The GIMP to me is the UNIX equal to PhotoShop elements which was recently released. It's basically a stripped down PhotoShop for home users. The price of PhotoShop Elements is 99$, to me this is totally affordable, better than running rootlessX (yuk) and a much better experience.
I bought a mac and OSX specifically to get away from X windows while retaining a UNIX command line. I'll be damned if I install X to run the GIMP, I'd rather dish out 99$ and get a native app (when it's actually native btw).
This just in, pressing ear to glass on computer room door allows attacker to hear your key strokes!! Glass and door manufacturers are working on a patch and PR is looking for feedback on how glasses and doors can be reworked to allow for a greater degree of security. We will keep you updated hourly until this has come to a resolution.
Its digital which means no need for refresh like on CRT. Your friends probably had the contrast off.
Also remember MacOS handles colors much differently than any other OS specifically for publishing purposes. Hence the built in color correction on the mac.
CRT's are clunky, ugly and heavy. LCD's are clean, bright attractive and fun. Apple also invested in Samsung specifically to lower the price of LCD monitors because whether cheap skates like it or not, LCD is where the future is.
Why is it everything comes down to games? Do you folks realize that less than 5% of all Mac users play any games on their machines at all, let alone at 640x480 which is a pretty stupid resolution to begin with considering any decent over the counter video card can run quake3 etc... at 1024x768 or better. Grow up, games have very little to do with a platforms viability. If you read the tech specs it very specifically talks about publishing, graphics design and other "work" related aspects before mentioning games.
Since when do you need passion to do a job? Do you think coal miners had a passion for their work? How about janitors?
It makes me sick when people don't hire someone because they don't spend 18 hours a day in front of a machine plugging code into a text editor with a hard on.
Some people have lives folks, especially this time of year, water skiing, hiking, family time, camping etc..... Why would anyone have passion for a monitor and keyboard when they can spend a day on the water with a brew and some buds. I mean really people, there are much more important things in life than ones "passion" for their work.
It used to be all you needed to get hired was pride in ones work, which is a totally different thing.
enough with the april fools crap already
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They already have a player/decoder they just haven't built the driver into the OS yet, nor have they tested it's quality.
Porting the MacOS 9 decoder to OSX is a snap. Besides if you need DVD play back you can still boot to OS9 till this problem is fixed. No biggie
The majority of the problems I have with are it's numerous libraries, mostly glibc. Linux isn't a drop in replacement for a FreeBSD server, there are a multitude of reasons why FreeBSD is better as a server, reasons ranging from it's network stack to it's ports collection. It isn't a matter of pulling the parts out and ading in the ones you want, if it was I would pull out the linux kernel, glibc and in the case of red hat and mandrake, RPM and replace them with the freebsd kernel and ports, but then I would have freebsd wouldn't I? So back to my original post, I'll stick to the right tool for the job and a kernel that doesn't try to do everything at once.
I don't like an OS that claims to be able to do everything, such as Red Hats Linux distro is doing. To me that shows a lack of focus.
In fact a good analogy came from a biker friend of mine who said:
"You can take a dirt bike on the street but it will perform better in the dirt. You can take a street bike and take it in the dirt but it will perform better in the street."
Just makes sense to me to leave FreeBSD in the dirt, and let Linux have the street.
I work with both operating systems, more so with Free and Open BSD. My philosophy has always been, "Use the right tool for the right job". This is especially true with UNIX distros. UNIX has forked in so many ways for a reason.
I use freebsd on most of my servers, it's much more stable and easier to manage than most linux distros, emphasis on MOST. I run into a lot of issues with linux ranging from SMP issues in glibc to basic load problems and threading.
Now on the flip side of this coin, FreeBSD makes a horrendous desktop OS offering really poor sound card support and I have yet to come across a decent Xserver for my geforce card.
Use the right tool for the job, FreeBSD is a better server hands down for most purposes, Linux makes a damn fine server as well, especially when we talk about beowulf clusters. FreeBSD and Linux are not competing with each other, I think it's a shame that advocates of either operating system make it appear as if they are.
Then it should be illegal. It seems the same as the guy who tries to shoot an unloaded gun at someone, he intended to kill them, therfore he is guilty of attempted murder. The fact that pedophiles intend to view and masturbate to child pornography doesn't make it any less sick.
I'm an engineer, I deal with UNIX all day. The absolute last thing Iwant to do when I get home is deal with UNIX. I want a nice stable and reliable OS that I never have to fuck with, but at the same time, should I want to, I want to be able to fuck with it. I'm a typical American, i want to have my cake and eat it too.
OSX allows me to come home to a computer that just does what i want it too when I want it to do it. Should I get the 4am wake up call from work I can still login and ssh to the machines to do my job, plus I can run apache and samba and a million other cool things.
