Use GIMP all you want - and I think most people are glad it's around - but this discussion is not really about GIMP or PS for that matter.
It's about the ability of OSS to compete well in the marketplace. And it doesn't.
Well, that's a very different discussion. The GIMP is far from the best that the OSS world has to offer (in fact I think it's a bit of an embarassment, and we'd all be better off if people would stop parading it around as some sort of paragon of Free Software achievement), so using it as a benchmark of long-term competitiveness is pretty much a strawman argument.
You want to compare something (and I'm leaving aside all the server-side stuff on which open source stuff unambigously trounces anything for sale), take a look at OpenOffice. Download a fresh copy and compare it to what Microsoft is charging $300 for. They're not all the way there yet, but they're darn close, and I think the day when MS Office holds no compelling advantage is not far at all.
as for everyone wanting... CMYK for no apparant reason, i'm sure the features will turn up eventually, and granted, some users need them, but for the most part these terms seem to be used by PS users to score points against the GIMP.
You cannot do professional print design work without CMYK. Simply not possible. RGB colorspace is completely different - it represents a different set of colors, including many colors that cannot be printed on paper (especially with the 4 standard process inks), and omitting many that can. You can send an RGB file and let your output device translate it, but you will get flat and lifeless color compared to what you'd get with proper CMYK processing. As a consequence, GIMP is only useful for web and other onscreen stuff, or amateur print work.
Believe it or not, sometimes professionals actually do know what they're talking about and aren't just blowing smoke as part of a global conspiracy against the GIMP.
is not intuitive ok, quite far from it. No other app in Microsoft Windows behaves like that.
Plenty of other Windows drawing apps behave like that. It's how they deal with the huge number of tools in the palette.
Also remember that it was originally a Mac app, and Adobe initially had to win those users over to the Windows version, so maintaining interface consistency across platforms was arguably more important to them than respecting inadequate Windows customs.
All this article tells us is that the author is too inflexible to make an informed or useful comment.
While GIMP's interface is truly awful, that's not what kills it, and that's not the most important reason why he ultimately finds it to be a failure.
What sucks the most about GIMP is the quality of its output. The anti-aliasing sucks, the text rendering is abysmal, it can't deal with real-world output requirements, Microsoft Paint puts its color handling to shame.
I've tried the GIMP. I've tried it lots of times. I run Linux on servers and desktops and it works great for me. But when I have to do graphics work, there's no substitute for the Mac, in large part because the applications just aren't there on Linux.
Honestly, give Freehand a try. It kicks CorelDraw's ass and then wipes up the floor with Illustrator (winner of Worst Interface Ever award, the GIMP of vector drawing programs).
Capitol Hill and most of non-residential northwest DC are pretty rife with hotspots already, anyways.
So is residential NW DC.
There are only a handful of blocks along the 20-some block walk down 16th St from my place to the White House where I can't get a usable WEP-free signal.
Oh yes, that will be helpful when you're on a machine that doesn't have JOE or Pico and it's 1000 miles away in another data center.
I can't believe you wasted your time learning to drive a car when the only thing you can really count on is having your feet available.
Actually even that would be a waste of time ya bum. What if you're paralyzed one day? Why not just focus on learning to drag yourself down the street using your chin?
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How would a vi user deal with a MacOS telnet
that doesn't pass the escape key through?
Are there any MacOS telnet clients that don't pass escape? I've never heard of that.
NCSA Telnet used to intercept control-C, control-S, and control-Q by default and replace them with out-of-band telnet-protocol sequences; perhaps that's what you're thinking of? But that could be fixed in a simple settings dialog.
Some adjustment needs to be made for the 'gain' of the microwave, because all the energy is trapped inside the box, and WiFi is radiated into free space. An additional adjustment needs to be made for proximity, because it is probably not convenient to have your access point close to your chicken.
Unfortunately your chicken will cook sooner from the sunlight than from ambient microwave radiation. I'm a little more concerned about our brains, though, which don't need to be piping hot before serving.
