Apple logo doesn't hail from the apple-growing regions of Southern France.
While this may be a joke, there has been word of the EU insisting that things must be made in the area they originally came from, because doing otherwise would be cheating the inventors -- eg, the entire world's supply of cheddar cheese is supposed to be made in the small town of cheddar...
Is there any government not staffed entirely by beurocratic fucktards?
Therefore it makes sense for users to offer constructive criticism
Yes, but when the only complaints I ever here are "No CMYK", "No 16bpp", and "Interface isn't what I'm used to", every time, it startes to sound like whining. Yes, those first two at least are some major things for anyone working in the professional print industry, but are those really the only problems? As a programmer willing to spend some time helping out the gimp project, I'd really like to see a bulleted list of every way in which the gimp could be improved (short of the sarcastic things like "stop sucking" and "steal photoshop's codebase"...), but every time I ask for one, nobody gets past those first three reasons... Again; yes, I admit that those are big problems for anyone working in the professional print industry, but what is it that the home users and web developer types want?
Even the people who are distictly amature to the point where MS Paint would be good enough for what they do, still give those reasons when I suggest they try the gimp - one wonders if they just don't want to admit they spent hundreds of dollars on something unnecessarily; </psych student> or maybe it's the name, but I don't think that the name alone would cause them all to give those reasons as opposed to "I hate the name"...
When I say OK I mean it's fast enough that it doesn't get in the way of my work - it's visibly slower than blackbox & co, but not *painfully* so. It does get painfully slow (under 1FPS) when I use the animated "sky" wallpaper though...
Config files
Well, now they've moved from offensively unfriendly plain text, to really nice binary:)
I use E17 on a 266 with 128MB RAM, with drop shadows & stuff, and it runs OK. E16 is way past the "fast enough that I don't notice any slowdown" mark, and I've only lost config files after a crash once:)
E16 CVS has 69000 lines, is 650k, and links 11 libraries, which puts it as the largest on two of the three categories; yet even with all the eyecandy turned on, it still runs as fast as things like blackbox on my 266 boxen -- large size doesn't *always* mean slow:)
Pardon my ignorance, but to be somewhat off topic for my own education: why do people need 17878103347812890625 colours? How is the 8bpp 4228250878 not enough? Can anyone actually see the difference between all 65000 shades of pure red?
And why does the artist need to work in CMYK? What problems are there working with RGB and converting to CMYK at the printer? I can see the conversion would be lossy, but not visibly so to the human eye...
WTF? The GIMP's had that for quite a while... which reminds me of my non-troll genuine question -- what DOES PS do that the GIMP doesn't? Lots of people say it's better, but I have yet to see any specific reasons (other than CMYK support, and "The UI is different, I don't like it". But they alone don't account for quite so much anti-gimpness as I've seen)
Interesting use of non-multiple-of-4 bitlength unit... 0xFFFFFFFF implied 32 bits, but I would think most programmers know the dangers of assuming things like that:) (revision added)
[X] 12 Year old [X] Grandmother [X] The Dead [X] Vegetable [ ] Mineral [ ] Abstract Math ...
(Yeah, it took me a while to notice they meant "swedish person"; seeing everything else they've gone after, my initial thought of "vegetable" didn't seem improbable...)
KDE and GNOME apps can create PDFs via printing, and there's the anything2postscript + postscript2pdf tools for everything else. *Editing* is a bit harder...
There's an old joke along the lines of "How does MS achieve 100% standards compliance? By redifining 'standard' as 'broken'!". This is much the same thing -- they're not saying that overuse of netspeak will result in good english, but overuse of netspeak will result in good *netspeak*, which doesn't look the same to me...
Most parts of the world, yes. But slashdot is based in america...
(Note: I don't mean that as troll or flamebait, but as a joke. However, it's distressingly true in several cases; search slashdot history for the case of church authorities insisting on putting "evolution is only a theory, not fact" on science books...)
All the pupils at my school are fine with computers; we've set up an installation of moodle, and it works great -- the biggest problem with computers damaging productivity is when the teachers can't get them to work, and the pupils have to spend the first half of the lesson sorting them out. (Only to spend the second half of the lesson sitting through a horridly designed powerpoint presentation, because after fiddling with the computer trying to get it to work, there was no time left to plan a proper lesson)
Does I still get the +5 if the torrent is made useless by being tracked on a home DSL connection? At least if I get slashdotted then I'll be able to concentrate on my coursework without the net to distract me...
Slashdot Mirror
What's KDE got to do with this?
Are the air compressors running on petrol?
