You are right about the terms. Really what I meant is that restricting the objects to just one type, a stream, is a useful simplification.
Passing objects was part of Multics in 1969, and was rejected by the Unix designers. Obviously the main reason was to make Unix a reasonable size, but it also proved that everything they were attempting with Multics could be done with streams only.
Please post an example of a powershell program that does something non-trivial to more than one type of object and does not serialize it into text and we will then be able to discuss how "advanced" this is.
I am even more amazed by the number of people who do not remove all the huge colorful stickers on the edge of there very expensive HDTV (the ones saying 1080P! and listing all the types of inputs it takes). This includes very intelligent people btw.
Microsoft does not allow that, anybody that does it will lose their OEM pricing. They can no longer force Windows on all machines due to anti trust agreements, but they can still dictate what else can be on a machine with Windows. This is certainly hurting Linux for home use, even those willing to do the work of installing Linux typically make a dual-boot machine as Windows is somewhat useful still.
Geosynchronous orbit does not have an eclipse every 24 hours, because the earth's axis is tilted. It only has them at two points in the year. At that point there is an eclipse every 24 hours, but I'm not sure how long that point lasts, it may be less than 24 hours.
This has nothing to do with net neutrality. Nice attempt at a troll.
The end user is paying for some services. They did not pay for the "service" of transmitting millions of spam messages. Therefore they should be cut off until they stop doing this.
Now if a virus maker could pay an ISP to not block *their* virus this would be a violation of net neutrality.
This sounds like a good idea but it will have to be somewhat difficult to turn the web access on/off, possibly with a delay like 1 day or something annoying. Otherwise bot programs will probably quickly figure out how to go to that web site and turn on the necessary access. Or there will be fake programs (pron players, "virus detectors", etc) that say "you must turn on such&such in your ISP firewall to run this".
Actually the design is such that 8/9 of the possible viewing positions show the right image. For a certain angle of positions you see images 1&2, then 2&3, then 3&4, etc. Eventually you see images 9&1 (which would be backwards) but as you continue moving your head you are back to 1&2.
The big problem with this design is that you need 9 different images, not just 2. Interpolating an existing pair will not work as the resulting image pairs will be with 1/8 the stereo effect between an adjacent pair. Instead you need to extrapolate which gets increasingly difficult. Or you need to actually create all 9 pictures directly, which is why about 100% of the images for these devices is CGI.
He said the two knee-jerk "features" that are always mentioned when somebody wants to prove that GIMP sucks when they probably have not used either program. I knew that it would take about 10 seconds for somebody to say "CMYK and 48 bits!".
Look down below for some *actual* complaints about GIMP and realize that you can actually have an intelligent discussion here. Lack of operations between layers (ie a tree of operators) is a big one that Photoshop does (it is described as several terms as Photoshop actually makes quite a confusing mess of it but at least it tries...). Complaints about the user interface such as illogical combinations of items and inability to place windows in desired locations are also legit. Having used both software I think GIMP certainly should try to get some working previews for all the plugins and filters, it currently is close to useless to try these.
Just to be fair, Photoshop really could learn from GIMP how to zoom out on a picture with usable filtering, and wtf is with it's inability to change the brush for the eraser by using the back end of the pen, which GIMP does perfectly!
I want to complement you on a REAL response, rather than the canned garbage about "more than 24 bits and CMYK". You have listed real actual deficiencies in GIMP verses Photoshop that actually effect users. Thank you for showing a little intelligence still remains on Slashdot.
Both would be a lot closer if they started ignoring all the morons who think making integer levels have more than 8 bits is useful, like about 50 posts above complaining about Gimp's lack of what they call "48-bit color" (really 12-bit color).
If you have 16 bits it is moronic to use it for anything other than IEEE half floating point format. Many times more moronic if you have 32 bits!
Yea, he said "more than 8 bits per channel" (what amateurs call 48-bit or other much larger numbers invented by marketing) and the old "cmyk". I knew these two canards were going to be said right away. How about something new?
You do not understand cmyk if you think any mixture in Photoshop has anything to to with printing or "knowing what it will look like on the printer". It is actually for specific control of the paint for a particular printer and a cmyk image is far worse than an rgb one for any other printer than the one is specifically designed for. You print and look at it and then make adjustments to the cmyk image in Photoshop, and print again. All real "color management" is done by converting to a 3D space and back so an RGB image is perfectly capable.
Professional work is done in floating point in large numbers of dimensions with linear values representing physical amounts of light. Both Photoshop and gimp are nowhere near any of this.
Yes. Let me sell nuclear secrets to a government who could potentially use them against the country my family members/ loved ones live in so that they can get some money.
If they did this for ideological reasons, it is likely that they don't think the bomb will be used. They may think that Chavez threatening to use it on Columbia or whatever will help in negotiations. Or even more likely they may believe that "having the bomb" would just provide prestige for him.
