I love Gimp and have used it for many years for conversions, touch-ups of pictures, website graphics etc. When I switched to a MacBook, I was pleased to see the OS X version. But it doesn't really work, I'm afraid.
Besides the obvious graphical shortcomings (doesn't use Cocoa), you also have to click in each window first to activate it, then you can select your tool, activate your layer or what have you. This is so non-intuitive, and so not part of the usual routines, that I just don't use Gimp anymore on OS X.
If the new single-window mode is available and ported to OS X, I'd definitely give it a new try.
The most important question is "Has Apple found a niche for this product that other Tablet PC manufacturers have been unable to find?"
I have the feeling you're comparing apples to oranges. The iPad does not feel like a tablet PC. It's much, much lighter and smaller. It doesn't need to rest on your lap, like a book it can be easily held upright for a long time. It also doesn't require the maintenance that regular tablet PCs need (think anti-virus, firewalls and what have you). The battery lasts much longer and the controls are much simpler.
Tablet PCs were aimed at the business market, reading documents and marking or editing them. Taking notes, etc. The iPad is for consuming media, internet, e-mail and playing games.
I see myself having a lot of fun with an iPad. You're on the couch, and the wife is watching something you don't like.
Of course, you can start hitting her, but nowadays that's frowned upon.
I'd grab my iPad and do some surfing. Or read a book. It's a very light device, easily held in your hand. Connect the earplugs, and play a game. Or check your mail. Or watch some movie you downloaded (paid or not). Sure you could use a laptop, but this one is easily held, and small enough to just lie on the salon table without looking ugly to the missus.
I was horsing you around on the Twitter issue because you love it so much, but I agree on the "one application store" issue.
Apple for example has their user base all locked into this walled garden. For the craziest reasons, they throw developers out.
I am totally fine with application stores. That said, the netbook thing can become a success if and only if it's easy to add new application stores, IMHO. Not sure if Google has that in mind.
You can easily remove and install whatever you wish.
That's a wonderful sentence. Music to my ears.
May it always be so.
I'm not sure why it's important to you. Useful, yes, sure.
Netbooks, IMHO, are more for stuff like the mentioned Google Docs, Flickr for your photos, Quicken Online for your administration, and for spare time, Facebook or your average European social site.
CHAPEL HILL, NC–Area resident PopeRatzo does not use Twitter, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers–as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.
"I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than tweeting," PopeRatzo told a random woman Monday at the Suds 'N' Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment's wall-mounted TV. "I don't even own an account."
Women need an un-fake-able signal of a man's seriousness, so the signal must take the form of something very (to the suitor) expensive.
It's more than just expensiveness. Some years ago, I bought some earrings for my girlfriend which were handmade and embedded with a sapphire, a ruby and a tourmaline. Beautiful, and after negotiating, I still paid the full price because I just wanted. She says thanks, then continues to almost never wear it!
Looking back, I would have made her much happier with some stupid cheaper, mass-produced but diamond-studded earrings...
It sucks being technically inclined, analytical and ambitious, and not being a team player. It's a combination guaranteed to either make you, or ruin you.
The only "skills" required to get a Ph.D are (a) access to enough money [...] (b) the ability to regurgitate [...] (c) the ability to attach oneself to a previous Ph.D recipient [...]
Talking about generalizations. I had expected more from Slashdot.
I don't have a Ph.D, but I work for a scientific institute and have worked with some. Just recently, I've met a Ph.D doing climate research. She was bright, able to talk on many subjects, and was beautiful with long red curly hair. And kept insisting she didn't want any of the whiskey I brought for consumption at the end of the day.
Hello there! Please refer to your opening on job posting site. I, Rajesh Sharma, would like to apply for the job.[...]My hourly rates are $ 9 USD.
We all like to pretend this isn't here and it isn't happening, but I would say conservatively half the job market has disappeared in 10 years due to this currency/standard of living imbalance.
