At what version will they change the name to something that wont make people laugh at you or think your weird when you say "i like gimp"? Or being oss do i have to start a fork just to rename every occurence in the source;)
weird name but great program.. i just wish it had an effects stack/effects layers what-ever you want to call it. Or even just the ability to preview filter output without having to do "filter, undo, select filter in menu tree again, tweek settings, re-filter"...
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Not really. Raster and vector is a technical distinction not an artistic one (to most artists, vector means "you can zoom in without it going bumpy"). It would be more intuitive to completely combine them, which no program i know of completely does. Illustrator has lots of raster 'features' and photoshop has lots of vector 'features' so you can see where thats going. Its not to complicated to distinct between raster and vector objects, most programs do it pretty well, and the advantages are endless...
I took another look at gimp the other day (as i do with lots of programs im trying to replace with oss) and noted the bad path features - i couldnt even stretch a path (unless im missing something), although selection -> path was damn good and useful! also i couldnt stretch fonts or export them to paths (unless i used selection -> path tool which probably isnt optimised for that). I'll take another look, but i cant wait for 2.0! thats gotta rock - although i have no idea what they are going to do? - if they added CMYK (which means re-writing all the filters) and they made some sort of effects stack (photoshop has started to do that with layer effects for drop shadow, glow, outline etc. and filter layers for contrast/levels etc.) they could beat photoshop to the ground! Effects stacks are vital in my opinion, which is why blender hasnt caught my eye yet (3D Max has a good stack). CMYK is also pretty vital but i would live without it - not doing print work.
The last thing i found gimp lacking in was a macro feature - obviously it has the most extensive scripting/plug-in ability ive ever seen but it needs a basic macro for 5-min jobs that even art students can figure out how to use.
If people used the HTML specs properly they wouldnt even need a separte wap version, the phone would just ignore the css or use a special small-screen version from the site (the css specs include support for this). That means no extra servers/sub-domains/complex scripts/6 month old content.
Ofcourse that would never happen because then browsers would have to actually be able to render HTML and CSS properly (which after several gens they still cant do) and designers would have to get off their asses and think properly about the system they are designing rather than just treating it as a piece of paper with buttons. Also this would be a totally stupid idea because it would allow people to browse and sort the web more easily and allow browsers to do special functions like collapse pages into trees and we couldnt have that could we?
Outlook VB viruses are more relevent, since Outlook was designed by the same company as the OS and is the defult mail client and uses the rendering engine of the default browser, that said company argues is part of the OS (VB may also carry more weight with the OS in terms of what it can do to files etc, im not sure about this though). VB and Outlook tie into most of the companys products and Outlook is "patched" by the OS's built-in updating system. Not to mention that it may represent a good deal of the philosophies and standards that are used through-out Windows.
Obviously people would target those platforms if they were more popular. But more often than not, developers on those platforms wouldnt be stupid enough to create a hole like outlook visual basic script exicution on mail open!
And why the hell do system DLLs/procs on my Windows machine need to access the internet? they dont, i block them and the OS still works fine.
No OS is perfect, but some just leave poor hackers laughing on the floor with tears comming out - how can they possibly resist exploiting such stupid flaws? Its like drawing on the kid thats asleep at the desk infront of you!
They did something innovative with parking on their deskstar HDs, where instead of the head hitting a landing zone on the disk it would exit off the side off the disk and park and then carefully come back in place when it was un-parked. Unfortunately the deskstar series had some major problems with HDs failing all over the place.
The next round (or sometime in the future) will come in the form of a new media (obviously) and will take a similar route to DVD with a total hardware upgrade. Already their are some mini-CD type things with DRM on them planned (i forget the name) but it will be interesting to see what the winning platform/format will be. The only problem is that all the last media format wars were in a time before [fast] internet and high capacity storage for the masses.
A new format could be something along the lines of a closed portable player with built in HD. Encrypted music could be downloaded in shops or on the net and decryption to analog out would be [proprietry | closed | tamper proof | on a single chip] (pick one or more of those words). Obviously i dont have to point out the blaitent flaws in that but it would seem a likely choice for a next gen format.
What we want the RIAA to do: give up What will probably happen: more DRM, more laws.
The adverts come from an industry whos job it is to embelish the truth and tell stories. The fact that the actors get paid millions can be hidden by them as easily as the physics in all their sci-fi films!
