Is anybody else unhappy with some of the changes in GIMP2? For me, several useful things have disappeared (like ctrl-T to hide the layer's borders, now it's something else and I have to go in the menu), of the fact that the "anti" tool key modifier is now ALT and not SHIFT anymore (apart for the magnifier, go figure...) and so it creates problems with KDE, it doesn't save the tablet's device status,... the list is endless.
All in all, I wonder why they voted GIMP. It's become less good and less usable than GIMP1, and certainly less than Photoshop overall anyway.
are techniques I've seen appearing for the last 10 years that are designed to compartment sections of the net. They make me sad, because that's definitely not what the net was intended to be, i.e. a global interconected network of machines to freely communicate. Instead, the net is slowly being segregated, and you'll soon have to show some sort of proof of identity to do anything other than HTTP. If you don't believe me, just consider how hard it is to do something as mundane as a DCC CHAT on IRC today, as opposed to, say, in 1994.
I realize the need for these things, basically forced upon us by the combination of commercial interests, shitty insecure OS, script kiddies and greedy crackers (not hackers), but all the same, I can't help realize that the internet of today is a far cry from what it was intended to be in terms of freedom of communication...
Stranded in the middle of nowhere? no problemo: one pit stop at Taco Bell, wait 20 minutes, find a discreet corner behind the Taco Bell building, open the tank and presto, you're good for another 100 miles.
It's time for a solution to the P2P conflict that pays artists, not lawyers
It's time for a solution to any problem that never involves lawyers.
Lawyers are a kind of leech that is created by the government itself: the law that governs what citizens are or aren't allowed to do (that means all of us) has become so complicated that we, the citizens, have to hire 3rd parties who are versed in its intricacies, to "interface" with the judicial system. This certainly isn't new, and it's the same thing in all countries in the world, but it never fails to infuriate me.
Make the law simpler, and (1) the leeching caste of the lawyers will not be required each and every time you have to talk to a judge, and (2) since people won't necessarily lose money on attorney fees, frivolous lawsuits designed to impoverish the defendants, or threaten to do so like the RIAA's strong-arm technique of wrestling 3 grands out of 13 year old teens, will disappear.
would they regulate Tivo too? Tivo (or vcr for that matter) allows viewing of programs at other times than the transmission time. so at the time of transmission, children may not likely to see, but they may be likely to see later.
Indeed, that could be a problem with a Tivo. However, with a VCR, children are quite safe: even adults have trouble programming the damn things...
They should regulate the media industry. Prevent, instead of encourage, media consolidation. Regulate if/how media businesses should be owned by corporations, and ensure said corps don't dictate the media outlet's line. And most of all, they should prevent its CEO (the chief regulator) to have such close tie with a member of a government that demonstrably wants a total secrecy and government-approved only press releases.
Instead of that, they pretend to be working on censoring nudity and violence on TV, which is a comparatively mundane and non-important, and pretend to be working on stuff that way. In reality, they just divert the public's attention from the real issues they're not working on, a method not unlike what Joseph Goebbels was advocating.
The American supercomputer industry has gone from innovator to an assembly operation.
Yes and so what?
The American space industry is taking the same path with AirShipOne. Don't you think it's good?
If computers hadn't commoditized, you'd still be posting your comment from a terminal connected to a mainframe, while a line of people are waiting in line behind you at the library. But instead, you have a great computer at home, just for you, because you can afford it. Heck, if you wanted, you could afford a small Beowulf cluster too. Could you afford a Cray?
Oh yes and the other thing is, clustering is a technique that has progressed a lot thanks to commoditized hardware (yes, it's harder than "copy that little snippet of code 1000 times and collect the results).
Well, I don't have that kind of money, but if I did, I'd rather get me an older Cray than a cluster of beige-box PCs. If nothing else, Cray machines are classy and impressive, and when we make clients visit the premises, we can go "oh, and this is the Cray computer, crunching at numbers for you" and look at the customer being impressed, as opposed to "oh yeah, that pile of nondescript computer, that's the 1000-node beowulf cluster of AMD Cheaperon computers". I'm sure the extra value in marketting would be worth it...
Man, Pay Pal is good stuff. I hope this doesn't get them flushed down the old corporate crapper. I know several people who were protected against fraud because they used PayPal. Can I get a witness up in here for Pay Pal?
If they could just release the $150 on my 3-year-blocked account, that'd be better... Why did I do nothing to recover my money by force (i.e. go to small claims court or hire an attorney)? because it's less expensive to be scammed out of $150 by Paypal than to wrestle that money out of them, and that's why they get away with this. Why people would sign up with a non-FDIC insured bank (because that's what they are in effect), I'll never know. I did and I won't ever again.