There's another reality: it's really, really hard to manage projects in India. I have tried this for a number of projects, and have learned the following things:
A day before the deadline, Rajesh will ask for more time
Halfway through the project, Rajesh will ask for more money
Rajesh will not give the source, as was agreed
Rajesh will not use unit tests, or Subversion, as was agreed
Rajesh cannot be bothered to provide an estimate or a planning
Rajesh will take on other projects and give priority to those before yours
Rajesh actually has a day job and just does projects on the side
Rajesh will tell you he takes a holiday for three weeks, starting tomorrow
Rajesh has a wedding of a brother, a pregnant sister, a sick father, etc and cannot make the planning
Rajesh will ask for more money at the end of the project
Rajesh cannot be reached because he lost his mobile
Rajesh cannot be reached because his mobile was stolen
Rajesh cannot be reached because his mobile its battery is empty
Rajesh cannot be reached because the e-mail server is down
Rajesh cannot be reached because the internet is down
Each and every project, I have had the above things. There are lots of ways around the above, but the main thing is that it's very hard.
Yes, for most people this is useful behavior. There are a couple of extensions to clear the search field after pressing enter, but they have not been maintained, as far as I can see.
I never see either Bing's or Google's homepage. I just search using my browsers search bar. Actually I was surprised to see Google's fade-in homepage manually after friend told about it.
On Firefox, the search text will remain in your search bar after you press enter. I really hate this behaviour, because it shows the next person my browsing history. So I often press CTRL-K, then press enter and view the home page.
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I love Gimp and have used it for many years for conversions, touch-ups of pictures, website graphics etc. When I switched to a MacBook, I was pleased to see the OS X version. But it doesn't really work, I'm afraid.
Besides the obvious graphical shortcomings (doesn't use Cocoa), you also have to click in each window first to activate it, then you can select your tool, activate your layer or what have you. This is so non-intuitive, and so not part of the usual routines, that I just don't use Gimp anymore on OS X.
If the new single-window mode is available and ported to OS X, I'd definitely give it a new try.
The most important question is "Has Apple found a niche for this product that other Tablet PC manufacturers have been unable to find?"
I have the feeling you're comparing apples to oranges. The iPad does not feel like a tablet PC. It's much, much lighter and smaller. It doesn't need to rest on your lap, like a book it can be easily held upright for a long time. It also doesn't require the maintenance that regular tablet PCs need (think anti-virus, firewalls and what have you). The battery lasts much longer and the controls are much simpler.
Tablet PCs were aimed at the business market, reading documents and marking or editing them. Taking notes, etc. The iPad is for consuming media, internet, e-mail and playing games.
I have the feeling that it's a new market.
That's what I've been asking. What is it for?
I see myself having a lot of fun with an iPad. You're on the couch, and the wife is watching something you don't like.
Of course, you can start hitting her, but nowadays that's frowned upon.
I'd grab my iPad and do some surfing. Or read a book. It's a very light device, easily held in your hand. Connect the earplugs, and play a game. Or check your mail. Or watch some movie you downloaded (paid or not). Sure you could use a laptop, but this one is easily held, and small enough to just lie on the salon table without looking ugly to the missus.
Flowers + alcohol = good time
Might I suggest that instead of anything containing alcohol, you buy champagne? Real champagne?
It's called fuck juice for a reason.
(OK, I just made that up. Still, it's great.)
The government of Fredonia chooses .txt, ASCII, with \n line endings.
Unfortunately, US-ASCII does not contain all characters that Fredonians use.
I was horsing you around on the Twitter issue because you love it so much, but I agree on the "one application store" issue.
Apple for example has their user base all locked into this walled garden. For the craziest reasons, they throw developers out.
I am totally fine with application stores. That said, the netbook thing can become a success if and only if it's easy to add new application stores, IMHO. Not sure if Google has that in mind.
Great idea. I'd like some for making coffee. Heavy coffee. From the hills of Vermont.
Let Vermont Hills' awake you
From a thousand death
A cup of glowing coffee
Dying, dying, you're dying for a cup
That's a wonderful sentence. Music to my ears.
