Dump the native toolkit and build a native Win32 UI on it? What about those of us that don't use Win32? Gimp runs on unix flavors, bsd, linux, mac, and Windows. Why would we ever want to dump support for all those other OS's many of the gimp developers themselves use.
Better suggestion is to keep improving the toolkit and the GIMP interface.
I've been using Gimp and Photoshop interchangably for a long time now and find both to be very powerful tools. As has been stated before, many of the key bindings are the same. Sure, the mouse stuff is different... but that is obvious given my Mac mouse only has one button.
This Paint.Net looks to be a lot better quality then Paint was for sure. However, it lacks the support for many image types Gimp and Photoshop support, as well as a lot of the advanced tools.
I haven't been playing with it for long... but where the hell is the plugin interface?!?
It isn't ACPI that sucks badly, it is the Windows 98 implementation of ACPI that sucks badly. As well as bad hardware implementations of some ACPI functions on some machines.
I run the 2.6.10-rc2 kernel and have great ACPI support on my nforce 3 based AMD64 machine.
I'd really like to know how Windows handles process control blocks and such. Linux, as a last resort, has the stack grow into the PCB of the process. So if you do somehow cause a stack overflow you will blow away your own PCB and likely cause the process to get killed before anything truely nasty happens.
It is disturbing to hear the opinions of some people from the Ivory Coast on the matter of AIDS. It isn't that a lot of them don't know about it. I've heard a doctor there say people consider themselves lucky to die of AIDS. They say there are so many reasons people die over there, if AIDS finally gets them it means they must have had a pretty long life. So that is there justification for continuing to use niddles on 5 patients before tossing them.
It really is sad that there are still places in this world that have to think that way.
There have been lots of "craft beers" with caffine in them. Such as coffee stouts and porters. One of the original founders of the Boston beer company released a beer called Moonshot. I first starting seeing it here in Atlanta earlier this summer. It is a pilsner with 45 mgs of caffine (about as much as there is in 1/2 cup of coffee). That is apparently the maximum amount of caffine allowed by law in many states (at least in Georgia) in a 12 oz. alcoholic beverage.
Moonshot isn't my favorite beer, but it does allow people who don't like darker beers to get a little caffine in them while they are drinking. If the brewery is any indication I am sure it will be far better then anything AB puts out.
I don't mean to sound like a raging liberal (ok.. so maybe I do..) but what good is a weapon that does that much damage? The days of armies lining up on battle fields is long over. Using a weapon like this will only increase civilian casualties. There is a reason why we don't want countries developing WMD. We should lead by example, and not development ourselves either.
I completely agree. Bush sure makes it easy to say there were no reasons other then economic gain for invading Iraq because he continues to lie about the reasonings for the war in the first place.
The facts are pretty simple. We had been saying for years that any WMD programs Saddam did have were moved out of country. There army was completely crippled from the early 90's. They had no proven links with the terrorists. Yet we are suppose to be stupid enough to believe they were a threat to the well being of us in the US?
Truth is Iran and Saudi Arabia are the two countries most involved with the terrorism. Iran admits to having a WMD program. We have proven they funded people like Bin Ladin. We have discovered that all of the major terrorist leaders either live in Saudi or Iran. Course you don't see us lined up to fight them do you? Saudi leaders are Bush family friends and we would want to jeopardize the military bases we have there (there are more US military bases in Saudi Arabia then any other country other then the US). Iran is actually organized well enough to fight a war if we showed up, and the economic gain from fighting a war with them wouldn't be nearly as high.
We would have been far better off spending the billions we have spent in Iraq to fix problems on our own soil, or to cut down on some of our debt. Instead we spend get to spend billions on Iraq and Bush wants to cut taxes. It doesn't take a smart person to realize that is a terrible idea. Which is of course why we have never ever had a tax cut during a war.
Kerry probably isn't the best person to lead the US. But Bush has proven he is a terrible person to do the job.
I don't typically vote Democrat, but I sure as hell will in this election.
If they can shove a G5 in a case that tiny... and IBM can produce the G5 with the power saving features (which supposively they can)... why can't we have a Powerbook G5 already!?!
