Creating a database of child porn, a Titanic database if you like, great idea seriously. Apart from the obvious - database getting stolen, pedophiles deciding to make new content that's not on the database, etc. Governments are coming dangerously close to defining what an ISP is at a time when the concept of Internet service providers is becoming vague - with people setting up wifi hot spots and distributed proxies there's not going to be an easy definition of ISP.
As far as I know you cant tweak the drop shadow in terms of blurriness for example - you have to apply a blur, undo, apply again etc and you cant then go back and change that without redoing the drop shadow. Same goes for the other shadow parameters you can tweak like fall-off curves (which photoshop can do).
The entire ethos behind GIMP is stuck in the 90's when destructive editing was the norm, fortunately its not that difficult to redesign since you're just changing how it applies filters. Even Photoshop still has plenty of filters that cant be used non-destructively, if GIMP did this properly it could out-do Photoshop!
You can destroy a missile if you want before it hits the target and since missiles have been around for years the R&D costs are less, mass producibility is higher and the risk of the whole project falling apart (which seems to happen quite often when contractors are given a load of cash) is lower. You could also make a fixed wing drone that is designed for supersonic flight and is dropped by a slower transport/bomber and then fires missiles when it gets to the target - would that not be simpler than designing a drone to be two things? - there are a load of transport planes that can be reused already.
If they want something that will fly around for hours and then go quickly to a target why not just carry cruise missiles in a slow plane like they do already?
Thanks, I personally think non destructive unions/subtractions like in Illustrators pathfinder are essential. I like mundane things to be taken care of by the computer rather than redrawing bits of shapes and wondering if im going to regret intersecting some shapes without keeping an original copy. The more dynamic it is the better.
I've been playing with the latest Inkscape I really like the text kerning/adjustment (key shortcuts) and the node tools feel better than illustrators! The star and spiral tools seemed abit pointless but then I played around with the parameters you can make some pretty good patterns. Stroke and fill is excellent and so are rounded corners - being able to re-size a box and still have the corners keep their shape. Another thing I just thought of tho - smart guides like Illustrators, definitely useful and format independent.
I major feature that was missing is non-destructive shape unions, intersections and differences. These are in the pathfinder feature of Illustrator and they are pretty much a staple of any serious illustration work. I think it might kind-of be in Inkscape in this release but im not sure.
Next major feature is an effects stack which is needed in GIMP too. Both GIMP and Inkscape have really suffered from the lack of any dynamic non-destructive editing features and separation of various effects and styles from content - these are the way forward and things Photoshop and Illustrator users have had for years, you just cant seriously live without them and its a shame because non-destructive editing and separating content from style is really something the OS world embraces - obviously these two projects feel they have more important things to do, which is why no-one seriously uses either of them.
Just to give you an idea, Photoshop drop-shadow has single-handidly changed the entire web and graphic design fashion for nearly a decade, you can take any layer and add drop shadow - tweak the settings and then go back and change it any time you want, this combines with other effects to make an effects stack that is dynamically applied to layers and objects - this is a very simple principle and is so so incredibly vital I cant even begin to stress how much.
This doesn't really prove anything there have been plenty of ultra-high mpg competitions and experimental cars, if they can perfect some bit of technology that can be used practically then great but otherwise its just another concept car.
It would be really nice to have a efficient car that you could actually drive without looking like an idiot. I mean a car that looked 'normal' and no dont bullshit me with your 'whats normal' crap - we want normal cars with good mileage or electric/hybrid engines! I think sacrificing some efficiency for looks is acceptable. Obviously SUV and Hummer drivers dont count since their cars look like shit AND ruin the environment.
There are some ok-looking hybrids around and I really believe that the only reason people are driving them is because they look ok. I think smart cars are just about becoming acceptable, only just and only because those newer stupid ultra-mini electric smart-looking cars are around to take the slack. Manufacturers really need to just wack in new engines to their current models - get people starting to convert so the infrastructure will slowly build up even if those cars aren't as efficient as they could be.
