While pruning deprecateds (sorry for funny grammar...) is a good idea and has to be executed some day, I'd disagree that this needs to be done with the first release that will be fully open source.
For those, who look forward to OpenJDK release, it would be a great disappointment that could set back the whole Java camp a couple of years because of mindshare/psychological reasons. If the first release that's finally included with all the Linux distributions would make lots of older software stop working, lots of people simply would walk away from Java in frustration.
That's because right now almost all GNU/Linux/*BSD users are holding their breath in wait for the Open JDK. Those people expect that all the software for which they've installed binary JDK's to date (sometimes resorting to Linux emulation tricks etc) will finally be supported by their system of choice out of the box. And when they finally get the new JDK, and visit e.g. their online banking site that uses some old AWT applet, and it doesn't work at all - you get the picture. People would get crazy and move to Mono/.NET or swear they'll avoid Java and code only in Python/Ruby till the end of their life.
So IMHO full backward compatibility should be preserved at least in Java7 so the first OpenJDK release doesn't break anything.
Later you can clean up and prune anything, the worst that can happen will be that people will stick with OpenJDK 7 for a longer period until all the apps they need are updated to fresh APIs.
It's a brilliant idea: all that Microsoft needs to do to have opensource threat neutralized, is to regularly produce and release lots of interesting, geek-oriented movies on the net for free!
Just a hint for MS: don't use that crappy WMV format and use Bittorrent for distribution, not Xbox Live. Think about target audience.
Did you know that since the government has pulled the funding, Bussard started collecting funds through New Mexico Community Foundation? There's also an online petition to resume his funding by the government.
However these costs are temporary and manly are budgeted in less than one year.
Considering the extensiveness of this report, couldn't they pass it through some corrective editing? Or did they really mean that only a true man can budget these costs in less than one year? (ducks)
BTW, it seems that AMD Pacifica technology, being probably the most interesting to the enterprise customers (at las cheap hardware virtualisation!), is subjected to a serious marketing screwup inside AMD.
I get a 404 error. It's been like this at least since march 2006. Is their marketing department/webmaster on a nine month vacation or what?
BTW, I've tried notifying them about that through an online form. I've only received an automated response of course and never heard from anybody alive at AMD.
If anybody at AMD is reading this, please ask your marketing guys how did they manage to screw things up this way for so long?
Professional tablets often come with mouse-like "pucks" and there were some attempts to use them for panning.
A dedicated device for panning and zooming would contribute to greater ergonomy for professional artists, but for most users the mouse is the only option they have at hand.
1. What mouse sold in the past 5 years or so does not come with a scrollwheel that doubles as a middle mouse button?
Believe me, in our country old hardware is quite common, because many cannot afford to buy the latest and greatest all the time. 2-button mice (even serial ones) are still in use.
That said, I actually have an optical mouse with a scrollwheel that acts like a middle button, and I find it very clumsy - it's harder to navigate the mouse with precision while you keep that button pressed. Using the other hand to keep a key pressed is much better.
2. Option "Emulate3Buttons" "True". Now press left&right button simultaneously.
Navigating the mouse with two buttons pressed would be even worse than with one button.
Actually, I've always found the mouse panning/zooming rather useful. Use the scroll wheel, and I believe will pan up and down normally, and left+right with CTRL.
It lacks the precision, smoothness and freedom of direction associated with dragging the mouse.
I'd love to hear specifically what is missing, as I'm sure the devs would too. Is it just the color management for print design, or something else?
Let's try:
Support for various additional color spaces in addition to grayscale and RGB, e.g. CMYK, LAB, HSB. I'm not speaking about the color chooser, which AFAIR lets you pick colors using CMYK already. I'm talking about the image being stored in memory (and on disk in.xcf) and processed using particular color space representation, e.g. for CMYK the image is stored with 4 channels (look at them like color planes) representing the intensity of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and blacK pigments in a subtractive model (RGB on the other hand, is additive). Some color corrections are done most easily when working in LAB color space Read some books by Dan Margulis to get an idea.
