Re:Any chance we can draw circles and boxes now
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Hmm, you know, I'm just going to stop trying. Gimp devs clearly have no intention to listen to user feedback.
Re:It's still essentially 8-bit.
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It's a long story, but the short version is that there's a ton of archaic, horribly outdated 8-bit legacy code gumming up the works. Until it's all replaced with 32-bit capable code, GIMP will continue to be unusable for photography beyond the party snapshot level.
As someone who's wearing down his third I can tell you 8 bits is a joke, even printers show the difference with stepping gradients on a low contrast area.
Stop telling me that I don't need that and start providing what I do need.
A photo-processing tool that chops 33%? I don't think so.
Re:Any chance we can draw circles and boxes now
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Wasn't so laborious now was it?
Yes it is.
That's why we have computers and software: Software is supposed to adapt to the wishes of the user, not the other way around.
that's how a tenacious species survives: by engaging in evolutionary judo
These gas-bubbles shouldn't be looked at as an opportunity. Capturing the methane gives it a fluffy thumbs-up green kind of touch. It's literally saying: "this aspect of global warming isn't a threat but a silver lining". In truth it's one of the scariest and most confronting in a series of recent events. The reason I mock is that as a species we're going for gold in the Darwin awards and we're pretty much enjoying it, cashing in on it where we can. The last guy standing will not be the physically nor the mentally fittest, it'll be the bugger who sells the DVDs we made to document our decline.
With a bit of help from petropolitics any idiot like Chavez can become popular.
same thing with mailing lists in the old days
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When mailing lists where still massively used, a new feature in mailboxes upped emails an order of magnitude overnight. The feature is still among us: "auto-reply when absent" and caused mailing lists to send out new digests every time it got an out of office reply. Registered users got a new mail every minute or so, each time growing in size as the old message was included.
All I can find are endless copies of/. and gizmodo. My question: doesn't this Hubble observation require confirmation from a second source? This is nothing like what it should be and ocam's razor is still the best choice.
My guess (from what little I've found to read): the unidentified phenomenon is inside Hubble - hardware/software.
My last two tests at the job-interview were conducted by the person who became my manager after I signed. They asked the same questions as a mortal HR would have, but the discussions soon wandered of to anecdotes and past experiences on the field. In both occasions we ended up drawing flowcharts and writing down helpful URLs to help each other in whatever geeky activities we were involved in.
Ehr, wtf are you doing on/. ? The average person here has biceps the size of a match.
From what I heard the main long-term stress on the condition comes from hauling around all that high-tech these days. Is this true ? I imagine they had less gadgets back then but they didn't have light materials as well... A friend of mine is in the army and he once explained how they had lessons in "dissecting" human faecal matter to establish the health of the opposition. I think that was the moment I knew the true meaning of "thorough training".
that's a pretty impressive resume you've got there, kudos.
Now obviously someone who's never had any training shouldn't be put into actual combat.
I was pushing the analogy a bit far, but that was pretty much my point. The wannabe admin has far too little time to get to the level he needs to be. Apparently I'm one of the few who feels his cry for help is just denial.
You're absolutely right. Now consider this: you're sent of to the battle field with someone who was added to your group after you all got your training, has no prior knowledge and then starts to ask all the questions.
There's a subtle difference between making mistakes and being unqualified. Everyone seems to fail to grasp that this guy also has colleagues who's job security is unnecessarily jeopardized.
Imagine working together with a proverbial bomb that's just waiting to go off. It's not a matter of if but when with this guy, and my bet is "less than 2 weeks". Yes, he can train himself to be better than any one of us, but the truth is that this requires months at best.
And don't forget he appears to be suffering from google-blindness, a rather deadly ailment in admin herds.
Being very very annoyed by the overall ignorance from the PO. Many people have posted suggestions to help this guy but I see a person who wants to educate himself as admin but somehow fails to find the gazillion excellent documents and tutorials via google. You have to admit that something stinks. Secondly, look at the replies from people who (unlike me, I know) helped him: it's basically a list of all the admin buzzwords. I don't see how he'll even be able to prioritize this, most posts are in the area of "learn virtualization, PHP, MySQL and oh yeah this and that". For real, can you take this for serious ?
Wishfull thinking.
I agree on google. But how many years of reading and trial/error does it take to get to a level where you actually qualify for this kind of jobs ? This guy has a few weeks at most.
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Hmm, you know, I'm just going to stop trying. Gimp devs clearly have no intention to listen to user feedback.
It's a long story, but the short version is that there's a ton of archaic, horribly outdated 8-bit legacy code gumming up the works. Until it's all replaced with 32-bit capable code, GIMP will continue to be unusable for photography beyond the party snapshot level.
