I know a lot of people will disagree with me on this, but I find Photoshop to be much more intuitive than the Gimp. This may be due to the fact that photoshop manuals have exstensive detailed tutorials, and I never found any for the Gimp. Then there's the fact that the photoshop interface is based on apple standards that have been around since MacPaint.
I'm sure a lot of people will justify the Gimp's interface by talking about innovation, etc. But have you noticed that tools like emacs and vi haven't exactly changed much in the past 10 years? The fact is that people don't like to learn a new way of doing things when the old way is working fine.
Things like Pantone and CMYK aren't important to anyone who isn't planning to print things out.. in fact no one except professional publishers cares about Pantone.
I'm sure that a lot of the plugins are impressive, but the program design is to bizzare to do anything quickly.
Hmmm... I'm not sure I agree with that. By an extention of your logic, the only titles that could be copyrighted would be made up words. Would that really mean I can create a "Survivor" movie without CBS's consent?
You can (and in fact they are) if you base it on Survivor : A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk and not the TV show. There is also a 70's band called Survivor.
But I think there is a difference here, and that is that Blizzard does have plans(or at least hopes) of having a major studio make their game into a movie. Also, there are major issues with things like merchandising rights that lawyers are going to have to fight over anyways, so it makes sense that Blizzard should sue now, while New Line can still change the name.
Are you sure about that? Win9x gives warning when you have TCP/IP shares open to the internet. It also offers to dissable them. It seems odd that MS would take this out of Win 2k... maybe they just never had that feature in the NT series.
The big problem with canadian health care is that it is badly managed. In Toronto you have four different hosptials with four separate boards and four 400k executive salarys. This wouldn't normally be a big problem, until you notice that all four are right beside each other.
In the town I used to live in we had an MRI machine. There was a huge waiting list to use it because there were only three people qualified to use it. It sat idle most of the time. Mind you, the let vets pay to use for animals... you have to wonder how difficult training more people would really be.
There are cases like the boy who was flown by helecopter to a different hospital because there was no specialist availiable to treat him. He had a broken arm, I always thought that was basic enough any doctor could do it but no one ever questions how the hospitals are run.
Then there are the cases of blatant fraud... like the doctor who billed OHIP (Ontario health insurance plan) for an at home liver transplant. Or the doctor who used patients OHIP numbers to bill for check ups that never happened. They only caught him when they proved he was in spain.
My point is that when the government pays for something, things tend to de-evolve into a bloated bureaucracy.
because there are numerous things that scientists still dont understand about the human brain not to mention the human proccess as a whole.
There are many things not understood about sheep brains, but that didn't stop them from cloning one. The only thing they have to do is transfer the DNA into an egg. All the things we don't understand about how a cell grows into a human don't matter, since the cell takes care of those issues on it's own.
As for your more philosphical question about souls, what makes you think you have one? Dolly seems to be a normal sheep, and when a natural clone occurs (identical twins) you get two individuals.
At the end of the day any issues reguarding souls, etc. will be sorted out by whatever cosmic force makes those descisions. It's not something we need to worry about.
Re:What's *really* more cost effective - long term
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I don't think that you're thinking in the long term. In minning, there are accidents. If there's a cave in or blow out and 6 people die then you have to shut down the mine to investigate. You have to pay to take care of their families. You have pay incredible amounts of lawyers fees.
Now picture a 60k machine getting destroyed from the same cause. No one cares, and everyone keeps working. So basicly my point is smashed meat=very expensive broken metal=repairable.
I think the problem is we need a better way to solve patent disputes then litigation... and the software industry isn't the worst hit. Take a look at this sciam.com article.
I think that sony's real problem is that there are all sorts of legal issues that get involved once you start spending real money.
I don't know the specifics of everquest so these examples might not be exactly aplicable, but here goes. Say I sell some platinum pieces to you for real money. I then get a theif friend to steal it back right away. Technically I completed my contract and get to keep your (real) money.
What about things like an in game casino. If the money you win/lose has real value, sony might have to obey gambling laws and exclude minors and people in certain states.
What if verant descideds to nerf jewlers? Can these people who spent weeks building up cash cows sue sony for lost revenue?
By saying that you can't sell items they avoid having to answer any of these questions. If they were to insist on geting a cut of the sales, they would have to answer all these legal issues (and a huge one being do they have the right to insist on a cut).
Besides, there's a certain purity to a game where rank is descided purely on dedication and skill. FPS's too frequently fall into a battle of who has the most expensive video card and connection. Then there's the other major question: Would anyone really enjoy the game if most of the powerfull characters where rich brats who's moms paid for the best accounts?
It has made the organisation more efficient (cut the number of jobs by thousands [query: is this a good thing?])
A lot of people seem to think that buisinesses exist primarily to provide jobs for people. However, I'd say it is a good thing.
If a company keeps uneeded workers then it's basicly putting people on welfare to avoid the trouble of firing them. The cost of this is passed onto consumers, and in the case of a government monopoly society as a whole.
If you fire them, then it is a huge inconvinence for them... but they should get new jobs reasonably quickly. Since the're now contributing to society instead of taking from it, everyone benefits.