As an enlightenment fanboy; I'd actually quite like to see what DR1-15 looked like, but all the links are dead :(
While this may be a joke, there has been word of the EU insisting that things must be made in the area they originally came from, because doing otherwise would be cheating the inventors -- eg, the entire world's supply of cheddar cheese is supposed to be made in the small town of cheddar...
Is there any government not staffed entirely by beurocratic fucktards?
Personally, I'm interested in what genuine answers there are -- If you'd just sold your baby for $30k, what would you buy?
Yes, but when the only complaints I ever here are "No CMYK", "No 16bpp", and "Interface isn't what I'm used to", every time, it startes to sound like whining. Yes, those first two at least are some major things for anyone working in the professional print industry, but are those really the only problems? As a programmer willing to spend some time helping out the gimp project, I'd really like to see a bulleted list of every way in which the gimp could be improved (short of the sarcastic things like "stop sucking" and "steal photoshop's codebase"...), but every time I ask for one, nobody gets past those first three reasons... Again; yes, I admit that those are big problems for anyone working in the professional print industry, but what is it that the home users and web developer types want?
Even the people who are distictly amature to the point where MS Paint would be good enough for what they do, still give those reasons when I suggest they try the gimp - one wonders if they just don't want to admit they spent hundreds of dollars on something unnecessarily; </psych student> or maybe it's the name, but I don't think that the name alone would cause them all to give those reasons as opposed to "I hate the name"...
The person paying for the domain would decide where to put it, just as they do now.
When I say OK I mean it's fast enough that it doesn't get in the way of my work - it's visibly slower than blackbox & co, but not *painfully* so. It does get painfully slow (under 1FPS) when I use the animated "sky" wallpaper though...
Config files
Well, now they've moved from offensively unfriendly plain text, to really nice binary :)
I use E17 on a 266 with 128MB RAM, with drop shadows & stuff, and it runs OK. E16 is way past the "fast enough that I don't notice any slowdown" mark, and I've only lost config files after a crash once :)
E16 CVS has 69000 lines, is 650k, and links 11 libraries, which puts it as the largest on two of the three categories; yet even with all the eyecandy turned on, it still runs as fast as things like blackbox on my 266 boxen -- large size doesn't *always* mean slow :)
The smallest WM I've seen was evilwm, about 13kb IIRC
And why does the artist need to work in CMYK? What problems are there working with RGB and converting to CMYK at the printer? I can see the conversion would be lossy, but not visibly so to the human eye...
WTF? The GIMP's had that for quite a while... which reminds me of my non-troll genuine question -- what DOES PS do that the GIMP doesn't? Lots of people say it's better, but I have yet to see any specific reasons (other than CMYK support, and "The UI is different, I don't like it". But they alone don't account for quite so much anti-gimpness as I've seen)
I've installed it on a PI with 32MB ram and a 1gb hdd... (it took a literal week to install though, even with distcc)
Speaking as someone who's used the "Aliens" Enlightenment theme without flinching... that theme is FUGLY.
If I were a mac designer, that comparison would have put you on my kill list.
Interesting use of non-multiple-of-4 bitlength unit... 0xFFFFFFFF implied 32 bits, but I would think most programmers know the dangers of assuming things like that :) (revision added)
DeCSS and that ebook converter thing weren't made for the purpose of infringing copyright, but their creators still got attacked...
(Yeah, it took me a while to notice they meant "swedish person"; seeing everything else they've gone after, my initial thought of "vegetable" didn't seem improbable...)
KDE and GNOME apps can create PDFs via printing, and there's the anything2postscript + postscript2pdf tools for everything else. *Editing* is a bit harder...
There's an old joke along the lines of "How does MS achieve 100% standards compliance? By redifining 'standard' as 'broken'!". This is much the same thing -- they're not saying that overuse of netspeak will result in good english, but overuse of netspeak will result in good *netspeak*, which doesn't look the same to me...
Don't forget the official windows version, from the mplayer team themselves...
(Note: I don't mean that as troll or flamebait, but as a joke. However, it's distressingly true in several cases; search slashdot history for the case of church authorities insisting on putting "evolution is only a theory, not fact" on science books...)
All the pupils at my school are fine with computers; we've set up an installation of moodle, and it works great -- the biggest problem with computers damaging productivity is when the teachers can't get them to work, and the pupils have to spend the first half of the lesson sorting them out. (Only to spend the second half of the lesson sitting through a horridly designed powerpoint presentation, because after fiddling with the computer trying to get it to work, there was no time left to plan a proper lesson)
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Do note that there are already several http mirrors going round, so look a couple of screenfuls down the page if the server dies (ETA: 30 seconds...)