But I guess you would accept "Alien Vs. Predator 1", as long as it is sold by Valve through Steam? Shifting your definition of "commercial game" doesn't help in the least. No.. COD4 doesn't run in LInux (maybe in wine... who knows? who cares?), but there are commercial games for Linux. That's Commercial as in "you have to pay for them" and games as in "the point is to play". Whether *YOU* like them or not isn't relevant.
Your point being... ? I paid for them. The fact that some of those are now open sourced (partly thanks to me paying for them) doesn't void the fact that the games are commercial in nature. World Of Goo wasn't open sourced by the way, nor part 2 and 3 of the Penumbra trilogy and you can still BUY them. You see the focus of my post? Commercial Games, one of which incidentally is sold through Steam too. That's like.. people paying money.
Now.. go back to your basement and don't forget to take your pills.
Linux? Been playing The Penumbra Trilogy, World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish and Lugaru the last weeks.. and if I feel like it, I'll fire up wine and play some native windows games.
Next question?
But then it just goes to show that people value entertainment and personal satisfaction more than they do principles.
not if their principle is that personal satisfaction and entertainment are more important than paying for something that fits in one of the "there was nothing else on TV that night", "already bought on a deprecated medium", "I would buy it, but they won't let me" and the hugely popular "Why should I pay for something that is a pain to watch, if I can get the same thing without all the additional crap (DRM, ads, etc...)" categories
yep... to you, but then, you might want to look at the progress they made on reading aids in the last decades. Really astonishing stuff. Armed with a pair of good glasses, you'll notice that 1) it IS actually quite impressive for 2) the time frame which *isn't* 3 years, as they released Big Buck Bunny last year.
well.. I nearly submitted it, but then I remembered my last submission about the Humble Bundle being criticized for being slashvertisement. My guess is taht many felt the same way, and thought : "let's wait till the action is over. It might repel a few trolls". Besides, like others have been answering : the blog post is actually against DRM. Piracy kind of hurts, but they were ailing to increase the paying customer's convenience, not trying to (possibly under special circumstances if the moon is aligned correctly) make it more difficult for would be pirates.
Just to make it clear. I'm not affiliated in any way (apart from having bought the Humble Bundle myself) with any of the developers or organizations involved. It's seldom enough that one gets insight into sales that I thought it might be of interest to some of the slashdot readers. oh.. and did you know? Apple released a tablet!
Yep. I got the prices from the adobe shop (the €1015.40 price was after taxes btw.) Their price ~structure~ doesn't seem to be based on anything but pure randomness somehow.
... and you're basing this statement on what? From the pictures in TFA, I'd say in the cases where this feature is useful (which would be the "shadow removing" picture), GIMP wins by a slight margin. In useless tests ( extreme variations in texture, like the church picture), Photoshop *might* be slightly better, but the result is in no way useable. Where Photoshop have a slight advantage is in the UI of the plugin, although resynthesizer isn't exactly rocket surgery neither.
Selecting smaller, more homogeneous portions of the pictures should work in both better anyway. So that leaves us with : Photoshop can do CMYK stuff, Gimp can't. Photoshop CS5 retail price for non-student starts at $699 (which, by the way, translates to €1015,40 in Adobe-land if you try to buy it in France, instead of the €544,60 it would be in a country using old fashioned mathematics and regular currency values). Gimp's retail price is somehow a lot lower, and is consistent with this universe's conversion rates instead of some weirdo parallel one.
Personally, I'd say "why bother with PS5 if you don't need CMYK?" (especially if you're not in the USA)
Actually, even with Monty Python's Flying Circus, provided Graham Chapman rose from the dead, I'm rather sure that a slashdot article titled "The Best UK show ever is coming back!" would be greeted with "who cares? never understood it!" comments. Still, let me apologize if you felt left out of the "geek" crowd by my, as you put it so accurately, hyperbole which was, in all probability, the result of personal excitement.
On a side note : I'm not a big fan of Futurama, so I just ignore the articles about it
heh.. yeah, I only saw the pilot too (obviously). To my great shame, I must confess I never saw any version of The Office. Care to talk about "Life on Mars" ?;)
To be honest, I thought about not writing "Every geek's favourite non sci-fi show" in the summary, but then "IT crowd coming back to the screen" sounds a bit lackluster, don't you think? You just need to check the IMDB boards to notice that it's NOT "Every geek's favourite non sci-fi show".
I worked in all three categories ( maintenance, Web dev and ~real~ programmer (c++ mainly), and I guess you are right that if you worked in IT support, a lot of the situations just make more sense. On the other hand, the show isn't particularly one-sided. It pokes fun at both ends Roy going on a date, Jen being given "Ze Internet"), and I actually liked the "shoe" episode, as it somehow reminded me of previous girlfriends who had fixations on footwear (and the resulting finale with the japanese investor was fun). As with everything, it boils down to a matter of taste.
You mean, like this?
