...is what you should really compare the GIMP to. MSPaint, -not Photoshop-.
I've seen so many people who say things like "I normally use $X-thousand paint program, but I thought I'd try out GIMP. It sucks because X, Y, Z."
Sure, critisism is needed to keep the project moving forward, but the comparison isn't very fair.
Meanwhile, the many people who migrate from MSPaint and similar featurless "free" paint programs are generally quietly happy which makes the prior type of opinions overrepresented.
pretty graphics
good gameplay
small budget..pick two...
<plug>And if the two you selected were budget and gameplay, choose Jeff Minter
Minters games, even since the VIC20 days have
Looked horrible
Played awesomely
I mean for Gods sake (and these are just some of the best):
Grid runner for VIC20
Revenge of the Mutant Camels (C=64, but Amiga version kicked rump)
Llamatron for Amiga with dual joystick control...
Tempest 2000 for Atari Jaguar. Could be the best game ever made.
Hover Bovver in all it's incarnations is always fun
Games that are simutaneously incredibly hard and incredibly controllable and playable. The limit is not this piece of plastic in your hand, it's your own brain, directly connected to the game.
Do yourself a favour and download the demo of Gridrunner++. Play it ten times. Don't stop because it looks like shite, don't stop because it's hard. You should now be a freshly converted Minter fan.
And the man is a out-of-the-closet beastialist! What's not to love about that!
sprintf(sql, "update veryImportantTable set seriousMoney=y-%d where foo", adjustment);
Of course, it turned out that "adjustment" was sometimes negative... And "--" starts a SQL comment...
Hm, the contents of $IMPORTANT_DIR on server X seem to be older than that of $IMPORTANT_DIR on master server... OK, NFS mount master dir and
cp -rp $MASTER $COPY
Unfortunately, the files weren't really out of date since the $IMPORTANT_DIR was NFS-mounted from master to "copy" in the first place. In other words, a cp -rp between two NFS mounts from the same source, leaving me with a ton of files of zero bytes.
After three solid days of installing $NEW_MEGA_SERVER:
First, unpacking tar of "/nfs" in root dir, when it was created inside/nfs. A million files/dirs now pollute/.
Create a "trash" dir, cd / and attempt to move the bad files into "trash".
Yep. Of all the times to have fat fingers. A space before the *. Bye, bye filesystem
<FOF>A humble work statipn. A file named -rf in the root directory... Cron script with unchecked cd, involving rm *... Root of 10+ enterprise servers NFS-mounted r/w...</FOF>
... Basically, it would require a structure of a few hundred meters radius rotating at a few rpm. The scale of such a habitat would be enormous....
I keep hearing this over and over. So, make the spacecraft be able to split into two equal parts. Include a few hundred meters of cable to connect the parts. Rotate.
Not to mention that that practice would mean that 400 years from now solar noon would be almost an hour away from actual noon (not that big a deal, of course, but annoying).
I find it very interesting that you define (and I guess any number of people would agree with you) 12:00:00 on the face of a watch as "actual noon", implying that this whole business of the Sun being at maximum height is a "fake noon", "apparent noon" or whatever.
If you're so much more comfortable with numbers on a watch than what those numbers are supposed to represent, then why do you have a problem with this proposition at all?
...and of course, every Slashdotter must like MCHawking:-)
Verse 1 Fuck the damn creationists, those bunch of dumb-ass bitches, every time I think of them my trigger finger itches. They want to have their bullshit, taught in public class, Stephen J. Gould should put his foot right up their ass. Noah and his ark, Adam and his Eve, straight up fairy stories even children don't believe. I'm not saying there's no god, that's not for me to say, all I'm saying is the Earth was not made in a day.
The Chevrolet Nova sold very well in South America.
I'm sure it did. Unfortunately that's not why this subject keeps popping up.
Consider that an equivalent situation in English would be a dining room set called "The Notable" not getting any sales because people think it contains no tables.
"Nova" is not a common spanish word. You probably thought of "nueva". In spanish "nova" is an astronomical word meaning an exploding star (as in English). "No va", on the other hand means "doesn't move" to any spanish speaker. Also, native spanish speakers leave precious little space between words.
Actually, the equivalent situation is more like a car named a "nogo", where (I made the following up) a nogo is a English word of Hebrew origins describing a small lump of hardened flesh occuring in your left deltoid.