Support for 16-bits or more (32-bit, floating point etc.) per channel for color spaces, integrated through all the workflow (possibly from the camera RAW files, through all the color curve corrections, levels, filters, hue mappings, up to the output file) so the dynamic range is high and minimal information is lost during colors / tones manipulation
panning with a single keypress + mouse drag (one cannot simply press space and pan around the image with the mouse)
ability to scroll the image window beyond the image border regardless of zoom level (GIMP doesn't let you scroll beyond the image's edge which is quite irritating)
more GUI manipulation flexibility - ability to reorganize the whole UI into single MDI window similar to Photoshop or Corel PhotoPaint; but not at the expense of usability - it should be extremely hard to reorganize the GUI unintentionally (no tear-off toolbars like in MS Office - it's a usability disaster)
support for "workspace themes" - named sets of window positions, docker layouts, and so on. There should be 2 predefined themes available: "GIMP standard" and "Photoshop-like" - this would help the photoshoppers make the switch and do their first steps in GIMP.
All they need to do is a Gaussian averaging kernel around the fractional pixel position they want to estimate the value of. It's not really hard.
I suggest optimizing Your approach for speed. After all, not everybody has a 3GHz machine (granted, outside the USA).
Have a look at gdk-pixbuf: they have implemented a "Tiles" scaling algorithm that seems ideal for this task: it's faster than bilinear interpolation, and the result is similar to bilinear when reducing the size.
It looks like nearest neighbor only when enlarging, but Firefox will never do that anyway...
GDK_INTERP_TILES This is an accurate simulation of the PostScript image operator without any interpolation enabled. Each pixel is rendered as a tiny parallelogram of solid color, the edges of which are implemented with antialiasing. It resembles nearest neighbor for enlargement, and bilinear for reduction.
1) Go to http://www.amd.com/ 2) Search for "Pacifica" (their upcoming enterprise technology for virtualization) 3) Click on the first link that their search engine returns ("AMD's Virtualization Solutions - Optimizing Enterprise Services")
You get a HTTP 404 error. It has been like this for two months now! What an embarrasment for their marketing dept...
And there's no mention of the estimated launch date of Pacifica processors anywhere on their site (or it's simply too hard to find). People are trying to make spending plans here and one can't get reliable information from AMD about one of its most important enterprise technologies planned for release this year!
They just look amateurish. Sad to say that, since they still have technological advantage over Intel and taking care of good marketing would seem to be a matter of some very simple steps.
That having been said, it's a frustrating experience. There is no good way, for instance, to have proper-looking scientific/exponential notation on a graph in either Excel or OO.o calc. These are the types of things that I think OO.o could really be *ahead* of MS Office... It wouldn't take much programming (compared to what has already been done), and it would make OO.o immediately more useful than MS Office for certain tasks.
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While pruning deprecateds (sorry for funny grammar...) is a good idea and has to be executed some day, I'd disagree that this needs to be done with the first release that will be fully open source.
For those, who look forward to OpenJDK release, it would be a great disappointment that could set back the whole Java camp a couple of years because of mindshare/psychological reasons.
If the first release that's finally included with all the Linux distributions would make lots of older software stop working, lots of people simply would walk away from Java in frustration.
That's because right now almost all GNU/Linux/*BSD users are holding their breath in wait for the Open JDK. Those people expect that all the software for which they've installed binary JDK's to date (sometimes resorting to Linux emulation tricks etc) will finally be supported by their system of choice out of the box.
And when they finally get the new JDK, and visit e.g. their online banking site that uses some old AWT applet, and it doesn't work at all - you get the picture.
People would get crazy and move to Mono/.NET or swear they'll avoid Java and code only in Python/Ruby till the end of their life.
So IMHO full backward compatibility should be preserved at least in Java7 so the first OpenJDK release doesn't break anything.
Later you can clean up and prune anything, the worst that can happen will be that people will stick with OpenJDK 7 for a longer period until all the apps they need are updated to fresh APIs.
...as usual.
News at Eleven.
It's a brilliant idea: all that Microsoft needs to do to have opensource threat neutralized, is to regularly produce and release lots of interesting, geek-oriented movies on the net for free!
Just a hint for MS: don't use that crappy WMV format and use Bittorrent for distribution, not Xbox Live. Think about target audience.
That's what happens when one uses MySQL, even for some applications that aren't search related ;)
Nope, it appears that it was a false alert. "The contract has merely been continued for a year without funding".
Did you know that since the government has pulled the funding, Bussard started collecting funds through New Mexico Community Foundation? There's also an online petition to resume his funding by the government.
