Yes, it did. For the longest time The Gimp was bound by "that'll be in 2.0, using Gegl". Gegl languihed for YEARS, before recently resurfacing but still not done - not even close. This is one reason the project was forked into Film Gimp, now CinePaint.
Personally, The Gimp's interface gave me fits and I found it very hard to work in. Since I on't use it every day, it isn't something I was willing to put a huge effort into learning. Krita is much more "natural" to me and had a much shallower learning curve.
KDE integration is more than just a theme and a K-name. That would have been almost impossible with The Gimp.
Finally, there is the name "Gimp". It means "lame" or "handicapped", which was a totally stupid thing to call a program. Yes, I know it is an acronym, but ut was a stupid idea none-the-less.
While the comparisons to Photoshop and The Gimp are inevitable, Krita is one of the more advanced components of KOffice. For me, it long ago replaced The Gimp as my image editor of choice. If you are looking for a good image editor for Linux/BSD, you owe it to yourself to investigate Krita.
No, you're wrong. You're making the assumption that a municipal wireless service will be a monopoly. As you state in your argument, their service will suck in pretty short order. That is when competitors step in and offer a "premium" service for a fee.
Free wifi is nice, but if it boils down to dial-up speeds because of sub-standard equipment and implementation, then there will be a market for premium services. I can even envision the advertising "Tired of not being able to use your VoIP phone and computer at the same time? Are you tired of always getting fragged in online gaming because you have the worst ping in your group? Then get off the city service and step up to !"
The thing is great for the Earth-type applications, but that's about it.
Just because you lack vision, don't assume everyone else is just as blind.
This would provide a great addition for editing video, audio or image collections. I've just scanned in over a hundred images related to genealogy and this could provide an excellent and FAST interface for sorting them. Combine it with audio annotation and decent voice recognition (dictation) and it would save me weeks of work.
My kids take tons of photos, and organizing them is a pain. This would be just like doing it with regular, real-life pictures. Drop 'em into piles, then go from there.
Anything where large amounts of information have to be categorized, organized or manipulated would be a good market for this.
How about creating levels for games? Positioning elements, dragging and dropping -- this is just so much more natural and faster than using a mouse. Don't like games? Then re-arranging furniture in a house design app; or landscaping.
All that control- and shift-click manipulation with a mouse is just a poor attempt at replicating what people do naturally -- grab and move things with their hands.
Because government and religion are the two main bastions of power. The only way the little guy has a chance is to play them off each other.
Religion, as a whole, is a very bad thing to base government off of because it is so absolutist. "This is the word of God. You can't argue with God. The gov't is God's will on Earth, so arguing with the gov't is like arguing with God, you heretic." The problem is, God isn't around to run things and the people that do, in His name, are frequently bloody autocrats.
The first article was about the guy posting the info and a Congressman calling for his arrest. The second article was about an FBI raid on his house and seizure of a bunch of property.
No, the judge's order gives them rights to access it. That part was already established, they were just arguing about HOW to get access.
I'm talking about a way to help preserve some privacy for the defendant by using a neutral tool to filter out all obviously unrelated material -- the stuff not covered by the warrant.
"File" was an example. It could be modified and a "court approved" version could be put into escrow for use when authorized.
Step #1 would require a court order to begin with. After they get the list of audio files, you then identify them: your own recordings, legal rips, out of copyright, etc. The point was they didn't have rights to access the entire drive, but had a court finding to look for certain -- infringing -- files. This weeds out 90% of the chaff up front.
The/. crowd seems to love the "all or nothing" approach -- if they can't identify the exact files, including MD5 hash of the exact download, the RIAA has no right at all. That isn't the way it works in regular law, so why should music be any different? If they can show probable cause and enough "evidence" to convince a judge for a search warrant, then there needs to be a method -- however imperfect -- for dealing with the process.
