Hate to rain on your parade, but we made more advancements in sending a person in space during the Cold War than we have after it ended. Sputnik, the dog, the monkey, the first men... They were all driven by the desire to one-up the enemy. Farther back than that, the first mass produced rockets were created by Hitler as a way to bomb Britain during World War II. We certainly weren't peaceful during WWII. And to top it all off we had to specifically create a treaty saying we wouldn't use space to host weapons because that was exactly what both the US and USSR wanted to do.
No, you don't have to be peaceful to achieve the Space Age. We've proven pretty much the exact opposite of that.
Yes, something was lost. If they make replacement furniture then the virtual economy has been diluted by $5900 (or whatever it was). This reduces the real-world value of everyone's in-game property. If Habbo did this every time a theft happened then the virtual economy would crash and people would be out a lot of real-world money.
The purpose of GIMPshop was to "replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop". Well, Adobe just told you themselves that the Photoshop UI sucks. So, clearly, redesigning Gimp to be more Photoshop-like would not have been a good way of improving it.
Yes, yes it would have. If you would read the guy's full blog post you'll see that he's saying the Photoshop UI fails *now*, not that it failed (*now* - x years) ago. GIMP isn't on feature parity with Photoshop 6, let alone CS3. Along with that feature disparity it is encumbered with a clumsy UI. If GIMP would adopt even some of the current Photoshop UI paradigms the adoption rate of the software would go up. Then at some point in the future, when hopefully it has many more useful features, they could consider redesigning the UI to fit that version of the program.
Trying to distill down the Adobe blog post to "they said their UI sucks" is at worst childish and at most a gross misinterpretation of what was said. Adobe has admitted to evaluating their program, it's features, how it's used, and how they can work to make the underlying features of the program more accessible within different workflows. This is something the GIMP developers have been asked to do for years. Yet, all they've ever shown is a lack of desire to adapt or a stubborn disregard of any constructive criticism that has been offered.
However they never take steps themselves to solve the problem.
Yes they do. They gravitate towards other OSS or commercial software that provides the tools they need.
Any why don't the complainers fork the GIMP, or start a new program from scratch, or buy Photoshop?
You answered your own question. The target audience for the GIMP is not inclined to work on the GIMP. They're graphics folks. If the GIMP doesn't fill their needs they'll ignore and/or deride it and use other software. The problem most people see is that the GIMP is held up as some sort of shining example of how OSS works and is filling needs for people. In that respect the GIMP is an absolute failure. It's only filling the needs of the people who work on it. The people who would use it and propel it to wide exceptance are either chided or ignored when they point out that it's not a good fit for their tasks. If the developers want a pet project that's fine. Get it out of the headlines and stop talking it up like it's the second coming then, though.
Yes, please mod the (grand0parent down. This person is much more credible and believable, what with his master use of ALL CAPS to prove that his anecdotal story is the REAL story. The (grand)parent poster is obviously a pathological liar with a hidden agenda.
Thank you, random ALL CAPS GUY for setting the record straight with your excellent use of facts and oratorical skills.
The part that no one ever seems to reference this mythical patent when they put that out as the end-all-be-all reason for GIMP's in ability to fill a need of graphic professionals. What's the patent #? When was it granted? What does it cover, exactly? These items are never mentioned.
It's also never mentioned that it's the underlying 8 bpp assumptions throughout the GIMP that are the biggest hindrance to making it handle higher bit depth images. The FilmGIMP/Cinepaint guys managed to add high color depth support but the Gimp developers didn't want their solution. Instead they wanted to make an all new processing engine themselves. They promised that years ago and it's still nowhere to be found. It's the GIMP developers' stubbornness, inability to accept work they didn't write, and lack of desire to listen to users that keeps GIMP from achieving parity with even something as basic as Paint.NET or Paintshop Pro. It's not patent issues over CMYK...if that really is a problem at all.
Just because Palm can't sell 7 figures worth of Treo's in 3 months doesn't mean that there aren't that many Windows Mobile devices being sold. The number of units sold is only a good barometer for market penetration when you can only get the device from one manufacturer.
A third party SDK for the iPhone won't be "game over for the entire handheld computer market". For corporations that issue portable computing devices to their employees no IT department in their right mind is going to make a wholesale switch from Windows Mobile based smart phones and PDAs that run on the corporate voice/data network of choice to iPhones with the only choice of voice/data service being AT&T and a necessary reliance on hobbiest software to supply necessary applications.
It might mean a sharp downturn in the number of non Apple PDAs purchased for personal use. That's a far cry different than the wholesale revolution you are claiming it will be, though.
You're a bit incorrect. The jury decided the penalty within a range that was predetermined. This jury chose to go to the (approximate) median value of that range. They could've pegged the per-song monetary penalty at a lot higher than what they did.
