As I said above, I have an X61 tablet. Now I know that you're trolling, but I can't resist:
1. I can't speak to the Air, but the thinkpads are anything but 'flimsy'. My old vaio felt like a sodden pizza box compared to the Thinkpad. It simply doesn't flex. 2. Yes it's a bit wee, but used as a tablet, it's perfectly sized. Which brings us to: 3. If you want to hold a 10lb box in one arm as you draw with the other, you're insane. Or governor of California.
have seen new hires who didn't have access to necessary services for many weeks because the help desk person didn't understand English well enough to comprehend what was being asked of them, even though they gave the impression that they understood. For the record, our help desk is only four floors down and entirely staffed by white men from the midwest, and I assure you, sir, that English comprehension is a problem here, as well.
Even Microsoft won't let WordPerfect die:
on
Goodbye Cruel Word
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Because, honestly, RAM isn't that expensive. Just because you have 512 megs doesn't mean the rest of us don't choose RAM over SSD.
Also, you don't know what you're talking about. And somehow you're +4. GO TEAM.
----
To Explain: If you have less ram than you need, BUY MORE RAM. If you have more RAM than you can use, UPGRADE to x64!
Sure Vista can use flash as swap. That only matters because you can only have 3GB of RAM in Vista ia32. If you had 16GB of RAM, sure it might USE swap, but I bet you (well, nothing) that it'll have cached so much stuff you're USING in RAM that you'll never ever ever notice it.
What about the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional tense? Suppose you visit your future and performed a google search based on something you intend to learn from someone you meet in the past? I maywill haven wuollen willbe googlindened?
Considering how much address space MMIO takes up in Windows 32-bit OS's, One can only imagine some poor sap buying two of these and wondering why he only has 1.8GB of RAM available in Windows.
With a big picture of an exploding airplane on the cover.
The book would have a lengthy introduction by Bruce Schneier on Security Theatre. Then, right after page CLXVII, the book proper would start:
"You can't. What are you, some kind of _moron_?"
Seriously. I got peeled off for the big customs rolldown after coming back from Europe one year. During the check, the guy pointed to my UK copy of Cryptonomicon, which features (what I assume) is a japanese Zero flying over a fireball in a shipyard. Customs guy says "Well you should expect it with a book like that".
And I wanted to say "It's about WWII. That's fucking _Perl Harbor_. If ever there was an example of why, exactly, you Do. Not. _Fuck._ with us, it's fucking Perl Harbor. We'll fucking _nuke_ your asses."
Security theater makes people who don't want to blow up planes (and aren't smart enough to do it anyway) believe that the people who do want to blow up planes (and are smart enough) will get caught. Even though no smart terrorist would walk on to a plane carrying "Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering volume IIV: Complex Organic Esthers, Polymers, and their Interactions" along with a 6v battery and a collection of very smelly "play-doh".
We should all wear shirts that say "I'm going to make this plane explode (with/laughter/)"
Exactly....having discussed things on the GIMP Usability Forum, it's obvious that the GIMP developers (to misquote Kanye West) don't care about designer people.
The general attitude is "We're not going to change anything because even though the similarity of constant anecdotal 'complaints' may actually constitute user testing, we refuse to believe it until someone does systematic user testing." Of course, imgimp is the answer to their request, but automated testing does nothing. They're missing the point that assisted user testing is needed, where you give someone a mock up and ask them where they expect to find things, and how they expect to do things. What they've been getting, in droves, is people who are GIVING THEM THIS EXACT INFORMATION, in forums, in blogs, in wikis and slashdot posts. Things like "Why are script-fu and filters two different things?" and "what are Xtns?" not to mention "Why does the palette take up so much space?". Then there's the whole MDI/SDI thing. The horrible fact is that the GIMP is an MDI application. There is a shared set of tools that act on multiple document windows. Gasp. Unfortunately most X window managers have no idea what this means, and the concept of 'tool windows' is meaningless (i.e.: if I have 8 tool windows open, I have 8 task items in my task bar, and sometimes you have to click-to-focus and click-to-invoke on a non-focused window).
