his "reboot first ask questions later" mentality drives me crazy. I work with some Windows only dudes, and their first reaction to any issue is to reboot the machine.
Dude, if there was a single button you could push to fix most of your technical problems, you'd probably push it before you tried anything else. You'd be foolish not to.
I'm pretty damn good at playing Quake (if I do say so myself), and on a sliding scale of entertainment value, watching other people play Quake on TV, even world-class players, ranks somewhere between watching somebody write code and going outside to cut the lawn.
Yep, although I think that some non-FPS games might be a little more entertaining. An expertly controlled "flying camera platform" over one of the epic Hillsbrad battles in World of Warcraft actually sounds like fun. Dennis Miller's brand of color commentary might actually be appreciated by the fanbase, too.
"That gnome was owned quicker than Kunte Kinte on a fast-forwarded PBS special!"
Weird way of putting that... Yes, solar requires a lot of space. Rooftops and desert environments seem to be pretty popular, and it's not like we're running out of either.
It boils down to slashdot sucking as a political forum. This leads to dada hijacking articles that are only vaguely related to economics or politics in order to discuss some fraction of a policy his political position would dictate in this case. Then random people either intentionally troll him or appear to due to their lack of knowledge about his worldview
He's the most original troll we've had here in YEARS. I personally believe that he's out to prove a point about slashdot's mod system, but only time will tell.
Seriously. I had to learn COBOL so you Doubting Thomasinas could get your paychecks in the right century. Oh how I have SUFFERED for the sins of our fathers.
There is a war on, and wars always cost some civil liberties. However, there's no draft, no wage and price controls, no concentration camps. We should count our blessings that all we have to put up with is some wiretapping and data mining.
Just wanted to highlight that line... I think you speak for a suprisingly large number of people when you say that.
Check out Podcast of the Red Death for an original story set in Lovecraft-land. It's rough around the edges, but pretty interesting if this sort of thing is your bag.
calling microsoft's flight simulator a training program for terrorists is not what i'd consider sensible.
It's a training program for terrorists like Yahoo's yellow pages is a telephone directory for terrorists, or Google is a search engine for terrorists...
"Why, XXX is nothing more than a YYY for terrorists!"
Yes, and for EVERY OTHER PERSON ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH
Yet there is little difference between the two industries except for the regulations (and the patents).
Tell me about it... I'm still regretting the hundred million I sunk into reuben development, only to have it rejected by the Federal Sandwich Administration
It's a little more complicated than "well, she doesn't work there now".
Two of the main issues surrounding how the Times dealt with Miller are the editorial oversight exercised on her work and the length of time between the revelation of her (journalistic) misdeeds and her "retirement". It's obvious to us now that she was let go appropriately, but it should have been obvious to her superiors a long time ago.
I'd say that the real difference between the Times and Wikipedia is that once an issue of the Times is out, it's set in stone.
One thing preventing The GIMP from being useful in a pre-press environment is the lack of support for the CMYK colour-space. This plug-in goes some small way towards rectifying the situation, using a trick with layers to fake CMYK support. The plugin is unfinished, but usable for its primary purpose, and since I'm unlikely to have time to develop it further in the near future, I'm releasing it as is.
There's no issue whatsoever of "accuracy" in producing nominal colorspace conversions, but if your needs include decomposing an image to a proprietary profile such as Pantone[...]
Well, for pre-press work the accuracy of converting to and from any profile is pretty much everything (btw, the word "profile" in color management deals with devices and not color lists, and it's a standard (ref: http://www.color.org/profile.html). It's true that converting RGB to CMYK is "a simple matter of mathematics" in that it's "just" a transformation, but the difficulty lies in that different devices and colorspaces have diffferent gamuts, and the magic lies in how you deal with the additional or missing information. I don't believe there is a standard for these transformations, and in fact if you perform the same transformation on the same image with different engines you will get different results (I had to compare 4 leading products for a client last year).
In a nutshell, it appears that CMYK support for GIMP is fine if you don't care about color accuracy, but since pre-press DOES care about accuracy GIMP is unsuitable.
From what I've read & been able to find in searches, GIMPs CMYK support (which comes from a 3rd party plugin) isn't accurate enough by a long shot for professional print work.