Now, if you want to start arguing that we don't need all the junk of our consumer society that's a completly different issue. The Ahmish agree with you, but you'll have to give up slashdot.
The economist has a much better article here
You can't blame your power company for selling outside the state. They are being forced to sell power at a fraction of the cost, so naturally they want to minimize losses and sell as little as possible in CA. Don't forget that their stock holders could sue them for doing anything else.
But if you watch various computer shows you'll notice that they always use flat screen monitors. Flat screens don't have this problem because the're constantly backlit, and the cameras don't have enough resolution to notice the individual pixels updating.
But doesn't that mean that any GPLed program can't be a front end for any non-GPLed software?
What if the Objective C front end just produced standard C code, and the programmers had to set up makefiles to compile it for themselves? Would any program called by gmake now have to be GLPed?
For example, I found the program 'ECLiPt SSH Shell' on freshmeat, it's GPLed. Does that mean it's illegal to use it with a commercial SSH implemetation?
This example might not be completely accurate, but I hope you get the idea.
I can understand dynamic linking, but insisting that front ends are linking seems to limit free software more than it protects it.
I cannot download a file to a different drive with out it first being on my C drive as a temp file (most of the time this is true), so if there isnt any room on C: then your fucked. This can be fixed if you change your temp drive to the drive your saving it to but thats incredibly lame.
I always though this was IE's most brain dead idea. There are a few solutions though. You might want to try gozilla. It's addware and the last version I tried was increadibly buggy, but if you do a lot of downloading it's the best thing I've found.
I've always wondered why there isn't a linux equivilent. I bet it would be easy to write a download aid program for OS software, since it could grab the MIRRORS file and ping the locations. Actually a perl script could prbably do it, does anyone know about something like this?
But look at the difficulty in making MIDI's (or NES music, or.ST3.IT.MOD etc). They aren't really a recording of the artists song. The're more of a new performance of the song.
Compare this to MP3's which are rips of the artists CD's.
I don't know about the legal ground they stand on (although there's a 99% chance the RIAA made them just as illegal) I'd consider them more like fan art... like star wars ascii or lego.
To sum up my point is that no politician could justify a tax if their was no sample coding. It would be like imposing a guitar tax, since you're probably going to play songs you didn't write.
Seriously, I know CGI is usually common gateway interface, but what does the I mean when you're talking about rendering? It's almost like people where using the word SGI and descided that CGI should be a generic version...
This is not a troll, it's an honest question. Is there an FAQ about this?
Re:We need to be more like the Europeans
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I think nicotine has gotten a much worse reputation then it really deserves... The only reason smoking is so bad for you is that society tolerates consuming massive numbers of cigarettes. Lets look at a beer driker drinking like a smoker smokes.
Get up in the morning, have a warm cup of coffee... and a beer. Get to work, chug a beer before going into the office. Start working, have a couple of quick beer breaks. Lunch, with several beers. And so on...
The reason tobbacco companies got so large is that they convinced people that smoking isn't a habbit. It's a lifestyle choice.
Personally, I occationally smoke while I'm drinking. When I'm sober I don't crave nicotine at all. My general point is that nicotine is hardly what I would call 'super addictive'.
You're fooling yourself if you think that mass consumer awarness is what killed Divx. The major reason it died was a lack of retail support. If Divx had succeded then everyone from Blockbuster to tape subscription services would be out of bussiness. You would end up buying common movies from 711 and rarer ones from Wal-Mart, since there is no longer any need for tape return.
Because of this every store besides Circuit City pushed DVDs.
This is also why the RIAA want's to give distributers a cut of SDMI revenue. There's every chance that Divx might have been crammed down our throats if most of the retail movie industry didn't need to kill it so badly.
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I'm sure a lot of people will justify the Gimp's interface by talking about innovation, etc. But have you noticed that tools like emacs and vi haven't exactly changed much in the past 10 years? The fact is that people don't like to learn a new way of doing things when the old way is working fine.
Things like Pantone and CMYK aren't important to anyone who isn't planning to print things out.. in fact no one except professional publishers cares about Pantone.
I'm sure that a lot of the plugins are impressive, but the program design is to bizzare to do anything quickly.
The time article is here
Of course who can forget the classic example here (or a working link to the article here).
But I think there is a difference here, and that is that Blizzard does have plans(or at least hopes) of having a major studio make their game into a movie. Also, there are major issues with things like merchandising rights that lawyers are going to have to fight over anyways, so it makes sense that Blizzard should sue now, while New Line can still change the name.
Are you sure about that? Win9x gives warning when you have TCP/IP shares open to the internet. It also offers to dissable them. It seems odd that MS would take this out of Win 2k... maybe they just never had that feature in the NT series.
In the town I used to live in we had an MRI machine. There was a huge waiting list to use it because there were only three people qualified to use it. It sat idle most of the time. Mind you, the let vets pay to use for animals... you have to wonder how difficult training more people would really be.
