Therefore, after machines take over and men and robots terminate each other in a matrix/terminator/paranoia-like war, whoever remains can use it as part of a chronicle to tells the history of the previous civilization.
Actually, reading this article, I felt just like reading the intro to a post-holocaust video-game, or the page were the past history is explained to the protagonist on a B SF book.
I mean, English at least is a subset of the alphabet used in the majority of the occident. Currently almost every computer language is "english based" meaning the keywords are in English, or English based, and thus easy to learn to roman alphabet users.
However if this trend continue, maybe we soon will have Bali based languages, or wordt yet, 3000 characted Mandarim based computer language.
My contry is endangered by the DMCA due to the FTAA.
If they sue in THIS case, it will be such a great example against the DMCA and the like, that even the most reactionary will be convinced that "it is no good" (tm).
Thank you SunnComm.
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Well, what you describe above is actually the roadmap for The GIMP, but not the version numbers.
GEGL and the pletora of imaging modes and models have been postponed to what more likely will be GIMP 3.0, to come out by the end of 2004, or in early 2005, according to the current roadmap.
2.0 is scheduled for release this year, with RGBA - 8bpp color support only and allowing conversions to CMYK. The version number changing was resolved on the GIMP Developers list around July this year.
As it is, we will have GIMP 2.0 this year, followed shortly by one or two bug-fixes releases, and them a bunch of new features in a 2.2 around the middle of 2004 - but still no change to GEGL.
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The GIMP is on the road for a 2.0 release that shall happen this year. Actually, this 1.3.21 release shall be the last one before the 2.0pre release series.
Do not miss the new GIMP site, taht will soon replace the contents in www.gimp.org: mmaybe.gimp.org.
All that was added is the ability to import and export raster files encapsulated as SVG - AND import and export Gimp vector - The Bezier Paths existing in gimp 1.2.x.
Actually,as soon as I got the meme mail with the news on the "scrambled letters are readable", I've put together this script to do it.
As I noted that a large text could become hard to read, I choose to limit the scrambling only to the 2nd-5th letters of each word...gives out great readability.
There was supposed to be a presentation of Free Software at Sao Paulo's congress tomorrow - Sao Paulo being the richest and most populated state in Brazil.
I just got an e-mail from an entity that was responsible for part of the presentation taliking of a last minute change: instead of presentation there will be a debate, and the people invited to debate are, instead of free software advocates were experimented proprietary software advocates.
OK, it shall not be hard for cell phones to spread Outlook Viruses through SMS's and MMSs alike.
I can foresee these biological Pathogens merging thenselves whith their eletronic counterparts on the CDMA Processor Cores, and wipping out the information society as we know it.
Services are provided in a per city basis. The most populated area - medium to large cities on Sao Paulo state are ADSL served by Telefonica de Espana - the guys who own Lycos -
Price tags for Telefonicas ADSL or concurrent Cable Modem or Radio (mostly avaliable to apartment and office buildings only, not to houses) are all around R$120,00 monthly. In brute values, that would be U$40,00, but given that our wages are in Real not in US Dolars, that is roughly equivalente to an United States dwelling American who would pay U$120,00 for the same service.
HOWEVER until Telefonicas ADSL, unlike most competitors used to have no transfer limit. They are changin this policy, and are coming up with a monthly limit of 3GB transfer. No were to run to, no one to complain to. Just pay them.
IMO, they can make up whatever excuse they want for coming up with these limits, it IS due to some kind of pressure from the phonographic and movie Industries.
Among other things, one can see workers laying more and more fiber along the roads as one travels about. So it is not lack of bandwidth which is leading to this policy change.
Far smarter than trying to keep GNU/Linux running on these X-flaws would be drop them for good, and go for Play-stations instead.
I simply cannot understand why people on community insist in trying XboX for running Linux - one would be feeding microsoft anyway.
DOnt quote me wrong: its FUN to see GNU/Linux running on the X-boxes. What I call a COMPLETE LOSS OF TIME is BUYING an XBOX to run Linux just to piss on M$ once it's already running. If you want a console to hack on, the PS/2 is there. With not a 64 bit CPU like most die hard hackers will be able to buy in juysta couple months from now, but featuring a FULL 128 BIT CPU with a couple vector processor pipelines added in for bonus. Where eles e in x-box one can hack int eh wonderfull 4 registered 32 bit x86 which is -oh God - just the same as in his desktop machinne.
I'd say X-box s hacking have had their fun, and should be left for the roaches now - again, that do not appky to the perpretators themselves. Its quite obvious they get their fun, and should go on with it. But for the console hacker wannabe there is no point in feeding m$. It would be much nicer to find a way to hack standard DDR RAM in a PS/2, even if as an external firewire module.
Not to mention the bastards do NOT change the f***king default FRONT COLOR. Like 80% of the web, thought. But I like my desktop with light letters over a draker background instead of the ubiquitous "black letters over white background" everyone seens to use.