There are some very simple things the GIMP developers could do to fix the application:
Rename the damn thing. I'll say it again: would you suggest the GIMP to your grandmother? My grandmother wouldn't even visit 'excite.com', lest it turn out to be salacious. They should call it SPORK (the GIMP fork)!
use the existing preferences infrastructure to:
make the palette at least 2-column so it leaves more space for the document window
set the 'tiny' UI style to the default
make the 'File Xtns Help' menu a popup menu, and rename Xtns to something sane. Or; make them buttons that open popup menus
Reorganize the menus themselves to group common functionality. I don't care if it's familiar to photoshop users. I care if the menus make sense. move "Tools Dialogs Filters Script Fu" into a hierarchy that matches their function, and name them per their function.
Also, the entire "select" system is hard to grasp for people used to other programs. Not just photoshop. PhotoDraw, PhotoPaint, MacPaint... whatever.
Add layer grouping. Do away with new layer dialogs.
Group tools on the tool palette
in general look into shrinking the space taken up by the various palettes. On some screens fully half the layer palette is taken up with labels and buttons. God help me, but part of the reason Adobe has its own widgets is because the windows standard ones take up too much space. Except you have no excuse because GTK widgets were DESIGNED FOR THE GIMP AAAA!
For the love of God, do some paper testing.
Get real designers, and I don't care if they're familiar with Photoshop... hell, Adobe just redesigned the damn thing on us so it's not like we're shocked by the New. Get them and sit them down with paper mockups and ask them how to do common design tasks, common painting tasks, common editing tasks.
Admit that a lot of us have done this already ourselves. Sure a lot of it seems to you to be "oh that's just because they know photoshop", but damnit man, it's not photoshop we know, it's everything. Photoshop, MacPaint, ColorIt! (yeah, I said it), PhotoDraw, whatever. There is a common language to these tools and you keep trying to miss it just to be different.
Look again at this [lostgarden.com]... especially the part about "All that touchy-feely junk is the main reason why people are bu
What you're really asking for is filesystem-level versioning (splitting and merging)
The problem is you can have "everything is a file" or you can have "inconspicous metadata".
This implies a return to the structured-data days and an end to the 'Unix Philosophy'. And you kind of have that these days, with microsoft's offerings. And we all know how much you love the Registry.
The problem is the development team: there's not enough of it, and there's no leadership strong enough within them to commit to a roadmap.
Exactly....having discussed things on the GIMP Usability Forum, it's obvious that the GIMP developers (to misquote Kanye West) don't care about designer people.
The general attitude is "We're not going to change anything because even though the similarity of constant anecdotal 'complaints' may actually constitute user testing, we refuse to believe it until someone does systematic user testing." Of course, imgimp is the answer to their request, but automated testing does nothing. They're missing the point that assisted user testing is needed, where you give someone a mock up and ask them where they expect to find things, and how they expect to do things. What they've been getting, in droves, is people who are GIVING THEM THIS EXACT INFORMATION, in forums, in blogs, in wikis and slashdot posts. Things like "Why are script-fu and filters two different things?" and "what are Xtns?" not to mention "Why does the palette take up so much space?". Then there's the whole MDI/SDI thing. The horrible fact is that the GIMP is an MDI application. There is a shared set of tools that act on multiple document windows. Gasp. Unfortunately most X window managers have no idea what this means, and the concept of 'tool windows' is meaningless (i.e.: if I have 8 tool windows open, I have 8 task items in my task bar, and sometimes you have to click-to-focus and click-to-invoke on a non-focused window).