There are cases like the boy who was flown by helecopter to a different hospital because there was no specialist availiable to treat him. He had a broken arm, I always thought that was basic enough any doctor could do it but no one ever questions how the hospitals are run.
Then there are the cases of blatant fraud... like the doctor who billed OHIP (Ontario health insurance plan) for an at home liver transplant. Or the doctor who used patients OHIP numbers to bill for check ups that never happened. They only caught him when they proved he was in spain.
My point is that when the government pays for something, things tend to de-evolve into a bloated bureaucracy.
I don't see what your problem is, it's a perfectly cromulant word.
And if you ever download the update patches for windows you don't need a separate program. It's been fixed for a long time.
As for your more philosphical question about souls, what makes you think you have one? Dolly seems to be a normal sheep, and when a natural clone occurs (identical twins) you get two individuals.
At the end of the day any issues reguarding souls, etc. will be sorted out by whatever cosmic force makes those descisions. It's not something we need to worry about.
Now picture a 60k machine getting destroyed from the same cause. No one cares, and everyone keeps working.
So basicly my point is smashed meat=very expensive broken metal=repairable.
I think the problem is we need a better way to solve patent disputes then litigation... and the software industry isn't the worst hit. Take a look at this sciam.com article.
And about the spelling...
"It is a weak mind indeed that can find but one way to spell a word!" -Ben Franklin
I don't know the specifics of everquest so these examples might not be exactly aplicable, but here goes. Say I sell some platinum pieces to you for real money. I then get a theif friend to steal it back right away. Technically I completed my contract and get to keep your (real) money.
What about things like an in game casino. If the money you win/lose has real value, sony might have to obey gambling laws and exclude minors and people in certain states.
What if verant descideds to nerf jewlers? Can these people who spent weeks building up cash cows sue sony for lost revenue?
By saying that you can't sell items they avoid having to answer any of these questions. If they were to insist on geting a cut of the sales, they would have to answer all these legal issues (and a huge one being do they have the right to insist on a cut).
Besides, there's a certain purity to a game where rank is descided purely on dedication and skill. FPS's too frequently fall into a battle of who has the most expensive video card and connection. Then there's the other major question: Would anyone really enjoy the game if most of the powerfull characters where rich brats who's moms paid for the best accounts?
If a company keeps uneeded workers then it's basicly putting people on welfare to avoid the trouble of firing them. The cost of this is passed onto consumers, and in the case of a government monopoly society as a whole.
If you fire them, then it is a huge inconvinence for them... but they should get new jobs reasonably quickly. Since the're now contributing to society instead of taking from it, everyone benefits.
Now, if you want to start arguing that we don't need all the junk of our consumer society that's a completly different issue. The Ahmish agree with you, but you'll have to give up slashdot.
The economist has a much better article here
You can't blame your power company for selling outside the state. They are being forced to sell power at a fraction of the cost, so naturally they want to minimize losses and sell as little as possible in CA. Don't forget that their stock holders could sue them for doing anything else.
But if you watch various computer shows you'll notice that they always use flat screen monitors. Flat screens don't have this problem because the're constantly backlit, and the cameras don't have enough resolution to notice the individual pixels updating.
What if the Objective C front end just produced standard C code, and the programmers had to set up makefiles to compile it for themselves? Would any program called by gmake now have to be GLPed?
For example, I found the program 'ECLiPt SSH Shell' on freshmeat, it's GPLed. Does that mean it's illegal to use it with a commercial SSH implemetation?
This example might not be completely accurate, but I hope you get the idea.
I can understand dynamic linking, but insisting that front ends are linking seems to limit free software more than it protects it.
I've always wondered why there isn't a linux equivilent. I bet it would be easy to write a download aid program for OS software, since it could grab the MIRRORS file and ping the locations. Actually a perl script could prbably do it, does anyone know about something like this?
Compare this to MP3's which are rips of the artists CD's.
I don't know about the legal ground they stand on (although there's a 99% chance the RIAA made them just as illegal) I'd consider them more like fan art... like star wars ascii or lego.
To sum up my point is that no politician could justify a tax if their was no sample coding. It would be like imposing a guitar tax, since you're probably going to play songs you didn't write.
This is not a troll, it's an honest question.
Is there an FAQ about this?
Get up in the morning, have a warm cup of coffee... and a beer. Get to work, chug a beer before going into the office. Start working, have a couple of quick beer breaks. Lunch, with several beers.
And so on...
The reason tobbacco companies got so large is that they convinced people that smoking isn't a habbit. It's a lifestyle choice.
Personally, I occationally smoke while I'm drinking. When I'm sober I don't crave nicotine at all. My general point is that nicotine is hardly what I would call 'super addictive'.
Because of this every store besides Circuit City pushed DVDs.
This is also why the RIAA want's to give distributers a cut of SDMI revenue. There's every chance that Divx might have been crammed down our throats if most of the retail movie industry didn't need to kill it so badly.
Someone with a nonexistent account submitted a link to a nonexistent story, that is completely unverified anywhere else...
And people are debating this? Come on, I'm surprized the poster didn't submit an obfusocated goatse.cx link.
Face it, Taco got trolled.