Obviously people who have chosen to use the software either like the name or don't care about the name. The issue the GPP raises is, is GIMP's market share being reduced due to the poor name? And if it is, why on earth would you want to keep it? By the same logical premise where calling it GIMP shouldn't matter, since the name has no bearing on the functionality, why keep it if it's having a negative effect on your product?
I have several (6) monitors, and being able to spread stuff out is nice.
You do, of course, realize the vast majority of people using the software have a single monitor, right. A tiny fraction have 2. The number of people on the planet with 6 monitors using gimp regularly would probably fit in my garage.
So although you are happy with your setup, and the way you organize windows works for you, its not an option for most people.
I don't buy DRM-encumbered eBooks. If anyone wants to borrow a book from me, electronic or otherwise, it can be done. Moreover, I can read my ebooks on any device I have that supports them, and can easily convert between formats with calibre.
Try to imagine for a minute how a bank would work if they couldn't uniquely identify and verify the identity of their users. No, names aren't enough. Now, there are one of two options available. First, they can uniquely identify the guy, and under his privacy laws, FB must provide him with his profile data. If they can't, how on earth are they going to function as a bank?
Curious, blind and deaf people don't see all the benefits of 2D movies. And I expect there are some colorblind people who feel cheated now that their non-colorblind friends have a different viewing experience than they had with black and white. Perhaps we should stop making movies altogether for the sake of these disadvantaged people.
If holographic ever gets good enough for producing movies, I expect you'll see two things. First, the movies for the first few years are going to be really poorly done - after all, it's a whole new way to do movies. Second, it's going to be far more viable for individual viewing, because you know that people are going to want to stop everything and take in the whole scene for certain shots, among other things. Neither of those are going to help theaters, either.
"The United States reports the world's highest incidence of violent crimes"
- More than Mexico where thousands are dying in drug gang violence? Besides, US has a large population, if you use violent crimes per capita as a measure, you should find US quite low in the table, although not as good as most other developed countries.
Out of the 64 countries listed in this list, the first I bothered to look at when I searched "violent crime per capita", the US is #24, and the highest 'first-world' country. The violent crime rate is 3 times higher than in Canada and the UK, and 4 times higher than Germany. But you may stop worrying, Mexico is 3 times higher than the US. And maybe that's why the rest of the world thinks of the US the way the US thinks of Mexico, when it comes to violent crime.
"The U.S. regards itself as "the beacon of democracy. However, its democracy is largely based on money. "
- Not that I like the big spending on elections, but is fund raising not part of the democracy? I highly doubt if fund raising for a political party is allowed in China.
And here I thought democracy was founded on an educated public, not a marketing exercise. Maybe being required to spend less would get things away from rhetoric and vitriol, and on to reasoned debate on the relative merits of the various positions. More money certainly hasn't achieved that...
"While advocating Internet freedom, the U.S. in fact imposes fairly strict restriction on cyberspace. On June 24, 2010, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs approved the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, which will give the federal government "absolute power" to shut down the Internet under a declared national emergency. Handing government the power to control the Internet will only be the first step towards a greatly restricted Internet system, whereby individual IDs and government permission would be required to operate a website."
- Power to shut down the internet is just granting legal power for government to stop a serious cyber war. It's hard to see the US government getting away with shutting down the internet for stopping protests like the dictators do in Middle East. The last sentence is merely China assuming US will follow its footsteps. It has not happened and will not happen in near future.
The first steps toward tyranny are always reasonably painless. Many tyrants gained power by having popular ideas. If you can't see the risk in reducing freedom, or the value in taking the risks that freedom entails, just stop using the phrase "land of the free, home of the brave".
"Unemployment rate in the United States has been stubbornly high. From December 2007 to October 2010, a total of 7.5 million jobs were lost in the country "...
- What does a severe financial meltdown has to do with human rights? Oh right, in China human rights mean having rice to eat.
One of the last steps towards governmental collapse is when the average person can't afford to eat. People will put up with a lot of crap, but going hungry starts riots. Fast. So yes, the ability to support one's self is an indicator of the health of a country.
And finally, if your standard for your country being good is that it's better than some of the worst countries out there, I think it's time to give those standards a close examination.
