yes, this sounds a lot more like Enlightenment's pagers, what with that bitmap preview thing, infact they're just about the best. and of course GNOME has window outlines in a little grey box.
well, someone can write the patch, or maybe the EU would like to fund the hacker who has to implement the feature, then the code can be put somewhere safe and anyone who wants it can patch the GIMP source package when they come to compile, no reason why such a patch would need to become part of the standard distribution.
i think the most important thing that can be done to prevent counterfeiting is to improve banknote design, US greenbacks are just asking for it!
Sandra's ok for basic stuff, and isn't it also "free" in it's standard edition form?, but is there anything like the Central point tools and Checkit of old.
i guess it's because the Linux source code is carefully scrutinised on a regular basis, whereas the windows sources, because microsoft doesn't give them away to the public, are not.
but i doubt a sourcecode leak is all that dangerous, surely security can't be that bad, can it?
so, on linux, i'd download the attachment, run it through unzip, make the binary executable, then run it? not bloody likely, -1 for usability maybe, but definately +3 for safety around newbies.
of course i'm sure on KDE with some WINE integration it could be so much quicker and easier...
ok, i think they must've added the 6th image in that series later on, because there are certainly more in there than before, i think i'll have a go with the sundial next.
anyway, this one Spirit-pano-rgb-compose2.jpg uses the previously unavailable L6 and gets the US flag just about right.
i'm afraid i listened to the Radio4 series prior to reading the books, but i don't think that damaged my enjoyment of them in any way shape or form, now, on the other hand, if i'd seen that god awful television series first, that would've completely robbed me of the experience delivered by books or radio.
i guess we'll just have to wait and see how badly disney screws it up...
the Graphical front end is, but isn't the console version fairly portable, just need someone to bother with the port, most of the time i don't use 7z unless i know i'm sharing files with people working on a win32 platform, i normally just stick with tar and bzip2.
American idle? you guys have to suffer the tosser as well?
it'll certainly help in the pop music market, as well as not writing their own songs, music or playing instruments they can now get away with not singing too!
i think the most important thing about this development though is that stephen hawking will be able to persue that career in popular music he's always wanted.
yes, that surprised me a little, i would have expected him to at least get a PPC board and integrated an LCD panel display in the area they used for a window, not overly impressed personally.
but then, i guess that would make things a little on the pricey side, but that's in keeping with the apple scheme of things too.
while it doesn't seem to use all of the most advanced technologies that Knoppix provides, which makes load times slightly longer, Gnoppix is rather good, and as far as user experience goes it really outdoes Knoppix with the GNOME desktop.
usability has been perfectly good enough for the last 3 years as well, the main innovations in the 1.3 branch seem to be in an attempt to make photo$hop users less scared, i, for one, love the 1.2 series UI and find it very productive, especially when forging bank notes;)
but to license yourself a copy of Photo$hop CS you'll probably need to print money anyway, how secure is it, could you segment the image and then re-assemble it later and save, or is writing money forbidden too?
of course, this kind of limitation isn't present in TheGIMP, and it's not the kind of thing i'd expect to see implemented in an OSS app any time soon either:D
that must be partly to try and take advantage of all the oddball features their S3 card is capable of though, they'll want to compete with the graphics of the XBox, and can't do so unless they get developers on board to make native customised optimised ports.
it's great competition though, they've got the geek market covered, every techy/semi-techy user will want one, never again will anyone with a slashdot account go for an Xbox! i'm all for it, even if it does run windows and use WMP by default...
i suspect this just about dooms the XBox WinCE project though.
as for iTunes, it's not an invention, it's more an investment, the idea and tech have been around for ages, but no one's actually sunk serious money into it until appple, and luckily for them it paid off.
ok, well, firstly why on earth would anyone want to bother, i can't see any point at all for the exercise, a hobbyOS is always more fun when you own it, or have some rights over it.
on the legal front, i am curious to know if he's linking anything MS against anything GPL here, or if it's simply recompiled and being launched by his GPL'd work.
well, that's fine, but Konq can't be ported to win32 unless someone throws some money at the developers to pay trolltech's fee(and goes easy on the GPL compliance) for a win32 version of Qt, and anyway, i've never found konq's rendering speed any better than the competition, the only major difference is it's poor page rendering, especially with CSS.
have you tried either K-Meleon on win32 or Galeon/epiphany on *nix? these all perform great from my experience, and i probably use mozilla proper less than the others on linux.
