Re:Now corrects barrel distortion!
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I am currently using the Panotools plug-in for the GIMP to correct barrel distortion, but I would definitely welcome something that involved less fiddling about.
The 16 bit color and CMYK, I couldn't give half a crap about. I mean, what proportion of gimp users need that stuff anyway?
You're kidding right? 16-bit is essential for anybody who performs more than a few operations on a single photo or scan. It is the one true improvement that is actually missing from the GIMP. All the other stuff? Meh; it's either improved interfaces (I'd love to have something like Layer Groups) or things that indeed almost nobody uses (CMYK; a lot of people claim they need it, but very few actually do).
Sven, one of the text functions in 1.x had some sort of crude kerning. I remember you could not work in all text functions on time for 2.0; have you managed to work on text for 2.4?
Re:Gimp was never intended to be a PS clone
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I still think the GIMP GUI sucks
That's probably because you're an idiot, not because the GIMP UI actually sucks (it doesn't, not much anyway).
Re:16 bit RGB support is more important than CMYK
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Why don't they just work with 16-bit colour.
Good question. The answer is that for years now the GIMP developers have been putting all their eggs in the GEGL basket. GEGL is a library that should allow them to chain all kinds of complex operations, but development on it has been slow.
What I want to know is, how do I get ahold of a used Soyuz capsule? It would make just about the most awesome lawn decoration/flower planter possible;).
You probably need to contact Roscosmos (I assume they own the modules).
But you could also go for the Soviet Union's test shuttles, as several of them are for sale at buran.ru.
Isn't that the whole point with "harmonizing" copyright laws between nations - to make copyright law everywhere to be the superset of all copyright laws anywhere ?
Yes. And no. Copyright harmonization between countries is always done in such a way that you still have something to harmonize towards. A harmonization round, at least in the perverted minds of the likes of WIPO and the large publishers, should always overshoot a little.
To give you an example: recently (late 1990s?) the US harmonized its copyright laws so that they were more like those of the EU. The result of this was for instance that recording rights last 90 years in the US; far more than in the EU. So recently organizations in the UK (which is still part of the EU) started lobbying for harmonizing recording rights terms with those of the US, even if those in the US were the result of a round of changes that was supposed to harmonize US copyright law with those of the EU.
One day, sitting in [the lab], Joseph and Mary saw a chess board and, finding that it was a game and being good at games, he asked Doc to teach him. [...]
During the first game Doc was called to the telephone, and when he returned he said, "You've moved a pawn of mine and your queen and knight."
"How'd you know?" the Patrón asked.
"I know the game," said Doc. Look, Joseph and Mary, chess is possibly the only game in the world in which it is impossible to cheat."
[...]
J and M carried this away with him. It bothered him at night. He looked at it from all angles. And he went back to ask more about it. He was charmed with the idea, but he couldn't understand it.
"Let not forget that they bought the Bush administration to get out of the Monopoly pickle they found themselves in, when they could have simply released APIs like we have asking them to do for 20 years."
Copyright law trumps any other law. Remember that whoever is infringing copyrights is "stealing" from "the poor starving artists" and "helping the terrorists". Microsoft would be in real troubles.
"Meh, $10 says that they put something in there like "if you play/burn this song you can't return it", just like the no-returns on open software/CD rules that exist already."
Courts typically take incredibly dim views of smart alecks. If you want to guarantee an unfair judgement against you, just pull a stunt like that.
You seem to think that consumers who buy iTunes just don't know how filesharing works. I find that hopelessly naïve. (And the RIAA seems to agree with me: they are even sueing people who don't know how to operate a computer.)
"I, too, have abused the return policy of a local electronic chain store by buying hard disks to serve as a temporary backup so I could rebuild a huge RAID. Then I returned them. But I didn't feel bad in this case because they (the department store chain) are horribly expensive and employ clueless marketroids to rip off people. "Mediamarkt", if anyone cares."
Oh, wow, good for you! You even found some insane internal justification for your immoral behaviour. Now go punch a baby or something.
(Translation: if you don't like Mediamarkt -- which is completely justifiable -- just don't buy there.)