Storage has always been the biggest bottleneck. It's just that we've now gotten to the point where we move so much data just to do basic tasks, the fact that multi-core processors don't provide any benefit to offset this (longer pipes, branch prediction, etc., have all been used already), and the fact that we now have a reasonable alternative to HDD, that we can actually do very much about it. But even before this, there was a noticeable difference between the performance of a 5k RPM HDD and a 15k RPM HDD.
The bottlenecks have almost always been (from most restrictive to least restrictive) disk access, disk bus bandwidth, bandwidth between RAM and CPU, and CPU speed. GPU speed and graphics bus bandwidth fit in there somewhere, depending on if your application is graphics-intensive or not.
Nor do grains of salt that the typical diner encounters run that size. This is closer to the size of a grain of rice (short grain, uncooked), for those who aren't aware of what a millimeter is.
What is going to make or break this technology would be the weight of the battery pack needed to store all that extra energy to provide surge and low end torque. Prius has a very tiny battery, relatively, just enough to propel the car for about 2 miles. We might need a battery midway between Prius and Chevy Volt/Nissan Leaf for this technology to work. Of course, the fine tolerance manufacturing, durability of the engine and seals (the bugaboo of Wankel) and other issues might crop up.
But the basic idea is plausible. Giving it one and half (guarded) thumbs up.
The article also mentioned shedding 1000lbs by using this motor.
That's a free half-ton for more batteries which should cover the surge and low-end torque problems you mentioned.
I suspect the big issue with the battery is the cost, not the weight. If it needs a bigger battery than the Prius, it will also cost more, and that one runs for $5k or more, from what I recall.
Because for the aliens in the book, killing a shipload of drones is like slapping someone on the back by way of greeting. It's no reason to beat the person to death.
Yeah, this seems more likely than the Ender's Game scenario - at least at this point. After all, in Ender's Game, they didn't start the 'simulations' until they'd passed rigorous training.
Now, if someone comes up to you, after a few successful months, and says, "We'd like you to come work on some simulations," I'd be a bit suspicious. But it could be a great job opening.
No, the issue of checking other country's criminal databases are not provided for with a passport.
Doesn't INTERPOL already track major international crimes? And can't local forces investigate those? If so, why add more oversight?
Because we are becoming a global society?
Take it in the other direction. Why shouldn't you need papers to travel within your own country? Some would say that personal freedom is worth more than the price required to remove the criminal activities.
And yes, I've heard of countries that are very interested in looking at the stamps in passports. Where is your difference now?
The difference is not unlike that of monitoring public areas. Without automated monitoring, you have a veneer of anonymity when you walk down the street. People can find out who you are and what you did, but it takes workAdd complete camera coverage, automated facial recognition, database logging, and people with less than the purest of intentions, and you have a system which would make any dictator green with envy.
Honestly, did you READ the linked article? Do you think Archimedes couldn't have thought of guide sticks for his soldiers to use for aiming their mirrors? That's not eyeballing, that's simple triangulation. It also removes the distraction of everyone else's lights, since you're focussing your light based on an item that no one else is using. As I said, not one aiming mechanism, not even something that simple. And for the record, even the most basic bow and arrow uses triangulation to aim with (presuming the bow is good enough to be aimed), even if the user doesn't realize it. I only expect slightly better of Archimedes.
They use the scientific method to prove or disprove hypotheses. So yeah, they're real scientists, they're just not academics.
If they were 'real scientists', they'd do more research, and more rigorous testing. Sure, they use some science, but so did the first agriculturalists who determined that x days after the shortest day in the year, in their region, was a safe time to plant crops. A 'real scientist' would have figured out what the minimum soil temperature had to be before seeds could germinate, and how much sun per day was needed, and could use that to give you the optimum time this spring for when to plant a given seed.
