Unless the artist(s) who claim first use of the mark were/are using it in conjunction with the operation of retail department stores in approximately the same geography, confusion between that use and Wal-Mart's use of the mark would be very difficult to demonstrate. First use of the mark by the French artist in connection with selling... nothing? (http://www.smileyworld.com/shop/) or items branded with smiley faces has little to do with Wal-Mart's use of the mark in selling non-smiley-related merchandise.
Many of the Class A's are allocated to U.S. companies, seemingly most of the RIPE and APNIC allocations are from the Class B and C. I don't recall any spam from Africa or South America this year...
Again, any society capable of getting there will also have discovered the periodicity of chemistry, even if they don't understand our numbers or element names. A few arrows pointing at the swarm of dots representing the constituents of the waste ought to be enough.
So, if you found a periodic table with three more rows on it than the one we know today, and arrows pointing to elements 160, 164 and 178, you wouldn't be curious or want to obtain some?
It's not common in North American English-language literature, but I've encountered it in Spanish and Portugese. In any case, going from (_3_ hits : _10_ pitches) to (_3_ particles of mass : to _10_ units of currency) should not be conceptually difficult.
We learned about ratios with the : symbol in grade 4 in backwards Alberta, Canada, so it's not terribly obscure. Most of the other G8 countries except the US teach the concept even earlier. Besides, USAians should be familiar with the : to denote a proportional relationship as used in SATs and such. Even the most unintelligent sports jocks understand the : as denoting a ratio...
... And also ignoring the fact that increased Linux adoption also hurts anti-spyware companies, if the logic in the summary is to be followed. Also, small owner/proprieter computer repair shoppes will no longer be able to (over)charge $60/hr to remove viruses/spyware from the peons' computers as often because of increased security in the operating system.
Different poster, but for OOo 1.1.3-2.0 on a 2.4 GHz P4 with 1 GB of memory on FC4...
1. Writer: Open RTF files made on different platforms without segfaulting. Yes, this does mean that line-endings are not necessarily the Linux ones...
2. My spreadsheets sometimes have more than 5,000 rows and 20 columns. Tell me that you can't deal with that many rows without spiking CPU usage to 99% before trying to do the same, and often crashing.
3. Search and replace for more than ~150 instances of a string: should not take longer than copying and pasting into a text file and running sed, should not cause all OOo document windows to become unresponsive, and should not carry with it a 50% chance of unexplained crashing. In that respect, running search and replace in OOo apps feels like using Word 6 on an early 386.
4. When a directory contains both recognised image files, and random other files that aren't images, don't tell me your preview window can't parse the other files by crashing the entire application.
5. Mail merge and data sources were crufty but usable in 1.x, why hide that functionality behind complexity in version 2?
A skilled manipulator can make you desire a feature(set) without mentioning any products by name or company. I can mention my desire for an on-demand on-line game distribution service because it would free me from physical game media, without saying that such a product is a good thing, nor mentioning that any particular console product claims to be able to give me that benefit.
Your comments are related to potential slander, and the effect as directed towards me and my rights in relation to what you might right.
1) It's exceedingly difficult to defame a dead person. 2) Truth is usually an absolute defense against allegations of defamation. 3) Malice may or may not be interesting when considering the potentially defamatory act. 4) Germans have different values and Basic Law than much of the world.
Scratch that. I found a new copy of Gimp 2.2 that yum-updated itself over the weekend at work, which seems to have fixed the issue. I can't wait to unleash it on my Appleshare network to see what else it can read now.
xwd is a tool for obtaining screen dumps in X (and often the file extension for said dumps).
Perhaps I just keep hitting bad betas that are broken on Windows and Mac and Linux, but I've never been able to point GIMP at convert'ed xwd or print screen files (PNG) without extensions and have it just work. Unknown file type or signal 11 are the usual results. Renaming the files to include an extension allows the files to open, so I can only assume that something in the GIMP is relying on the file extension for opening the file or determining its file type.
On your second point, digital image manipulation was not a domain of Windows until about 10 years ago. Image editors on every other platform have used the file headers to determine file type for much longer than that.
