It worked for me for a little while, but then I told someone in the ubuntu forums that I never had it crash, and then it started crashing. I didn't like some of the way things worked either, like no real clip thumbnails once it was trimmed, etc. I am not a coder (yet...the more I learn about open source and using linux, the more I want to contribute). Right now, I think the best program is kdenlive, but the audio waveform isn't working for me right now, which is a showstopper. For most uses though, it is a pretty good program, it just needs more fostering and time. Try it out if you get a chance.
I last used cinelerra a year ago, and I'm not sure if there have been any changes, but maybe I will have to try it again.
However, I really wish you had actually read what I said before ranting. So, I will take the time to respond to you:
1.
Yah, for SOME "professionals", and are you saying that those same professionals couldn't do their job with earlier version than CS3 when there wasn't such options in photoshop?
a. What I am saying is that people who work in publishing NEED CMYK to do their jobs. Some couldn't do their jobs without it.
b. According to this article, adjustment layers have been around since 1998, and I know cmyk and layer grouping have been around for a while too. So, professionals could do their jobs with versions prior to CS3. However, I'm sure some of them couldn't do their jobs with 1.0, as certain things change as the industry standard changes. So, I'm sure that certain people can't do their jobs once you get older than a certain version.
C'm, grow up and start huggin that photoshop as it would make it's users talent image editors.
Tools do not a talented editor make. However, using the right tool for the right job can help a person be more efficient.
I'm professional and i get lots of feedback how talent i'm and i dont use Photoshop. I use Gimp and Krita.
Good for you, you are not one of the some that I mentioned earlier. As I said in the very next sentence that you don't seem to have read:
However, gimp is good enough for many amateur and some professional uses.
Now, back to you:
ps. When did you last time use Gimp for real and not just "yah, GIMP dosn't look like a photoshop, it's not a flexible enough for professinals like me"?
Now, that just irritates me. RTFP, as I once again clearly said I use the gimp:
While I like the gimp for what I do, my father who does photo retouching prefers photoshop.
Not to mention I never said I was a pro. I work in another field, but I do dabble. My father on the other hand is a pro.
Sorry for the delay in posting, I just got home. Please try to read what I say next time though before getting righteously indignant at something I didn't say or imply. Best of luck in your profession which doesn't need photoshop.
Finally, linux users can join in on the piracy of adobe products that the Mac and Windows people have been able to do. See, linux IS getting more like the other OS's every day!:^)
For some professionals, there are tools that do not yet exist in gimp that they cannot be without (cmyk, layer grouping, adjustment layers, the list goes on).
However, gimp is good enough for many amateur and some professional uses.
While I like the gimp for what I do, my father who does photo retouching prefers photoshop.
If having photoshop work better(I believe it was bronze on winehq.com a little while back) helps make people make the move to linux, I'm all for it.
While we're at it... how about premiere too? Linux video editing doesn't even have a gimp equiv (kino doesn't give me enough control, cinelerra crashes, kdenlive has a few bugs and not enough effects yet...)
So, if the spec for ooxml is over 6K pages, that means that the specifications for a document format is at least twice as big as the budget for one of the largest countries in the world.
Think of it like an auction. The more people competing, the higher the price goes. You add in all the reports that estimate where a company will bid, then another company tops that, then another tops that....
In the end, 5 bidders bidding will probably jack the price up to higher than 2 bidders.
And who in the end pays that price in some form or another? Yup, us.
So while I am all for increased competition, and so far google hasn't passed on too many costs to us (I assume it gets passed on the the advertisers), it still makes me nervous. What if they don't win? Where do the prices go?
I think they need to split up the spectrum into parts, and then only allow a certain number of parts to be owned by one entity. That allows for competition, and therefore cost cutting. Just an idea.
PJ - also known as the person who IBM loves since they don't have to pay to give them a big helping hand...
Although she does deserve a nice bonus from all the companies that were aided by her efforts.
She made a place where people could discuss and analyze the case, thus enabling many different minds to come together and put their different strengths to greater benefit. You give people access to the info and let them think for themselves, and you give them power. You also get people lining up to try and help.
Both her and Ray (for the RIAA cases) deserve a lot of credit for putting together a compendium of info that would be way too time consuming for people to get for themselves. They see what is going on in different cases, and can connect the dots. While we were in a sense helping out corporations, we were also helping out ourselves, and without the place to go to get the info and a safe place to discuss it, it wouldn't have happened.
So Thanks PJ, you helped open the window to what SCO was trying to do, and showed what they were hiding. And this is why people are afraid of the open source and info movements - they don't want people able to see what they are up to (such as borrowing code, not disclosing hard to find info, etc).