I'll acknowledge that 'real science' takes too long to do in a weekly show, and that they often do interesting and relevant experiments. OTOH, often their research is far too light. One example is the whole Archimedes Death Ray (which has been beaten to death). In virtually every experiment I've seen, they're eyeballing where the light is being reflected. That's pretty hard when you have a hundred lights doing the same thing. This page gives a simple, basic method to determine where your light is going, and if it doubled their consistency with the mirrors, the results would have been different. I'm sure the boy scouts have a training manual, too, if you're looking for a more formal source. I'm not even saying that the death ray would have worked. I'm just saying that their experiments sucked. And bad experiments give bad results.
Did we miss the part about "migrants" and "border control"? If you don't want to be in someone's database, you probably don't want to travel to another country where they control their borders anyway because they'll be keeping a record of you entering, and that border is where you'd need this card.
But, as you said, these issues are already provided for with a passport. So why do we need a global repository to manage this? And why does <Country 1> need to know that I travelled to <Country 2> three years ago? Especially if my homeland is <Country 3>? Because that's the big difference I see in this.
First, mid-size business and small business are two different things. Equating the two only makes the discussion more difficult. My first thought on reading your post above was "Why would you use Small Business Server in a mid-size business?"
Next, you're ignoring the joys of trying to get all these disparate services working on one box. Were you planning on running all the services SBS provides (ignoring the whole security/DMZ issue)? How about services not included with SBS? All you need is two critical pieces of software that insist on the same port to make a nightmare. Of course, 'critical' is defined as 'the customer/CEO insists on having it'.
I'm not disagreeing with the whole 'other 99% of the world' in the '5-50 users' category. But that's not mid-size, and there are clear exceptions.
It is, but it's an exception to the myriad CLI's out there, and probably less overall usage than the others. Moreover, PowerShell is now being provided, with positive response from the few people I've talked to about it (I don't know if it also starts with C:\>). And even if you use cmd, typing 'telnet' will leave you in deep water if the breadth of your experience begins and ends with the C:\ prompt.
I've used DOS (or cmd, if you prefer) extensively, and bash less so. But I'm perfectly aware of the power held by bash, and its prowess relative to cmd
And yet, somehow, Windows was able to solve this problem.
Yes, that's too simplistic a response, but if the hardware specs are mandated, and the specific configurations fall within those specs, half the battle is over. Add drivers for specific hardware elements, and you're there. And if you put in as part of the agreement that OTA download of vanilla Android is required, it isn't much more to require compatible drivers for included hardware, as well.
The sad part is, there's no reason this couldn't be done. And except for the slightly dimmer screen (and the greater difficulty in seeing your fellow movie-goers, which is a good thing) you could have a relatively normal 2D viewing experience with your 3D-viewing friends. Of course, I already wear glasses, so it would be more normal for me than it would be for some others.
On a related note, if we got people into the idea of having their own damned 3D glasses, it would be a lot harder for theatres to insist on a $3 rental fee for disposable ones. Then they could stop showing 2D and 3D on different screens, and only rent out disposable glasses to people who need them...and stop making ridiculous profits on items they pretty much only repackage between uses.
Why can't Google understand that I simply do not want to broadcast my searches to the world? I have been trusting Google with that information. If they want to use my click-throughs as part of their search algorithms, that's fine. But why do they want me to attach my name to it? Google keeps trying to go social and that goes against all the trust we put in Google's privacy policies.
Sounds like you will have the difficult task of...not clicking the +1 button.
They should be able to model the entire space craft including original heat source(s), other structures acting as thermal masses, reflectors, absorbers, and radiators, and apply known material properties for how each photon should behave statistically.
...and include all the damage, dust, pitting, and corrosion incurred over more than a decade in space, and how that will affect absorbtion/reflection. Do you happen to have any accurate models for that? Of course, an alternative is to use a model that gets us into the 'good enough' category...oh, wait!
Kinect was basically a me too effort, as well. It just happens to be a better, and simpler from the user perspective, implementation than what they emulated.
Really, this is only two logical steps from what the Wii provides. Wii = ability to track wand activity to control the console > remove the wand > add the image being tracked into the game = Kinect. I'm not trying to detract from the Kinect. The same thing could be said about the difference between the telegraph and radio communications(from pulses to modulation, from wired to radio). And look at the changes those things led to.
