First, the headline is absolutely misleading. This is not in any way intended to replace GIMP, just the ridiculously lame MS Paint. (In that regard, it's also worth noting, they are setting the bar pretty low.)
That said, it is wonderful that people can look at how bad the GIMP UI is objectively. The reason Photoshop is far superior to the GIMP is not just in features -- it's in ease of use. Of course, there's a learning curve, but it's far less steep.
that seems to me to be the least plausible suggestion made in the article.
wearing it around your neck means one of two things. 1) a choker or 2) a dangly fellow.
obviously, a choker won't work for working out, as it might kill you. who knows. and a dangly one can get caught on things but, more importantly from apple's standpoint, would look sloppy and inelegant. twisting all over, bouncing around. not apple's style. more likely another armband connection, if anything.
to ferret out the rumors, you have to think like a steve jobs. and i can't see him jumping up and down on stage to watch his cookie necklace bounce around. and also, come to think of it, why make a device that points out that the more expensive "higher-end" ipods have a flaw (skipping)?
i'm voting no on this rumor. exit polls show yes leading, so i feel confident.
as salon's excellent sports columnist king kaufman reveals:
Consider this: Every time the Boston Red Sox win the World Series in a presidential election year, Woodrow Wilson gets elected president. You can look it up: 1912 and 1916. Now the Sox have done it again. What's it mean? You read it here first: Woodrow Wilson in a landslide!
i used to do web and print design for a major software company, even working on creating presentations for the ceo and sr. vice presidents under tight timeframe. it got stressful, to be sure.
now i work in politics. i can only say this -- enjoy the 'stress' of doing web design.
as a former adobe employee, i can say that, if it isn't the feeling of all developers, it is certainly the attitude of senior management. on more than one occasion i heard high-level exceutives privately express frustration of the mac user base.
the last senior executive that was a mac champion at adobe was john warnock. since then, it's been all acrobat, all the time. there are quite a few mac fans within the rank and file, but they are definitely frogs in a warming skillet.
that 'don't copy that floppy' knocked my socks off. as an avid hip-hop fan i marvelled at their verbal acuity and sound knowledge of copyright law. i wondered how someone could be so versed in both legalities and dope rhymes.
then i saw in the credits that additional lyrics were provided by that virtuoso of beats, ms. ilene rosenthal, who you may recognize from the video as also playing 'SPA attorney'.
kudos to you ms. rosenthal. you are truly a renaissance woman. and i look forward to hearing what crazy shit hillary rosen puts together.
i know this will be beaten to death, but it really is great to be able to cancel your DSL service after a neighbor leaves his wifi unencrypted.
when my phone service was dropped, i threw a d-link access point on the back fence and ran a 50' ethernet cable in through the back window. thanks Laura'sP4! i appreciate your having broadband and a linsys router!
and thanks mr. boutin for not mentioning WEP encryption!
...and the one i employ, is i keep all of my music on a firewire hard drive. within itunes, you can set the firewire music directory as the default itunes one, and then i just move it back and forth between work and home.
granted, there is a financial investment -- but it works out well.
i am issuing a subpoena to all reader to be deposed in my action against CmdrTaco, et al., for damage done to my technological reputation by poor or uninformed moderation of my comments.
it is clear that the macintosh operating system is indeed superior, indicating that a recent 'troll' moderation was slanderous, and it is too funny to make that beowulf cluster joke -- another indication of improper and damaging moderation.
the story of o'reilly is one that could really be taken to heart by a lot of linux geeks.
they had and have a great product, but the first thing to come to mind is the animal cover. consistency and simplicity, combined with a superior product, make remembering that excellence simpler, and expand the brand and usage / sales.
the moral? KISS, of course, but also, keep it consistent.
i certainly appreciate the points that are made about how diamonds are mined and the impact on the regions that mine them.
but i bet if the diamond cost $45 and still had the same emotional impact, the issue wouldn't really come up.
(that said, i saw a cool site on the web once that would take an ekg from you or your loved one and inscribe on the inside of a plain platinum, gold or silver band. pretty neat. if i find the link, i'll post it.)
you could create 3d objects in 3d modeling apps and export those objects for use in atmosphere worlds. additionally, you could create scenes for an object that could be triggered by javascript, as could object properties.
for example, you could have a motorcycle that, on mouse over, would trigger a scene that involved the wheels spinning, and the bike moving. you could click a button and change the color of the thing.
real 3d models doing this. at reasonable downloads. but it seems to have been stillborn.
adobe was working on a web-based 3d application called atmosphere -- it sould even import objects from 3d applications, and could use javascript to let users interact with the objects. it was a neat idea -- you could create whole 3d worlds with gif and jpeg surfaces and have fully rendered 3d objects in the middle, with small file sizes.
what ever happened to this? another one for the toilet?
