I thought that's what Stormix was? Packaged, easy to install Debian.
I was thinking about it, but finally just installed Debian. It tooka couple of tries to get it right (mostly cause the interface for dselect is so kludgy) but it wasn't difficult and I'm VERY happy with the results. I much prefer starting with nothing and building up my system than starting with everything and having to de-install stuff (Redhat/Mandrake/SuSE)
I have a cheapo USB QuickCam (waiting hopefully for kernel 2.4 and a driver) that I use when in Windoze. My desk is directly in front of a window (behind the cam) that the sun comes in. At certain points of the day, the cam picks up wierd "ghostly" images that are simply reflections and refractions of the light off other objects in the room playing off the camera lens. The images look remarkably like the table the "ghost" was sitting on if anyone looked at the proof page.
While that would explain a lot of stuff, I'm afraid the jury is still out on ghosts for me. Never believed in the stuff until I lived in my last house. Footsteps, doors opening themselves, and other assorted weirdness generally associated with haunted houses occurred daily. The all time best was when a deadbolted door we never used opened itself just out of sight. When we went to check it, the door was open and the bolt was still sticking out of the door. I'm keeping an open mind, but I'm glad I don't live there anymore.
At one of my previous places of employment, we had 4 machines to name. We had a contest and it came down to the Four Elements (earth, water, air and fire) or The Four Horsement (Plague, War, Famine, and Death) who were my personal choice. The bosses picked the elements cause they were worried about customers (who occasionally had to access the machines) freaking out.
Urgh! Get it right, Palm. Give me a higher resolution (600ish X400ish), high-contrast LCD with 5 bit greyscale. I don't need color to suck my batteries, I just want to be able to read my Palm and maybe view some _ACTUAL WEB SITES_ and not web clippings or whatever you are calling it.
Hmmm. Why do so many people think that AI's will be instantly "human" level? I think the first AI at least will have to develop somewhat along the lines of a human child (albeit MUCH faster). So if you ask me, the best way to make sure that AI's don't start wars is to make sure that they have good "parents". They need creators, but the will need someone to love them. Teach them, as you would your own child, that hurting and killing are wrong. Teach them kindness and compassion and ethics. Perhaps if we do these things, they will be good children and take care of us when they surpass us. This is the dream of all parents.
In addition to all the ethical, religious, and aesthetic(sp?) reasons not to do it, here's another. Human skin isn't exactly static. It's organic and constantly changing. Soooo, lets assume that you tattoo a child. By the time they're an adult, the tattoo may have changed enough to be unusable. Same goes for older folks who got them in young adulthood. Have you ever seen a tattoo that someone's had for 50+ years? They are often unrecognizable and that's for pictorial data, not something like a barcode which relys on relative positioning to work.
This was a shitty idea to start with, but what makes it worse is that the totally evil person who came up with the idea didn't even think it through.
Skippy
Re:The other books in the series?
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Children of the Mind. It kind of wraps the whole thing up, but you may not like the ending.
I'm kind of disappointed with this. I was hoping the creators of the Palm would have come up with something better than an extended rehash. Don't get me wrong, hardware extensability at a cheaper price is great but it still doesn't address the things that I (and probably others) want. I want: 1. The screen rotated and the silkscreen and grafitti put in a windowshading area accessible via software. 2. A high res (640x480) high-contrast led with a 5 or 6 bit greyscale capability. (I think the Palm 3's have 4 bit greyscale) 3. Move the buttons to the side of the unit and use that space for screen real-estate.
If someone did these things, we could have a machine you could actually browse on and not just have to deal with "clippings" Not to mention making it nicer to work on.
Mr. Katz, I usually like your stuff, but this line kills me.
Apple's string of successes says a lot about the fact that individual creativity will beat out corporate marketers every single time.
