This is so ridiculous, it's hard to know where to start. But the basic principle is that you're down on this guy because he wasn't greedy. He made enough money to get through life and left it at that. Is that so hard to comprehend?
He also avoided being a hypocrite. His characters were always talking about how bad commercialism had become and how corporations manufactured our culture. So rather than completely sell out so he could have a mansion and a yacht, he chose to maintain his integrity.
It boggles the mind that you can fault the man for this.
Would you call Linus a genius if he accepted the millions I'm sure M$ would throw his way to stop working on Linux?
Personally, I hope unitedmedia gets all over his ass about this. He's worried about Microsoft's trademark? No one who respects the integrity of C&H or who's ever read Waterson's comments in the C&H 10th anniversary treasury would even think about supporting crap like this.
I would say that there is definitely some truth to the accusations. However, there are a LOT of posters on slashdot. If you just go by the ones that make the most noise or post the best flamebait, you're bound to get a bad impression. I think we're a lot more of a diverse community than that. Shoot, some/.'ers even like Windows!
Hmm, I guess I'd just chalk that up to outright stupidity. Unless the company was around years before the Taco Bell restaurants and actually used the abbreviation TacoBell at that time, it's just plain stupid to use "tacobell" as your name. However, if this wasn't the case and the company had been around and using that abbreviation before Taco Bell came on the scene, ignore the next paragraph.
It's analogous to me setting up a company called Wallace Martins and trying to use WalMart as an abbreviation. The only reason said abbrevation would come to mind is because of the (trademarked) company name being so popular. Anyone who couldn't see that shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, much less hold a domain name.
Personally, I would have the monitors be facing in such a way so that a number of people would be able to see what someone was looking at, so hopefully the shame factor would prevent library resources being used for less-than erudite purposes.
Wonderful solution. There go the support sites for everything from sexual abuse to herpes.
That's from PSP 4. We have 5, but they screwed up the UI a bit. A couple of quirks that pop into mind: the save format drop down box lists files alphabatized by some textual description like "Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format (*.gif)" and "Window or OS/2 Bitmap (*.bmp)" instead of the old listings like "GIF - Compuserve...etc." and "BMP - Windows...etc.". The other thing I can think of is how it doesn't default your format to SaveAs to the last format use for saving. Changes like these serve no purpose other than to make it more difficult to use. I'll stick with v4 until it won't work for something I need to do (don't actually need to use tiffs).
I think pdf would probably take off if there was something like a libpdf. As it is now, Adobe is keeping a pretty tight grip on the specs and forcing you to use their programs.
Wasn't there an alien pet critter in the TV show? I believe it was basically a monkey with alumninum foil over its ears. I remember them mentioning it on the LOS DVD commentary.
Not to stick up for 'doze, but I believe anti-aliased fonts can be turned on/off with Display CP->Plus!(!!!). There is an option for "Smooth edges of screen fonts." Might try fiddling with that.
If you take a 24bit color image with a high resolution and save one as PNG with compression and another as lower quality JPG, the JPG will (in most cases) be much smaller.
But it IS lossy. So you can't iterate through the process of editing/saving without screwing it up. JPG is only really appropriate as the final product to show users with low bandwidth connections.
However, this is only in regards to images like photos. If you make an 8bit image using PNG, it will probably beat JPG. This is especially true for things like line art and graphics. You don't want to use JPG for stuff like that. The loss in quality will be very noticeable. PNG is good replacement for GIF in that respect (especially considering the patent issues).
Do basically, PNG replaces GIF nicely in pretty much all cases and JPG in many cases (or all cases if you have the storage space/bandwidth).
Hmm, not that I've experienced. I've always had problems with tiff. I think this is due to poor or incomplete implementations in a lot of programs. I can see how if you're using something pricey like photoshop, it might not have a problem with them.
Looking through the Paint Shop Pro helpfile, I see there are quite a few kinds of compression:
Paint Shop Pro, for one, doesn't handle TIFFs well. TIFFs I've saved with Photoshop always crash PSP.
Maybe TIFF is a solid, portable format, but implementations don't seem to take advantage of that. Maybe TIFF is more closed or less well documented than PNG. For the record, I've never had a portability problem with PNG.
Personally, I think PNG is nifty. It's a hell of a lot better than GIF (24bit images, anyone?), and it's non-lossy. I started scanning a large library of family photos in, and I wanted something non-lossy. It also avoids problems with things like TIFF, which seem to have so many variations that a tiff created in one program usually doesn't work in another.
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This is so ridiculous, it's hard to know where to start. But the basic principle is that you're down on this guy because he wasn't greedy. He made enough money to get through life and left it at that. Is that so hard to comprehend?
