Image editing isn't like databases, where there's an abstract theory behind the implementations. There's Photoshop and there are clones of Photoshop. The "basic concepts" you mention are mostly things Adobe invented and GIMP, err, "innovated".
Ever try to bike through traffic while screwing around with a headphone cable? Probably not. If you did then you would see that there is a huge market for these kinds of devices.
Given the number of jackasses I see weaving through traffic while talking on their phones, there probably is. But at least once a month I hear that click up ahead and lean left just in time to avoid getting doored. Losing that extra quarter-second of reaction time (and possibly my life along with it) isn't worth another few minutes of music. I'd strongly advise saving the MP3 players for country roads.
Have you considered that Slashdot, where people come for the comments and not the stories, is the exception and not the rule?
I don't think even that's true -- Rob has said a number of times that the vast majority of readers (as opposed to page views) don't go past the main page.
I'm not sure that bit you cited is relevant (they're not sending their customers to kernel.org for their binaries), but in any case, there is no obligation to put a "Download Source Code!" button on their website.
Actually, distributors are there precisely to make it easy for you to give money to the artists. If you'd rather steal from the artists instead, at least drop the pretence that you're heroically defending them by doing so.
Yeah, last night I noticed that Venus was unusually bright but it wasn't that bright! Maybe in a wilderness area you might be able to get a shadow, but certainly not anyplace urban.
The only way to deal with phishing is to *never* give whatever secure information in response to email you didn't initiate. Unless you're Jon Postel (and I believe he's now dead) you simply can't distinguish between legit emails and top quality phishing, no matter how loudly the idiot snobs here insist otherwise.
Nothing in there about non-x86 architectures: penguinppc.org, linux-m68k.org, linux-mips.org.
Also, as I'm now grinding through that huge 'emerge -uD world' when you switch a new Gentoo install from binary packages to -O5 superoptimized compiled, I don't think I can be accused of malice when I say that the Gentoo section isn't complete without a link to funroll-loops.org!
/. is mostly MS bashing. And complaining about dupes.
I'm surprised no one has noted that this is basically a dupe. OK, the other one isn't exactly a review (oddly, it's in the Interview section despite not being a/. interview, either) but the subject of the book, "M$ is teh sux and yuo shouldnt use it" is pretty much covered in its full depth.
Yeah, people talk about old Pentiums like they're cuneiform tablets. What do they think ran on the Pentium 266 originally, DOS?
It will run Win98 happily, or (with a bit of extra RAM, perhaps) any Linux distribution with the services turned off should be fine, if you use WindowMaker or Fluxbox. You don't need to mess with boutique Linuxes for something like this. (Personally, I'd just throw on Red Hat 5.2..)
...especially if that domination is likely to be ended by some other company (Google, etc).
I'm amazed that we have yet to see a single story insisting that the Xbox is doomed in the face of the impending Google Video Game Console and its revolutionary AJAX-based games...
I stick them all underneath my desk, on the side of the drawer block. It fills up after a while, but then they move me to a new office around the same time, so it all works out.
So for high performance computing, I don't see how networking a bunch of XBoxen together is going to deliver anything that couldn't be achieved by networking a bunch of beige boxes.
Also, in the real world, do you want to be submitting a grant application asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy Xboxes to hax0r into a cluster? Even if there were a performance advantage to using them (and as you say, there probably isn't) it's not the sort of proposal that pushes you to the top of the funding stack.
You know what? It does look bad, but it looks bad for Quinn and his possible ethical lapses.
It's not obvious to me that this is a big deal. But the panicky "Another desperate attempt...!" tone of the article certainly makes it sound like a big deal!
I was also unimpressed by:
Pamela Jones of groklaw pointed out that representatives for the disabled were demonstrating an unseemly helplessness in raising their complaint. Because several open-source tools support OpenDocument, anyone who wants accessibility added can pay someone to do the job rather than complaining about it.
Uhh, I don't think "Yuo have teh source code so fix it yuorself!" is going to fly in the face of an ADA lawsuit...
While there are some ethical considerations that go into publishing a journal, Nature has no business conducting ethics investigations, and this particular aspect of the experiment had no bearing on the scientific validity of the results.
That human research subjects are properly consented is a crucial piece of any research on them. It's absolutely Nature's business, in this case, and they deserve credit for enforcing proper standards.
