I don't know anything about american law, but I don't think bribing people to vote for you is the same as bribing officials to change the votes of people who didn't vote for you.
What if you are already a competent unix applications developer, and don't want to pay double the price for the same hardware you'd get from a beige-box company.
Prices may differ elsewhere, but here in NZ, all Macs come through Rennaisance(sic) technology, and are double the price of the equivalent Lenovo Notebook (which is also higher quality, and has better hardware support in Linux and FreeBSD).
Or if you own a computer simply for playing games, then the only feasible option is to run Windows (or live in the past and get an Amiga), it doesn't make sense to pay double for a machine where the warranty is void (Are Mac's still this way?) as soon as you upgrade anything yourself.
And yes I have used Mac's from System 6 -> OSX, and while OSX is pretty good (System 6-8 were garbage, haven't really used System 9), it still makes a lot more sense for me to use Gentoo.
You are right in that for some people it makes no sense to buy a PC, but not all.
Cue Unix programmers ranting about how MacOSX is Unix and they use it every day, blah,blah,blah good for you.
What you mean is Windows fails it, and MacOS X halfway fails it.
At least MacOS X includes (as an optional extra?) an X server, which allows you to use X11 apps with whatever window manager you want. It still forces you to use the MacOS gui for native applications, which while better than Windows GDI for a lot of people, is still not ideal for all.
Now I'm not trying to shit on OSX, but I prefer to use FVWM, it is (to a lot of people) disgustingly ugly, but I haven't seen any other window managers that allow you to configure them as easily and to the extent that FVWM does. My brother on the other hand hates it, and can easily use KDE on the same system, with all the same applications (though I tend to use GTK, whereas he tends to use QT).
MacOS X is a great platform for those who will permit extra complexity for an easier learning curve. Windows is great for people who only use one maximised window, and a PITA for most other people, thankfully (I'm told as I don't use windows anymore) there are tools to replace the Windows window management, and along with turning the Display DPI down and installing an X server (like Cygwin/X) you can get a usable system (though it isn't pulling me from *nix anytime soon).
Some people will say that NeXT is better because all applications have to conform to the same interface, which is rubbish, as if the default interface sucks you're hosed.
Hmmm, you could make that design work better with a narrower beam no?
I think you should get one of them lasers from the pen-type barcode readers, they tend to have very narrow beams.
Also you probably want everything else in a blackened box to prevent reflective illumination no?
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Except 1-bit switchmode DAC's (generally) only have the dynamic range of a 12-bit linear DAC, CD's are 16-bit, and so you get better dynamic range from a properly designed CD player with a linear DAC.
I suppose someone will point me to some fancy (like SACD) SMDAC which had a dynamic range of 200dB or something, but most cheap SMDACs (like the ones in mini/micro systems and MP3 players), only achieve ~36dB (equivalent to 12bit) dynamic range (not that much more than that would be audible through earbud headphones anyway.
not that SMDAC's aren't a good idea, for starters they need a lot less support components and so make for a much simpler design. Also you can get very efficient SMDAC amplifiers (often known as a direct-digital-amplifier).
You're missing my point that an SDI supports both kinds of users, as you can just biff all your windows into a sub-pane if you really want an MDI. On the other hand you can't extract windows from an MDI without hacking the code.
Hence an SDI is better as it allows both workflows.
No DNS resolves a right to left sequence of left-to-right latin words to an IP.
Reverse DNS PTR records ("1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.", notice the right-to-left orientation) return other DNS records, which proves my point that the right most entry is the prefix, as it is resolved first.
If you think the hostname is resolved first, you have no idea how DNS works.
And I have no idea how you modded me down *AND* posted a reply, or is it somehow automatically trolling agreeing with a slashdot summary?
Again you are wrong on two counts, one is that DNS doesn't resolve IP addresses ever (although it is reasonable to treat reverse mapping as resolving IP addresses), the other is that DNS isn't language, it is a hierachial directory system, and the prefix in a directory system is the bit that is looked up first, in the case of Phone numbers and dictionaries it is the left-most unit, whereas in DNS it is the right-most unit.
Perhaps that is why there is a circle tool in GIMP.
Why is everyone arguing over why GIMP doen't have a circle tool when it is sitting there in the toolbox staring you in the face.
It's like shitting on a car for not having a steering wheel when it is clearly right there in front of the drivers seat.
now what would be a cool feature, and in fact is something I'm going to start coding this weekend, is a way to have linked data between Blender, Gimp and Inkscape (I'm going to just do bitmap data), so that an image in Gimp updates a Texture in blender as you edit it.