It is downright blasphemy to even hint that the suggested actions intended to fix things actually might make things worse (due to lack of understanding of the deeper issues).
Example?
You did not ask me, and I cannot give you a concrete example, but...
If the global warming that is taking place currently is a natural phenomenon (the earth has been cooling and warming since its early days), then interfering with that warming, as is propagated now, would be interfering in a natural process. There is enough evidence that that is a bad idea in general, because we don't know enough about the complexities of nature.
Global warming isn't the problem, polution is, whether it's heat polution, particle polution, et cetera.
"Why, oh why, is slashdot taking them as a primary source of information?"
You're reading one of Zonk's famous fluff pieces. Why oh why do you do that? You know that if it has the Zonk label of crappiness, you should stay away.
(I admit that I only look at the headlines, not at the editor's name. I could filter him out automatically, but unfortunately once in every ten entries he's got something that doesn't merely sound interesting, but actually is interesting. In other words, I cannot stay away from the candy, even though I know it is bad for me. Perhaps Slashdot should make urinal stickers of his face, you know, the sort of thing you can use for taking aim at.)
"So although the GPL/Open software is pretty good, the best software is the closed source commercial software."
So why are you using this many FOSS tools to make your claim? I'd have expected you to write this, oh, I don't know, on a piece of paper somewhere where people care, because you could hardly use the FOSS-filled internet to make your claim carry any weight.
This article should not have been published without a link to Maciej Ceglowski's excellent analysis, Rocket to Nowhere. It seems to answer a lot of questions folks have here.
A quote: "Taken on its own merits, the Shuttle gives the impression of a vehicle designed to be launched repeatedly to near-Earth orbit, tended by five to seven passengers with little concern for their personal safety, and requiring extravagant care and preparation before each flight, with an almost fetishistic emphasis on reuse. Clearly this primitive space plane must have been a sacred artifact, used in religious rituals to deliver sacrifice to a sky god.
As tempting as it is to picture a blood-spattered Canadarm flinging goat carcasses into the void, we know that the Shuttle is the fruit of what was supposed to be a rational decision making process."
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You're kidding right? 16-bit is essential for anybody who performs more than a few operations on a single photo or scan. It is the one true improvement that is actually missing from the GIMP. All the other stuff? Meh; it's either improved interfaces (I'd love to have something like Layer Groups) or things that indeed almost nobody uses (CMYK; a lot of people claim they need it, but very few actually do).
Sven, one of the text functions in 1.x had some sort of crude kerning. I remember you could not work in all text functions on time for 2.0; have you managed to work on text for 2.4?
That's probably because you're an idiot, not because the GIMP UI actually sucks (it doesn't, not much anyway).
Good question. The answer is that for years now the GIMP developers have been putting all their eggs in the GEGL basket. GEGL is a library that should allow them to chain all kinds of complex operations, but development on it has been slow.
You probably need to contact Roscosmos (I assume they own the modules).
But you could also go for the Soviet Union's test shuttles, as several of them are for sale at buran.ru.
Why does that matter?
Yes. And no. Copyright harmonization between countries is always done in such a way that you still have something to harmonize towards. A harmonization round, at least in the perverted minds of the likes of WIPO and the large publishers, should always overshoot a little.
To give you an example: recently (late 1990s?) the US harmonized its copyright laws so that they were more like those of the EU. The result of this was for instance that recording rights last 90 years in the US; far more than in the EU. So recently organizations in the UK (which is still part of the EU) started lobbying for harmonizing recording rights terms with those of the US, even if those in the US were the result of a round of changes that was supposed to harmonize US copyright law with those of the EU.
Care to back up this claim by telling me from which medical study you are quoting?
"there's nothing about contract law that says consideration has to be monetary"
A license is not a contract. (Hence the differing names.)
"Unless a contract, a license, or other document has stood up under court testing, it will remain in question until it has been tested."
In question of what?
If you are afraid the GPL won't hold up in court, then simply do not distribute GPL-ed software. If you do, you might be breaking copyright law.
Copyright law has been tested numerous times in courts.
"As the License is a contract between the copyright holder and the licensee to distribute said software"
No it's not, although Microsoft would undoubtedly love it if you believe so.
