Most of the people complaining about GIMP not being Photoshop-like enough run Windows anyway, so it finds its target audience. Free but "trapped" may not be perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than beer-free but proprietary.
Wait, actually, it is Free (MIT License) - I always assumed it was an MS product for some reason (the name, probably). Good to know it's an actual usable alternative.
Yes, you can use BSD code inside a GPL program, that's the whole bloody point of the BSD license.
I was under the impression we were talking about GPL code in a BSD program. Could be wrong though, I wasn't paying all that much attention to the whole mess.
heat map, with its pretty but useless bunch of colored dots; if they did hierarchical clustering on the results, they throw in an absurdly complex and impossible-to-interpret dendrogram attached to the side.
So heatmaps are probably a bit overused, but to say that they are completely useless and uninterpretable is a little harsh. Say you've run transcription profiling on 100 breast tumors, looking at the clustering results, any mildly trained trained scientist could see that say "there seem to be 3 major clusters, it's easy to identify the triple negative group, oh but it has a distinct sub-population that hasn't been characterized" (for example). There is no way to do this kind of analysis without these kinds of visualizations; maybe they don't belong in the final publication, but that doesn't mean the aren't indispensable. Or let's take PCA - can you understand the results of PCA without visualizing them?
It's all about dimensionality reduction; obviously nobody can just "grasp" 4,400,000 raw data points, and the results of any kind of clustering or machine learning algorithms need human interpretation - most of the time you can't just produce a list of the "important" findings, you have to show the whole process.
Personally, any dataset is a black box to me until I can "see" it in some remotely meaningful way, regardless of what the downstream analysis is going to be.
Care to explain ever more powerful power supplies in PC cases and the very conclusions of TFA?
What ever more powerful power supplies? I just checked a mid-range desktop from Dell - it comes with a ~300W power supply, same as 5 years ago.
Sure, high-end gaming machines have 600W+ power supplies to accommodate top of the line multiple/multi-core processors, dual over-clocked GPUs, multiple hard drives and ridiculous numbers of case and component fans. Regular desktops, on the other hand, have lowered power requirements in the last couple of years.
A "merom" Core 2 Duo has about the same number of transistors as a "cedar mill" P4 (a lot more if you count the larger L2) and is manufactured on the same process, yet draws about half as much power.
I actually didn't see any "conclusions" in TFA, they just threw up some random numbers.
So are we going to see desktops switching to a slower VIA-type processor and video card when not running CPU/GPU intensive applications?
Seems like having the same processor draw less power when not under load would be more straightforward. It almost seems like there's something out there that does this already... Some kind of "portable computer" or something crazy like that.
(but yeah, it'd be nice if that technology found its way into mostly over-powered general purpose desktops)
many nerds would take offense to having their demographic being portrayed as a group that needs to be auctioned off to meet women
Uh, yeah, because if you can't get laid, having people pay for it makes it that much easier. No wonder these kinds of events are so often held by groups desperate for female companionship, such as doctors and firemen.
Contrary to public belief, there are many fraternities and sororities that do a lot of good for their school campuses and local communities.
Yeah, and this is a fucking example of just that!
God, when did Slashdot turn into this bizzare, humorless exercise in ad absurdum political correctness? Next we'll be hearing from all the nerds who are "offended" because you called them nerds.
I thought we weren't supposed to buy from them and support evil patent trolls.
I think the one-click thing is more of an eye-rolling than a boycotting type of thing. So you can go ahead and keep shopping at Amazon.
But we aren't supposed to buy from Apple anyways because of their iPhone shenanagins. But we are supposed to love Apple because its trendy. I am so confused.
What's so confusing? You are supposed to love Apple, but shop somewhere else - pretty simple (also, their music store is pretty miserable).
or if I am supposed to loathe all of the RIAA music and not buy DRM or non-DRM music from any source if it is RIAA owned.
Yes, absolutely, that one. Do continue to do that. (have I plugged http://www.riaaradar.com/ yet today?)
What about indie music with DRM?
Trick question - you are only supposed to buy indie music on vinyl.
Hope that cleared things up (the sad part is that I'm serious about most of that).
I have a better idea: no real-life information is anyone's business in-game. If you are going to use an MMO as some kind of dating service, then surely just gender won't be enough - what about sexual orientation? age? race?
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It's actually extremely easy to get rid of all that crap: http://userstyles.org/styles/3681
Just add a {display: block;} for any application you actually want to see, and you are all set.
Kinda answering your own question there, aren't you?
Just what I was thinking.
Paint.net is Java-trapped
Kind of a misnomer at this point, isn't it?
Most of the people complaining about GIMP not being Photoshop-like enough run Windows anyway, so it finds its target audience. Free but "trapped" may not be perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than beer-free but proprietary.
Is congregating people in one spot for four years to learn something really the best way to do it?
Yes. If by "learn something" you mean "get a college education", that is; if you mean "learn some specific, limited, subject" then no.
Wait, actually, it is Free (MIT License) - I always assumed it was an MS product for some reason (the name, probably). Good to know it's an actual usable alternative.
You paid $500 for basic editing software? Got money to burn or something? Oh wait... you're advocating breaking copyright. Nevermind.
What the hell are you talking about? Paint.net is free, it's not Free, but it's free.
Yes, you can use BSD code inside a GPL program, that's the whole bloody point of the BSD license.
