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  1. Re: on Creative Commons Video Challenges Hollywood's Best · · Score: 1

    If you want Gimp to gain ground, why does it still
    feel like it is aimed at code-heads? I do not like
    compiling my own programs and like apps to
    install easily with a good simple installer or by
    drag and drop. I do not wish to hunt around for
    open source libraries which, for some reason,
    are not included but are needed to run.

    I've never ever compiled a single version of GIMP. Maybe you've been looking at the wrong place? Of course you can get the source code for GIMP to compile it yourself; that's the wohle point of Open Source/Free Software. However, there's no need to do so. Ready to install binaries (for Windows even with installer) are available.

    Why is there not a user-friendly mac build that
    installs easily and uses a native mac UI?

    Maybe because using the native Mac UI would basically mean a complete rewrite of the UI code, and that's just not worth it for them?

    If http://www.pixelmator.com/ can do it, why
    not gimp?

    From the web page I gather that Pixelmator is a pure Mac program. Of course, if you only target the Mac, it's easy (actually even the easiest option) to support the native Mac UI. Gimp is a multiplatform application, and it should be obvious that you cannot use the native Mac UI on Windows or Linux. So the option is to either write 3 completely separate UIs to be native on every OS (or maybe even 4 UIs to please both KDE and Gnome users on Linux :-)), or simply stick to one UI which runs on all targeted platforms. Also note that implementing several UIs reduces the time which can be spend on actual features.

    It’s all well and good that it can open PSDs
    (whose file format I hear is a bit of a nightmare),
    but can it work with smart objects?

    WTF are smart objects?

    Can I use it to open and edit Camera Raw files
    as a professional and not feel limited by the
    technology?

    GIMP manipulates images, not feelings :-)

  2. Re:Why is that news to anybody? on 'The Laws Are Written By Lobbyists,' Says Google's Schmidt · · Score: 1

    In many cases, both the best and the cheapest solution would be to simply pass no additional law. If you remove all those unnecessary laws, you free resources for writing those laws which are necessary.

  3. Re:No need to imagine... on Creative Commons Video Challenges Hollywood's Best · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is need to imagine, because at that link, I only get the information that this video is not available in my country.
    Unlike the Sintel video, which is available, and even in HD.

  4. Re:Talent on Creative Commons Video Challenges Hollywood's Best · · Score: 1

    If you don't have creative talent, you'll not produce a good movie, no matter if your tools are open source programs or million-dollar rendering farms.

  5. Re:So what happens to astrologers? on How Will the Constellations Change In 50K Years? · · Score: 1

    Since astrologers don't care about the fact that the sun isn't actually in the signs they claim it in, why should they care if those constellations aren't recognizable any more?

  6. Re:Carl Sagan did it fist on How Will the Constellations Change In 50K Years? · · Score: 1

    You can include the time directly in the URL:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNU_CMdaCfM&t=3m10s

  7. Re:Born to early on How Will the Constellations Change In 50K Years? · · Score: 1

    I just did my horoscope with that information and clearly I was born to early, because instead of the rather bland 'Something is on your mind. See that the matter is solved.' it was 'You are the Ruler of the Universe.'.

    You misunderstand: In those 50.000 years, also the meaning of language changed. At that time, "ruler" means something like "biggest fool" ...

  8. Re:And this relates to Linux... how? on Paleontologists Unearth Giant Fossilized Penguin · · Score: 5, Funny

    When they analyzed that penguin's DNA, they found that it contained a Linux kernel.

  9. Re:Storm? What storm? on Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' Game Sparks Outrage In Germany · · Score: 1

    The Germans love FUD

    s/The Germans/People/

  10. Re:300 years... on Copyrights and CD-Rs Endanger Audio History · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But will Memorex still be there in 300 years, to sue them if their claim proved false?

  11. Re:I'll Say It Again ... on House Democrats Shelve Net Neutrality Proposal · · Score: 1

    You forgot:

    You don't want those PORN providers to get more bandwidth only because they get big money from those IMMORAL PORN WATCHERS and therefore can afford more bandwidth, while your poor little CHRISTIAN site hardly gets enough bandwidth to be shown at all. THINK OF THE CHILDREN!

    Oh, and there should be something about TERRORISTS as well.

  12. Re:Nothing I'd pay for. on Xmarks May Not Be Dead After All · · Score: 1

    Actually, I don't want them to be in sync. At work I have work related bookmarks, and at home I have non-work related bookmarks. Even where the same bookmark appears on both computers, they are usually in quite different places, because the bookmarks are organized for different purposes.

    Now having said that, easily accessing each other's bookmarks would still be nice, but not by making them the same.

  13. Re:Routers on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Multicast has been native on the Internet backbone for over a decade, but most ISPs refuse flat-out to enable it. Resistance to IPv6 is even tougher, with mainstream name registration only happening recently.

    Why didn't they just charge more for backbone access from ISPs which don't provide it? I mean, money has always been the best argument to do something.

  14. Re:Procrastination on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    So the best strategy is to find the problems, work out the solutions, but not to apply them until the problems appear, at which time one can apparently promptly solve them?

  15. Re:Right now? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't they have set-aside a block of 4.2 billion addresses that mapped 1:1 with IPv4 addresses?

    They have.

  16. Re:Reclaim Some? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Do you see any open channels?

    Since you showed those which a re not open, of course not. :-)
    But from your list, channel 9 seems to be open. I don't know if channel 1 is supposed to exist, but it would make sense, so that would be open as well. There's of course no way to tell from your list if there are open channels after 51.

  17. Re:Reclaim Some? on There Is No Plan B, the Ugly Transition To IPv6 · · Score: 1

    Well, the article says we will run out of addresses in 2012. Which means IPv4 is enough until the end of the world. What more do you want? :-)

  18. Re:Celebrity physicist troll train on Hawking: No 'Theory of Everything' · · Score: 1

    They already reached Leo? :-)

  19. Re:Post a warning? on Las Vegas Hotel Vdara an Accidental Death Ray · · Score: 1

    It didn't download a video for me. But then, I've got NoScript and RequestPolicy installed.

  20. Re:So... What? on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 1

    I for one welcome our
    1. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Greedos in Soviet Russia shooting YOU first.
    2. ???
    3. Netcraft confirms: Profit!
    overlords in the year of the Linux desktop.

    Seven!

  21. Re:same crap on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 1

    Well, just wait until the 11D special edition for string theorists is released.

  22. Re:Ya on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 1

    It seems to me if somethign wasn't shot in 3D, the conversion is going to be very bad.

    Well, GL managed to make Greedo shoot first, so nothing will surprise me.

    You mean, Greedo shot first because they used GL instead of DirectX? :-)

  23. Re:I've a Special Review I've Been Saving For Year on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 1

    I already wish I could un-watch everything George Lucas has shat out past "Empire Strikes Back." If ol' George can figure out how to do that, I'll do some more business with him.

    If he ever finds out how to do that, he'll happily give it to you. And then sell you those "new" movies you've never seen before ...

  24. Re:So... What? on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 1

    In Soviet Russia

    Greedo now shoots YOU first?

    2 memes in one. No need to thank me.

    1. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Greedos in Soviet Russia shooting YOU first.
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

    That's four memes.

  25. Re:We can dream. on Star Wars Films In 3D Due In 2012 · · Score: 3, Funny

    They replaced Jar-Jar with Nar-Nar, because they figured .NET is more modern than Java.