There is a reason polls are conducted during working hours in the US.
Only in the ass-backwards, backwater states. Too bad there's 49 of them. For those of us living in the lone non-bogus state, we have six weeks to vote instead of six hours.
So you want millions of uninformed uncaring citizens to start determining national policy? The solution is to education people so that they want to vote, not force people to vote on things they know nothing about.
You mean exactly like California? That's 32 million people whose IQ, when added up, equals about 90, and they vote. Remember who elected Reagan? How about Schwartzenegger? Or even every last member of the Californian congress that voted unanimously in the house and senate to screw over every state in a 1000 mile radius by deregulating their electric rates, then refusing to pay?
It makes me glad Excite@Home went under, or I'd probably still be doing tech support for them. Except the predominantly creepy question would have inevitably shifted from "I can't get my porno!" to "I can't get my myspace!"
I'm not sure what a better argument in favor of encouraging ISPs to set up web proxies for customers running adzapper than this (unless we're talking dialup, in which *not* downloading ads really saves on time).
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Oh, and I just googled it. The car company is not "KIA", it's "Kia."
Hyundai mixed-cased it when they bought out KIA. It still has the old (all-caps) spelling on the nameplates found on Hyundai and Daimler built Kias.
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Is there something wrong with the name "KIA" which I'm not kinky enough to be aware of?
KIA is the military abbreviation for a soldier Killed In Action.
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Whoever came up with "GIMP" probably thought it was hilariously funny and that somebody else would have come up with "the real" name for it sometime before it became even slightly popular. That person was wrong on both counts.
Just because my truck was built by KIA doesn't stop the fact it hasn't been killed in action yet in it's 11 years of existence, and that the only shop time it's seen is for routine stuff like oil changes and when some fucktard Californian fails to comprehend that it's physically impossible proceed past a wall of stopped traffic and rear ended it (twice in Oregon, once in New York, once in Alberta, every time by a Californian driver with Cali plates).
Spending time on making up cute marketing names is a total, 100% waste of time. Good products sell and prove themselves. Bad products can give a good name a bad reputation, anyway. Just look at Californians and what they've done to California's reputation.
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Small Cap text
So install a smallcap font
CMYK
Wrong, GIMP has CMYK color modes, and has for years
adjustment layers
Not needed in the GIMP paradigm: All layers can do that anyway
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Patented. You're welcome to convince the developers to extend a source license in perpetuity to the GIMP project.
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I've always seen it (rightly or wrongly) as a tool made by programmers for programmers who want to make/modify and image here and there, but I'd like to be shown to be wrong about this.
What do you have to lose by downloading The GIMP for yourself and posting a followup answer to your own question? Yes, it's a copout answer, on the other hand, I can't directly answer your question without asking the opposite question first: What can Photoshop do that GIMP supposedly can't, and is it really worth spending around a paycheck on it when the GIMP is free?
Just as easy to install, and even the exact same framerate.
I've found, on the same hardware, that GTA: Vice City runs *smoother* with higher graphics settings in Cedega on Linux than natively in Windows. That really surprised me.
the reason you can't use your cell phone at the gas pump is because some years ago, one guy's cell phone battery was loose and there were tiny little sparks between the battery's contact surfaces.
This has been debunked as an urban legend on international television at least once (Mythbusters). The real risk as far as anyone can tell is re-entering or exiting a vehicle after refuelling has commenced, causing a static buildup that was then discharged But we've known this for years. Which is why gas pumps generally say things like, "Do not get in or out of the car while refuelling. Refill fuel cans placed on ground only."
Me, I'm trying to get everyone to use Jabber. Talk about your uphill battles. *sigh*
I just switched, after announcing about two weeks in advance that I would no longer be using the obsolete networks. Most people made the transition, a few dozen took a few weeks before they realized I was serious and made the switch themselves.
Making the switch requires some commitment out front.
Umm, Jabber already did this years ago, and Jabber is also the only open IM network. Really, though, compatability with the now-obsolete closed networks is mostly to help aid transition until your contacts also use Jabber.
A better solution might be some kind of fingerprint reader that generates digitally signed "proof of life" which can be demanded by remote sites.
To record an ad impression? Let me get this straight. You're honestly suggesting that users submit their fingerprint to verify they've seen your ad and you expect people to submit to this? Are you high?
I mean, it's inconvenient, and invasive! Now if you can just find a way to make it really uncomfortable for the user while they're at it and you'll have achieved the prostate-exam trifecta that everybody shoots for when they want to pitch a new product idea.
Why not something more sane like ~/Music/Nine Inch Nails/The Fragile/Right/03-Where is Everybody.ogg and ~/Music/Nine Inch Nails/The Fragile/Right/06-Starfuckers Inc.ogg to begin with and use the ID3 or OGG tag for exactly the use you're trying to squish into a single filename? There isn't an MP3 or Ogg player worth actually owning that can't read the tag, freeing you to use a more portable filename.
