I suspect the answer is "No", because they say that a lot of the code still depends on 8 bit code. But I guess the implication was "They're getting there".
There really isn't much here to warrant a major release (at least for the end user). I thought they had declared that the next major release would have full GEGL integration. Maybe I'm wrong.
I just love Gimp. But why does Gimp have to separate the windows like that? Can't it have everything as a multi-document all under one window?
I thought that was the whole point of:
This enables window managers to do a much better job of managing the GIMP windows, including omitting the Toolbox and Docks from the taskbar and ensuring that the Toolbox and Docks always are above image windows.
Frankly, I liked it as it was. I hope there's an option to get back the old behavior. I often have different images in different work spaces.
But there is only one thing that kept me in line academically as a kid, and that was fear of my father's foot in my ass.
Generally not a good strategy. In my high school class, most of the lower end students regularly got such treatment. They succeeded where you didn't: They simply learned to cope with that treatment. And so once again, no motivation to study.
On the other extreme, I was at the top of my class (well, until I went to grad school - where I only occasionally was on the top). No such threats were needed for me. In the 9th grade I really took off. And believe it or not, that was also the time when I stopped caring what my parents thought about my performance. And yes, I do think the two were related.
The reality is that there is no good strategy for all. Parents have to individualize their strategies for each kid. A friend of mine told me that in his school days, he did not do well at all. The parents couldn't find a way to make him study. So they put him in a very strict boarding school. He credits that to straightening him out.
My sister (we're twins) consistently kicked my ass at math and just about everything else, right up until we got to 10th grade or thereabouts. Then she turned into a vacuous fashion fiend with god-awful grades who liked hanging out with other vacuous fashion fiends.
A lot of parents are becoming more interesting in girls-only schools (or so I was told on the radio - it never lies, you know). Apparently studies have shown that girls who study in such schools generally perform better and are also more interested in tech fields. They spend less time at the mall and obsessing on fashion. Of course, they still had boyfriends, etc. But it really does make a difference if you go to a school where you don't concern yourself with "why does that guy in the second row not look at me?" and can focus on everything else.
Why do I get the feeling that it would be even more true for boys studying in boys-only schools?
Google Desktop is another culprit that exposes hidden files in TrueCrypt versions below 6.0, according to the report. The Google app's lists of recently changed documents and logs of recent file actions can reveal the existence of a hidden file.
Really poor phrasing. It makes Google Desktop look like the offender, when in actuality it ended up being a useful tool in pointing out a vulnerability (and perhaps correcting it).
Google Desktop is another culprit that exposes hidden files in TrueCrypt versions below 6.0, according to the report. The Google app's lists of recently changed documents and logs of recent file actions can reveal the existence of a hidden file.
Really poor phrasing. It makes Google Desktop look like the offender, when in actuality it ended up being a useful tool in pointing out a vulnerability (and perhaps correcting it).
Quantum mechanics: R. Shankar, "Principals of Quantum Mechanics" (the first few chapters should give you a basic foundation of the theory).
In my undergrad, a physics professor told me, "There's no particularly good book on QM". I thought he was being pedantic, but years later I found out he was actually correct. Every book has some serious deficiency (serious if that's the only book you learned it from). I've read only the first few chapters of Shankar, and they're quite decent - I liked them. I tried reading some of the stuff later in the book and didn't feel he did justice to them (either too brief on the topic or hand-waving). Another problem with Shankar is that it doesn't really challenge the reader.
I can't exactly recommend a QM book, as I learned it from my professor's lecture notes - which were awesome. But from memory, he consulted a bunch when he wrote them. They included the books by Messiah, Davydov, Landau & Lifshitz, Baym.
At the undergrad level (in case you did not learn it during your BSc), two common books are the ones by Griffith and Liboff. Again, both have weaknesses but they do complement one another well.
Electricity and Magnetism: D. Griffiths, "Introduction to Electrodynamics"
Best undergrad book on the topic ever. Well worth reading for its insights even if you think you know E&M very well.
In the US, at the grad level the standard is the book by Jackson. I hear in some countries they sometimes use that in the final year of undergrad. It's a standard and a must if your program requires you to know EM.
In general, people speak very highly of the series by Landau & Lifshitz. Might want to keep them as references and read them at some point.
I think a lot of people here wanted to believe he was innocent, perhaps because of the open source connection
Not at all the case for me. In fact, while I always knew of ReiserFS, I'm not sure I knew of Hans Reiser prior to this whole episode. I did not think him innocent. I merely did not see a compelling case for him being guilty.
For me, a missing person simply does not equate to murder. While I have no doubts now of Hans's guilt, that sentiment has not been altered.
there was no evidence that crazy best friend did it and no real motive for Nina to try to frame him by fleeing to Russia without her kids.
