Why does the gimp have to reinvent the wheel (new structure, new keyboard shortcuts, new everything) when the dominating, pre-existing product in the field is already considered "close to perfect" in terms of usability?
Because people use Gimp who have Linux and don't run PS? Maybe because the PS keyboard shortcuts have already been taken by Gnome or KDE
I doubt the contract says 'unlimited' and if it does, the term 'unlimited' is also redefined as something else besides the english definition someplace in the contract. 'Unlimited' is marketoid speak, not contract speak. Every ISP knows you have you have be very clear on 'Unlimited'. If you want to run your 24/7 downloader all day and all night, try Dedicated access.
Many ISPs redefine it as 'unmetered' with restrictions. Not only that, they have the catch all abuser clause. So, even if the contract says you get unlimited, they can always fall back on the 'we can cancel you at any time' policy. Its not your god given right to be a member of a certain ISP you know.
Unlimited does not mean 'Unlimited Bandwidth', it means your account is not metered by time.
The term was created when ISPs started to charge flat rate monthly prices instead of the traditional 'by the minute' model that the three big players, AOL, Compuserve, and Prodidy were using at the time.
I think hey could have chose a better term but they didn't.
The tools in Gimp 2.0 act much more like their Photoshop equivolents. Its much easier to use than 1.2 in fact I prefer it for everything except font rendering. (1.3 was 2.0 until recently) I use Photoshop via Wine to write text then save it as a psd and load it into Gimp because the anti-aliasing is so much better in Photoshop.
After using Gimp 1.3/2.0 for awhile, Photoshop seems bloated and cumbersome to use. Now with the much more interface its like the OpenOffice of graphics programs, good enough for 99% of people doing basic graphics work.
Quote: 'This application does not allow the unauthorized viewing of pornographic images...'
Damn, well, luckily, there are like 100000000 applications that allow it and are probably faster and more convinient than Photoshop is for simply viewing images.
Maybe now we'll start seeing more good games as IBM employees join the ranks of Linux users. This is exactly how the gaming shift from the Mac to the IBM PC happened. Large companies started installing PCs for everyone at the office, people then bought what they used at work for home use.
I predict that 2004 or 2005 will be the 'year of the linux gamer' as Linux systems equipped with Kernel 2.6 lay waste to the competition.
I believe most people in the UNIX community agree with you that C++ lends itself to GUI development. There is a logical connection between objects and how a gui functions that just makes sense to people.
This TCO crap is really really starting to get annoying. Who cares about TCO when your locked into proprietary software that is probably not standards based that crashes all the time. What about cascading network security meltdowns. Did they factor in the costs of the network being taken over by Virii and Trojans once or twice a year because Martha open up a bad email attachment?
What these studies always mention is that its going to cost you quite a bit more to find Linux people than Windows people. What they fail to mention is that a good Linux person will normally have the knowledge and skill set that makes most MCSEs look like pre-schoolers. Don't you want the best people possible? Isn't investing in a competent employee worth the extra 10k to 20k per year? It is, here is why.
A typical Linux guy is going to be versed in network security, advanced firewall techniques, databases, multiple programming languages, a solid grasp of computer science concepts, how to leverage the outdated hardware and old systems, how to basically do more with less, NOT just what he learned in MCSE class. They usually have experience with a very wide range of enterprise level software as well, simply because its always been free for them. They are very good at thinking on their toes and have a knack for gluing different systems and interfaces together using simple scripts and programs they write.
So, the point being, one good Linux guy can start working at a small business and completely change they way they do business by using open source software, possibly saving the company huge amounts of money in the long run, not just on the current project but everywhere in the company.
I think this is eventaully a given. IBM is only in bed with Linux so they can ditch AIX. Once their customers are moved over to Linux, IBM can start doing whatever they want with the OS.
Its a very simpleton prediction. Knowing how volitile the OSS communinty and how facts tend to be stretched on the Internet, you can predict we're going to turn any company and odds are we probably will at some point in time 1000 years or less from now. It won't happen in 2004 though. There is so much more money to be made in open source, the snowball has just started to roll downhill. By the end of 2004 it will be bearing down on Redmond and have IBM Novel stickers all over it. Hopefully Darl will have been crushed by it and his disembodied leg will be poking out the side.
IBM is not 'in bed' with Linux and IBM is not ditching AIX. IBM simply saw a money making opportunuty. Its a no brainer really. Leverage high quality, open source, open standards (free as in beer, not cost) software to sell hardware and other services. It goes against the normal 'lock em in for life' model and gives customers warm fuzzies knowning that at any point they can ditch you and find someone else for their Open Source fix. It also saves millions on development costs.
The barrier of entry to making money with
Linux is simply 'having a clue'. Everything elses comes with your distro of choice.
Lyons is almost as big a FUD machine as SCO. He gets noticed by pissing us off. He never has 'got' Linux. Someone should tie him up in front of a PC with www.gnu.org and force him to read it over and over again until it clicks. Maybe then he could write something informative about open source.
