Have you ever seen Richard Stallman live? With a disk platter for a Halo and wearing a robe? At a Linux Conference? Standing on a table with his arms wide open proclaiming himself to be Saint Richard of the Church of Emacs?? That one?
Never mind CMYK. If you want a real eye-opener read Margulis's new book about Lab color. K.I.L.L.E.R. Lab space allows for a lot of real cool photo manip stuff.
The problem ith Gimp is not that you have no CMYK or Lab, it is that Gimp has no idea about Absolute Colorimetric Color, which is where Lab comes in. Lab is an Absolute Colorspace, RGB and CMYK are not. Gimp has vague support for this, but not very good.
And then Photoshop is much more of a spreadsheet with after-the-fact adjustmenst than Gimp is. Adjustment layers. Save for Web. Filter layers in CS3. These things are ALL useful.
I would prefer Civic to a Semi. The Civic is fine for failies but if you want to haul real load of stuff around the semi is going to do the job. It does require a bit more skill to handle (but then, the Gimp UI... hmmm...) but for pro jobs its what you need.
ANother issue with Gimp vs Photoshop:
Gimp has no Lab color (or any other absolute colorspace for that matter). Lab manipulation is really cool for some stuff, read Dan Margulis' new book for more info. Gimp cannot do adjustment layers, which change the program more into a sort of Excel vs Calculator thing, with PS being Excel.
Rather ask how WWII might have gone if France actualy fought Germany when they declared war on them in the first place. Most of the Wehrmacht was tied down in the Polish campaign. The French waited. For what?
If you take two machines, install both of them right after the other both disks will have the same sectors written, almost guaranteed. File system fragmentation only happens when you write to files and this never happens to the OS (only when you reinstall or upgrade). Having two machines installed right after the other happens a lot and the chances that the OS is on a predictable place if you only stole one laptop is very high. The parent poster is right.
Is there any way of deliberately fragment a disk during or after install to increase the security?
The problem, yet again, is that "getting close to the simpler end of Photoshop" is saying that the TEXTAREA box in Firefox can compete with Indesign and solve all you typesetting needs.
Backus' Turing Award Lecture about FP was a true inspiration for me and has influenced a lot of what I have done over the years. Here's to you Mr Backus, your name will live on beyond eternity.
Amen. One of the main problem I have with Unix geeksis that they correctly claim that style over substance is a bad idea but then extrapolate that to the idea that all style is somehow bad or useless. MAybe its all the green screen terminals or something.
Style is good. And a little knowledge of typography can make your written publications (CV or report) WAAAAAY better than the competition that uses Arial because its all they know. Without adding too much flashiness.
Adjustment layers which allow you to change filters after the fact Filter layers which allow you to switch a stack of filter on and off and season to taste after tha fact (in CS3)
These two features allow you to view image processing more like a spreadsheet in the same way that Excel is better than a calculator
Can do filters on the GPU in hardware (in CS3) Save for web Absolute color systems (Lab color) Capability too do color proofing for printing presses (needs absolute color conversions)
Import and manipulation of smart object layers and changing them after the feact Layer styles which allow you to change the llayerr after the fact. With copy and paste which are really useful to make lots imagges in the same style 16 and 32 bit and HDR color Better macro recording (Gimp is probably easier too program though) The history brush The patch tool MUCH better image size interpolations (if you resize an image iit look better in PS A text tool that dooes preview on the image and not in some box outside of it Much better text layers A UI that was not written by the spawn of Satan
Basically, Photoshop is like a spreadsheet and GIMP is like a calculator. PS allows you to do do much better look and feel stuff
An no, the price comparison argument does not really hold. Gimp's competitor is Photoshop Elements which has all the features except the press stuff.
Sam Walton forgot an important part. The customer is only right if he turns you a profit Losing money on whiney people who think they can f*ck you around for their own benefit is the road to bankruptcy.
And there you just succinctly summarized the problem with AJAX: Nontrivial solutions to trivial problems. That, almost by definition, makes it a bad technology
The same gos for still photography vs videography. Someone who is vaguely talented can shoot art-class pics with a cheap camera that he picked up at EBay. Even a total amateur with an instamatic can shoot okish stuff. No way with video. Not even close.
The dream of hordes of amateur filmmakers doing the sam as hordes of amateur photographers ain't gonna hapen. The extra costs, infrastructure and compromises involved in shooting 30 photos per second and adding audio to boot is simply an order of magnitude more difficult.
Hydrogen is light enough to escape the gravitationpull of earth so it would just leave into space. Which, incidentally is why Mars has no oceans left, all the water was split by UV radiation, the Hydrogen left and the Oxygen made the planet red.
NeXT is already back. It's called MacOS/X now, but its pretty much an evolution? Don't believe me? Look up the API for Cocoa and be amazed about why ALL the things there are called NSthis and NSthat.
... and connect it to some weird Lego Mindstorm Killbot that you copied off a design for a Romulan Android Warrior you once saw in the Trek Tech Manual.
No, the REAL work here is to make ti easy to use. That is something all the command line type do not get. Making things powerful is easy. Making things simple is easy. Making things simple AND powerful is HARD.
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Have you ever seen Richard Stallman live? With a disk platter for a Halo and wearing a robe? At a Linux Conference? Standing on a table with his arms wide open proclaiming himself to be Saint Richard of the Church of Emacs?? That one?
Never mind CMYK. If you want a real eye-opener read Margulis's new book about Lab color. K.I.L.L.E.R. Lab space allows for a lot of real cool photo manip stuff.
The problem ith Gimp is not that you have no CMYK or Lab, it is that Gimp has no idea about Absolute Colorimetric Color, which is where Lab comes in. Lab is an Absolute Colorspace, RGB and CMYK are not. Gimp has vague support for this, but not very good.