That's the standard "guilty until innocent" stance. If a body was found, I could understand demanding explanations from Hans. But without even *knowing* (and I mean *knowing*, not weak speculation) that she had been murdered, it's asking a bit too much from Hans. Statistically, the police, etc are more often right than wrong in these cases. Thankfully, the justice system does not recognize that - even if juries are swayed.
Law enforcement agencies need to show that she had been murdered AND that Hans had murdered her. Not just accuse Hans of not having good explanations for discrepancies.
Seriously - put yourself in the position of someone who did *not* murder his wife. Would it make sense for you to be arrested and charged with murder - with the task of explaining what happened to your wife? I thought it was their job to do that - not yours.
This whole case reminded me too much of the Jon Benet Ramsey one - where they kept trying to pin it on the parents.
Nowadays, most profs aren't allowed (by either law, Board of Regents ethics codes, or by school policy) to require their own authored textbooks for taking their own classes.
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I took a course that used the prof's text book. The dept and/or university required him to donate the equivalent he would get in royalties. He was allowed to do this.
In my current university in a different state, another professor uses his own book as a textbook. Don't know if he has to donate anything or not, but he's been doing it for decades now.
I'm willing to bet the 38 years is if he gets convicted for all the charges, and doesn't get any concurrent sentencing - very unlikely.
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To see the illogic of this, all one has to do is see that the countries that are the freest also tend to be the most capitalistic. Interesting assertion, but somewhat meaningless until you can quantify freedom.
It's not like it's going to happen any day now, but it's Britain's future. It's the future of many European countries. Societies consists of people, so what do you think is going to happen when the majority of the population consists of people who think Sharia law is a jolly good idea? Do you have any reliable statistics on the percentage of Muslims in the UK who advocate Shariah? Without this, your statement stands unsupported.
Because here in the US, you never hear about it from them. This may be just a local thing in some countries, or an overblown sentiment.
For me, getting residency took 4 *years* while being sponsored by an employer and having no particular difficulties. Consider yourself lucky. Anecdotally, I've been hearing that it's taking longer and longer. One guy I know was working on an H1 for 9 years before he got it (and he had to file a lawsuit at the end to force matters).
Moral of the story, interest in researching a subject does not conclusively indicate that a student is uninvolved in the subject being researched. Nor does it imply the other way.
Here in the US, some years ago, a Middle Eastern student was arrested and charged with supporting terrorism primarily because he had a lot of material (none of which was illegal) that worried some folks. During the trial, a number of experts testified for the prosecution regarding how the materials are often used in preparing for terrorism. On cross examination, the attorney for the defense asked, "How much of the claimed material do you yourself possess?". Answer? Pretty much all of it - and posted on the researcher's Web site - obvious, as he was researching it! Followup question: "So why are you not on trial?".
The case fell apart and the defendant was acquitted. They didn't have any evidence he was planning anything or in touch with any terrorists. Just the material he possessed.
Why not start with pure mathematics until reaching the highest level they may need and only then start with the physics? Because when it comes to physics, that highest level is really, really high.
In my undergrad university, if a professor used his own book for the course, he was required to donate the proceeds that he'd get for the books sold for that course. This was to ensure that the professors did not put personal profit over the students' educations.
Also, what has changed is that nowadays the reason I want more privacy is because of the government and not because of regular people/crooks. And there are various ways in which the government could still read my files even when I use encryption, both by checking my screen and what I type. That's the same as saying, "Why lock my door? The lock can be picked anyway."
And some would say it's the same as, "Why try to hide any secrets? They've probably figured out how to read my mind anyway."
I think this is the most often cited issue so I will list it first. GIMP opens multiple top-level windows which means that normal shortcuts and window navigation doesn't work. (Alt-tab on Windows -- apple-tab on Macs, etc.) OTOH, I like this. It allows me to move images to different virtual desktops - sometimes I like having my images contained in 2 or 3 of them. A single parent window won't allow me to do that.
The only way to use GIMP is to have multiple virtual desktops, which not everyone likes. Not at all. If you're on Linux, use a window manager that allows you to group multiple windows and treat them as one (i.e. minimize all with one click, switch to other apps with one keystroke, etc).
2) Unusual use of menus - The menus are just... oddd. To a new user, the app is useless because once you open something, you get a window with no menus. After much frustration, the user monkey-clicks the mouse and realizes the menus are on the right-click instead of at the top of the window. That might not actually be a bad idea, but it is definitely counter-intuitive. Especially for "file" operations where people are used to seeing File-New/Open/Save/Save As/Close and those just aren't there. This has long been fixed. Whenever you open an image, the image window has the usual menu.