I am all for allowing multiple people fight for my money. And in some locals, people like rcn already are in competition with Comcast.
One other aspect though is public access channels. The town makes deals where a certain amount of money goes to public access. While many hate the shows there, some can be rather good, and either way it gives people a voice, and the option to learn about tv.
The deals that the access channels are getting lately are starting to get worse and worse (many people are full time volunteers that can barely afford used equipment). Older deals allowed for at least some new equipment, and maybe a curtain or pipe grid for lights.
If opened up, what would the deals end up being? Would they revise the deals so that each pays the percentage of users it has at the end of the month or year? And who would you negotiate with for more money?
Like I said, I love the idea of competition and lowering prices (and a la carte), but I thought that someone should bring up the already suffering local channels.
First of all, I RTFA. Nowhere on the page does it say that anything is closed.
The file format is just a list of files:
In comparison with a torrent file, which has a complex encoding, the ".p2p" format is simply a bzip2ed file in XML format containing the list of files in the bundle.
Now, onto the beginning war:
A. Bittorrent is the typical protocol now
B. They are now trying to enhance it
C. Pirate bay is now coming up with a different protocol
D. Pirate bay says the other parties protocol gives the other party "too much power".
How many times have we seen this before? They are going to start sniping at each other because each believes their protocol is better, and thinks the other will have too much power by having the standard protocol. So we get into a war that attempts to divide the community, with fanboys on either side joining in. For previous "Art" see betamax vs vhs, blueray vs hddvd, compiz vs beryl, and even gnome vs kde.
While I am all for competition to make way for the better product, I think it would be best if the two
sides would work together instead of trying to fight it out, to the probable benefit of no one.
The new screens and graphics control panel is added to gnome so that you can now do this out of the box. It shows two screens, and you can dual screen it or switch screens from the control panel. You may have to restart X for changes to take effect, however it is much better than it used to be. I had no problems selecting the right resolution for my computer (1280x1024).
AS for the hard drive throttling, that could be a serious issue, and one I am sure they will try to fix asap, especially with a Long Term Support version coming up next. They want that thing as bug free and stable as it can get, and something like this could hurt their rep. On the other hand, who's to say other OS's/distros aren't doing the same thing?
So, their spec for OOXML calls for displaying things like office does.
Who's to say that their interface docs don't have a line somewhere that says it "connects with a share like xp does" in order to protect the code within the "blue bubble".
I know interfaces should be relatively free of things like this, but when they take thousands of pages to lay out a document format that still isn't specific enough, I can only wonder how much they will continue to leave out of the info they give to everyone else to protect their intellectual property.
After announcing this, they notified the black market that it would be $2,000.00 a month to notify people being illegally tapped that they were being illegally tapped.
When confronted by the govt, they let them know that secrecy, much like their internet connection uptime, is in no way guaranteed under the current terms.
For guaranteed privacy, it is $5,000.00 per month. However, if they only listen on nights and weekends, the fee is slightly reduced.
The issue is the fact that they are selling the tickets above the face value.
If I remember correctly, here in MA is is completely legal to resell tickets - just not for profit.
Our local sports teams have more than just a few insanely loyal fans who will do just about anything to see a game. People try to take advantage of this, which results in prices nearing mortage levels (and at 300k for a 2 bed home in the suburbs here, that it quite a bit of money).
I'm all for people being enterprising and making a little money - say 10% or at most 20% above face value. But anything over that is taking advantage of the fans, and preying on their obsessive love of the sports they love.
If I remember correctly, Comcast says that something like 1% of the user base causes 15% of the bandwidth, etc. Therefore, they throttle the thing that takes up the most bandwidth (torrents), in the name of helping out all the other users.
However, I would love to see stats on what percentage of their users actually use bittorrent. Until someone can prove that more than 1% use it, they can use that argument and 85% of people will shout"Yeah, more bandwidth for me, screw those pirates", without realizing the legitimate torrent uses (such as linux distro rollouts, patches as mentioned before, media defender email leaks, etc).
At leas the media is finally catching on, but until we get people to realizing that it is a slippery slope that affects them, there will not be enough uproar to stop them.
So, if we could only get our hands on how many people use it... we might be able to make some noise. Until then, the average joe will say "So What?"
In order for it to install the restricted drivers (which is probably required for your card), you have to install. The livecd is not persistent, and the comp has to be rebooted for the drivers to be updated and included in xorg.
Once I installed, and installed the restricted drivers, everything worked like a charm.