Your right, these aren't new. A company I worked for used them on computers that were controlling a train a few years back.
One thing worth noting.... flash parts don't last forever. If you write to the disk constantly it will die in a lot less time then the average standard magnetic hard drive.
However, reading doesn't inflict the wear so feel free to read all you want from your flash part...
When I purchased a car last I chose the VW Jetta TDI (Diesel) over the Hybrid cars like the Prius because, for the type of driving I do, the TDI typicaly gets better gas milage. My average is around 51 MPG (mostly highway driving).
The TDI is by no means a speed demon, but it also feels a lot faster then the hybrids I have driven.
Of course, there is a trade off, my exhust is certianly a touch dirtier then a hybrid car.
If this idiot were to win this lawsuit it would be pretty scary for our University system.
This reminds me of the cheating scandle at Georgia Tech a few years back, where a bunch of whinny bitches got F's in a CS class because the professors setup a way to compare peoples programs to see if they had cheated. (I was a TA for one of those classes and I had less then a 3 or 4 students ever ask for extra help all semester.. and shocker.. those that did go the material and weren't caught for cheating).
The idea behind school is not to see how well you can avoid doing any real work of your own, but to learn something.
There can be no guarentee that because you paid to take a class means you paid for the right to pass that class. The last thing we need is for college level eduation to be reduced to the level that grade school education has in many places.
The teachers should have to kept to certain standars, but ultimately the burden should be on the students to learn.
I took the CS AP test back in Spring of 1999. It was in C++ then. I remember this because I didn't take AP CS as a Junior because I didn't want to bother taking the class in Pascal when it was going to be changing to the more usefull C++ the next year. Then in Spring 2001, while I was in College, I helped my old high school CS professor with Java stuff because he was perparing to change the AP class to Java. Was he just jumping the gun or is this post wrong?
The flaw in your arguement is "Joe Consumer" doesn't build or upgrade his own machine. Joe Consumer calls up Dell and Gateway and places like that. Joe Consumer buys systems off the shelf at Best Buy and Compusa.
It is good to see that you can find AMD machines on the shelves at these places now. But don't forget who still sells the most total computers, and don't forget that they still only offer Intel processors as an option.
AMD is making steps. And that is good to see, but you really don't want the market getting too skewed in there favor because then they will effectively be the next Intel... which some many people seam to hate.
Where have you been for the whole SCO vs. IBM trial? SCO is getting there panties in a bunch because they say that AIX code IS making it's way into linux. And they claim that infringes on the UNIX IP they own. Of course, AIX as a system is drastically different from Linux so much of the AIX code wouldn't be a great deal of help. It seams to me like IBM plans to use Linux as a replacement for AIX.
Ya, the reason it is worth mentioning that they are using 300mm wafer's is a lot of the older processor were done with 200mm wafer's so they got less cores out of a batch.
There are patches out there at minions.de that allowed use of the nVidia driver with a 2.6 kernel but the drivers in there default state from nvidia.com did not work until now.
BTW..... the gentoo sources did contain those patches:)
Intel has been using linux to bring up there new products for years. If they want to protect there ip then the least they can do is release a driver in the manner of the nvidia driver is release. Sure I would perfer a total open source driver but baby steps would be ok for now.
You will all be laughing when you find out Plan9 is actually the future.... and I have been running it for YEARS! HAHAHA.... oh wait... I can't do anything with that PC....
As long as "emulate Windows simplicity" doesn't mean, "emulate Windows". Personally, I think Windows does a horrible job of making things like configuration consistant. There is far to much wading through wizards that all act differently, and clicking through menu's and dialog boxes to find features.
I think the ultimate goal of a desktop system should be to provide extreme consistancy and ease of use. One stop configuration for everything. There shouldn't be 2 or 3 different places to select networking options, there should be 1, ect. ect.
It is possible to set up linux to work like this (and without stripping any power from it), but it will take lots of work. Things like the KDE Control Center are good beginings, but not nearly there yet.
I don't want to sound like a Bose sales person here (cause I am not) but get the Bose Accoustic Noise Cancellation Headphones. They are $300 (or $200 for the old model with the annoying box) and they sound excellent and block out the whole world while you are listening to them. You can also disconnect the cord and just use them to cancel out background noise if you don't feel like listening to music.
