So, the fact that an explanation is mathematically correct doesn't make it "right".:)
The above was for fun. However, what you are are referring to is a model of the existing distributions. It is not obvious that the variances could not also be trimmed by varyng educational constraints, if an effort were made to do so.
What the author of the review doesn't explain is the niche Gimp fills.
- Why use such a complex piece of software for fixing red-eye or cropping? - Why one needs to use PS for certain prepress jobs. - Why one should use Film-Gimp (Cinepaint) for its 16-bit deep editing abilities.
Gimp is not appropriate for every job, just like Perl or C++ have niches, and a review should explain what the appropriate tasks are.
Actually, I'm stuck using Ubuntu because it has support compiled in for some FTDI based usbserial hardware I'm using - usually I employ Puppy in a VM. And yes, I consider resorting to a compiler to be something to be done with malice aforethought:)
OK. Thank you very much for that pointer. I will reinstall my own VM. I thought it was general, because several people complained on the Ubuntu forums, and were told to go edit files... it seems there has been a kernel change which has messed up some keyboards like the MacBook Pro I'm using.
My keyboard is a mess. See below. If Linux cannot provide the user with a working keyboard out of the box how can they expect the user yuo do offfice work ?
An engineering firm in Italy sent me an Ubuntu 8.04 Virtual Appliance for some programming work. The keyboard cannot be reset at system level to French or Italian or anything, using the mouse interface.
This is a known Ubunti 8.04 release bug. xsetkbmap only partly alleviates the issue. Neither I or the firm know what to do. In fact, why should we ? International keyboard support is supposed to be a core ability of any "Desktop" system.
If Seattle sent countries Vista systems without customisable keyboards to sell, there would be a revolt among other buyers and regional employees.
I used Linux at Redhat 1. What was funny then has stopped being acceptable now.
Simple Latex is ok; but usually some bug or need occurs which means that you *must* make an amendment to an existing format, and then two days later you still haven't figured out how to do it. The often-found combiation of Latex plus Deadline is nerve-tearing.
I meant to say that server-side needs, eg. rock solid and fast file systems have been addressed in Linux for the past few years. However, desktop needs like color-management for applications (so you see the same color in Gimp, in Firefox and in any other app) have nto been addressed.
As other posters have noted the tools exist and individual applications have made great efforts at color management. However a systemic approach is missing. It's a bit as if every database app had to reimplement a file system. Can be done but not the best way to get it done.
This is typical Linux FUD. All the basic stuff has been made generally available by the various people who defined the ICC profile standards. There are no royalties attached. There are some excellent CMS packages under Linux (argyll, lcms) , but system-wide support is missing because of the fragmented nature of the community - read they cannot make up their minds where to put the config files, I'm not joking.
Color management means an image is shown the same on every screen, and as close as possible on paper. You cannot do serious photo work without integrated color management, but unfortunately even Winsh*t still leads Linux by ten years here. It's time the Linux guys moved their efforts to desktop app integration - the server is done - you hear me, guys ? the server is done, move to improving the desktop !
I disagree with Virgin - but this guy doesn't quite realize what he's been doing?
He's running a net anonymizer - and he was logged as having downloaded a Winehouse song. He says he ain't done it, but maybe someone on the net running Tor did - maybe he doesn't quite get it ?
If I lend my house to some idiot, and there is a report of someone having brought stolen property into my house, that doesn't make me a thief, but it doesn't mean the report is baseless either.
By definition, PEOPLE alect muicipal governments. If they want wifi they can ask for it. If they're too dumb to ask for it, they're too dumb to deserve it. Same goes for sewers and drinkable water.
Win 95 would be very happy with 512MB. So would CE, I guess.
But the real question is why has Linux got so bloated ? When I started using Redhat, it ran very well in 16MB, with X. At the time Linux the system you installed to revive your obsolete PC with 4MB of RAM. And you could recompile your kernel with those 4MB of RAM. Now that Linus has moved to making multiprocessor kernels, you'de better buy an up to date machine to install any current distro.
I can't wait for OLPC, because the necessity for supporting it will mean the resurgence of a slimware distro.
As long as the US allow software patents, some filings will actually be genuine patentable innovations, which will then meet stringent tests. I mean, the USPTO may be delivering lots of bogus patents, that would be invalidated on any challenge, but there are forced to be a few filings that really meet the criteria of being deserving for protection.
In fact; it is not surprising to see Microsoft - who file thousand of junk patents a year - on the wrong side of an argument with an inventor who filed because he thought he had found something genuinely innovative.
The fact that Anthrax got loose in Washington, and the way the investigation was stonewalled seems to indicate that the US has not been adhering very stringently to the spirit of any convention. On the other hand testing your weapons on your own population does not infringe on any treaty AFAIK.
AFAIK licensing a patent is not compulsory. They could demand compensation for ALL of the ipods already sold (before the patent was granted hehehehe) and then forbid Apple from making more ipods.
Apple deserves this - they have been a strong supporter of the patent system - now they will see that what it really boils down to is that the more money you have for lawyers the more money you can extract from ny corporation with less money for lawyers. Essentially, lawyers have replaced soldiers.
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So, the fact that an explanation is mathematically correct doesn't make it "right". :)
The above was for fun. However, what you are are referring to is a model of the existing distributions. It is not obvious that the variances could not also be trimmed by varyng educational constraints, if an effort were made to do so.
What the author of the review doesn't explain is the niche Gimp fills.
- Why use such a complex piece of software for fixing red-eye or cropping?
- Why one needs to use PS for certain prepress jobs.
- Why one should use Film-Gimp (Cinepaint) for its 16-bit deep editing abilities.