How do those ride as compared to a bike with normal-sized wheels? I'm always very jealous when I see people bringing those little things on the train while I have to leave mine locked outside the station, but I worry that the small wheels would make pedaling much less efficient (perhaps due to an imperfect understanding of high-school physics?). I'm a bit tall (195cm) so I already have a hard time finding a bike I can ride comfortably.
Also, can they be brought on a plane as standard, no-extra-charge checked luggage (with a case, of course)?
Montreal gets plenty of sun. Sure, in the winter the days are really short, but in the summer they're really long. Overall the amount of total time spent in sunlight year-round won't be that much different than for somwhere nearer the equator.
That's handy; they can just put giant batteries in the parking meters to save the summer's electrical bounty for 6 months.
Only stupid Apple Fan Boys (tm) would speak in such absolute terms...
First of all, I have no idea who Sager is, so I'm not buying one.
Secondly, you haven't met the requirements of the post to which you replied. Throw in gigabit ethernet (without some breakable card sticking out the side), dual-head display capacity (1600x1200 on the external monitor), Firewire 800, and so on, then compare.
That said, I am generally against piracy of cable. I don't think that the arguments that apply to music apply to cable in even the smallest regard. If you steal cable/satelite access, then you deserve to be punished if you are caught. end of story.
Cable and satellite are very different stories. The cable company negotiates an easement and owns the cables. It is generally not possible to pirate their signal without tampering with their equipment. That is clearly a no-no.
However, the satellite signal is being broadcast into my home (and even my skull) without my consent, increasing the level of ambient radiation. If they're going to do that, AND then tell me that I just have to sit there and bathe in their radiation without even being allowed to inspect it as I please, well, common sense is not on their side.
Fact is, they chose - for cost-saving reasons - a distribution method that spreads their signal to non-customers. That's their problem. They can suck up the losses or they can come up with something else, but they sure don't have my support trying to have their cake and eat it too.
It's like putting up a movie screen downtown, rotated at a 90 degree angle, and then trying to bust anyone caught sitting in the park tilting their head without paying the fee.
But not for the reasons you claimed. Had you taken 2 minutes to skim the article, you would see that the reasons the authors found food aid to be unhelpful were:
People count on it but due to poor logistical planning, it can't pass through seasonally bad roads
It causes economic distortions
It causes population spikes
Nobody (or at least not I) claimed that food aid was the perfect solution to everything. I merely called you on your patronizing and invalid assertion that the reason food aid wouldn't help Ethiopia was because Ethiopians were a bunch of gun-wielding warlord maniacs who would steal it ("siphoned off to raise armies" I believe was your turn of phrase) before it could get to its intended recipients.
On Thursday, 1st of April, we first met the head of the School of Information System Technology of AAU. He showed no interest in the possibilities of Open Source Software regarding especially developing countries. Nevertheless he was using Linux as a tool for teaching special features of Operating Systems in his lecture on this topic.
Could it be that he showed no interest because he's grown up in a country where people die of malnutrition and corrupt leaders reserve aid money for their own consumption?
What are you talking about? He's not the Minister of Food Distribution. He's the head of the School of Information Systems Technology. His job is to help students learn about various aspects of Information Systems Technology, and if these people helped him do that, they've done everyone a favor.
You think every single person in a country should devote 100% of their attention to its single most pressing problem? Doesn't that seem just a little simplistic? Let's apply that to the USA: How about you go tell everyone who's working on crime, AIDS, traffic safety, and toxic waste disposal that instead they have to drop all that - regardless of their interests and skills - and instead deal with heart disease, because that's the number one killer. Sounds like a good plan?
God. It makes me want to go and do an install of Windows XP.
The reality is that putting your $10000 into posting food to ethiopians will not have the desired effect - the food will never get to the people who need it, rather it will be siphoned off to raise armies.
Regardless of what you might have seen in movies about other countries, Ethiopia does not have marauding gangs of heavily armed goons wreaking havoc in the streets. It does have a serious underdevelopment problem.
