Get off your high fucking horse. If you don't like FB, don't use it. The fact that you are bleating about it here means you spend most of your time in your mom's basement masturbating to porn. Now go back to your stroking.
Don't *want* to use. Because (at this point in its development) GIMP often does not do what they want, and many find the UI unusable. Things could change, and I would embrace GIMP is it did what I do with PS, and did it well. Adobe is the sole reason I still have a Windows machine (yes, I could get PS for OSX, and may very well do that).
However, how often does a local paper need to work with 20 layer images?
Ask the folks in the advertising department. Probably they regularly do a lot more than resizing new photos. The fact is, professionals prefer PS not because it is "what they know", but because it does what they need. Even excusing the convoluted UI, GIMP *does not* fill the needs of *most* professionals.
the vast majority of facebook users are not concerned with privacy
This is a point that seems lost on most Slashdotters: Most of the people that use Facebook are quite happy with its "privacy" rules. They willingly supply personal information, and have the expectation that it will be spread about. Thus, Facebook is mostly a problem for those that don't use it.
Yeah, "falmebait", sure, whatever. But you know it's true: All these "power users" who can't stand JS or whatever and want the Internet to be like it was in 1996... Sure.
Exactly. I also turn off pictures, CSS and that pointless HTML rendering. What's the reason for that anyway?
I just miss out on all that random shit that I couldn't care less about.:P
So, again, rather than strutt around with your balls all oiled up and your ass in the air, why not just browse with Lynx? Or is that not "leet" enough for you?
That's what noscript is for. With noscript, your browser doesn't even download the.js files.
That's fine and dandy. IF.
If you don't care to see or experience the vast majority of web sites on the Intertubes today.
Honestly, when I see (yet another) pious elitist bleating about no-script or whatever, I wonder: Why don't you just surf in Lynx?
If you're surfing with no-script, you're missing 75% of the Internet. If it's not the 75% you want to see and or experience, than good for you. But bleating about the creative uses of JavaScript on the World Wide Web is old news.
Wait, I'm confused. Is this an iPhone? Wait, is it really 2010? This thing isn't getting copy and paste? Man, what a STUPID decision.
This is the icing on the cake for you? How about that is is as closed as the iPhone, you can't even run native code on it (unless you are a "partner")?
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I have a chili recipe that produces a - er - "slurry" so radioactively hot, it could be used to power spacecraft...
If this were a rare occurrence, then yeah, I'd be up in arms.
It's *NOT* being a "rare occurrence" that is alarming. It's the fact that it isn't that we should be concerned.
Get off your high fucking horse. If you don't like FB, don't use it. The fact that you are bleating about it here means you spend most of your time in your mom's basement masturbating to porn. Now go back to your stroking.
Do not use, or can not use?
Don't *want* to use. Because (at this point in its development) GIMP often does not do what they want, and many find the UI unusable. Things could change, and I would embrace GIMP is it did what I do with PS, and did it well. Adobe is the sole reason I still have a Windows machine (yes, I could get PS for OSX, and may very well do that).
Depends on your definition of professional
No it doesn't. Most professional photographers and graphic artists do not use GIMP.
However, how often does a local paper need to work with 20 layer images?
Ask the folks in the advertising department. Probably they regularly do a lot more than resizing new photos. The fact is, professionals prefer PS not because it is "what they know", but because it does what they need. Even excusing the convoluted UI, GIMP *does not* fill the needs of *most* professionals.
That's nice. Do you often work with 20 and 30 layer images? No?
the vast majority of facebook users are not concerned with privacy
This is a point that seems lost on most Slashdotters: Most of the people that use Facebook are quite happy with its "privacy" rules. They willingly supply personal information, and have the expectation that it will be spread about. Thus, Facebook is mostly a problem for those that don't use it.
The kid should have been roped off for this stunt, not kind of sort of assisted by the naughty vicar there.
The Vicar has already seen the boy "roped off", the element of suction adds more excitement to it.
Knuth "also stated that this successor of TeX will have features like 3-D printing, animation, stereographic sound."
In other words, it will become a bloated mess.
I don't understand fishing metaphors! Seriously. What is that supposed to mean?
I don't know either, perhaps someone can frame it as a car analogy.
You can even tune into the broadcasts from the International Space station.
Yes, well, I suppose that is "geek porn" of a sort. But it's not what I had in mind.
It never occurred to me before: Digital PORN over shortwave! Of course we'll have to pass "Think Of The Children" laws now!
http://www.sncorp.com/about/cobwelcome.shtml
Yeah, "falmebait", sure, whatever. But you know it's true: All these "power users" who can't stand JS or whatever and want the Internet to be like it was in 1996... Sure.
Exactly. I also turn off pictures, CSS and that pointless HTML rendering. What's the reason for that anyway? I just miss out on all that random shit that I couldn't care less about. :P
So, again, rather than strutt around with your balls all oiled up and your ass in the air, why not just browse with Lynx? Or is that not "leet" enough for you?
Take a look at where this guy lives.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=58+Elderwood+Dr.,+Toronto,+Canada&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=58+Elderwood+Dr,+Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario+M5P+1X3,+Canada&gl=us&ei=Xb0jTL7OFMPinAfe6qUB&ved=0CBcQ8gEwAA&ll=43.696017,-79.421011&spn=0.001577,0.002733&t=h&z=19&layer=c&cbll=43.695977,-79.421199&panoid=tO4-6k4Ad1LrA4fI3T5-5w&cbp=12,327.64,,0,7.87
I assume his mother owns the house and all his Mad Scientist gear is in the basement.
That's what noscript is for. With noscript, your browser doesn't even download the .js files.
That's fine and dandy. IF.
If you don't care to see or experience the vast majority of web sites on the Intertubes today.
Honestly, when I see (yet another) pious elitist bleating about no-script or whatever, I wonder: Why don't you just surf in Lynx?
If you're surfing with no-script, you're missing 75% of the Internet. If it's not the 75% you want to see and or experience, than good for you. But bleating about the creative uses of JavaScript on the World Wide Web is old news.
Screw the schools / filter companies. If the schools do not want free services, that's their choice.
OK, but where is this "12 page C&D letter"?
When software developers screw up, they don't leave a billion barrels of their product on the shores of Louisiana.
I take it that you have never heard of the Video Professor...
AWSOME Slashvert, dude. How much / what did you get for your little slice of Astro Turf?
(Unfortunately the video at that link is marked private.)
If no one can see it, it didn't happen, although I smell bear shit...
"We've got a good product," he said. " I actually do believe that. I think we are going to actually have a lot of happy customers."
It's doomed.
Wait, I'm confused. Is this an iPhone? Wait, is it really 2010? This thing isn't getting copy and paste? Man, what a STUPID decision.
This is the icing on the cake for you? How about that is is as closed as the iPhone, you can't even run native code on it (unless you are a "partner")?