Unfortunately to my best knowledge there were no cuts.
Compared to other Miyazaki movies (which I consider to be near the top of the world's cultural heritage) I was thoroughly disappointed by the plot and pacing. I really hope Miyazaki will be able to match the genius he imparted on Mononoke and Spirited Away, because Howl falls far short of a grand finale.
Thanks, I know about that fix. My problem is, it's a bit too ugly for my taste. The GIMP devs say that window management of the app's windows is not their problem but the WM's problem... and I say bullshit.
I wouldn't even mind having one window per each open image (MS Office style) as long as the toolbars are all dockable to each window, or at least are all raised with each window.
I don't use GIMP on Windows, because on Windows I have Paint Shop Pro, which for what it's worth I believe to be the most underappreciated graphics editing app ever and one of only two apps which I feel justified in paying money for.
I'm not a professional graphics editor, I just use editors casually for vector, raster, web, and (most of the time) photo editing work. I know a bit about various editing and filter features, workflow organizations in different editors, and so on. I know PSP is absolutely amazing in terms of saving my time - last weekend I spent maybe five hours to go from my camera's output to 200 best picks, all retouched to the best of my liking. I know it would take me days to do that in GIMP, considering how disjointed its interface is when it's not the only thing on the desktop and how it doesn't have many of the adaptive filters I was using in PSP. Frankly, I'm sure the same thing would happen for original graphics workflow, since GIMP doesn't have any of the integrated vector features of PSP. But then GIMP obviously has the advantages of being open and running under Linux.
I tried Krita, and found it to be very feature-incomplete. It has far less features than GIMP, and I've already mentioned how many features I think GIMP has. I'm sure that if I spent more time in GIMP I would be able to use it more efficiently, but I think the lack of an MDI is a fundamental shortcoming and I won't invest my time in learning more until I see it fixed or hack up a fix myself (the first month of the first semester of grad school is not the best time to do that, you know...)
I have used GIMP many times and tried to do useful things with it. Overall the feature set is acceptable. But I will never be able to use it for actual work until they fix the big one.
PROVIDE AN OPTION FOR AN MDI GUI ALL IN ONE WINDOW.
With dockable tool palettes.
Every time I bring this up to anyone who knows gimp, they tell me to run it in its own virtual desktop. I don't use virtual desktops, and I don't want an app to have a ton of toolbars floating around anyway.
Let me tell you what the Vista launch will mean from my perspective as a Linux desktop user. It will SUCK for the Linux desktop. Why? Because I can list at least a dozen hardware driver and system application problems on Linux on my laptop (a Thinkpad T40, one of the most Linux-friendly laptops) that severely degrade Linux functionality but are nonexistent in Windows drivers and system applications. The drivers for all the devices exist, some of them are just nowhere near as good as those for Windows.
The only reason Linux is running on this laptop right now, in fact, is that Windows XP is so old and security-challenged, as well as feature-challenged in some areas, that overall it has fallen way behind the curve. When Vista comes out, much of this gap will have been closed. And unless some fairly major things get fixed in several packages, I just might switch back....OK, rant over.
It is no OS X, but KDE is light years ahead of other DEs in terms of usability and consistency, not to mention features. It definitely needs work in terms of device management and GTK integration, and some modules still harass the user with indecipherable options, but it is massively more usable than anything else on Linux.
I agree with you 100% that usability and integration are paid way less attention to than they should be. But if there's a project that's doing its homework in the un-fun, usability department, it's KDE.
As far as I know, NVidia's OpenGL drivers contain access to all the exact same features as DirectX (with non-standard extensions to OpenGL if there is no standard for a particular feature, obviously) and are all developed, maintained, updated and released simultaneously. So at least the current market leader appears to disagree with your assessment.
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You seem to have been living under a rock for the past couple of years.
Eclipse is the number one IDE for development in Java. IBM has been developing it for the past 5 years, and recently dozens of companies have jumped on the bandwagon, with the end result that pretty much every major Java developer tools company now has plugins for Eclipse.
