One thing I would really really like is if the tool palette hotkeys were mapped to the same tools in the GIMP as they are in Photoshop.
So do it, then. Open up a new image, right click,
go to Tools -> Select Tools -> Fuzzy Select, and
without releasing the mouse button, press your
desired hotkey combination. Voila. That hotkey will
now choose fuzzy select from that point onwards.
You can do the same for all the tools, until you
have the desired hotkeys configured.
Personally, I find Photoshop is lacking the
right hotkeys, and I'm unaware of any way to
reconfigure them so that they're more like Gimp...
But it is not as easy to use under Windows because all applications have to share the same workspace.
Even without multiple workspaces, it's still better
than an MDI application. Now arguably, there are
improvements to be made. My other third absolutely
hates The GIMP's user interface,
and considers it unusable, for a
number of quite easily fixable reasons (tools not
on a toolbar, no default blank image). One of
these days, I'll get around to coding up her suggested changes, and see how the community in
general likes them. I'll just try and avoid the
flamage that occurred last time someone tried
that (with KIMP, which actually had other
problems apart from the different interface).
Personally, I like GIMP's interface. But I seem
to be in the minority (I can't see why -- it's
perfectly intuitive to me).
Err...The GIMP doesn't spawn separate toolbars for each image. It didn't in 1.2 and it didn't in 1.0 (Which is many, many years old).
For those of us with longer memories, it didn't in 0.99, it didn't in 0.54 (the last Motif version) and
it didn't in whatever the previous version that I used was (0.38? I can't remember; it was a long
time ago now!). In
fact, I think I can quite comprehensively state that
Gimp has never behaved like this...
What is wrong with the standard K window manager on KDE?
If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand the
answer anyway.
You can whine about "choice", but Id rather have one fucntional flawless Window manager than 400 buggy ones that do things differently.
Fine. Let's all standardise on FVWM, then. Because
I've yet to see another windows manager that's
either as fully featured or as bug free. The
various modern window managers don't meet my definition of "functional". They're all too
restrictive in one way or another. None of them
give me to flexibility that FVWM offers. The
price of that is a non-trivial configuration
language. That's a price I'm happy to pay. I also
accept that not everyone is, which is why I
wouldn't recommend FVWM to the average user.
Which is why alternatives exist...
I've only seen that ad once, and it was in a cinema. I've never seen it come on TV, and I even told a few people about it, but I've never seen it come round, or heard back that it has ever been on TV.
Sun is strategically focused on delivering choice and performance to our customers, offering general purpose x86 servers that can run
Solaris SPARC [...] operating systems.
An x86 machine that that can run Solaris SPARC operating systems? Clever...:-)
There don't appear to be any technological barriers to just accepting
the PC and reintalling the OS with something sane. Contractually,
however, you're agreeing to watch the ads, so if you're not doing so,
I suspect they'll just come and take the PC back. Also note that the
PC remains the property of Metronomy, and is loaned to the end user
for a 3 year period, thus they're well within their rights to just
end the loan period early.
I like that... "shipped with" -- back when I ran a BBS, I didn't even know that there was such a concept as giving money for software.
Obviously, I meant "shipped with" in the sense of
"made a stable build available for download".
Interestingly, lots of people here have been
talking about kermit with reference to the
BBS world.
In the UK, BBSes were virtually non-existant,
almost certainly because they were prohibitively
expensive -- we didn't (and still don't) have
free local phone calls. My use of kermit was
solely for downloading stuff from the Internet.
I used archie to tell
me where to find files, I downloaded
them to a unix server with ftp, and then used
kermit to get them down onto my Amiga...
Kermit's downfall was the defaults with which it shipped. People
(myself included) switched to zmodem simply
because by default it gave
faster transfer speeds. Yes, by messing around with window sizes,
you could get just similar performance out of kermit. But no one
could be bothered when zmodem "just worked". To be fair, kermit
had a different set of design goals, which probably influenced
the default settings. But IMHO they should have shipped kermit
with default settings optimized for the common case, rather than
for older, slower connections. Oh, and not being fully open source
really didn't help its cause, either...
