2.25 rounds to 2, and 4.5 rounds to 5. It's not hard to understand, unless you somehow define rounding to be different than the traditionally accepted =.5 rounds up.
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Thing is, there are a lot of us that want to do more than what MSPaint allows (besides, it's not even available on my choice of OS), but don't need the CMYK separation or any of the other stuff. I still want to tweak levels and do color adjustments, resize pictures well, scale, crop, rotate, reduce red-eye, and so on. But I don't need Photoshop for that... I can get the capability to do everything 99% of people would ever want to do with an image for free with the GIMP, instead of paying for Photoshop. Which was my point, that the GIMP does everything with images that most people would use Photoshop to do.
That's in my sig. I don't post simply to advertise my friend's company. I have no vested interest in it, unlike someone whose user name is whaturunning dot com and the entire point of their post is to say "go here to my site!" rather than actually contribute anything meaningful to the discussion.
But hey, that's just me. Maybe you paint everything with a broad black and white brush.
Yes, but they say that because there are a bunch of people who DON'T work in the professional publishing world who think they need CMYK support for their family photos.
If you know you need CMYK, it's not even a discussion. If you THINK you need CMYK, you don't.
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For what 99% of people do with graphics, The GIMP DOES compete with Photoshop.
Or is Linux not a competitor to Windows because it doesn't do everything Windows does (even though it does many things better)?
What about if you work late one night, though? Do the scripts check to make sure no one is logged in and then run? Actually, that's the only sane way I can see to deal with them...
I've never seen X crash Linux. It may nuke the current console input and trash the video output, but you can still get into the machine. I've SSH'd into machines locked up like that and shut them down gracefully. Linux CAN be salvaged gracefully in the event of almost anything other than a kernel panic or a hardware failure. XP and Vista, they aren't immune to problems, even if you personally haven't had any.
It matters because of rounding. It's a typical computer science mathematics problem, because it's quite common to calculate a bunch of percentages that don't add up to 100%, and they'll still be accurate. Well, mostly.
Just because you're too stupid to understand it doesn't mean you have to use foul language to put an exclamation point on your ignorance.
And no one said set it ALL free. But to set what data that citizens should be able to access free, it needs to be in an open format that anyone can access.
They showed interest in bidding the spectrum up high enough that it would be open. They didn't actually care if they won it or not, they'd have used it if they did, if not, they were happy to let someone else do that work. That's not their core business. But having it open access, that IS what they care about, and that is why they bid it the way they did.
Frequencies are a limited resource, though. You can't use the entire wireless spectrum because there are too many services that run on it. Not to mention people's personal networks (2.4GHz and so on). You end up having a very small slice of spectrum available for network transmission, and whoever has the strongest towers or deepest pockets can override everyone else. It needs regulation because it's a scarce resource.
I don't want to have 15 wires strung to my house, I don't want to have companies pirating each other's spectrum in different areas of the country.
It's a limited resource that many people want to use... you can't just say "Go for it" in those cases, because you get what's known as a tragedy of the commons.
The government should not be controlling internet service. They should be regulating how it's provided, forcing it to be open and available. And that's it. Nothing about the content, just the delivery.
1. It's an ok implementation of some kernel theories. But it can still grind to a halt with a single job on a single CPU. Microsoft has never figured out proper task scheduling.
2. NTFS has had multiple versions since it's inception. An original 1992 NTFS filesystem is not the same as a current one. In fact, it's completely incompatible with the new NTFS versions.
3. Read a comparison of DirectX and OpenGL. It might open your eyes... DirectX may be the most POPULAR API for games, but that's simply because of the platform it's designed for. That does not mean that it's the best. Otherwise, the Honda Civic would be widely accepted as the best car on the road.
There's a difference between real property and intellectual "property". I deprive no-one of a tangible good when it's copied. I deprive them of it when it's stolen. Big difference there, sparky.
Or, should we have to pay royalties to the Greeks for copying their ideas of democracy? Royalties to Hammurabi's descendants for using the ideas of laws? Copying is human nature, it's how things progress and get changed.