No, Windows profiles are not as easy to back up and restore as/home/user in linux. The Windows logon manager will refuse to use a profile directory for a user if the GUIDs identifying that user don't match those in the system registry. You have to manually copy the old profile directory on top of the new one, removing or skipping the files containing the GUIDs. Then if you want to restore the HKCU registry hive for the user settings kept in the registry, you have to load and move it manually in the registry editor.
"Power-user type" and "let iTunes do its own thing" are not particularly reconcilable qualities.
Personally, I wouldn't want to let any application manage and rearrange my files in a non-exportable, internal, binary database format. That's called vendor lock-in.
First, hard drives are not encrypted. They are password-protected. The controller accepts the password once at startup and does not deny access again until powered down.
Second, the user controls the password protection. Why would you be scared about an option you can turn on and off?
Third, hard drive encryption is the most durable option a user has for protecting their data short of encrypting their files with strong software encryption. It therefore greatly enhances users' ability to preserve their privacy and data security, as well as to defy thieves. Why would you be scared of a great capability like that?
You're over two years behind the state of the art. Pentium M pretty much eliminates the heat problem. Apple's laptops are pretty cool too. AMD has just come out with low-power 90nm Athlon 64s but those are not yet on the mass market.
it's still in perfect shape. I don't expect any LCDs to hold up for 10 years.
I can absolutely guarantee that other things (price range, I guess) being equal, an average LCD will last far longer than an average CRT. A lot can go wrong in a CRT, and if it doesn't fail, the various calibrated settings may drift out of adjustable range. In an LCD, more or less just two things can happen: the controller chip may fail (exceedingly rare) or pixels may start getting stuck (rare on high-quality models).
routinely leaves it open (and unsaved) for weeks on end, confident that it will still be there when she gets back
You know, the idea that someone would not expect that from any kind of application fucking infuriates me. And your FUD about Windows does, too. It may still be the case with IE - I don't know - but every single application I use under Windows is rock-solid and can be used indefinitely. More so than many Linux desktop apps, in fact (probably because they're all in very active development).
selling it to the government at market (bid contract) prices
Bullshit. Boeing has bought off all of its competitors except Lockheed Martin (which doesn't compete in many of Boeing's areas). Have you ever heard of a foreign company being awarded a US military aircraft contract? Me neither. So Boeing is selling far above market prices, and receiving no competition for its contract bids.
Hiding the directory hierarchy from the user is a stupefyingly bad idea because the user still has to use it, only now it's hidden from them. Any user with a medium to large number of files remembers where any file is hierarchically, regardless of whatever arguments your link presents, because there is not enough space in any virtual representation your computer provides to organize the objects spatially without it being a massive pain in the ass. Therefore, the spatial metaphor is absolutely counterproductive for file browsing without being integrated with the hierarchy metaphor, and leaving a trail of parent windows for the user to clean up in their background while hiding their hierarchy from the user is as bad a way to deal with this problem as I have ever seen.
The spatial metaphor, as employed by "spatial Nautilus", is rendered useless by the fact that there is not enough space in your UI for it to work.
Because you called output device hotplugging in X useless.
The hardware stuff (the video drivers) are already partially in the kernel (I'm not sure how the functions are subdivided between the X driver and the kernel driver). Completely splitting X into a hardware support/renderer infrastructure part and a windowing system part sounds like a great idea to me, too. And then, making the renderer accept vector data and use the GPU to process it would be awesome. OS X awesome.
render SVG images with hardware acceleration...Resolution-independent graphics, rendered at high speed
Yep, that's one feature that I can get really excited about. The luminous transparent eye-candy is completely irrelevant compared to this. A fast, fully SVG toolkit and desktop environment would be a breakthrough, and modern GPUs probably have plenty enough power to render SVG on-chip.
er, hardware support problem, not priority. It should be a priority, though. I want to see a distro with actual no-shit autoconfiguration of all relevant devices.
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Unfortunately to my best knowledge there were no cuts.
Compared to other Miyazaki movies (which I consider to be near the top of the world's cultural heritage) I was thoroughly disappointed by the plot and pacing. I really hope Miyazaki will be able to match the genius he imparted on Mononoke and Spirited Away, because Howl falls far short of a grand finale.
# perl -cW foo.pl
and use strict
But really, if you want fancy error-catching technology you'll have to wait until Perl 6.