(note -- this app is, naturally, windows only. but if you have windows, check out the contest winners. neat!)
this, unfortunately, is the flip side to the internet-bubble coin.
remember how, in middle school, people followed the trends initiated by the cool kids? same thing works in business. in the late 90s, people thought 'hey -- the joneses are buying nobusinessmodel.com, so i will'. now people think 'wow -- i lost my shirt on dot-coms -- computers are a waste, as that fellow in usa today pointed out.'
wired magazine had an article two months ago that pointed out that all tech developments went through a curve -- early adopters got people excited about a tech, but then excitement waned because people couldn't see the use. as applications became apparent, adoption and excitement picked back up. technology in general is going through the same trend.
Understand, this is neither a good nor a bad thing in the moral/ethical sense.
what a horrible sentiment. why on earth should business decisions be outside the realm of morality? and to suggest that moral right is only dictated by not breaking the law is the first part of the slippery slope nazi germany descended.
belated question -- maybe some ai geek out there can answer:
is it possible to create an ai like this that is scalable to multiple languages, or would the wheel have to be reinvented each time? is it too reliant on idioms?
i certainly appreciate good technology, don't get me wrong. but, after reading a new york times magazine article on the good doctor, i revisited ALICE, and was not impressed, as i hadn't been the first time. i messed with it for about ten minutes, thinking maybe i was missing something, and then showed it to my girlfriend, who asked ALICE about three questions and then gave me one of those looks.
i know, i know, baby steps, but, in a behavioral sense, this neither approximates nor even reasonably simulates intelligent thought. why are people so blown away?
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First, the headline is absolutely misleading. This is not in any way intended to replace GIMP, just the ridiculously lame MS Paint. (In that regard, it's also worth noting, they are setting the bar pretty low.)
That said, it is wonderful that people can look at how bad the GIMP UI is objectively. The reason Photoshop is far superior to the GIMP is not just in features -- it's in ease of use. Of course, there's a learning curve, but it's far less steep.
Apple Computers Almost Cost-Competitive with Linux Boxen
Iraqi Junkyard Armor Almost Competitive with Manufactured Armor
US Dollar Almost Competitive with Euro
feel free to add more!
that seems to me to be the least plausible suggestion made in the article.
wearing it around your neck means one of two things. 1) a choker or 2) a dangly fellow.
obviously, a choker won't work for working out, as it might kill you. who knows. and a dangly one can get caught on things but, more importantly from apple's standpoint, would look sloppy and inelegant. twisting all over, bouncing around. not apple's style. more likely another armband connection, if anything.
to ferret out the rumors, you have to think like a steve jobs. and i can't see him jumping up and down on stage to watch his cookie necklace bounce around. and also, come to think of it, why make a device that points out that the more expensive "higher-end" ipods have a flaw (skipping)?
i'm voting no on this rumor. exit polls show yes leading, so i feel confident.
enough said.
i used to do web and print design for a major software company, even working on creating presentations for the ceo and sr. vice presidents under tight timeframe. it got stressful, to be sure.
now i work in politics. i can only say this -- enjoy the 'stress' of doing web design.
as a former adobe employee, i can say that, if it isn't the feeling of all developers, it is certainly the attitude of senior management. on more than one occasion i heard high-level exceutives privately express frustration of the mac user base.
the last senior executive that was a mac champion at adobe was john warnock. since then, it's been all acrobat, all the time. there are quite a few mac fans within the rank and file, but they are definitely frogs in a warming skillet.
that 'don't copy that floppy' knocked my socks off. as an avid hip-hop fan i marvelled at their verbal acuity and sound knowledge of copyright law. i wondered how someone could be so versed in both legalities and dope rhymes.
then i saw in the credits that additional lyrics were provided by that virtuoso of beats, ms. ilene rosenthal, who you may recognize from the video as also playing 'SPA attorney'.
kudos to you ms. rosenthal. you are truly a renaissance woman. and i look forward to hearing what crazy shit hillary rosen puts together.
i know this will be beaten to death, but it really is great to be able to cancel your DSL service after a neighbor leaves his wifi unencrypted.
when my phone service was dropped, i threw a d-link access point on the back fence and ran a 50' ethernet cable in through the back window. thanks Laura'sP4! i appreciate your having broadband and a linsys router!
and thanks mr. boutin for not mentioning WEP encryption!