So, how far does this go? If someone makes a torrent that has a txt file in it that says they'll stop seeding if someone files a takedown, does that mean they'm safe? Or just a file that says that in a shared folder?
Does this also protect torrent trackers? I thought isohunt had to take down US trackers because of riaa pressure. Does this protect them too (as I know they have a takedown option)?
I would have thought this was the first defense any of the trackers would have used. Why would it apply only here, and not to trackers?
Well, while I think it would fiscally be a good move, how many companies that have been in lawsuits with one another for decades tend to want to work together? I'm sure some bad blood still exists, and that working together would chafe at apple music's egos.
Not saying it won't happen, but I think I understand why it hasn't happened yet.
Well, the fight with Apple music and apple computer is well known.
So it obviously makes sense that they won't be on itunes anytime soon (although as of last week, they are all on there solo). I wonder if apple would fight back if they did digital distribution, as it is now apple stepping on the toes of what they are doing.
Either way, it should be only a matter of time before the other guys realize that the old way of doing music is over, and it is time to embrace the new-fangled technology. I'm surprised it's taken them this long, but on the other hand people still want cds of their music as they are some of the most famous bands of all time, so it probably hasn't hurt them as much as it hurts the little guys who are just coming out.
First the other conspiracy theorists say that you are crazy (and crazy to them is out of this world...), but now the people on slashdot, who should know good prose (not to mention porn) when they see it (being nerds and all), call out your story for being a waste of time and a possible technique by the company in question to change the topic and make the community instead of you look like fools.
There is a reason we call it anonymous coward.
Thanks for trying to waste our time. Too bad the mods got to you first. So, you failed again. You may now go to bed unsatisfied and unfulfilled.
The companies systematically and intentionally look for any advantage, and push the grey area as far as it can go, even into the dark side. Some of this may be "rogue" employees, but their are so many tiers of approval in major companies I find those theories suspect.
I tend to think that if the law fits...
On another note, I'm sure the RIAA was watching this one closely, as they are not looking forward to the RICO suit that was filed against them. Let's hope this is just another decision closer to the destruction of their methods.
It's not a hack, someone just gave us the domain name. We have no idea how they got it, but it's ours and we're keeping it.
Can I use that to explain the music on my computer?
"Umm yeah, some guy gave me a cd of this music. I have no idea how he got it, but it's mine and I'm keeping it."
Someone call Ray Beckerman - I think we have the new defense all worked out for him! I don't care if it was his to give or not - still my music as they gave it to me!
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It worked for me for a little while, but then I told someone in the ubuntu forums that I never had it crash, and then it started crashing. I didn't like some of the way things worked either, like no real clip thumbnails once it was trimmed, etc. I am not a coder (yet...the more I learn about open source and using linux, the more I want to contribute). Right now, I think the best program is kdenlive, but the audio waveform isn't working for me right now, which is a showstopper. For most uses though, it is a pretty good program, it just needs more fostering and time. Try it out if you get a chance.
I last used cinelerra a year ago, and I'm not sure if there have been any changes, but maybe I will have to try it again.
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
However, I really wish you had actually read what I said before ranting. So, I will take the time to respond to you:
1.
a. What I am saying is that people who work in publishing NEED CMYK to do their jobs. Some couldn't do their jobs without it.
Tools do not a talented editor make. However, using the right tool for the right job can help a person be more efficient. Good for you, you are not one of the some that I mentioned earlier. As I said in the very next sentence that you don't seem to have read:b. According to this article, adjustment layers have been around since 1998, and I know cmyk and layer grouping have been around for a while too. So, professionals could do their jobs with versions prior to CS3. However, I'm sure some of them couldn't do their jobs with 1.0, as certain things change as the industry standard changes. So, I'm sure that certain people can't do their jobs once you get older than a certain version.
Now, back to you:
Now, that just irritates me. RTFP, as I once again clearly said I use the gimp: Not to mention I never said I was a pro. I work in another field, but I do dabble. My father on the other hand is a pro.Sorry for the delay in posting, I just got home. Please try to read what I say next time though before getting righteously indignant at something I didn't say or imply. Best of luck in your profession which doesn't need photoshop.
Finally, linux users can join in on the piracy of adobe products that the Mac and Windows people have been able to do. See, linux IS getting more like the other OS's every day! :^)
For some professionals, there are tools that do not yet exist in gimp that they cannot be without (cmyk, layer grouping, adjustment layers, the list goes on).
However, gimp is good enough for many amateur and some professional uses.
While I like the gimp for what I do, my father who does photo retouching prefers photoshop.
If having photoshop work better(I believe it was bronze on winehq.com a little while back) helps make people make the move to linux, I'm all for it.
