Without disagreeing with you at all, Ubuntu isn't the linux distro that's focused first on freedom - they're trying for usability, accepting most trade-offs that are required to get there faster.
Having worked with professional graphics quite a bit I have to say that "color management" is 95% bullshit. It is not possible to make a reflective printout the "same" as a light-emitting screen, anybody claiming this is lying.
There's a difference between actual matching and what human brains think are matching. Something like ColorSync or Epson's software do the latter pretty well - people are generally happy with their output.
I just happened to try for about 4 hours the other day to get GIMP to output to my new Brother HL-4040CDN color laser printer and did not have any success. I installed all the color profiles in GIMP, got some print-preview variation, but the output was bizzarely blue-green.
Without asking for the impossible, a stab at acceptable would be welcome.
I've always wondered why one of the camera manufacturers hasn't gotten behind Gimp instead of writing their own buggy photo editing/raw conversion tools. It would prove interesting.
The motion picture industry tried to do this for filmgimp - they got no support or acceptance and had to fork. That's probably the well-funded version.
Things may be changing though - the next version is supposed to finally have a single-window mode, which Photoshop users have been looking for since forever.
Why do people insist on looking towards devices that need to be surgically implanted to operate?
In theory, the bandwidth is huge. You just can't do as much with the gear you have that's adapted for life on the Serengeti.
But, a skullcap is certainly the line at which I add "Luddite" to my.sig - bandwidth isn't everything.
The trick will be that those who do not accept the skullcaps will be at a tremendous competitive disadvantage in most economic measures. There may even need to be physical segregation of the populations.
I'm very envious. Ten years after this guy's work I spent some time writing a (lesser) version of the trench graphics sequence in Turbo Pascal. I derived all the coordinates from sketches on graph paper.:)
OK, so that was about the extent of my budget too.
CGI has ruined movies, they are so in your face that you can't enjoy the movie
It's not just the graphics, it's the film-making.
Did you notice on this one how the initial shots of the Death Star graphics are a wide shot showing all the pilots slouching around listening to the briefing? That was the point, not the graphics.
Today they would have framed that shot tight on the graphics with the speaker on one side. But by not focusing on the graphics they're more powerful - in this universe, it's just commonplace, nothing that needs highlighting (until the detail is small enough that the audience wouldn't be able to follow, so they zoom in then). To somebody watching in 1977 the effect is heightened.
The point here is the briefing and the reactions of those assembled to highlight just how ridiculous and impossible (without an assist from the "more powerful than you can possibly imagine" Ben Kenobi) the task is. But they're going to try anyway because humans fight to be free.
This is not a "right" to anything. These people need to look up the definition and history of what a "right" is.
There are no rights 'to' anything. Government can only grant rights 'from' that which it might otherwise to you. The "right to free speech" is really a promise the government won't stifle you. The right to keep and bear arms means they won't come and take them away (unless you live in NOLA), etc.
Any construct of a "right to" something means taking something from person A to give to person B, which infringes on person A's natural rights. This defeats the right purpose of government to protect people from each other, and so is an abuse of power.
It's politically convenient to call those things rights, but that's just a game they play to excuse their behavior and garner votes from the B's.
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I would guess, and I should stress I'm not sure, that the Fedora-philosophy would be that two Fedora users ought to be using an XMPP-based chat, with encryption. But, yeah, Fedora is very stuck on GNOME as a party-line, and it has blinders on about that. I use Pidgin on KDE on Fedora, and it all works well, but it's a bit less polished than the GNOME stack and not "core". Fedora gives up features for polish, that's for sure.
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Our RedHat account manager indicates that RHEL6 will probably be based off F11 with some parts (likely the KVM bits) of F12.
yeah, RHEL 6 activity started branching a few months back.
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Wouldnt fedora be precisely the WRONG distro to use as a server on a network, given that it is a bleeding edge distro?
Your question is impossible to answer without requirements. Do you need the features that just came out and want them packaged more than you want to avoid yearly OS updates? If so, Fedora is natural. If not, not so much.
Hi-hats or any other cymbal, bells, glockenspiels, etc., all sound like shit in anything below 256. I can't describe the distortion other than to say it sounds hissy. Go ahead, listen to ANY Police tunes in low bitrate. I defy you to not cringe at how MP3 ruins Stuart Copeland's percussion.
Yep. Whenever I get a chance (sadly, not very often), I put on In a Silent Way in a dark room to chill. I tried the mp3 from a DVD player, an iPod, and a Sansa Clip - all were missing the brilliant cymbal dynamics. Put the CD in the (el cheapo) DVD player, and the magic was back.
I bet you're right, "Message in a Bottle" wouldn't stand up either.
Granted, I have decent speakers and I wouldn't care in a car.
And we're old guys who know what CD's sound like.
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You can really see the Ubuntu influence on the Fedora marketing materials: smiling faces, happy about "software that helps you work, play, organize, and socialize." Wait, did Fedora even have marketing materials before Ubuntu?
Fedora has a very active marketing team now. Check the fedora-marketing list.
I wonder if they're intentionally trying to drive people to RHEL on these platforms.
Fedora offers infrastructure to those willing to put the work into secondary architectures. Where architectures fall off, there is simply a lack of manpower.
That is unspeakably sad. You should listen to great music from the past because it's great music, not because some new hack is using it to further his career.
You may over-estimate teenagers.
Vanilla Ice turned me on to Queen. A year later I was deep into Classic Rock instead of Pop, quite a trade up. My tastes have evolved since then, but bad music sampling probably moved me a few years up the curve.
there was not yet any reasonable alternative in the ranch-affordable drug market
I take it then, that Pfeizer doesn't sell the replacement, more expensive, drug? I agree, it's not conclusive, but I do wonder if giving up profit in this one market established a general premise for more broad profit in other sectors. It's hard to verify intent, but numbers are pretty good.
