Having used both programs, it's not the toolboxes themselves that are the problem; whenever I use Photoshop, I move all the tools onto my second monitor so that there's nothing to obscure my view of the image I'm working on (so in that sense there's not much difference between Photoshop and the GIMP). What I feel gives Photoshop the edge is the refinement and consistency of the tools themselves. Having been around and receiving user feedback for so long, Photoshop's tools have been refined to the point where they are nearly as intuitive as they can be made for their specific interface, and behave fairly consistenly from one tool to the next. With the GIMP, the manner in which each tool gets used is not as refined, and it's sometimes not as clear how to make use of some of the tools.
Still, I'm very excited about this release, the GIMP seems to get better every time. I'm sure I'll play around with it a lot once it comes out.
Unreal Tournament 2k3 and 2k4 have both DirectX and OpenGL libraries. (While you can use OpenGL under Windows, it's really not supposed to be used under Windows. OpenGL works quite nicely on Linux though). Epic's engines are designed for good portability, so you can pretty much play their games on whatever platform you want.
The first Half-life only stuck around so long because there were so many mods for it.. Valve has surely made HL2 mod-friendly (I think the SDK has been out for at least a month), so if you're tired of the original game, there will be several more new ones you can play for free.
For such a niche market as, say, gaming PCs, it makes some sense though. AMD chips are currently better in the majority of games out right now. Dell could introduce a line, call it something like Dell OMG Gamer++, charge a ridiculous amount, and they'd get an extra profit margin, since the AMD chips are cheaper. And it would have the same effect as the rumors you describe; they could always say to Intel, "Well, we've had a lot of interest in the OMG Gamer++..." and get a lower price that way.
The only thing I'm concerned with, and the only reason I play games in the first place, is having fun. Does having my stats tracked make it more fun? Since I'm not in the top 5% or so that would get noticed for having the best stats, it usually doesn't add anything. I prefer teamplay-oriented games (like the Tribes series or UT2k4's onslaught) where individual performances don't matter as much as the result for the team. Even if you're not a leet killer, you can still play defense and help out your team.
My Radeon 9800 is virtually unsupported at this point, with all the driver fixes and enhancements aimed at their latest chipset.
That's exactly the kind of thing that drove me away from ATi. I had a Radeon 8500, and after the 9000-series came out, it was like they officially disowned their prior customers. Some driver revisions even made games display / perform worse than before. That, plus the fact that I hope to move to Linux soon, is why I'm no longer an ATi customer.
A lot of the tests are limited by the CPU, which becomes very apparent with such a ridiculous amount of graphics power. The amount gained depended upon the game (notice that in Far Cry, for example, there was a 105% gain for the 6800GT at 1600x1200, 4xAA).
It's hardly complicated, at least to me. Adding the button is a step that only needs to be done once (though I'm not sure why it isn't there by default, as tabs are the feature that sets apart Firefox in the first place). And opening all your bookmarks is only 2 clicks: click "Bookmarks", hover over folder, click "Open in Tabs". That's pretty simple.
Erm? You can customize Firefox's toolbar to have an "Open a new tab" button that creates a new blank tab. And when you right-click to bookmark a page, you can specify "Bookmark all tabs in a folder", then, when you go to that folder in the Bookmarks menu, click on "Open in Tabs" to open all the bookmarks at once in seperate tabs. I don't know where you got the idea that Firefox couldn't do this. IHBT maybe?
Actually, the power throttling on the latest Athlon 64s are more advanced than the P4's solution. The P4 clocks down when it gets too hot; AMD's "Cool and Quiet" system works like laptop clock throttling, staying in a low-speed state most of the time, and ramping up the clock rate as more work needs to be done.
Yes, most apps are only a single thread, but the underlying OS is multithreaded. So there is a large benefit to dual cores / processors, even on the desktop, if one multitasks. (It's also really cool to be rendering video, and be able to start up a game and play online while you wait for it to finish.:-) ) Think of your computer as being like a highway. Increasing the width of the road doesn't make a single car go any faster, but there's room for lots more cars.
I appreciate that you're trying to point out common mistakes and misconceptions, but the whole tone of the thing just seemed like it was aimed more at making fun of students past and present than at helping them. Am I the only one that thinks constructive criticism is better than being a jackass? Almost all the tips had nothing to do with actual coding. ("Ignore error messages, you'll be soo c00l!!11!") Somehow I doubt that this will endear you to your students.
What about the extra cost of cooling the heat that they put out? I've got dual monitors (a 20" SGI GDM -20e21 and a 19" Hitachi Superscan 753), and I find that the cost of AC to keep my apartment cool is much greater than the cost of just running the monitors.
But even there they weren't safe from the soma-taking masses, who pursued the main character in a manner that wouldn't seem out of place in a reality TV series; they imposed their way of life on him, the way of life he wanted to be as far from as possible, forcefully drugging him and making him participate in an orgy so despicable (from his point of view) that he committed suicide immediately after regaining consciousness the next day.
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Having used both programs, it's not the toolboxes themselves that are the problem; whenever I use Photoshop, I move all the tools onto my second monitor so that there's nothing to obscure my view of the image I'm working on (so in that sense there's not much difference between Photoshop and the GIMP). What I feel gives Photoshop the edge is the refinement and consistency of the tools themselves. Having been around and receiving user feedback for so long, Photoshop's tools have been refined to the point where they are nearly as intuitive as they can be made for their specific interface, and behave fairly consistenly from one tool to the next. With the GIMP, the manner in which each tool gets used is not as refined, and it's sometimes not as clear how to make use of some of the tools.
