he said he ran into performance issues with the two programs.
Too right. This is an often ignored problem with Gimp at the moment - while it's a general good image editor, and may not have all the features of PS, it's still useful... if you're using small images.
Take gimp to fifteen or thirty layer images up around 16,000by9000 pixels and it bogs down like a sloth on valium. Photoshop's speed optimisations really come into play here. For some places, that's where it matters.
Or the false nostradamus prediction, debunked on snopes.com:
In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb, The third big war will begin when the big city is burning. *NOSTRADAMUS 1654
Written by a student to show how vague prophecies can be misinterpreted easily. Popped up after Sept11... now applies only a couple of years later to Uday and Qusay Hussein.
A smudged fingerprint, or one with damaged detail that's not able to match a fingerprint database by its distorted shape will be able to match via DNA instead.
Just one more little tool. Not the whole solution to finding The Bad Guys, but it can help fill in a hole.
I have to say I gave up on any thoughts of privacy not long ago with the way technology is moving towards nabbing bits of DNA. This is just another jump forwards.
Not only can DNA be grabbed from a scene, but when cross referenced with the fingerprints that it was derived from, an ID can be made -without having you there- to compare from.
OK, so it's also possible that there could be contaminated DNA on your fingerprints, but all the same it looks like it'll be a strong enough match to be able to give whoever is analysing the DNA a bigger lead than just a fleck of skin or hair left at a scene.
The best way I've heard Apple described is as a solutions company.
They'll sell you something that'll let you do email, web browsing, graphic stuff, audio stuff, video stuff, writing stuff... whatever. They happen to make and sell the whole fix, which includes hardware, software, and services (such as.mac). If you wanted to break it down further they make & sell a solution which includes the case, psu, motherboard, ram, keyboard, monitor, operating system and apps. It's all a matter of how 'separate' you want to define things, as to whether to call them primarily hardware or software.
I agree with parent poster, though, I think most are going to see this as an opportunity to make fun of MS instead of illuminating themselves to the idea that MS can't take over anything it damn well pleases.
And just because something is a failure shouldn't be taken that the technology is inherently useless. The first companies with MANY technologies screwed them up quite well. Others had the wrong timing, or aimed them at the wrong markets, or had just a few things wrong that didn't allow for success. Witness the Newton - mostly good, but not everything worked in its favour.
Apple have fucked up some things, so have IBM... hell, I hear even SCO have made the odd silly decision:)
So Linux goes a long way to having a nice standard base system for portability. Is this another game released as a "Linux" game, but really meaning "Linux on x86" game?
I do get a bit pessimistic, and should probably RTFA
Last time I had a big whinge about the prices on the oz apple store not changing when the big price drop happened a month or so ago, I did so on slashdot......then the buggers went and updated their store!.
It was perhaps a day later than the US one, but it did happen. I'll save my complaining for Wednesday night I think:)
Who knows how soon it will be before these things gain the ability to work in the real world. It won't be long I tell you, before you look around and the entire PLANET will be full of these devilish unnatural creatures, all based on GENETICS.
Retard. That's got absolutely nothing to do with the streets we added. If an ambulance took a dart into a street that was a 5 house cul-de-sac to try getting anywhere quicker then you best hope you get some smarter ambulance drivers.
You've made a presumption on the kind of data we put into maps and you are simply wrong.
Producers of maps do similar things...invent dead end streets and place them where nobody will ever try to go.
When I worked in mapping, this is exactly what we did, and we kept a database of the false information and could check quite quickly if another supplier's dataset matched ours, "bug for bug"
The false street is one, and is used in products where an extra nonexistent street wasn't something that could have problems with the use of the map in particular. There are dozens of other methods for different datasets, depending on their use. That's been going on for decades in the mapping industry.
As long as it's internal competition, and not complete downtreading of either OSs features.
The thing that introduced me and kept me on the mac was the UI of OS7.6.1 of all things, when I started doing prepress work. The consistency, the pure simplicity, and an OS that did what I wanted without me needing to think about the OS itself. That sounds awfully cliche, but it was all just -there-. I could design, draw, colour correct, print, network... no thinking of the OS needed, all my thinking could go on producing good work.