Linux is a long long way off from this type of usability.
This was all over macweek last week and was on wired yesterday. Rading it a third time here isn't what I would call entertaining or even interesting. I'm so losing interest in slashdot now.
I know where I live used items aren't taxable, never have been. But like I said below, America when it comes to issues like these is more like 50 countries than one.
You pay the licensing fees but that's it. Homes are an exception thanks to governement imposed property tax which you pay every year, of course even that is subject to the state in which you reside.
At least in America this is unenforcable. You can' tax used items either because the government already got it's cut the first time around.
I on several occasions have gotten a used book read it, loved it and went out and bought it new because the used one was torn or tattered. I was turned on to reading thanks to book clubs that send out used books to members.
I can only think that people wouldn't buy used books if the new ones weren't so over priced. I mean how many times have you paid 50+ dollars for an O'Reilly animal book? I spent 2k this year on books alone. Thats astonishing considering I can buy a DVD for 20 bucks and chances are the DVD will have more repeat value. DVD's and CD's are over priced in my opinion as well, but they don't hold a candle to the prices of books these days.
If I was an author I would want to be read, period. The money will come if you deserve it, used books were bought at some point.
Games are an art form filled with graphics and sound. Art by nature imitates life, or at least all art forms during their evolution eventually come to that.
This has been the case since the dawn of mankind, drawing pictures of people on cave walls. People create what they see, as closely as possible. It's a natural progression.
You folks are talking about upgrading, thats all fine and dandy, but how about a new server from dell with 7 preinstalled.
How about joe home user installing linux for the first time. Why can't you people get it through your thick skulls, this is not ok. Not from MS and not from RH.
I can't believe how pathetic this is. Linux prides its self on stability yet all I ever hear about linux is bug reports and shitty open source software that either wont compile or core dumps when loaded.
You've got Apache and the gimp, other than that there is no merrit to Linux. I use FreeBSD on servers and windows/macos on workstations. Linux lost it's niche. It's useless unstable bloatware
It's only a reality because developers like Red Hat are allowed to get away with it. You don't see this in OS's like Be and MacOS and when you do it is few and far between.
This is a major bug that should never have made it through basic quality assurance. Let me say that again BASIC QUALITY ASSURANCE. WTF has happened in the last year that people would expect this and think it's ok. You sound like windows users.
Why aren't software developers held to the same quality assurance standards that car manfacturers and electronics manufacturers are? What would your response be if your TiVO stopped working three weeks after you bought it be?
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I bought a mac and OSX specifically to get away from X windows while retaining a UNIX command line. I'll be damned if I install X to run the GIMP, I'd rather dish out 99$ and get a native app (when it's actually native btw).
This just in, pressing ear to glass on computer room door allows attacker to hear your key strokes!! Glass and door manufacturers are working on a patch and PR is looking for feedback on how glasses and doors can be reworked to allow for a greater degree of security. We will keep you updated hourly until this has come to a resolution.
Also remember MacOS handles colors much differently than any other OS specifically for publishing purposes. Hence the built in color correction on the mac.
Is your friends name "Powder"? Just curious ;)
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Why is it everything comes down to games? Do you folks realize that less than 5% of all Mac users play any games on their machines at all, let alone at 640x480 which is a pretty stupid resolution to begin with considering any decent over the counter video card can run quake3 etc... at 1024x768 or better. Grow up, games have very little to do with a platforms viability. If you read the tech specs it very specifically talks about publishing, graphics design and other "work" related aspects before mentioning games.
Didnt you watch "The 6th Day". You put a little dot under the bottom lid of the persons left eye lid.
You could literally go fuck yourself right? Or would that be considered masturbation? Any sex ed students care to comment?
It makes me sick when people don't hire someone because they don't spend 18 hours a day in front of a machine plugging code into a text editor with a hard on.
Some people have lives folks, especially this time of year, water skiing, hiking, family time, camping etc..... Why would anyone have passion for a monitor and keyboard when they can spend a day on the water with a brew and some buds. I mean really people, there are much more important things in life than ones "passion" for their work.
It used to be all you needed to get hired was pride in ones work, which is a totally different thing.
jesus christ, enough man
nuff said
They already have a player/decoder they just haven't built the driver into the OS yet, nor have they tested it's quality. Porting the MacOS 9 decoder to OSX is a snap. Besides if you need DVD play back you can still boot to OS9 till this problem is fixed. No biggie
The majority of the problems I have with are it's numerous libraries, mostly glibc. Linux isn't a drop in replacement for a FreeBSD server, there are a multitude of reasons why FreeBSD is better as a server, reasons ranging from it's network stack to it's ports collection. It isn't a matter of pulling the parts out and ading in the ones you want, if it was I would pull out the linux kernel, glibc and in the case of red hat and mandrake, RPM and replace them with the freebsd kernel and ports, but then I would have freebsd wouldn't I? So back to my original post, I'll stick to the right tool for the job and a kernel that doesn't try to do everything at once.
