That is a matter of opinion. If the only way vinyl is 'better' to you is in the same way as an overdriven TV or over saturated, over sharpened jpegs with default point-and-shoot settings then go for it, but some of us prefer realistic reproduction.
I've had exported landscape PDFs print without actually adjusting properly and chopping of half of the page, but never just straight printing problems. Then again, I don't really print much from Inkscape.
About the only thing I can think of is memory issues with a laser printer, but that is a complete shot in the dark.
Ah, I guess you have a habit of dragging on the line with the node tool.:-D
At least I can't think of another way to inadvertently turn a straight line into a curve.
Either way you can easily turn it back by selecting both end nodes and pressing shift+c twice, or using the 'Make selected segments lines' toolbar button.
Rotation snapping has been in as far as I can remember, but holding control, not shift. These days the step size is configurable with 'File/Inkscape Preferences' under 'Steps'. I think the default actually is 15, but I keep mine on 3. It seems rather small, but you can easily do most common angles with it and still have a nice amount of control./
As far as replication goes there is 'Edit/Clone/Create Tiled Clones...', it can be cumbersome, but is ridiculously powerful.
'Shop' in English is pronounced quite close to 'ass' in Russian? Guess the name of a widely pirated and professionally used photo editing software in Russia.
Not that means that Inkscape can't display all standards compliant SVGs. It does not mean that it can't produce SVGs that standard compliant.
Just because it can't do the former doesn't mean that the later is any less valuable.
WTF is Aqua? WTF is Glass? WTF is Snow Leopard? WTF is Safari? WTF do I need to Access? How in the world does one lauch a Word? WTF am I supposed to Excel at? WTF is Vista? WTF is Zune? WTF is that Blue Ray? WTF is in Ex Box 360? WTF is anything without lots of marketing money?
Irrelevant, IBM is why DOS went where it did. Whatever was de-facto on the clones was bound to take over if it worked at all.
Windows of the DOS extender series was better than any other DOS task extender series. For that matter, Windows 95 is hands down superior to Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9 and Windows NT blew OS/2 completely out of the water. OS/2, single message queue on the desktop, puhlease.
Except that it wasn't NT that killed OS/2. And 95 being a DOS shell under the hood doesn't excuse the horrible OS it was sold as.
Excel was better than Quattro, and I'm sorry, Word was better than Word Perfect for Windows, by far.
Of course none of this 'being better' (in your opinion anyway) was related to being able to tie it closer to windows then anyone else possibly could...
Yeah, everyone can cry fowl over Netscape being destroyed by Microsoft, but Microsoft IE 4 had a fully programmable DOM and an AJAX XMLHttpRequest.. what did Netscape have... you could script a form, had document.write for everything else...a half-assed buggy email, and a billion bugs.
It certainly did not come as the default choice on all windows installations. But of course that is no advantage at all, it's not other browsers were ever marginalized by IE. Opera, what's that? Exactly...
It's pretty simple. Microsoft is good, at times, especially when Gates was running the show. And there were many times Microsoft, despite all of these "advantages", competed, and flopped...
More like: Microsoft is incredibly bad, at times, and then they actually fail... Except when Microsoft really wants it to survive and puts it's deep pockets, mind share and sheer persistence behind it, then it gets usable by the third release and takes over.
does anyone remember PhotoDraw?
Do I have to?
That little gem was actually pretty innovative, but, Adobe crushed it like an insect.
That implies that they actually took specific measures against it. What were those?
Now we have Silverlight going up against Flash, and lo, Silverlight is still not reliable in Firefox and didn't have drop shadows. WTF. They lose, and deservedly so.
Silverlight is ticking along for paid video delivery if nothing else, I don't see Netflix or sports broadcasters switching to flash anytime soon, and that is only the ones I'm aware of.
Conspiracies, monopolies, all of that, can be an advantage, but really, only for so long. In this society, it is product that matters,
'For so long' is more then anyone else has and more then enough to set the industry back.
True, and it's interesting how the FOSS movement delightfully and intentionally has made every piece of GPL3 code a trojan horse that can destroy a company's business model if a single programmer without the knowledge of the business copies a snippet of code to make his job easier.
Not really, they just don't accept the license and deal with the copyright violation instead, just like they would if the programmer copied a piece of proprietary software.
That essentially requires two voting authorities, one to handle the printing of ballots and online 'verification' and another to handle the counting and storage of ballots after the vote. Besides the administrative problems there is also potential collusion.
In short the whole thing has too many audits and secrets. A good pen and paper voting system only has one secret (your vote) and independent observers all throughout the relevant parts, as opposed to pre and post auditing.
Go home. Select N random serial numbers. I am assuming the ballot serial numbers are not random, but well known. Add your ballot serial number to the list. Shuffle the list. Request the read out from all the serial numbers you have. And N doesn't have to be very large. I'm thinking somewhere between 10 and 20 would work.
Really depends on ballot distribution. Looking up a vote from a location you didn't vote at will do nothing to increase anonymity.
And if they have access to the actual ballots, who you voted for. A non-transparent system with a way to match voters with their votes that has been "verified to be secure by the brightest minds at MIT". Every dictators wet dream.
It does what many people would have said is impossible: It allows voters to verify that their votes were cast and counted correctly, but does not provide them with any way to prove to anyone who they voted for.
No, apparently it's only "skilled auditors" who can verify things. And voters can prove who they voted for to anyone who has access to the ballots post election.
On Tuesday voters in Takoma Park, Maryland, got to try out a new, transparent voting system that lets voters go online to verify that their ballots got counted in the final tally.