Interesting, how that relates to Rober Bussard's Polywell fusor, which he claims can be made into a prototype 100 MW plant in 7 years, provided the needed 200M USD funding?
You can also listen to his lecture at Google Tech Talks in 2006 to get an idea of what he's up to.
BTW, you can donate to this fund via Paypal and sign the petition to renew his funding from the government.
Considering the extensiveness of this report, couldn't they pass it through some corrective editing? Or did they really mean that only a true man can budget these costs in less than one year? (ducks)
BTW, it seems that AMD Pacifica technology, being probably the most interesting to the enterprise customers (at las cheap hardware virtualisation!), is subjected to a serious marketing screwup inside AMD.
Go to their main page, search for "pacifica", and try to visit the first page you get in the results (AMD's Virtualization Solutions - Optimizing Enterprise Services).
I get a 404 error. It's been like this at least since march 2006. Is their marketing department/webmaster on a nine month vacation or what?
BTW, I've tried notifying them about that through an online form. I've only received an automated response of course and never heard from anybody alive at AMD.
If anybody at AMD is reading this, please ask your marketing guys how did they manage to screw things up this way for so long?
Professional tablets often come with mouse-like "pucks" and there were some attempts to use them for panning. A dedicated device for panning and zooming would contribute to greater ergonomy for professional artists, but for most users the mouse is the only option they have at hand.
Believe me, in our country old hardware is quite common, because many cannot afford to buy the latest and greatest all the time. 2-button mice (even serial ones) are still in use.
That said, I actually have an optical mouse with a scrollwheel that acts like a middle button, and I find it very clumsy - it's harder to navigate the mouse with precision while you keep that button pressed. Using the other hand to keep a key pressed is much better.
Navigating the mouse with two buttons pressed would be even worse than with one button.
It lacks the precision, smoothness and freedom of direction associated with dragging the mouse.
Many mice don't have it; the Space key is always there. Plus, it became kind of de facto standard for many graphic apps, not only Photoshop.
Explanation for the impaired: A man who killed an acrobat has submitted himself to some standard law enforcement body to be prosecuted.
The editors often omit some words to make a title shorter and easier to read and understand. No big deal.
Let's try:
That should be easy. Make the tags explode and blow the head off upon unauthorized removal attempt. Should be discouraging enough.
I suggest optimizing Your approach for speed. After all, not everybody has a 3GHz machine (granted, outside the USA).
Have a look at gdk-pixbuf: they have implemented a "Tiles" scaling algorithm that seems ideal for this task: it's faster than bilinear interpolation, and the result is similar to bilinear when reducing the size.
It looks like nearest neighbor only when enlarging, but Firefox will never do that anyway...
Look here . Chosen quote:
Also, see this Mozilla bug.
So, it seems that it's them who are that unnamed business that's being exploited with a zero-day flaw, and the attack is a form of identitty theft!
Now I'm beginning to get the big picture!
Top 11 Signs You're a Victim of Identify Theft
olo@laptopola:~$ python
Python 2.4.3 (#2, Apr 27 2006, 14:43:58)
[GCC 4.0.3 (Ubuntu 4.0.3-1ubuntu5)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print "Lrg nabgure Clguba Theh".decode('rot13')
... who initially read the headline as "Monty Python's Programming Guide"?
Time to get some sleep.
You can test it by yourself:
1) Go to http://www.amd.com/
2) Search for "Pacifica" (their upcoming enterprise technology for virtualization)
3) Click on the first link that their search engine returns ("AMD's Virtualization Solutions - Optimizing Enterprise Services")
You get a HTTP 404 error. It has been like this for two months now! What an embarrasment for their marketing dept...
And there's no mention of the estimated launch date of Pacifica processors anywhere on their site (or it's simply too hard to find). People are trying to make spending plans here and one can't get reliable information from AMD about one of its most important enterprise technologies planned for release this year!
They just look amateurish. Sad to say that, since they still have technological advantage over Intel and taking care of good marketing would seem to be a matter of some very simple steps.
I'd prefer:
Why don't you document what you need in the OpenOffice Issuezilla?
Reintermediate visionary web services?
Empower value-added synergies?
Maximize virtual solutions?
Leverage user-centric methodologies?
Or at least architect synergistic convergence?
Please?