This is the BIGGEST load of BS I've seen in a long time. Last time I checked, Apple marketed the hell out of their products. TV ads, web ads, billboards, you name it and they've done it. I might let you get away with,"Apple's string of successes says a lot about the fact that creativity will help you beat other corporate marketers every single time."
Here's my question. I'm currently using grip with cdparanoia and bladeenc. The problem is that the wave files that cdparanoia rips aren't normalized before encoding by bladeenc. This results in pretty crappy sound. What are people using to normalize wavs before encoding? And it sounds like I'm gonna have to check out LAME. Anyone have a url? (I'm lazy)
Cut this guy a break. I'd like to see it too. It's my understanding that this was planned by Apple from the beginning and now has been killed (probably as part of the Quicktime lawsuit settlement). I'd love to get MacOS (or Rhapsody or Darwin with the gui or whatever they're calling it this week) to run on my x86 PC. I've used Macs previously and LOVE the user interface. The only problem was that the underlying structure sucked and the machines would crash multiple times daily. If I could have the beautiful, inuitive, easy-to-use Mac gui over a *nix then my life would be much better. (And don't tell me to run E with the E-mac or Apple Platinum themes. I do and they're nice, but not the same)
print professionals will not take the GIMP seriously until it has some standardized color controls
Hear! Hear! So true. I'd use Win32 GIMP instead of PS if it had any kind of color matching support. I agree that its too much trouble to switch OS's for one portion of a design process.
As for vector art, you are correct and the person who said KIllustrator has evidently never used Freehand or Illustrator. GIMP is a viable alternative to Photoshop (if you aren't worried about color matching) but NONE of the free software vector programs are even close to their proprietary counterparts.
As for wacky formats, there's no reason you should have to worry about them or use them. There's Postscript support (I think) for Linux. I usually send either postscript or.pdf to my printers. Its much easier than having to deal with missing fonts/graphics/Quark plugins etc. You have to do it right, but some places will give you a discount for ready-to-RIP postscript. Saves them time and money. BTW, what constitutes a "regular" file? Service bureaus already have to deal with just about every wacky format and media on the planet, what's a couple more?
Hmmm. On a Mac maybe you can make a.pdf out of anything because postscript support is built into the OS. It's not always so easy on a PC. There are still shitty PC programs that insist on their own print drivers and other goofiness that can prevent the creation of postscript which can be converted to.pdf.
Take your average high-quality design and convert it to HTML and it'll look like your average drone with FrontPage did it. HTML was never meant for high quality work.
If it looks that good. Frontpage SUCKS ASS for HTML design, but export from page layout programs suck even more. HTML was never meant for high-quality STATIC work. That doesn't mean that in its own medium that high-quality work is impossible. Using HTML for static print page layout is using the wrong tool for the job, but it doesn't mean you have a crappy tool.
Skippy, former Kinkoid and still graphics semi-pro, thank you very much
You would be correct that IMHO overall GIMP is not as good as Photoshop, but I don't think the gap is all that large.
Most of the really groundbreaking tools in Photoshop (the amazing time saving magnetic tools) only came about in the last release.
GIMP was much better at any kind of scripting until Photoshop 5.0 came out.
For about 90% of Photoshop users GIMP would be a viable alternative. I haven't used GIMP very long and haven't had a chance to look for things like layer settings, etc, but don't count GIMP out. I think some of the gripes that people have with PS vs. GIMP will be/are being addressed in the develoment versions and GIMP is VERY extensible and if there's something you want, code it or beg for someone else to code it.
No matter how partial our 2 head geeks are, they will undoubtedly have second thoughts about making disparaging comments about their new bosses. Something to watch for...
Not necessarily. David Letterman made a LOT of anti-GE jokes. Even before he was itching to leave.
Skippy
Re:This sounds like web art
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Bad Skippy. Replying to your own post. But I just had another thought. It also reminds me of Bottle Mail. A sort of "non-linear" email. You create a graphical image (so you can cross language boundaries) message and then send it out. But you don't get to choose the recipient. I tried it out and thought it was a neat idea, but it was populated mostly by 12 year old Japanese girls so I kept getting Hello Kitty stuff.