There are now users who demand a single app that is completely integrated.
Rubbish. That sort of user wouldn't even know the
difference. It's all down to presentation. If you
can present a bunch of apps so that they work
together seamlessly, then the end user may as well
think of them as a single app. That's the direction
in which we should be heading. But too many people
are too eager to clone the mistakes that Microsoft
have made instead...
It's more bloated than emacs. And that's saying
something. But more than that, it's the wrong
approach. The world doens't need a huge integrated
app that tries to do aeverything under the sun.
We need small, well desgined apps that do exactly
what they say on the tin, and that work well
together. The GNOME project is in dire need of a
calendaring tool, but after they discontinued
gnome-pim, Evolution is the only option. I already
have a mail program, and I'm not about to switch
(Evolution doesn't give me the functionality I
need, for a start). Unfortunately, there's no way
to get at the calendaring without taking the whole
lot. And the calendaring doesn't seem to work
anyway... it doesn't give me a popup when a
meeting is due. Which makes it pretty useless:-(
Doesn't it take like 30-35 years from something tragic to become truly funny?
Nope. Q: What does NASA stand for? A: Need Another
Seven Astronauts. Heard the day after Challenger.
Made me laugh, anyway... In general, finding humour
in tragedy is just part of human nature. Unless
you're one of those directly affected, then most
people will be amused by a well thought out joke,
no matter how tragic the incident to which
it may refer.
The Disney (and Universal and one or two other studios) whose discs I have for my kid prevent you from hitting skip or menu on EVERYTHING. FBI warnings, ads for other movies, ads for the current movie, ads for the soundtrack for the current movie (sensing a trend?).
Dunno about in the US, but here in the UK, DVD
players are relatively
widely available that ignore the
"don't skip" instruction on the disc. Not just from
obscure Taiwanese manufacturers, either, but from
the major players -- Panasonic, Pioneer, and
even Sony!
What it seems to come down to is that Norwegians (and probably Europeans in general) seem to think it is possible to develop a system that can be based on absolute competence of the government. Americans hold no such belief, and prefer to err on the side of the individual.
Nice idea in priciple. But it seems to me that it
doesn't hold up in practice, and the constitutional
rights of the individual are being eroded over
time as the courts rule more and more blatantly
wrong things to be not in violation of the
constitution. The USA has a right to be smug for
having the foresight to draft a constitution
designed to protect citizens from their own
government, something that to the best of my
knowledge is unique. I just fear that modern
society will brush away some, and eventually
most, of those rights in pursuit
of the almighty dollar. We can hope that the
ACLU and similar bodies will maintain enough
support to successfully challenge legislation
as appropriate, but I'm not convinced that they
will be able to do so. Apathy is a powerful ally
to the unscrupulous...
it also limits its users from an out-of-the-box KDE and its thousands of apps choice
You're looking at it from the wrong perspective.
The corporate desktop is not a place to be giving
the user thousands of applications from which to
choose. Nor even alternate desktops. It's about
giving them the tools they need to do the job.
Locked down, so the user can't tinker with it
and screw things up.
Including KDE would
have been a terrible choice, no matter which side
of the KDE/GNOME divide you fall. Sun need to
provice accessiblity. GNOME gives that, and KDE
doesn't (yet). So they have to ship GNOME. So
their choices are to either ship GNOME or to ship
both. For the corporate market, they definitely
made the right decision on that score.
The part about this story that gets to me is that the researcher didn't alert Microsoft before posting to a public mailing list.
Yep, not ideal. But it'll be interesting to see whether MS's claims
of having a faster response time to security incidents that the Linux
community stands up. Will they have a patch available withing the next
day or so? You can guarantee that the Mozilla
or Konqueror communities would have in the same
circumstances...