"Let not forget that they bought the Bush administration to get out of the Monopoly pickle they found themselves in, when they could have simply released APIs like we have asking them to do for 20 years."
Copyright law trumps any other law. Remember that whoever is infringing copyrights is "stealing" from "the poor starving artists" and "helping the terrorists". Microsoft would be in real troubles.
Simple: you don't. You're dealing with honest customers.
"Meh, $10 says that they put something in there like "if you play/burn this song you can't return it", just like the no-returns on open software/CD rules that exist already."
Courts typically take incredibly dim views of smart alecks. If you want to guarantee an unfair judgement against you, just pull a stunt like that.
You seem to think that consumers who buy iTunes just don't know how filesharing works. I find that hopelessly naïve. (And the RIAA seems to agree with me: they are even sueing people who don't know how to operate a computer.)
"I, too, have abused the return policy of a local electronic chain store by buying hard disks to serve as a temporary backup so I could rebuild a huge RAID. Then I returned them. But I didn't feel bad in this case because they (the department store chain) are horribly expensive and employ clueless marketroids to rip off people. "Mediamarkt", if anyone cares."
Oh, wow, good for you! You even found some insane internal justification for your immoral behaviour. Now go punch a baby or something.
(Translation: if you don't like Mediamarkt -- which is completely justifiable -- just don't buy there.)
"The other mayor one is house subsidie, in short you earn more, you don't get it any more."
Oh, the humanity! Once you can afford to pay the entire rent YOURSELF, they take away your subsidy! How can they be so cruel?
"and that is the problem with holland, people are very hard incentivated to NOT work, to NOT study."
The country even lacks millionair's assistance, would you believe!
"So I emmigrated as do a lot of dutch."
Good bye and good riddance.
"I've never known anyone to turn down a pay raise. (If you know such people, please let me know... we might want to hire them.)"
Your company hires idiots? Please tell me the name of your company, so I can stop buying from them.
You did not ask me, and I cannot give you a concrete example, but...
If the global warming that is taking place currently is a natural phenomenon (the earth has been cooling and warming since its early days), then interfering with that warming, as is propagated now, would be interfering in a natural process. There is enough evidence that that is a bad idea in general, because we don't know enough about the complexities of nature.
Global warming isn't the problem, polution is, whether it's heat polution, particle polution, et cetera.
"Why, oh why, is slashdot taking them as a primary source of information?"
You're reading one of Zonk's famous fluff pieces. Why oh why do you do that? You know that if it has the Zonk label of crappiness, you should stay away.
(I admit that I only look at the headlines, not at the editor's name. I could filter him out automatically, but unfortunately once in every ten entries he's got something that doesn't merely sound interesting, but actually is interesting. In other words, I cannot stay away from the candy, even though I know it is bad for me. Perhaps Slashdot should make urinal stickers of his face, you know, the sort of thing you can use for taking aim at.)
I was unaware that Nintendos had a keyboard.
"So although the GPL/Open software is pretty good, the best software is the closed source commercial software."
So why are you using this many FOSS tools to make your claim? I'd have expected you to write this, oh, I don't know, on a piece of paper somewhere where people care, because you could hardly use the FOSS-filled internet to make your claim carry any weight.
This article should not have been published without a link to Maciej Ceglowski's excellent analysis, Rocket to Nowhere. It seems to answer a lot of questions folks have here.
A quote: "Taken on its own merits, the Shuttle gives the impression of a vehicle designed to be launched repeatedly to near-Earth orbit, tended by five to seven passengers with little concern for their personal safety, and requiring extravagant care and preparation before each flight, with an almost fetishistic emphasis on reuse. Clearly this primitive space plane must have been a sacred artifact, used in religious rituals to deliver sacrifice to a sky god.
As tempting as it is to picture a blood-spattered Canadarm flinging goat carcasses into the void, we know that the Shuttle is the fruit of what was supposed to be a rational decision making process."
"Yeah? They just lost to Brazil, 2 - 0. The software must be faulty somewhere..."
Not really, but Australia were using version 1.4, whereas Brazil had managed to get access to an early beta of 2.0.