At any rate, these "Korean Stem Cell Triumph" papers all seem to have something fishy about them, either consent problems or being in an absurdly low-profile journal for what they're claiming. It's not clear to me how many independent groups are involved, but I'm predicting this is just the tip of the iceberg for scandals with them.
II'd be more than happy to walk into a company, and become one of those average Windows administrators who point, click, drool, point, click, drool, etc.
If I may offer some gentle advice...
Believe it or not, there's more to know about computers than just hobbyist PHP coding. Instead of deciding that anyone who knows what SAP is must be a jargon-spouting, Windows-using moron, realize that you know a tiny bit and have an enormous amount to learn. At a minimum, try dialing back the attitude a bit when you interview.
I am not incapable of understanding principles, and the submitter certainly isn't, which is why he's insisting on applying a organizational scheme different from the one he's supposed to be using. But even, uh, "mappers" sometimes hit points where they just can't get their heads around something, and have to either give up or (if it's a prerequisite for what you are put on earth to do), suck it up and grind it out.
From the simple but sufficient text installer, to just the right number of packages - its not bloatware.
Other distros may suffer from too many dependencies -- installing vim shouldn't need to drag in another 20 packages along with it. But you can never be too rich, too thin, or have too many available packages that you don't need to manually add.
What kind of organisation does this represent? I guess it reflect's microsoft world view. But it doesnt match that of OSS applications.
Yup, in that scheme Developer gets gcc, CVS and eleven text editors, while Architect and Tester are eliminated in favor of Noisy Fanboy, who just gets a web browser.
If you try treating it like a simple MUA you'll get a lot of grief (sort of like treating emacs like just another editor).
Actually, emacs is the analogy I always use against this defense of Notes. Yes, emacs has all sorts of great features despite being a lousy email client -- but that doesn't make it a good idea to standardize on emacs as a corporate email client! Similarly, Notes may be a fantastic everything-but-an-email-client, but it's my email client!
Caveat: I built one of the Ars rigs for my first homemade and it worked out great. I have, though, seen warnings that they don't actually build those setups, and that some of their recommendations have contained conflicts of the sort the submitter is trying to avoid.
IAAC, the memorizing is a terrible way to learn chemistry...
Like I said, some people can get their heads around electrons, or C pointers, or Gaussian statistics and some can't. If you're planning to become a chemist, abso100%lutely you have to understand the underlying principles. The rest of us often have no choice except to grind it out, get the B and finish off the prerequisite. It's not like (with one exception) I've ever needed any of that stuff in my career. And, if I may flatter myself, I was actually quite good in the lab, although I got bad grades for being too lazy to write down the molecular weight of water every week after goddamn week.
(The one exception being mass spec, which I struggled through, thinking "I will never, ever see this again in my lifetime!" I almost had a stroke when I had to start using one.)
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"Starfleet crew?"
Image editing isn't like databases, where there's an abstract theory behind the implementations. There's Photoshop and there are clones of Photoshop. The "basic concepts" you mention are mostly things Adobe invented and GIMP, err, "innovated".
Given the number of jackasses I see weaving through traffic while talking on their phones, there probably is. But at least once a month I hear that click up ahead and lean left just in time to avoid getting doored. Losing that extra quarter-second of reaction time (and possibly my life along with it) isn't worth another few minutes of music. I'd strongly advise saving the MP3 players for country roads.
I don't think even that's true -- Rob has said a number of times that the vast majority of readers (as opposed to page views) don't go past the main page.
I'm not sure that bit you cited is relevant (they're not sending their customers to kernel.org for their binaries), but in any case, there is no obligation to put a "Download Source Code!" button on their website.
Actually, distributors are there precisely to make it easy for you to give money to the artists. If you'd rather steal from the artists instead, at least drop the pretence that you're heroically defending them by doing so.
What do you mean "you'll be happy to"? Either you're sending them money or you're not!
Yeah, last night I noticed that Venus was unusually bright but it wasn't that bright! Maybe in a wilderness area you might be able to get a shadow, but certainly not anyplace urban.
The only way to deal with phishing is to *never* give whatever secure information in response to email you didn't initiate. Unless you're Jon Postel (and I believe he's now dead) you simply can't distinguish between legit emails and top quality phishing, no matter how loudly the idiot snobs here insist otherwise.