I don't like an OS that claims to be able to do everything, such as Red Hats Linux distro is doing. To me that shows a lack of focus.
In fact a good analogy came from a biker friend of mine who said:
"You can take a dirt bike on the street but it will perform better in the dirt. You can take a street bike and take it in the dirt but it will perform better in the street."
Just makes sense to me to leave FreeBSD in the dirt, and let Linux have the street.
I work with both operating systems, more so with Free and Open BSD. My philosophy has always been, "Use the right tool for the right job". This is especially true with UNIX distros. UNIX has forked in so many ways for a reason.
I use freebsd on most of my servers, it's much more stable and easier to manage than most linux distros, emphasis on MOST. I run into a lot of issues with linux ranging from SMP issues in glibc to basic load problems and threading.
Now on the flip side of this coin, FreeBSD makes a horrendous desktop OS offering really poor sound card support and I have yet to come across a decent Xserver for my geforce card.
Use the right tool for the job, FreeBSD is a better server hands down for most purposes, Linux makes a damn fine server as well, especially when we talk about beowulf clusters. FreeBSD and Linux are not competing with each other, I think it's a shame that advocates of either operating system make it appear as if they are.
Then it should be illegal. It seems the same as the guy who tries to shoot an unloaded gun at someone, he intended to kill them, therfore he is guilty of attempted murder. The fact that pedophiles intend to view and masturbate to child pornography doesn't make it any less sick.
I'm an engineer, I deal with UNIX all day. The absolute last thing Iwant to do when I get home is deal with UNIX. I want a nice stable and reliable OS that I never have to fuck with, but at the same time, should I want to, I want to be able to fuck with it. I'm a typical American, i want to have my cake and eat it too.
OSX allows me to come home to a computer that just does what i want it too when I want it to do it. Should I get the 4am wake up call from work I can still login and ssh to the machines to do my job, plus I can run apache and samba and a million other cool things.
Linux is a long long way off from this type of usability.
This was all over macweek last week and was on wired yesterday. Rading it a third time here isn't what I would call entertaining or even interesting. I'm so losing interest in slashdot now.
Because compared to BSD Linux is about as stable as windows95.
Linux is pathetic as far us UNIX's go, I refuse to use it as anything other than a desktop workstation and I honestly try to avoid it then too.
I know where I live used items aren't taxable, never have been. But like I said below, America when it comes to issues like these is more like 50 countries than one.
You pay the licensing fees but that's it. Homes are an exception thanks to governement imposed property tax which you pay every year, of course even that is subject to the state in which you reside.
I on several occasions have gotten a used book read it, loved it and went out and bought it new because the used one was torn or tattered. I was turned on to reading thanks to book clubs that send out used books to members.
I can only think that people wouldn't buy used books if the new ones weren't so over priced. I mean how many times have you paid 50+ dollars for an O'Reilly animal book? I spent 2k this year on books alone. Thats astonishing considering I can buy a DVD for 20 bucks and chances are the DVD will have more repeat value. DVD's and CD's are over priced in my opinion as well, but they don't hold a candle to the prices of books these days.
If I was an author I would want to be read, period. The money will come if you deserve it, used books were bought at some point.
Games are an art form filled with graphics and sound. Art by nature imitates life, or at least all art forms during their evolution eventually come to that.
This has been the case since the dawn of mankind, drawing pictures of people on cave walls. People create what they see, as closely as possible. It's a natural progression.
You folks are talking about upgrading, thats all fine and dandy, but how about a new server from dell with 7 preinstalled.
How about joe home user installing linux for the first time. Why can't you people get it through your thick skulls, this is not ok. Not from MS and not from RH.
I can't believe how pathetic this is. Linux prides its self on stability yet all I ever hear about linux is bug reports and shitty open source software that either wont compile or core dumps when loaded.
You've got Apache and the gimp, other than that there is no merrit to Linux. I use FreeBSD on servers and windows/macos on workstations. Linux lost it's niche. It's useless unstable bloatware
this is like 2 month old news.......... way to keep on top of things
It's only a reality because developers like Red Hat are allowed to get away with it. You don't see this in OS's like Be and MacOS and when you do it is few and far between.
This is a major bug that should never have made it through basic quality assurance. Let me say that again BASIC QUALITY ASSURANCE. WTF has happened in the last year that people would expect this and think it's ok. You sound like windows users.
Why aren't software developers held to the same quality assurance standards that car manfacturers and electronics manufacturers are? What would your response be if your TiVO stopped working three weeks after you bought it be?
This is pathetic