Also would everyone who complains about missing feature X in Y please just write the code or STFU. It's not like your paying anything for Free software.
If you really need feature X then pay someone to add it, or use some commercial software which does what you want.
It's like going down to your local hardware store on the weekend for free hotdogs/sausages (I don't know if they do this in America) and bitching that they don't give you burgers and chips.
On the other hand if you have paid the developers of Y money to implement feature X and they haven't done it, then you have a right to bitch, and probably sue too, but I bet you haven't done that...
Uh, Gimp has had an Ellipse tool for as long as I can remember. I don't really see the point in including a seperate tool for circles doesn't make a whole lot of sense since you can just hold shift after you start your selection and it draws a circle. The same works for the rectangle tool (which unfortunately doesn't allow you to draw rectangles on angles (( someone will probably correct me on this )) ) to draw squares.
And if you still don't understand it's really simple, you press e (or select the elliptical select tool from the toolbox) click-hold where you want to start your circle, hold shift and drag the circle out, if you want a radic circle you hold control as well. Then once you have the circle you want (you can move it around with alt-drag), you click edit->Stroke selection, which brings up a dialog for selecting the tool you want to use for your circle, click stroke and voila, you have a circle drawn with your choice of tool.
But I guess what you want is a ellipse tool like in MS Paint, which draws a pixellated circle, with no configurability whatsoever. But how often would you ever use a tool like that? you can achieve the same with Stroke selection and a width of 1.
It also means you can make arbitrary selections and do the same thing, great for when you want to touch edges of things.
In other words, it is better to have fewer well thought-out tools which can do many things, than a large pile of tools which do 1 thing.
Still, I do wish Gimp had support for arbitrary precision (well useful for 3d rendering and compositing). and I can see why Colour-spaces and ICC profiles could be useful to people who print/pre-press stuff.
1. Use multiple displays. you can span the parent window across all the displays, but this is cheating, and doesn't accomplish much, as you can't use more than one program in this way. 2. Work between applications on a single display. Yes you can task switch, but it is much more practical to have your entire workflow on screen, if you can't do this with an SDI, you haven't got enough display real estate. 3. Partition application across Pages. This isn't doable with an MDI, period. Often times you need to use the same application for multiple tasks, it is often handy to sticky the main Gimp toolbox and floaters, and move between Pages when you change tasks. 4. Arrange windows efficiently. As you have all your windows trapped inside one stupid box (which btw, doesn't serve any function), you can't put other windows in the gaps, as as soon as you go to work.
On the other hand you can occomplish everything an MDI does by simply putting only that programs windows inside one page. Even MS Windows has a pager (I hear you have to install it separately).
In short the MDI accomplishes nothing, except burdening you with artificial limitations.
I challenge you to provide one feature MDI's provide that can't be provided when desired by using the window managers Pager or Subpane (I don't think all window managers have this, and I don't see why you would want it).
First of all, I don't see what the big deal is, who gives a rat fuck if someone murders their batfuck insane wife. Secondly if he is convicted the code wasn't written by a murderer, as when he wrote the code he hadn't commited murder. Thirdly who give a flying fuck who wrote the code as long as it's good.
I never said anyone was perfect. I said that someone who wasn't perfect could still write perfect code, if he designed it well and payed attention to detail.
Why does it need to detect your Keyboard/mouse? I assume they are either USB or PS/2 units, hence they should just work. If they don't it means the hardware is wrong. There is a standard protocol for USB peripherals called HID, and if your Logitech units don't support it, they are garbage.
They don't. It's just when you have over a million infected machines, all scanning through all 2^32 address space it only takes a few seconds for one of those zombies to hit you.
Ever tried looking at a detailed firewall log on a DSL connection? You will recieve some kind of bot attack on average every ten seconds, if not sooner than that.
PEOPLE WHO WRITE APPLICATIONS BEFORE DOCUMENTATION ARE FUCKING TOOLS!
What kind of dimwit writes software before the documentation? That's fucking retarded and you are guaranteed to end up with garbage.
If you write the documentation first then you will see any problems with the application before you write any code, and you will know what you need to write. You will end up with a complete overview of how the application works, you will quickly be able to detect where the program doesn't function according to design (bugs), and assuming you know what the application needs to do and are even a halfway competent programmer you will end with a fairly well structured application. Did I mention how much time you will save by coding instead of having to work out what you need to code?
Otherwise you could just jump in and start coding, end up with a poorly structured pile of horse shit, with no documentation, piles of bugs, and improvements will be next to impossible.