He also avoided being a hypocrite. His characters were always talking about how bad commercialism had become and how corporations manufactured our culture. So rather than completely sell out so he could have a mansion and a yacht, he chose to maintain his integrity.
It boggles the mind that you can fault the man for this.
Would you call Linus a genius if he accepted the millions I'm sure M$ would throw his way to stop working on Linux?
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Personally, I hope unitedmedia gets all over his ass about this. He's worried about Microsoft's trademark? No one who respects the integrity of C&H or who's ever read Waterson's comments in the C&H 10th anniversary treasury would even think about supporting crap like this.
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I would say that there is definitely some truth to the accusations. However, there are a LOT of posters on slashdot. If you just go by the ones that make the most noise or post the best flamebait, you're bound to get a bad impression. I think we're a lot more of a diverse community than that. Shoot, some
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Hmm, I guess I'd just chalk that up to outright stupidity. Unless the company was around years before the Taco Bell restaurants and actually used the abbreviation TacoBell at that time, it's just plain stupid to use "tacobell" as your name. However, if this wasn't the case and the company had been around and using that abbreviation before Taco Bell came on the scene, ignore the next paragraph.
It's analogous to me setting up a company called Wallace Martins and trying to use WalMart as an abbreviation. The only reason said abbrevation would come to mind is because of the (trademarked) company name being so popular. Anyone who couldn't see that shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, much less hold a domain name.
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Personally, I would have the monitors be facing in such a way so that a number of people would be able to see what someone was looking at, so hopefully the shame factor would prevent library resources being used for less-than erudite purposes.
Wonderful solution. There go the support sites for everything from sexual abuse to herpes.
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That's from PSP 4. We have 5, but they screwed up the UI a bit. A couple of quirks that pop into mind: the save format drop down box lists files alphabatized by some textual description like "Compuserve Graphics Interchange Format (*.gif)" and "Window or OS/2 Bitmap (*.bmp)" instead of the old listings like "GIF - Compuserve...etc." and "BMP - Windows...etc.". The other thing I can think of is how it doesn't default your format to SaveAs to the last format use for saving. Changes like these serve no purpose other than to make it more difficult to use. I'll stick with v4 until it won't work for something I need to do (don't actually need to use tiffs).
I think pdf would probably take off if there was something like a libpdf. As it is now, Adobe is keeping a pretty tight grip on the specs and forcing you to use their programs.
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Wasn't there an alien pet critter in the TV show? I believe it was basically a monkey with alumninum foil over its ears. I remember them mentioning it on the LOS DVD commentary.
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Not to stick up for 'doze, but I believe anti-aliased fonts can be turned on/off with Display CP->Plus!(!!!). There is an option for "Smooth edges of screen fonts." Might try fiddling with that.
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What part of "pretty much" was unclear?
Anyway, as far as I'm concerned, GIF animation can be flushed down the crapper. 99.99% of the uses simply annoy and irritate.
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If you take a 24bit color image with a high resolution and save one as PNG with compression and another as lower quality JPG, the JPG will (in most cases) be much smaller.
But it IS lossy. So you can't iterate through the process of editing/saving without screwing it up. JPG is only really appropriate as the final product to show users with low bandwidth connections.
However, this is only in regards to images like photos. If you make an 8bit image using PNG, it will probably beat JPG. This is especially true for things like line art and graphics. You don't want to use JPG for stuff like that. The loss in quality will be very noticeable. PNG is good replacement for GIF in that respect (especially considering the patent issues).
Do basically, PNG replaces GIF nicely in pretty much all cases and JPG in many cases (or all cases if you have the storage space/bandwidth).
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Hmm, not that I've experienced. I've always had problems with tiff. I think this is due to poor or incomplete implementations in a lot of programs. I can see how if you're using something pricey like photoshop, it might not have a problem with them.
Looking through the Paint Shop Pro helpfile, I see there are quite a few kinds of compression:
TIFF Huffman compressed Aldus Corporation
TIFF No compression Aldus Corporation
TIFF Pack bits compressed Aldus Corporation
TIFF LZW compressed Aldus Corporation
TIFF Fax Group 3 compressed Aldus Corporation
TIFF Fax Group 4 compressed Aldus Corporation
Paint Shop Pro, for one, doesn't handle TIFFs well. TIFFs I've saved with Photoshop always crash PSP.
Maybe TIFF is a solid, portable format, but implementations don't seem to take advantage of that. Maybe TIFF is more closed or less well documented than PNG. For the record, I've never had a portability problem with PNG.
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Personally, I think PNG is nifty. It's a hell of a lot better than GIF (24bit images, anyone?), and it's non-lossy. I started scanning a large library of family photos in, and I wanted something non-lossy. It also avoids problems with things like TIFF, which seem to have so many variations that a tiff created in one program usually doesn't work in another.
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