The parent post, to me, is saying 'shut up because your apartment displaced wild creatures' which is telling me that everyone complains about this shit unless they are somehow inconvinienced. Its that out of site, out of mind thing.
I'm saying my apartment displaced about 20 elms/pines, some crab grass, squirrels, and probably some deer. Hardly the endangered species that fall into these wind devices. Thats all, no more, no less. Don't get all worked up and write a masterpiece over my snide comment.
Have you ever seen a golden eagle soaring above the Mojave desert during beautiful California sunset? Probably not. Put down that thesaurus and head out there man!
Sounds like a good argument, huh? Unless the cost to generate power increases beyond the ability to make it a viable solution. This brings us to the key word in your statement "needlessly". Perhaps it is NECESSARY to "damage" the environment sometimes. You think that when the house/apartment you live in was build, they didn't dig up some animal/plants home and destroy it?
Yeah, thanks to my apartment, grass and squirrels are near extinction.
ts not a blanket statement. Nvidia drivers for both nForce motherboard chipset and GeForce Graphics chipsets has never _EVER_ been of production quality. nVidia under linux is asking for trouble.
Well, how do you explain the pretty much community wide notion that if you want to game or code GL apps in Linux, nVidia is the way to go?
Nvidia drivers cause problems for n00bs and the unitiated because they have no clue what they are doing.
For example, to get the nvidia drivers working, you may have to: (same things go for ATI)
edit your XF86Config
recompile your kernel
untar a tar.gz file!
edit/etc/modules.conf
type: make install
Some of these things may pose a huge problem for people, especially the kernel and if not done right the drivers will never work correctly. Who knows what other stuff they have done to their system as well.
Take it from me, I help people get nVidia cards working in X via IRC/Forums all the time and the problem is rarely the drivers, its always the configuration.
Also, there really is no Linux Nforce chipset drivers. The sound driver is just the normal OSS Intel i810 driver. Their is an open source version of the Nforce-Net driver now as well so for the Nforce platform you should be using that for network and either the ALSA i810 driver or the commerical OSS i810 driver if you need digital out/hardware mixing.
Try the MM sources, they have a open source Nforce network driver for 2.6.
If your running kernel 2.4 you should easily be able to install nvidias binary nvnet module. Can't you just 'apt-get nforce-net'? You can't? Oh too bad, I just do this when I want to install the driver:
emerge nforce-net
There is no open source portion of the nVidia driver. The kernel module is closed source as well. The stuff you see compiling is just a wrapper so their are not module versioning issues.
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Maybe HP is going to do the manufacturing of the Apple branded i386 OSX machine.
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Because people use Gimp who have Linux and don't run PS? Maybe because the PS keyboard shortcuts have already been taken by Gnome or KDE
I doubt the contract says 'unlimited' and if it does, the term 'unlimited' is also redefined as something else besides the english definition someplace in the contract. 'Unlimited' is marketoid speak, not contract speak. Every ISP knows you have you have be very clear on 'Unlimited'. If you want to run your 24/7 downloader all day and all night, try Dedicated access.
Many ISPs redefine it as 'unmetered' with restrictions. Not only that, they have the catch all abuser clause. So, even if the contract says you get unlimited, they can always fall back on the 'we can cancel you at any time' policy. Its not your god given right to be a member of a certain ISP you know.
You went from 1.5mbps downstream to 3.0mbps downstream. Why? Because they canceled all the morons who we're running Newsbin 24 hours a day.
The term was created when ISPs started to charge flat rate monthly prices instead of the traditional 'by the minute' model that the three big players, AOL, Compuserve, and Prodidy were using at the time.
I think hey could have chose a better term but they didn't.
Yeah, its called Adobe Photoshop Version 7 and below.
I hear you about the polish. Its the little things sometimes.
The tools in Gimp 2.0 act much more like their Photoshop equivolents. Its much easier to use than 1.2 in fact I prefer it for everything except font rendering. (1.3 was 2.0 until recently) I use Photoshop via Wine to write text then save it as a psd and load it into Gimp because the anti-aliasing is so much better in Photoshop. After using Gimp 1.3/2.0 for awhile, Photoshop seems bloated and cumbersome to use. Now with the much more interface its like the OpenOffice of graphics programs, good enough for 99% of people doing basic graphics work.
Quote:
'This application does not allow the unauthorized viewing of pornographic images...'
Damn, well, luckily, there are like 100000000 applications that allow it and are probably faster and more convinient than Photoshop is for simply viewing images.
Maybe now we'll start seeing more good games as IBM employees join the ranks of Linux users. This is exactly how the gaming shift from the Mac to the IBM PC happened. Large companies started installing PCs for everyone at the office, people then bought what they used at work for home use. I predict that 2004 or 2005 will be the 'year of the linux gamer' as Linux systems equipped with Kernel 2.6 lay waste to the competition.
I believe most people in the UNIX community agree with you that C++ lends itself to GUI development. There is a logical connection between objects and how a gui functions that just makes sense to people.