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n900 says all that?
Quick, what's the iPhone's OS (OSX ARM port) really called?
Assuming that most planes are flying where
GPS speed - headwind > stall speed
unless they're on take-off or approach, wouldn't a GPS plus a laser wind-speed detection system at airports solve that problem?
Without disagreeing with you at all, Ubuntu isn't the linux distro that's focused first on freedom - they're trying for usability, accepting most trade-offs that are required to get there faster.
There's a difference between actual matching and what human brains think are matching. Something like ColorSync or Epson's software do the latter pretty well - people are generally happy with their output.
I just happened to try for about 4 hours the other day to get GIMP to output to my new Brother HL-4040CDN color laser printer and did not have any success. I installed all the color profiles in GIMP, got some print-preview variation, but the output was bizzarely blue-green.
Without asking for the impossible, a stab at acceptable would be welcome.
The motion picture industry tried to do this for filmgimp - they got no support or acceptance and had to fork. That's probably the well-funded version.
Things may be changing though - the next version is supposed to finally have a single-window mode, which Photoshop users have been looking for since forever.
In theory, the bandwidth is huge. You just can't do as much with the gear you have that's adapted for life on the Serengeti.
But, a skullcap is certainly the line at which I add "Luddite" to my .sig - bandwidth isn't everything.
The trick will be that those who do not accept the skullcaps will be at a tremendous competitive disadvantage in most economic measures. There may even need to be physical segregation of the populations.
The president of this organization that's trying to intimidate this Scout is the top visitor to the Obama White House.
They wouldn't let them crop-dust a pretend cornfield there either - it's not an agricultural area and the drainage is all wrong.
I'm very envious. Ten years after this guy's work I spent some time writing a (lesser) version of the trench graphics sequence in Turbo Pascal. I derived all the coordinates from sketches on graph paper. :)
OK, so that was about the extent of my budget too.
CGI has ruined movies, they are so in your face that you can't enjoy the movie
It's not just the graphics, it's the film-making.
Did you notice on this one how the initial shots of the Death Star graphics are a wide shot showing all the pilots slouching around listening to the briefing? That was the point, not the graphics.
Today they would have framed that shot tight on the graphics with the speaker on one side. But by not focusing on the graphics they're more powerful - in this universe, it's just commonplace, nothing that needs highlighting (until the detail is small enough that the audience wouldn't be able to follow, so they zoom in then). To somebody watching in 1977 the effect is heightened.
The point here is the briefing and the reactions of those assembled to highlight just how ridiculous and impossible (without an assist from the "more powerful than you can possibly imagine" Ben Kenobi) the task is. But they're going to try anyway because humans fight to be free.
notice, this wasn't his suggestion (which seems good).
There are no rights 'to' anything. Government can only grant rights 'from' that which it might otherwise to you. The "right to free speech" is really a promise the government won't stifle you. The right to keep and bear arms means they won't come and take them away (unless you live in NOLA), etc.
Any construct of a "right to" something means taking something from person A to give to person B, which infringes on person A's natural rights. This defeats the right purpose of government to protect people from each other, and so is an abuse of power.
It's politically convenient to call those things rights, but that's just a game they play to excuse their behavior and garner votes from the B's.
I would guess, and I should stress I'm not sure, that the Fedora-philosophy would be that two Fedora users ought to be using an XMPP-based chat, with encryption. But, yeah, Fedora is very stuck on GNOME as a party-line, and it has blinders on about that. I use Pidgin on KDE on Fedora, and it all works well, but it's a bit less polished than the GNOME stack and not "core". Fedora gives up features for polish, that's for sure.
yeah, RHEL 6 activity started branching a few months back.
yum install pidgin
Your question is impossible to answer without requirements. Do you need the features that just came out and want them packaged more than you want to avoid yearly OS updates? If so, Fedora is natural. If not, not so much.
Yep. Whenever I get a chance (sadly, not very often), I put on In a Silent Way in a dark room to chill. I tried the mp3 from a DVD player, an iPod, and a Sansa Clip - all were missing the brilliant cymbal dynamics. Put the CD in the (el cheapo) DVD player, and the magic was back.
I bet you're right, "Message in a Bottle" wouldn't stand up either.
Granted, I have decent speakers and I wouldn't care in a car.
And we're old guys who know what CD's sound like.
Fedora has a very active marketing team now. Check the fedora-marketing list.
Fedora offers infrastructure to those willing to put the work into secondary architectures. Where architectures fall off, there is simply a lack of manpower.
Perhaps it's useful to some.
Surely an enzyme could be added to the water purification process?
That is unspeakably sad. You should listen to great music from the past because it's great music, not because some new hack is using it to further his career.
You may over-estimate teenagers.
Vanilla Ice turned me on to Queen. A year later I was deep into Classic Rock instead of Pop, quite a trade up. My tastes have evolved since then, but bad music sampling probably moved me a few years up the curve.
You can't use terms like 'licked' in this kind of article submission. Somebody's going to call you on the carpet for that.
wow, that's a great way to create a black market.
Thanks for the info.
there was not yet any reasonable alternative in the ranch-affordable drug market
I take it then, that Pfeizer doesn't sell the replacement, more expensive, drug? I agree, it's not conclusive, but I do wonder if giving up profit in this one market established a general premise for more broad profit in other sectors. It's hard to verify intent, but numbers are pretty good.
Sometimes the FDA makes no sense. Oh wait, it's part of the government, never mind!!
This makes perfect sense if you account for regulatory capture.