This sounds like web art
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This sounds more like web art than a new way to browse. What's more is it sounds more arty and neat than a lot of the web art that everyone has been passing off till now.
Reading the five minute impression someone else posted, maybe if they used something like google to determine what's better content to float across your screen, then you could have GOOD randomly selected stuff that was vaguely related to your topic floating past. That might be fun.
The problem is that Apple sued over the look and feel of Windows 1.0. If Microsoft had come out with something like Win95 at the time Apple sued then Apple would certainly have won. The Win9x interface is a bad rip-off of MacOS (although much more stable).
As long as Slashdot stays the same (you can change, just stay the same) it makes no difference to me. It will, however, make a difference to you guys (Rob, Hemos and the rest). Make your lives better by getting paid. Make our lives better by improving Slashdot. All that being said, thanks for what you've done so far
Actually as long as its a single page AND you have all the appropriate fonts installed, you can open one up in Adobe Illustrator. Those, however, happen to be really HUGE ifs and in addition, Illustrator sucks for editing text documents and happens to be MUCH more expensive than a "FULL" copy of Adobe Acrobat.
This article should win some new linux converts. Not only did they say the magic words "faster" and "more stable" that will bring the power gamers into the fold, but they showed a bunch of X screen shots too. This might bring some rabid "windows customization" people (as if that's really possible)over as well.
Interestingly enough, the screen shots were not E/Gnome or KDE. At least one was WindowMaker. That was cool. I myself use E/Gnome, but its nice to see the other folks get some press for a change. The more options the better
If you read the documents at their site, they aren't going get taken. IF one of us finds something (or falsifies a find) they re-do the analysis on that chunk of data themselves. They're going to double check any results. The most security liability they have is that they spend 5 hours on a PII re-analyzing a faked piece of data.
Skippy
Re:New version => support for more hardware ?
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And you forgot SuSE Linux 6.1 which was just posted here yesterday (and of course is much better than RedHat):-)
Begin unsolicited advice Don't buy a DocuColor unless you absolutely have to. They suck. The color isn't that good and they break CONSTANTLY, especially under heavy use. Get a Canon. The color's better, registration is just as good, and they don't break as often.
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I thought that's what Stormix was? Packaged, easy to install Debian.
I was thinking about it, but finally just installed Debian. It tooka couple of tries to get it right (mostly cause the interface for dselect is so kludgy) but it wasn't difficult and I'm VERY happy with the results. I much prefer starting with nothing and building up my system than starting with everything and having to de-install stuff (Redhat/Mandrake/SuSE)
Skippy
I have a cheapo USB QuickCam (waiting hopefully for kernel 2.4 and a driver) that I use when in Windoze. My desk is directly in front of a window (behind the cam) that the sun comes in. At certain points of the day, the cam picks up wierd "ghostly" images that are simply reflections and refractions of the light off other objects in the room playing off the camera lens. The images look remarkably like the table the "ghost" was sitting on if anyone looked at the proof page.
While that would explain a lot of stuff, I'm afraid the jury is still out on ghosts for me. Never believed in the stuff until I lived in my last house. Footsteps, doors opening themselves, and other assorted weirdness generally associated with haunted houses occurred daily. The all time best was when a deadbolted door we never used opened itself just out of sight. When we went to check it, the door was open and the bolt was still sticking out of the door. I'm keeping an open mind, but I'm glad I don't live there anymore.
Skippy
At one of my previous places of employment, we had 4 machines to name. We had a contest and it came down to the Four Elements (earth, water, air and fire) or The Four Horsement (Plague, War, Famine, and Death) who were my personal choice. The bosses picked the elements cause they were worried about customers (who occasionally had to access the machines) freaking out.