[How can you charge an extra-national for a crime comitted in the extra-nation] Because it's illegal where he is being charged. Like the way Australian paedo-tourists can be charged when they get back to Australia from Thailand where they did business with child prostitutes, even if it were legal in Thailand.
Except this is exactly the other way around. A thai individual performs an act, in Thailand, which is not forbidden by Thai law.
It is, however illegal by US law so the CIA hauls him away to spend some quality time at camp X-ray.
In my little country, Sweden, it's illegal to keep poultry in cages under a certain size.
It has come to my attention that many US poultry farmers keep non-Swedish-legal-size cages, in the US.
By your reasoning, they should all be charged with crimes in Stockholm, and be hauled away the next time they set foot in Sweden? Or perhaps we should even negitiate an extradition pact so Säpo can drag them from their homes in the US for doing something that's not a crime in the US?
Back in '94-'95 i was doing the third grade of the Computer Science course at the Royal Institute of Technology, which meant I had to choose a specialization. I chose "Computer Systems", ie. processors, busses, caches and what-not.
This was a very exiting time to be studying processors since (for a fleeting moment) Intel processors where the absolutely worst processors among the serious combatants.
Yes, you read that right. The Alpha was (of course) and unstoppable juggernaut, but through a freak act of development schedules the new MIPS had managed to outstrip the latest Alpha.
After MIPS and Alpha we had PA-RISC, SPARC, PPC and then finally the pathetic, lowly Intel x86.
Alpha had strong plans of totatlly replacing the x86 by offering Alpha based x86 emulations that were faster than the fastest x86 in running x86 code.
But now, Intel announced the Itanium.
It will be 64 bit (all the above architectures were, of course already 64 bit).
It will be multi-processor
(all the above architectures had cache coherency logic to allow 8+ processors).
But, most of all, it will have THIS!, and I mean <blink>THIS!!!!</blink> much preformance! (Intel pulls wildly insane numbers out of an orifice of your choice).
...and the monster thing will ship in 1998.
Apparently, all the CPU makers sat down and discussed this, and agreed that "They may be last right now, but they have piles of cash. They could do this. They really could."
So, what did the competiton do?
Alpha tried to stay agressive, but didn't sell enough, so they tanked. Bought by Compaq, then HP then sweet nothingness (see HP).
SGI and MIPS didn't know what to do. They made some noises about shifting to the Itanium... Maybe. While still developing the MIPS... Just a little. A very little. Now, as Netcraft confirms, SGI is dying.:-)
HP promptly shat their pants, threw their PA-RISC processor platform (which was third fastest in the world at the time) out the window and partnered with Intel, making plans to replace all HP/UX PA-RISC machines with Itaniums....which is what they have been doing for some time now, and loosing customers by the droves for it.
Because of aquisitions, they also happened to be saddled with the best processor ever made, the Alpha. Stick with dying Intel... Develop best processor. Hmm... Well, you all know where HP is going.
Sun, I'm sad to say, didn't ruin the Sparc platform because of Itanium, but just by being their usual ineffectual self.
The PPC concertium tried to press on, and did quite good. Motorola was to obsessed with embedded chips, but even now, I personally think IBM's "G5"s are very good, and believe they have it in them to produce several new generations of kick-ass chips.
And then what happend?
Intel didn't deliver... and didn't deliver... and didn't deliver some more.
Year after year passes...
When the Itanium was finally delivered, it was obvious that every other platform could have kept up, if they would just have kept developing their processors!
But they didn't and now they sleep with the fishes.
Conclusion: By making their Itanium announcement, Intel slew four out five serious competitor. It doesn't relly matter if the Itanium sucks. In fact, the Itanium would be Intels greatest success even if they had never delivered it.
I think the only reasonably successful "new" religion that has arisen in recent times is the Latter Day Saints, and even that was over 150 years ago and it's only a variation of Christianity.
Scientology, my friend, sciencefictionology...
Maybe it isn't wildly successfull among the people, but it seems to attract som wildly successfull people.
Count me senile, but when did MS ever have geek appeal?
...
I can tell you that 15 year olds today only use Microsoft to play games or pirate, not as a development platform like the 15 year olds a generation ago.
Geeks? Windows programming for fun? At any point in the time-line? Please do eat less mushrooms.
<paraphrase>Microsoft has no philosophy</paraphrase>
Maybe true, but they have a business statement. I can't seem to find it right now but goes/went something like this:
Originally, it was
"A computer on every work place desktop, and in every home, and in every school-room running Microsoft software."