Best selling game != best game. Admittedly, the
point of this exercise was probably
to increase sales, so
on that front, it's failed... Also note that his
formula reuses symbols ("C" is both competitive
factor, and complexity), and he parenthesizes
items for no apparently good reason when the
operators are commutative. Is he just trying to
come up with an impressive looking formula to
get a newsworthy story and bring his store some
publicity? On that front, he's succeeded...
"USians" is most definitely not a reasonable abbreviation. It's akin to calling someone from the United Kingdom a "UKian" instead of British
Yes! That's why we do it.
Although actually for the exact opposite
reason. USian implies a resident of the US, which
covers a smaller geographical area than America.
UKian implies a resident of the UK, which covers a
larger geographical area than Britain. You'll find
that UKian is used just as frequently as USian
online, and for the same reason -- they're both
more finely grained than American and British
respectively. The reason you don't see PRCian is
that China is the geographical area in which the
Chinese people live. The same isn't true of the
UK or the US. Thus they're reasonable abbreviations. Live with it.
Perfect. I might even consider getting one then.
I've been looking for a dual head ATI card for
a while that supports 2 x VGA. I don't have a DVI
screen, and don't wish to put up with the inferior
quality that a flat screen gives. So far, I'm
driving my CRTs with a Matrox G450, but I'd like
something a bit faster. To date, most Radeons have
only been 1 VGA and 1 DVI...
So you thought you'd submit a story to Slashdot to
get some visitors to your site. Well done.
Yes, it's a cheap way to get some publicity for
a vaguely tech related site. But didn't it occur to
you to ensure it could survive the slashdotting
before you submitted the story?
while there are a couple of minor sequences that don't feel "right"
That'd be an understatement[1]. Try wholesale plot
rewrites (no Huorns, Elven presence at The Hornburg,
Aragorn's cliff/warg farce to get more Liv Tyler
screen time). Add in wanton character assassination
(Faramir, Gilmi and to an extent,
Theoden, to name a few of the
more obvious ones), and you have departures from
the book that are completely unjustified, and
for me, signficantly detract from the overall
experience. No, they're not justified by the
"film != book" argument, either.
And don't even get me started
on the whole shield surfing thing...
[1] FotR had several sequences that weren't
right, and deviated from the book in a number of
way that I wasn't happy about. But none of them
were significant enough to detract from the film,
which I thoroughly enjoyed. The same wasn't true
of TTT, though, where the changes were gratuitous,
unwarranted, and significant, all of which made
for a poor film (for those familiar with the
book, at least).
I wonder if Return of the King will truly earn it, as it looks like it will deviate from the book even more than The Two Towers
Agreed. The Two Towers was probably the most
disappointing film I've seen in the last 10 years.
After FotR, I had high hopes for TTT, only to see
Peter Jackson make an ass of himself, and trash
what had the promise to be an excellent trilogy.
I'll go and see RotK, but I'm not expecting much.
From the trailers at least, it looks like it won't
be quite as dire as TTT. But I'm not expecting a
really good film.
Slashdot Mirror
So do it, then. Open up a new image, right click, go to Tools -> Select Tools -> Fuzzy Select, and without releasing the mouse button, press your desired hotkey combination. Voila. That hotkey will now choose fuzzy select from that point onwards. You can do the same for all the tools, until you have the desired hotkeys configured.
Personally, I find Photoshop is lacking the right hotkeys, and I'm unaware of any way to reconfigure them so that they're more like Gimp...
Even without multiple workspaces, it's still better than an MDI application. Now arguably, there are improvements to be made. My other third absolutely hates The GIMP's user interface, and considers it unusable, for a number of quite easily fixable reasons (tools not on a toolbar, no default blank image). One of these days, I'll get around to coding up her suggested changes, and see how the community in general likes them. I'll just try and avoid the flamage that occurred last time someone tried that (with KIMP, which actually had other problems apart from the different interface). Personally, I like GIMP's interface. But I seem to be in the minority (I can't see why -- it's perfectly intuitive to me).
