The fact that gimp treates each component as a seperate.exe program makes it a pain to use. If I click one window it will go over the other gimp windows. I can not have reattachable toolbars or a fully integrated program with the stencils, effects, and main graphics window integrated in one. It means I have to resize each window to fit my desktop myself on startup and then when I select another program everything goes to hell as some of the components go to the background and hide around other applications.
Your complaint is very common. GIMP has been designed for use in linux, and it shows; it delegates a lot to the windowmanager. If you are using linux, either use Windowmaker, or devilspie to have GIMP open all of its windows on a designated virtual desktop. Then, have the image windows sunk to the bottom of the Z stack, so they never cover the tools. You get just about the same interface that Photoshop has with MDI (except the main window is a virtual desktop).
If you're on windows, its more difficult. At least, get the Microsoft Powertoy for multiple virtual desktops. Move all GIMP windows onto one desktop, and keep that one desktop for gimp only. If you have an ATI, you can use ATI's virtual desktops, which are about as configurable as the ones in Devilspie. You can configure GIMP to keep a desktop for itself (although not to sink image windows).
If you resize palette based images (GIFs for example), the result is quite often a jagged look. If this is the case, then convert the image to RGB first (Image | Mode | RGB). Resize and then, if needed, reconvert to indexed (Image | Mode | Indexed).
I've not RTFA, so this may not be true for this particular case. However, the bug figure is usually derived statistically. You assume bug finding follows an inverse exponential (picture a capacitor charging function). After some time, from the found bug data, you can deduct the function limit when time is infinite. That limit is the total bug count.
The EU is defined by international treaties between the parties. International treaties being what they are, I'd say it is entirely possible that one party (a country) decides to break the treaty and proceed on its own outside the EU. It's not like the country can be prosecuted and imprisioned.
However, leaving the EU means leaving the common market. Within the common market there are no import taxes. When leaving, the EU can impose import/export taxes against the secessing country. Since this is a pretty serious move, I'd imagine the taxes to be horrendously high, at least for a decade or so.
Add to this that Europe is almost economically self-contained (over 80% of commerce is within its borders). A secessing country will be taking enormous economic risks. The conclusion is that secession is formally possible but economically prohibitive (but not unrealistic for big countries like Germany, France or even the UK).
Personally I do not believe Europe is ready for transational Governance. There is no true transational political expression today, perhaps with the exception of the "Greens". By contrast, when American federalization occured, there was already well established and popular trans-state political movements and proto-parties, such as Federalists, etc. By contrast, when we look at the EU parliament, it is composed of people elected from strickly individual national political parties. There are no "European Socialists", for example, though there are members of the French socialists, Finland national party, German Social Democrats, etc. This lack of true transational European political expression I believe is why Federalising Europe is impractical at this time, and certainly helps to explain why some believe they could bully through an undemocratic and defective institution onto European nations like the EU system of today.
Although I agree with the gist of your post, this paragraph is simply untrue. Major parties are organized into international parties (example), from where an european-level party could easily emerge, if required.
However, European elections are nowadays largely a nationwide affair, so there's no need for a public view of an European level party. The infrastructure for european-wide parties is there, but not the need.
I can't imagine federalism wouldn't provide the parliament with more power so, even for that effect alone, it would be a Good Thing(tm). Europe is more prepared for federalism than for the current undemocratic, bureaucratic model of government.
I hope you don't really mean what you say. Without the EU, in the XX century, Europe managed to start to world wars. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, as they say...
Even if I don't see it as likely we'll ever get that far down the shit hole again, a dismantled Europe doesn't stand an economic fighting chance against the US or China.
The solution isn't to go back, but to go forward and fix the system. Simplify and empower the EU.
If the choice was between going to war or letting some cheating officials have office, let the damn cheaters have office. There's precedent here that isn't worth challenging.
Americans never cease to surprise me. You mean you prefer living in a dictatorship (albeit masqueraded) than fight for your rights? I'd fight for the rights myself.
If you're looking for mileage take a look at what Audi or Volkswagen have to offer. You can get easily 40 mpg without looking like a circus clown accessory.
Not easily. I own an Audi A3 1600cc. While I've managed to go down to 6L/100km (39mpg) it's really really difficult. You have to drive with great care: non-urban areas, 90km/h, 5th gear, no braking. My usual consumption is around 8L/100km (29mpg) in semi-urban area, and pretty agressive driving. Top consumption is 10L/100km (23mpg) when driving at 200km/h for long trips in highway (if the police asks, this was in Germany, not Portugal;-).