However, five-or-so years ago BG decided that that plan had already been fullfilled, and made a more ambitious plan:
"Microsoft software in every pocket, on every wrist, and (of course) in any other concievable electronical device"
That didn't pan out quite like BG wanted. Thank $DEITY. Still, kudos for the rampant mono-mania! I wonder what the next mission statement would have been...
The Amiga had CPU clock-cycle-precise interrupts. IE, the very slowest 1985 Amigas (A1000) could throw interrupts every 1/7.16MHz seconds, or about 140 nanoseconds. 2005 Linux has an interrupt precision of 50 microseconds.
Way to go, RTLinux! You are now only 2800 times slower than a 20 year old box. Not that any other system is better...
The parents post looked like an attempt to put his own words to the Enterprise theme song...
I've been a long time
devotee of ST:TNG.
I, like many others,
ne'er got involved with Enterprise.
And from what I hear, that's a shame,
as by all accounts
I've got faith! ...
It would also be nice if these multimedia cards contained the same hardware as the current console market. So you could either buy a console for your TV, or buy a multimedia card for your computer.
...most Slashdoters can't write Hello World and get it right...
Hey, I resemble that!
Many times I have scratched my head looking at the simple, stupid program I wrote just a week ago and wondered: 20 bugs in 10 lines of code? How is that even possible?
...and the earthy "schplop - schplap" sound was the sound of his joke tunneling right beneath your feet.
You are aware that Intel is currently paying serious money for a copy of the mag Moore made his prediction in (since they lost theirs)?
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...is what you should really compare the GIMP to. MSPaint, -not Photoshop-.
I've seen so many people who say things like "I normally use $X-thousand paint program, but I thought I'd try out GIMP. It sucks because X, Y, Z."
Sure, critisism is needed to keep the project moving forward, but the comparison isn't very fair.
Meanwhile, the many people who migrate from MSPaint and similar featurless "free" paint programs are generally quietly happy which makes the prior type of opinions overrepresented.
So you need a lp server for Windows? NFS sharing? Basically, what you need is a Unix service for Windows?
...and the package that enables Unix services for Windows is of course called Windows Services for Unix...
<plug>And if the two you selected were budget and gameplay, choose Jeff Minter
Minters games, even since the VIC20 days have
I mean for Gods sake (and these are just some of the best):
Games that are simutaneously incredibly hard and incredibly controllable and playable. The limit is not this piece of plastic in your hand, it's your own brain, directly connected to the game.
Do yourself a favour and download the demo of Gridrunner++. Play it ten times. Don't stop because it looks like shite, don't stop because it's hard. You should now be a freshly converted Minter fan.
And the man is a out-of-the-closet beastialist! What's not to love about that!
</plug>Nice try :-)
I keep hearing this over and over. So, make the spacecraft be able to split into two equal parts. Include a few hundred meters of cable to connect the parts. Rotate.
What's the problem?
Not to mention that that practice would mean that 400 years from now solar noon would be almost an hour away from actual noon (not that big a deal, of course, but annoying).
I find it very interesting that you define (and I guess any number of people would agree with you) 12:00:00 on the face of a watch as "actual noon", implying that this whole business of the Sun being at maximum height is a "fake noon", "apparent noon" or whatever.
If you're so much more comfortable with numbers on a watch than what those numbers are supposed to represent, then why do you have a problem with this proposition at all?
...and of course, every Slashdotter must like MCHawking :-)
Site, downloads.
|whiners]
[PSP]
You keep using that unit. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Did you really mean to say that the PSP operates at 3.9 Joules?
I'm sure it did. Unfortunately that's not why this subject keeps popping up.
"Nova" is not a common spanish word. You probably thought of "nueva". In spanish "nova" is an astronomical word meaning an exploding star (as in English). "No va", on the other hand means "doesn't move" to any spanish speaker. Also, native spanish speakers leave precious little space between words.
Actually, the equivalent situation is more like a car named a "nogo", where (I made the following up) a nogo is a English word of Hebrew origins describing a small lump of hardened flesh occuring in your left deltoid.
Here in Sweden the change over begins 19th of September 2005 (Visby). A staggered schedule follows, with the last area going un-analog 2008-01-01.
Except this is exactly the other way around. A thai individual performs an act, in Thailand, which is not forbidden by Thai law.
It is, however illegal by US law so the CIA hauls him away to spend some quality time at camp X-ray.