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Obviously people who have chosen to use the software either like the name or don't care about the name. The issue the GPP raises is, is GIMP's market share being reduced due to the poor name? And if it is, why on earth would you want to keep it? By the same logical premise where calling it GIMP shouldn't matter, since the name has no bearing on the functionality, why keep it if it's having a negative effect on your product?
I have several (6) monitors, and being able to spread stuff out is nice.
You do, of course, realize the vast majority of people using the software have a single monitor, right. A tiny fraction have 2. The number of people on the planet with 6 monitors using gimp regularly would probably fit in my garage.
So although you are happy with your setup, and the way you organize windows works for you, its not an option for most people.
Not with all those monitors, they wouldn't.
I don't buy DRM-encumbered eBooks. If anyone wants to borrow a book from me, electronic or otherwise, it can be done. Moreover, I can read my ebooks on any device I have that supports them, and can easily convert between formats with calibre.
Try to imagine for a minute how a bank would work if they couldn't uniquely identify and verify the identity of their users. No, names aren't enough. Now, there are one of two options available. First, they can uniquely identify the guy, and under his privacy laws, FB must provide him with his profile data. If they can't, how on earth are they going to function as a bank?
Curious, blind and deaf people don't see all the benefits of 2D movies. And I expect there are some colorblind people who feel cheated now that their non-colorblind friends have a different viewing experience than they had with black and white. Perhaps we should stop making movies altogether for the sake of these disadvantaged people.
If holographic ever gets good enough for producing movies, I expect you'll see two things. First, the movies for the first few years are going to be really poorly done - after all, it's a whole new way to do movies. Second, it's going to be far more viable for individual viewing, because you know that people are going to want to stop everything and take in the whole scene for certain shots, among other things. Neither of those are going to help theaters, either.
Some of them have a point, others not so much.
"The United States reports the world's highest incidence of violent crimes"
- More than Mexico where thousands are dying in drug gang violence? Besides, US has a large population, if you use violent crimes per capita as a measure, you should find US quite low in the table, although not as good as most other developed countries.
Out of the 64 countries listed in this list, the first I bothered to look at when I searched "violent crime per capita", the US is #24, and the highest 'first-world' country. The violent crime rate is 3 times higher than in Canada and the UK, and 4 times higher than Germany. But you may stop worrying, Mexico is 3 times higher than the US. And maybe that's why the rest of the world thinks of the US the way the US thinks of Mexico, when it comes to violent crime.
"The U.S. regards itself as "the beacon of democracy. However, its democracy is largely based on money. "
- Not that I like the big spending on elections, but is fund raising not part of the democracy? I highly doubt if fund raising for a political party is allowed in China.
And here I thought democracy was founded on an educated public, not a marketing exercise. Maybe being required to spend less would get things away from rhetoric and vitriol, and on to reasoned debate on the relative merits of the various positions. More money certainly hasn't achieved that...
"While advocating Internet freedom, the U.S. in fact imposes fairly strict restriction on cyberspace. On June 24, 2010, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs approved the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, which will give the federal government "absolute power" to shut down the Internet under a declared national emergency. Handing government the power to control the Internet will only be the first step towards a greatly restricted Internet system, whereby individual IDs and government permission would be required to operate a website."
- Power to shut down the internet is just granting legal power for government to stop a serious cyber war. It's hard to see the US government getting away with shutting down the internet for stopping protests like the dictators do in Middle East. The last sentence is merely China assuming US will follow its footsteps. It has not happened and will not happen in near future.
The first steps toward tyranny are always reasonably painless. Many tyrants gained power by having popular ideas. If you can't see the risk in reducing freedom, or the value in taking the risks that freedom entails, just stop using the phrase "land of the free, home of the brave".
"Unemployment rate in the United States has been stubbornly high. From December 2007 to October 2010, a total of 7.5 million jobs were lost in the country " ...
- What does a severe financial meltdown has to do with human rights? Oh right, in China human rights mean having rice to eat.
One of the last steps towards governmental collapse is when the average person can't afford to eat. People will put up with a lot of crap, but going hungry starts riots. Fast. So yes, the ability to support one's self is an indicator of the health of a country.
And finally, if your standard for your country being good is that it's better than some of the worst countries out there, I think it's time to give those standards a close examination.