There are some very simple things the GIMP developers could do to fix the application:
Rename the damn thing. I'll say it again: would you suggest the GIMP to your grandmother? My grandmother wouldn't even visit 'excite.com', lest it turn out to be salacious. They should call it SPORK (the GIMP fork)!
use the existing preferences infrastructure to:
make the palette at least 2-column so it leaves more space for the document window
set the 'tiny' UI style to the default
make the 'File Xtns Help' menu a popup menu, and rename Xtns to something sane. Or; make them buttons that open popup menus
Reorganize the menus themselves to group common functionality. I don't care if it's familiar to photoshop users. I care if the menus make sense. move "Tools Dialogs Filters Script Fu" into a hierarchy that matches their function, and name them per their function.
Also, the entire "select" system is hard to grasp for people used to other programs. Not just photoshop. PhotoDraw, PhotoPaint, MacPaint... whatever.
Add layer grouping. Do away with new layer dialogs.
Group tools on the tool palette
in general look into shrinking the space taken up by the various palettes. On some screens fully half the layer palette is taken up with labels and buttons. God help me, but part of the reason Adobe has its own widgets is because the windows standard ones take up too much space. Except you have no excuse because GTK widgets were DESIGNED FOR THE GIMP AAAA!
For the love of God, do some paper testing.
Get real designers, and I don't care if they're familiar with Photoshop... hell, Adobe just redesigned the damn thing on us so it's not like we're shocked by the New. Get them and sit them down with paper mockups and ask them how to do common design tasks, common painting tasks, common editing tasks.
Admit that a lot of us have done this already ourselves. Sure a lot of it seems to you to be "oh that's just because they know photoshop", but damnit man, it's not photoshop we know, it's everything. Photoshop, MacPaint, ColorIt! (yeah, I said it), PhotoDraw, whatever. There is a common language to these tools and you keep trying to miss it just to be different.
Look again at this... especially the part about "All that touch
1. Microsoft Services for Unix (if your computer has hardware NX support enabled, skip down to 'Or:' 2. Xming X-server for Windows 3. the Interopsys GNU software distribution for SFU (www.interopsystems.com/tools)
Or: 1. VMware Workstation 2. Solaris 10 free DVDs.
Or: 1. Cygwin
Or: 1. the win32 gnu utils (unxutils.sourceforg.net / gnuwin32.sourceforge.net) 2. Activestate Perl 3. putty/pscp/psftp
You really don't need a unix workstation. With ssh and perl, what CAN'T you do? does 'ls : command not found' bug you? Request the unix utils.
It's business. Write up a document with your Need, your Proposal, and the Impact statement. List what you need. Mention it's all TOTALLY FREE WOOHOO.
[past scientists] Hey future scientists, we totally got your message through the quantumly entangled photons you sent us! [future scientists] (to past scientists, now present) You mean the message you sent us with the photons you sent into the future? [past scientists] Awww maaan! [future scientists] Yeah, causality's a mofo. [past scientists] I wish we got invitations to the sorts of parties where the hostess's undergarments's wave functions were made to collapse 3 feet to the left. [future scientists] can I borrow your hot cup of tea? I'm going to a party.
I mean honestly, if someone can write an online emulator for pdp-1 machine code to play space war, then it's a good bet that you can find a BASIC interpreter.
That's awful. Kids these days, loitering about, with their nadsat and their bowlers and droogies and ultra-violence. I hear there's this new treatment for them... Ludov-something.
I'm sure that'll cure them. I was telling the same to my wife yesterday, when she bought me this nice bust of Beethoven.
Yes, when standard for 4U server is four to eight hard disks
Bullpucky. Maybe on your planet. A PC 4U NAS box in my world holds 24 SATA HDDs. Oh, you mean a standard 4U Server... Which usually means a quad-CPU box with 4GB of RAM and a couple fugly FC controllers. See, your problem is that thumper is for Storage in which the 4U form-factor is for drives, and the standard is more like 12 to 24.
Not just that, but 2.6.16 also broke LVM2 for every distribution that uses the 'stable' lvm2 toolchain. Basically, you can fix your vulnerability, or you can hose your machine every time you try to back up. Good job.