An open-source program along the lines of "file" that can identify file types. It can scan the drive and output and matches to music files. Those are the only files they get access to at all. No documents, pictures, movies, programs or anything else.
Oracle, unlike CentOS, has money. They hire the fleeing Red Hat people and eventually buy the shell of what was Red Hat for a song. Larry, being partial to bowlers, adopts a new logo.
That's funny, because Ubuntu/Kubuntu don't support WPA-PSK out of the box, so I had no luck getting it installed and connected to my home network.
Fortunately, it was a LiveCD and I could roll back to a stable, working system just by ejecting the CD and throwing it in the trash. Maybe next upgrade cycle Ubuntu will be usable...
Basing your lifes work and new company on an obscure quote from 4 years ago seems a bit niave.
Or maybe he is just using it to show what a hypocrite Steve Jobs is? People talk about him like he is the Computing Savior or something to Bill Gates' Satan, but he is just really a different flavor of evil -- with better marketing.
Norton, maybe. Norton Commander and Norton Tools were excellent, but once Symantec absorbed Peter Norton & Co., it was a quick downhill ride from there.
You can move your temp folder to the encrypted partition if you are worried about it. You can also set up a scheduled task to secure-wipe all free space on a regular basis, if you are really paranoid.
...making law from the bench! This one ruling for some fooreen company over a good-old, red, white and blue U.S. homegrown! How dare he! Probably a Democrat and communist, too.
What?
Spam? Yeah, it is good with a little cheese and...
Oh, THAT stuff!? Those guys need to be publically whipped and castrated! There ought to be a law that protects decent citizens from all that perverted material arriving in your mailbox without asking. I mean, one visit to whitehouse.com, fill in one little form and give 'em one little credit card and all of a sudden I get this crap in my mailbox! What if my kid opens my email?
Your comment is in the same category as "nobody will ever need more than 640Kb".
No, it isn't.
I didn't say "nobody", I said "how many", implying that the vast majority DON'T need that much, which I stand by. There are exceptions, to be sure, and something like a portable hard drive, iPod, Archos, etc. would be suitable. Then you can get 20, 40, 80 or more Gb and that'll be enough for anyone for the time being. As your storage needs grow, so does the portable storage.
There is absolutely no need to encrypt the main hard drive. What? You afraid of someone stealing C:\WINNT?
The simply solution is to use USB disks/keys with encryption and stick all sensitive data on those. You can get 4 Gb solid-state and larger if you use something like an iPod. How many people really need > 4 Gb of secure data available off-net? The vast majority would be fine with fast USB 2.0 memory sticks.
Key escrow solves the "I lost my password" as well as employees that leave without telling their boss/replacement the passwords.
For super-secure stuff, make them call home first to check a CRL and validate they still have permission.
For those that don't like the USB stick solution, then partition hard drives and just don't encrypt C:\.
What's the big deal with cover art and screen savers on music players and phones? Do people honestly watch a screen saver for more than 5 seconds before sticking the gizmo in their pocket? Do people actually look at (or care about) cover art? I've always just picked a playlist, hit "play" and put the device back in my pocket. Cover art I view on my PC, but not the music player.
Same goes for all the hype around the interface? I found the best interface is to create a few playlists on the PC -- which has a real screen and a keyboard -- and move them over. Then, all I really do is pick a playlist which maybe takes 5 seconds in almost any interface. The only other controls I use are volume and stop.
Do people actually spend that much time fucking around with a music player? Isn't is supposed to like, play music? Or is it a form of entertainment unto itself?
...which isn't actually contained in the document.
How the hell do you know that? From the linked article "The document, much of which is classified..." Good chunks of the document are classified. People HAVE to read between the lines.
Not that I'm agreeing with the anti-Bush, knee-jerkers, but you are also making unsubstantiated claims.
Just in case people don't see your post for tongue-in-cheek irony and actually take you seriously, this is today's reports on AAPL.