Storage has always been the biggest bottleneck. It's just that we've now gotten to the point where we move so much data just to do basic tasks, the fact that multi-core processors don't provide any benefit to offset this (longer pipes, branch prediction, etc., have all been used already), and the fact that we now have a reasonable alternative to HDD, that we can actually do very much about it. But even before this, there was a noticeable difference between the performance of a 5k RPM HDD and a 15k RPM HDD.
The bottlenecks have almost always been (from most restrictive to least restrictive) disk access, disk bus bandwidth, bandwidth between RAM and CPU, and CPU speed. GPU speed and graphics bus bandwidth fit in there somewhere, depending on if your application is graphics-intensive or not.
Nor do grains of salt that the typical diner encounters run that size. This is closer to the size of a grain of rice (short grain, uncooked), for those who aren't aware of what a millimeter is.
What is going to make or break this technology would be the weight of the battery pack needed to store all that extra energy to provide surge and low end torque. Prius has a very tiny battery, relatively, just enough to propel the car for about 2 miles. We might need a battery midway between Prius and Chevy Volt/Nissan Leaf for this technology to work. Of course, the fine tolerance manufacturing, durability of the engine and seals (the bugaboo of Wankel) and other issues might crop up.
But the basic idea is plausible. Giving it one and half (guarded) thumbs up.
The article also mentioned shedding 1000lbs by using this motor.
That's a free half-ton for more batteries which should cover the surge and low-end torque problems you mentioned.
I suspect the big issue with the battery is the cost, not the weight. If it needs a bigger battery than the Prius, it will also cost more, and that one runs for $5k or more, from what I recall.
Because for the aliens in the book, killing a shipload of drones is like slapping someone on the back by way of greeting. It's no reason to beat the person to death.
Yeah, this seems more likely than the Ender's Game scenario - at least at this point. After all, in Ender's Game, they didn't start the 'simulations' until they'd passed rigorous training.
Now, if someone comes up to you, after a few successful months, and says, "We'd like you to come work on some simulations," I'd be a bit suspicious. But it could be a great job opening.
No, the issue of checking other country's criminal databases are not provided for with a passport.
Doesn't INTERPOL already track major international crimes? And can't local forces investigate those? If so, why add more oversight?
Because we are becoming a global society?
Take it in the other direction. Why shouldn't you need papers to travel within your own country? Some would say that personal freedom is worth more than the price required to remove the criminal activities.
And yes, I've heard of countries that are very interested in looking at the stamps in passports. Where is your difference now?
The difference is not unlike that of monitoring public areas. Without automated monitoring, you have a veneer of anonymity when you walk down the street. People can find out who you are and what you did, but it takes workAdd complete camera coverage, automated facial recognition, database logging, and people with less than the purest of intentions, and you have a system which would make any dictator green with envy.
Honestly, did you READ the linked article? Do you think Archimedes couldn't have thought of guide sticks for his soldiers to use for aiming their mirrors? That's not eyeballing, that's simple triangulation. It also removes the distraction of everyone else's lights, since you're focussing your light based on an item that no one else is using. As I said, not one aiming mechanism, not even something that simple. And for the record, even the most basic bow and arrow uses triangulation to aim with (presuming the bow is good enough to be aimed), even if the user doesn't realize it. I only expect slightly better of Archimedes.
They use the scientific method to prove or disprove hypotheses. So yeah, they're real scientists, they're just not academics.
If they were 'real scientists', they'd do more research, and more rigorous testing. Sure, they use some science, but so did the first agriculturalists who determined that x days after the shortest day in the year, in their region, was a safe time to plant crops. A 'real scientist' would have figured out what the minimum soil temperature had to be before seeds could germinate, and how much sun per day was needed, and could use that to give you the optimum time this spring for when to plant a given seed.
I'll acknowledge that 'real science' takes too long to do in a weekly show, and that they often do interesting and relevant experiments. OTOH, often their research is far too light. One example is the whole Archimedes Death Ray (which has been beaten to death). In virtually every experiment I've seen, they're eyeballing where the light is being reflected. That's pretty hard when you have a hundred lights doing the same thing. This page gives a simple, basic method to determine where your light is going, and if it doubled their consistency with the mirrors, the results would have been different. I'm sure the boy scouts have a training manual, too, if you're looking for a more formal source. I'm not even saying that the death ray would have worked. I'm just saying that their experiments sucked. And bad experiments give bad results.