Also, as I'm now grinding through that huge 'emerge -uD world' when you switch a new Gentoo install from binary packages to -O5 superoptimized compiled, I don't think I can be accused of malice when I say that the Gentoo section isn't complete without a link to funroll-loops.org!
I'm surprised no one has noted that this is basically a dupe. OK, the other one isn't exactly a review (oddly, it's in the Interview section despite not being a /. interview, either) but the subject of the book, "M$ is teh sux and yuo shouldnt use it" is pretty much covered in its full depth.
It will run Win98 happily, or (with a bit of extra RAM, perhaps) any Linux distribution with the services turned off should be fine, if you use WindowMaker or Fluxbox. You don't need to mess with boutique Linuxes for something like this. (Personally, I'd just throw on Red Hat 5.2..)
I'm amazed that we have yet to see a single story insisting that the Xbox is doomed in the face of the impending Google Video Game Console and its revolutionary AJAX-based games...
I stick them all underneath my desk, on the side of the drawer block. It fills up after a while, but then they move me to a new office around the same time, so it all works out.
My suggestion was going to be "Buy a Mac!", but that's the second-best idea...
Also, in the real world, do you want to be submitting a grant application asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy Xboxes to hax0r into a cluster? Even if there were a performance advantage to using them (and as you say, there probably isn't) it's not the sort of proposal that pushes you to the top of the funding stack.
It's not obvious to me that this is a big deal. But the panicky "Another desperate attempt...!" tone of the article certainly makes it sound like a big deal!
I was also unimpressed by :
Uhh, I don't think "Yuo have teh source code so fix it yuorself!" is going to fly in the face of an ADA lawsuit...
That human research subjects are properly consented is a crucial piece of any research on them. It's absolutely Nature's business, in this case, and they deserve credit for enforcing proper standards.
At any rate, these "Korean Stem Cell Triumph" papers all seem to have something fishy about them, either consent problems or being in an absurdly low-profile journal for what they're claiming. It's not clear to me how many independent groups are involved, but I'm predicting this is just the tip of the iceberg for scandals with them.
If I may offer some gentle advice...
Believe it or not, there's more to know about computers than just hobbyist PHP coding. Instead of deciding that anyone who knows what SAP is must be a jargon-spouting, Windows-using moron, realize that you know a tiny bit and have an enormous amount to learn. At a minimum, try dialing back the attitude a bit when you interview.
I am not incapable of understanding principles, and the submitter certainly isn't, which is why he's insisting on applying a organizational scheme different from the one he's supposed to be using. But even, uh, "mappers" sometimes hit points where they just can't get their heads around something, and have to either give up or (if it's a prerequisite for what you are put on earth to do), suck it up and grind it out.
Other distros may suffer from too many dependencies -- installing vim shouldn't need to drag in another 20 packages along with it. But you can never be too rich, too thin, or have too many available packages that you don't need to manually add.
Yup, in that scheme Developer gets gcc, CVS and eleven text editors, while Architect and Tester are eliminated in favor of Noisy Fanboy, who just gets a web browser.
Actually, emacs is the analogy I always use against this defense of Notes. Yes, emacs has all sorts of great features despite being a lousy email client -- but that doesn't make it a good idea to standardize on emacs as a corporate email client! Similarly, Notes may be a fantastic everything-but-an-email-client, but it's my email client!
Caveat: I built one of the Ars rigs for my first homemade and it worked out great. I have, though, seen warnings that they don't actually build those setups, and that some of their recommendations have contained conflicts of the sort the submitter is trying to avoid.
Like I said, some people can get their heads around electrons, or C pointers, or Gaussian statistics and some can't. If you're planning to become a chemist, abso100%lutely you have to understand the underlying principles. The rest of us often have no choice except to grind it out, get the B and finish off the prerequisite. It's not like (with one exception) I've ever needed any of that stuff in my career. And, if I may flatter myself, I was actually quite good in the lab, although I got bad grades for being too lazy to write down the molecular weight of water every week after goddamn week.
(The one exception being mass spec, which I struggled through, thinking "I will never, ever see this again in my lifetime!" I almost had a stroke when I had to start using one.)