While we're at it... how about premiere too? Linux video editing doesn't even have a gimp equiv (kino doesn't give me enough control, cinelerra crashes, kdenlive has a few bugs and not enough effects yet...)
So, if the spec for ooxml is over 6K pages, that means that the specifications for a document format is at least twice as big as the budget for one of the largest countries in the world.
Is it just me, or is that insane?
Think of it like an auction. The more people competing, the higher the price goes. You add in all the reports that estimate where a company will bid, then another company tops that, then another tops that....
In the end, 5 bidders bidding will probably jack the price up to higher than 2 bidders.
And who in the end pays that price in some form or another? Yup, us.
So while I am all for increased competition, and so far google hasn't passed on too many costs to us (I assume it gets passed on the the advertisers), it still makes me nervous. What if they don't win? Where do the prices go?
I think they need to split up the spectrum into parts, and then only allow a certain number of parts to be owned by one entity. That allows for competition, and therefore cost cutting. Just an idea.
PJ - also known as the person who IBM loves since they don't have to pay to give them a big helping hand...
Although she does deserve a nice bonus from all the companies that were aided by her efforts.
She made a place where people could discuss and analyze the case, thus enabling many different minds to come together and put their different strengths to greater benefit. You give people access to the info and let them think for themselves, and you give them power. You also get people lining up to try and help.
Both her and Ray (for the RIAA cases) deserve a lot of credit for putting together a compendium of info that would be way too time consuming for people to get for themselves. They see what is going on in different cases, and can connect the dots. While we were in a sense helping out corporations, we were also helping out ourselves, and without the place to go to get the info and a safe place to discuss it, it wouldn't have happened.
So Thanks PJ, you helped open the window to what SCO was trying to do, and showed what they were hiding. And this is why people are afraid of the open source and info movements - they don't want people able to see what they are up to (such as borrowing code, not disclosing hard to find info, etc).
I am all for allowing multiple people fight for my money. And in some locals, people like rcn already are in competition with Comcast.
One other aspect though is public access channels. The town makes deals where a certain amount of money goes to public access. While many hate the shows there, some can be rather good, and either way it gives people a voice, and the option to learn about tv.
The deals that the access channels are getting lately are starting to get worse and worse (many people are full time volunteers that can barely afford used equipment). Older deals allowed for at least some new equipment, and maybe a curtain or pipe grid for lights.
If opened up, what would the deals end up being? Would they revise the deals so that each pays the percentage of users it has at the end of the month or year? And who would you negotiate with for more money?
Like I said, I love the idea of competition and lowering prices (and a la carte), but I thought that someone should bring up the already suffering local channels.
First of all, I RTFA. Nowhere on the page does it say that anything is closed.
The file format is just a list of files:
Now, onto the beginning war:
A. Bittorrent is the typical protocol now
B. They are now trying to enhance it
C. Pirate bay is now coming up with a different protocol D. Pirate bay says the other parties protocol gives the other party "too much power".
How many times have we seen this before? They are going to start sniping at each other because each believes their protocol is better, and thinks the other will have too much power by having the standard protocol. So we get into a war that attempts to divide the community, with fanboys on either side joining in. For previous "Art" see betamax vs vhs, blueray vs hddvd, compiz vs beryl, and even gnome vs kde.
While I am all for competition to make way for the better product, I think it would be best if the two sides would work together instead of trying to fight it out, to the probable benefit of no one.
The new screens and graphics control panel is added to gnome so that you can now do this out of the box.
It shows two screens, and you can dual screen it or switch screens from the control panel. You may have to restart X for changes to take effect, however it is much better than it used to be. I had no problems selecting the right resolution for my computer (1280x1024).
AS for the hard drive throttling, that could be a serious issue, and one I am sure they will try to fix asap, especially with a Long Term Support version coming up next. They want that thing as bug free and stable as it can get, and something like this could hurt their rep. On the other hand, who's to say other OS's/distros aren't doing the same thing?
So, their spec for OOXML calls for displaying things like office does.
Who's to say that their interface docs don't have a line somewhere that says it "connects with a share like xp does" in order to protect the code within the "blue bubble".
I know interfaces should be relatively free of things like this, but when they take thousands of pages to lay out a document format that still isn't specific enough, I can only wonder how much they will continue to leave out of the info they give to everyone else to protect their intellectual property.
After announcing this, they notified the black market that it would be $2,000.00 a month to notify people being illegally tapped that they were being illegally tapped.
When confronted by the govt, they let them know that secrecy, much like their internet connection uptime, is in no way guaranteed under the current terms.