Free software can provide this opportunity and empower people to talk with others and develop their own solutions to their problems.
This much is true. But I don't think they're going to want to hear about it from you until you stop patronizing them.
As mentioned, Internet != web. Even there, though, it's the difference between "this server seems to be down" and "there is no evidence that this server exists". If I'm having a problem with my server, then at least would-be visitors have an indication that a website should be at its address and will hopefully try again later.
Sadly, Internet Explorer conceals this very salient difference, so 90% of people have never had the distinction enter their field of consideration.
I think this is the best method too. The biggest upside to using the hosted DNSes is speed of propagation. It's nice to have local control, but anyone who has had to update a DNS knows the pain of not getting that update to occur for the customer because thier ISP doesn't get updates fast enough. The further you can get your changes upstream, the better off you are.
This makes no sense. DNS propagates on demand only - it's not as if changes suddenly start flowing across the net on their own from high ground.
It doesn't matter where your DNS servers are; there is no "upstream" or "downstream" (except in the special case of a query performed by a user who coincidentally uses your ISP's DNS service, and even that's only relevant with certain configurations at the ISP). There is no appreciable difference in speed of "propagation" between DNS hosted at Network Solutions and DNS hosted on a cable modem in your basement (unless the queries saturate the cable modem link, of course, but then you've got bigger problems).
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Well, that's a very different discussion. The GIMP is far from the best that the OSS world has to offer (in fact I think it's a bit of an embarassment, and we'd all be better off if people would stop parading it around as some sort of paragon of Free Software achievement), so using it as a benchmark of long-term competitiveness is pretty much a strawman argument.
You want to compare something (and I'm leaving aside all the server-side stuff on which open source stuff unambigously trounces anything for sale), take a look at OpenOffice. Download a fresh copy and compare it to what Microsoft is charging $300 for. They're not all the way there yet, but they're darn close, and I think the day when MS Office holds no compelling advantage is not far at all.
You cannot do professional print design work without CMYK. Simply not possible. RGB colorspace is completely different - it represents a different set of colors, including many colors that cannot be printed on paper (especially with the 4 standard process inks), and omitting many that can. You can send an RGB file and let your output device translate it, but you will get flat and lifeless color compared to what you'd get with proper CMYK processing. As a consequence, GIMP is only useful for web and other onscreen stuff, or amateur print work.
Believe it or not, sometimes professionals actually do know what they're talking about and aren't just blowing smoke as part of a global conspiracy against the GIMP.
Plenty of other Windows drawing apps behave like that. It's how they deal with the huge number of tools in the palette.
Also remember that it was originally a Mac app, and Adobe initially had to win those users over to the Windows version, so maintaining interface consistency across platforms was arguably more important to them than respecting inadequate Windows customs.
While GIMP's interface is truly awful, that's not what kills it, and that's not the most important reason why he ultimately finds it to be a failure.
What sucks the most about GIMP is the quality of its output. The anti-aliasing sucks, the text rendering is abysmal, it can't deal with real-world output requirements, Microsoft Paint puts its color handling to shame.
I've tried the GIMP. I've tried it lots of times. I run Linux on servers and desktops and it works great for me. But when I have to do graphics work, there's no substitute for the Mac, in large part because the applications just aren't there on Linux.
Honestly, give Freehand a try. It kicks CorelDraw's ass and then wipes up the floor with Illustrator (winner of Worst Interface Ever award, the GIMP of vector drawing programs).
Virtually nonexistent?
I've been surfing at McPherson Square for at least a year and a half. I can think of a dozen corners that have had wifi for a year or more.
So is residential NW DC.
There are only a handful of blocks along the 20-some block walk down 16th St from my place to the White House where I can't get a usable WEP-free signal.
I use joe for several hours every day. It's the first thing I install on any new machine (including my Macs).
I'll use something like BBEdit if I'm going to be doing tons of cutting and pasting. But for 90% of jobs, joe is perfect and the fastest approach.
