Re:Anyone have a replica of MS-DOS EDITOR?
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indeed, Jed is my favourite console editor of the lot(emacs aside), it's also a lot easier to get onto a shell account that only has VIM by default than Emacs.
well, while i don't like the idea of introducing dithering to a photographic image just in an attempt to reduce it's size, i also have a problem with your suggestion that "you just can't see the artifacts unless somebody was just a bad pilot with the software they were using"
this is not the case, JPEG produces visible artefacts in almost every case(if they really are undetectable in an image it's either very noisy to start with, or an insanely high quality setting has been used), i think the most important factor is just how sensitive you are to them.
MP3, on the other hand, does a rather good job, if you encode with the correct settings(still fairly low bitrate though), and a good encoder, you wont hear artefacts, it wont be as good as the original, but if you've never heard the original it really doesn't matter.
conversely, in the absense of an original RAW photograph you're(well, i am) still going to be able to detect artefacts.
you know, i'm not entirely convinced that it's down to P2P, well, at least not for the reasons suggested.
downloading music from the internet allows one to listen before they buy, no longer are so many album purchases made based on the strength of one single, we get a chance to discover that, actually, the album isn't worth the money.
one good solution, better bands making better music, there are a handful of great bands i love, and listen to frequently, but then there's all this crap that's been apearing on MTV2 and Kerrang recently, it's far less likely that i'm going to hear something i want to go out and buy now than it was 12 months ago.
i'm waiting for the RIAA to go after public libraries here, borrowing a CD for a couple of quid and copying it, vs. buying a couple of DRM'd low bit rate compressed tracks for 99p each...
certainly sounds that way, i really don't understand why people waste their time customising a pre alpha non free OS(why anyone would even want to run it is beyond me), that will almost certainly have an interface to accomodate for easy skinning anyway. the only people i would expect this to be of benefit to are those who produce things like windowblinds.
it's nothing but a publicity stunt, well, maybe with an additional "we want in" on the free development thing.
best option is for anyone who cares about OSS in a Free Software context to just leave well alone, we've already got NSIS. granted, MSI may be preferable to carting win32 executables around the web, from a security point of view, but, that said, couldn't msi become the next format of choice for email worms?
Always on Camera you can wear, acompanied by a rack of lead acid batteries you can cart around behind you, based on past experience of HP camera battery life.
but seriously, this just doesn't sound like a marketable idea to me, whenever i miss a shot it's because i don't have a camera with me, not because it's not sat at my eye level monitoring my every move.
i have to agree 2k is a far more robust operating system than 2K+"nasty blue theme"-"hardware support"
on the *nix front, sure, use BSD if you must, but there's nothing wrong with Linux, it just doesn't sound as elitist as it once did, and that scares some geeks.
anyway, we're very much offtopic at this point, Visual Program design eh? VB should be a good lesson that it's simply not a good idea, it's the kind of thing that can allow an idiot to end up teaching programming in a college...
yes, so very helpful, i never like the wording people use when moaning that something isn't KDE.
the reviewer could've done with learning how to use PNG instead of GIF, and possibly installed on real hardware, i get the impression(of course i may well be wrong in making the assumption) that this review was conducted through virtual machine/emulation of some sort.
so,if we never got colour television would that have prevented the late 90's slew of home design/decoration/demolition programs, the inventors have a lot to answer for!;)
did anyone(i'm assuming you're ranting at a comment poster as your message is attached to one) mention monopolies? the first poster was simply trolling, of course it's competition, it's a move to counter the competition microsoft are seeing from the Linux i18n teams who are rallying round to serve up a free desktop in the most peculiar form of script you could imagine.
so, you want to do what, make a distro totally dedicated to Gaming? a full installable distro, or just another Morphix Games LiveCD, if the former i really see little point, while Games are lovely to have around, and most linux distros give you a good handful of nice games(Frozen Bubble is apparantly very popular among new converts) but also allow you to do plenty of useful tasks on the same operating system, with this idea of run the risk of relegating Linux to simply booting up and playing games.
of course, if you're looking to improve upon Morphix Games, that's great, making the overall user experience a little more pleasant, and ensuring that games are really good enough for the general public, that's a great idea, it's the kind of thing you can give away in addition to Gnoppix, TheOpenCD, or whatever else. infact, it might be something worth putting in the handout pack for SoftwareFreedomDay
well, why not The GIMP? GIMP2 delivers some UI changes to make it more Photo$hop user friendly, but beyond that there really isn't much that immediately makes it better than the 1.2 series that the GIMP community at large have been using for years now without problems. (there are obviously lots more changes, but if you don't know GIMP you probably wont care)
as for linux vs. XP startup times, not wrong at all, and when i first started using linux win9x startup would often take longer than RH5.2, ok, granted it was most likely win9x in a very bad state, but still.