Still, I'm very excited about this release, the GIMP seems to get better every time. I'm sure I'll play around with it a lot once it comes out.
Unreal Tournament 2k3 and 2k4 have both DirectX and OpenGL libraries. (While you can use OpenGL under Windows, it's really not supposed to be used under Windows. OpenGL works quite nicely on Linux though). Epic's engines are designed for good portability, so you can pretty much play their games on whatever platform you want.
The first Half-life only stuck around so long because there were so many mods for it.. Valve has surely made HL2 mod-friendly (I think the SDK has been out for at least a month), so if you're tired of the original game, there will be several more new ones you can play for free.
For such a niche market as, say, gaming PCs, it makes some sense though. AMD chips are currently better in the majority of games out right now. Dell could introduce a line, call it something like Dell OMG Gamer++, charge a ridiculous amount, and they'd get an extra profit margin, since the AMD chips are cheaper. And it would have the same effect as the rumors you describe; they could always say to Intel, "Well, we've had a lot of interest in the OMG Gamer++..." and get a lower price that way.
The only thing I'm concerned with, and the only reason I play games in the first place, is having fun. Does having my stats tracked make it more fun? Since I'm not in the top 5% or so that would get noticed for having the best stats, it usually doesn't add anything. I prefer teamplay-oriented games (like the Tribes series or UT2k4's onslaught) where individual performances don't matter as much as the result for the team. Even if you're not a leet killer, you can still play defense and help out your team.
My Radeon 9800 is virtually unsupported at this point, with all the driver fixes and enhancements aimed at their latest chipset.
That's exactly the kind of thing that drove me away from ATi. I had a Radeon 8500, and after the 9000-series came out, it was like they officially disowned their prior customers. Some driver revisions even made games display / perform worse than before. That, plus the fact that I hope to move to Linux soon, is why I'm no longer an ATi customer.
It looks like some sort of modernist toaster to me.
The question is not "Are LCD displays ready for gaming?", it's "Are you ready to for gaming on an LCD display?"
That's probably a bad example, since we're pretty unhappy about the results of the Microsoft way of doing things.
A lot of the tests are limited by the CPU, which becomes very apparent with such a ridiculous amount of graphics power. The amount gained depended upon the game (notice that in Far Cry, for example, there was a 105% gain for the 6800GT at 1600x1200, 4xAA).
It's hardly complicated, at least to me. Adding the button is a step that only needs to be done once (though I'm not sure why it isn't there by default, as tabs are the feature that sets apart Firefox in the first place). And opening all your bookmarks is only 2 clicks: click "Bookmarks", hover over folder, click "Open in Tabs". That's pretty simple.
Erm? You can customize Firefox's toolbar to have an "Open a new tab" button that creates a new blank tab. And when you right-click to bookmark a page, you can specify "Bookmark all tabs in a folder", then, when you go to that folder in the Bookmarks menu, click on "Open in Tabs" to open all the bookmarks at once in seperate tabs. I don't know where you got the idea that Firefox couldn't do this. IHBT maybe?
Actually, the power throttling on the latest Athlon 64s are more advanced than the P4's solution. The P4 clocks down when it gets too hot; AMD's "Cool and Quiet" system works like laptop clock throttling, staying in a low-speed state most of the time, and ramping up the clock rate as more work needs to be done.
Yes, most apps are only a single thread, but the underlying OS is multithreaded. So there is a large benefit to dual cores / processors, even on the desktop, if one multitasks. (It's also really cool to be rendering video, and be able to start up a game and play online while you wait for it to finish. :-) ) Think of your computer as being like a highway. Increasing the width of the road doesn't make a single car go any faster, but there's room for lots more cars.
probably so that it's easier to correct unjust moddings, i.e. if someone gets modded to troll for making an unpopular but valid point.
I appreciate that you're trying to point out common mistakes and misconceptions, but the whole tone of the thing just seemed like it was aimed more at making fun of students past and present than at helping them. Am I the only one that thinks constructive criticism is better than being a jackass? Almost all the tips had nothing to do with actual coding. ("Ignore error messages, you'll be soo c00l!!11!") Somehow I doubt that this will endear you to your students.
What about the extra cost of cooling the heat that they put out? I've got dual monitors (a 20" SGI GDM -20e21 and a 19" Hitachi Superscan 753), and I find that the cost of AC to keep my apartment cool is much greater than the cost of just running the monitors.
My guess for 2 was Fire large percentage of employees, but yours works, too.
And he got his grammar from Yoda!
"...it's wrong to give out some nice plush Neopet toys ... as a part of the McDonalds Happy Meal cross-promotion gimmick?"
I think the real crime is that parents are taking their children to McDonalds. There's plenty of food out there that's much higher quality.
But even there they weren't safe from the soma-taking masses, who pursued the main character in a manner that wouldn't seem out of place in a reality TV series; they imposed their way of life on him, the way of life he wanted to be as far from as possible, forcefully drugging him and making him participate in an orgy so despicable (from his point of view) that he committed suicide immediately after regaining consciousness the next day.
You're quick to knock Apple's statistics, but where do yours come from?
Maybe it will have some kind of "insert cd, rip tracks / files". Or maybe wifi? Hopefully you don't have to take a laptop out to it.
I'm sure IBM would be happy to sell you more than one.