Didn't Challenger blow up because it was launched despite objections?
The only opinions that should matter regarding launching are the engineers and safety experts. Anyone else, politician, management, media etc should go to hell.
This is nothing new, if a particular advertising campaign really needs to grab people the agency will use viral methods, if its simply a branding exercise then it will use brand identity methods and if its a specialised niche then it will be marketed to specialised audiences. There is really nothing special about viral marketing it simply depends on how much money is going to be put in and what the end result is going to be.
Occasionally some small time advertising agency will come up with a good idea but most of the time its just the usual crap - buy up a whole load of space to look unique, have a well known director make your tv ad, make advertising 'that isn't advertising', graffiti, tattoo peoples heads etc - all these ideas are just that, advertising ideas, just like coming up with a slogan to sell something, advertisers come up with novel ideas just so that people will talk about them and better yet so will the press. The only thing that actually makes it novel is the fact that people go on falling for it, and so it will carry on being used.
The reason people carry on falling for viral marketing is because it doesn't fit a 'pattern' that people can easily filter out, because it is itself creating a new format with every new idea - people can copy past ideas like graffiti, tattoos, legal name changes etc but they will be filtered out quickly, the new ideas are what makes viral marketing work.
Bullshit, the phone of the future will look pretty much like the phone of today, the PDA all-screen look will become more popular as better and more tactile touchscreens are developed, there will be no other major design change.
What if a company or country decided that we have too much freedom of speech, what if said country or company decided to, I dunno, not sell us any oil unless we started censoring ourselves, perhaps with regards to certain cartoons.
While we feel that spreading freedom of speech is a positive thing and a benefit and censorship is bad, other societies feel that spreading censorship is in fact a positive thing and a benefit and that freedom of speech is bad. This might be irrelevant to China since im sure most Chinese people want freedom of speech but in terms of international diplomacy and politics, where is this going to take us?
We do need to spread things like freedom of speech far and wide as safety against the 'upcoming' clash of civilisations but its hard not to think of this as pushing our values while we hate to have other peoples values pushed on us.
My Nokia phone has scratches, dust _somehow_ under the screen, needs to be restarted daily because of memory leeks, has no compatibility with Mac OSX and most applications cost quite a bit and do very little. If I can just have that in a beautiful Apple design I'll be happy.
Thats not totally true - theres plenty of advertising space on the boards around the pitch - which can be changed/overlayed by a particular channel in real time (pending the legality) and you miss the biggest advertising space of all - a big green rectangle! the networks could just overlay adverts onto the pitch right under the players feet. You could have a sponsor every time there's a goal "GOOAAAAAAALL oh wow what a goal there sponsored by Pepsi" and you can get the commentators to insert a few names in too - "thats right Jim looks like hes pulling out the T-Mobile yellow card". Im sure they could make it profitable.
I think we need to be wary of going harsh on China - sure they are no angels but they are a million times better than Saudi Arabia and just about every other Middle Eastern country - they are going to try and ally themselves with China, especially concerning weapons (that they are too retarded to develop themselves) and energy. We need to be on China's side first because lets face it, China and Chinese society has more in common with us than with those dirty hand chopping daka-dakas who want to take over the world and make sure we all get our adultery flogging. What ever we do regarding China's censorship issue must be allot more diplomatic and positive than the way we've handled the Middle East because they are good people.
This is so obvious, Apple will produce a mobile phone within 3 years, it will pretty much replace the iPod, it will do pretty much what Symbian phones do today except with several gigs of memory, an Apple OS and a few of the other things Apple is famous for, this is is pretty much fact. Blackberry, Motorola? - its all irrelevant the only thing we care is: when will it be released, how much will it cost and what will it look like?