I strongly recommend you try it again. I used to hate the Gimp interface and didn't use it for a while. After a number of years, I tried it and there were a number of interface enhancements (like the one you complain about).
I'd much rather have a minuscule and totally unproven chance of a few kids getting autism, which is not fatal, than have a virtual certainty of thousands of kids getting fatal and/or permanently disfiguring diseases like pertussis or polio. False dichotomy. Not having a thimerosal based vaccine does not mean you cannot get a non-thimerosal based vaccine.
These people are usually not anti-vaccine. They're anti-thimerosal.
Generally (always?) nanotubes are not grown individually. The synthesis process simply produces many nanotubes. Then you have to pick the one you want among those.
So yes, a nanotube of a certain chirality can continue to grow longer and longer without losing that chirality. But you don't just get one nanotube of desired chirality, but plenty of nanotubes with different chiralities. No one has so far found a way to get just ones of a desired chirality.
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Until it's all replaced with 32-bit capable code, GIMP will continue to be unusable for photography beyond the party snapshot level.
It's fairly rair that 16 bits per channel will make the difference.
Actually, based on the screenshots, I suspect you can. Look at the taskbars.
I suspect the answer is "No", because they say that a lot of the code still depends on 8 bit code. But I guess the implication was "They're getting there".
There really isn't much here to warrant a major release (at least for the end user). I thought they had declared that the next major release would have full GEGL integration. Maybe I'm wrong.
I just love Gimp. But why does Gimp have to separate the windows like that? Can't it have everything as a multi-document all under one window?
I thought that was the whole point of:
This enables window managers to do a much better job of managing the GIMP windows, including omitting the Toolbox and Docks from the taskbar and ensuring that the Toolbox and Docks always are above image windows.
Frankly, I liked it as it was. I hope there's an option to get back the old behavior. I often have different images in different work spaces.
But there is only one thing that kept me in line academically as a kid, and that was fear of my father's foot in my ass.
Generally not a good strategy. In my high school class, most of the lower end students regularly got such treatment. They succeeded where you didn't: They simply learned to cope with that treatment. And so once again, no motivation to study.
On the other extreme, I was at the top of my class (well, until I went to grad school - where I only occasionally was on the top). No such threats were needed for me. In the 9th grade I really took off. And believe it or not, that was also the time when I stopped caring what my parents thought about my performance. And yes, I do think the two were related.
The reality is that there is no good strategy for all. Parents have to individualize their strategies for each kid. A friend of mine told me that in his school days, he did not do well at all. The parents couldn't find a way to make him study. So they put him in a very strict boarding school. He credits that to straightening him out.
Really good point. Sometimes professors just assign any book and teach out of lecture notes anyway.
My sister (we're twins) consistently kicked my ass at math and just about everything else, right up until we got to 10th grade or thereabouts. Then she turned into a vacuous fashion fiend with god-awful grades who liked hanging out with other vacuous fashion fiends.
A lot of parents are becoming more interesting in girls-only schools (or so I was told on the radio - it never lies, you know). Apparently studies have shown that girls who study in such schools generally perform better and are also more interested in tech fields. They spend less time at the mall and obsessing on fashion. Of course, they still had boyfriends, etc. But it really does make a difference if you go to a school where you don't concern yourself with "why does that guy in the second row not look at me?" and can focus on everything else.
Why do I get the feeling that it would be even more true for boys studying in boys-only schools?
FTA:
Google Desktop is another culprit that exposes hidden files in TrueCrypt versions below 6.0, according to the report. The Google app's lists of recently changed documents and logs of recent file actions can reveal the existence of a hidden file.
Really poor phrasing. It makes Google Desktop look like the offender, when in actuality it ended up being a useful tool in pointing out a vulnerability (and perhaps correcting it).
FTA:
Google Desktop is another culprit that exposes hidden files in TrueCrypt versions below 6.0, according to the report. The Google app's lists of recently changed documents and logs of recent file actions can reveal the existence of a hidden file.
Really poor phrasing. It makes Google Desktop look like the offender, when in actuality it ended up being a useful tool in pointing out a vulnerability (and perhaps correcting it).
Quantum mechanics: R. Shankar, "Principals of Quantum Mechanics" (the first few chapters should give you a basic foundation of the theory).
In my undergrad, a physics professor told me, "There's no particularly good book on QM". I thought he was being pedantic, but years later I found out he was actually correct. Every book has some serious deficiency (serious if that's the only book you learned it from). I've read only the first few chapters of Shankar, and they're quite decent - I liked them. I tried reading some of the stuff later in the book and didn't feel he did justice to them (either too brief on the topic or hand-waving). Another problem with Shankar is that it doesn't really challenge the reader.