First off, every opensource piece of software I download has MD5 sums done on it so I can check the integrety of the download.
If you pay for linux support you get the a decent live-update system (example: RedHat). Even if you don't pay for it, you can use a system like Debian or Gentoo and get pretty easy to update stuff (apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and your done, or emerge sync, emerge -U world and your done) which include security fixes much quicker then MS ever gets them out.
There is absolutely no problem writing code in C. Sure you will have buffer overflows on accident at times, but at least you control the problem. If the problem exists in the VM or the libraries for something like Java or.Net you are forced into waiting for somebody else to fix the problem and it could mean the problem effects many programs instead of just one application.
Microsoft's biggest security problem in my mind is there security through obscurity beliefs. If you find a security hole in a product not telling people until you have a patch is not a valid way of operating, because if you can find a hole it is likely somebody with mal intent can also find that hole and could be already using it. Also, with the way MS changes license agreements there is no way I would ever allow one of there systems to auto download the patches and possibly make me agree to a new license without even getting an oppertunity to read it.
As much as I would like to see SCO go down in a legal ball of flames it might be nice if somebody would just purchase the company and put a BSD license on all of System V Unix.
Either that or it would be nice if Novell would go to court along with the and get a court ruling as to if SCO actually owns any of these rights anyway.
Go to the Low-level SCSI drivers in the kernel. It is under the Device Drivers->SCSI Devices section. There exists and option that might make you happy:
[*] Serial ATA (SATA) support
ServerWorks Frodo / Apple K2 SATA support (EXPERIMENTAL) (NEW)
Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support
Promise SATA support (NEW)
VIA SATA support
If this is true somebody should turn the SEC onto them. If the major players in an organization trade stock back and forth to cause the stock price to seam higher they are breaking the law.
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Dump the native toolkit and build a native Win32 UI on it? What about those of us that don't use Win32? Gimp runs on unix flavors, bsd, linux, mac, and Windows. Why would we ever want to dump support for all those other OS's many of the gimp developers themselves use.
Better suggestion is to keep improving the toolkit and the GIMP interface.
I've been using Gimp and Photoshop interchangably for a long time now and find both to be very powerful tools. As has been stated before, many of the key bindings are the same. Sure, the mouse stuff is different... but that is obvious given my Mac mouse only has one button.
This Paint.Net looks to be a lot better quality then Paint was for sure. However, it lacks the support for many image types Gimp and Photoshop support, as well as a lot of the advanced tools.
I haven't been playing with it for long... but where the hell is the plugin interface?!?
It isn't ACPI that sucks badly, it is the Windows 98 implementation of ACPI that sucks badly. As well as bad hardware implementations of some ACPI functions on some machines.
I run the 2.6.10-rc2 kernel and have great ACPI support on my nforce 3 based AMD64 machine.
I'd really like to know how Windows handles process control blocks and such. Linux, as a last resort, has the stack grow into the PCB of the process. So if you do somehow cause a stack overflow you will blow away your own PCB and likely cause the process to get killed before anything truely nasty happens.
It is disturbing to hear the opinions of some people from the Ivory Coast on the matter of AIDS. It isn't that a lot of them don't know about it. I've heard a doctor there say people consider themselves lucky to die of AIDS. They say there are so many reasons people die over there, if AIDS finally gets them it means they must have had a pretty long life. So that is there justification for continuing to use niddles on 5 patients before tossing them.
It really is sad that there are still places in this world that have to think that way.
There have been lots of "craft beers" with caffine in them. Such as coffee stouts and porters. One of the original founders of the Boston beer company released a beer called Moonshot. I first starting seeing it here in Atlanta earlier this summer. It is a pilsner with 45 mgs of caffine (about as much as there is in 1/2 cup of coffee). That is apparently the maximum amount of caffine allowed by law in many states (at least in Georgia) in a 12 oz. alcoholic beverage.
Moonshot isn't my favorite beer, but it does allow people who don't like darker beers to get a little caffine in them while they are drinking. If the brewery is any indication I am sure it will be far better then anything AB puts out.