For those of us with longer memories, it didn't in 0.99, it didn't in 0.54 (the last Motif version) and it didn't in whatever the previous version that I used was (0.38? I can't remember; it was a long time ago now!). In fact, I think I can quite comprehensively state that Gimp has never behaved like this...
If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand the answer anyway.
You can whine about "choice", but Id rather have one fucntional flawless Window manager than 400 buggy ones that do things differently.
Fine. Let's all standardise on FVWM, then. Because I've yet to see another windows manager that's either as fully featured or as bug free. The various modern window managers don't meet my definition of "functional". They're all too restrictive in one way or another. None of them give me to flexibility that FVWM offers. The price of that is a non-trivial configuration language. That's a price I'm happy to pay. I also accept that not everyone is, which is why I wouldn't recommend FVWM to the average user. Which is why alternatives exist...
It's available at http://www.thenumber118118.com/flash/video/hondaad .mpg
An x86 machine that that can run Solaris SPARC operating systems? Clever... :-)
There don't appear to be any technological barriers to just accepting the PC and reintalling the OS with something sane. Contractually, however, you're agreeing to watch the ads, so if you're not doing so, I suspect they'll just come and take the PC back. Also note that the PC remains the property of Metronomy, and is loaned to the end user for a 3 year period, thus they're well within their rights to just end the loan period early.
Obviously, I meant "shipped with" in the sense of "made a stable build available for download". Interestingly, lots of people here have been talking about kermit with reference to the BBS world. In the UK, BBSes were virtually non-existant, almost certainly because they were prohibitively expensive -- we didn't (and still don't) have free local phone calls. My use of kermit was solely for downloading stuff from the Internet. I used archie to tell me where to find files, I downloaded them to a unix server with ftp, and then used kermit to get them down onto my Amiga...
Kermit's downfall was the defaults with which it shipped. People (myself included) switched to zmodem simply because by default it gave faster transfer speeds. Yes, by messing around with window sizes, you could get just similar performance out of kermit. But no one could be bothered when zmodem "just worked". To be fair, kermit had a different set of design goals, which probably influenced the default settings. But IMHO they should have shipped kermit with default settings optimized for the common case, rather than for older, slower connections. Oh, and not being fully open source really didn't help its cause, either...
Rubbish. That sort of user wouldn't even know the difference. It's all down to presentation. If you can present a bunch of apps so that they work together seamlessly, then the end user may as well think of them as a single app. That's the direction in which we should be heading. But too many people are too eager to clone the mistakes that Microsoft have made instead...
It's more bloated than emacs. And that's saying something. But more than that, it's the wrong approach. The world doens't need a huge integrated app that tries to do aeverything under the sun. We need small, well desgined apps that do exactly what they say on the tin, and that work well together. The GNOME project is in dire need of a calendaring tool, but after they discontinued gnome-pim, Evolution is the only option. I already have a mail program, and I'm not about to switch (Evolution doesn't give me the functionality I need, for a start). Unfortunately, there's no way to get at the calendaring without taking the whole lot. And the calendaring doesn't seem to work anyway... it doesn't give me a popup when a meeting is due. Which makes it pretty useless :-(
Nope. Q: What does NASA stand for? A: Need Another Seven Astronauts. Heard the day after Challenger. Made me laugh, anyway... In general, finding humour in tragedy is just part of human nature. Unless you're one of those directly affected, then most people will be amused by a well thought out joke, no matter how tragic the incident to which it may refer.
Dunno about in the US, but here in the UK, DVD players are relatively widely available that ignore the "don't skip" instruction on the disc. Not just from obscure Taiwanese manufacturers, either, but from the major players -- Panasonic, Pioneer, and even Sony!
Nice idea in priciple. But it seems to me that it doesn't hold up in practice, and the constitutional rights of the individual are being eroded over time as the courts rule more and more blatantly wrong things to be not in violation of the constitution. The USA has a right to be smug for having the foresight to draft a constitution designed to protect citizens from their own government, something that to the best of my knowledge is unique. I just fear that modern society will brush away some, and eventually most, of those rights in pursuit of the almighty dollar. We can hope that the ACLU and similar bodies will maintain enough support to successfully challenge legislation as appropriate, but I'm not convinced that they will be able to do so. Apathy is a powerful ally to the unscrupulous...