They're delaying an MMO for 14 days so they can finally get around to tweaking game balance issues? They waited until the game was done, started over, done, started over, and done again and then said, "Oh, crap...we forgot to balance it! How fast can we do that?" and came up with a time estimate of 2 weeks....for an MMO.
You wouldn't save energy by replacing your omni directional bulb based reading lamp with one that just focuses the light on your book. The level of brightness of a given bulb does not increase in one area if you block it from emitting in other areas. If your omni directional bulb was 60w to start with your unidirectional bulb would also have to be 60w for you to receive the same level of illumination on your book (all other things being equal). The only way you'd reduce energy waste and make economic sense would be to replace your standard 60w filament based omni directional bulb with an omni directional CFL bulb of equivalent lumen output at a lower wattage. That would, of course, do nothing to curb the light pollution created by that lamp. For that there is this amazing invention called the "lamp shade". Don't worry, very few lamp shades require energy to work. You won't be making any extra waste by using one.
Arches National Park near Moab Utah was a great place to see stars about 10-12 years ago. I don't know about now. The park entrance is 8-10 miles from Moab (which is a very small town) and the first camping area is something like 18 miles further in.
Hey Mr. Holier-Than-Thou,
I got Office 2007 for the low low price of having to leave three Microsoft web-seminar videos running on my computer while I did other things. At the end of that they sent me a free copy of the suite.
Getting a post on Slashdot and some other tech-sites doesn't = a "shit ton" of free advertising. Ask anyone watching an NBC season premiere tonight who "Monsoon Multimedia" is and you'll, more often than not, just a blank stare in return.
""How the fuck can you spend all day sending and receiving emails and yet not know how to configure an imap client?"
Ok, so explain to me in great detail, including the most miniscule operations of every machine, every vehicle, and person involved, how the US Post Office takes a letter from your mailbox and successfully delivers it to another mailbox across the company.
Come on. You send mail How the **** can you do that and yet not know how it all works?
And just what would you call someone who knows Unix and its history and knows how Linux and Minix were developed you're a nerd. If you fit in to that category you're a nerd.
(* Yes, there are DVRs that accept CableCards, but they're prohibitively expensive, you have to pay for the cards, and we've all heard how much trouble it is to get a CableCard installed correctly.)
You do not have to pay for CableCARDs. The Cable company has to lease them to you at competitive prices relative to their set top boxes.
Every time some commercial MMO gets the sunsetting treatment someone has to drag out the, "I hope they release the code" rallying cry.
It's not going to happen. AA is but one MMO title that NetDevil produces. They would be pointing a gigantic gun at their collective feet if they were to release the networking code that, presumably, is used within their other commercial games. On top of that, within the realm of the client, there are possible middleware licensing issues with the 3D engine, video playback, physics system, etc.. that would prevent any opening of the code.
"...sometimes used in a limited sense in the legal sphere..."
The definition of the word forensics is, "The use of science and technology to investigate and establish facts in criminal or civil courts of law." The original poster's argument is correct. This was not forensics. It was an analysis.
but you have to give people a reason to stay and work there
It's called a decent wage. If the industries in Alaska need workers and are unwilling to spend the money to attract them the government shouldn't be taking money away from the lower 48 and Alaska just to increase the profit margins of those companies. If the company doesn't pay you enough don't work there.
What's he done for your state other than spend decades loading down bills with pork barrel amendments that do nothing but funnel our tax dollars up to you in the form of subsidies for just living in Alaska? Oh yeah, he built his multi-million dollar bridge to an island with a total population of 40. He got the government to lighten up wildlife protection laws so big oil can drill holes all over your state, and he....well, what else *has* he done?
There is no logical reason he is the head of the telecommunications committee. One would think the head of a technologically based committee would at least understand the technology. Instead we get a corrupt old fool who can't even function as an effective mouthpiece for the various industries who pay to keep their parrot in power. So instead of a technologically advanced telecommunications infrastructure in this country we're stuck with crap like tubes & trucks analogies, Sen. Ted wanting to be able to port his landline # to his cell phone with the flip of a switch so he can answer calls to that number while riding his motorcycle and him calling for full internet filtering to ban child pornography so the kids don't get targeted by pedophiles.
Let's break those three gems from your corrupt hero, shall we?
No, the internet isn't a truck. It isn't a series of tubes, either. It's a distributed packet switched network. That's not too hard to say, now is it?
Who in the hell would ask for a landline switch so he could talk on his cell phone using his home number while riding his motorcycle? Last time I checked it took two hands to control a motorcycle...you know that whole steering, braking, throttle, and clutch system motorcycles have. Who cares if Teddy runs over a bunch of innocent kids as long as he can talk on his phone!