"Even though the initial startup is extremely fast, once logged in the system crawls along, taking a seemingly endless amount of time to get everything up and running. This too will definitely improve over development time."
isn't that just what they did with XP, and XPsp1 more so, get the loading screen out of the way quickly and hand the user a mouse pointer and desktop to play with in order to create the illusion of improved startup times, doesn't matter that the user can't really do anything for 45 - 60 seconds after they get their desktop, as long as it doesn't say loading anywhere.
modded funny? from what i've just read they apear to be restricting the content to users of platforms supported by Microsoft's DRM software, so as well as paying the license fee, UK residents not running windows will need to pay for a windows license in order to use the service, does that sound reasonable to you, "dumbass"?
i wonder if i'll be able to get hold of paradise lost in space and old harry's game on the thing...
i'm sorry, but some of us like the UI, i personally find the Photo$hop way of working absolutely abhorrent. while they have made a large number of modifications to the interface which will, no doubt, be of benefit to photoshop users while retaining the GIMP user interface which the existing userbase know, use, and find to be effective. take some time to learn how to use the UI and you'll get on fine.
as for the reviewer, if the guy had even slightly more than a glancing knowledge of the GIMP, or had ever bothered to try it out before then we'd have a more valuable article on our hands, as it stands i'm simply not impressed, i'm amazed that he can't even work out how to subtract from the current selection, that really was a shortsighted complaint.
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indeed, Jed is my favourite console editor of the lot(emacs aside), it's also a lot easier to get onto a shell account that only has VIM by default than Emacs.
well, while i don't like the idea of introducing dithering to a photographic image just in an attempt to reduce it's size, i also have a problem with your suggestion that
"you just can't see the artifacts unless somebody was just a bad pilot with the software they were using"
this is not the case, JPEG produces visible artefacts in almost every case(if they really are undetectable in an image it's either very noisy to start with, or an insanely high quality setting has been used), i think the most important factor is just how sensitive you are to them.
MP3, on the other hand, does a rather good job, if you encode with the correct settings(still fairly low bitrate though), and a good encoder, you wont hear artefacts, it wont be as good as the original, but if you've never heard the original it really doesn't matter.
conversely, in the absense of an original RAW photograph you're(well, i am) still going to be able to detect artefacts.
what's this dramatically different direction for Netscape going to be then, not simply a netscape branded package based on Mozilla FireFox/Bird, etc?
you know, i'm not entirely convinced that it's down to P2P, well, at least not for the reasons suggested.
downloading music from the internet allows one to listen before they buy, no longer are so many album purchases made based on the strength of one single, we get a chance to discover that, actually, the album isn't worth the money.
one good solution, better bands making better music, there are a handful of great bands i love, and listen to frequently, but then there's all this crap that's been apearing on MTV2 and Kerrang recently, it's far less likely that i'm going to hear something i want to go out and buy now than it was 12 months ago.
i'm waiting for the RIAA to go after public libraries here, borrowing a CD for a couple of quid and copying it, vs. buying a couple of DRM'd low bit rate compressed tracks for 99p each...
i'd be careful, this simply means that it'll be beter able to rot your brain!
certainly sounds that way, i really don't understand why people waste their time customising a pre alpha non free OS(why anyone would even want to run it is beyond me), that will almost certainly have an interface to accomodate for easy skinning anyway. the only people i would expect this to be of benefit to are those who produce things like windowblinds.
it's nothing but a publicity stunt, well, maybe with an additional "we want in" on the free development thing.
best option is for anyone who cares about OSS in a Free Software context to just leave well alone, we've already got NSIS. granted, MSI may be preferable to carting win32 executables around the web, from a security point of view, but, that said, couldn't msi become the next format of choice for email worms?
digging a tunnel beneath the perimeter fence at glastonbury? at 17,000 it's cheaper than buying tickets through ebay ;)
Always on Camera you can wear, acompanied by a rack of lead acid batteries you can cart around behind you, based on past experience of HP camera battery life.
but seriously, this just doesn't sound like a marketable idea to me, whenever i miss a shot it's because i don't have a camera with me, not because it's not sat at my eye level monitoring my every move.