Also I can set the keybindings to be the same for joe and the Mac's edit widgets, so everything works more or less the same.
I can't believe you wasted your time learning to drive a car when the only thing you can really count on is having your feet available.
Actually even that would be a waste of time ya bum. What if you're paralyzed one day? Why not just focus on learning to drag yourself down the street using your chin?
Are there any MacOS telnet clients that don't pass escape? I've never heard of that.
NCSA Telnet used to intercept control-C, control-S, and control-Q by default and replace them with out-of-band telnet-protocol sequences; perhaps that's what you're thinking of? But that could be fixed in a simple settings dialog.
Remember, a lot of Slashdot readers live in the USA, where this doesn't work.
Come over here and spin the dial if you don't know what I mean.
A BIG adjustment. Remember the inverse square law.
Unfortunately your chicken will cook sooner from the sunlight than from ambient microwave radiation. I'm a little more concerned about our brains, though, which don't need to be piping hot before serving.Thanks for the info. I'll check out the yahoo group. I think it might be time to take the plunge.
How do those ride as compared to a bike with normal-sized wheels? I'm always very jealous when I see people bringing those little things on the train while I have to leave mine locked outside the station, but I worry that the small wheels would make pedaling much less efficient (perhaps due to an imperfect understanding of high-school physics?). I'm a bit tall (195cm) so I already have a hard time finding a bike I can ride comfortably.
Also, can they be brought on a plane as standard, no-extra-charge checked luggage (with a case, of course)?
That's handy; they can just put giant batteries in the parking meters to save the summer's electrical bounty for 6 months.
You don't? What do you lock your bike to?
First of all, I have no idea who Sager is, so I'm not buying one.
Secondly, you haven't met the requirements of the post to which you replied. Throw in gigabit ethernet (without some breakable card sticking out the side), dual-head display capacity (1600x1200 on the external monitor), Firewire 800, and so on, then compare.
Cable and satellite are very different stories. The cable company negotiates an easement and owns the cables. It is generally not possible to pirate their signal without tampering with their equipment. That is clearly a no-no.
However, the satellite signal is being broadcast into my home (and even my skull) without my consent, increasing the level of ambient radiation. If they're going to do that, AND then tell me that I just have to sit there and bathe in their radiation without even being allowed to inspect it as I please, well, common sense is not on their side.
Fact is, they chose - for cost-saving reasons - a distribution method that spreads their signal to non-customers. That's their problem. They can suck up the losses or they can come up with something else, but they sure don't have my support trying to have their cake and eat it too.
It's like putting up a movie screen downtown, rotated at a 90 degree angle, and then trying to bust anyone caught sitting in the park tilting their head without paying the fee.
But not for the reasons you claimed. Had you taken 2 minutes to skim the article, you would see that the reasons the authors found food aid to be unhelpful were:
Nobody (or at least not I) claimed that food aid was the perfect solution to everything. I merely called you on your patronizing and invalid assertion that the reason food aid wouldn't help Ethiopia was because Ethiopians were a bunch of gun-wielding warlord maniacs who would steal it ("siphoned off to raise armies" I believe was your turn of phrase) before it could get to its intended recipients.
Uh huh. And what's my cause?
What are you talking about? He's not the Minister of Food Distribution. He's the head of the School of Information Systems Technology. His job is to help students learn about various aspects of Information Systems Technology, and if these people helped him do that, they've done everyone a favor.
You think every single person in a country should devote 100% of their attention to its single most pressing problem? Doesn't that seem just a little simplistic? Let's apply that to the USA: How about you go tell everyone who's working on crime, AIDS, traffic safety, and toxic waste disposal that instead they have to drop all that - regardless of their interests and skills - and instead deal with heart disease, because that's the number one killer. Sounds like a good plan?
Seems like about what you deserve.
Ethiopia != Somalia.
Ethiopia != Somalia.
Ethiopia != Somalia.
Repeat after me.
