dvmatte looks interesting, criticalartware rocks, and liken is amazing. I am there as kandinski, I don't know how much time I will have to actually participate, but kudos on a great idea, a better execution and what seems like a tightly knit community.
If we reskin GIMP to look EXACTLY like PS, would that make you happy?
Yes! More work would still be needed, but that would be a killer. In the FOSS-Unixy world we have vi modes for EMACS and even (for the truly lost) EMACS bindings for everything including vi. Well, the same happens in the graphical-editing world.
My 3D-designing friends have all learned to model in old apps and have since moved on to newer systems. All of them, to a man, have a heavily tweak their UI, with new key shortcuts and whatnot, so that it works like the old one they are used to (note it is a matter of habit, and not of intuitiveness).
Corel Draw did something like that with version 9, I believe, which could be turned into either Freehand or Illustrator at the touch of a button. And I don't mean a mere reskinnning, either. Fundamentals like bezier curve editing modes and graphical transforms were turned upside down, in some cases quite literally.
So bring it on! How difficult would it be to have a checkbox in the preferences that says: "think I am Photoshop"? I want to use space for panning, space-(alt-ctrl) for zooming, etc. *just as I am used to already*. That would helm me, and others like me, get into the Gimp vibe more easily.
It is not like we are not trying. Give us a hand.
A final note: EMACS has a vi mode and vice-versa because their users are programmers. The heavy-duty professional users who needed these feature most could add them themselves. This isn't the case with graphics apps. But the opposite is also true: the programmers are at most casual users, and they need the help from serious artists with professional needs. Some collaboration is in order.
Yes, but the parent said Nero was the proof Linux had still a ways to go before it was gui-friendly for ex-windows users. The correct answer to that is "k3b", not "dd".
I don't know in Gnome-land, but KDE has K3b, which gives Nero, in my humble opinion, a run for its money.
Real life anecdote: two weeks ago I went to my friend Lorenzo's with a Knoppix disc, booted it and showed him. He liked it and wanted to keep it, but it was my only copy and I had deleted the ISO from my own hard drive. No problem. Mount his HD read/write, fire K3b, select the HD for temp storage of the iso, and rip/burn in under 30 minutes. Flawless.
The operating system was running from the same CD we were copying, mind you. No hassle.
Hey, I friended you because usually you make a lot of sense, but I disagree that your breaches of privacy do not affect me and vice-versa.
If I do business with you, I am doing business with your bank as well. I cannot be reasonably expected to audit all my clients, my providers, and their banks to make sure my transactions will not see the light of day. So I would like to see legislation that regulate the "publicness" of those data.
Same with medical establishments. How can I be expected to check that the lab that does the analysis for the clinic that my insurer accepts will comply to privacy regulations? Suing them after the fact, when the damage has been done, is hardly an option, and the majority of health patrons do not have the time and money to do it.
And yes, I am European. All for laisezz-faire market forces, except in the relationship between individuals and corporations. Corporations are too pampered under the law, and individuals need more leverage, IMHO.
IIRC, the reason for the outrage against barbarian was twofold: one, the graphic decapitations (as graphic as you can get on a C64). But second, and not least, the raunchy Frazetta-esque cover featuring page three girl Maria Whitaker.
When I interviewed him (in 2001) Jason Rubin looked extremely fit and very smart (in a preppy way) in his chinos and tucked-in white shirt. He also proved to be a very good public speaker and quite personable.
I'd much rather look like Jason Rubin in ten years than like Tara Reid now.
This sounds suspiciously close to what Steve Mann et al. do with Video Orbits, automagically compositing different frames from a video, or still pictures of the same scene, into either a higher-resoulution picture or a wider-angle panorama. Sometimes the result is a mix of the two.
You can even get the code from sourceforge, although now he seems more interested in his studies into what he calls "Comparametric Toolkit", which seems to mix Video Orbits with software based on the Wyckoff principle (how to get high dynamic range pictures from one underexposed pic and one overexposed pic, for those who don't RTFL).
I suppose the amount of processing power in those phonecams must be insane, or maybe the algorithm they use is more generic, but it is good to know all this Moore's Law horsepower applied towards useful stuff, not just Laracroftish games (ducks).
Finally, it is worth of note that, although Mann's software is now GPL (I don't recall it being Free, or even released, last time I checked three years ago), at least one of the algoritms is under US Patent5,706,416, which of course is not nice, unless he plans to license it free of charge for GPL software.
Thrill Kill was not waporware proper. It was finished modulo some touch-up, but it seems it was a bit too much for Virgin (IIRC), who buried it rather than release it. Some copies had gotten to journalists, however, and I got to play it with my friends.
It was a S&M-themed fighter for the Playstation, with funny characters like a madman in a straitjacket, a midget on stilts, a surgeon with scalpels and a nurse with a stungun. The fighting bodies locked quite nicely, and fatalities usually involved beheading. Nothing too bad, really, maybe 18-rated but more funny than disturbing.