Speaking of those innocent kids, explain to me how blocking pictures of child pornography is going to keep predators from trying to solicit children online? The two items aren't directly related. There's also those sticky issues of a nationwide internet filter being both simultaneously uninforceable and UNCONSTITUIONAL. Of course the legality of the idea and the fact that it's been shot down on numerous other occasions (COPA I and II, anyone?) won't stop pork-barrel Ted from wasting our tax dollars in an ultimately failed attempt to get the thing to a vote.
And now, on top of this it turns out he got the square footage of his house doubled as a bribe from an oil industry insider who was convicted of bribing officials. Who cares about laws and regulations when it means a bigger rumpus room?!
Seriously, how can you respect that man? He's as corrupt as the day is long. Or, do you just respect the money he's been taking away from the national interest and funneling to you all these years?
Uh, no. It makes it easier for everyone. I've been using Word since the DOS days back in college. I've plenty of experience with it. Word 2007 is hands down both the most powerful and easiest to use.
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Hate to rain on your parade, but we made more advancements in sending a person in space during the Cold War than we have after it ended. Sputnik, the dog, the monkey, the first men... They were all driven by the desire to one-up the enemy. Farther back than that, the first mass produced rockets were created by Hitler as a way to bomb Britain during World War II. We certainly weren't peaceful during WWII. And to top it all off we had to specifically create a treaty saying we wouldn't use space to host weapons because that was exactly what both the US and USSR wanted to do. No, you don't have to be peaceful to achieve the Space Age. We've proven pretty much the exact opposite of that.
Yes, something was lost. If they make replacement furniture then the virtual economy has been diluted by $5900 (or whatever it was). This reduces the real-world value of everyone's in-game property. If Habbo did this every time a theft happened then the virtual economy would crash and people would be out a lot of real-world money.
Trying to distill down the Adobe blog post to "they said their UI sucks" is at worst childish and at most a gross misinterpretation of what was said. Adobe has admitted to evaluating their program, it's features, how it's used, and how they can work to make the underlying features of the program more accessible within different workflows. This is something the GIMP developers have been asked to do for years. Yet, all they've ever shown is a lack of desire to adapt or a stubborn disregard of any constructive criticism that has been offered.
Any why don't the complainers fork the GIMP, or start a new program from scratch, or buy Photoshop? You answered your own question. The target audience for the GIMP is not inclined to work on the GIMP. They're graphics folks. If the GIMP doesn't fill their needs they'll ignore and/or deride it and use other software. The problem most people see is that the GIMP is held up as some sort of shining example of how OSS works and is filling needs for people. In that respect the GIMP is an absolute failure. It's only filling the needs of the people who work on it. The people who would use it and propel it to wide exceptance are either chided or ignored when they point out that it's not a good fit for their tasks. If the developers want a pet project that's fine. Get it out of the headlines and stop talking it up like it's the second coming then, though.
Thank you, random ALL CAPS GUY for setting the record straight with your excellent use of facts and oratorical skills.
It's also never mentioned that it's the underlying 8 bpp assumptions throughout the GIMP that are the biggest hindrance to making it handle higher bit depth images. The FilmGIMP/Cinepaint guys managed to add high color depth support but the Gimp developers didn't want their solution. Instead they wanted to make an all new processing engine themselves. They promised that years ago and it's still nowhere to be found. It's the GIMP developers' stubbornness, inability to accept work they didn't write, and lack of desire to listen to users that keeps GIMP from achieving parity with even something as basic as Paint.NET or Paintshop Pro. It's not patent issues over CMYK...if that really is a problem at all.
Just because Palm can't sell 7 figures worth of Treo's in 3 months doesn't mean that there aren't that many Windows Mobile devices being sold. The number of units sold is only a good barometer for market penetration when you can only get the device from one manufacturer.
It might mean a sharp downturn in the number of non Apple PDAs purchased for personal use. That's a far cry different than the wholesale revolution you are claiming it will be, though.
You're a bit incorrect. The jury decided the penalty within a range that was predetermined. This jury chose to go to the (approximate) median value of that range. They could've pegged the per-song monetary penalty at a lot higher than what they did.
They're delaying an MMO for 14 days so they can finally get around to tweaking game balance issues? They waited until the game was done, started over, done, started over, and done again and then said, "Oh, crap...we forgot to balance it! How fast can we do that?" and came up with a time estimate of 2 weeks....for an MMO.