Damn leftists always trying to do their best to destroy our soldiers and law enforcement officers abilities to do any useful job so that the left can live in their little hippy-vile if-it-feels-good-do-it state. If I had my way - and luckily for me I do since the GOP is in power, I would have cut through all this red tape decades ago. If the spy services cant spy then what exactly can they do? The same goes for the commercial sector - what are companies supposed to do if they cant sell your personal information? I've heard that in the EU they have it even worse with this 'Data Protection' rubbish where organisations have to actually publically admit what information they are capturing and have to keep it secure, not give it out without permission and even allow the individual to see any and all information they have on them! Of course I would expect that from a socialist/communist state like the EU but it seems like the US is heading the same way. Spying on people does no harm - especially if you put it next to some of the other things our boys can do with regards to extracting information, spying is just harmless and very useful. The Lord will punish the leftists who perverted the course of justice.
Wow being Republican is easy, i think the general rule is that anything like privacy, free speech and peace you just have to pretend its not important while anything to do with sex, sexual equality, sex on tv, sex in peoples private lives etc is a matter of life or death.
You can look up the name of the fast food place hes in (Hollywood Fried Chicken on the menu in the background) and cross reference it with the phone number of the hire shop across the street to figure out that hes in the Hollywood Fried Chicken in Lillie Road (SW6) near West Brompton station. The floor of the tube was also a clue but lets pretend I didn't know that... Ahh google.
The current avoidance systems use sensors on the plane only, its completely separate from the radar used by Air Traffic Control which has its own system for checking how far apart planes are. But in fact if you wanted to screw around with another plane, all you would have to do is fly close to it in your plane which would cause its avoidance system to move it out of the way, then if you keep moving in its way and it keeps moving out of the way you might be able to get it to crash, thats if the pilot is asleep or cant override it.
If Germany is anything like the UK (which also has strict gun laws) I wouldn't believe that. In the UK 20% of under 18 year olds claim that they can have access to gun within 15 minutes as sales simply go underground, not to mention the big market here for replica guns (which are the same as real guns when one is pointing at you). In Manchester gun crime is absolutely appalling and in the hands of kids as young as 12!
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Just try and open it up carefully and cut a wire. He'll never know!!
Its a plane not a rocket...
Creating a database of child porn, a Titanic database if you like, great idea seriously. Apart from the obvious - database getting stolen, pedophiles deciding to make new content that's not on the database, etc. Governments are coming dangerously close to defining what an ISP is at a time when the concept of Internet service providers is becoming vague - with people setting up wifi hot spots and distributed proxies there's not going to be an easy definition of ISP.
As far as I know you cant tweak the drop shadow in terms of blurriness for example - you have to apply a blur, undo, apply again etc and you cant then go back and change that without redoing the drop shadow. Same goes for the other shadow parameters you can tweak like fall-off curves (which photoshop can do).
The entire ethos behind GIMP is stuck in the 90's when destructive editing was the norm, fortunately its not that difficult to redesign since you're just changing how it applies filters. Even Photoshop still has plenty of filters that cant be used non-destructively, if GIMP did this properly it could out-do Photoshop!
You can destroy a missile if you want before it hits the target and since missiles have been around for years the R&D costs are less, mass producibility is higher and the risk of the whole project falling apart (which seems to happen quite often when contractors are given a load of cash) is lower. You could also make a fixed wing drone that is designed for supersonic flight and is dropped by a slower transport/bomber and then fires missiles when it gets to the target - would that not be simpler than designing a drone to be two things? - there are a load of transport planes that can be reused already.
If they want something that will fly around for hours and then go quickly to a target why not just carry cruise missiles in a slow plane like they do already?
Thanks, I personally think non destructive unions/subtractions like in Illustrators pathfinder are essential. I like mundane things to be taken care of by the computer rather than redrawing bits of shapes and wondering if im going to regret intersecting some shapes without keeping an original copy. The more dynamic it is the better.
I've been playing with the latest Inkscape I really like the text kerning/adjustment (key shortcuts) and the node tools feel better than illustrators! The star and spiral tools seemed abit pointless but then I played around with the parameters you can make some pretty good patterns. Stroke and fill is excellent and so are rounded corners - being able to re-size a box and still have the corners keep their shape. Another thing I just thought of tho - smart guides like Illustrators, definitely useful and format independent.