it's Geek's who like shiney blue things and want to be able to run pirated copies of Photo$hop without WINE.
i have to agree 2k is a far more robust operating system than 2K+"nasty blue theme"-"hardware support"
on the *nix front, sure, use BSD if you must, but there's nothing wrong with Linux, it just doesn't sound as elitist as it once did, and that scares some geeks.
anyway, we're very much offtopic at this point, Visual Program design eh? VB should be a good lesson that it's simply not a good idea, it's the kind of thing that can allow an idiot to end up teaching programming in a college...
yes, so very helpful, i never like the wording people use when moaning that something isn't KDE.
the reviewer could've done with learning how to use PNG instead of GIF, and possibly installed on real hardware, i get the impression(of course i may well be wrong in making the assumption) that this review was conducted through virtual machine/emulation of some sort.
that'd be XFCE and Abiword, they don't include Openoffice.org
dreadfully sorry, i forgot to wink ;-)
ok?
100 years? but the article clearly states 48 years, very precisely as well, i think she put it as 48.000
so,if we never got colour television would that have prevented the late 90's slew of home design/decoration/demolition programs, the inventors have a lot to answer for! ;)
did anyone(i'm assuming you're ranting at a comment poster as your message is attached to one) mention monopolies? the first poster was simply trolling, of course it's competition, it's a move to counter the competition microsoft are seeing from the Linux i18n teams who are rallying round to serve up a free desktop in the most peculiar form of script you could imagine.
Gnoppix UT2003 LiveCD ISO
so, you want to do what, make a distro totally dedicated to Gaming? a full installable distro, or just another Morphix Games LiveCD, if the former i really see little point, while Games are lovely to have around, and most linux distros give you a good handful of nice games(Frozen Bubble is apparantly very popular among new converts) but also allow you to do plenty of useful tasks on the same operating system, with this idea of run the risk of relegating Linux to simply booting up and playing games.
of course, if you're looking to improve upon Morphix Games, that's great, making the overall user experience a little more pleasant, and ensuring that games are really good enough for the general public, that's a great idea, it's the kind of thing you can give away in addition to Gnoppix, TheOpenCD, or whatever else. infact, it might be something worth putting in the handout pack for SoftwareFreedomDay
but isn't there the Gentoo Game LiveCD(or something like that), the one which boots up, starts X, and allows you to run UT2003_demo
of course it needs better hardware support, but that's something that card manufacturers need to get involved in unfortunately.
all you need do is restart development.
http://tuxkart.sourceforge.net/
well, why not The GIMP? GIMP2 delivers some UI changes to make it more Photo$hop user friendly, but beyond that there really isn't much that immediately makes it better than the 1.2 series that the GIMP community at large have been using for years now without problems. (there are obviously lots more changes, but if you don't know GIMP you probably wont care)
as for linux vs. XP startup times, not wrong at all, and when i first started using linux win9x startup would often take longer than RH5.2, ok, granted it was most likely win9x in a very bad state, but still.
i personally like this one
"Even though the initial startup is extremely fast, once logged in the system crawls along, taking a seemingly endless amount of time to get everything up and running. This too will definitely improve over development time."
isn't that just what they did with XP, and XPsp1 more so, get the loading screen out of the way quickly and hand the user a mouse pointer and desktop to play with in order to create the illusion of improved startup times, doesn't matter that the user can't really do anything for 45 - 60 seconds after they get their desktop, as long as it doesn't say loading anywhere.
modded funny? from what i've just read they apear to be restricting the content to users of platforms supported by Microsoft's DRM software, so as well as paying the license fee, UK residents not running windows will need to pay for a windows license in order to use the service, does that sound reasonable to you, "dumbass"?
i wonder if i'll be able to get hold of paradise lost in space and old harry's game on the thing...
i'm sorry, but some of us like the UI, i personally find the Photo$hop way of working absolutely abhorrent. while they have made a large number of modifications to the interface which will, no doubt, be of benefit to photoshop users while retaining the GIMP user interface which the existing userbase know, use, and find to be effective. take some time to learn how to use the UI and you'll get on fine.
as for the reviewer, if the guy had even slightly more than a glancing knowledge of the GIMP, or had ever bothered to try it out before then we'd have a more valuable article on our hands, as it stands i'm simply not impressed, i'm amazed that he can't even work out how to subtract from the current selection, that really was a shortsighted complaint.
he could do with R'ingTFM!