You're looking at it from the wrong perspective. The corporate desktop is not a place to be giving the user thousands of applications from which to choose. Nor even alternate desktops. It's about giving them the tools they need to do the job. Locked down, so the user can't tinker with it and screw things up. Including KDE would have been a terrible choice, no matter which side of the KDE/GNOME divide you fall. Sun need to provice accessiblity. GNOME gives that, and KDE doesn't (yet). So they have to ship GNOME. So their choices are to either ship GNOME or to ship both. For the corporate market, they definitely made the right decision on that score.
Ahem... being the pedant that I am:
I suppose you might sneak through on a technicality, being resident in GB, if not exactly native... :-)
How are you doing anyway?
Yep, not ideal. But it'll be interesting to see whether MS's claims of having a faster response time to security incidents that the Linux community stands up. Will they have a patch available withing the next day or so? You can guarantee that the Mozilla or Konqueror communities would have in the same circumstances...
Best selling game != best game. Admittedly, the point of this exercise was probably to increase sales, so on that front, it's failed... Also note that his formula reuses symbols ("C" is both competitive factor, and complexity), and he parenthesizes items for no apparently good reason when the operators are commutative. Is he just trying to come up with an impressive looking formula to get a newsworthy story and bring his store some publicity? On that front, he's succeeded...
Yes! That's why we do it. Although actually for the exact opposite reason. USian implies a resident of the US, which covers a smaller geographical area than America. UKian implies a resident of the UK, which covers a larger geographical area than Britain. You'll find that UKian is used just as frequently as USian online, and for the same reason -- they're both more finely grained than American and British respectively. The reason you don't see PRCian is that China is the geographical area in which the Chinese people live. The same isn't true of the UK or the US. Thus they're reasonable abbreviations. Live with it.
Perfect. I might even consider getting one then. I've been looking for a dual head ATI card for a while that supports 2 x VGA. I don't have a DVI screen, and don't wish to put up with the inferior quality that a flat screen gives. So far, I'm driving my CRTs with a Matrox G450, but I'd like something a bit faster. To date, most Radeons have only been 1 VGA and 1 DVI...
So you thought you'd submit a story to Slashdot to get some visitors to your site. Well done. Yes, it's a cheap way to get some publicity for a vaguely tech related site. But didn't it occur to you to ensure it could survive the slashdotting before you submitted the story?
That'd be an understatement[1]. Try wholesale plot rewrites (no Huorns, Elven presence at The Hornburg, Aragorn's cliff/warg farce to get more Liv Tyler screen time). Add in wanton character assassination (Faramir, Gilmi and to an extent, Theoden, to name a few of the more obvious ones), and you have departures from the book that are completely unjustified, and for me, signficantly detract from the overall experience. No, they're not justified by the "film != book" argument, either. And don't even get me started on the whole shield surfing thing...
[1] FotR had several sequences that weren't right, and deviated from the book in a number of way that I wasn't happy about. But none of them were significant enough to detract from the film, which I thoroughly enjoyed. The same wasn't true of TTT, though, where the changes were gratuitous, unwarranted, and significant, all of which made for a poor film (for those familiar with the book, at least).
Actually, I did. Yeah, it wasn't great, but my expectations had already been lowered by Reloaded :-)
Agreed. The Two Towers was probably the most disappointing film I've seen in the last 10 years. After FotR, I had high hopes for TTT, only to see Peter Jackson make an ass of himself, and trash what had the promise to be an excellent trilogy. I'll go and see RotK, but I'm not expecting much. From the trailers at least, it looks like it won't be quite as dire as TTT. But I'm not expecting a really good film.
All the top of the pack human players use neural networks. Your point?