Not it's not. If she were consumer-oriented, she'd be pushing for the tags, because they'll lower costs of doing business and that means lower costs for consumers.
I guess you just have to sit at one to appreciate it.
I fell in love with quiet computing when I got my Grape iMac. I was in a quiet room and turned the computer on....and...absolute silence. I'm still impressed by the genius of having that entire machine convection-cooled.
You have to admit that the interface is at least 50% of the appeal of Photoshop. The interface makes it very quick and easy to do things, and in that area GIMP has a long, long, long way to go.
Photoshop was designed by graphic artists and coded by programmers and it shows.
GIMP was designed by programmers, and it shows, too.
Yep, and they just RIP them right to the offset press. They never mark them up, check registration or cropping, do traps, or spreads and chokes, Pantone matching, kerning or ligatures or anything else that's required for professional printing.
Like I said. Folks who call LaTeX a professional typesetting program just show themselves as ignorant fools.
Perhaps because WP is entrenched in the Legal and Government markets, and if WP for Linux is present, then one more barrier for switching to Linux in these markets goes away.
This is typical Linux hypocrisy. The entire OS is a patchwork project that drips amateurishness, yet unless a Linux app is absolutely perfect, it is tarred and feathered.
But all the Linux people are telling me the holy grail for Linux will be when Windows developers can use the Wine libraries to quickly port their apps to Linux.
No wonder nobody wants to write for Linux when you have to deal with zealots you can never please.
Proper typesetting is done by professional typesetting software like Adobe InDesign or Quark Xpress, or even PageMaker or FrameMaker.
Saying LaTeX is proper typesetting is like saying GIMP is equivalent to photoshop. People who say it come across as fools or irrational zealots to actual, knowledgeable professionals in the field.
I think my personal favorite was the evolving clays. I had visions of the mud queen kissing the captain from that great, but short-lived SF parody, Quark.
I'm smarter and more talented than any of the idiots you gave prizes to literature for. My books are way more important than theirs. The only reason I haven't won the prize every year for the past twenty years for literature (see my classic work: The Blind Watchmaker) is because the Nobel committee is too stupid to realize that my writing is of equal, no, superior worth than some tripe written by Joseph Conrad.
Likewise, a kid can have half his brain removed in an accident and still be fully functional, fully conscious, and excel academically. A girl can have half her brain removed to stop seizures and only suffer bodily paralysis. Sense of consciousness is completely unaffected.
That's some pretty strong evidence that consciousness is not entirely brain-based.
Einstein never showed FTL was impossible. What he showed was travel AT lightspeed was impossible (you're dividing by 0). Once v>c, the equations become workable again save that everything has an imaginary (sqrt(-1)) component.
Hmm. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Israel is the only democracy in the region? Or is democratic government too good for Jews and Arabs?
Yassar Arafat is a wealthy engineer. Osama bin Laden is a wealthy business owner. Assad is the ruler of a nation.
The roots of terrorism are hatred. Poverty, hopelessness and despair make it easier to foment hatred, which is why people like Arafat keep the Palestinians poor desperate and hopeless.
Golda Mayer said it best: We will have peace with the Arab when they love their children more than they hate us.
Since the middle-east is a battleground because it's full of extremist Muslims who hate Americans, Christians and Jews and has nothing to do at all with oil, finding an alternate energy source won't change a thing over there.
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Up Marx, down Smith! Die capitalist pigs!
And this is different from the UPC code scanned into the computer being tied to your credit card purchase in what way?
Personally, I look forward to the day when I pull my shopping cart up to the register and it gives me my total.
it is totally consumer oriented.
Not it's not. If she were consumer-oriented, she'd be pushing for the tags, because they'll lower costs of doing business and that means lower costs for consumers.
No, it's companies -- who are NOT people -- who will decide when, where, and how. And I don't like it.
This has got to be one of the most asinine things I've ever read. Even on Slashdot.
A company is nothing more than an organization of...people.
The CEO of Wal-Mart made the decision to use RFID, probably after putting it to a vote of the board of directors.
Sheesh, you talk like a company is some sort of non-coporeal life form making decisions and then ordering its human slaves to comply.
Are you sure you haven't been using your tinfoil hat to focus microwave radiation into your brain? You sound pretty fried to me.