Gimp is not appropriate for every job, just like Perl or C++ have niches, and a review should explain what the appropriate tasks are.
GPL'ed software is notoriously by geeks for geeks. The original GPL was clear enough, as this document indicates things are getting confusing.
Actually, I'm stuck using Ubuntu because it has support compiled in for some FTDI based usbserial hardware I'm using - usually I employ Puppy in a VM. And yes, I consider resorting to a compiler to be something to be done with malice aforethought :)
Edmund
OK. Thank you very much for that pointer. I will reinstall my own VM. ... it seems there has been a kernel change which has messed up some keyboards like the MacBook Pro I'm using.
I thought it was general, because several people complained on the Ubuntu forums, and were told to go edit files
Edmund
My keyboard is a mess. See below. If Linux cannot provide the user with a working keyboard out of the box how can they expect the user yuo do offfice work ?
An engineering firm in Italy sent me an Ubuntu 8.04 Virtual Appliance for some programming work.
The keyboard cannot be reset at system level to French or Italian or anything, using the mouse interface.
This is a known Ubunti 8.04 release bug. xsetkbmap only partly alleviates the issue. Neither I or the firm know what to do. In fact, why should we ? International keyboard support is supposed to be a core ability of any "Desktop" system.
If Seattle sent countries Vista systems without customisable keyboards to sell, there would be a revolt among other buyers and regional employees.
I used Linux at Redhat 1. What was funny then has stopped being acceptable now.
Simple Latex is ok; but usually some bug or need occurs which means that you *must* make an amendment to an existing format, and then two days later you still haven't figured out how to do it. The often-found combiation of Latex plus Deadline is nerve-tearing.
I meant to say that server-side needs, eg. rock solid and fast file systems have been addressed in Linux for the past few years. However, desktop needs like color-management for applications (so you see the same color in Gimp, in Firefox and in any other app) have nto been addressed.
As other posters have noted the tools exist and individual applications have made great efforts at color management. However a systemic approach is missing. It's a bit as if every database app had to reimplement a file system. Can be done but not the best way to get it done.
This is typical Linux FUD. All the basic stuff has been made generally available by the various people who defined the ICC profile standards. There are no royalties attached. There are some excellent CMS packages under Linux (argyll, lcms) , but system-wide support is missing because of the fragmented nature of the community - read they cannot make up their minds where to put the config files, I'm not joking.
Color management means an image is shown the same on every screen, and as close as possible on paper. You cannot do serious photo work without integrated color management, but unfortunately even Winsh*t still leads Linux by ten years here. It's time the Linux guys moved their efforts to desktop app integration - the server is done - you hear me, guys ? the server is done, move to improving the desktop !
This is a seriously good piece of software.
If they can do the same for Word and Excel then MS is going to be out of business.
seems to be related but different. Apologies.
http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/dod/jp3_07_1.pdf
I disagree with Virgin - but this guy doesn't quite realize what he's been doing?
He's running a net anonymizer - and he was logged as having downloaded a Winehouse song. He says he ain't done it, but maybe someone on the net running Tor did - maybe he doesn't quite get it ?
If I lend my house to some idiot, and there is a report of someone having brought stolen property into my house, that doesn't make me a thief, but it doesn't mean the report is baseless either.
Edmund
I think that OSS doesn't make money as software for an individual, but it allows him or her to increase his or her visibility.
By definition, PEOPLE alect muicipal governments. If they want wifi they can ask for it. If they're too dumb to ask for it, they're too dumb to deserve it. Same goes for sewers and drinkable water.
I remember an article in the NY Times about Tim Berners Lee:
...
Time Berner's Lee, a physicist at MIT who invented the world-wide-web
With 16MB on my Pentium 90 it was the most reactive system I've ever used. Every system after that was slower in reaction.
Win 95 would be very happy with 512MB. So would CE, I guess.
But the real question is why has Linux got so bloated ? When I started using Redhat, it ran very well in 16MB, with X. At the time Linux the system you installed to revive your obsolete PC with 4MB of RAM. And you could recompile your kernel with those 4MB of RAM. Now that Linus has moved to making multiprocessor kernels, you'de better buy an up to date machine to install any current distro.
I can't wait for OLPC, because the necessity for supporting it will mean the resurgence of a slimware distro.
MS are busily pricing themselves out of the market. I don't have a problem with that.
Sony products are famous for breaking when you drop them.
I want a T-shirt with that politically-incorrect image of the BSD-demon and the penguin, after -hours.
Maybe we could have a post from the peng.cx guy ?
Note: This post is on-topic as T-shorts were specifically discussed in the original item.
As long as the US allow software patents, some filings will actually be genuine patentable innovations, which will then meet stringent tests. I mean, the USPTO may be delivering lots of bogus patents, that would be invalidated on any challenge, but there are forced to be a few filings that really meet the criteria of being deserving for protection.
In fact; it is not surprising to see Microsoft - who file thousand of junk patents a year - on the wrong side of an argument with an inventor who filed because he thought he had found something genuinely innovative.
The fact that Anthrax got loose in Washington, and the way the investigation was stonewalled seems to indicate that the US has not been adhering very stringently to the spirit of any convention. On the other hand testing your weapons on your own population does not infringe on any treaty AFAIK.
AFAIK licensing a patent is not compulsory. They could demand compensation for ALL of the ipods already sold (before the patent was granted hehehehe) and then forbid Apple from making more ipods.
Apple deserves this - they have been a strong supporter of the patent system - now they will see that what it really boils down to is that the more money you have for lawyers the more money you can extract from ny corporation with less money for lawyers. Essentially, lawyers have replaced soldiers.