Oh well, with any luck, soon I'll only be out of $149.65...
All these talks of "revolutionary" debugging techniques bother me a little. There's only one debugging technique, and that's the debugger's skill and experience. Debuggers, traces, logs and other printf()s and LEDs flashing are just tools.
Andrew Ko's invention is just another tool. It won't do the debugging for you. Just like modern cars have diagnostic computers, but somehow it appears you still have to fork off $30/hr for the workmanship to get it fixed...
what year is it? 2004 or 1984? Trying to control us like this will never work!
I totally agree. Never would our ______ President control us this way. Neither would ______, it would be totally _____. Not to mention ______. I'm ____ __ ______ glad I live in this time of _________ __ freedom and democracy.
I highly recommend everyone read 1984. It was all about British people who were fighting this kind of oppressive government.
Why read the book when you already live in it?
Seriously, have you been following the recent development concerning personal liberty, privacy, and civil right issues recently? have you checked how impartial the press is lately?
Instead of taking care of making heroin or morphine non-addictive, they should start with nicotine and alcohol, both of which are a lot cheaper than any other drugs and cause ravages in the population.
So while they think about far-fetched solutions to hard drug abuses, *I* have to keep struggling not to light a cigarette again, despite the tremendous cravings I have regularly, even afters years of quitting, so I don't have to go back see my lung specialist again.
But I guess fighting alcohol and tobacco abuse would remove an easy source of income for the government eh? Cheap lying bastards, I can't think a a worse bunch of hypocrits than those who profit from the sale of alcohol and tobacco and pretend to fight the addiction too...
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Is anybody else unhappy with some of the changes in GIMP2? For me, several useful things have disappeared (like ctrl-T to hide the layer's borders, now it's something else and I have to go in the menu), of the fact that the "anti" tool key modifier is now ALT and not SHIFT anymore (apart for the magnifier, go figure...) and so it creates problems with KDE, it doesn't save the tablet's device status,... the list is endless.
All in all, I wonder why they voted GIMP. It's become less good and less usable than GIMP1, and certainly less than Photoshop overall anyway.
are techniques I've seen appearing for the last 10 years that are designed to compartment sections of the net. They make me sad, because that's definitely not what the net was intended to be, i.e. a global interconected network of machines to freely communicate. Instead, the net is slowly being segregated, and you'll soon have to show some sort of proof of identity to do anything other than HTTP. If you don't believe me, just consider how hard it is to do something as mundane as a DCC CHAT on IRC today, as opposed to, say, in 1994.
I realize the need for these things, basically forced upon us by the combination of commercial interests, shitty insecure OS, script kiddies and greedy crackers (not hackers), but all the same, I can't help realize that the internet of today is a far cry from what it was intended to be in terms of freedom of communication...
FreeBSD is nearing a code freeze.
Wow, it's been in the coroner's office for that long?
an excrement-powered scooter.
Stranded in the middle of nowhere? no problemo: one pit stop at Taco Bell, wait 20 minutes, find a discreet corner behind the Taco Bell building, open the tank and presto, you're good for another 100 miles.
Signed: your colleagues from the US office you administer.
EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people -- lawyers
I hear some lawyers are more than just profiteering bastards and actually want to change things...
It's time for a solution to the P2P conflict that pays artists, not lawyers
It's time for a solution to any problem that never involves lawyers.
Lawyers are a kind of leech that is created by the government itself: the law that governs what citizens are or aren't allowed to do (that means all of us) has become so complicated that we, the citizens, have to hire 3rd parties who are versed in its intricacies, to "interface" with the judicial system. This certainly isn't new, and it's the same thing in all countries in the world, but it never fails to infuriate me.
Make the law simpler, and (1) the leeching caste of the lawyers will not be required each and every time you have to talk to a judge, and (2) since people won't necessarily lose money on attorney fees, frivolous lawsuits designed to impoverish the defendants, or threaten to do so like the RIAA's strong-arm technique of wrestling 3 grands out of 13 year old teens, will disappear.
would they regulate Tivo too? Tivo (or vcr for that matter) allows viewing of programs at other times than the transmission time. so at the time of transmission, children may not likely to see, but they may be likely to see later.
Indeed, that could be a problem with a Tivo. However, with a VCR, children are quite safe: even adults have trouble programming the damn things...
They should regulate the media industry. Prevent, instead of encourage, media consolidation. Regulate if/how media businesses should be owned by corporations, and ensure said corps don't dictate the media outlet's line. And most of all, they should prevent its CEO (the chief regulator) to have such close tie with a member of a government that demonstrably wants a total secrecy and government-approved only press releases.
