That's official GIMP documentation? Bloody hell, that's bad. Apart from anything else, that's a pretty annoying way to draw lines.
I've used GIMP for ages and never realised you could use shift for drawing straight lines. In every other graphics application, shift means "limit drawing to 90/45 degree lines" not "draw line". Sarcastic documentation covering a point that is not easily discoverable and non-standard is not a good sign of the GIMP team's attitude to their users.
This is standard game-company practice. They try to fuzz the issue by providing all sorts of potential fixes to delay people while they get a patch sorted. A couple of examples: Battlefield 1942 kept dropping players from servers in the first release version. All sorts of strange 'fixes' including changing MTUs or NAT forwarding settings were released. Everyone spends hours fiddling, because the problem is "their fault". Next patch release, the problems are miraculously gone. Mechcommander 2 had a similar stuttering bug to this and the proposed solutions included things like "defrag your hard disk" (although there was no hard disk access during the stuttering) or "increase virtual memory" despite the fact that the behaviour occured on systems with large amounts of memory as well.
Anything prior to 1.0 final was a beta release: of course upgrading from a beta is going to be more complex as major code changes are still being made.
Doesn't the mac have a kind of "sheet of glass" model for applications? So it behaves as if each application is stuck on its own sheet of glass, stacked on the desktop, and you choose which one to bring to the front - so that clicking on any window in an app brings up all the application's windows?
The fact is that Firefox only cuts the mustard as a modern browser because of its extensions (...
Without these missing extensions (for example one called autohide which facilitates kiosk browsing), Firefox is, in my opinion, a long way behind some of the IE-based browser
Is he saying Firefox doesn't have these "missing" extensions? Or that he doesn't know how to install them? Or is he saying "if I refuse to install any of the functionality of Firefox, it doesn't have much functionality"?
AFAIK, the cameras spotted the guy who climbed up Buckingham palace before he got too far, but fortunately for him the guards with assault rifles and submachine guns decided it was a peaceful protest and let him carry on. If he hadn't been a white middle-aged man, I'm not sure he would have got so far.
Don't forget that you can recover some of the energy when the elavator goes back down. Not all of it, of course, as presumably you're launching something at the top.
I think Intel would kill to have itanic be as successful as the Pentium Pro. It was the core of their best selling processors for like seven years or more(PPro,P2,P3,Celeron1+2,P-M).
You can hardly blame them for selling out to AOL : they sold for $100 million, for god's sake. That's what - one or two *millenia* on a developer's salary. I mean, I have open source principles, but if somebody offered me more money than I was going to earn in the next thousand years then it's "Screw you Stallman, I'm going to Hawai".
Exactly. I was playing on Tobruk the other day as allied. We lost every spawn and were messaging the two remaining Allied players constantly to capture an objective so we could fight back.
What did they do? Sit around the Axis uncappable base as snipers trying to spawn camp, oblivious to both the fact that there no Axis were going to spawn because noone else was killing them, and the constant stream of flames directed at them over the chat.
I try to pretend that I don't care about my stats in BF1942 and that I "play for the team", but I can't help sneaking a peek every so often. The problems with stats in BF1942 are that many people play for purely for stats, doing things like sitting back on the wrong side of the river in Battle of the Bulge in a Tiger, shelling the allied spawns and not actually capturing flags.
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That's official GIMP documentation? Bloody hell, that's bad. Apart from anything else, that's a pretty annoying way to draw lines.
I've used GIMP for ages and never realised you could use shift for drawing straight lines. In every other graphics application, shift means "limit drawing to 90/45 degree lines" not "draw line". Sarcastic documentation covering a point that is not easily discoverable and non-standard is not a good sign of the GIMP team's attitude to their users.
The company pays competitive wages for the Midwest region, he said.
Doesn't the very fact that he can't fill the position mean he is *not* offering a competitive wage?
This is standard game-company practice. They try to fuzz the issue by providing all sorts of potential fixes to delay people while they get a patch sorted.
A couple of examples: Battlefield 1942 kept dropping players from servers in the first release version. All sorts of strange 'fixes' including changing MTUs or NAT forwarding settings were released. Everyone spends hours fiddling, because the problem is "their fault". Next patch release, the problems are miraculously gone.