I myself would think this is stupid. The actual results would be immediate sanctions, embargos, and threats to bomb the refinement facilities. If Chavez actually used a bomb he would be invaded and would be remembered forever as one of the greatest villians in world history.
I find it hard to believe that nuclear engineers would not figure this out, no matter how left-wing they might be. Therefore I think a more likely explanation is that they thought the * Venezuelans* were stupid and that they could extract a quick pile of money from them!
If that connector that could now be built doesn't work better than the TV connector
I would suspect a "pirate" HDCP decoder using this will be a lot more reliable and faster than the commercial ones, due to the source code likely being open or at least looked at by a lot more intelligent people.
I doubt that, the delay is for several seconds and only FIrefox is dead. I can launch other software while this is happening. And this does not happen with tabs other than Slashdot, even very heavy javascript and flash (they may take forever to load but Firefox works while this is happening). Only Slashdot's javascript seems to do this.
For me in Firefox loading a Slashdot page in the background locks it up for several seconds. It seems to start about 2 seconds after the page starts loading (ie if I click quickly I can open more pages in the background) and then it locks until (I think) the page finishes loading. So this problem makes it useless. Firefox 3.6.8.
Exactly, this is the same problem. Also the Linux repository installers work as root too.
Even OS/X does not get it really right. Yes the installers work without root, but only because they hacked the system so that/Applications is writable by the user (though you can't replace any files so you can only *add* software). I would still see that as a big security hole.
If you go to the map, at least for me, the marker seems to point at nothing, but right above it is the lincoln memorial, clearly marked! So is the Jefferson Memorial.
I think it is a conservative conspiracy, they wanted people to walk past the Korean War monument (which is also clearly on the map). We kicked those commie's asses in that one! Hell Yeah!
It also goes there for "any memorial, washington".
Obviously those evil liberals realized that Glen Beck said "I'm going to rally at any memorial in Washington!" and Google made sure they were sent to the wrong one!
Yes as I said below, averaging a lot of pixels would lower the noise floor and increase the range. However it increases the range by far, far less than if you used those N pixels for N different-exposed shots and this sort of huge range increase is normally what is meant by "HDR".
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You are right about the terms. Really what I meant is that restricting the objects to just one type, a stream, is a useful simplification.
Passing objects was part of Multics in 1969, and was rejected by the Unix designers. Obviously the main reason was to make Unix a reasonable size, but it also proved that everything they were attempting with Multics could be done with streams only.
Please post an example of a powershell program that does something non-trivial to more than one type of object and does not serialize it into text and we will then be able to discuss how "advanced" this is.
This is a useless complication atop streams.
I am even more amazed by the number of people who do not remove all the huge colorful stickers on the edge of there very expensive HDTV (the ones saying 1080P! and listing all the types of inputs it takes). This includes very intelligent people btw.
Microsoft does not allow that, anybody that does it will lose their OEM pricing. They can no longer force Windows on all machines due to anti trust agreements, but they can still dictate what else can be on a machine with Windows. This is certainly hurting Linux for home use, even those willing to do the work of installing Linux typically make a dual-boot machine as Windows is somewhat useful still.
Geosynchronous orbit does not have an eclipse every 24 hours, because the earth's axis is tilted. It only has them at two points in the year. At that point there is an eclipse every 24 hours, but I'm not sure how long that point lasts, it may be less than 24 hours.
This has nothing to do with net neutrality. Nice attempt at a troll.
The end user is paying for some services. They did not pay for the "service" of transmitting millions of spam messages. Therefore they should be cut off until they stop doing this.
Now if a virus maker could pay an ISP to not block *their* virus this would be a violation of net neutrality.
This sounds like a good idea but it will have to be somewhat difficult to turn the web access on/off, possibly with a delay like 1 day or something annoying. Otherwise bot programs will probably quickly figure out how to go to that web site and turn on the necessary access. Or there will be fake programs (pron players, "virus detectors", etc) that say "you must turn on such&such in your ISP firewall to run this".
Actually the design is such that 8/9 of the possible viewing positions show the right image. For a certain angle of positions you see images 1&2, then 2&3, then 3&4, etc. Eventually you see images 9&1 (which would be backwards) but as you continue moving your head you are back to 1&2.
The big problem with this design is that you need 9 different images, not just 2. Interpolating an existing pair will not work as the resulting image pairs will be with 1/8 the stereo effect between an adjacent pair. Instead you need to extrapolate which gets increasingly difficult. Or you need to actually create all 9 pictures directly, which is why about 100% of the images for these devices is CGI.
He said the two knee-jerk "features" that are always mentioned when somebody wants to prove that GIMP sucks when they probably have not used either program. I knew that it would take about 10 seconds for somebody to say "CMYK and 48 bits!".