Business models that are artificially enforced by the laws of the land are not business models. They're fascism. You're entitled to any business model you want... you should NOT be entitled to use taxpayer money and deprivation of citizens rights to build a business model.
The only thing I'd want is a maximum grade or scaling or something of the late test. If you didn't spend the time to do it right the first time, you shouldn't get the same reward as the people who did. Do something like a 90% curve, where the top grade can only be up to 90% (if you get 100% on the test), and scale it on that.
In college, many of the professors had a "come to jesus" (metaphorically... they were often atheists) meeting with failing students, and would many times provide them the opportunity to re-take a test after studying to earn back up to half of the points they missed the first time around. So, if you got a 20%, you could kick your grade up to a 60% total if you studied and re-took the test. If you got a 50%, it could be a 75%. I think they may have made a max grade, too... my memory's fuzzy. It's been a while;) But the point is that they still have to do the work and do the learning, and not be using a different scale than everyone else.
Depends on how you learn. Many people simply can't learn from just reading... their brains aren't wired that way. And that's assuming that the books are any good to start with... I know that many times in my engineering classes the instructor would go on a tangent about something that was quite important, but wasn't in the book, or was just glossed over in the book. And by going to class, you learn what you're going to be tested on.
Simple answer: frat boys. It was the first shooter that the beer-swilling thumbless muppet crowd could get into, for whatever reason. Kind of a follow-up to Goldeneye on the N64, but with network play.
It's not a great game, but it sells for the same reason that Madden 200x sells... it's what everyone else is doing, and it's cool.
Naah. The biggest mistake was selling out to Microsoft (which was done between Halo 1 and 2, IIRC). Microsoft bought the name, and screwed up the game.
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I thought that this made it obvious that I wasn't running Windows. It's a neat app, but it won't work for me.
2.25 rounds to 2, and 4.5 rounds to 5. It's not hard to understand, unless you somehow define rounding to be different than the traditionally accepted = .5 rounds up.
Thing is, there are a lot of us that want to do more than what MSPaint allows (besides, it's not even available on my choice of OS), but don't need the CMYK separation or any of the other stuff. I still want to tweak levels and do color adjustments, resize pictures well, scale, crop, rotate, reduce red-eye, and so on. But I don't need Photoshop for that... I can get the capability to do everything 99% of people would ever want to do with an image for free with the GIMP, instead of paying for Photoshop. Which was my point, that the GIMP does everything with images that most people would use Photoshop to do.
That's in my sig. I don't post simply to advertise my friend's company. I have no vested interest in it, unlike someone whose user name is whaturunning dot com and the entire point of their post is to say "go here to my site!" rather than actually contribute anything meaningful to the discussion.
But hey, that's just me. Maybe you paint everything with a broad black and white brush.
Wish there was a "-1 spam" mod available...
Yes, but they say that because there are a bunch of people who DON'T work in the professional publishing world who think they need CMYK support for their family photos.
If you know you need CMYK, it's not even a discussion. If you THINK you need CMYK, you don't.
For what 99% of people do with graphics, The GIMP DOES compete with Photoshop.
Or is Linux not a competitor to Windows because it doesn't do everything Windows does (even though it does many things better)?
What about if you work late one night, though? Do the scripts check to make sure no one is logged in and then run? Actually, that's the only sane way I can see to deal with them...
I've never seen X crash Linux. It may nuke the current console input and trash the video output, but you can still get into the machine. I've SSH'd into machines locked up like that and shut them down gracefully. Linux CAN be salvaged gracefully in the event of almost anything other than a kernel panic or a hardware failure. XP and Vista, they aren't immune to problems, even if you personally haven't had any.
Hopefully you're done by then every single time, eh?
It matters because of rounding. It's a typical computer science mathematics problem, because it's quite common to calculate a bunch of percentages that don't add up to 100%, and they'll still be accurate. Well, mostly.