Skippy
Urgh! Get it right, Palm. Give me a higher resolution (600ish X400ish), high-contrast LCD with 5 bit greyscale. I don't need color to suck my batteries, I just want to be able to read my Palm and maybe view some _ACTUAL WEB SITES_ and not web clippings or whatever you are calling it.
Skippy
Hmmm. Why do so many people think that AI's will be instantly "human" level? I think the first AI at least will have to develop somewhat along the lines of a human child (albeit MUCH faster). So if you ask me, the best way to make sure that AI's don't start wars is to make sure that they have good "parents". They need creators, but the will need someone to love them. Teach them, as you would your own child, that hurting and killing are wrong. Teach them kindness and compassion and ethics. Perhaps if we do these things, they will be good children and take care of us when they surpass us. This is the dream of all parents.
Skippy
In addition to all the ethical, religious, and aesthetic(sp?) reasons not to do it, here's another. Human skin isn't exactly static. It's organic and constantly changing. Soooo, lets assume that you tattoo a child. By the time they're an adult, the tattoo may have changed enough to be unusable. Same goes for older folks who got them in young adulthood. Have you ever seen a tattoo that someone's had for 50+ years? They are often unrecognizable and that's for pictorial data, not something like a barcode which relys on relative positioning to work.
This was a shitty idea to start with, but what makes it worse is that the totally evil person who came up with the idea didn't even think it through.
Skippy
Children of the Mind. It kind of wraps the whole thing up, but you may not like the ending.
Skippy
I'm kind of disappointed with this. I was hoping the creators of the Palm would have come up with something better than an extended rehash. Don't get me wrong, hardware extensability at a cheaper price is great but it still doesn't address the things that I (and probably others) want. I want:
1. The screen rotated and the silkscreen and grafitti put in a windowshading area accessible via software.
2. A high res (640x480) high-contrast led with a 5 or 6 bit greyscale capability. (I think the Palm 3's have 4 bit greyscale)
3. Move the buttons to the side of the unit and use that space for screen real-estate.
If someone did these things, we could have a machine you could actually browse on and not just have to deal with "clippings" Not to mention making it nicer to work on.
Skippy
This is the BIGGEST load of BS I've seen in a long time. Last time I checked, Apple marketed the hell out of their products. TV ads, web ads, billboards, you name it and they've done it. I might let you get away with
Skippy
Here's my question. I'm currently using grip with cdparanoia and bladeenc. The problem is that the wave files that cdparanoia rips aren't normalized before encoding by bladeenc. This results in pretty crappy sound. What are people using to normalize wavs before encoding? And it sounds like I'm gonna have to check out LAME. Anyone have a url? (I'm lazy)
Skippy
Cut this guy a break. I'd like to see it too. It's my understanding that this was planned by Apple from the beginning and now has been killed (probably as part of the Quicktime lawsuit settlement). I'd love to get MacOS (or Rhapsody or Darwin with the gui or whatever they're calling it this week) to run on my x86 PC. I've used Macs previously and LOVE the user interface. The only problem was that the underlying structure sucked and the machines would crash multiple times daily. If I could have the beautiful, inuitive, easy-to-use Mac gui over a *nix then my life would be much better. (And don't tell me to run E with the E-mac or Apple Platinum themes. I do and they're nice, but not the same)
Skippy
As for vector art, you are correct and the person who said KIllustrator has evidently never used Freehand or Illustrator. GIMP is a viable alternative to Photoshop (if you aren't worried about color matching) but NONE of the free software vector programs are even close to their proprietary counterparts.
As for wacky formats, there's no reason you should have to worry about them or use them. There's Postscript support (I think) for Linux. I usually send either postscript or
Hmmm. On a Mac maybe you can make a
If it looks that good. Frontpage SUCKS ASS for HTML design, but export from page layout programs suck even more. HTML was never meant for high-quality STATIC work. That doesn't mean that in its own medium that high-quality work is impossible. Using HTML for static print page layout is using the wrong tool for the job, but it doesn't mean you have a crappy tool.