Uh....what? I'm sorry... but for my operating system, signed, single-sourced updates pulled securely from my vendor is the only answer I'll accept. Now, if you'd said "apt" "yum" or... um... "pkgconf" or... something... I'd have bought it. But you're just being foolish
Better backups
the application programmer's responsibility, not the OS.
Sorry, wrong again. Especially in the server-space where I need to create backups of in-use files, the operating system is going to have to have that capability built-in. And this is another one of those "vetted and tested code" issues. I don't want my backups to explode because my application vendor didn't regression test it against new copies of my OS.
As for the rest of it, sure, Microsoft is The Bad Mans. I bet there's a dead baby behind every line of code, and that Gates feasts on infant penguins to fulfill his bloodlust. But honestly, the ZOMGTEHLUNIX party line is tired, and wrong.
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As I said above, I have an X61 tablet. Now I know that you're trolling, but I can't resist:
1. I can't speak to the Air, but the thinkpads are anything but 'flimsy'. My old vaio felt like a sodden pizza box compared to the Thinkpad. It simply doesn't flex.
2. Yes it's a bit wee, but used as a tablet, it's perfectly sized. Which brings us to:
3. If you want to hold a 10lb box in one arm as you draw with the other, you're insane. Or governor of California.
http://www.nerdgod.com/images/wordperfect-style.gif
You just have to know these things.
["why not use SSD?"]
Because, honestly, RAM isn't that expensive. Just because you have 512 megs doesn't mean the rest of us don't choose RAM over SSD.
Also, you don't know what you're talking about. And somehow you're +4. GO TEAM.
----
To Explain: If you have less ram than you need, BUY MORE RAM. If you have more RAM than you can use, UPGRADE to x64!
Sure Vista can use flash as swap. That only matters because you can only have 3GB of RAM in Vista ia32. If you had 16GB of RAM, sure it might USE swap, but I bet you (well, nothing) that it'll have cached so much stuff you're USING in RAM that you'll never ever ever notice it.
Sheesh.
Subject Says it all. (Digg Up!)
Oh, wait, I suppose for maximum metahumorousness I should add: CLICK HERE TO SEND MAIL USING THIS POST
What about the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional tense? Suppose you visit your future and performed a google search based on something you intend to learn from someone you meet in the past? I maywill haven wuollen willbe googlindened?
Considering how much address space MMIO takes up in Windows 32-bit OS's, One can only imagine some poor sap buying two of these and wondering why he only has 1.8GB of RAM available in Windows.
"lawl"
...airline food and shoelaces"
/laughter/)"
With a big picture of an exploding airplane on the cover.
The book would have a lengthy introduction by Bruce Schneier on Security Theatre. Then, right after page CLXVII, the book proper would start:
"You can't. What are you, some kind of _moron_?"
Seriously. I got peeled off for the big customs rolldown after coming back from Europe one year. During the check, the guy pointed to my UK copy of Cryptonomicon, which features (what I assume) is a japanese Zero flying over a fireball in a shipyard. Customs guy says "Well you should expect it with a book like that".
And I wanted to say "It's about WWII. That's fucking _Perl Harbor_. If ever there was an example of why, exactly, you Do. Not. _Fuck._ with us, it's fucking Perl Harbor. We'll fucking _nuke_ your asses."
Security theater makes people who don't want to blow up planes (and aren't smart enough to do it anyway) believe that the people who do want to blow up planes (and are smart enough) will get caught. Even though no smart terrorist would walk on to a plane carrying "Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering volume IIV: Complex Organic Esthers, Polymers, and their Interactions" along with a 6v battery and a collection of very smelly "play-doh".
We should all wear shirts that say "I'm going to make this plane explode (with
to repost from earlier
Exactly. ...having discussed things on the GIMP Usability Forum, it's obvious that the GIMP developers (to misquote Kanye West) don't care about designer people.