IT Crowd is more centered on life at the office than TBBT, and is fairly indiscriminating about who it pokes fun at. Sometimes it's the geeks, and sometimes it's the rest ( see the "Jen, this is the internet" episode). I guess whether you find it funny or not depends a lot about whether you ever worked in such an environment or not. I did, and I love the show for its over the top depiction of stuff that I did experience (or did ).
slightly off topic, but : I must confess, I'm more used to graphic tablets, and I kept losing the stylus's all the time too. The last tablet I bought privately (a "Bamboo Pen") though has something I first put mentally in the "WTF-Gimmick-branding" category : it has a tube of red cloth on one side with a big white WACOM printed on it.
At first I seriously thought it was just a branding measure, but it is actually the most ingenious part of the tablet. It's a pen holder that isn't in the way while working and at the same time a very convenient place to put the stylus when you don't need it anymore, and taking it out again comes completely naturally (no "clipping" or anything. It just glides in and out) I don't think I misplaced the stylus once since I got that one.
really a cheap "trick", but it makes a big difference. Of course, with PDAs and Tablet computers, it might break the shiny glossy metally design of the device.
(even more OT : I think whoever thought of the name "Bamboo" for a graphic tablet had a very twisted mind. A friend who was thinking of getting one lately asked me per email "how is your bamboo? Is it smooth? how does it feel? How big is it?", which without context, might be a bit confusing;)
ever heard of the word "limited"? I never said it's completely useless. Obviously you can fingerpaint, and yes, I'm aware of brush and the New Yorker covers. I'm also aware thanks to Kantara (246758) of that story and the sentence "While Lee complained that it was “fun and frustrating at the same time cuz half the time yer going this would be so easy to do by hand or wacom [a pen tablet device],” he also said he “was digging the primitive feeling of using yer hands.”. Hint : a Wacom tablet's main control is a stylus (although they tend to support touch *too*)
I agree on the hinge, but a stylus is actually a very good input device for drawings and writing (as in script, not as in typing), actually it's probably the best one for those two activities.(Multi-)Touch, on the other hand, is very limited in terms of use in anything creative.
considering how excited people seemed to be about the concept, I'd say it wasn't as much market testing as just too ambitious to be realized.Too bad really, it sounded like a concept which might have made tablets actually useful for everyday use.
Slashdot Mirror
list of "commercial software sold for linux (you know for money) that is targeted at the consumer market"
Now, will you please say something constructive or STFU? Thanks
Would World Of Goo qualify?
woah .. someone addicted to Jobs Reality Distortion Field? At least GP has a bed that's not under a bridge, troll.
But I guess you would accept "Alien Vs. Predator 1", as long as it is sold by Valve through Steam? Shifting your definition of "commercial game" doesn't help in the least. No.. COD4 doesn't run in LInux (maybe in wine... who knows? who cares?), but there are commercial games for Linux. That's Commercial as in "you have to pay for them" and games as in "the point is to play". Whether *YOU* like them or not isn't relevant.
Your point being ... ? I paid for them. The fact that some of those are now open sourced (partly thanks to me paying for them) doesn't void the fact that the games are commercial in nature. World Of Goo wasn't open sourced by the way, nor part 2 and 3 of the Penumbra trilogy and you can still BUY them. You see the focus of my post? Commercial Games, one of which incidentally is sold through Steam too. That's like .. people paying money.
Now.. go back to your basement and don't forget to take your pills.
Linux? Been playing The Penumbra Trilogy, World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish and Lugaru the last weeks .. and if I feel like it, I'll fire up wine and play some native windows games.
Next question?
it has been done successfully 4 times out of 5. what happened when it wasn't successful?
But then it just goes to show that people value entertainment and personal satisfaction more than they do principles.
not if their principle is that personal satisfaction and entertainment are more important than paying for something that fits in one of the "there was nothing else on TV that night", "already bought on a deprecated medium", "I would buy it, but they won't let me" and the hugely popular "Why should I pay for something that is a pain to watch, if I can get the same thing without all the additional crap (DRM, ads, etc...)" categories
yep ... to you, but then, you might want to look at the progress they made on reading aids in the last decades. Really astonishing stuff. Armed with a pair of good glasses, you'll notice that 1) it IS actually quite impressive for 2) the time frame which *isn't* 3 years, as they released Big Buck Bunny last year.
length : 11'53'' ...
well .. I nearly submitted it, but then I remembered my last submission about the Humble Bundle being criticized for being slashvertisement. My guess is taht many felt the same way, and thought : "let's wait till the action is over. It might repel a few trolls". Besides, like others have been answering : the blog post is actually against DRM. Piracy kind of hurts, but they were ailing to increase the paying customer's convenience, not trying to (possibly under special circumstances if the moon is aligned correctly) make it more difficult for would be pirates.
Just to make it clear. I'm not affiliated in any way (apart from having bought the Humble Bundle myself) with any of the developers or organizations involved. It's seldom enough that one gets insight into sales that I thought it might be of interest to some of the slashdot readers. oh .. and did you know? Apple released a tablet!