Did we miss the part about "migrants" and "border control"? If you don't want to be in someone's database, you probably don't want to travel to another country where they control their borders anyway because they'll be keeping a record of you entering, and that border is where you'd need this card.
But, as you said, these issues are already provided for with a passport. So why do we need a global repository to manage this? And why does <Country 1> need to know that I travelled to <Country 2> three years ago? Especially if my homeland is <Country 3>? Because that's the big difference I see in this.
First, mid-size business and small business are two different things. Equating the two only makes the discussion more difficult. My first thought on reading your post above was "Why would you use Small Business Server in a mid-size business?"
Next, you're ignoring the joys of trying to get all these disparate services working on one box. Were you planning on running all the services SBS provides (ignoring the whole security/DMZ issue)? How about services not included with SBS? All you need is two critical pieces of software that insist on the same port to make a nightmare. Of course, 'critical' is defined as 'the customer/CEO insists on having it'.
I'm not disagreeing with the whole 'other 99% of the world' in the '5-50 users' category. But that's not mid-size, and there are clear exceptions.
It is, but it's an exception to the myriad CLI's out there, and probably less overall usage than the others. Moreover, PowerShell is now being provided, with positive response from the few people I've talked to about it (I don't know if it also starts with C:\>). And even if you use cmd, typing 'telnet' will leave you in deep water if the breadth of your experience begins and ends with the C:\ prompt.
I've used DOS (or cmd, if you prefer) extensively, and bash less so. But I'm perfectly aware of the power held by bash, and its prowess relative to cmd
Even Amazon does, nowadays. What do you think a virtual server is?
And yet, somehow, Windows was able to solve this problem.
Yes, that's too simplistic a response, but if the hardware specs are mandated, and the specific configurations fall within those specs, half the battle is over. Add drivers for specific hardware elements, and you're there. And if you put in as part of the agreement that OTA download of vanilla Android is required, it isn't much more to require compatible drivers for included hardware, as well.
Only a pirate would consider this normal. Do I have to sic the ninjas on you?
The sad part is, there's no reason this couldn't be done. And except for the slightly dimmer screen (and the greater difficulty in seeing your fellow movie-goers, which is a good thing) you could have a relatively normal 2D viewing experience with your 3D-viewing friends. Of course, I already wear glasses, so it would be more normal for me than it would be for some others.
On a related note, if we got people into the idea of having their own damned 3D glasses, it would be a lot harder for theatres to insist on a $3 rental fee for disposable ones. Then they could stop showing 2D and 3D on different screens, and only rent out disposable glasses to people who need them...and stop making ridiculous profits on items they pretty much only repackage between uses.
Yet another endorsement for Netflix.
Why can't Google understand that I simply do not want to broadcast my searches to the world? I have been trusting Google with that information. If they want to use my click-throughs as part of their search algorithms, that's fine. But why do they want me to attach my name to it? Google keeps trying to go social and that goes against all the trust we put in Google's privacy policies.
Sounds like you will have the difficult task of...not clicking the +1 button.
They should be able to model the entire space craft including original heat source(s), other structures acting as thermal masses, reflectors, absorbers, and radiators, and apply known material properties for how each photon should behave statistically.
...and include all the damage, dust, pitting, and corrosion incurred over more than a decade in space, and how that will affect absorbtion/reflection. Do you happen to have any accurate models for that? Of course, an alternative is to use a model that gets us into the 'good enough' category...oh, wait!
Kinect was basically a me too effort, as well. It just happens to be a better, and simpler from the user perspective, implementation than what they emulated.
Really, this is only two logical steps from what the Wii provides. Wii = ability to track wand activity to control the console > remove the wand > add the image being tracked into the game = Kinect. I'm not trying to detract from the Kinect. The same thing could be said about the difference between the telegraph and radio communications(from pulses to modulation, from wired to radio). And look at the changes those things led to.