And then Photoshop is much more of a spreadsheet with after-the-fact adjustmenst than Gimp is. Adjustment layers. Save for Web. Filter layers in CS3. These things are ALL useful.
I would prefer Civic to a Semi. The Civic is fine for failies but if you want to haul
real load of stuff around the semi is going to do the job. It does require a bit more
skill to handle (but then, the Gimp UI... hmmm...) but for pro jobs its what you need.
ANother issue with Gimp vs Photoshop:
Gimp has no Lab color (or any other absolute colorspace for that matter).
Lab manipulation is really cool for some stuff, read Dan Margulis' new book for more info.
Gimp cannot do adjustment layers, which change the program more into a sort of Excel vs Calculator
thing, with PS being Excel.
Well, if he just got hurt by his powersaw and you hold up his hand and asks, he says "5!" you can say..."Guess again!"
Yeah, and the hairy paws are going to cause territoriality issues with the local apes
Rather ask how WWII might have gone if France actualy fought Germany when they declared war on them in the first place. Most of the Wehrmacht was tied down in the Polish campaign. The French waited. For what?
Man, you just made the whole of /. proud
If you take two machines, install both of them right after the other both disks will have the same sectors written, almost guaranteed. File system fragmentation only happens when you write to files and this never happens to the OS (only when you reinstall or upgrade). Having two machines installed right after the other happens a lot and the chances that the OS is on a predictable place if you only stole one laptop is very high. The parent poster is right.
Is there any way of deliberately fragment a disk during or after install to increase the security?
Easy.
Hack into the US Navy weapons control website.
Search for a file called "city-coords.txt".
Find out what the lat and long is of the spammer.
Change the line "Al Queda Base 4:xxx" to reflect the new coordinates.
Dress as Osama and make a press release with a big "Base 4" sign behind you. Use a good make-up artist if you want.
Two days leater and BAM!!! the spammer is gone. Your tax dollars at work for you!
The problem, yet again, is that "getting close to the simpler end of Photoshop" is saying that the TEXTAREA box in Firefox can compete with Indesign and solve all you typesetting needs.
In a word, no.
TCL? The Crap Language? It died a well deserved death.
Envisioned? SCSI keyboards existed. Thanks to all that is holy that THAT idea got nixed.
Backus' Turing Award Lecture about FP was a true inspiration for me and has influenced a lot of what I have done over the years. Here's to you Mr Backus, your name will live on beyond eternity.
Amen. One of the main problem I have with Unix geeksis that they correctly claim that style over substance is a bad idea but then extrapolate that to the idea that all style is somehow bad or useless. MAybe its all the green screen terminals or something.
Style is good. And a little knowledge of typography can make your written publications (CV or report) WAAAAAY better than the competition that uses Arial because its all they know. Without adding too much flashiness.
Thanks, you just made my day
Ok here is a list to quell your doubts:
Photoshop has:
Adjustment layers which allow you to change filters after the fact
Filter layers which allow you to switch a stack of filter on and off and season to taste after tha fact (in CS3)
These two features allow you to view image processing more like a spreadsheet in the same way that Excel is better than a calculator
Can do filters on the GPU in hardware (in CS3)
Save for web
Absolute color systems (Lab color)
Capability too do color proofing for printing presses (needs absolute color conversions)
Import and manipulation of smart object layers and changing them after the feact
Layer styles which allow you to change the llayerr after the fact. With copy and paste which are really useful to make lots imagges in the same style
16 and 32 bit and HDR color
Better macro recording (Gimp is probably easier too program though)
The history brush
The patch tool
MUCH better image size interpolations (if you resize an image iit look better in PS
A text tool that dooes preview on the image and not in some box outside of it
Much better text layers
A UI that was not written by the spawn of Satan
Basically, Photoshop is like a spreadsheet and GIMP is like a calculator. PS allows you to do do much better look and feel stuff
An no, the price comparison argument does not really hold. Gimp's competitor is Photoshop Elements which has all the features except the press stuff.
Sam Walton forgot an important part. The customer is only right if he turns you a profit Losing money on whiney people who think they can f*ck you around for their own benefit is the road to bankruptcy.
And there you just succinctly summarized the problem with AJAX: Nontrivial solutions to trivial problems. That, almost by definition, makes it a bad technology
The same gos for still photography vs videography. Someone who is vaguely talented can shoot art-class pics with a cheap camera that he picked up at EBay. Even a total amateur with an instamatic can shoot okish stuff. No way with video. Not even close.
The dream of hordes of amateur filmmakers doing the sam as hordes of amateur photographers ain't gonna hapen. The extra costs, infrastructure and compromises involved in shooting 30 photos per second and adding audio to boot is simply an order of magnitude more difficult.
Hydrogen is light enough to escape the gravitationpull of earth so it would just leave into space. Which, incidentally is why Mars has no oceans left, all the water was split by UV radiation, the Hydrogen left and the Oxygen made the planet red.
Buy "Tiger, a Developer's Notebook". Not too much to read, a small book and cheap. You can cover the languages bits in half a day to start you off.
Girl on girl porn has a MUCH higher resolution in the living flesh than any HD signal you could possibly get. Interactive too, and in Tru3D (tm)
NeXT is already back. It's called MacOS/X now, but its pretty much an evolution? Don't believe me? Look up the API for Cocoa and be amazed about why ALL the things there are called NSthis and NSthat.
... and connect it to some weird Lego Mindstorm Killbot that you copied off a design for a Romulan Android Warrior you once saw in the Trek Tech Manual.
No, the REAL work here is to make ti easy to use. That is something all the command line type do not get. Making things powerful is easy. Making things simple is easy. Making things simple AND powerful is HARD.