This will make it much easier to restrict modification of anything. BIOS's could be sold under the agreement that you dont install a non MS OS on the system (it will burn a flag in PROM if it doesnt get a special Microsoft key and you wont be able to trade it in)
It might also clear up the legality of mobile phone locking in the favour of the networks.
Dont make that mistake, i have a Casio Cassiopiea PocketPC and windows is on the ROM, you cant bypass it (why would Microsoft allow that?) and it comes with such useless things filling up the limited space as "AOL Sign Up" (you'll use that once if that and its stuck there for ever) and an un-bypassable tutorial when you hard-reset it that shows you how to "cut and paste" and it damn wont let you pass until you bloody well cut and past that example apointment! And ofcourse casio decided to stick their own calender and address book in there as well as Microsofts versions for no apparent reason. Its all there on the ROM, even though the system is missing some quite important features, looks like they didnt have space.
You only have to look at the name to see what a stupid piece of legislation it is:
Digital - Now whats the point of calling it digital? its just a bandwagon jumping buzzword, well back in the late 90's it was all the rage digital this digital that always with the digital it just means fucking numbers! so by calling it digital they've restricted it to only digital systems. Macrovision on VHS is not digital, therefore it doesn't count, whoops. Now as much as i like that little mistake it doesn't mean its not stupid.
Millennium - WHY!??!?! WHY!??! WTF! WHY!? it wasn't even the millennium when the law was passed! What does it mean? What possible relevance does the millennium of 2000 have to do with copy-right law and circumnavigation of digital devices? Is it just another bandwagon buzzword?? At least digital was slightly relevant!
Copy-right Act - This isn't a copy-right act, its an anti-reverse engineering act, its an anti-industrial espionage act, its an anti-freedom-of-speech-if-it-might-hurt-a-company act. A copy-right act would use the phrase "You may not copy copy-righted work that you dont own" the only thing this says your not allowed to copy is circumnavigation software from other people.
This is the sort of naming i would expect by marketing people. Marketing people have no place in politics and legislation.
I cant walk down Oxford Street without 20 people trying to hand me flyers but that doesnt mean it should be illigal. Spammers are assholes but they are only assholes because we know that what they are doing is technically legal and theres nothing we can do about it. Filtering spam might get rid of allot of it but it doesnt give us the satisfaction of hurting the spammers. To get this satisfaction we have to go over and beat the absolute crap out of them until they cant even use a mac! Obviously thats over-reaction but thats what people think and thats why spam laws get in. Actually what am i saying, screw them, make it illigal and sue their asses. I hate advertising more than anything, if i had to put up with telemarketing and tv ads every 5 mins i would go apeshit and shoot people.
If their EULA/T&C says they are not liable then they are not liable. Its the responsibility of who-ever buys/installs the software to check, but no-one does, and if they did they would probably find no alternative software that had more liability. When a whole company gets hit with some stupid vb-script email virus its definately the equivilent of someone leaving the back door open and a burgler walking in - whos fault is that? (well actually its the equivilent of the builders not putting the door on and no-one noticing. If Microsoft forgets to put the door on but says that you agree they are not liable if you click "yes" then are they liable?
Its almost impossible to regulate software like you regulate health and safety for example.
Naming conventions are very important, they show the true philosophies (spelling?) behind the design. If someone has taken the time to name things properly you can be sure they are either really anal, or really good, or both.
I thought Mac notebooks had a tendency to come only with built-in microphones and no mic or line in socket!? I found that to get a mic in socket you had to buy an expensive usb adaptor. Even with other notebooks im not sure how good the internal sound-card is going to be so it would be better do use an average notebook (come on its digital audio it doenst need that much power) and use a separate bit of hardware to do the digitising and send it thru firewire/usb
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At what version will they change the name to something that wont make people laugh at you or think your weird when you say "i like gimp"? Or being oss do i have to start a fork just to rename every occurence in the source ;)
weird name but great program.. i just wish it had an effects stack/effects layers what-ever you want to call it. Or even just the ability to preview filter output without having to do "filter, undo, select filter in menu tree again, tweek settings, re-filter"...
Not really. Raster and vector is a technical distinction not an artistic one (to most artists, vector means "you can zoom in without it going bumpy"). It would be more intuitive to completely combine them, which no program i know of completely does. Illustrator has lots of raster 'features' and photoshop has lots of vector 'features' so you can see where thats going. Its not to complicated to distinct between raster and vector objects, most programs do it pretty well, and the advantages are endless...