A lead acid battery is *not* more dangerous than a Lithium battery. It does provide a higher short-circuit current in general because of the design of said battery, however...
* An SLA doesn't explode if punctured, it just leaks corrosive paste everywhere (still nasty).
* An SLA doesn't explode if overcharged, it generally just busts open and leaks the corrosive paste.
* An SLA doesn't explode if undercharged, it just sulfates the plates causing the battery to not work well.
* An SLA doesn't explode if shorted out, the pressure release valve pops and hot corrosive paste is ejected.
In theory if the pressure release system had been tampered with and the battery was shorted out, the paste/aqueous solution could boil and build up critical pressure cuasing it to explode, however I have never seen this happen, and it still wouldn't burst into flames, just throw highly corrosive steam everywhere...
Well, I guess it depends on what you are covering. If it's software piracy then you'd be an idiot to report it, because even though you're doing the right thing by the law, most customers won't see it that way. On the other hand if they have kiddie-porn or terrorist plots on their computer I would call the cops straight away, especiallly since if you knew about it and did nothing and it later came to the attention of law enforcement that you knew about it and id nothing, you could be in a shit-tornado very soon...
What the hell are you talking about? In what country is it legal to have an NDA over illegal activities?
In any country I'm familiar with teh law (New Zealand and to a lesser extent Germany and Australia), if you know about a criminal act, it is illegal to not disclose it to the relevant authorities, the corrollary[sic] of that is that a contract is invalid if it requires you to break the law.
Hence the NDA is invalid in relation to disclosing illegal activities, and any sane court would throw out any lawsuit against you.
However with the USA's totally screwed legal system this may not apply...
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I don't know anything about american law, but I don't think bribing people to vote for you is the same as bribing officials to change the votes of people who didn't vote for you.
ARE YOU PEOPLE LIVING IN THE PAST?
You can already do video conferencing on a cell phone on both Vodafone NZ and Telecom NZ. I'm presuming the situation is the same in Europe.
What if you are already a competent unix applications developer, and don't want to pay double the price for the same hardware you'd get from a beige-box company.
Prices may differ elsewhere, but here in NZ, all Macs come through Rennaisance(sic) technology, and are double the price of the equivalent Lenovo Notebook (which is also higher quality, and has better hardware support in Linux and FreeBSD).
Or if you own a computer simply for playing games, then the only feasible option is to run Windows (or live in the past and get an Amiga), it doesn't make sense to pay double for a machine where the warranty is void (Are Mac's still this way?) as soon as you upgrade anything yourself.
And yes I have used Mac's from System 6 -> OSX, and while OSX is pretty good (System 6-8 were garbage, haven't really used System 9), it still makes a lot more sense for me to use Gentoo.
You are right in that for some people it makes no sense to buy a PC, but not all.
Cue Unix programmers ranting about how MacOSX is Unix and they use it every day, blah,blah,blah good for you.
What you mean is Windows fails it, and MacOS X halfway fails it.
At least MacOS X includes (as an optional extra?) an X server, which allows you to use X11 apps with whatever window manager you want. It still forces you to use the MacOS gui for native applications, which while better than Windows GDI for a lot of people, is still not ideal for all.
Now I'm not trying to shit on OSX, but I prefer to use FVWM, it is (to a lot of people) disgustingly ugly, but I haven't seen any other window managers that allow you to configure them as easily and to the extent that FVWM does. My brother on the other hand hates it, and can easily use KDE on the same system, with all the same applications (though I tend to use GTK, whereas he tends to use QT).
MacOS X is a great platform for those who will permit extra complexity for an easier learning curve. Windows is great for people who only use one maximised window, and a PITA for most other people, thankfully (I'm told as I don't use windows anymore) there are tools to replace the Windows window management, and along with turning the Display DPI down and installing an X server (like Cygwin/X) you can get a usable system (though it isn't pulling me from *nix anytime soon).
Some people will say that NeXT is better because all applications have to conform to the same interface, which is rubbish, as if the default interface sucks you're hosed.
Because Ford is going down the tubes.
Hmmm, you could make that design work better with a narrower beam no?
I think you should get one of them lasers from the pen-type barcode readers, they tend to have very narrow beams.
Also you probably want everything else in a blackened box to prevent reflective illumination no?
Except 1-bit switchmode DAC's (generally) only have the dynamic range of a 12-bit linear DAC, CD's are 16-bit, and so you get better dynamic range from a properly designed CD player with a linear DAC.