* * *
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) rose 6 percent on Thursday, a day after it reported a sharp gain in quarterly profit alongside strong sales of its popular iPods and healthy shipments of its Macintosh computers.
Apple stock jumped $4.69 at $79.21 on Nasdaq, where it was the third biggest point gainer.
Apple's fourth-quarter results, released late Wednesday, prompted Banc of America to raise its price target to $84 from $79 a share, while maintaining a "buy" rating on the stock.
Another analyst, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, said in a note to clients that the results showed Apple's "formula is working" as the popularity of its iPods is translating into a "resurgence in the Mac platform."
"We believe in six months the halo effect will expand beyond a simple iPod-to-Mac correlation into a four-way relationship with iPod, Mac, iPhone, and iTV benefiting from each other's success," said Munster. "If this plays out, Apple's growth rate should accelerate in 2007."
Apple is widely expected by analysts to introduce a new gadget dubbed the iPhone, which will combine mobile phone features with the iPod.
The company said in September it will ship a device, code-named iTV, in the first quarter of 2007 to let consumers stream movies, music, photos, podcasts and television shows from the Web to their home entertainment systems.
In its earnings statement, Apple said it sold 8.73 million iPods, up 35 percent from a year ago, and 1.61 million Mac computers, a 30 percent increase.
Cupertino, California-based Apple said net income rose to $546 million, or 62 cents per share, from $430 million, or 50 cents per share, a year ago. Revenue climbed 32 percent to $4.84 billion.
Prior to Thursday's surge, shares of Apple had risen about 5 percent this year, compared with an increase of over 4 percent in the Morgan Stanley High-Tech Index , of which Apple is a constituent.
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Yes, it did. For the longest time The Gimp was bound by "that'll be in 2.0, using Gegl". Gegl languihed for YEARS, before recently resurfacing but still not done - not even close. This is one reason the project was forked into Film Gimp, now CinePaint.
Personally, The Gimp's interface gave me fits and I found it very hard to work in. Since I on't use it every day, it isn't something I was willing to put a huge effort into learning. Krita is much more "natural" to me and had a much shallower learning curve.
KDE integration is more than just a theme and a K-name. That would have been almost impossible with The Gimp.
Finally, there is the name "Gimp". It means "lame" or "handicapped", which was a totally stupid thing to call a program. Yes, I know it is an acronym, but ut was a stupid idea none-the-less.
While the comparisons to Photoshop and The Gimp are inevitable, Krita is one of the more advanced components of KOffice. For me, it long ago replaced The Gimp as my image editor of choice. If you are looking for a good image editor for Linux/BSD, you owe it to yourself to investigate Krita.
No, you're wrong. You're making the assumption that a municipal wireless service will be a monopoly. As you state in your argument, their service will suck in pretty short order. That is when competitors step in and offer a "premium" service for a fee.
Free wifi is nice, but if it boils down to dial-up speeds because of sub-standard equipment and implementation, then there will be a market for premium services. I can even envision the advertising "Tired of not being able to use your VoIP phone and computer at the same time? Are you tired of always getting fragged in online gaming because you have the worst ping in your group? Then get off the city service and step up to !"
How do I right-click to get a context menu with my fingers?
Press and hold, about 1 second, is the current method on devices with touch screens. That's how it works on the Nokia 770, for example.
The thing is great for the Earth-type applications, but that's about it.
Just because you lack vision, don't assume everyone else is just as blind.
This would provide a great addition for editing video, audio or image collections. I've just scanned in over a hundred images related to genealogy and this could provide an excellent and FAST interface for sorting them. Combine it with audio annotation and decent voice recognition (dictation) and it would save me weeks of work.
My kids take tons of photos, and organizing them is a pain. This would be just like doing it with regular, real-life pictures. Drop 'em into piles, then go from there.
Anything where large amounts of information have to be categorized, organized or manipulated would be a good market for this.
How about creating levels for games? Positioning elements, dragging and dropping -- this is just so much more natural and faster than using a mouse. Don't like games? Then re-arranging furniture in a house design app; or landscaping.