The general attitude is "We're not going to change anything because even though the similarity of constant anecdotal 'complaints' may actually constitute user testing, we refuse to believe it until someone does systematic user testing." Of course, imgimp is the answer to their request, but automated testing does nothing. They're missing the point that assisted user testing is needed, where you give someone a mock up and ask them where they expect to find things, and how they expect to do things. What they've been getting, in droves, is people who are GIVING THEM THIS EXACT INFORMATION, in forums, in blogs, in wikis and slashdot posts. Things like "Why are script-fu and filters two different things?" and "what are Xtns?" not to mention "Why does the palette take up so much space?". Then there's the whole MDI/SDI thing. The horrible fact is that the GIMP is an MDI application. There is a shared set of tools that act on multiple document windows. Gasp. Unfortunately most X window managers have no idea what this means, and the concept of 'tool windows' is meaningless (i.e.: if I have 8 tool windows open, I have 8 task items in my task bar, and sometimes you have to click-to-focus and click-to-invoke on a non-focused window).
There are some very simple things the GIMP developers could do to fix the application:
For the love of God, do some paper testing.
Get real designers, and I don't care if they're familiar with Photoshop... hell, Adobe just redesigned the damn thing on us so it's not like we're shocked by the New. Get them and sit them down with paper mockups and ask them how to do common design tasks, common painting tasks, common editing tasks.
Admit that a lot of us have done this already ourselves. Sure a lot of it seems to you to be "oh that's just because they know photoshop", but damnit man, it's not photoshop we know, it's everything. Photoshop, MacPaint, ColorIt! (yeah, I said it), PhotoDraw, whatever. There is a common language to these tools and you keep trying to miss it just to be different.
Look again at this [lostgarden.com]... especially the part about "All that touchy-feely junk is the main reason why people are bu
...dressed as giant man-gnawing hyperintelligent cybernetic murderbots
What you're really asking for is filesystem-level versioning (splitting and merging)
The problem is you can have "everything is a file" or you can have "inconspicous metadata".
This implies a return to the structured-data days and an end to the 'Unix Philosophy'. And you kind of have that these days, with microsoft's offerings. And we all know how much you love the Registry.
Exactly. ...having discussed things on the GIMP Usability Forum, it's obvious that the GIMP developers (to misquote Kanye West) don't care about designer people.
The general attitude is "We're not going to change anything because even though the similarity of constant anecdotal 'complaints' may actually constitute user testing, we refuse to believe it until someone does systematic user testing." Of course, imgimp is the answer to their request, but automated testing does nothing. They're missing the point that assisted user testing is needed, where you give someone a mock up and ask them where they expect to find things, and how they expect to do things. What they've been getting, in droves, is people who are GIVING THEM THIS EXACT INFORMATION, in forums, in blogs, in wikis and slashdot posts. Things like "Why are script-fu and filters two different things?" and "what are Xtns?" not to mention "Why does the palette take up so much space?". Then there's the whole MDI/SDI thing. The horrible fact is that the GIMP is an MDI application. There is a shared set of tools that act on multiple document windows. Gasp. Unfortunately most X window managers have no idea what this means, and the concept of 'tool windows' is meaningless (i.e.: if I have 8 tool windows open, I have 8 task items in my task bar, and sometimes you have to click-to-focus and click-to-invoke on a non-focused window).
There are some very simple things the GIMP developers could do to fix the application:
For the love of God, do some paper testing.
Get real designers, and I don't care if they're familiar with Photoshop... hell, Adobe just redesigned the damn thing on us so it's not like we're shocked by the New. Get them and sit them down with paper mockups and ask them how to do common design tasks, common painting tasks, common editing tasks.
Admit that a lot of us have done this already ourselves. Sure a lot of it seems to you to be "oh that's just because they know photoshop", but damnit man, it's not photoshop we know, it's everything. Photoshop, MacPaint, ColorIt! (yeah, I said it), PhotoDraw, whatever. There is a common language to these tools and you keep trying to miss it just to be different.