1. One menu bar is enough. Really. Functionality does not need to be distributed across 2 or 3 windows that hide each other, or become hidden by the canvas. 1a. "Dialogs" ?!? Why not put that under Tools or Windows where users expect to find it, just as almost every other program does? 2. I don't need every command available through a context menu, just the ones that are... in context. That means someone from the GIMP development team needs to learn how users want to use the program. 2a. OOo doesn't expose every function through right-clicking the document. Word/WP users have no problem accessing Writer's functionality. 3. Can we please slurp the functionality from the file command to identify files by content as well as by extension? Making assumptions about file contents by extension was never universally popular, even in the Windows 3.x days. 3a. Seriously, not depending on file extensions will make handling image files with multiple data streams easier in the near future. Real digital cameras can output single files with JPEG, TIFF and RAW data. 4. The customizable interface is technically impressive, but it is no substitute for understanding the needs of the users. In that respect, Photoshop is superior because it incorporates input from typical, non-power users, into the development process, and includes a default interface that works well out of the box for the vast majority of its intended audience. 5. GIMP is a great tool, if its intended audience is tinkerers who understand and have time to customize the interface to easily get at the advanced functionality. It's a poor tool for artists who trained and work on one of the professional platforms (Adobe/Macromedia, Corel) and expect things to be in certain places. Distributing Gimpshop with the standard package would go a long way to getting some $100/hr artists to invest their time looking at the GIMP. 6. A great tool would offer sufficient incentive for the current Photoshop users to incur the cost of relearning the interface. Can GIMP be this tool? A decent graphics artist or photographer can pay for a Photoshop license with less than a day's work. 7. Will my third-party or homebrew Photoshop filters work with the GIMP? 8. Assuming GIMP has the same functionality as Photoshop, what's the switching cost in time to learn a new interface that doesn't offer anything more, and doesn't play well with the current workflow? If you want me to use it for anything more than cropping screenshots for on-line, the GIMP needs color management, Pantone support, CMYK support, the ability to read and write PDF, EPS and TIFF formats, and the ability to work with TT, OTF and PS fonts, in UTF-8 and Unicode. The lack of color management and proper channel support are deal breakers in almost every non-trivial print production process./Photoshop user for six years in print and on-line//Disappointed that requests for essential print features in the GIMP have been ignored for four years///The GIMP developers should get one or more of the profressional design or photography associations to sponsor a weekend retreat where artists and developers can get together to exchange knowledge. While much functionality requires some poking to expose, much functionality also does not exist, or is unusable in its current form.
Compression allows you to fit more data in per 1 MB.
(Ignoring the distinctions between precision, accuracy and resolution...)
It's not about the quantity of data stored, but about the quality of the information. One 9 MB RAW photo contains much more *detail* than nine 1 MB JPEGs of the same scene. Detail matters if the photos are to be reproduced for anything other than the family photo album.
If you have access to a digital camera, take two shots at 640x480 of one scene with a subject imposed upon objects at a distance, but use the lowest and highest compression. You will find that the more highly compressed image represents the scene using less data (smaller file) but that it also contains less information (the small objects look like squares gradients that extend into their surroundings and foreground object, and details of objects more than a few feet away are more obscured than in the low compression image).
A natural extension of your argument would be to sacrifice all detail in an image to represent the Earth to a solid patch of #0066FF, which could be represented by about 3 KB of data, but would show none of the Earth's features as visible in Google Earth images (which use TBs data to represent more information).
Or, consider that pi=3 can be stored in one character and is acceptable for digging a hole for an outhouse, but that you would want to use pi=3.14159, which requires seven characters of data storage, to build a swimming pool. They both store the idea of the circumfrance of a hole, but are different sizes of data and store different information.
We don't mind people finding us via Google. The potential issue is that we're the top or second search result for about 250 different keywords and phrases, which draws a lot of one-time hits to archived content (great, but does nothing for the community). robots.txt is not really an option since we also have a subset of readers and expats who use our archived stories via Google as signposts for historical research.
I'm toying with the idea of dumping anyone with Google in the referer string to a text-only/print version of content, which would reduce bandwidth usage by about 50%, but that only gives us about six more months of headroom.
Slashdot Mirror
Asked and mostly answered in two previous ./ stories from 2006:
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http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/06
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/07/20442
PDF is a suitable replacement for PPT as a presentation distribution container if, and only if audio, animation and timing are unimportant.
You could always pay a plot farmer for the essential details instead...
You assume a physical separation between the terrorist and the plane.
http://www.brandsonsale.com/colored-electrical-tap e.html
That is all.
Cite?