Nice, but are there going to be issues with SVG causing limitations? Whats the plan with that?
I major feature that was missing is non-destructive shape unions, intersections and differences. These are in the pathfinder feature of Illustrator and they are pretty much a staple of any serious illustration work. I think it might kind-of be in Inkscape in this release but im not sure.
Next major feature is an effects stack which is needed in GIMP too. Both GIMP and Inkscape have really suffered from the lack of any dynamic non-destructive editing features and separation of various effects and styles from content - these are the way forward and things Photoshop and Illustrator users have had for years, you just cant seriously live without them and its a shame because non-destructive editing and separating content from style is really something the OS world embraces - obviously these two projects feel they have more important things to do, which is why no-one seriously uses either of them.
Just to give you an idea, Photoshop drop-shadow has single-handidly changed the entire web and graphic design fashion for nearly a decade, you can take any layer and add drop shadow - tweak the settings and then go back and change it any time you want, this combines with other effects to make an effects stack that is dynamically applied to layers and objects - this is a very simple principle and is so so incredibly vital I cant even begin to stress how much.
This doesn't really prove anything there have been plenty of ultra-high mpg competitions and experimental cars, if they can perfect some bit of technology that can be used practically then great but otherwise its just another concept car.
It would be really nice to have a efficient car that you could actually drive without looking like an idiot. I mean a car that looked 'normal' and no dont bullshit me with your 'whats normal' crap - we want normal cars with good mileage or electric/hybrid engines! I think sacrificing some efficiency for looks is acceptable. Obviously SUV and Hummer drivers dont count since their cars look like shit AND ruin the environment.
There are some ok-looking hybrids around and I really believe that the only reason people are driving them is because they look ok. I think smart cars are just about becoming acceptable, only just and only because those newer stupid ultra-mini electric smart-looking cars are around to take the slack. Manufacturers really need to just wack in new engines to their current models - get people starting to convert so the infrastructure will slowly build up even if those cars aren't as efficient as they could be.
Didn't Challenger blow up because it was launched despite objections?
The only opinions that should matter regarding launching are the engineers and safety experts. Anyone else, politician, management, media etc should go to hell.
This is nothing new, if a particular advertising campaign really needs to grab people the agency will use viral methods, if its simply a branding exercise then it will use brand identity methods and if its a specialised niche then it will be marketed to specialised audiences. There is really nothing special about viral marketing it simply depends on how much money is going to be put in and what the end result is going to be.
Occasionally some small time advertising agency will come up with a good idea but most of the time its just the usual crap - buy up a whole load of space to look unique, have a well known director make your tv ad, make advertising 'that isn't advertising', graffiti, tattoo peoples heads etc - all these ideas are just that, advertising ideas, just like coming up with a slogan to sell something, advertisers come up with novel ideas just so that people will talk about them and better yet so will the press. The only thing that actually makes it novel is the fact that people go on falling for it, and so it will carry on being used.
The reason people carry on falling for viral marketing is because it doesn't fit a 'pattern' that people can easily filter out, because it is itself creating a new format with every new idea - people can copy past ideas like graffiti, tattoos, legal name changes etc but they will be filtered out quickly, the new ideas are what makes viral marketing work.
Bullshit, the phone of the future will look pretty much like the phone of today, the PDA all-screen look will become more popular as better and more tactile touchscreens are developed, there will be no other major design change.
Slashdot should just give up and sync every story from digg.
What if a company or country decided that we have too much freedom of speech, what if said country or company decided to, I dunno, not sell us any oil unless we started censoring ourselves, perhaps with regards to certain cartoons.
While we feel that spreading freedom of speech is a positive thing and a benefit and censorship is bad, other societies feel that spreading censorship is in fact a positive thing and a benefit and that freedom of speech is bad. This might be irrelevant to China since im sure most Chinese people want freedom of speech but in terms of international diplomacy and politics, where is this going to take us?