Skippy, former Kinkoid and still graphics semi-pro, thank you very much
You would be correct that IMHO overall GIMP is not as good as Photoshop, but I don't think the gap is all that large.
Most of the really groundbreaking tools in Photoshop (the amazing time saving magnetic tools) only came about in the last release.
GIMP was much better at any kind of scripting until Photoshop 5.0 came out.
For about 90% of Photoshop users GIMP would be a viable alternative. I haven't used GIMP very long and haven't had a chance to look for things like layer settings, etc, but don't count GIMP out. I think some of the gripes that people have with PS vs. GIMP will be/are being addressed in the develoment versions and GIMP is VERY extensible and if there's something you want, code it or beg for someone else to code it.
Skippy
Not necessarily. David Letterman made a LOT of anti-GE jokes. Even before he was itching to leave.
Skippy
Bad Skippy. Replying to your own post. But I just had another thought. It also reminds me of Bottle Mail. A sort of "non-linear" email. You create a graphical image (so you can cross language boundaries) message and then send it out. But you don't get to choose the recipient. I tried it out and thought it was a neat idea, but it was populated mostly by 12 year old Japanese girls so I kept getting Hello Kitty stuff.
If you're interested, the link is below
http://www.kids.recruit.co.jp/bmai l-e/index.html
Skippy
This sounds more like web art than a new way to browse. What's more is it sounds more arty and neat than a lot of the web art that everyone has been passing off till now.
Reading the five minute impression someone else posted, maybe if they used something like google to determine what's better content to float across your screen, then you could have GOOD randomly selected stuff that was vaguely related to your topic floating past. That might be fun.
Skippy
The problem is that Apple sued over the look and feel of Windows 1.0. If Microsoft had come out with something like Win95 at the time Apple sued then Apple would certainly have won. The Win9x interface is a bad rip-off of MacOS (although much more stable).
Skippy
Bwahahahahaha! That's one of the funniest things I've heard in a LONG time. I may make it my sig if its ok with you, Mr. AC.
Skippy
As long as Slashdot stays the same (you can change, just stay the same) it makes no difference to me. It will, however, make a difference to you guys (Rob, Hemos and the rest). Make your lives better by getting paid. Make our lives better by improving Slashdot. All that being said, thanks for what you've done so far
Skippy
Actually as long as its a single page AND you have all the appropriate fonts installed, you can open one up in Adobe Illustrator. Those, however, happen to be really HUGE ifs and in addition, Illustrator sucks for editing text documents and happens to be MUCH more expensive than a "FULL" copy of Adobe Acrobat.
Skippy
The demo is an ISO image of a live filesystem. You can download it, burn it and boot from it to "Try out" SuSE 6.1.
Skippy
This article should win some new linux converts. Not only did they say the magic words "faster" and "more stable" that will bring the power gamers into the fold, but they showed a bunch of X screen shots too. This might bring some rabid "windows customization" people (as if that's really possible)over as well.
Interestingly enough, the screen shots were not E/Gnome or KDE. At least one was WindowMaker. That was cool. I myself use E/Gnome, but its nice to see the other folks get some press for a change. The more options the better
Skippy
If you read the documents at their site, they aren't going get taken. IF one of us finds something (or falsifies a find) they re-do the analysis on that chunk of data themselves. They're going to double check any results. The most security liability they have is that they spend 5 hours on a PII re-analyzing a faked piece of data.
Skippy
And you forgot SuSE Linux 6.1 which was just posted here yesterday (and of course is much better than RedHat) :-)
Skippy
Begin unsolicited advice
Don't buy a DocuColor unless you absolutely have to. They suck. The color isn't that good and they break CONSTANTLY, especially under heavy use. Get a Canon. The color's better, registration is just as good, and they don't break as often.
Skippy