If my info is out of date I'd love to hear about it, since accurate CMYK support is the only thing keeping me from using it.
Here is a press release from AIT. My favorite bit?
"The real threat here is to the concept of paid search and ultimately to the entire Internet," said Briggs. "If people lose confidence in the commercial viability of the Internet it threatens the very idea of an emerging global, digital economy. Sooner or later, if something isn't done, the second Internet bubble will burst."
You say "internet bubble-burst", I hear "cheap Ducatis and Aeron chairs on craigslist".
I don't understand why there is a running sentiment that Bill is a mediocre coder. If he was a mediocre coder then he wouldn't have resigned from a managerial position to become Chief Software Architect.
That's like saying every (building) architect is a fantastic construction worker as well. Might be true for some, but is definitely not the rule. Saying "and the sink goes here" is not the same thing as actually installing a sink. Not to disparage either ability, I guess, I'm just saying that one doesn't necessarily follow the other.
For instance, say a lame gun costs 10 to make (assume the cost is based on what kind damage each bullet does) and a good gun costs 10000. Also say a dog costs 5. What's to stop a programmer from creating 500 dogs with 2 guns mounted on the back of each that can run behind a shield or something and attack from behind?
It's really, really too bad that won't fit on a sig.
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but I'm suggesting against this one for anybody who like the speed of CoH and/or the balance of WoW.
With an opinion like that you can only be a Shaman.
his "reboot first ask questions later" mentality drives me crazy. I work with some Windows only dudes, and their first reaction to any issue is to reboot the machine.
Dude, if there was a single button you could push to fix most of your technical problems, you'd probably push it before you tried anything else. You'd be foolish not to.
I'm pretty damn good at playing Quake (if I do say so myself), and on a sliding scale of entertainment value, watching other people play Quake on TV, even world-class players, ranks somewhere between watching somebody write code and going outside to cut the lawn.
Yep, although I think that some non-FPS games might be a little more entertaining. An expertly controlled "flying camera platform" over one of the epic Hillsbrad battles in World of Warcraft actually sounds like fun. Dennis Miller's brand of color commentary might actually be appreciated by the fanbase, too.
"That gnome was owned quicker than Kunte Kinte on a fast-forwarded PBS special!"
Solar wastes a ton of land area as well.
Weird way of putting that... Yes, solar requires a lot of space. Rooftops and desert environments seem to be pretty popular, and it's not like we're running out of either.
It boils down to slashdot sucking as a political forum. This leads to dada hijacking articles that are only vaguely related to economics or politics in order to discuss some fraction of a policy his political position would dictate in this case. Then random people either intentionally troll him or appear to due to their lack of knowledge about his worldview
He's the most original troll we've had here in YEARS. I personally believe that he's out to prove a point about slashdot's mod system, but only time will tell.
I bet he uses his other accounts to mod you down for that
But you buy the other side's lawyers getting her to lie? It's sort of one or the other.
Seriously. I had to learn COBOL so you Doubting Thomasinas could get your paychecks in the right century. Oh how I have SUFFERED for the sins of our fathers.
There is a war on, and wars always cost some civil liberties. However, there's no draft, no wage and price controls, no concentration camps. We should count our blessings that all we have to put up with is some wiretapping and data mining.
Just wanted to highlight that line... I think you speak for a suprisingly large number of people when you say that.
This is true; in the applications where a $50,000 professional monitor is needed, an LCD simply isn't a replacement.
I'm assuming you sell stereo equipment for a living...
Check out Podcast of the Red Death for an original story set in Lovecraft-land. It's rough around the edges, but pretty interesting if this sort of thing is your bag.
calling microsoft's flight simulator a training program for terrorists is not what i'd consider sensible.
It's a training program for terrorists like Yahoo's yellow pages is a telephone directory for terrorists, or Google is a search engine for terrorists...
"Why, XXX is nothing more than a YYY for terrorists!"
Yes, and for EVERY OTHER PERSON ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH
Yet there is little difference between the two industries except for the regulations (and the patents).
Tell me about it... I'm still regretting the hundred million I sunk into reuben development, only to have it rejected by the Federal Sandwich Administration
The heart of the problem in a one sentence post.