OSX 10.0 lost quite a few obvious things. They're slowly coming back, and not losing any of OSX's advantages either. It's shaping up well I think
That was my thoughts on reading through the article. While I watched BG when I was young, and didn't so much mind it, a new series with a mild base in the same ideas won't take away what's pure to the purists. It also won't much bother those who are new to it.
I mean, seriously WHAT could possibly live up to the expectations of a group of people with any kind of 'strict belief' in Battlestar Galactica anyway? or Star Wars, or Star Trek etc.
Every time a series has been reinstated or rebuilt like this, there's a bunch of people who won't like it. Perhaps the majority, even - but it'll gain a new audience if it's good enough, and will continue on as a series exploring completely different ground. Hell, even if it were a completely faithful remake of the original, expecting it to go more than 3 series without offending anyone by bringing in new content is a ridiculous expectation.
Try getting the few thousand existing fans of BG to agree on where it should/could have went if it continued in production - won't happen.
And there's the problem. Without being able to interpret the tech lingo he cannot know if having bluetooth functionality, 8x AGP video with a DVI connector, or Hyperthreading is irrelevant to what he needs, or absolutely essential.
Geeks in general sure aren't much use at reinterpreting this for AverageUser.
Or just as useful: pick a site that delves into technical information of a kind you're completely unfamiliar with.
Medical geek stuff fascinates me, and it took quite a bit of time looking around sites with medical info before a lot of it sunk in and I could understand the terminology without relying on little "layman's terms" articles that were my saviour in the early times. Perhaps months of browsing these sites gave me the info and experience I needed.
That's all fine if you're interested in the subject and want to put the time in, but when Consumer Joe goes to buy a PC and is confronted with our kind of jargon, he just doesn't have the time to go remember it all AND research, cos he doesn't give that much of a shit. He wants to email, do some stuff with photos, browse a bit and play some games.
I've liked 2 keyboards, one the old IBM noisy ones, and the other is the (considerably softer) apple pro keyboard - both are just comfy to type on for me.
The worst ones were university keyboards on the first unix machines I used, which had odd half keytops, red lettering, were made with a more unix comfy layout than the PC keyboards of the day, and were so soft & squishy I found them almost unusable. I'd love to find out who made those - it's one of those little facts I can always -almost- remember, but never comes to me. Anyone else know the ones I described?
OS X kicks the shit out of Gnome/KDE/Enlightenment/etc... It's consistant, reliable and fast
This was one of those things I never wanted to believe I had to rely on, the "easy to use desktop". I geek a lot, I hack hardware, and I mess with the innards of my machines a LOT, both software and hardware wise.
When it comes to my linux desktops, there's always something wrong, something not quite working just as it should. Not until I actually used both fairly equally did I feel a lack of guilt in agreeing with a comment like yours. But that's how it is
OSX soundly thrashes anything on Linux for plain easy get-things-done ease of use. period.
Won't stop me trying with linux, however. Too addicted:)
Oh no knocking intended:). They're excellent machines, and I know at least 2 graphic houses that still use 68040 based macs for scan cleaning. If it works and keeps working well, keep using it.
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he said he ran into performance issues with the two programs.
Too right. This is an often ignored problem with Gimp at the moment - while it's a general good image editor, and may not have all the features of PS, it's still useful... if you're using small images.
Take gimp to fifteen or thirty layer images up around 16,000by9000 pixels and it bogs down like a sloth on valium. Photoshop's speed optimisations really come into play here. For some places, that's where it matters.
For everything else, There's Gimp 1.3 =)
Or the false nostradamus prediction, debunked on snopes.com:
:)
In the City of God there will be a great thunder,
Two brothers torn apart by Chaos,
while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb,
The third big war will begin when the big city is burning.
*NOSTRADAMUS 1654
Written by a student to show how vague prophecies can be misinterpreted easily. Popped up after Sept11... now applies only a couple of years later to Uday and Qusay Hussein.