It's a long story, but the short version is no
You don't own a DSLR, do you ?
As someone who's wearing down his third I can tell you 8 bits is a joke, even printers show the difference with stepping gradients on a low contrast area.
Stop telling me that I don't need that and start providing what I do need.
A photo-processing tool that chops 33%? I don't think so.
Wasn't so laborious now was it?
Yes it is.
That's why we have computers and software: Software is supposed to adapt to the wishes of the user, not the other way around.
that's how a tenacious species survives: by engaging in evolutionary judo
These gas-bubbles shouldn't be looked at as an opportunity. Capturing the methane gives it a fluffy thumbs-up green kind of touch. It's literally saying: "this aspect of global warming isn't a threat but a silver lining". In truth it's one of the scariest and most confronting in a series of recent events. The reason I mock is that as a species we're going for gold in the Darwin awards and we're pretty much enjoying it, cashing in on it where we can. The last guy standing will not be the physically nor the mentally fittest, it'll be the bugger who sells the DVDs we made to document our decline.
yes ... a doomsday scenario is unfolding before our eyes.
Now how can we make a profit out of it ?
way ahead of you
Congres rambles on the 700 billion thing, Banks are crashing in Europe, Bosenova on /. , now this.
Here's a kitten
Bush is popular, you're just not in his target group
With a bit of help from petropolitics any idiot like Chavez can become popular.
When mailing lists where still massively used, a new feature in mailboxes upped emails an order of magnitude overnight. The feature is still among us: "auto-reply when absent" and caused mailing lists to send out new digests every time it got an out of office reply. Registered users got a new mail every minute or so, each time growing in size as the old message was included.
... you might want to add "numerical recipes" to your wishlist:
http://www.nrbook.com/nr3/
All I can find are endless copies of /. and gizmodo. My question: doesn't this Hubble observation require confirmation from a second source? This is nothing like what it should be and ocam's razor is still the best choice.
My guess (from what little I've found to read): the unidentified phenomenon is inside Hubble - hardware/software.
In 1931 Heinz Hopf found a way of filling up all of space with circles. You can express a measure of volume with distance.
Could someone help me find the alleged source of this news, I can't seem to find it on nasa and google just spits up gizmodo copies.
Thanks
A /. article from a few days ago. I was almost neutered for my replies ...
CONSISTENCY PEOPLE !
My last two tests at the job-interview were conducted by the person who became my manager after I signed. They asked the same questions as a mortal HR would have, but the discussions soon wandered of to anecdotes and past experiences on the field. In both occasions we ended up drawing flowcharts and writing down helpful URLs to help each other in whatever geeky activities we were involved in.
it got the internet, VHS, DVD and BluRay going.
Ehr, wtf are you doing on /. ? The average person here has biceps the size of a match.
... A friend of mine is in the army and he once explained how they had lessons in "dissecting" human faecal matter to establish the health of the opposition. I think that was the moment I knew the true meaning of "thorough training".
From what I heard the main long-term stress on the condition comes from hauling around all that high-tech these days. Is this true ? I imagine they had less gadgets back then but they didn't have light materials as well
Hi Falcon,
that's a pretty impressive resume you've got there, kudos.
Now obviously someone who's never had any training shouldn't be put into actual combat.
I was pushing the analogy a bit far, but that was pretty much my point. The wannabe admin has far too little time to get to the level he needs to be. Apparently I'm one of the few who feels his cry for help is just denial.
You're absolutely right.
Now consider this: you're sent of to the battle field with someone who was added to your group after you all got your training, has no prior knowledge and then starts to ask all the questions.
There's a subtle difference between making mistakes and being unqualified. Everyone seems to fail to grasp that this guy also has colleagues who's job security is unnecessarily jeopardized.
Imagine working together with a proverbial bomb that's just waiting to go off. It's not a matter of if but when with this guy, and my bet is "less than 2 weeks". Yes, he can train himself to be better than any one of us, but the truth is that this requires months at best.
And don't forget he appears to be suffering from google-blindness, a rather deadly ailment in admin herds.
Being very very annoyed by the overall ignorance from the PO. Many people have posted suggestions to help this guy but I see a person who wants to educate himself as admin but somehow fails to find the gazillion excellent documents and tutorials via google. You have to admit that something stinks. Secondly, look at the replies from people who (unlike me, I know) helped him: it's basically a list of all the admin buzzwords. I don't see how he'll even be able to prioritize this, most posts are in the area of "learn virtualization, PHP, MySQL and oh yeah this and that". For real, can you take this for serious ?
Oh well, your right: I'm an Asshat
nice one.
Wishfull thinking.
I agree on google. But how many years of reading and trial/error does it take to get to a level where you actually qualify for this kind of jobs ? This guy has a few weeks at most.