grabbing attention and porting to other platforms is a great reason for a port, but not a Qt port, at the moment there's no free win32 version of Qt and all the KDE apps already run on linux, so it's pretty much the end of the line.
i'm not trying to get at either Konq or NS3, but this whole licensing thing has done nothing but annoy me, especially since i've worked on a project to put out a collection of opensource win32 software, TheOpenCD, and have had to turn down apps developed with Qt on win32 because of the license.
the most obvious thing i can think of is lifespan, your average desktop computer has a pretty limited useful lifetime, for a normal user that is,(maybe longer now than previously was the case, but still) when compared with televisions, fridges, or most household appliances for that matter.
more unwanted computers sent to developing countries is one possible way to reduce the problem, oh, and big companies like Del and HP allowing organisations to sell on old hardware rather than either stockpiling it(in which case it becomes totally obsolete by the time anyone outside gets hold of it) or sending it back to them for "disposal"
so, you want a win32 port so that you can have something similar to your "beloved Netscape 3.04", i guess you're a win32 user, why not use NS3.04 and it's spectacularly dated rendering engine, in some ways it may well render pages more accurately than KHTML (or Apple(R) Webcore as i'm sure they'd like you to call it)from some of the screenshots i've seen recently from a friend.
my best guess is that Trolltech put out Qt-mac as GPL in order to encourage the opensource community to use it, support it, develop it, because they've pretty much given up.
and while i understand that RangerRick has done a lot of work, it's been done before, just look in his blog for screenshots of it from Sam Magnuson of Trolltech http://ranger.befunk.com/blog/archives/000072.html (i'm impressed by just how truly dreadful Qt's aqua theme is) i guess the guy didn't want to release any patches or sources at the time though, since anyone building would've been violating GPL
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yes, this sounds a lot more like Enlightenment's pagers, what with that bitmap preview thing, infact they're just about the best. and of course GNOME has window outlines in a little grey box.
but if the article's claim is true this is far far smarter than Bluetooth
;)
"WUSB will offer the same functionality as standard wired USB devices -- but without the cabling"
does that mean that i can still have small devices draw power from the bus? wireless power transmision sounds good to me
well, someone can write the patch, or maybe the EU would like to fund the hacker who has to implement the feature, then the code can be put somewhere safe and anyone who wants it can patch the GIMP source package when they come to compile, no reason why such a patch would need to become part of the standard distribution.
i think the most important thing that can be done to prevent counterfeiting is to improve banknote design, US greenbacks are just asking for it!
Sandra's ok for basic stuff, and isn't it also "free" in it's standard edition form?, but is there anything like the Central point tools and Checkit of old.
i guess it's because the Linux source code is carefully scrutinised on a regular basis, whereas the windows sources, because microsoft doesn't give them away to the public, are not.
but i doubt a sourcecode leak is all that dangerous, surely security can't be that bad, can it?
so, on linux, i'd download the attachment, run it through unzip, make the binary executable, then run it? not bloody likely, -1 for usability maybe, but definately +3 for safety around newbies.
of course i'm sure on KDE with some WINE integration it could be so much quicker and easier...
ok, i think they must've added the 6th image in that series later on, because there are certainly more in there than before, i think i'll have a go with the sundial next.
anyway, this one Spirit-pano-rgb-compose2.jpg uses the previously unavailable L6 and gets the US flag just about right.
yes, that's a good point, have you got any better idea which image on the gallery corresponds to which filter colour?
so, i threw this one together the other day, is it anywhere close do you guys reckon?
Spirit-pano-rgb-compose.jpg
i'm afraid i listened to the Radio4 series prior to reading the books, but i don't think that damaged my enjoyment of them in any way shape or form, now, on the other hand, if i'd seen that god awful television series first, that would've completely robbed me of the experience delivered by books or radio.
i guess we'll just have to wait and see how badly disney screws it up...
the Graphical front end is, but isn't the console version fairly portable, just need someone to bother with the port, most of the time i don't use 7z unless i know i'm sharing files with people working on a win32 platform, i normally just stick with tar and bzip2.