...and the one i employ, is i keep all of my music on a firewire hard drive. within itunes, you can set the firewire music directory as the default itunes one, and then i just move it back and forth between work and home.
granted, there is a financial investment -- but it works out well.
i am issuing a subpoena to all reader to be deposed in my action against CmdrTaco, et al., for damage done to my technological reputation by poor or uninformed moderation of my comments.
it is clear that the macintosh operating system is indeed superior, indicating that a recent 'troll' moderation was slanderous, and it is too funny to make that beowulf cluster joke -- another indication of improper and damaging moderation.
my lawyers will be in touch.
the story of o'reilly is one that could really be taken to heart by a lot of linux geeks.
they had and have a great product, but the first thing to come to mind is the animal cover. consistency and simplicity, combined with a superior product, make remembering that excellence simpler, and expand the brand and usage / sales.
the moral? KISS, of course, but also, keep it consistent.
i used to have a 7200/120 that housed a roach family. that was pretty fucking gross.
i eventually had to take everything in my house and shake it out over a plastic tarp that i ringed with roach killer. some stuff had to be submerged.
moral of the story: never pay $180 a month in rent, anywhere.
this game is great, because, as darwin knows, the best operating system will eventually triumph.
I have been running X on my ibook since I got it about 18 months ago. even 10.2 runs fine on it.
here are some of the things i've never had a problem with:
-DVD/CD-Rom
-Power management
-CPU heat
enjoy!
i hope no one in the south bay area forgot about the max games yesterday at the tech museum in san jose.
nothing like halo on the imax dome. except, maybe, grand theft auto, which some reason was verboten.
come to think of it, i'm glad some people from the south bay did forget to go -- it would have been awfully crowded.
it's official.
this post is the dorkiest thing i have ever read.
i certainly appreciate the points that are made about how diamonds are mined and the impact on the regions that mine them.
but i bet if the diamond cost $45 and still had the same emotional impact, the issue wouldn't really come up.
(that said, i saw a cool site on the web once that would take an ekg from you or your loved one and inscribe on the inside of a plain platinum, gold or silver band. pretty neat. if i find the link, i'll post it.)
you could create 3d objects in 3d modeling apps and export those objects for use in atmosphere worlds. additionally, you could create scenes for an object that could be triggered by javascript, as could object properties.
for example, you could have a motorcycle that, on mouse over, would trigger a scene that involved the wheels spinning, and the bike moving. you could click a button and change the color of the thing.
real 3d models doing this. at reasonable downloads. but it seems to have been stillborn.
adobe was working on a web-based 3d application called atmosphere -- it sould even import objects from 3d applications, and could use javascript to let users interact with the objects. it was a neat idea -- you could create whole 3d worlds with gif and jpeg surfaces and have fully rendered 3d objects in the middle, with small file sizes.
what ever happened to this? another one for the toilet?
(note -- this app is, naturally, windows only. but if you have windows, check out the contest winners. neat!)
anyone reading this who is a journalist, the lesson is:
objectivity is for lame-os.
write from your own point of view! people like it, your articles will become more popular -- you will become more popular!
it's the american way!
this, unfortunately, is the flip side to the internet-bubble coin.
remember how, in middle school, people followed the trends initiated by the cool kids? same thing works in business. in the late 90s, people thought 'hey -- the joneses are buying nobusinessmodel.com, so i will'. now people think 'wow -- i lost my shirt on dot-coms -- computers are a waste, as that fellow in usa today pointed out.'
wired magazine had an article two months ago that pointed out that all tech developments went through a curve -- early adopters got people excited about a tech, but then excitement waned because people couldn't see the use. as applications became apparent, adoption and excitement picked back up. technology in general is going through the same trend.
Understand, this is neither a good nor a bad thing in the moral/ethical sense.
what a horrible sentiment. why on earth should business decisions be outside the realm of morality? and to suggest that moral right is only dictated by not breaking the law is the first part of the slippery slope nazi germany descended.
for a good look at morality in business check out this editorial at hegemonster.us.
... then should i not use A MAP?
belated question -- maybe some ai geek out there can answer:
is it possible to create an ai like this that is scalable to multiple languages, or would the wheel have to be reinvented each time? is it too reliant on idioms?
i certainly appreciate good technology, don't get me wrong. but, after reading a new york times magazine article on the good doctor, i revisited ALICE, and was not impressed, as i hadn't been the first time. i messed with it for about ten minutes, thinking maybe i was missing something, and then showed it to my girlfriend, who asked ALICE about three questions and then gave me one of those looks.
i know, i know, baby steps, but, in a behavioral sense, this neither approximates nor even reasonably simulates intelligent thought. why are people so blown away?