Now we can complain they stole the KDE file selector.
This TCO crap is really really starting to get annoying. Who cares about TCO when your locked into proprietary software that is probably not standards based that crashes all the time. What about cascading network security meltdowns. Did they factor in the costs of the network being taken over by Virii and Trojans once or twice a year because Martha open up a bad email attachment?
What these studies always mention is that its going to cost you quite a bit more to find Linux people than Windows people. What they fail to mention is that a good Linux person will normally have the knowledge and skill set that makes most MCSEs look like pre-schoolers. Don't you want the best people possible? Isn't investing in a competent employee worth the extra 10k to 20k per year? It is, here is why.
A typical Linux guy is going to be versed in network security, advanced firewall techniques, databases, multiple programming languages, a solid grasp of computer science concepts, how to leverage the outdated hardware and old systems, how to basically do more with less, NOT just what he learned in MCSE class. They usually have experience with a very wide range of enterprise level software as well, simply because its always been free for them. They are very good at thinking on their toes and have a knack for gluing different systems and interfaces together using simple scripts and programs they write.
So, the point being, one good Linux guy can start working at a small business and completely change they way they do business by using open source software, possibly saving the company huge amounts of money in the long run, not just on the current project but everywhere in the company.
And CD sales have sky rocketed right? Lars was finally able to affford that 15th platinum plated ferrari for his collection.
Six months for this? People get less time for assault.
Its a very simpleton prediction. Knowing how volitile the OSS communinty and how facts tend to be stretched on the Internet, you can predict we're going to turn any company and odds are we probably will at some point in time 1000 years or less from now. It won't happen in 2004 though. There is so much more money to be made in open source, the snowball has just started to roll downhill. By the end of 2004 it will be bearing down on Redmond and have IBM Novel stickers all over it. Hopefully Darl will have been crushed by it and his disembodied leg will be poking out the side.
IBM is not 'in bed' with Linux and IBM is not ditching AIX. IBM simply saw a money making opportunuty. Its a no brainer really. Leverage high quality, open source, open standards (free as in beer, not cost) software to sell hardware and other services. It goes against the normal 'lock em in for life' model and gives customers warm fuzzies knowning that at any point they can ditch you and find someone else for their Open Source fix. It also saves millions on development costs.
The barrier of entry to making money with Linux is simply 'having a clue'. Everything elses comes with your distro of choice.
Lyons is almost as big a FUD machine as SCO. He gets noticed by pissing us off. He never has 'got' Linux. Someone should tie him up in front of a PC with www.gnu.org and force him to read it over and over again until it clicks. Maybe then he could write something informative about open source.
Woah english class! I bet you got an A!
The parent post, to me, is saying 'shut up because your apartment displaced wild creatures' which is telling me that everyone complains about this shit unless they are somehow inconvinienced. Its that out of site, out of mind thing.
I'm saying my apartment displaced about 20 elms/pines, some crab grass, squirrels, and probably some deer. Hardly the endangered species that fall into these wind devices. Thats all, no more, no less. Don't get all worked up and write a masterpiece over my snide comment.
Have you ever seen a golden eagle soaring above the Mojave desert during beautiful California sunset? Probably not. Put down that thesaurus and head out there man!
Damn, when is the last time your cat took down a golden eagle?
Yeah, thanks to my apartment, grass and squirrels are near extinction.
Well, how do you explain the pretty much community wide notion that if you want to game or code GL apps in Linux, nVidia is the way to go?
Nvidia drivers cause problems for n00bs and the unitiated because they have no clue what they are doing.
For example, to get the nvidia drivers working, you may have to: (same things go for ATI) edit your XF86Config recompile your kernel untar a tar.gz file! edit /etc/modules.conf
type: make install
Some of these things may pose a huge problem for people, especially the kernel and if not done right the drivers will never work correctly. Who knows what other stuff they have done to their system as well.
Take it from me, I help people get nVidia cards working in X via IRC/Forums all the time and the problem is rarely the drivers, its always the configuration.
Also, there really is no Linux Nforce chipset drivers. The sound driver is just the normal OSS Intel i810 driver. Their is an open source version of the Nforce-Net driver now as well so for the Nforce platform you should be using that for network and either the ALSA i810 driver or the commerical OSS i810 driver if you need digital out/hardware mixing.
Try the MM sources, they have a open source Nforce network driver for 2.6. If your running kernel 2.4 you should easily be able to install nvidias binary nvnet module. Can't you just 'apt-get nforce-net'? You can't? Oh too bad, I just do this when I want to install the driver: emerge nforce-net
There is no open source portion of the nVidia driver. The kernel module is closed source as well. The stuff you see compiling is just a wrapper so their are not module versioning issues.
Maybe its just the Fedora people having problems but the drivers work for me no problem. NWN, Quake3 Urban Terror, UT2003 all worked fine.
NForce2/Ti4200 Gentoo 1.4 (-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer) with Kernel 2.6.0.