Look again at this... especially the part about "All that touch
The problem is you have either a) too many fonts or b) a corrupt font.
You'll have to install it on a fresh install of XP so it doesn't have more than the default fonts.
Then copy c:\documents and settings\[user]\local settings\application data\apple computer\safari\fonts.plist
to your main computer.
[shameless mac dig] Looks like those mac guys still think you should only have 256 fonts! losers!
Software you request:
1. Microsoft Services for Unix (if your computer has hardware NX support enabled, skip down to 'Or:'
2. Xming X-server for Windows
3. the Interopsys GNU software distribution for SFU (www.interopsystems.com/tools)
Or:
1. VMware Workstation
2. Solaris 10 free DVDs.
Or:
1. Cygwin
Or:
1. the win32 gnu utils (unxutils.sourceforg.net / gnuwin32.sourceforge.net)
2. Activestate Perl
3. putty/pscp/psftp
You really don't need a unix workstation. With ssh and perl, what CAN'T you do? does 'ls : command not found' bug you? Request the unix utils.
It's business. Write up a document with your Need, your Proposal, and the Impact statement. List what you need. Mention it's all TOTALLY FREE WOOHOO.
Grow up and quit whining on slashdot.
I do not think it means what you think it means
Job done. If you get enough traffic, you can pay, but it's free for something like under 1M hits/mo. And their campaign/tracking tools "pwn" you.
I'd put a link, but, c'mon. google.com
[past scientists] Hey future scientists, we totally got your message through the quantumly entangled photons you sent us!
[future scientists] (to past scientists, now present) You mean the message you sent us with the photons you sent into the future?
[past scientists] Awww maaan!
[future scientists] Yeah, causality's a mofo.
[past scientists] I wish we got invitations to the sorts of parties where the hostess's undergarments's wave functions were made to collapse 3 feet to the left.
[future scientists] can I borrow your hot cup of tea? I'm going to a party.
You're wrong, and that's about all I have to say about that.
http://www.eder.us/projects/jbasic/
I mean honestly, if someone can write an online emulator for pdp-1 machine code to play space war, then it's a good bet that you can find a BASIC interpreter.
That's awful. Kids these days, loitering about, with their nadsat and their bowlers and droogies and ultra-violence. I hear there's this new treatment for them... Ludov-something.
I'm sure that'll cure them. I was telling the same to my wife yesterday, when she bought me this nice bust of Beethoven.
For my trip with Nessus to the Ringworld!
Bullpucky. Maybe on your planet. A PC 4U NAS box in my world holds 24 SATA HDDs. Oh, you mean a standard 4U Server... Which usually means a quad-CPU box with 4GB of RAM and a couple fugly FC controllers. See, your problem is that thumper is for Storage in which the 4U form-factor is for drives, and the standard is more like 12 to 24.
</flame>Not just that, but 2.6.16 also broke LVM2 for every distribution that uses the 'stable' lvm2 toolchain. Basically, you can fix your vulnerability, or you can hose your machine every time you try to back up. Good job.
Via "Spamsink"? it's basically an iis smtp front-ender to spamd.
Uh. ...what? I'm sorry... but for my operating system, signed, single-sourced updates pulled securely from my vendor is the only answer I'll accept. Now, if you'd said "apt" "yum" or... um... "pkgconf" or... something... I'd have bought it. But you're just being foolish
Sorry, wrong again. Especially in the server-space where I need to create backups of in-use files, the operating system is going to have to have that capability built-in. And this is another one of those "vetted and tested code" issues. I don't want my backups to explode because my application vendor didn't regression test it against new copies of my OS.
As for the rest of it, sure, Microsoft is The Bad Mans. I bet there's a dead baby behind every line of code, and that Gates feasts on infant penguins to fulfill his bloodlust. But honestly, the ZOMGTEHLUNIX party line is tired, and wrong.