They at CNET, like the ones at Wired, Yahoo, RedHat, and God knows were else do change the background color to white, and let the foreground color to the default. In my current profile, the default foreground happens to be light yellow.I have to resort to "select all" to be able to read such completely flawed designs.
Actually rather than fully poligonal icons and windows, I'd like to see texturing and lightning effects going realtime on current X' windows. I mean.., actual lightning effects, not pre-rendeered stuff. And of course, nice 3D transformation effects on the oppening and closing of windows.
Maybe this could be achieved with a couple more people working on the transluxent project, and making it go beyond the extremely outdated alpha effects. For Heavens..it had been cool to show off a desktop running WindowMaker and half a dozen Eterms open, but we need to leave taht behind.
Maybe an extension to X to use OpenGL, and a quick hack on KDE to animate -and post render - windows as they open/close go in/out of focus is feasible without that much manpower. A K3D could then raise. (Not to be mistaken with the existing K3B cd recorder, or K2D drawing tool)
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It seens that there are only lawyers left there by now.
Hi, this is Darl MacBride. I just read that your systems do make use of a "Unix like" operating system. I am sorry to inform that you tehrefore own us a $699.00 license for each pole connected to the grid. You will comply or shut down.
-- From the URL on the subject:
"(...)Bose and Russell both think that the technician would have been using a Unix-based system like the one Russell described. FirstEnergy spokesperson Ellen Raines confirmed that the Akron control center uses a General Electric energy management system that she believed uses the Unix operating system(...)"
I have got a license in some Linux software I downloaded from SCOs site that stats that I AM FREE TO USE THE SOFTWARE. And it even says that uner certain conditions I can myself redistribute the software.
Just because it is a bit expensive for it's storage and processing power ratings, as compared to other devices, there is no reason at all why we should not image a Beowoulf Cluster of these.
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Therefore, after machines take over and men and robots terminate each other in a matrix/terminator/paranoia-like war, whoever remains can use it as part of a chronicle to tells the history of the previous civilization.
Actually, reading this article, I felt just like reading the intro to a post-holocaust video-game, or the page were the past history is explained to the protagonist on a B SF book.
Funny thing that 90% of the patches I have to do requiere no more than "service restart" with a "downtime" of maybe 2 seconds.
Maybe one should consider how much more is it worth to live by perpetuating a monopoly of worse software.
You say it like if USA was not after the Oil as well. And preventing oil to be sold in any coin that not US dolars.
you insensitie clod!
It seens that all benchmarks were performed with off the shelf 32 bit software, running on 64 bit hardware.
Call me again when they got GENTOO compiled at full 64 bit and full speed on both platforms, and we get the real numbers.
I do not recall a P-4 being not nearly equivalent to a G5 in these conditions. Them we will see if AMD can push the 24 year old 8086 family to competitive levels with their 64bit patches.
And like more sites than I care to count, they do set the background color to White, and DO NOT set the foreground color to BLACK.
When you use custom colors to navigate (like me who likes yellow over dark blue), you get a clear color over a white background.
I hope they change it when I give them feedback on it. Most commercial sites simply ignore the issue.
before it is too late.
I mean, English at least is a subset of the alphabet used in the majority of the occident. Currently almost every computer language is "english based" meaning the keywords are in English, or English based, and thus easy to learn to roman alphabet users.
However if this trend continue, maybe we soon will have Bali based languages, or wordt yet, 3000 characted Mandarim based computer language.
My contry is endangered by the DMCA due to the FTAA.
If they sue in THIS case, it will be such a great example against the DMCA and the like, that even the most reactionary will be convinced that "it is no good" (tm).
Thank you SunnComm.
Well, what you describe above is actually the roadmap for The GIMP, but not the version numbers.
GEGL and the pletora of imaging modes and models have been postponed to what more likely will be GIMP 3.0, to come out by the end of 2004, or in early 2005, according to the current roadmap.
2.0 is scheduled for release this year, with RGBA - 8bpp color support only and allowing conversions to CMYK. The version number changing was resolved on the GIMP Developers list around July this year.
As it is, we will have GIMP 2.0 this year, followed shortly by one or two bug-fixes releases, and them a bunch of new features in a 2.2 around the middle of 2004 - but still no change to GEGL.
The GIMP is on the road for a 2.0 release that shall happen this year. Actually, this 1.3.21 release shall be the last one before the 2.0pre release series.
Do not miss the new GIMP site, taht will soon replace the contents in www.gimp.org: mmaybe.gimp.org .
The answer for the three questions is:
All that was added is the ability to
import and export raster files encapsulated
as SVG - AND import and export Gimp vector - The Bezier Paths existing in gimp 1.2.x.
Actually, I was looking at the always popular rubik cube and it's weird variants, just the day before yesterday.
They do not seen to qualify to the article though, as most are not that expensive.
I was looking for the 5x5x5 rubik when I jit the page, but the other toys seens attractive as well.
Actually,as soon as I got the meme mail with the news on the "scrambled letters are readable", I've put together this script to do it.