Look down below for some *actual* complaints about GIMP and realize that you can actually have an intelligent discussion here. Lack of operations between layers (ie a tree of operators) is a big one that Photoshop does (it is described as several terms as Photoshop actually makes quite a confusing mess of it but at least it tries...). Complaints about the user interface such as illogical combinations of items and inability to place windows in desired locations are also legit. Having used both software I think GIMP certainly should try to get some working previews for all the plugins and filters, it currently is close to useless to try these.
Just to be fair, Photoshop really could learn from GIMP how to zoom out on a picture with usable filtering, and wtf is with it's inability to change the brush for the eraser by using the back end of the pen, which GIMP does perfectly!
I want to complement you on a REAL response, rather than the canned garbage about "more than 24 bits and CMYK". You have listed real actual deficiencies in GIMP verses Photoshop that actually effect users. Thank you for showing a little intelligence still remains on Slashdot.
No it does not do HDR and neither does Photoshop.
Both would be a lot closer if they started ignoring all the morons who think making integer levels have more than 8 bits is useful, like about 50 posts above complaining about Gimp's lack of what they call "48-bit color" (really 12-bit color).
If you have 16 bits it is moronic to use it for anything other than IEEE half floating point format. Many times more moronic if you have 32 bits!
Yea, he said "more than 8 bits per channel" (what amateurs call 48-bit or other much larger numbers invented by marketing) and the old "cmyk". I knew these two canards were going to be said right away. How about something new?
You do not understand cmyk if you think any mixture in Photoshop has anything to to with printing or "knowing what it will look like on the printer". It is actually for specific control of the paint for a particular printer and a cmyk image is far worse than an rgb one for any other printer than the one is specifically designed for. You print and look at it and then make adjustments to the cmyk image in Photoshop, and print again. All real "color management" is done by converting to a 3D space and back so an RGB image is perfectly capable.
Professional work is done in floating point in large numbers of dimensions with linear values representing physical amounts of light. Both Photoshop and gimp are nowhere near any of this.
Yes. Let me sell nuclear secrets to a government who could potentially use them against the country my family members/ loved ones live in so that they can get some money.
If they did this for ideological reasons, it is likely that they don't think the bomb will be used. They may think that Chavez threatening to use it on Columbia or whatever will help in negotiations. Or even more likely they may believe that "having the bomb" would just provide prestige for him.
I myself would think this is stupid. The actual results would be immediate sanctions, embargos, and threats to bomb the refinement facilities. If Chavez actually used a bomb he would be invaded and would be remembered forever as one of the greatest villians in world history.
I find it hard to believe that nuclear engineers would not figure this out, no matter how left-wing they might be. Therefore I think a more likely explanation is that they thought the * Venezuelans* were stupid and that they could extract a quick pile of money from them!
If that connector that could now be built doesn't work better than the TV connector
I would suspect a "pirate" HDCP decoder using this will be a lot more reliable and faster than the commercial ones, due to the source code likely being open or at least looked at by a lot more intelligent people.
2. to appropriate (ideas, credit, words, etc.) without right or acknowledgment.
Well! Sense 2 sure seems to fit pretty well!
Yea, except for that pesky "or acknowledgment" part.
You are confusing plagiarism with copyright infringement.
In California it is the driver's licenses
Also very common in England.
I'm not sure it is exactly the same as this EULA stuff, as you are allowed to sell the lease on the land to somebody else.
I doubt that, the delay is for several seconds and only FIrefox is dead. I can launch other software while this is happening. And this does not happen with tabs other than Slashdot, even very heavy javascript and flash (they may take forever to load but Firefox works while this is happening). Only Slashdot's javascript seems to do this.
For me in Firefox loading a Slashdot page in the background locks it up for several seconds. It seems to start about 2 seconds after the page starts loading (ie if I click quickly I can open more pages in the background) and then it locks until (I think) the page finishes loading. So this problem makes it useless. Firefox 3.6.8.
Except in some third-world countries like the US, all trains are electric.
You will however need a thruster or something to circularize the orbit! Otherwise it will hit the earth again...
Exactly, this is the same problem. Also the Linux repository installers work as root too.
Even OS/X does not get it really right. Yes the installers work without root, but only because they hacked the system so that /Applications is writable by the user (though you can't replace any files so you can only *add* software). I would still see that as a big security hole.
If you go to the map, at least for me, the marker seems to point at nothing, but right above it is the lincoln memorial, clearly marked! So is the Jefferson Memorial.
I think it is a conservative conspiracy, they wanted people to walk past the Korean War monument (which is also clearly on the map). We kicked those commie's asses in that one! Hell Yeah!
It also goes there for "any memorial, washington".
Obviously those evil liberals realized that Glen Beck said "I'm going to rally at any memorial in Washington!" and Google made sure they were sent to the wrong one!
Yes as I said below, averaging a lot of pixels would lower the noise floor and increase the range. However it increases the range by far, far less than if you used those N pixels for N different-exposed shots and this sort of huge range increase is normally what is meant by "HDR".