I suppose someone will point me to some fancy (like SACD) SMDAC which had a dynamic range of 200dB or something, but most cheap SMDACs (like the ones in mini/micro systems and MP3 players), only achieve ~36dB (equivalent to 12bit) dynamic range (not that much more than that would be audible through earbud headphones anyway.
not that SMDAC's aren't a good idea, for starters they need a lot less support components and so make for a much simpler design. Also you can get very efficient SMDAC amplifiers (often known as a direct-digital-amplifier).
You're missing my point that an SDI supports both kinds of users, as you can just biff all your windows into a sub-pane if you really want an MDI. On the other hand you can't extract windows from an MDI without hacking the code.
Hence an SDI is better as it allows both workflows.
No DNS resolves a right to left sequence of left-to-right latin words to an IP.
Reverse DNS PTR records ("1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa.", notice the right-to-left orientation) return other DNS records, which proves my point that the right most entry is the prefix, as it is resolved first.
If you think the hostname is resolved first, you have no idea how DNS works.
And I have no idea how you modded me down *AND* posted a reply, or is it somehow automatically trolling agreeing with a slashdot summary?
Again you are wrong on two counts, one is that DNS doesn't resolve IP addresses ever (although it is reasonable to treat reverse mapping as resolving IP addresses), the other is that DNS isn't language, it is a hierachial directory system, and the prefix in a directory system is the bit that is looked up first, in the case of Phone numbers and dictionaries it is the left-most unit, whereas in DNS it is the right-most unit.
Perhaps that is why there is a circle tool in GIMP.
Why is everyone arguing over why GIMP doen't have a circle tool when it is sitting there in the toolbox staring you in the face.
It's like shitting on a car for not having a steering wheel when it is clearly right there in front of the drivers seat.
now what would be a cool feature, and in fact is something I'm going to start coding this weekend, is a way to have linked data between Blender, Gimp and Inkscape (I'm going to just do bitmap data), so that an image in Gimp updates a Texture in blender as you edit it.
Also would everyone who complains about missing feature X in Y please just write the code or STFU. It's not like your paying anything for Free software.
If you really need feature X then pay someone to add it, or use some commercial software which does what you want.
It's like going down to your local hardware store on the weekend for free hotdogs/sausages (I don't know if they do this in America) and bitching that they don't give you burgers and chips.
On the other hand if you have paid the developers of Y money to implement feature X and they haven't done it, then you have a right to bitch, and probably sue too, but I bet you haven't done that...
Uh, Gimp has had an Ellipse tool for as long as I can remember. I don't really see the point in including a seperate tool for circles doesn't make a whole lot of sense since you can just hold shift after you start your selection and it draws a circle. The same works for the rectangle tool (which unfortunately doesn't allow you to draw rectangles on angles (( someone will probably correct me on this )) ) to draw squares.
And if you still don't understand it's really simple, you press e (or select the elliptical select tool from the toolbox) click-hold where you want to start your circle, hold shift and drag the circle out, if you want a radic circle you hold control as well. Then once you have the circle you want (you can move it around with alt-drag), you click edit->Stroke selection, which brings up a dialog for selecting the tool you want to use for your circle, click stroke and voila, you have a circle drawn with your choice of tool.
But I guess what you want is a ellipse tool like in MS Paint, which draws a pixellated circle, with no configurability whatsoever. But how often would you ever use a tool like that? you can achieve the same with Stroke selection and a width of 1.
It also means you can make arbitrary selections and do the same thing, great for when you want to touch edges of things.
In other words, it is better to have fewer well thought-out tools which can do many things, than a large pile of tools which do 1 thing.
Still, I do wish Gimp had support for arbitrary precision (well useful for 3d rendering and compositing). and I can see why Colour-spaces and ICC profiles could be useful to people who print/pre-press stuff.
How wrong can you be?
Examples of things you can't do with an MDI:
1. Use multiple displays. you can span the parent window across all the displays, but this is cheating, and doesn't accomplish much, as you can't use more than one program in this way.
2. Work between applications on a single display. Yes you can task switch, but it is much more practical to have your entire workflow on screen, if you can't do this with an SDI, you haven't got enough display real estate.
3. Partition application across Pages. This isn't doable with an MDI, period. Often times you need to use the same application for multiple tasks, it is often handy to sticky the main Gimp toolbox and floaters, and move between Pages when you change tasks.
4. Arrange windows efficiently. As you have all your windows trapped inside one stupid box (which btw, doesn't serve any function), you can't put other windows in the gaps, as as soon as you go to work.