For guaranteed privacy, it is $5,000.00 per month. However, if they only listen on nights and weekends, the fee is slightly reduced.
Talk about creating shareholder value!
The issue is the fact that they are selling the tickets above the face value.
If I remember correctly, here in MA is is completely legal to resell tickets - just not for profit.
Our local sports teams have more than just a few insanely loyal fans who will do just about anything to see a game. People try to take advantage of this, which results in prices nearing mortage levels (and at 300k for a 2 bed home in the suburbs here, that it quite a bit of money).
I'm all for people being enterprising and making a little money - say 10% or at most 20% above face value. But anything over that is taking advantage of the fans, and preying on their obsessive love of the sports they love.
If I remember correctly, Comcast says that something like 1% of the user base causes 15% of the bandwidth, etc. Therefore, they throttle the thing that takes up the most bandwidth (torrents), in the name of helping out all the other users.
However, I would love to see stats on what percentage of their users actually use bittorrent. Until someone can prove that more than 1% use it, they can use that argument and 85% of people will shout"Yeah, more bandwidth for me, screw those pirates", without realizing the legitimate torrent uses (such as linux distro rollouts, patches as mentioned before, media defender email leaks, etc).
At leas the media is finally catching on, but until we get people to realizing that it is a slippery slope that affects them, there will not be enough uproar to stop them.
So, if we could only get our hands on how many people use it... we might be able to make some noise. Until then, the average joe will say "So What?"
In order for it to install the restricted drivers (which is probably required for your card), you have to install. The livecd is not persistent, and the comp has to be rebooted for the drivers to be updated and included in xorg.
Once I installed, and installed the restricted drivers, everything worked like a charm.
So, how far does this go? If someone makes a torrent that has a txt file in it that says they'll stop seeding if someone files a takedown, does that mean they'm safe? Or just a file that says that in a shared folder?
Does this also protect torrent trackers? I thought isohunt had to take down US trackers because of riaa pressure. Does this protect them too (as I know they have a takedown option)?
I would have thought this was the first defense any of the trackers would have used. Why would it apply only here, and not to trackers?
Well, while I think it would fiscally be a good move, how many companies that have been in lawsuits with one another for decades tend to want to work together? I'm sure some bad blood still exists, and that working together would chafe at apple music's egos.
Not saying it won't happen, but I think I understand why it hasn't happened yet.
Well, the fight with Apple music and apple computer is well known.
So it obviously makes sense that they won't be on itunes anytime soon (although as of last week, they are all on there solo). I wonder if apple would fight back if they did digital distribution, as it is now apple stepping on the toes of what they are doing.
Either way, it should be only a matter of time before the other guys realize that the old way of doing music is over, and it is time to embrace the new-fangled technology. I'm surprised it's taken them this long, but on the other hand people still want cds of their music as they are some of the most famous bands of all time, so it probably hasn't hurt them as much as it hurts the little guys who are just coming out.
Awww, did someone not like your story?
First the other conspiracy theorists say that you are crazy (and crazy to them is out of this world...), but now the people on slashdot, who should know good prose (not to mention porn) when they see it (being nerds and all), call out your story for being a waste of time and a possible technique by the company in question to change the topic and make the community instead of you look like fools.
There is a reason we call it anonymous coward.
Thanks for trying to waste our time. Too bad the mods got to you first. So, you failed again. You may now go to bed unsatisfied and unfulfilled.
The companies systematically and intentionally look for any advantage, and push the grey area as far as it can go, even into the dark side. Some of this may be "rogue" employees, but their are so many tiers of approval in major companies I find those theories suspect.
I tend to think that if the law fits...
On another note, I'm sure the RIAA was watching this one closely, as they are not looking forward to the RICO suit that was filed against them. Let's hope this is just another decision closer to the destruction of their methods.
I for one welcome our new Saturnian overlords.
Sorry, it had to be said.
I didn't say it was illegal music... I just wanted an easy explanation
Can I use that to explain the music on my computer?
"Umm yeah, some guy gave me a cd of this music. I have no idea how he got it, but it's mine and I'm keeping it."
Someone call Ray Beckerman - I think we have the new defense all worked out for him! I don't care if it was his to give or not - still my music as they gave it to me!
Actually, it is making me consider moving back to Ubuntu 3.11...
On a laptop in gnome:
To setup:
System, Preferences, power management. General tab, change so the icon is displayed when you want it.
Then, go to the notification area. Right click the power icon (battery, ac, etc), then power history.
Go to power history, it gives you a graph of power usage. You can also find out voltage, etc.
Hope that helps.