Just thought that curious
More than a "Mandrake has updated" or "Look at this new point release" this is a "the 2.6 kernel is finally out and being used by AverageUser!" story.
:)
That being said, if we have another dozen stories where every other distro releases a 2.6 kernel standard then I might go postal... but not yet
A smudged fingerprint, or one with damaged detail that's not able to match a fingerprint database by its distorted shape will be able to match via DNA instead.
Just one more little tool. Not the whole solution to finding The Bad Guys, but it can help fill in a hole.
I have to say I gave up on any thoughts of privacy not long ago with the way technology is moving towards nabbing bits of DNA. This is just another jump forwards.
Not only can DNA be grabbed from a scene, but when cross referenced with the fingerprints that it was derived from, an ID can be made -without having you there- to compare from.
OK, so it's also possible that there could be contaminated DNA on your fingerprints, but all the same it looks like it'll be a strong enough match to be able to give whoever is analysing the DNA a bigger lead than just a fleck of skin or hair left at a scene.
The best way I've heard Apple described is as a solutions company.
.mac). If you wanted to break it down further they make & sell a solution which includes the case, psu, motherboard, ram, keyboard, monitor, operating system and apps. It's all a matter of how 'separate' you want to define things, as to whether to call them primarily hardware or software.
They'll sell you something that'll let you do email, web browsing, graphic stuff, audio stuff, video stuff, writing stuff... whatever. They happen to make and sell the whole fix, which includes hardware, software, and services (such as
McBride was also quoted as saying "he he fellas, come on, you knew we were joking all along don't you? right?"
Darl was last seen in tattered pieces scattered around IBM.
I agree with parent poster, though, I think most are going to see this as an opportunity to make fun of MS instead of illuminating themselves to the idea that MS can't take over anything it damn well pleases.
:)
And just because something is a failure shouldn't be taken that the technology is inherently useless. The first companies with MANY technologies screwed them up quite well. Others had the wrong timing, or aimed them at the wrong markets, or had just a few things wrong that didn't allow for success. Witness the Newton - mostly good, but not everything worked in its favour.
Apple have fucked up some things, so have IBM... hell, I hear even SCO have made the odd silly decision
So Linux goes a long way to having a nice standard base system for portability. Is this another game released as a "Linux" game, but really meaning "Linux on x86" game?
I do get a bit pessimistic, and should probably RTFA
It sounds a very kiddy thing to limit to. Like the following conversation between two kids:
K1: "My dad is bigger than your dad and he's as strong as fifty neanderthals"!
K2: "Well my dad is as strong as FIFTY ONE neanderthals"
K1: 'shit. got me there'
Last time I had a big whinge about the prices on the oz apple store not changing when the big price drop happened a month or so ago, I did so on slashdot... ...then the buggers went and updated their store!.
:)
It was perhaps a day later than the US one, but it did happen. I'll save my complaining for Wednesday night I think
Genetic algorithms must be stopped, and NOW
Who knows how soon it will be before these things gain the ability to work in the real world. It won't be long I tell you, before you look around and the entire PLANET will be full of these devilish unnatural creatures, all based on GENETICS.
Retard. That's got absolutely nothing to do with the streets we added. If an ambulance took a dart into a street that was a 5 house cul-de-sac to try getting anywhere quicker then you best hope you get some smarter ambulance drivers.
You've made a presumption on the kind of data we put into maps and you are simply wrong.
Producers of maps do similar things...invent dead end streets and place them where nobody will ever try to go.
When I worked in mapping, this is exactly what we did, and we kept a database of the false information and could check quite quickly if another supplier's dataset matched ours, "bug for bug"
The false street is one, and is used in products where an extra nonexistent street wasn't something that could have problems with the use of the map in particular. There are dozens of other methods for different datasets, depending on their use. That's been going on for decades in the mapping industry.
As long as it's internal competition, and not complete downtreading of either OSs features.
The thing that introduced me and kept me on the mac was the UI of OS7.6.1 of all things, when I started doing prepress work. The consistency, the pure simplicity, and an OS that did what I wanted without me needing to think about the OS itself. That sounds awfully cliche, but it was all just -there-. I could design, draw, colour correct, print, network... no thinking of the OS needed, all my thinking could go on producing good work.