Scantegrity uses a process called “zero knowledge” that allows skilled, independent auditors to verify that the codes result in votes going to the right candidates, without actually revealing an individual voter’s selections.
Omniscience was only part of parents argument. It was paired up with creation and omnipotence. Meaning that god can make us into anything and knows how it will turn out. That indeed doesn't leave a any room for free will.
You are thinking too much in terms of current mobile contracts. Your DS wouldn't have international roaming because you wouldn't have a contract to give it a 'home country'. Instead Nintendo has agreements with various networks in different countries, so that when you download a game in Germany Nintendo pays the local provider the negotiated rate, not the rate your American network dreamed up together with the German network for when you visit with your American cell phone.
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It's not a matter of belief. Those who are paying attention know this is worse.
To be fair most of the laughing is about audio snake-oil and claims that vinyl has infinite sampling compared to the digital sawtooth of CDs...
That is a matter of opinion. If the only way vinyl is 'better' to you is in the same way as an overdriven TV or over saturated, over sharpened jpegs with default point-and-shoot settings then go for it, but some of us prefer realistic reproduction.
Making money on the actual sale of your product? That would never work, what a stupid idea!
I've had exported landscape PDFs print without actually adjusting properly and chopping of half of the page, but never just straight printing problems. Then again, I don't really print much from Inkscape. About the only thing I can think of is memory issues with a laser printer, but that is a complete shot in the dark.
Ah, I guess you have a habit of dragging on the line with the node tool. :-D
At least I can't think of another way to inadvertently turn a straight line into a curve. Either way you can easily turn it back by selecting both end nodes and pressing shift+c twice, or using the 'Make selected segments lines' toolbar button.
Rotation snapping has been in as far as I can remember, but holding control, not shift. These days the step size is configurable with 'File/Inkscape Preferences' under 'Steps'. I think the default actually is 15, but I keep mine on 3. It seems rather small, but you can easily do most common angles with it and still have a nice amount of control./
As far as replication goes there is 'Edit/Clone/Create Tiled Clones...', it can be cumbersome, but is ridiculously powerful.
'Shop' in English is pronounced quite close to 'ass' in Russian? Guess the name of a widely pirated and professionally used photo editing software in Russia.
Out of curiosity, what exactly are you missing that what of the new modes of the curve drawing tool won't do?
Not that means that Inkscape can't display all standards compliant SVGs. It does not mean that it can't produce SVGs that standard compliant. Just because it can't do the former doesn't mean that the later is any less valuable.
Speak for yourself. There are many happy GIMP users, me included, that disprove this sweeping generalization.
WTF is Aqua? WTF is Glass? WTF is Snow Leopard? WTF is Safari? WTF do I need to Access? How in the world does one lauch a Word? WTF am I supposed to Excel at? WTF is Vista? WTF is Zune? WTF is that Blue Ray? WTF is in Ex Box 360? WTF is anything without lots of marketing money?
Irrelevant, IBM is why DOS went where it did. Whatever was de-facto on the clones was bound to take over if it worked at all.
Except that it wasn't NT that killed OS/2. And 95 being a DOS shell under the hood doesn't excuse the horrible OS it was sold as.
Of course none of this 'being better' (in your opinion anyway) was related to being able to tie it closer to windows then anyone else possibly could...
It certainly did not come as the default choice on all windows installations. But of course that is no advantage at all, it's not other browsers were ever marginalized by IE. Opera, what's that? Exactly...
More like: Microsoft is incredibly bad, at times, and then they actually fail... Except when Microsoft really wants it to survive and puts it's deep pockets, mind share and sheer persistence behind it, then it gets usable by the third release and takes over.
Do I have to?
That implies that they actually took specific measures against it. What were those?
Silverlight is ticking along for paid video delivery if nothing else, I don't see Netflix or sports broadcasters switching to flash anytime soon, and that is only the ones I'm aware of.
'For so long' is more then anyone else has and more then enough to set the industry back.
Microsoft in the case of a contractor developing for them one might assume...
I suggest you stop using any and all third party code.
Not really, they just don't accept the license and deal with the copyright violation instead, just like they would if the programmer copied a piece of proprietary software.
That essentially requires two voting authorities, one to handle the printing of ballots and online 'verification' and another to handle the counting and storage of ballots after the vote. Besides the administrative problems there is also potential collusion. In short the whole thing has too many audits and secrets. A good pen and paper voting system only has one secret (your vote) and independent observers all throughout the relevant parts, as opposed to pre and post auditing.
Really depends on ballot distribution. Looking up a vote from a location you didn't vote at will do nothing to increase anonymity.
Table P.
Again, transparency fail.
Just because table P isn't published doesn't mean that it doesn't exist and can't be accessed.
Except the 'ballot's unique ID number' of course. Have you read the paper?
And if they have access to the actual ballots, who you voted for. A non-transparent system with a way to match voters with their votes that has been "verified to be secure by the brightest minds at MIT". Every dictators wet dream.
No, apparently it's only "skilled auditors" who can verify things. And voters can prove who they voted for to anyone who has access to the ballots post election.
Transparency fail.
Omniscience was only part of parents argument. It was paired up with creation and omnipotence. Meaning that god can make us into anything and knows how it will turn out. That indeed doesn't leave a any room for free will.
You are thinking too much in terms of current mobile contracts. Your DS wouldn't have international roaming because you wouldn't have a contract to give it a 'home country'. Instead Nintendo has agreements with various networks in different countries, so that when you download a game in Germany Nintendo pays the local provider the negotiated rate, not the rate your American network dreamed up together with the German network for when you visit with your American cell phone.