Thanks, I know about that fix. My problem is, it's a bit too ugly for my taste. The GIMP devs say that window management of the app's windows is not their problem but the WM's problem... and I say bullshit.
I wouldn't even mind having one window per each open image (MS Office style) as long as the toolbars are all dockable to each window, or at least are all raised with each window.
I don't use GIMP on Windows, because on Windows I have Paint Shop Pro, which for what it's worth I believe to be the most underappreciated graphics editing app ever and one of only two apps which I feel justified in paying money for.
I'm not a professional graphics editor, I just use editors casually for vector, raster, web, and (most of the time) photo editing work. I know a bit about various editing and filter features, workflow organizations in different editors, and so on. I know PSP is absolutely amazing in terms of saving my time - last weekend I spent maybe five hours to go from my camera's output to 200 best picks, all retouched to the best of my liking. I know it would take me days to do that in GIMP, considering how disjointed its interface is when it's not the only thing on the desktop and how it doesn't have many of the adaptive filters I was using in PSP. Frankly, I'm sure the same thing would happen for original graphics workflow, since GIMP doesn't have any of the integrated vector features of PSP. But then GIMP obviously has the advantages of being open and running under Linux.
I tried Krita, and found it to be very feature-incomplete. It has far less features than GIMP, and I've already mentioned how many features I think GIMP has. I'm sure that if I spent more time in GIMP I would be able to use it more efficiently, but I think the lack of an MDI is a fundamental shortcoming and I won't invest my time in learning more until I see it fixed or hack up a fix myself (the first month of the first semester of grad school is not the best time to do that, you know...)
I have used GIMP many times and tried to do useful things with it. Overall the feature set is acceptable. But I will never be able to use it for actual work until they fix the big one.
PROVIDE AN OPTION FOR AN MDI GUI ALL IN ONE WINDOW.
With dockable tool palettes.
Every time I bring this up to anyone who knows gimp, they tell me to run it in its own virtual desktop. I don't use virtual desktops, and I don't want an app to have a ton of toolbars floating around anyway.
Let me tell you what the Vista launch will mean from my perspective as a Linux desktop user. It will SUCK for the Linux desktop. Why? Because I can list at least a dozen hardware driver and system application problems on Linux on my laptop (a Thinkpad T40, one of the most Linux-friendly laptops) that severely degrade Linux functionality but are nonexistent in Windows drivers and system applications. The drivers for all the devices exist, some of them are just nowhere near as good as those for Windows.
...OK, rant over.
The only reason Linux is running on this laptop right now, in fact, is that Windows XP is so old and security-challenged, as well as feature-challenged in some areas, that overall it has fallen way behind the curve. When Vista comes out, much of this gap will have been closed. And unless some fairly major things get fixed in several packages, I just might switch back.
Have you used KDE lately?
It is no OS X, but KDE is light years ahead of other DEs in terms of usability and consistency, not to mention features. It definitely needs work in terms of device management and GTK integration, and some modules still harass the user with indecipherable options, but it is massively more usable than anything else on Linux.
I agree with you 100% that usability and integration are paid way less attention to than they should be. But if there's a project that's doing its homework in the un-fun, usability department, it's KDE.
As far as I know, NVidia's OpenGL drivers contain access to all the exact same features as DirectX (with non-standard extensions to OpenGL if there is no standard for a particular feature, obviously) and are all developed, maintained, updated and released simultaneously. So at least the current market leader appears to disagree with your assessment.
You seem to have been living under a rock for the past couple of years.
Eclipse is the number one IDE for development in Java. IBM has been developing it for the past 5 years, and recently dozens of companies have jumped on the bandwagon, with the end result that pretty much every major Java developer tools company now has plugins for Eclipse.
No, Windows profiles are not as easy to back up and restore as /home/user in linux. The Windows logon manager will refuse to use a profile directory for a user if the GUIDs identifying that user don't match those in the system registry. You have to manually copy the old profile directory on top of the new one, removing or skipping the files containing the GUIDs. Then if you want to restore the HKCU registry hive for the user settings kept in the registry, you have to load and move it manually in the registry editor.