All that control- and shift-click manipulation with a mouse is just a poor attempt at replicating what people do naturally -- grab and move things with their hands.
Because government and religion are the two main bastions of power. The only way the little guy has a chance is to play them off each other.
Religion, as a whole, is a very bad thing to base government off of because it is so absolutist. "This is the word of God. You can't argue with God. The gov't is God's will on Earth, so arguing with the gov't is like arguing with God, you heretic." The problem is, God isn't around to run things and the people that do, in His name, are frequently bloody autocrats.
The first article was about the guy posting the info and a Congressman calling for his arrest. The second article was about an FBI raid on his house and seizure of a bunch of property.
No, the judge's order gives them rights to access it. That part was already established, they were just arguing about HOW to get access.
I'm talking about a way to help preserve some privacy for the defendant by using a neutral tool to filter out all obviously unrelated material -- the stuff not covered by the warrant.
"File" was an example. It could be modified and a "court approved" version could be put into escrow for use when authorized.
No, that would be step #2.
/. crowd seems to love the "all or nothing" approach -- if they can't identify the exact files, including MD5 hash of the exact download, the RIAA has no right at all. That isn't the way it works in regular law, so why should music be any different? If they can show probable cause and enough "evidence" to convince a judge for a search warrant, then there needs to be a method -- however imperfect -- for dealing with the process.
Step #1 would require a court order to begin with. After they get the list of audio files, you then identify them: your own recordings, legal rips, out of copyright, etc. The point was they didn't have rights to access the entire drive, but had a court finding to look for certain -- infringing -- files. This weeds out 90% of the chaff up front.
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An open-source program along the lines of "file" that can identify file types. It can scan the drive and output and matches to music files. Those are the only files they get access to at all. No documents, pictures, movies, programs or anything else.
What did they say after you made those points?
Probably something along the lines of "Thank you, sir. Would you care to make a tax-deductible, campaign contribution?"
"No."
Does it support WPA without me having to download other packages? (wpa_supplicant, most likely)
Oracle, unlike CentOS, has money. They hire the fleeing Red Hat people and eventually buy the shell of what was Red Hat for a song. Larry, being partial to bowlers, adopts a new logo.
That's funny, because Ubuntu/Kubuntu don't support WPA-PSK out of the box, so I had no luck getting it installed and connected to my home network.
Fortunately, it was a LiveCD and I could roll back to a stable, working system just by ejecting the CD and throwing it in the trash. Maybe next upgrade cycle Ubuntu will be usable...
Basing your lifes work and new company on an obscure quote from 4 years ago seems a bit niave.
Or maybe he is just using it to show what a hypocrite Steve Jobs is? People talk about him like he is the Computing Savior or something to Bill Gates' Satan, but he is just really a different flavor of evil -- with better marketing.
No kidding.
Norton, maybe. Norton Commander and Norton Tools were excellent, but once Symantec absorbed Peter Norton & Co., it was a quick downhill ride from there.
OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, OS X (Tiger) WinXP and Win2003 can all encrypt swap without much effort.
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http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/Op
You can move your temp folder to the encrypted partition if you are worried about it. You can also set up a scheduled task to secure-wipe all free space on a regular basis, if you are really paranoid.
...making law from the bench! This one ruling for some fooreen company over a good-old, red, white and blue U.S. homegrown! How dare he! Probably a Democrat and communist, too.
What?
Spam? Yeah, it is good with a little cheese and...
Oh, THAT stuff!? Those guys need to be publically whipped and castrated! There ought to be a law that protects decent citizens from all that perverted material arriving in your mailbox without asking. I mean, one visit to whitehouse.com, fill in one little form and give 'em one little credit card and all of a sudden I get this crap in my mailbox! What if my kid opens my email?
Won't somebody please think of the children?
Your comment is in the same category as "nobody will ever need more than 640Kb".