We do need to spread things like freedom of speech far and wide as safety against the 'upcoming' clash of civilisations but its hard not to think of this as pushing our values while we hate to have other peoples values pushed on us.
My Nokia phone has scratches, dust _somehow_ under the screen, needs to be restarted daily because of memory leeks, has no compatibility with Mac OSX and most applications cost quite a bit and do very little. If I can just have that in a beautiful Apple design I'll be happy.
Thats not totally true - theres plenty of advertising space on the boards around the pitch - which can be changed/overlayed by a particular channel in real time (pending the legality) and you miss the biggest advertising space of all - a big green rectangle! the networks could just overlay adverts onto the pitch right under the players feet. You could have a sponsor every time there's a goal "GOOAAAAAAALL oh wow what a goal there sponsored by Pepsi" and you can get the commentators to insert a few names in too - "thats right Jim looks like hes pulling out the T-Mobile yellow card". Im sure they could make it profitable.
I think we need to be wary of going harsh on China - sure they are no angels but they are a million times better than Saudi Arabia and just about every other Middle Eastern country - they are going to try and ally themselves with China, especially concerning weapons (that they are too retarded to develop themselves) and energy. We need to be on China's side first because lets face it, China and Chinese society has more in common with us than with those dirty hand chopping daka-dakas who want to take over the world and make sure we all get our adultery flogging. What ever we do regarding China's censorship issue must be allot more diplomatic and positive than the way we've handled the Middle East because they are good people.
This is so obvious, Apple will produce a mobile phone within 3 years, it will pretty much replace the iPod, it will do pretty much what Symbian phones do today except with several gigs of memory, an Apple OS and a few of the other things Apple is famous for, this is is pretty much fact. Blackberry, Motorola? - its all irrelevant the only thing we care is: when will it be released, how much will it cost and what will it look like?
Damn leftists always trying to do their best to destroy our soldiers and law enforcement officers abilities to do any useful job so that the left can live in their little hippy-vile if-it-feels-good-do-it state. If I had my way - and luckily for me I do since the GOP is in power, I would have cut through all this red tape decades ago. If the spy services cant spy then what exactly can they do? The same goes for the commercial sector - what are companies supposed to do if they cant sell your personal information? I've heard that in the EU they have it even worse with this 'Data Protection' rubbish where organisations have to actually publically admit what information they are capturing and have to keep it secure, not give it out without permission and even allow the individual to see any and all information they have on them! Of course I would expect that from a socialist/communist state like the EU but it seems like the US is heading the same way. Spying on people does no harm - especially if you put it next to some of the other things our boys can do with regards to extracting information, spying is just harmless and very useful. The Lord will punish the leftists who perverted the course of justice.
Wow being Republican is easy, i think the general rule is that anything like privacy, free speech and peace you just have to pretend its not important while anything to do with sex, sexual equality, sex on tv, sex in peoples private lives etc is a matter of life or death.
Well its ok as long as your white and not trailer trash.
True but 2.4 million hits say hes a very funny asshole :P
You can look up the name of the fast food place hes in (Hollywood Fried Chicken on the menu in the background) and cross reference it with the phone number of the hire shop across the street to figure out that hes in the Hollywood Fried Chicken in Lillie Road (SW6) near West Brompton station. The floor of the tube was also a clue but lets pretend I didn't know that... Ahh google.
The current avoidance systems use sensors on the plane only, its completely separate from the radar used by Air Traffic Control which has its own system for checking how far apart planes are. But in fact if you wanted to screw around with another plane, all you would have to do is fly close to it in your plane which would cause its avoidance system to move it out of the way, then if you keep moving in its way and it keeps moving out of the way you might be able to get it to crash, thats if the pilot is asleep or cant override it.
If Germany is anything like the UK (which also has strict gun laws) I wouldn't believe that. In the UK 20% of under 18 year olds claim that they can have access to gun within 15 minutes as sales simply go underground, not to mention the big market here for replica guns (which are the same as real guns when one is pointing at you). In Manchester gun crime is absolutely appalling and in the hands of kids as young as 12!