Modern Li-Polymer batteries don't contain standard-sized cells though. That's why they can be made in all kinds of thin and weird form factors.
"Power-user type" and "let iTunes do its own thing" are not particularly reconcilable qualities.
Personally, I wouldn't want to let any application manage and rearrange my files in a non-exportable, internal, binary database format. That's called vendor lock-in.
You are an idiot.
First, hard drives are not encrypted. They are password-protected. The controller accepts the password once at startup and does not deny access again until powered down.
Second, the user controls the password protection. Why would you be scared about an option you can turn on and off?
Third, hard drive encryption is the most durable option a user has for protecting their data short of encrypting their files with strong software encryption. It therefore greatly enhances users' ability to preserve their privacy and data security, as well as to defy thieves. Why would you be scared of a great capability like that?
You're over two years behind the state of the art. Pentium M pretty much eliminates the heat problem. Apple's laptops are pretty cool too. AMD has just come out with low-power 90nm Athlon 64s but those are not yet on the mass market.
Yeah, I forgot about that. That is in fact the main failure mode of LCDs. Hopefully good backlights last longer than a decade.
it's still in perfect shape. I don't expect any LCDs to hold up for 10 years.
I can absolutely guarantee that other things (price range, I guess) being equal, an average LCD will last far longer than an average CRT. A lot can go wrong in a CRT, and if it doesn't fail, the various calibrated settings may drift out of adjustable range. In an LCD, more or less just two things can happen: the controller chip may fail (exceedingly rare) or pixels may start getting stuck (rare on high-quality models).
routinely leaves it open (and unsaved) for weeks on end, confident that it will still be there when she gets back
You know, the idea that someone would not expect that from any kind of application fucking infuriates me. And your FUD about Windows does, too. It may still be the case with IE - I don't know - but every single application I use under Windows is rock-solid and can be used indefinitely. More so than many Linux desktop apps, in fact (probably because they're all in very active development).
selling it to the government at market (bid contract) prices
Bullshit. Boeing has bought off all of its competitors except Lockheed Martin (which doesn't compete in many of Boeing's areas). Have you ever heard of a foreign company being awarded a US military aircraft contract? Me neither. So Boeing is selling far above market prices, and receiving no competition for its contract bids.
Ever heard of rsync???
Okay, I'll bite.
Hiding the directory hierarchy from the user is a stupefyingly bad idea because the user still has to use it, only now it's hidden from them. Any user with a medium to large number of files remembers where any file is hierarchically, regardless of whatever arguments your link presents, because there is not enough space in any virtual representation your computer provides to organize the objects spatially without it being a massive pain in the ass. Therefore, the spatial metaphor is absolutely counterproductive for file browsing without being integrated with the hierarchy metaphor, and leaving a trail of parent windows for the user to clean up in their background while hiding their hierarchy from the user is as bad a way to deal with this problem as I have ever seen.
The spatial metaphor, as employed by "spatial Nautilus", is rendered useless by the fact that there is not enough space in your UI for it to work.
In 8 years of working with Windows, installing and using hundreds of programs, I have not once had a DLL incompatibility problem.
What I have had is dependency hell on Linux, on systems which don't have a proper or up-to-date package management system.
didn't intend for my comment to be taken so seriously
:)
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You'd take it seriously too if you spent as much time as I did trying to get my laptop to dock properly
And it's still not working
Because you called output device hotplugging in X useless.
The hardware stuff (the video drivers) are already partially in the kernel (I'm not sure how the functions are subdivided between the X driver and the kernel driver). Completely splitting X into a hardware support/renderer infrastructure part and a windowing system part sounds like a great idea to me, too. And then, making the renderer accept vector data and use the GPU to process it would be awesome. OS X awesome.
render SVG images with hardware acceleration...Resolution-independent graphics, rendered at high speed
Yep, that's one feature that I can get really excited about. The luminous transparent eye-candy is completely irrelevant compared to this. A fast, fully SVG toolkit and desktop environment would be a breakthrough, and modern GPUs probably have plenty enough power to render SVG on-chip.
er, hardware support problem, not priority. It should be a priority, though. I want to see a distro with actual no-shit autoconfiguration of all relevant devices.