It's a little more complicated than "well, she doesn't work there now".
Two of the main issues surrounding how the Times dealt with Miller are the editorial oversight exercised on her work and the length of time between the revelation of her (journalistic) misdeeds and her "retirement". It's obvious to us now that she was let go appropriately, but it should have been obvious to her superiors a long time ago.
I'd say that the real difference between the Times and Wikipedia is that once an issue of the Times is out, it's set in stone.
Ok, here is the home page of the gimp-cmyk plugin: http://www.blackfiveservices.co.uk/separate.shtml. Here is his disclaimer:
2 5/153221. Interesting, and it looks like the legal issues around Pantone's color lists are pretty fuzzy.
One thing preventing The GIMP from being useful in a pre-press environment is the lack of support for the CMYK colour-space. This plug-in goes some small way towards rectifying the situation, using a trick with layers to fake CMYK support. The plugin is unfinished, but usable for its primary purpose, and since I'm unlikely to have time to develop it further in the near future, I'm releasing it as is.
Now here is a link to an article discussing GIMP, Pantone and CMYK: http://software.newsforge.com/print.pl?sid=05/10/
There's no issue whatsoever of "accuracy" in producing nominal colorspace conversions, but if your needs include decomposing an image to a proprietary profile such as Pantone[...]
Well, for pre-press work the accuracy of converting to and from any profile is pretty much everything (btw, the word "profile" in color management deals with devices and not color lists, and it's a standard (ref: http://www.color.org/profile.html). It's true that converting RGB to CMYK is "a simple matter of mathematics" in that it's "just" a transformation, but the difficulty lies in that different devices and colorspaces have diffferent gamuts, and the magic lies in how you deal with the additional or missing information. I don't believe there is a standard for these transformations, and in fact if you perform the same transformation on the same image with different engines you will get different results (I had to compare 4 leading products for a client last year).
In a nutshell, it appears that CMYK support for GIMP is fine if you don't care about color accuracy, but since pre-press DOES care about accuracy GIMP is unsuitable.
Microsoft is not a monopoly. Only force can create a monopoly -- and only government can legally use force.
I was about to make a scathing reply, then noticed your name. Trolling slashdot is NOT ART, you beatnik.
From what I've read & been able to find in searches, GIMPs CMYK support (which comes from a 3rd party plugin) isn't accurate enough by a long shot for professional print work.
If my info is out of date I'd love to hear about it, since accurate CMYK support is the only thing keeping me from using it.
Seriously, could he have picked a more ironic example? Even Judith Miller is laughing at him.
Quote from TFA:
"It's wrong, and stealing and lying are wrong," AIT President Clarence Briggs said. "Somebody needs to do something about it."
And a quick search finds this page: http://advocate.soundtrax.net/ait-suit.asp, a class action against AIT for, and I double-quote, "Stealing People's Money".
Hmm!
Here is a press release from AIT. My favorite bit?
"The real threat here is to the concept of paid search and ultimately to the entire Internet," said Briggs. "If people lose confidence in the commercial viability of the Internet it threatens the very idea of an emerging global, digital economy. Sooner or later, if something isn't done, the second Internet bubble will burst."
You say "internet bubble-burst", I hear "cheap Ducatis and Aeron chairs on craigslist".
CMYK support for a big start.
I don't understand why there is a running sentiment that Bill is a mediocre coder. If he was a mediocre coder then he wouldn't have resigned from a managerial position to become Chief Software Architect.
That's like saying every (building) architect is a fantastic construction worker as well. Might be true for some, but is definitely not the rule. Saying "and the sink goes here" is not the same thing as actually installing a sink. Not to disparage either ability, I guess, I'm just saying that one doesn't necessarily follow the other.
"being a medical doctor, and speaking a little conversational french, I feel it's safe to say that I know more than a little about browser compliance"
-Michael Crichton
For instance, say a lame gun costs 10 to make (assume the cost is based on what kind damage each bullet does) and a good gun costs 10000. Also say a dog costs 5. What's to stop a programmer from creating 500 dogs with 2 guns mounted on the back of each that can run behind a shield or something and attack from behind?
It's really, really too bad that won't fit on a sig.