few genuine skeptics who have a voice on the anti AGW side of the debate (and probably quite a few more people who are skeptics who don't speek publically on the subject). However the majority of what I see online is spreading of easily falsifiable propaganda.
There is a difference between "Skeptics" and "Deniers" most of the people who publish anti AGW stuff on the web are "Deniers", in that they have an agenda to specifically disprove AGW rather than simply disagreeing with the science. You can tell this by the number of articles published which don't even get basic fact checking. A Skeptic would not do that.
I tend to think of this as being given a pre packaged cake mix with instructions as opposed to being given flour, milk, eggs, chocolate and having to figure out what to do with them. If you are already a cook then this isn't a problem if not you are probably going to want to get yourself a cookbook.
With regards to ladspa effects the UI's are minimalistic rather than ugly. However they don't really clue you in to what you are supposed to be doing you either know or you don't know. I got around this by purchasing a few good audio engineering books which gave me the necessary information and decades of insight into industry best practice. If that is not the kind of thing that floats your boat, I completely understand. Complex effects can be built up from simple plugins. The situation is changing and LV2 plugins with custom UIs starting to show up calf being the best known examples but I would also add the linuxdsp set to the list. As far as reverbs go the best is not listed as a reverb but as a convolver (jconv) and is at present a bit cumbersome to use. In general it is accurate to say that Mac and Windows users have a much larger wealth of choice.
With regards to Synthesizers http://www.audiomasterclass.com/arc.cfm?a=how-many-different-types-of-synthesis-are-there-how-many-matter
lists the most common forms of synthesis. Almost all synths fall into into minor variations of these types... ZynAddSubFX has very deep editing capabilities and can do Subtractive, Additive and Wavetable Synthesis. It's fairly easy to find fm synthesizers (though I personally don't think they are terribly useful). I would like to see at least one easy to use granular synthesizer and more physical modelling synths. (I have pianoteq but it is not particularly cheep and very piano centric but awesome). It would also be great to samplers that support more of the popular sample formats (so far I know of support for SF2 and gigasampler). In general I would say that you don't need many many different synths just a couple of good flexible ones (depending on how far you like to get from the presets) and if you head away from that direction then there are tools like puredata and csound. Again I completely understand if that is not what you want to do and you are right that linux does not provide the richness of choice that Mac or Windows does. I am currently looking for good books on synthesis I have found a few already but if anybody has links to share that would be great.
I guess at the end of the day Linux supports some approaches to music quite well and others not well at all. Mac and Windows will give you much greater flexibility but linux is there and can work for you if you really want it to.
One thing about this that really amuses me. If you go to realclimate.org you and read the comments you will see real debate going on... Comments may be moved but opinions that have some merit to the discussion seem to be left in. In contrast I have been trying to find websites from the other side of the debate and so far I haven't found any that seem to have any sort of dissenting opinion - it's just one massive circle jerk.
Its worth noting that gimp will still be part of the default install for Ubuntu Studio. Should you require Gimp on a default install of some kind.
What is exactly is wrong with using the crop tool to crop an image?
if you are talking about what I think you are talking about - I was relatively suprised to find out that a certain filesystem might making it into linux proper sometime next year. It appears that it not as dead as I originally thought afterall.
Doesn't the fact that you have a scrollbar just mean you have too much shit in your desktop folder?
If the scrollbar wasn't there - how would the desktop deal with it. I know how Mac OS X deals with it... and that is to stack the extra icons on top of the existing icons. I know which behaviour seems less of a Pita to me.
Your point about icons not showing up is valid though the problem is plasma taking it's sweet time rather than any slowness in kwin. As for the other Desktop containment (the default one) not being a valid design decision. I like having my desktop unobstructed the rediculous amounts of garbage that seems to accumulate on most (windows users) desktops. I prefer to have my files organised so I can find them easily and I like the ability to add multiple folder views to the desktop that way I can quickly get to the files I actually need access to (if I am working on a particular job I will have a folderview on my desktop containing the files for that job)...
I haven't been able to get the share function to work either. As far as the powermanagement goes adding the battery plasmoid to your desktop or panel will give you quick access to your power settings. Most distros load this plasmoid by default. from this it becomes one click to manage the most common settings and two to get the full control panel.
With the name editing - I do agree that this could be done as you specified, however you can set dolphin not to do renaming inline and it will work as you suggested. Just not as nicely as doing it inline.
There are two pieces of information you are forgetting or are not aware of.... Gnome and KDE both use the same intra application messaging system DBUS... KDE moved from it's own system DKOP when it moved from 3 to 4...
The second thing is that QT runs glib's (that is the bottom most library in the GTK stack) event loop as well as it's own.
But yes, apps may have to be significantly rewritten. But you could also mix qt and gtk apps in the same system and the user would find it different to tell the difference.
Actually I am experiencing somewhat the opposite - I have used Kubuntu for a conciderably amount of time and I am trying out Arch along with kdemod.... Kubuntu has been pretty much solid for me as far as basic desktop functionality is concerned (I know a lot of the extra software is crap)... But I am getting strange behaviour on Arch at the basic window managment level.
I do like what arch is doing and like the idea of being on a rolling distro again...
Given the overall hardware reliability of the XBox 360 I would say that purchasing a second hand one has *always* been a great risk.