I guess you just have to sit at one to appreciate it.
I fell in love with quiet computing when I got my Grape iMac. I was in a quiet room and turned the computer on....and...absolute silence. I'm still impressed by the genius of having that entire machine convection-cooled.
It's not a lie. Aspartame is metabolized to formaldehyde in the liver.
That's a fact.
Note I also said it's the dosage that counts. Miniscule amounts of formaldehyde aren't going to hurt you.
Feeling awfully defensive, aren't we?
Saccharine isn't cancerous, either. The rats died from drinking 800 cans of soda a day.
Apartame is metabolized into Formadelhyde by the liver.
It's all in the dosage. A can or two a day isn't going to hurt you. Drink a case a week and you're going to have all sorts of problems.
You have to admit that the interface is at least 50% of the appeal of Photoshop. The interface makes it very quick and easy to do things, and in that area GIMP has a long, long, long way to go.
Photoshop was designed by graphic artists and coded by programmers and it shows.
GIMP was designed by programmers, and it shows, too.
Yep, and they just RIP them right to the offset press. They never mark them up, check registration or cropping, do traps, or spreads and chokes, Pantone matching, kerning or ligatures or anything else that's required for professional printing.
Like I said. Folks who call LaTeX a professional typesetting program just show themselves as ignorant fools.
I see. It's the Windows user's fault because TTF font support in Linux sucks.
Perhaps because WP is entrenched in the Legal and Government markets, and if WP for Linux is present, then one more barrier for switching to Linux in these markets goes away.
This is typical Linux hypocrisy. The entire OS is a patchwork project that drips amateurishness, yet unless a Linux app is absolutely perfect, it is tarred and feathered.
But all the Linux people are telling me the holy grail for Linux will be when Windows developers can use the Wine libraries to quickly port their apps to Linux.
No wonder nobody wants to write for Linux when you have to deal with zealots you can never please.
Your argument assumes the 80% of users use 20% of the features rationale. What you fail to realize is that those 80% don't use the SAME 20%.
Proper typesetting is done by professional typesetting software like Adobe InDesign or Quark Xpress, or even PageMaker or FrameMaker.
Saying LaTeX is proper typesetting is like saying GIMP is equivalent to photoshop. People who say it come across as fools or irrational zealots to actual, knowledgeable professionals in the field.
I think my personal favorite was the evolving clays. I had visions of the mud queen kissing the captain from that great, but short-lived SF parody, Quark.
I'm smarter and more talented than any of the idiots you gave prizes to literature for. My books are way more important than theirs. The only reason I haven't won the prize every year for the past twenty years for literature (see my classic work: The Blind Watchmaker) is because the Nobel committee is too stupid to realize that my writing is of equal, no, superior worth than some tripe written by Joseph Conrad.
But I thought everyone was supposed to make money off of support contracts in open source.
But the idea of self was not changed. Personality changed, but not consciousness. You're confusing mental ability and personality with consciousness.
Likewise, a kid can have half his brain removed in an accident and still be fully functional, fully conscious, and excel academically. A girl can have half her brain removed to stop seizures and only suffer bodily paralysis. Sense of consciousness is completely unaffected.
That's some pretty strong evidence that consciousness is not entirely brain-based.
Einstein never showed FTL was impossible. What he showed was travel AT lightspeed was impossible (you're dividing by 0). Once v>c, the equations become workable again save that everything has an imaginary (sqrt(-1)) component.
Precisely. I can come up with whatever conclusions I want if I get to pick the starting assumptions.
There is a sizeable sect (wahabism) that sure is.
Hmm. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that Israel is the only democracy in the region? Or is democratic government too good for Jews and Arabs?
Yassar Arafat is a wealthy engineer. Osama bin Laden is a wealthy business owner. Assad is the ruler of a nation.
The roots of terrorism are hatred. Poverty, hopelessness and despair make it easier to foment hatred, which is why people like Arafat keep the Palestinians poor desperate and hopeless.
Golda Mayer said it best: We will have peace with the Arab when they love their children more than they hate us.
Since the middle-east is a battleground because it's full of extremist Muslims who hate Americans, Christians and Jews and has nothing to do at all with oil, finding an alternate energy source won't change a thing over there.