I can't exactly recommend a QM book, as I learned it from my professor's lecture notes - which were awesome. But from memory, he consulted a bunch when he wrote them. They included the books by Messiah, Davydov, Landau & Lifshitz, Baym.
At the undergrad level (in case you did not learn it during your BSc), two common books are the ones by Griffith and Liboff. Again, both have weaknesses but they do complement one another well.
Electricity and Magnetism: D. Griffiths, "Introduction to Electrodynamics"
Best undergrad book on the topic ever. Well worth reading for its insights even if you think you know E&M very well.
In the US, at the grad level the standard is the book by Jackson. I hear in some countries they sometimes use that in the final year of undergrad. It's a standard and a must if your program requires you to know EM.
In general, people speak very highly of the series by Landau & Lifshitz. Might want to keep them as references and read them at some point.
I think a lot of people here wanted to believe he was innocent, perhaps because of the open source connection
Not at all the case for me. In fact, while I always knew of ReiserFS, I'm not sure I knew of Hans Reiser prior to this whole episode. I did not think him innocent. I merely did not see a compelling case for him being guilty.
For me, a missing person simply does not equate to murder. While I have no doubts now of Hans's guilt, that sentiment has not been altered.
there was no evidence that crazy best friend did it and no real motive for Nina to try to frame him by fleeing to Russia without her kids.
That's the standard "guilty until innocent" stance. If a body was found, I could understand demanding explanations from Hans. But without even *knowing* (and I mean *knowing*, not weak speculation) that she had been murdered, it's asking a bit too much from Hans. Statistically, the police, etc are more often right than wrong in these cases. Thankfully, the justice system does not recognize that - even if juries are swayed.
Law enforcement agencies need to show that she had been murdered AND that Hans had murdered her. Not just accuse Hans of not having good explanations for discrepancies.
Seriously - put yourself in the position of someone who did *not* murder his wife. Would it make sense for you to be arrested and charged with murder - with the task of explaining what happened to your wife? I thought it was their job to do that - not yours.
This whole case reminded me too much of the Jon Benet Ramsey one - where they kept trying to pin it on the parents.
Nowadays, most profs aren't allowed (by either law, Board of Regents ethics codes, or by school policy) to require their own authored textbooks for taking their own classes.
[Citation Needed]
I took a course that used the prof's text book. The dept and/or university required him to donate the equivalent he would get in royalties. He was allowed to do this.
In my current university in a different state, another professor uses his own book as a textbook. Don't know if he has to donate anything or not, but he's been doing it for decades now.
Summary is unnecessarily sensational.
I'm willing to bet the 38 years is if he gets convicted for all the charges, and doesn't get any concurrent sentencing - very unlikely.
I see. In his case, he had been working on the same job for 7 years - all on the same H1.
Because here in the US, you never hear about it from them. This may be just a local thing in some countries, or an overblown sentiment.
Here in the US, some years ago, a Middle Eastern student was arrested and charged with supporting terrorism primarily because he had a lot of material (none of which was illegal) that worried some folks. During the trial, a number of experts testified for the prosecution regarding how the materials are often used in preparing for terrorism. On cross examination, the attorney for the defense asked, "How much of the claimed material do you yourself possess?". Answer? Pretty much all of it - and posted on the researcher's Web site - obvious, as he was researching it! Followup question: "So why are you not on trial?".
The case fell apart and the defendant was acquitted. They didn't have any evidence he was planning anything or in touch with any terrorists. Just the material he possessed.
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Nice of him.
In my undergrad university, if a professor used his own book for the course, he was required to donate the proceeds that he'd get for the books sold for that course. This was to ensure that the professors did not put personal profit over the students' educations.
And some would say it's the same as, "Why try to hide any secrets? They've probably figured out how to read my mind anyway."
- The menus are just... oddd. To a new user, the app is useless because once you open something, you get a window with no menus. After much frustration, the user monkey-clicks the mouse and realizes the menus are on the right-click instead of at the top of the window. That might not actually be a bad idea, but it is definitely counter-intuitive. Especially for "file" operations where people are used to seeing File-New/Open/Save/Save As/Close and those just aren't there. This has long been fixed. Whenever you open an image, the image window has the usual menu.
I strongly recommend you try it again. I used to hate the Gimp interface and didn't use it for a while. After a number of years, I tried it and there were a number of interface enhancements (like the one you complain about).
These people are usually not anti-vaccine. They're anti-thimerosal.
Yes, but that's not what I'm referring to.
Generally (always?) nanotubes are not grown individually. The synthesis process simply produces many nanotubes. Then you have to pick the one you want among those.
So yes, a nanotube of a certain chirality can continue to grow longer and longer without losing that chirality. But you don't just get one nanotube of desired chirality, but plenty of nanotubes with different chiralities. No one has so far found a way to get just ones of a desired chirality.