Well, I for one installed from the 1003.11.19 Knoppix, apt-got dist-upgraded, and broke dial-up access that was working perfectly before the upgrade. Talking on #knoppix I was told this is because of the many non-standard packages.
I also had trouble with Quake2 and the nVidia drivers, which required surgery in/usr/lib/tls in order to fix (thanks to the fine guys at #nvidia).
I realize not everybody uses dial-up and plays a seven year old game, but Debian unstable does not have those problems.
For Hard Disk installation, Mepis (Knoppix derivative especially designed for HD install) is a surer bet, and the result a purer Debian.
The Kano in parent's nvidia driver URL (kano.mipooh.net) is also building a Knoppix without special packages, called Kanotix. I haven't tried it yet.
You should both write the book in the manner of a Socratic dialog. Anonymous Coward provides the questions, and kfg answers. After reading your exchanges in this thread, even I would buy the book for pure entertainment purposes, and I am the staunchest of urbanites (you know, of the kind that thinks the country is that place where chickens run around raw).
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I think you are missing Darl McBride's point because you are not in his frame of mind. Since he alleges Linux contains lots of SystemV code, it is clear that Novell buying Suse and distributing Linux violates the noncompete clause.
Not that I agree with the premise, but it does make sense from his point of view.
The price is not just $250.000. It is (I quote from idsoftware's own website) $250,000 guarantee against a 5% royalty of the wholesale price for the title. I guess licensees like Soldier of fortune II and Medal of Honor are bringing in much more than a quarter million each.
Books in print only covers books currently carried by commercial distrtibutors, and only those in English (I am assuming it covers US, ENglish, Australian, Canadian etc, be it in several volumes or in one fat subscription).
We need something for books in other languages/countries (I am Spanish and own a sizeable number of South American Books).
On other news, Andrew Plotkin (Zarf of Inform fame) has a nice tale of his project to digitize his book collection catalogue: The Book-Scanning Project. Sorry if this is redundant, one really doesn't have the time to read aaaall other contributions.
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dvmatte looks interesting, criticalartware rocks, and liken is amazing. I am there as kandinski, I don't know how much time I will have to actually participate, but kudos on a great idea, a better execution and what seems like a tightly knit community.
Damn right! Could you give us pointers to stuff you have developed? If you code as well as you argue, I want to try them.
If we reskin GIMP to look EXACTLY like PS, would that make you happy?
Yes! More work would still be needed, but that would be a killer. In the FOSS-Unixy world we have vi modes for EMACS and even (for the truly lost) EMACS bindings for everything including vi. Well, the same happens in the graphical-editing world.
My 3D-designing friends have all learned to model in old apps and have since moved on to newer systems. All of them, to a man, have a heavily tweak their UI, with new key shortcuts and whatnot, so that it works like the old one they are used to (note it is a matter of habit, and not of intuitiveness).
Corel Draw did something like that with version 9, I believe, which could be turned into either Freehand or Illustrator at the touch of a button. And I don't mean a mere reskinnning, either. Fundamentals like bezier curve editing modes and graphical transforms were turned upside down, in some cases quite literally.
So bring it on! How difficult would it be to have a checkbox in the preferences that says: "think I am Photoshop"? I want to use space for panning, space-(alt-ctrl) for zooming, etc. *just as I am used to already*. That would helm me, and others like me, get into the Gimp vibe more easily.
It is not like we are not trying. Give us a hand.
A final note: EMACS has a vi mode and vice-versa because their users are programmers. The heavy-duty professional users who needed these feature most could add them themselves. This isn't the case with graphics apps. But the opposite is also true: the programmers are at most casual users, and they need the help from serious artists with professional needs. Some collaboration is in order.
I see the battle room scenees as Lemmings meets 3D billiards -- in space!
Yes, but the parent said Nero was the proof Linux had still a ways to go before it was gui-friendly for ex-windows users. The correct answer to that is "k3b", not "dd".
I don't know in Gnome-land, but KDE has K3b, which gives Nero, in my humble opinion, a run for its money.
Real life anecdote: two weeks ago I went to my friend Lorenzo's with a Knoppix disc, booted it and showed him. He liked it and wanted to keep it, but it was my only copy and I had deleted the ISO from my own hard drive. No problem. Mount his HD read/write, fire K3b, select the HD for temp storage of the iso, and rip/burn in under 30 minutes. Flawless.
The operating system was running from the same CD we were copying, mind you. No hassle.
Hey, I friended you because usually you make a lot of sense, but I disagree that your breaches of privacy do not affect me and vice-versa.
If I do business with you, I am doing business with your bank as well. I cannot be reasonably expected to audit all my clients, my providers, and their banks to make sure my transactions will not see the light of day. So I would like to see legislation that regulate the "publicness" of those data.