I took another look at gimp the other day (as i do with lots of programs im trying to replace with oss) and noted the bad path features - i couldnt even stretch a path (unless im missing something), although selection -> path was damn good and useful! also i couldnt stretch fonts or export them to paths (unless i used selection -> path tool which probably isnt optimised for that). I'll take another look, but i cant wait for 2.0! thats gotta rock - although i have no idea what they are going to do? - if they added CMYK (which means re-writing all the filters) and they made some sort of effects stack (photoshop has started to do that with layer effects for drop shadow, glow, outline etc. and filter layers for contrast/levels etc.) they could beat photoshop to the ground! Effects stacks are vital in my opinion, which is why blender hasnt caught my eye yet (3D Max has a good stack). CMYK is also pretty vital but i would live without it - not doing print work.
The last thing i found gimp lacking in was a macro feature - obviously it has the most extensive scripting/plug-in ability ive ever seen but it needs a basic macro for 5-min jobs that even art students can figure out how to use.
If people used the HTML specs properly they wouldnt even need a separte wap version, the phone would just ignore the css or use a special small-screen version from the site (the css specs include support for this). That means no extra servers/sub-domains/complex scripts/6 month old content.
Ofcourse that would never happen because then browsers would have to actually be able to render HTML and CSS properly (which after several gens they still cant do) and designers would have to get off their asses and think properly about the system they are designing rather than just treating it as a piece of paper with buttons. Also this would be a totally stupid idea because it would allow people to browse and sort the web more easily and allow browsers to do special functions like collapse pages into trees and we couldnt have that could we?
Sounds alot like something freeserve would do to tie in with their hippie-style tv ads. :P
furere means leader, it has nothing to do with nazi's where did you get that idea from? yes ok the spelling is appauling.
Outlook VB viruses are more relevent, since Outlook was designed by the same company as the OS and is the defult mail client and uses the rendering engine of the default browser, that said company argues is part of the OS (VB may also carry more weight with the OS in terms of what it can do to files etc, im not sure about this though). VB and Outlook tie into most of the companys products and Outlook is "patched" by the OS's built-in updating system. Not to mention that it may represent a good deal of the philosophies and standards that are used through-out Windows.
Obviously people would target those platforms if they were more popular. But more often than not, developers on those platforms wouldnt be stupid enough to create a hole like outlook visual basic script exicution on mail open!
And why the hell do system DLLs/procs on my Windows machine need to access the internet? they dont, i block them and the OS still works fine.
No OS is perfect, but some just leave poor hackers laughing on the floor with tears comming out - how can they possibly resist exploiting such stupid flaws? Its like drawing on the kid thats asleep at the desk infront of you!
It wont, the only thing that could stop that is some sort of mass hypnosis - remember, the RIAA is above the law MINE FURER!
They did something innovative with parking on their deskstar HDs, where instead of the head hitting a landing zone on the disk it would exit off the side off the disk and park and then carefully come back in place when it was un-parked. Unfortunately the deskstar series had some major problems with HDs failing all over the place.
The next round (or sometime in the future) will come in the form of a new media (obviously) and will take a similar route to DVD with a total hardware upgrade. Already their are some mini-CD type things with DRM on them planned (i forget the name) but it will be interesting to see what the winning platform/format will be. The only problem is that all the last media format wars were in a time before [fast] internet and high capacity storage for the masses.
A new format could be something along the lines of a closed portable player with built in HD. Encrypted music could be downloaded in shops or on the net and decryption to analog out would be [proprietry | closed | tamper proof | on a single chip] (pick one or more of those words). Obviously i dont have to point out the blaitent flaws in that but it would seem a likely choice for a next gen format.
What we want the RIAA to do: give up
What will probably happen: more DRM, more laws.
The adverts come from an industry whos job it is to embelish the truth and tell stories. The fact that the actors get paid millions can be hidden by them as easily as the physics in all their sci-fi films!