Yep. I got the prices from the adobe shop (the €1015.40 price was after taxes btw.) Their price ~structure~ doesn't seem to be based on anything but pure randomness somehow.
... and you're basing this statement on what? From the pictures in TFA, I'd say in the cases where this feature is useful (which would be the "shadow removing" picture), GIMP wins by a slight margin. In useless tests ( extreme variations in texture, like the church picture), Photoshop *might* be slightly better, but the result is in no way useable. Where Photoshop have a slight advantage is in the UI of the plugin, although resynthesizer isn't exactly rocket surgery neither.
Selecting smaller, more homogeneous portions of the pictures should work in both better anyway. So that leaves us with : Photoshop can do CMYK stuff, Gimp can't. Photoshop CS5 retail price for non-student starts at $699 (which, by the way, translates to €1015,40 in Adobe-land if you try to buy it in France, instead of the €544,60 it would be in a country using old fashioned mathematics and regular currency values). Gimp's retail price is somehow a lot lower, and is consistent with this universe's conversion rates instead of some weirdo parallel one.
Personally, I'd say "why bother with PS5 if you don't need CMYK?" (especially if you're not in the USA)
Actually, even with Monty Python's Flying Circus, provided Graham Chapman rose from the dead, I'm rather sure that a slashdot article titled "The Best UK show ever is coming back!" would be greeted with "who cares? never understood it!" comments. Still, let me apologize if you felt left out of the "geek" crowd by my, as you put it so accurately, hyperbole which was, in all probability, the result of personal excitement.
On a side note : I'm not a big fan of Futurama, so I just ignore the articles about it
well .. the Internet (s3e4 I think) episode was mostly making fun of share holders and upper management, so you might enjoy it ;)
heh .. yeah, I only saw the pilot too (obviously). To my great shame, I must confess I never saw any version of The Office. Care to talk about "Life on Mars" ? ;)
To be honest, I thought about not writing "Every geek's favourite non sci-fi show" in the summary, but then "IT crowd coming back to the screen" sounds a bit lackluster, don't you think? You just need to check the IMDB boards to notice that it's NOT "Every geek's favourite non sci-fi show".
I worked in all three categories ( maintenance, Web dev and ~real~ programmer (c++ mainly), and I guess you are right that if you worked in IT support, a lot of the situations just make more sense. On the other hand, the show isn't particularly one-sided. It pokes fun at both ends Roy going on a date, Jen being given "Ze Internet"), and I actually liked the "shoe" episode, as it somehow reminded me of previous girlfriends who had fixations on footwear (and the resulting finale with the japanese investor was fun). As with everything, it boils down to a matter of taste.
weird. This show contains tons of elements I recognise from my life in IT (and it's been quite long too). What do you find amusing then? Fart jokes?
You mean, like this?
IT Crowd is more centered on life at the office than TBBT, and is fairly indiscriminating about who it pokes fun at. Sometimes it's the geeks, and sometimes it's the rest ( see the "Jen, this is the internet" episode). I guess whether you find it funny or not depends a lot about whether you ever worked in such an environment or not. I did, and I love the show for its over the top depiction of stuff that I did experience (or did ).
Here is a sample.
slightly off topic, but : I must confess, I'm more used to graphic tablets, and I kept losing the stylus's all the time too. The last tablet I bought privately (a "Bamboo Pen") though has something I first put mentally in the "WTF-Gimmick-branding" category : it has a tube of red cloth on one side with a big white WACOM printed on it.
At first I seriously thought it was just a branding measure, but it is actually the most ingenious part of the tablet. It's a pen holder that isn't in the way while working and at the same time a very convenient place to put the stylus when you don't need it anymore, and taking it out again comes completely naturally (no "clipping" or anything. It just glides in and out) I don't think I misplaced the stylus once since I got that one.
really a cheap "trick", but it makes a big difference. Of course, with PDAs and Tablet computers, it might break the shiny glossy metally design of the device.
(even more OT : I think whoever thought of the name "Bamboo" for a graphic tablet had a very twisted mind. A friend who was thinking of getting one lately asked me per email "how is your bamboo? Is it smooth? how does it feel? How big is it?", which without context, might be a bit confusing;)
ever heard of the word "limited"? I never said it's completely useless. Obviously you can fingerpaint, and yes, I'm aware of brush and the New Yorker covers. I'm also aware thanks to Kantara (246758) of that story and the sentence "While Lee complained that it was “fun and frustrating at the same time cuz half the time yer going this would be so easy to do by hand or wacom [a pen tablet device],” he also said he “was digging the primitive feeling of using yer hands.”. Hint : a Wacom tablet's main control is a stylus (although they tend to support touch *too*)
I agree on the hinge, but a stylus is actually a very good input device for drawings and writing (as in script, not as in typing), actually it's probably the best one for those two activities.(Multi-)Touch, on the other hand, is very limited in terms of use in anything creative.
considering how excited people seemed to be about the concept, I'd say it wasn't as much market testing as just too ambitious to be realized.Too bad really, it sounded like a concept which might have made tablets actually useful for everyday use.