Ethiopia != Somalia
Regardless of what you might have seen in movies about other countries, Ethiopia does not have marauding gangs of heavily armed goons wreaking havoc in the streets. It does have a serious underdevelopment problem.
This much is true. But I don't think they're going to want to hear about it from you until you stop patronizing them.
In Iraq, too?
In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's for exactly the same reason.
Lots in other countries too:
% ls /afs
afs.hursley.ibm.com eos.ncsu.edu mcc.ac.gb sfc.keio.ac.jp afs1.scri.fsu.edu es.net md.chalmers.se si.umich.edu alw.nih.gov ethz.ch me.cmu.edu sipb.mit.edu andrew.cmu.edu federation.atd.net meteo.uni-koeln.de slac.stanford.edu anl.gov fh-heilbronn.de mpa-garching.mpg.de sleeper.nsa.hp.com asu.edu fl.mcs.anl.gov msc.cornell.edu spc.uchicago.edu athena.mit.edu fnal.gov msrc.pnl.gov sph.umich.edu bnl.gov geo.uni-koeln.de msu.edu spv.uniroma1.it bp.ncsu.edu glue.umd.edu nada.kth.se stacken.kth.se bu.edu gr.osf.org ncat.edu stat.lsa.umich.edu caspur.it graphics.cornell.edu ncsa.uiuc.edu cats.ucsc.edu hep.net nd.edu cc.keio.ac.jp hephy.at nersc.gov theory.cornell.edu ce.cmu.edu hrzone.th-darmstadt.de net.mit.edu transarc.com cern.ch iastate.edu northstar.dartmouth.edu transarc.ibm.com ciesin.org ibm.uk nrel.gov tu-chemnitz.de cipool.uni-stuttgart.de ifh.de nrlfs1.nrl.navy.mil ualberta.ca citi.umich.edu openafs.org umich.edu club.cc.cmu.edu ihf.uni-stuttgart.de others.chalmers.se umr.edu cmf.nrl.navy.mil ike.uni-stuttgart.de phy.bnl.gov uni-bonn.de cmu.edu in2p3.fr pi.infn.it uni-freiburg.de cs.cmu.edu infn.it pitt.edu uni-hohenheim.de cs.pitt.edu ipp-garching.mpg.de postech.ac.kr uni-mannheim.de cs.unc.edu ipp-hgw.mpg.de pppl.gov unity.ncsu.edu cs.utah.edu ir.stanford.edu psc.edu urz.uni-heidelberg.de cs.washington.edu isi.edu psu.edu urz.uni-magdeburg.de cs.wisc.edu isk.kth.se research.ec.org utah.edu csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de isl.ntt.jp rhic vn.uniroma3.it dapnia.saclay.cea.fr jpl.nasa.gov rhrk.uni-kl.de w3.org desy.de lcp.nrl.navy.mil ri.osf.org wam.umd.edu dis.uniroma1.it le.infn.it rl.ac.uk wu-wien.ac.at dkrz.de lngs.infn.it rose-hulman.edu lrz-muenchen.de rpi.edu zdv.uni-mainz.de ece.cmu.edu lsa.umich.edu rrz.uni-koeln.de zdvpool.uni-tuebingen.de ece.ucdavis.edu rus.uni-stuttgart.de engin.umich.edu mathematik-cip.uni-stuttgart.de rwcp.or.jp engr.wisc.edu mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de rz.uni-jena.de
Sadly, Internet Explorer conceals this very salient difference, so 90% of people have never had the distinction enter their field of consideration.
This makes no sense. DNS propagates on demand only - it's not as if changes suddenly start flowing across the net on their own from high ground.
It doesn't matter where your DNS servers are; there is no "upstream" or "downstream" (except in the special case of a query performed by a user who coincidentally uses your ISP's DNS service, and even that's only relevant with certain configurations at the ISP). There is no appreciable difference in speed of "propagation" between DNS hosted at Network Solutions and DNS hosted on a cable modem in your basement (unless the queries saturate the cable modem link, of course, but then you've got bigger problems).