Unless the artist(s) who claim first use of the mark were/are using it in conjunction with the operation of retail department stores in approximately the same geography, confusion between that use and Wal-Mart's use of the mark would be very difficult to demonstrate. First use of the mark by the French artist in connection with selling... nothing? (http://www.smileyworld.com/shop/) or items branded with smiley faces has little to do with Wal-Mart's use of the mark in selling non-smiley-related merchandise.
whois -h whois.arin.net aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd
Many of the Class A's are allocated to U.S. companies, seemingly most of the RIPE and APNIC allocations are from the Class B and C. I don't recall any spam from Africa or South America this year...
I'm sorry, where is the link to the letter that Apple sent?
Again, any society capable of getting there will also have discovered the periodicity of chemistry, even if they don't understand our numbers or element names. A few arrows pointing at the swarm of dots representing the constituents of the waste ought to be enough.
So, if you found a periodic table with three more rows on it than the one we know today, and arrows pointing to elements 160, 164 and 178, you wouldn't be curious or want to obtain some?
Did I just circumvent DRM measures by ignoring their Javascript and CSS?
What if the nude textures are censored in game, which censorship is governed by user-modifiable settings?s /qt/sims2nudepatch.htm
http://compsimgames.about.com/od/thesims2download
In the case of the Sims [2], the content is explicitly in the game...
It's not common in North American English-language literature, but I've encountered it in Spanish and Portugese. In any case, going from (_3_ hits : _10_ pitches) to (_3_ particles of mass : to _10_ units of currency) should not be conceptually difficult.
innumerate ...
We learned about ratios with the : symbol in grade 4 in backwards Alberta, Canada, so it's not terribly obscure. Most of the other G8 countries except the US teach the concept even earlier. Besides, USAians should be familiar with the : to denote a proportional relationship as used in SATs and such. Even the most unintelligent sports jocks understand the : as denoting a ratio...
Al Gore is a politician. Your point?
... And also ignoring the fact that increased Linux adoption also hurts anti-spyware companies, if the logic in the summary is to be followed. Also, small owner/proprieter computer repair shoppes will no longer be able to (over)charge $60/hr to remove viruses/spyware from the peons' computers as often because of increased security in the operating system.
So you want the flight simulator to come out of the closet?
Different poster, but for OOo 1.1.3-2.0 on a 2.4 GHz P4 with 1 GB of memory on FC4 ...
1. Writer: Open RTF files made on different platforms without segfaulting. Yes, this does mean that line-endings are not necessarily the Linux ones...
2. My spreadsheets sometimes have more than 5,000 rows and 20 columns. Tell me that you can't deal with that many rows without spiking CPU usage to 99% before trying to do the same, and often crashing.
3. Search and replace for more than ~150 instances of a string: should not take longer than copying and pasting into a text file and running sed, should not cause all OOo document windows to become unresponsive, and should not carry with it a 50% chance of unexplained crashing. In that respect, running search and replace in OOo apps feels like using Word 6 on an early 386.
4. When a directory contains both recognised image files, and random other files that aren't images, don't tell me your preview window can't parse the other files by crashing the entire application.
5. Mail merge and data sources were crufty but usable in 1.x, why hide that functionality behind complexity in version 2?
A skilled manipulator can make you desire a feature(set) without mentioning any products by name or company. I can mention my desire for an on-demand on-line game distribution service because it would free me from physical game media, without saying that such a product is a good thing, nor mentioning that any particular console product claims to be able to give me that benefit.
Did you assume that I was talking about Infinium?
The code does something, mainly, echoing 'your name is:... and then not displaying the return value to the browser.
Your comments are related to potential slander, and the effect as directed towards me and my rights in relation to what you might right.
1) It's exceedingly difficult to defame a dead person.
2) Truth is usually an absolute defense against allegations of defamation.
3) Malice may or may not be interesting when considering the potentially defamatory act.
4) Germans have different values and Basic Law than much of the world.
Scratch that. I found a new copy of Gimp 2.2 that yum-updated itself over the weekend at work, which seems to have fixed the issue. I can't wait to unleash it on my Appleshare network to see what else it can read now.
xwd is a tool for obtaining screen dumps in X (and often the file extension for said dumps).
Perhaps I just keep hitting bad betas that are broken on Windows and Mac and Linux, but I've never been able to point GIMP at convert'ed xwd or print screen files (PNG) without extensions and have it just work. Unknown file type or signal 11 are the usual results. Renaming the files to include an extension allows the files to open, so I can only assume that something in the GIMP is relying on the file extension for opening the file or determining its file type.