In my little country, Sweden, it's illegal to keep poultry in cages under a certain size.
It has come to my attention that many US poultry farmers keep non-Swedish-legal-size cages, in the US.
By your reasoning, they should all be charged with crimes in Stockholm, and be hauled away the next time they set foot in Sweden? Or perhaps we should even negitiate an extradition pact so Säpo can drag them from their homes in the US for doing something that's not a crime in the US?
Let me tell y'all a little story.
Back in '94-'95 i was doing the third grade of the Computer Science course at the Royal Institute of Technology, which meant I had to choose a specialization. I chose "Computer Systems", ie. processors, busses, caches and what-not.
This was a very exiting time to be studying processors since (for a fleeting moment) Intel processors where the absolutely worst processors among the serious combatants.
Yes, you read that right. The Alpha was (of course) and unstoppable juggernaut, but through a freak act of development schedules the new MIPS had managed to outstrip the latest Alpha.
After MIPS and Alpha we had PA-RISC, SPARC, PPC and then finally the pathetic, lowly Intel x86.
Alpha had strong plans of totatlly replacing the x86 by offering Alpha based x86 emulations that were faster than the fastest x86 in running x86 code.
But now, Intel announced the Itanium.
Apparently, all the CPU makers sat down and discussed this, and agreed that "They may be last right now, but they have piles of cash. They could do this. They really could."
So, what did the competiton do?
Because of aquisitions, they also happened to be saddled with the best processor ever made, the Alpha.
Stick with dying Intel... Develop best processor. Hmm...
Well, you all know where HP is going.
And then what happend?
Intel didn't deliver... and didn't deliver... and didn't deliver some more.
Year after year passes...
When the Itanium was finally delivered, it was obvious that every other platform could have kept up, if they would just have kept developing their processors!
But they didn't and now they sleep with the fishes.
Conclusion: By making their Itanium announcement, Intel slew four out five serious competitor. It doesn't relly matter if the Itanium sucks. In fact, the Itanium would be Intels greatest success even if they had never delivered it.
Scientology, my friend, sciencefictionology...
Maybe it isn't wildly successfull among the people, but it seems to attract som wildly successfull people.
Count me senile, but when did MS ever have geek appeal?
Geeks? Windows programming for fun? At any point in the time-line? Please do eat less mushrooms.
Maybe true, but they have a business statement. I can't seem to find it right now but goes/went something like this:
Originally, it was
However, five-or-so years ago BG decided that that plan had already been fullfilled, and made a more ambitious plan:
That didn't pan out quite like BG wanted. Thank $DEITY. Still, kudos for the rampant mono-mania! I wonder what the next mission statement would have been...
The Amiga had CPU clock-cycle-precise interrupts. IE, the very slowest 1985 Amigas (A1000) could throw interrupts every 1/7.16MHz seconds, or about 140 nanoseconds. 2005 Linux has an interrupt precision of 50 microseconds.
Way to go, RTLinux! You are now only 2800 times slower than a 20 year old box. Not that any other system is better...
...which give me a great idea. http://zzz.yyy.xxx/ with lots of Sesame Street type content. You know, alphabet songs and such.
Who cares if the kid mistypes the URL and gets the "Hard core anal donkey" site. I hate kids anyway.
[Mind plays tricks, coffee hits keyboard]
The parents post looked like an attempt to put his own words to the Enterprise theme song...
I've been a long time
...
devotee of ST:TNG.
I, like many others,
ne'er got involved with Enterprise.
And from what I hear, that's a shame,
as by all accounts
I've got faith!
OK, so it wasn't that funny.
No Photoshop for Solaris you say?
To further weirden your day, let me also submit this link: MS Internet Explorer for Solaris and HP-UX (Outlook Express is also available).
Hey, you just predicted the 3DO Blaster!
... and we all know what a smash hit that was!
So, two important science awards, both hosted by nordic countries?
Nobel at least sound somewhat like "noble". Makes you forget about him making all that money by producing explosives.
Kavli sounds like some sort of low quality bread-spread...
Makes my think this is kind-of a cheesy award. :-)
Hey, I resemble that!
Many times I have scratched my head looking at the simple, stupid program I wrote just a week ago and wondered: 20 bugs in 10 lines of code? How is that even possible?
Example:
...and the earthy "schplop - schplap" sound was the sound of his joke tunneling right beneath your feet.
You are aware that Intel is currently paying serious money for a copy of the mag Moore made his prediction in (since they lost theirs)?