I don't mean to sound like a raging liberal (ok.. so maybe I do..) but what good is a weapon that does that much damage? The days of armies lining up on battle fields is long over. Using a weapon like this will only increase civilian casualties. There is a reason why we don't want countries developing WMD. We should lead by example, and not development ourselves either.
I completely agree. Bush sure makes it easy to say there were no reasons other then economic gain for invading Iraq because he continues to lie about the reasonings for the war in the first place.
The facts are pretty simple. We had been saying for years that any WMD programs Saddam did have were moved out of country. There army was completely crippled from the early 90's. They had no proven links with the terrorists. Yet we are suppose to be stupid enough to believe they were a threat to the well being of us in the US?
Truth is Iran and Saudi Arabia are the two countries most involved with the terrorism. Iran admits to having a WMD program. We have proven they funded people like Bin Ladin. We have discovered that all of the major terrorist leaders either live in Saudi or Iran. Course you don't see us lined up to fight them do you? Saudi leaders are Bush family friends and we would want to jeopardize the military bases we have there (there are more US military bases in Saudi Arabia then any other country other then the US). Iran is actually organized well enough to fight a war if we showed up, and the economic gain from fighting a war with them wouldn't be nearly as high.
We would have been far better off spending the billions we have spent in Iraq to fix problems on our own soil, or to cut down on some of our debt. Instead we spend get to spend billions on Iraq and Bush wants to cut taxes. It doesn't take a smart person to realize that is a terrible idea. Which is of course why we have never ever had a tax cut during a war.
Kerry probably isn't the best person to lead the US. But Bush has proven he is a terrible person to do the job.
I don't typically vote Democrat, but I sure as hell will in this election.
If they can shove a G5 in a case that tiny... and IBM can produce the G5 with the power saving features (which supposively they can)... why can't we have a Powerbook G5 already!?!
Your right, these aren't new. A company I worked for used them on computers that were controlling a train a few years back.
One thing worth noting.... flash parts don't last forever. If you write to the disk constantly it will die in a lot less time then the average standard magnetic hard drive.
However, reading doesn't inflict the wear so feel free to read all you want from your flash part...
When I purchased a car last I chose the VW Jetta TDI (Diesel) over the Hybrid cars like the Prius because, for the type of driving I do, the TDI typicaly gets better gas milage. My average is around 51 MPG (mostly highway driving).
The TDI is by no means a speed demon, but it also feels a lot faster then the hybrids I have driven.
Of course, there is a trade off, my exhust is certianly a touch dirtier then a hybrid car.
If this idiot were to win this lawsuit it would be pretty scary for our University system.
This reminds me of the cheating scandle at Georgia Tech a few years back, where a bunch of whinny bitches got F's in a CS class because the professors setup a way to compare peoples programs to see if they had cheated. (I was a TA for one of those classes and I had less then a 3 or 4 students ever ask for extra help all semester.. and shocker.. those that did go the material and weren't caught for cheating).
The idea behind school is not to see how well you can avoid doing any real work of your own, but to learn something.
There can be no guarentee that because you paid to take a class means you paid for the right to pass that class. The last thing we need is for college level eduation to be reduced to the level that grade school education has in many places.
The teachers should have to kept to certain standars, but ultimately the burden should be on the students to learn.
I took the CS AP test back in Spring of 1999. It was in C++ then. I remember this because I didn't take AP CS as a Junior because I didn't want to bother taking the class in Pascal when it was going to be changing to the more usefull C++ the next year. Then in Spring 2001, while I was in College, I helped my old high school CS professor with Java stuff because he was perparing to change the AP class to Java. Was he just jumping the gun or is this post wrong?
The flaw in your arguement is "Joe Consumer" doesn't build or upgrade his own machine. Joe Consumer calls up Dell and Gateway and places like that. Joe Consumer buys systems off the shelf at Best Buy and Compusa.
It is good to see that you can find AMD machines on the shelves at these places now. But don't forget who still sells the most total computers, and don't forget that they still only offer Intel processors as an option.
AMD is making steps. And that is good to see, but you really don't want the market getting too skewed in there favor because then they will effectively be the next Intel... which some many people seam to hate.