On your second point, digital image manipulation was not a domain of Windows until about 10 years ago. Image editors on every other platform have used the file headers to determine file type for much longer than that.
1. One menu bar is enough. Really. Functionality does not need to be distributed across 2 or 3 windows that hide each other, or become hidden by the canvas. /Photoshop user for six years in print and on-line //Disappointed that requests for essential print features in the GIMP have been ignored for four years ///The GIMP developers should get one or more of the profressional design or photography associations to sponsor a weekend retreat where artists and developers can get together to exchange knowledge. While much functionality requires some poking to expose, much functionality also does not exist, or is unusable in its current form.
1a. "Dialogs" ?!? Why not put that under Tools or Windows where users expect to find it, just as almost every other program does?
2. I don't need every command available through a context menu, just the ones that are... in context. That means someone from the GIMP development team needs to learn how users want to use the program.
2a. OOo doesn't expose every function through right-clicking the document. Word/WP users have no problem accessing Writer's functionality.
3. Can we please slurp the functionality from the file command to identify files by content as well as by extension? Making assumptions about file contents by extension was never universally popular, even in the Windows 3.x days.
3a. Seriously, not depending on file extensions will make handling image files with multiple data streams easier in the near future. Real digital cameras can output single files with JPEG, TIFF and RAW data.
4. The customizable interface is technically impressive, but it is no substitute for understanding the needs of the users. In that respect, Photoshop is superior because it incorporates input from typical, non-power users, into the development process, and includes a default interface that works well out of the box for the vast majority of its intended audience.
5. GIMP is a great tool, if its intended audience is tinkerers who understand and have time to customize the interface to easily get at the advanced functionality. It's a poor tool for artists who trained and work on one of the professional platforms (Adobe/Macromedia, Corel) and expect things to be in certain places. Distributing Gimpshop with the standard package would go a long way to getting some $100/hr artists to invest their time looking at the GIMP.
6. A great tool would offer sufficient incentive for the current Photoshop users to incur the cost of relearning the interface. Can GIMP be this tool? A decent graphics artist or photographer can pay for a Photoshop license with less than a day's work.
7. Will my third-party or homebrew Photoshop filters work with the GIMP?
8. Assuming GIMP has the same functionality as Photoshop, what's the switching cost in time to learn a new interface that doesn't offer anything more, and doesn't play well with the current workflow? If you want me to use it for anything more than cropping screenshots for on-line, the GIMP needs color management, Pantone support, CMYK support, the ability to read and write PDF, EPS and TIFF formats, and the ability to work with TT, OTF and PS fonts, in UTF-8 and Unicode. The lack of color management and proper channel support are deal breakers in almost every non-trivial print production process.
Compression allows you to fit more data in per 1 MB.
(Ignoring the distinctions between precision, accuracy and resolution...)
It's not about the quantity of data stored, but about the quality of the information. One 9 MB RAW photo contains much more *detail* than nine 1 MB JPEGs of the same scene. Detail matters if the photos are to be reproduced for anything other than the family photo album.
If you have access to a digital camera, take two shots at 640x480 of one scene with a subject imposed upon objects at a distance, but use the lowest and highest compression. You will find that the more highly compressed image represents the scene using less data (smaller file) but that it also contains less information (the small objects look like squares gradients that extend into their surroundings and foreground object, and details of objects more than a few feet away are more obscured than in the low compression image).
A natural extension of your argument would be to sacrifice all detail in an image to represent the Earth to a solid patch of #0066FF, which could be represented by about 3 KB of data, but would show none of the Earth's features as visible in Google Earth images (which use TBs data to represent more information).
Or, consider that pi=3 can be stored in one character and is acceptable for digging a hole for an outhouse, but that you would want to use pi=3.14159, which requires seven characters of data storage, to build a swimming pool. They both store the idea of the circumfrance of a hole, but are different sizes of data and store different information.
We don't mind people finding us via Google. The potential issue is that we're the top or second search result for about 250 different keywords and phrases, which draws a lot of one-time hits to archived content (great, but does nothing for the community). robots.txt is not really an option since we also have a subset of readers and expats who use our archived stories via Google as signposts for historical research.
I'm toying with the idea of dumping anyone with Google in the referer string to a text-only/print version of content, which would reduce bandwidth usage by about 50%, but that only gives us about six more months of headroom.