American idle? you guys have to suffer the tosser as well?
it'll certainly help in the pop music market, as well as not writing their own songs, music or playing instruments they can now get away with not singing too!
i think the most important thing about this development though is that stephen hawking will be able to persue that career in popular music he's always wanted.
yes, that surprised me a little, i would have expected him to at least get a PPC board and integrated an LCD panel display in the area they used for a window, not overly impressed personally.
but then, i guess that would make things a little on the pricey side, but that's in keeping with the apple scheme of things too.
while it doesn't seem to use all of the most advanced technologies that Knoppix provides, which makes load times slightly longer, Gnoppix is rather good, and as far as user experience goes it really outdoes Knoppix with the GNOME desktop.
usability has been perfectly good enough for the last 3 years as well, the main innovations in the 1.3 branch seem to be in an attempt to make photo$hop users less scared, i, for one, love the 1.2 series UI and find it very productive, especially when forging bank notes ;)
but to license yourself a copy of Photo$hop CS you'll probably need to print money anyway, how secure is it, could you segment the image and then re-assemble it later and save, or is writing money forbidden too?
:D
of course, this kind of limitation isn't present in TheGIMP, and it's not the kind of thing i'd expect to see implemented in an OSS app any time soon either
that must be partly to try and take advantage of all the oddball features their S3 card is capable of though, they'll want to compete with the graphics of the XBox, and can't do so unless they get developers on board to make native customised optimised ports.
it's great competition though, they've got the geek market covered, every techy/semi-techy user will want one, never again will anyone with a slashdot account go for an Xbox! i'm all for it, even if it does run windows and use WMP by default...
i suspect this just about dooms the XBox WinCE project though.
well, maybe once they're done with testing rock samples they can send it off to locate Beagle2.
and MP3 music at that, too bad indeed.
as for iTunes, it's not an invention, it's more an investment, the idea and tech have been around for ages, but no one's actually sunk serious money into it until appple, and luckily for them it paid off.
you're forgetting the true technological breakthrough that Iraq's technologists made when they perfected cloaking for said WMDs ;)
i wouldn't care too much if my system were to get rooted by some script kiddy, but if they're going to install F*BSD on the thing, then i'm scared!
ok, well, firstly why on earth would anyone want to bother, i can't see any point at all for the exercise, a hobbyOS is always more fun when you own it, or have some rights over it.
on the legal front, i am curious to know if he's linking anything MS against anything GPL here, or if it's simply recompiled and being launched by his GPL'd work.
well, that's fine, but Konq can't be ported to win32 unless someone throws some money at the developers to pay trolltech's fee(and goes easy on the GPL compliance) for a win32 version of Qt, and anyway, i've never found konq's rendering speed any better than the competition, the only major difference is it's poor page rendering, especially with CSS.
have you tried either K-Meleon on win32 or Galeon/epiphany on *nix? these all perform great from my experience, and i probably use mozilla proper less than the others on linux.
grabbing attention and porting to other platforms is a great reason for a port, but not a Qt port, at the moment there's no free win32 version of Qt and all the KDE apps already run on linux, so it's pretty much the end of the line.
i'm not trying to get at either Konq or NS3, but this whole licensing thing has done nothing but annoy me, especially since i've worked on a project to put out a collection of opensource win32 software, TheOpenCD, and have had to turn down apps developed with Qt on win32 because of the license.
the most obvious thing i can think of is lifespan, your average desktop computer has a pretty limited useful lifetime, for a normal user that is,(maybe longer now than previously was the case, but still) when compared with televisions, fridges, or most household appliances for that matter.
more unwanted computers sent to developing countries is one possible way to reduce the problem, oh, and big companies like Del and HP allowing organisations to sell on old hardware rather than either stockpiling it(in which case it becomes totally obsolete by the time anyone outside gets hold of it) or sending it back to them for "disposal"
so, you want a win32 port so that you can have something similar to your "beloved Netscape 3.04", i guess you're a win32 user, why not use NS3.04 and it's spectacularly dated rendering engine, in some ways it may well render pages more accurately than KHTML (or Apple(R) Webcore as i'm sure they'd like you to call it)from some of the screenshots i've seen recently from a friend.
l (i'm impressed by just how truly dreadful Qt's aqua theme is) i guess the guy didn't want to release any patches or sources at the time though, since anyone building would've been violating GPL
my best guess is that Trolltech put out Qt-mac as GPL in order to encourage the opensource community to use it, support it, develop it, because they've pretty much given up.
and while i understand that RangerRick has done a lot of work, it's been done before, just look in his blog for screenshots of it from Sam Magnuson of Trolltech http://ranger.befunk.com/blog/archives/000072.htm