Where have you been for the whole SCO vs. IBM trial? SCO is getting there panties in a bunch because they say that AIX code IS making it's way into linux. And they claim that infringes on the UNIX IP they own. Of course, AIX as a system is drastically different from Linux so much of the AIX code wouldn't be a great deal of help. It seams to me like IBM plans to use Linux as a replacement for AIX.
Ya, the reason it is worth mentioning that they are using 300mm wafer's is a lot of the older processor were done with 200mm wafer's so they got less cores out of a batch.
There are patches out there at minions.de that allowed use of the nVidia driver with a 2.6 kernel but the drivers in there default state from nvidia.com did not work until now.
BTW..... the gentoo sources did contain those patches:)
Intel has been using linux to bring up there new products for years. If they want to protect there ip then the least they can do is release a driver in the manner of the nvidia driver is release. Sure I would perfer a total open source driver but baby steps would be ok for now.
You will all be laughing when you find out Plan9 is actually the future.... and I have been running it for YEARS! HAHAHA.... oh wait... I can't do anything with that PC....
As long as "emulate Windows simplicity" doesn't mean, "emulate Windows". Personally, I think Windows does a horrible job of making things like configuration consistant. There is far to much wading through wizards that all act differently, and clicking through menu's and dialog boxes to find features.
I think the ultimate goal of a desktop system should be to provide extreme consistancy and ease of use. One stop configuration for everything. There shouldn't be 2 or 3 different places to select networking options, there should be 1, ect. ect.
It is possible to set up linux to work like this (and without stripping any power from it), but it will take lots of work. Things like the KDE Control Center are good beginings, but not nearly there yet.
I don't want to sound like a Bose sales person here (cause I am not) but get the Bose Accoustic Noise Cancellation Headphones. They are $300 (or $200 for the old model with the annoying box) and they sound excellent and block out the whole world while you are listening to them. You can also disconnect the cord and just use them to cancel out background noise if you don't feel like listening to music.
I have a few comments to make...
.Net you are forced into waiting for somebody else to fix the problem and it could mean the problem effects many programs instead of just one application.
First off, every opensource piece of software I download has MD5 sums done on it so I can check the integrety of the download.
If you pay for linux support you get the a decent live-update system (example: RedHat). Even if you don't pay for it, you can use a system like Debian or Gentoo and get pretty easy to update stuff (apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and your done, or emerge sync, emerge -U world and your done) which include security fixes much quicker then MS ever gets them out.
There is absolutely no problem writing code in C. Sure you will have buffer overflows on accident at times, but at least you control the problem. If the problem exists in the VM or the libraries for something like Java or
Microsoft's biggest security problem in my mind is there security through obscurity beliefs. If you find a security hole in a product not telling people until you have a patch is not a valid way of operating, because if you can find a hole it is likely somebody with mal intent can also find that hole and could be already using it. Also, with the way MS changes license agreements there is no way I would ever allow one of there systems to auto download the patches and possibly make me agree to a new license without even getting an oppertunity to read it.
As much as I would like to see SCO go down in a legal ball of flames it might be nice if somebody would just purchase the company and put a BSD license on all of System V Unix.
Either that or it would be nice if Novell would go to court along with the and get a court ruling as to if SCO actually owns any of these rights anyway.
I am sick of hearing about this. NEXT TOPIC!
I would say from a legal point of view that if you are using the free qt license then you would not be able to distribute your program closed source.
If you could it would mean this tech gets ride of TrollTech's entire license scheme, which would be rediculous.
I personally love the qt API and I am glad they can do things like this with licensing that allow me to use such a great commercial product for free.
Go to the Low-level SCSI drivers in the kernel. It is under the Device Drivers->SCSI Devices section. There exists and option that might make you happy:
[*] Serial ATA (SATA) support
ServerWorks Frodo / Apple K2 SATA support (EXPERIMENTAL) (NEW)
Intel PIIX/ICH SATA support
Promise SATA support (NEW)
VIA SATA support
If this is true somebody should turn the SEC onto them. If the major players in an organization trade stock back and forth to cause the stock price to seam higher they are breaking the law.