On the other hand you can occomplish everything an MDI does by simply putting only that programs windows inside one page. Even MS Windows has a pager (I hear you have to install it separately).
In short the MDI accomplishes nothing, except burdening you with artificial limitations.
I challenge you to provide one feature MDI's provide that can't be provided when desired by using the window managers Pager or Subpane (I don't think all window managers have this, and I don't see why you would want it).
Oh right, you were just trolling...
WRONG!
because DNS resolves from right to left like hebrew, hence ".ie." is the prefix.
First of all, I don't see what the big deal is, who gives a rat fuck if someone murders their batfuck insane wife. Secondly if he is convicted the code wasn't written by a murderer, as when he wrote the code he hadn't commited murder. Thirdly who give a flying fuck who wrote the code as long as it's good.
Innit.
I never said anyone was perfect. I said that someone who wasn't perfect could still write perfect code, if he designed it well and payed attention to detail.
Why does it need to detect your Keyboard/mouse? I assume they are either USB or PS/2 units, hence they should just work. If they don't it means the hardware is wrong. There is a standard protocol for USB peripherals called HID, and if your Logitech units don't support it, they are garbage.
They don't. It's just when you have over a million infected machines, all scanning through all 2^32 address space it only takes a few seconds for one of those zombies to hit you.
Ever tried looking at a detailed firewall log on a DSL connection? You will recieve some kind of bot attack on average every ten seconds, if not sooner than that.
Bugs are the result of humans designing things wrong, or being slack.
That being said, (not all) humans will always design things wrong and be slack.
PEOPLE WHO WRITE APPLICATIONS BEFORE DOCUMENTATION ARE FUCKING TOOLS!
What kind of dimwit writes software before the documentation? That's fucking retarded and you are guaranteed to end up with garbage.
If you write the documentation first then you will see any problems with the application before you write any code, and you will know what you need to write. You will end up with a complete overview of how the application works, you will quickly be able to detect where the program doesn't function according to design (bugs), and assuming you know what the application needs to do and are even a halfway competent programmer you will end with a fairly well structured application. Did I mention how much time you will save by coding instead of having to work out what you need to code?
Otherwise you could just jump in and start coding, end up with a poorly structured pile of horse shit, with no documentation, piles of bugs, and improvements will be next to impossible.
Innit...
Uhm, I've already been doing this for a few years. In the winter I power up my older machines and use them to heat and ventilate the basement.
:)
Usually rendering, or just for show, but maybe if I can get some decent performance/watt I can get people to pay to heat my house
A lead acid battery is *not* more dangerous than a Lithium battery. It does provide a higher short-circuit current in general because of the design of said battery, however...
* An SLA doesn't explode if punctured, it just leaks corrosive paste everywhere (still nasty).
* An SLA doesn't explode if overcharged, it generally just busts open and leaks the corrosive paste.
* An SLA doesn't explode if undercharged, it just sulfates the plates causing the battery to not work well.
* An SLA doesn't explode if shorted out, the pressure release valve pops and hot corrosive paste is ejected.
In theory if the pressure release system had been tampered with and the battery was shorted out, the paste/aqueous solution could boil and build up critical pressure cuasing it to explode, however I have never seen this happen, and it still wouldn't burst into flames, just throw highly corrosive steam everywhere...
Well, I guess it depends on what you are covering. If it's software piracy then you'd be an idiot to report it, because even though you're doing the right thing by the law, most customers won't see it that way. On the other hand if they have kiddie-porn or terrorist plots on their computer I would call the cops straight away, especiallly since if you knew about it and did nothing and it later came to the attention of law enforcement that you knew about it and id nothing, you could be in a shit-tornado very soon...
no. They don't.
I'm sure I could write a better algorithm that generates more heat.
You need to utilise multiple registers in the FPU and the SIMD engine.
Probably a lot of push/pops to cook the cache as well.
and you need to do something along the lines of:
for (i=0;i16;i++) {if(!fork()) break;}
if you want to use all 4 cores on a dual-mobo.
What the hell are you talking about? In what country is it legal to have an NDA over illegal activities?
In any country I'm familiar with teh law (New Zealand and to a lesser extent Germany and Australia), if you know about a criminal act, it is illegal to not disclose it to the relevant authorities, the corrollary[sic] of that is that a contract is invalid if it requires you to break the law.
Hence the NDA is invalid in relation to disclosing illegal activities, and any sane court would throw out any lawsuit against you.
However with the USA's totally screwed legal system this may not apply...