I was under the impression we were talking about GPL code in a BSD program. Could be wrong though, I wasn't paying all that much attention to the whole mess.
Can a distribution have both BSD-type and GPL-type licenses bundled together?
No. That's why they were asking the developers to dual-license the code. Except their version of "asking" was to throw a hissy fit.
They use E. coli to grow the enzymes, rather than just douse the substrate with it... wait, what? paper?
You didn't bother trying to read this even one tiny bit before jumping on the first hysteria-inducing buzzword you recognized, did you?
heat map, with its pretty but useless bunch of colored dots; if they did hierarchical clustering on the results, they throw in an absurdly complex and impossible-to-interpret dendrogram attached to the side.
So heatmaps are probably a bit overused, but to say that they are completely useless and uninterpretable is a little harsh. Say you've run transcription profiling on 100 breast tumors, looking at the clustering results, any mildly trained trained scientist could see that say "there seem to be 3 major clusters, it's easy to identify the triple negative group, oh but it has a distinct sub-population that hasn't been characterized" (for example). There is no way to do this kind of analysis without these kinds of visualizations; maybe they don't belong in the final publication, but that doesn't mean the aren't indispensable. Or let's take PCA - can you understand the results of PCA without visualizing them?
It's all about dimensionality reduction; obviously nobody can just "grasp" 4,400,000 raw data points, and the results of any kind of clustering or machine learning algorithms need human interpretation - most of the time you can't just produce a list of the "important" findings, you have to show the whole process.
Personally, any dataset is a black box to me until I can "see" it in some remotely meaningful way, regardless of what the downstream analysis is going to be.
Care to explain ever more powerful power supplies in PC cases and the very conclusions of TFA?
What ever more powerful power supplies? I just checked a mid-range desktop from Dell - it comes with a ~300W power supply, same as 5 years ago.
Sure, high-end gaming machines have 600W+ power supplies to accommodate top of the line multiple/multi-core processors, dual over-clocked GPUs, multiple hard drives and ridiculous numbers of case and component fans. Regular desktops, on the other hand, have lowered power requirements in the last couple of years.
A "merom" Core 2 Duo has about the same number of transistors as a "cedar mill" P4 (a lot more if you count the larger L2) and is manufactured on the same process, yet draws about half as much power.
I actually didn't see any "conclusions" in TFA, they just threw up some random numbers.
Imagine if you upload manga scans to Flickr, and it automatically translates them to English.
Truly, on that day my life would be complete!
Even if schematics of the simpler processor was replicated inside the more complex one
I am not sure what you are talking about, power consumption pretty much has nothing to do with how "simple" a processor is.
I meant this, and this.
So are we going to see desktops switching to a slower VIA-type processor and video card when not running CPU/GPU intensive applications?
Seems like having the same processor draw less power when not under load would be more straightforward. It almost seems like there's something out there that does this already... Some kind of "portable computer" or something crazy like that.
(but yeah, it'd be nice if that technology found its way into mostly over-powered general purpose desktops)
The one time pad, where the key length = message length is still safe as long as you never reuse the key.
Provided that the pads you generate are truly random.
How the hell did that get so many views?
This is what we do now. This is our culture.
Why do companies do something that saves them money, and then don't do something else that costs them money?
Yeah, that's a tough one.
many nerds would take offense to having their demographic being portrayed as a group that needs to be auctioned off to meet women
Uh, yeah, because if you can't get laid, having people pay for it makes it that much easier. No wonder these kinds of events are so often held by groups desperate for female companionship, such as doctors and firemen.
Contrary to public belief, there are many fraternities and sororities that do a lot of good for their school campuses and local communities.
Yeah, and this is a fucking example of just that!
God, when did Slashdot turn into this bizzare, humorless exercise in ad absurdum political correctness? Next we'll be hearing from all the nerds who are "offended" because you called them nerds.
I thought we weren't supposed to buy from them and support evil patent trolls.
I think the one-click thing is more of an eye-rolling than a boycotting type of thing. So you can go ahead and keep shopping at Amazon.
But we aren't supposed to buy from Apple anyways because of their iPhone shenanagins. But we are supposed to love Apple because its trendy. I am so confused.
What's so confusing? You are supposed to love Apple, but shop somewhere else - pretty simple (also, their music store is pretty miserable).
or if I am supposed to loathe all of the RIAA music and not buy DRM or non-DRM music from any source if it is RIAA owned.
Yes, absolutely, that one. Do continue to do that. (have I plugged http://www.riaaradar.com/ yet today?)
What about indie music with DRM?
Trick question - you are only supposed to buy indie music on vinyl.
Hope that cleared things up (the sad part is that I'm serious about most of that).
We know that 85% of MMORPG players are male
Isn't this from a while ago? I seem to recall there being something about a fairly dramatic shift towards more women playing these types of games.
I have a better idea: no real-life information is anyone's business in-game. If you are going to use an MMO as some kind of dating service, then surely just gender won't be enough - what about sexual orientation? age? race?
This is stupid, pure, unadulterated stupid.
The general rule for the internet is: male until proven otherwise.
Does anyone actually listen to Anal Cunt?
Are indie people against making money? I think that's a "hippie" thing, not a "hipster" thing.
Anyway, there's just very little mainstream troll metal, so I had to check the indie stuff, didn't think it'd be so offensive.