Mechcommander 2 had a similar stuttering bug to this and the proposed solutions included things like "defrag your hard disk" (although there was no hard disk access during the stuttering) or "increase virtual memory" despite the fact that the behaviour occured on systems with large amounts of memory as well.
Anything prior to 1.0 final was a beta release: of course upgrading from a beta is going to be more complex as major code changes are still being made.
You just made GIMP twice as usable for me - thanks for pointing that out. It's now like an improved version of the Photoshop behaviour. Fantastic!
You can measure the angle between the actual horizontal and the line you want to be horizontal with the measuring tool and then rotate by this angle.
Of course, photoshop handles this better by making the previously measured angle the default in the rotation tool when you bring it up.
Doesn't the mac have a kind of "sheet of glass" model for applications? So it behaves as if each application is stuck on its own sheet of glass, stacked on the desktop, and you choose which one to bring to the front - so that clicking on any window in an app brings up all the application's windows?
That would be my ideal GIMP behaviour, anyway.
Improved ability to copy and paste between GIMP and other applications, including OpenOffice and Abiword.
Yes! The number of times I've seen Linux newbies ask "Why can't I copy and paste from GIMP" is huge. Looks to be a great release
OK, I should learn to read. Still, the extensions are released by different teams and will be updated soon, I'm sure.
Ignore me.
I don't understand that inquirer letter:
The fact is that Firefox only cuts the mustard as a modern browser because of its extensions (...
Without these missing extensions (for example one called autohide which facilitates kiosk browsing), Firefox is, in my opinion, a long way behind some of the IE-based browser
Is he saying Firefox doesn't have these "missing" extensions? Or that he doesn't know how to install them? Or is he saying "if I refuse to install any of the functionality of Firefox, it doesn't have much functionality"?
I can't seem to find the source code on that site. Is there an opera-dev site somewhere, or do I need to use anonymous CVS to get it?
careful, you'll advise yourself out of a job!
POSE requires a Palm ROM to run and doesn't support PalmOS 5 or greater. It's also very slow and buggy (on Linux, at least).
How many times is the VHS/beta battle going to be misused as an example of better technology winning?
VHS won because it could fit a film on one tape while beta couldn't.
AFAIK, the cameras spotted the guy who climbed up Buckingham palace before he got too far, but fortunately for him the guards with assault rifles and submachine guns decided it was a peaceful protest and let him carry on.
If he hadn't been a white middle-aged man, I'm not sure he would have got so far.
Mr Blunkett later said he had no loyalty cards himself and had borrowed the Nectar card to illustrate his point.
Somebody in his staff missed a golden opportunity for a practical joke.
Don't forget that you can recover some of the energy when the elavator goes back down. Not all of it, of course, as presumably you're launching something at the top.
I think Intel would kill to have itanic be as successful as the Pentium Pro. It was the core of their best selling processors for like seven years or more(PPro,P2,P3,Celeron1+2,P-M).
It's the EU Working Time Directive, which limits working hours to 48 hours/week.
IIRC, employees can sign a waiver of their rights under the Directive, but it can't be made a condition of employment to sign.
Personally, if I work more than the standard 37.5 hours I fall asleep on my keyboard.
So take them to an industrial tribunal for breaking employment laws.
So that's why EA games are buggy pieces of crap.
This is seriously illegal, right? Are there really that many game programmers and so few jobs that they can keep this going?
You can hardly blame them for selling out to AOL : they sold for $100 million, for god's sake. That's what - one or two *millenia* on a developer's salary.
I mean, I have open source principles, but if somebody offered me more money than I was going to earn in the next thousand years then it's "Screw you Stallman, I'm going to Hawai".
Exactly. I was playing on Tobruk the other day as allied. We lost every spawn and were messaging the two remaining Allied players constantly to capture an objective so we could fight back.
What did they do? Sit around the Axis uncappable base as snipers trying to spawn camp, oblivious to both the fact that there no Axis were going to spawn because noone else was killing them, and the constant stream of flames directed at them over the chat.
I try to pretend that I don't care about my stats in BF1942 and that I "play for the team", but I can't help sneaking a peek every so often.
The problems with stats in BF1942 are that many people play for purely for stats, doing things like sitting back on the wrong side of the river in Battle of the Bulge in a Tiger, shelling the allied spawns and not actually capturing flags.
It's the Guardian, dammit. We're lucky they even got the name right, let alone the URL.
At least they didn't call it shareware.