One of those 4 color ball-points rocks for messy note-taking :)
The facts are that without totally locking down all hardware around the world and applying death penalties and enormous fines:
1. Theres no way of providing un-breakable DRM'd songs.
2. Free file-sharing will always be around.
3. People will only pay for music if they want to.
This will make it much easier to restrict modification of anything. BIOS's could be sold under the agreement that you dont install a non MS OS on the system (it will burn a flag in PROM if it doesnt get a special Microsoft key and you wont be able to trade it in)
It might also clear up the legality of mobile phone locking in the favour of the networks.
Can we get some Open Source Hardware now?
Dont make that mistake, i have a Casio Cassiopiea PocketPC and windows is on the ROM, you cant bypass it (why would Microsoft allow that?) and it comes with such useless things filling up the limited space as "AOL Sign Up" (you'll use that once if that and its stuck there for ever) and an un-bypassable tutorial when you hard-reset it that shows you how to "cut and paste" and it damn wont let you pass until you bloody well cut and past that example apointment! And ofcourse casio decided to stick their own calender and address book in there as well as Microsofts versions for no apparent reason. Its all there on the ROM, even though the system is missing some quite important features, looks like they didnt have space.
Yes, Windows licensing fees.. One day they will be more expensive than whole PC's too!
You only have to look at the name to see what a stupid piece of legislation it is:
Digital - Now whats the point of calling it digital? its just a bandwagon jumping buzzword, well back in the late 90's it was all the rage digital this digital that always with the digital it just means fucking numbers! so by calling it digital they've restricted it to only digital systems. Macrovision on VHS is not digital, therefore it doesn't count, whoops. Now as much as i like that little mistake it doesn't mean its not stupid.
Millennium - WHY!??!?! WHY!??! WTF! WHY!? it wasn't even the millennium when the law was passed! What does it mean? What possible relevance does the millennium of 2000 have to do with copy-right law and circumnavigation of digital devices? Is it just another bandwagon buzzword?? At least digital was slightly relevant!
Copy-right Act - This isn't a copy-right act, its an anti-reverse engineering act, its an anti-industrial espionage act, its an anti-freedom-of-speech-if-it-might-hurt-a-company act. A copy-right act would use the phrase "You may not copy copy-righted work that you dont own" the only thing this says your not allowed to copy is circumnavigation software from other people.
This is the sort of naming i would expect by marketing people. Marketing people have no place in politics and legislation.
A near miss is when a 50 ton object smashes into you but only just. Someone watching would say "oh, that asteroid nearly missed him"
The RIAA have turned into pirates (shiver
'me'timbers) sailing around scaring people and plundering their property (computers) and money.
And what i ask you do we do with pirates? yes, we line them up against the wall and put a bullet in them. Use your right to bear arms America!
I cant walk down Oxford Street without 20 people trying to hand me flyers but that doesnt mean it should be illigal. Spammers are assholes but they are only assholes because we know that what they are doing is technically legal and theres nothing we can do about it. Filtering spam might get rid of allot of it but it doesnt give us the satisfaction of hurting the spammers. To get this satisfaction we have to go over and beat the absolute crap out of them until they cant even use a mac! Obviously thats over-reaction but thats what people think and thats why spam laws get in. Actually what am i saying, screw them, make it illigal and sue their asses. I hate advertising more than anything, if i had to put up with telemarketing and tv ads every 5 mins i would go apeshit and shoot people.
Hm maybe Bush can start a war on hacking? It would work kind of like the war on terrorism: FUD, arrest random people, more FUD, invade a country.
If their EULA/T&C says they are not liable then they are not liable. Its the responsibility of who-ever buys/installs the software to check, but no-one does, and if they did they would probably find no alternative software that had more liability. When a whole company gets hit with some stupid vb-script email virus its definately the equivilent of someone leaving the back door open and a burgler walking in - whos fault is that? (well actually its the equivilent of the builders not putting the door on and no-one noticing. If Microsoft forgets to put the door on but says that you agree they are not liable if you click "yes" then are they liable?
Its almost impossible to regulate software like you regulate health and safety for example.
Naming conventions are very important, they show the true philosophies (spelling?) behind the design. If someone has taken the time to name things properly you can be sure they are either really anal, or really good, or both.
I thought Mac notebooks had a tendency to come only with built-in microphones and no mic or line in socket!? I found that to get a mic in socket you had to buy an expensive usb adaptor. Even with other notebooks im not sure how good the internal sound-card is going to be so it would be better do use an average notebook (come on its digital audio it doenst need that much power) and use a separate bit of hardware to do the digitising and send it thru firewire/usb