On the other hand, Lotus Notes has a long-standing and well-deserved reputation for being a buggy piece of shit. Does any platform really deserve having Notes inflicted upon it?
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If that were true, we would be talking about President Howard Dean and not Bush...
Only in the ass-backwards, backwater states. Too bad there's 49 of them. For those of us living in the lone non-bogus state, we have six weeks to vote instead of six hours.
You mean exactly like California? That's 32 million people whose IQ, when added up, equals about 90, and they vote. Remember who elected Reagan? How about Schwartzenegger? Or even every last member of the Californian congress that voted unanimously in the house and senate to screw over every state in a 1000 mile radius by deregulating their electric rates, then refusing to pay?
Of course they can. They proved it.
It makes me glad Excite@Home went under, or I'd probably still be doing tech support for them. Except the predominantly creepy question would have inevitably shifted from "I can't get my porno!" to "I can't get my myspace!"
I've never seen a star go supernova before. But if it's anything like my old Chevy Nova, it'll light up the night sky!
Is it really an OS if it requires a web browser? I don't know about you, but I expect my OS to do the simple things. Like boot. And manage devices.
Nope, static discharge is the reason. They proved it on Mythbusters (and disproved the cell-phone spark theory).
I'm not sure what a better argument in favor of encouraging ISPs to set up web proxies for customers running adzapper than this (unless we're talking dialup, in which *not* downloading ads really saves on time).
No. The closest they get is mass-market pisswater like PBR, Budweiser, Miller, etc.
Since when is Wal*Mart good for getting laid?
Hyundai mixed-cased it when they bought out KIA. It still has the old (all-caps) spelling on the nameplates found on Hyundai and Daimler built Kias.
KIA is the military abbreviation for a soldier Killed In Action.
Just because my truck was built by KIA doesn't stop the fact it hasn't been killed in action yet in it's 11 years of existence, and that the only shop time it's seen is for routine stuff like oil changes and when some fucktard Californian fails to comprehend that it's physically impossible proceed past a wall of stopped traffic and rear ended it (twice in Oregon, once in New York, once in Alberta, every time by a Californian driver with Cali plates).
Spending time on making up cute marketing names is a total, 100% waste of time. Good products sell and prove themselves. Bad products can give a good name a bad reputation, anyway. Just look at Californians and what they've done to California's reputation.
Small Cap text
So install a smallcap font
CMYK
Wrong, GIMP has CMYK color modes, and has for years
adjustment layers
Not needed in the GIMP paradigm: All layers can do that anyway
Pantone
Patented. You're welcome to convince the developers to extend a source license in perpetuity to the GIMP project.
I've always seen it (rightly or wrongly) as a tool made by programmers for programmers who want to make/modify and image here and there, but I'd like to be shown to be wrong about this.
What do you have to lose by downloading The GIMP for yourself and posting a followup answer to your own question? Yes, it's a copout answer, on the other hand, I can't directly answer your question without asking the opposite question first: What can Photoshop do that GIMP supposedly can't, and is it really worth spending around a paycheck on it when the GIMP is free?
I've found, on the same hardware, that GTA: Vice City runs *smoother* with higher graphics settings in Cedega on Linux than natively in Windows. That really surprised me.
That would be a good thing. Would get some of these morons to hang up and watch the fucking road when they're driving.
This has been debunked as an urban legend on international television at least once (Mythbusters). The real risk as far as anyone can tell is re-entering or exiting a vehicle after refuelling has commenced, causing a static buildup that was then discharged But we've known this for years. Which is why gas pumps generally say things like, "Do not get in or out of the car while refuelling. Refill fuel cans placed on ground only."
I just switched, after announcing about two weeks in advance that I would no longer be using the obsolete networks. Most people made the transition, a few dozen took a few weeks before they realized I was serious and made the switch themselves.
Making the switch requires some commitment out front.
Umm, Jabber already did this years ago, and Jabber is also the only open IM network. Really, though, compatability with the now-obsolete closed networks is mostly to help aid transition until your contacts also use Jabber.
To record an ad impression? Let me get this straight. You're honestly suggesting that users submit their fingerprint to verify they've seen your ad and you expect people to submit to this? Are you high?
I mean, it's inconvenient, and invasive! Now if you can just find a way to make it really uncomfortable for the user while they're at it and you'll have achieved the prostate-exam trifecta that everybody shoots for when they want to pitch a new product idea.
Perhaps you should file a bug report with your file manager's developers. KDE can do it, and it's free.
Why not something more sane like ~/Music/Nine Inch Nails/The Fragile/Right/03-Where is Everybody.ogg and ~/Music/Nine Inch Nails/The Fragile/Right/06-Starfuckers Inc.ogg to begin with and use the ID3 or OGG tag for exactly the use you're trying to squish into a single filename? There isn't an MP3 or Ogg player worth actually owning that can't read the tag, freeing you to use a more portable filename.
On the other hand, Lotus Notes has a long-standing and well-deserved reputation for being a buggy piece of shit. Does any platform really deserve having Notes inflicted upon it?