May it always be so.
I'm not sure why it's important to you. Useful, yes, sure.
Netbooks, IMHO, are more for stuff like the mentioned Google Docs, Flickr for your photos, Quicken Online for your administration, and for spare time, Facebook or your average European social site.
And of course Twitter.
(didn't see that one coming, did you?)
CHAPEL HILL, NC–Area resident PopeRatzo does not use Twitter, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers–as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.
"I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than tweeting," PopeRatzo told a random woman Monday at the Suds 'N' Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment's wall-mounted TV. "I don't even own an account."
Anyone who is still on 1.3 has been sitting on it for far too long.
Hey, somebody has to keep the corpse warm!
Yep, you're totally right. Otherwise, it'll just be wasted money (as was the case).
You have some great ideas.
What if your girlfriend got you an iPad
Will you marry me? :D
Women need an un-fake-able signal of a man's seriousness, so the signal must take the form of something very (to the suitor) expensive.
It's more than just expensiveness. Some years ago, I bought some earrings for my girlfriend which were handmade and embedded with a sapphire, a ruby and a tourmaline. Beautiful, and after negotiating, I still paid the full price because I just wanted. She says thanks, then continues to almost never wear it!
Looking back, I would have made her much happier with some stupid cheaper, mass-produced but diamond-studded earrings...
It sucks being technically inclined, analytical and ambitious, and not being a team player. It's a combination guaranteed to either make you, or ruin you.
Corrected that for you.
Handy when testing for firewalls and stuff like that!
some of us still use telnet host:80!!!
The colon is not parsed correctly, that command will fail. You have to use a space and type
telnet www.example.com 80
Incidentally, I'll do this wrong each and every time I use telnet.
If you walk through with a hard-on?
The goons working in security have a laugh at your expense
Maybe in your case, anonymous coward! My precioussss got my goons green with jealousy.
(as if...)
The only "skills" required to get a Ph.D are (a) access to enough money [...] (b) the ability to regurgitate [...] (c) the ability to attach oneself to a previous Ph.D recipient [...]
Talking about generalizations. I had expected more from Slashdot.
I don't have a Ph.D, but I work for a scientific institute and have worked with some. Just recently, I've met a Ph.D doing climate research. She was bright, able to talk on many subjects, and was beautiful with long red curly hair. And kept insisting she didn't want any of the whiskey I brought for consumption at the end of the day.
As I said, she was quite clever.
FTFA:
you can now sit in your underwear in Omaha and learn French from a tutor in Paris
With the advent of Skype's video support, I'm pretty sure that the "in your underwear" part is not appreciated by said Parisian tutor.
So you know the rate I'm paying?
Because I pay at least double of what the OP was quoting.
Hello there!
Please refer to your opening on job posting site. I, Rajesh Sharma, would like to apply for the job.[...]My hourly rates are $ 9 USD.
We all like to pretend this isn't here and it isn't happening, but I would say conservatively half the job market has disappeared in 10 years due to this currency/standard of living imbalance.
There's another reality: it's really, really hard to manage projects in India. I have tried this for a number of projects, and have learned the following things:
Each and every project, I have had the above things. There are lots of ways around the above, but the main thing is that it's very hard.
Yes, for most people this is useful behavior. There are a couple of extensions to clear the search field after pressing enter, but they have not been maintained, as far as I can see.
I did some searching on how to configure this, because it's really useful. For others: the following URL gives good info: http://www.techzilo.com/search-google-address-bar-firefox-google-chrome/
I never see either Bing's or Google's homepage. I just search using my browsers search bar. Actually I was surprised to see Google's fade-in homepage manually after friend told about it.
On Firefox, the search text will remain in your search bar after you press enter. I really hate this behaviour, because it shows the next person my browsing history. So I often press CTRL-K, then press enter and view the home page.
Pretty much he could be any alignment available to 1st-edition thieves.
I had to read your comment twice to catch that. Then I spilled my drink :-)