If you want a nice looking car, with great mileage, the best current option IMHO is the Honda Jazz.
I doubt its just the French. Top portuguese physicists are heavily involved in this, and the previous 'experiment' was the Joint European Torus, located in the UK. Further, the organization is to be based on CERN, which is also a multi-national effort.
Go, EU! Stuff like this makes me feel more European than Portuguese...
When you speak about *BSD docs, you're talking about this? Or this? Or this one?
I know I'm probably feeding a troll, but I won't let you get away with bashing the best Gentoo feature. BSD docs are a huge pile of paper, when compared to the nicely organised, professional documentation on Gentoo.org. As much as writing stuff down, it's important to make it findable.
Funny. I'd say Gentoo saved me more time than it cost me during install (which is really time consuming). I've setup my Gentoo computer ~four years ago. It took some time to install and configure to my tastes. However, since then, moving to a different machine is just a matter of grabbing the list of packages in the world profile in the old computer, and emerge'ing the whole list in the new one. It cooks for a couple of days, but the new computer chugs along without interaction. Then, move the homedir, and the new computer feels like home. I've changed computers twice since the first install.
Oh, and naturally, forget burning and installing 'new releases'. The system keeps itself up to date.
I did manage to bork the system, during the move GCC2 -> GCC3. The ABI changed, and lots of dynamically linked packages stopped working.
It was not a huge deal. I had to boot from the LiveCD, reinstall gcc2 rebuild world and wait a couple of weeks for gcc-config to be stable.
Morale: This is something tolerable on your laptop, but quite a disaster if done on a production server. Anyway, Gentoo is moving towards having a stable profile a-la Debian, for servers.
No reinstalls. The system keeps itself up to date. A release announcement means virtually nothing to me. I previously used SuSE, and the system would slowly start to show its age. Compiling new stuff bumped into old libs, etc In time, I always needed to reinstall
Excellent docs. Gentoo has much better docs than either Debian or the BSDs which also present no need to reinstall ever.
So, there you have it. It has nothing to do with flexibility, but more with time savings.
But then,/. provides you with the possibility of subscribing. They say you can replace whatever income they gain with the ads by a direct payment. Why don't you pay?/. is an interesting service, and subscriptions aren't that expensive...
Oh, so innocent, so cute.:-)
Renting music, paying per view, locking the item to the device... The sky is the limit.
There's nothing more expensive when it comes to developing Linux platform then Windows?
What exactly is that supposed to mean?
That Linux is more mature in the embedded market than windows. Windows here is a newcomer, and can't leverage office. It's (still) an inferior product, and it shows.
Sorry to disassemble your theory, but the Socialist party stated it would retreat from Iraq before the attack. Moreover, polls swayed against the Socialist right after the attack. It was just not enough for the Socialist to lose, in great part because of the backlash of the government lying and trying to pin the attack on ETA, instead of AlQaeda.
Going to Iraq was the dumbest move Spain ever did. It was also the dumbest move we Portuguese ever did. The American president can't even point our country in the map, and we'll sure get a diplomatic bashing within Europe because of this. Look at Barroso's problems trying to get his European Commission elected for an obvious example.
If Bush wins, it was because the election was rigged? Do you seriously think that Bush doesn't have support from the people of the US? Just where do you live?
I think that, now the US have squashed any kind of international law and order, any country can unilaterally decide you are being oppressed and go liberate the US.
I wonder how'd you feel if the Chinese now decided to 'free' the US. Your religion is not correct, by their views. Your democracy is not correct, by their views. Your set of freedoms is also not correct, by their views.
Bush supporters (and Bush himself) don't realize the greatest error in the Iraq war was this one. The US could have built a post-cold war international law effort (as father Bush and Clinton were doing), and instead behaved like any dictator: Made up an excuse and invaded.
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If you're on windows, its more difficult. At least, get the Microsoft Powertoy for multiple virtual desktops. Move all GIMP windows onto one desktop, and keep that one desktop for gimp only. If you have an ATI, you can use ATI's virtual desktops, which are about as configurable as the ones in Devilspie. You can configure GIMP to keep a desktop for itself (although not to sink image windows).