Just because you're too stupid to understand it doesn't mean you have to use foul language to put an exclamation point on your ignorance.
And no one said set it ALL free. But to set what data that citizens should be able to access free, it needs to be in an open format that anyone can access.
They showed interest in bidding the spectrum up high enough that it would be open. They didn't actually care if they won it or not, they'd have used it if they did, if not, they were happy to let someone else do that work. That's not their core business. But having it open access, that IS what they care about, and that is why they bid it the way they did.
Frequencies are a limited resource, though. You can't use the entire wireless spectrum because there are too many services that run on it. Not to mention people's personal networks (2.4GHz and so on). You end up having a very small slice of spectrum available for network transmission, and whoever has the strongest towers or deepest pockets can override everyone else. It needs regulation because it's a scarce resource.
I don't want to have 15 wires strung to my house, I don't want to have companies pirating each other's spectrum in different areas of the country.
It's a limited resource that many people want to use... you can't just say "Go for it" in those cases, because you get what's known as a tragedy of the commons.
The government should not be controlling internet service. They should be regulating how it's provided, forcing it to be open and available. And that's it. Nothing about the content, just the delivery.
To easy? Only if you're an idiot. But hey, the uninformed often overestimate their own abilities.
1. It's an ok implementation of some kernel theories. But it can still grind to a halt with a single job on a single CPU. Microsoft has never figured out proper task scheduling.
2. NTFS has had multiple versions since it's inception. An original 1992 NTFS filesystem is not the same as a current one. In fact, it's completely incompatible with the new NTFS versions.
3. Read a comparison of DirectX and OpenGL. It might open your eyes... DirectX may be the most POPULAR API for games, but that's simply because of the platform it's designed for. That does not mean that it's the best. Otherwise, the Honda Civic would be widely accepted as the best car on the road.
There's a difference between real property and intellectual "property". I deprive no-one of a tangible good when it's copied. I deprive them of it when it's stolen. Big difference there, sparky.
Or, should we have to pay royalties to the Greeks for copying their ideas of democracy? Royalties to Hammurabi's descendants for using the ideas of laws? Copying is human nature, it's how things progress and get changed.
Business models that are artificially enforced by the laws of the land are not business models. They're fascism. You're entitled to any business model you want... you should NOT be entitled to use taxpayer money and deprivation of citizens rights to build a business model.
I think you answered your own question... it's not hard to get a monkey to repeat the answers to a test or bar exam. It is hard to get one to not act:
whoosh!
(You need to watch Office Space again... do not pass go, do not collect $200)
The only thing I'd want is a maximum grade or scaling or something of the late test. If you didn't spend the time to do it right the first time, you shouldn't get the same reward as the people who did. Do something like a 90% curve, where the top grade can only be up to 90% (if you get 100% on the test), and scale it on that.
In college, many of the professors had a "come to jesus" (metaphorically... they were often atheists) meeting with failing students, and would many times provide them the opportunity to re-take a test after studying to earn back up to half of the points they missed the first time around. So, if you got a 20%, you could kick your grade up to a 60% total if you studied and re-took the test. If you got a 50%, it could be a 75%. I think they may have made a max grade, too... my memory's fuzzy. It's been a while ;) But the point is that they still have to do the work and do the learning, and not be using a different scale than everyone else.
Depends on how you learn. Many people simply can't learn from just reading... their brains aren't wired that way. And that's assuming that the books are any good to start with... I know that many times in my engineering classes the instructor would go on a tangent about something that was quite important, but wasn't in the book, or was just glossed over in the book. And by going to class, you learn what you're going to be tested on.
Simple answer: frat boys. It was the first shooter that the beer-swilling thumbless muppet crowd could get into, for whatever reason. Kind of a follow-up to Goldeneye on the N64, but with network play.
It's not a great game, but it sells for the same reason that Madden 200x sells... it's what everyone else is doing, and it's cool.
Naah. The biggest mistake was selling out to Microsoft (which was done between Halo 1 and 2, IIRC). Microsoft bought the name, and screwed up the game.