No, it isn't.
I didn't say "nobody", I said "how many", implying that the vast majority DON'T need that much, which I stand by. There are exceptions, to be sure, and something like a portable hard drive, iPod, Archos, etc. would be suitable. Then you can get 20, 40, 80 or more Gb and that'll be enough for anyone for the time being. As your storage needs grow, so does the portable storage.
There is absolutely no need to encrypt the main hard drive. What? You afraid of someone stealing C:\WINNT?
The simply solution is to use USB disks/keys with encryption and stick all sensitive data on those. You can get 4 Gb solid-state and larger if you use something like an iPod. How many people really need > 4 Gb of secure data available off-net? The vast majority would be fine with fast USB 2.0 memory sticks.
Key escrow solves the "I lost my password" as well as employees that leave without telling their boss/replacement the passwords.
For super-secure stuff, make them call home first to check a CRL and validate they still have permission.
For those that don't like the USB stick solution, then partition hard drives and just don't encrypt C:\.
Charles
What's the big deal with cover art and screen savers on music players and phones? Do people honestly watch a screen saver for more than 5 seconds before sticking the gizmo in their pocket? Do people actually look at (or care about) cover art? I've always just picked a playlist, hit "play" and put the device back in my pocket. Cover art I view on my PC, but not the music player.
Same goes for all the hype around the interface? I found the best interface is to create a few playlists on the PC -- which has a real screen and a keyboard -- and move them over. Then, all I really do is pick a playlist which maybe takes 5 seconds in almost any interface. The only other controls I use are volume and stop.
Do people actually spend that much time fucking around with a music player? Isn't is supposed to like, play music? Or is it a form of entertainment unto itself?
A: Since when does US care about international law?
When is "never", Alex?
I'll take "Obvious Questions for $1,000.
...which isn't actually contained in the document.
How the hell do you know that? From the linked article "The document, much of which is classified..." Good chunks of the document are classified. People HAVE to read between the lines.
Not that I'm agreeing with the anti-Bush, knee-jerkers, but you are also making unsubstantiated claims.
Just in case people don't see your post for tongue-in-cheek irony and actually take you seriously, this is today's reports on AAPL.
* * *
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) rose 6 percent on Thursday, a day after it reported a sharp gain in quarterly profit alongside strong sales of its popular iPods and healthy shipments of its Macintosh computers.
Apple stock jumped $4.69 at $79.21 on Nasdaq, where it was the third biggest point gainer.
Apple's fourth-quarter results, released late Wednesday, prompted Banc of America to raise its price target to $84 from $79 a share, while maintaining a "buy" rating on the stock.
Another analyst, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, said in a note to clients that the results showed Apple's "formula is working" as the popularity of its iPods is translating into a "resurgence in the Mac platform."
"We believe in six months the halo effect will expand beyond a simple iPod-to-Mac correlation into a four-way relationship with iPod, Mac, iPhone, and iTV benefiting from each other's success," said Munster. "If this plays out, Apple's growth rate should accelerate in 2007."
Apple is widely expected by analysts to introduce a new gadget dubbed the iPhone, which will combine mobile phone features with the iPod.
The company said in September it will ship a device, code-named iTV, in the first quarter of 2007 to let consumers stream movies, music, photos, podcasts and television shows from the Web to their home entertainment systems.
In its earnings statement, Apple said it sold 8.73 million iPods, up 35 percent from a year ago, and 1.61 million Mac computers, a 30 percent increase.
Cupertino, California-based Apple said net income rose to $546 million, or 62 cents per share, from $430 million, or 50 cents per share, a year ago. Revenue climbed 32 percent to $4.84 billion.
Prior to Thursday's surge, shares of Apple had risen about 5 percent this year, compared with an increase of over 4 percent in the Morgan Stanley High-Tech Index , of which Apple is a constituent.
© Reuters 2006. All Rights Reserved.
...so there isn't much point in repeating it.