Instead of that, they pretend to be working on censoring nudity and violence on TV, which is a comparatively mundane and non-important, and pretend to be working on stuff that way. In reality, they just divert the public's attention from the real issues they're not working on, a method not unlike what Joseph Goebbels was advocating.
That's like stopping 500 people on the sidewalks of NYC and declaring there are 500 species
I have that exact feeling each time I walk downtown NYC...
So, what tasks still require a high-speed shared data memory?
A high-speed shared memory test program?
The American supercomputer industry has gone from innovator to an assembly operation.
Yes and so what?
The American space industry is taking the same path with AirShipOne. Don't you think it's good?
If computers hadn't commoditized, you'd still be posting your comment from a terminal connected to a mainframe, while a line of people are waiting in line behind you at the library. But instead, you have a great computer at home, just for you, because you can afford it. Heck, if you wanted, you could afford a small Beowulf cluster too. Could you afford a Cray?
Oh yes and the other thing is, clustering is a technique that has progressed a lot thanks to commoditized hardware (yes, it's harder than "copy that little snippet of code 1000 times and collect the results).
Well, I don't have that kind of money, but if I did, I'd rather get me an older Cray than a cluster of beige-box PCs. If nothing else, Cray machines are classy and impressive, and when we make clients visit the premises, we can go "oh, and this is the Cray computer, crunching at numbers for you" and look at the customer being impressed, as opposed to "oh yeah, that pile of nondescript computer, that's the 1000-node beowulf cluster of AMD Cheaperon computers". I'm sure the extra value in marketting would be worth it...
Man, Pay Pal is good stuff. I hope this doesn't get them flushed down the old corporate crapper. I know several people who were protected against fraud because they used PayPal. Can I get a witness up in here for Pay Pal?
Can you spell ASTROTURFING?
If they could just release the $150 on my 3-year-blocked account, that'd be better... Why did I do nothing to recover my money by force (i.e. go to small claims court or hire an attorney)? because it's less expensive to be scammed out of $150 by Paypal than to wrestle that money out of them, and that's why they get away with this. Why people would sign up with a non-FDIC insured bank (because that's what they are in effect), I'll never know. I did and I won't ever again.
Oh well, with any luck, soon I'll only be out of $149.65...
Help me O great plain English debugger. You are my only hope!
I'm afraid I can't do that Dave.
All these talks of "revolutionary" debugging techniques bother me a little. There's only one debugging technique, and that's the debugger's skill and experience. Debuggers, traces, logs and other printf()s and LEDs flashing are just tools.
Andrew Ko's invention is just another tool. It won't do the debugging for you. Just like modern cars have diagnostic computers, but somehow it appears you still have to fork off $30/hr for the workmanship to get it fixed...
Hmm sorry, my bad, I read "The GPL makes it legal...". Nevermind...
The GPL makes it illegal to distribute GPL software that violates patents.
You Sir are quite a poor troll.
So the main reason it's not likely that an open source project will get sued is simply because they don't have any money.
Don't tell it to Caldera^H^H^H^H^H^HSCO, they think they can make $5BN by suing IBM, RH and Novell over Linux.
killall -9 software_patents
poodle.com
noodle.com
doodle.com
kugel.com
fluegel.de
kkk.com
(that last one just because it's always good to sue them over anything, and it feels so good too)
An "awake" car would have "open shutters, headlights fringed with complementary 'eyebrows,' an erect antenna and brighter glass and exterior panels."
So it has an erect antenna and it's batting eyebrows uh? I'm sure this car has great pimping potential...
what year is it? 2004 or 1984? Trying to control us like this will never work!
I totally agree. Never would our ______ President control us this way. Neither would ______, it would be totally _____. Not to mention ______. I'm ____ __ ______ glad I live in this time of _________ __ freedom and democracy.
I highly recommend everyone read 1984. It was all about British people who were fighting this kind of oppressive government.
Why read the book when you already live in it?
Seriously, have you been following the recent development concerning personal liberty, privacy, and civil right issues recently? have you checked how impartial the press is lately?
Instead of taking care of making heroin or morphine non-addictive, they should start with nicotine and alcohol, both of which are a lot cheaper than any other drugs and cause ravages in the population.
So while they think about far-fetched solutions to hard drug abuses, *I* have to keep struggling not to light a cigarette again, despite the tremendous cravings I have regularly, even afters years of quitting, so I don't have to go back see my lung specialist again.
But I guess fighting alcohol and tobacco abuse would remove an easy source of income for the government eh? Cheap lying bastards, I can't think a a worse bunch of hypocrits than those who profit from the sale of alcohol and tobacco and pretend to fight the addiction too...