You wouldn't save energy by replacing your omni directional bulb based reading lamp with one that just focuses the light on your book. The level of brightness of a given bulb does not increase in one area if you block it from emitting in other areas. If your omni directional bulb was 60w to start with your unidirectional bulb would also have to be 60w for you to receive the same level of illumination on your book (all other things being equal). The only way you'd reduce energy waste and make economic sense would be to replace your standard 60w filament based omni directional bulb with an omni directional CFL bulb of equivalent lumen output at a lower wattage. That would, of course, do nothing to curb the light pollution created by that lamp. For that there is this amazing invention called the "lamp shade". Don't worry, very few lamp shades require energy to work. You won't be making any extra waste by using one.
Arches National Park near Moab Utah was a great place to see stars about 10-12 years ago. I don't know about now. The park entrance is 8-10 miles from Moab (which is a very small town) and the first camping area is something like 18 miles further in.
Whew....if I was the breadboard and resistor type of geek I'd be worried about my apparent abreviation faux-pas.
Hey Mr. Holier-Than-Thou, I got Office 2007 for the low low price of having to leave three Microsoft web-seminar videos running on my computer while I did other things. At the end of that they sent me a free copy of the suite.
Office 2K7 on XP SP2 and I see the same results as the article.
Getting a post on Slashdot and some other tech-sites doesn't = a "shit ton" of free advertising. Ask anyone watching an NBC season premiere tonight who "Monsoon Multimedia" is and you'll, more often than not, just a blank stare in return.
Ok, so explain to me in great detail, including the most miniscule operations of every machine, every vehicle, and person involved, how the US Post Office takes a letter from your mailbox and successfully delivers it to another mailbox across the company.
Come on. You send mail How the **** can you do that and yet not know how it all works?
Idiot (your choice of words, not mine)
And just what would you call someone who knows Unix and its history and knows how Linux and Minix were developed you're a nerd. If you fit in to that category you're a nerd.
You do not have to pay for CableCARDs. The Cable company has to lease them to you at competitive prices relative to their set top boxes.
People have been paying for TV listings (TV Guide) for decades. Having to do it for PVRs doesn't seem that outrageous to me.
It's not going to happen. AA is but one MMO title that NetDevil produces. They would be pointing a gigantic gun at their collective feet if they were to release the networking code that, presumably, is used within their other commercial games. On top of that, within the realm of the client, there are possible middleware licensing issues with the 3D engine, video playback, physics system, etc.. that would prevent any opening of the code.
The definition of the word forensics is, "The use of science and technology to investigate and establish facts in criminal or civil courts of law." The original poster's argument is correct. This was not forensics. It was an analysis.
It's called a decent wage. If the industries in Alaska need workers and are unwilling to spend the money to attract them the government shouldn't be taking money away from the lower 48 and Alaska just to increase the profit margins of those companies. If the company doesn't pay you enough don't work there.
There is no logical reason he is the head of the telecommunications committee. One would think the head of a technologically based committee would at least understand the technology. Instead we get a corrupt old fool who can't even function as an effective mouthpiece for the various industries who pay to keep their parrot in power. So instead of a technologically advanced telecommunications infrastructure in this country we're stuck with crap like tubes & trucks analogies, Sen. Ted wanting to be able to port his landline # to his cell phone with the flip of a switch so he can answer calls to that number while riding his motorcycle and him calling for full internet filtering to ban child pornography so the kids don't get targeted by pedophiles.
Let's break those three gems from your corrupt hero, shall we?
No, the internet isn't a truck. It isn't a series of tubes, either. It's a distributed packet switched network. That's not too hard to say, now is it?
Who in the hell would ask for a landline switch so he could talk on his cell phone using his home number while riding his motorcycle? Last time I checked it took two hands to control a motorcycle...you know that whole steering, braking, throttle, and clutch system motorcycles have. Who cares if Teddy runs over a bunch of innocent kids as long as he can talk on his phone!
Speaking of those innocent kids, explain to me how blocking pictures of child pornography is going to keep predators from trying to solicit children online? The two items aren't directly related. There's also those sticky issues of a nationwide internet filter being both simultaneously uninforceable and UNCONSTITUIONAL. Of course the legality of the idea and the fact that it's been shot down on numerous other occasions (COPA I and II, anyone?) won't stop pork-barrel Ted from wasting our tax dollars in an ultimately failed attempt to get the thing to a vote.
And now, on top of this it turns out he got the square footage of his house doubled as a bribe from an oil industry insider who was convicted of bribing officials. Who cares about laws and regulations when it means a bigger rumpus room?!
Seriously, how can you respect that man? He's as corrupt as the day is long. Or, do you just respect the money he's been taking away from the national interest and funneling to you all these years?
Uh, no. It makes it easier for everyone. I've been using Word since the DOS days back in college. I've plenty of experience with it. Word 2007 is hands down both the most powerful and easiest to use.