If you resize palette based images (GIFs for example), the result is quite often a jagged look. If this is the case, then convert the image to RGB first (Image | Mode | RGB). Resize and then, if needed, reconvert to indexed (Image | Mode | Indexed).
I've not RTFA, so this may not be true for this particular case. However, the bug figure is usually derived statistically. You assume bug finding follows an inverse exponential (picture a capacitor charging function). After some time, from the found bug data, you can deduct the function limit when time is infinite. That limit is the total bug count.
However, leaving the EU means leaving the common market. Within the common market there are no import taxes. When leaving, the EU can impose import/export taxes against the secessing country. Since this is a pretty serious move, I'd imagine the taxes to be horrendously high, at least for a decade or so.
Add to this that Europe is almost economically self-contained (over 80% of commerce is within its borders). A secessing country will be taking enormous economic risks. The conclusion is that secession is formally possible but economically prohibitive (but not unrealistic for big countries like Germany, France or even the UK).
However, European elections are nowadays largely a nationwide affair, so there's no need for a public view of an European level party. The infrastructure for european-wide parties is there, but not the need.
I can't imagine federalism wouldn't provide the parliament with more power so, even for that effect alone, it would be a Good Thing(tm). Europe is more prepared for federalism than for the current undemocratic, bureaucratic model of government.
Even if I don't see it as likely we'll ever get that far down the shit hole again, a dismantled Europe doesn't stand an economic fighting chance against the US or China.
The solution isn't to go back, but to go forward and fix the system. Simplify and empower the EU.
There! I just started a war between Mac zealots and Gentoo zealots. The End is coming.
Right click on folder, click "Compact this folder". It's idiotic, but TB is following the spec to the letter. Blame the spec.
If you want a nice looking car, with great mileage, the best current option IMHO is the Honda Jazz.
Then, they're only missing these
1) Europe will finance the Japanese project, even if we *also* build our own.
2) We don't kill innocents.
Go, EU! Stuff like this makes me feel more European than Portuguese...
You're probably right. I have ~x86 set and have no idea if the stable branch suffered the same problems. Probably not.
I know I'm probably feeding a troll, but I won't let you get away with bashing the best Gentoo feature. BSD docs are a huge pile of paper, when compared to the nicely organised, professional documentation on Gentoo.org. As much as writing stuff down, it's important to make it findable.
Just go and compare the sites.
Oh, and naturally, forget burning and installing 'new releases'. The system keeps itself up to date.
It was not a huge deal. I had to boot from the LiveCD, reinstall gcc2 rebuild world and wait a couple of weeks for gcc-config to be stable.
Morale: This is something tolerable on your laptop, but quite a disaster if done on a production server. Anyway, Gentoo is moving towards having a stable profile a-la Debian, for servers.
- No reinstalls. The system keeps itself up to date. A release announcement means virtually nothing to me. I previously used SuSE, and the system would slowly start to show its age. Compiling new stuff bumped into old libs, etc In time, I always needed to reinstall
- Excellent docs. Gentoo has much better docs than either Debian or the BSDs which also present no need to reinstall ever.
So, there you have it. It has nothing to do with flexibility, but more with time savings.But then, /. provides you with the possibility of subscribing. They say you can replace whatever income they gain with the ads by a direct payment. Why don't you pay? /. is an interesting service, and subscriptions aren't that expensive...
Renting music, paying per view, locking the item to the device... The sky is the limit. That Linux is more mature in the embedded market than windows. Windows here is a newcomer, and can't leverage office. It's (still) an inferior product, and it shows.
What part of Godwyn's law didn't you understand?
Going to Iraq was the dumbest move Spain ever did. It was also the dumbest move we Portuguese ever did. The American president can't even point our country in the map, and we'll sure get a diplomatic bashing within Europe because of this. Look at Barroso's problems trying to get his European Commission elected for an obvious example.
Ding! You've just hit Godwin's Law and therefore lost the argument.
I wonder how'd you feel if the Chinese now decided to 'free' the US. Your religion is not correct, by their views. Your democracy is not correct, by their views. Your set of freedoms is also not correct, by their views.
Bush supporters (and Bush himself) don't realize the greatest error in the Iraq war was this one. The US could have built a post-cold war international law effort (as father Bush and Clinton were doing), and instead behaved like any dictator: Made up an excuse and invaded.