OSX 10.0 lost quite a few obvious things. They're slowly coming back, and not losing any of OSX's advantages either. It's shaping up well I think
That was my thoughts on reading through the article. While I watched BG when I was young, and didn't so much mind it, a new series with a mild base in the same ideas won't take away what's pure to the purists. It also won't much bother those who are new to it.
I mean, seriously WHAT could possibly live up to the expectations of a group of people with any kind of 'strict belief' in Battlestar Galactica anyway? or Star Wars, or Star Trek etc.
Every time a series has been reinstated or rebuilt like this, there's a bunch of people who won't like it. Perhaps the majority, even - but it'll gain a new audience if it's good enough, and will continue on as a series exploring completely different ground. Hell, even if it were a completely faithful remake of the original, expecting it to go more than 3 series without offending anyone by bringing in new content is a ridiculous expectation.
Try getting the few thousand existing fans of BG to agree on where it should/could have went if it continued in production - won't happen.
And there's the problem. Without being able to interpret the tech lingo he cannot know if having bluetooth functionality, 8x AGP video with a DVI connector, or Hyperthreading is irrelevant to what he needs, or absolutely essential.
Geeks in general sure aren't much use at reinterpreting this for AverageUser.
Or just as useful: pick a site that delves into technical information of a kind you're completely unfamiliar with.
Medical geek stuff fascinates me, and it took quite a bit of time looking around sites with medical info before a lot of it sunk in and I could understand the terminology without relying on little "layman's terms" articles that were my saviour in the early times. Perhaps months of browsing these sites gave me the info and experience I needed.
That's all fine if you're interested in the subject and want to put the time in, but when Consumer Joe goes to buy a PC and is confronted with our kind of jargon, he just doesn't have the time to go remember it all AND research, cos he doesn't give that much of a shit. He wants to email, do some stuff with photos, browse a bit and play some games.
They'll just have to find one of the 5 mac users that're still left, of course.
:P)
(yeah, it's a troll, and I'm a mac user too
I've liked 2 keyboards, one the old IBM noisy ones, and the other is the (considerably softer) apple pro keyboard - both are just comfy to type on for me.
The worst ones were university keyboards on the first unix machines I used, which had odd half keytops, red lettering, were made with a more unix comfy layout than the PC keyboards of the day, and were so soft & squishy I found them almost unusable. I'd love to find out who made those - it's one of those little facts I can always -almost- remember, but never comes to me. Anyone else know the ones I described?
It sounds more like an RPG... or perhaps pokémon.
Corbismon I choose you! use your Copyright Violation weapon!
Oh no!
Amazonchu is countering with their DMCA beam!
gaaaaah
This worm appears to primarily affect Microsoft systems.
Is this a subtle way of trying to say "Yes it's another fucking windows virus" without sounding like we're anti windows?
Sometimes it's so hard just describing windows 'features' without sounding like I'm bashing it.
OS X kicks the shit out of Gnome/KDE/Enlightenment/etc... It's consistant, reliable and fast
:)
This was one of those things I never wanted to believe I had to rely on, the "easy to use desktop". I geek a lot, I hack hardware, and I mess with the innards of my machines a LOT, both software and hardware wise.
When it comes to my linux desktops, there's always something wrong, something not quite working just as it should. Not until I actually used both fairly equally did I feel a lack of guilt in agreeing with a comment like yours. But that's how it is
OSX soundly thrashes anything on Linux for plain easy get-things-done ease of use. period.
Won't stop me trying with linux, however. Too addicted
Oh no knocking intended :). They're excellent machines, and I know at least 2 graphic houses that still use 68040 based macs for scan cleaning. If it works and keeps working well, keep using it.
But I believe "G4" is not the name of the processor that will be in the replacement machines...
Whoa. this is big. I mean really big, if that happens...
mad...
the 68040 really IS making a comeback. can't wait!
(scuse. been drinking espresso all day)