As I noted that a large text could become hard to read, I choose to limit the scrambling only to the 2nd-5th letters of each word...gives out great readability.
To get the source, go one directory up.
There was supposed to be a presentation of Free Software at Sao Paulo's congress tomorrow - Sao Paulo being the richest and most populated state in Brazil.
I just got an e-mail from an entity that was responsible for part of the presentation taliking of a last minute change: instead of presentation there will be a debate, and the people invited to debate are, instead of free software advocates were experimented proprietary software advocates.
$./configure
$make
#make install
and the application exists.
OK, it shall not be hard for cell phones to spread Outlook Viruses through SMS's and MMSs alike.
I can foresee these biological Pathogens merging thenselves whith their eletronic counterparts on the CDMA Processor Cores, and wipping out the information society as we know it.
Services are provided in a per city basis. The most populated area - medium to large cities on Sao Paulo state are ADSL served by Telefonica de Espana - the guys who own Lycos -
Price tags for Telefonicas ADSL or concurrent Cable Modem or Radio (mostly avaliable to apartment and office buildings only, not to houses) are all around R$120,00 monthly. In brute values, that would be U$40,00, but given that our wages are in Real not in US Dolars, that is roughly equivalente to an United States dwelling American who would pay U$120,00 for the same service.
HOWEVER until Telefonicas ADSL, unlike most competitors used to have no transfer limit. They are changin this policy, and are coming up with a monthly limit of 3GB transfer. No were to run to, no one to complain to. Just pay them.
IMO, they can make up whatever excuse they want for coming up with these limits, it IS due to some kind of pressure from the phonographic and movie Industries.
Among other things, one can see workers laying more and more fiber along the roads as one travels about. So it is not lack of bandwidth which is leading to this policy change.
Far smarter than trying to keep GNU/Linux running on these X-flaws would be drop them for good, and go for Play-stations instead.
I simply cannot understand why people on community insist in trying XboX for running Linux - one would be feeding microsoft anyway.
DOnt quote me wrong: its FUN to see GNU/Linux running on the X-boxes. What I call a COMPLETE LOSS OF TIME is BUYING an XBOX to run Linux just to piss on M$ once it's already running. If you want a console to hack on, the PS/2 is there. With not a 64 bit CPU like most die hard hackers will be able to buy in juysta couple months from now, but featuring a FULL 128 BIT CPU with a couple vector processor pipelines added in for bonus. Where eles e in x-box one can hack int eh wonderfull 4 registered 32 bit x86 which is -oh God - just the same as in his desktop machinne.
I'd say X-box s hacking have had their fun, and should be left for the roaches now - again, that do not appky to the perpretators themselves. Its quite obvious they get their fun, and should go on with it. But for the console hacker wannabe there is no point in feeding m$. It would be much nicer to find a way to hack standard DDR RAM in a PS/2, even if as an external firewire module.
Not to mention the bastards do NOT change the f***king default FRONT COLOR. Like 80% of the web, thought. But I like my desktop with light letters over a draker background instead of the ubiquitous "black letters over white background" everyone seens to use.
They at CNET, like the ones at Wired, Yahoo, RedHat, and God knows were else do change the background color to white, and let the foreground color to the default. In my current profile, the default foreground happens to be light yellow.I have to resort to "select all" to be able to read such completely flawed designs.
I would agree with you!
Actually rather than fully poligonal icons and windows, I'd like to see texturing and lightning effects going realtime on current X' windows. I mean.., actual lightning effects, not pre-rendeered stuff. And of course, nice 3D transformation effects on the oppening and closing of windows.
Maybe this could be achieved with a couple more people working on the transluxent project, and making it go beyond the extremely outdated alpha effects. For Heavens..it had been cool to show off a desktop running WindowMaker and half a dozen Eterms open, but we need to leave taht behind.
Maybe an extension to X to use OpenGL, and a quick hack on KDE to animate -and post render - windows as they open/close go in/out of focus is feasible without that much manpower. A K3D could then raise. (Not to be mistaken with the existing K3B cd recorder, or K2D drawing tool)
It seens that there are only lawyers left there by now.
Hi, this is Darl MacBride. I just read that your systems do make use of a "Unix like" operating system. I am sorry to inform that you tehrefore own us a $699.00 license for each pole connected to the grid. You will comply or shut down.
--
From the URL on the subject:
"(...)Bose and Russell both think that the technician would have been using a Unix-based system like the one Russell described. FirstEnergy spokesperson Ellen Raines confirmed that the Akron control center uses a General Electric energy management system that she believed uses the Unix operating system(...)"
I have got a license in some Linux software I downloaded from SCOs site that stats that I AM FREE TO USE THE SOFTWARE. And it even says that uner certain conditions I can myself redistribute the software.
They had put another strange object with bidding starting at $1,00.
AS you can see there it realy flies, and is not downloadable.
Just because it is a bit expensive for it's storage and processing power ratings, as compared to other devices, there is no reason at all why we should not image a Beowoulf Cluster of these.