Same with medical establishments. How can I be expected to check that the lab that does the analysis for the clinic that my insurer accepts will comply to privacy regulations? Suing them after the fact, when the damage has been done, is hardly an option, and the majority of health patrons do not have the time and money to do it.
And yes, I am European. All for laisezz-faire market forces, except in the relationship between individuals and corporations. Corporations are too pampered under the law, and individuals need more leverage, IMHO.
Ah, those were the times...
When I interviewed him (in 2001) Jason Rubin looked extremely fit and very smart (in a preppy way) in his chinos and tucked-in white shirt. He also proved to be a very good public speaker and quite personable.
I'd much rather look like Jason Rubin in ten years than like Tara Reid now.
You can even get the code from sourceforge, although now he seems more interested in his studies into what he calls "Comparametric Toolkit", which seems to mix Video Orbits with software based on the Wyckoff principle (how to get high dynamic range pictures from one underexposed pic and one overexposed pic, for those who don't RTFL).
I suppose the amount of processing power in those phonecams must be insane, or maybe the algorithm they use is more generic, but it is good to know all this Moore's Law horsepower applied towards useful stuff, not just Laracroftish games (ducks).
Finally, it is worth of note that, although Mann's software is now GPL (I don't recall it being Free, or even released, last time I checked three years ago), at least one of the algoritms is under US Patent5,706,416, which of course is not nice, unless he plans to license it free of charge for GPL software.
Thrill Kill was not waporware proper. It was finished modulo some touch-up, but it seems it was a bit too much for Virgin (IIRC), who buried it rather than release it. Some copies had gotten to journalists, however, and I got to play it with my friends.
It was a S&M-themed fighter for the Playstation, with funny characters like a madman in a straitjacket, a midget on stilts, a surgeon with scalpels and a nurse with a stungun. The fighting bodies locked quite nicely, and fatalities usually involved beheading. Nothing too bad, really, maybe 18-rated but more funny than disturbing.
Of course, funny is in the eye of the beholder.
Well, I for one installed from the 1003.11.19 Knoppix, apt-got dist-upgraded, and broke dial-up access that was working perfectly before the upgrade. Talking on #knoppix I was told this is because of the many non-standard packages.
/usr/lib/tls in order to fix (thanks to the fine guys at #nvidia).
I also had trouble with Quake2 and the nVidia drivers, which required surgery in
I realize not everybody uses dial-up and plays a seven year old game, but Debian unstable does not have those problems.
For Hard Disk installation, Mepis (Knoppix derivative especially designed for HD install) is a surer bet, and the result a purer Debian.
The Kano in parent's nvidia driver URL (kano.mipooh.net) is also building a Knoppix without special packages, called Kanotix. I haven't tried it yet.
Of course, YMMV. Greatly.
You should both write the book in the manner of a Socratic dialog. Anonymous Coward provides the questions, and kfg answers. After reading your exchanges in this thread, even I would buy the book for pure entertainment purposes, and I am the staunchest of urbanites (you know, of the kind that thinks the country is that place where chickens run around raw).
I think you are missing Darl McBride's point because you are not in his frame of mind. Since he alleges Linux contains lots of SystemV code, it is clear that Novell buying Suse and distributing Linux violates the noncompete clause.
Not that I agree with the premise, but it does make sense from his point of view.
So I can hack and play those 16 bit games on my 32 bit AMD-based PC.
Except, maybe, for the Chernobyl that trashed my motherboard (and a couple of friends' and coworkers') back when.
"I don't build computers: I am a cooling engineer"
Seymour Cray.-
I have seen the quote on several sigs, but I haven't been able to find a source.
Yea the scale is logarithmic.
What about KDE? Does KDE support Hindi?
Huckleberry Finn is the eponymous hero of, well, Huckleberry Finn (The book). A book on hackers called Hackers can be called an eponymous opus.
thanks, I too was thinking of waiting a few days;
I am now maxing out my puny 256k DSL connection.
The price is not just $250.000. It is (I quote from idsoftware's own website) $250,000 guarantee against a 5% royalty of the wholesale price for the title. I guess licensees like Soldier of fortune II and Medal of Honor are bringing in much more than a quarter million each.
Books in print only covers books currently carried by commercial distrtibutors, and only those in English (I am assuming it covers US, ENglish, Australian, Canadian etc, be it in several volumes or in one fat subscription).
We need something for books in other languages/countries (I am Spanish and own a sizeable number of South American Books).
On other news, Andrew Plotkin (Zarf of Inform fame) has a nice tale of his project to digitize his book collection catalogue: The Book-Scanning Project. Sorry if this is redundant, one really doesn't have the time to read aaaall other contributions.
"Backup is for sissies. Real men upload their data to an FTP and have everyone else mirror it"
Race with the Crash Bandicoot characters