I've used GIMP now for a few days and although it's not as intuitive as Photoshop once you get the hang of it it's not bad at all.
But for the life of me I can't figure out how to draw a rectangle or a circle! Probably the most basic features that even paint-brush has, yet I can't find them.
I can create a rectangle of circle selection, but not a drawing...
About the earth's layers (p216):
"... the various layers, using average figures:
From 0 to 40 km (25 mi) is the crust.
From 40 to 400 (250 mi) is the upper mantle.
From 400 to 650 (400 mi) is a transition zone between the upper and lower mantle.
From 650 to 2,700 km (1,700 mi) is the lower mantle.
From 2,700 to 2,890 (1,900 mi) is the "D" layer.
From 2,890 to 5,150 km (3,200 mi) is the outer core,
and from 5,150 to 6,378 km (3,967 mi) is the inner core."
About an attempt to drill the "Mohole" during the 60's (p214)
"Drilling from a ship in open waters is, in the words of one oceanographer, 'like trying to drill a hole in the sidewalks of New York from atop the Empire State Building using a strand of spaghetti.'"
Firefox 1.0.3 reaches 50 crashes on my computer in a single day...
This sucks. Whenever I install more than 3 extension the whole thing goes to hell, and then I have no idea who's to blame/where to file the bug report.
Instead of wasting their time on SVG development and sh1t like live bookmarks the firefox team should focus on stabilizing their application with its 10 top extensions and plugin. I want to argue in favor of this browser to my friends, but this version makes it very difficult.
Bandwidth considerations and legal issues are very different things. You can always limit the bandwidth that's allocated for p2p application in your network. But if RIAA decides to sue the university for huge sums of money it's in for a financial burn. The cost of the legal battle in itself is enough to deter almost any institution.
Of course I agree that universities should not censor information, especially not in such unclever ways as declaring a protocol illegal. But I can understand why some universities have to kneel before the commerical powers that be.
I see, so it's the Israeli lobby in the U.S. that pressures the government to support Israel, not the Jewish lobby. Of course. You're not blaming the jews for anything. I'm sure some of your best friends are jews as well. It's the neo-conservatives and Israeli pressure groups in DC that are to blame for all of America's troubles - not the jews. The jews have nothing to do with it. Those two groups are so obviously seperate and mutualy exclusive.
All in all carrying a U.S. passport and flaunting your American'ness has always been a bit of a negative around the world, people tend to envy you some and resent you some more.
Well, Israel is an exception. Americans have always been and are always very welcomed. Israel kinda looks-up to the U.S. and there's also the big-uncle-sam-that's-got-out-back relationaship going on. So the upshot of all this is that being an American in Israel is pretty nice.
How is Microsoft's scanner any better than the code below? (and mine works cross-platform, too!)...
A ha! But your cross platform code could not have been compiled with the holy golden flag of security. I speak of course, of none other than/GS! (Which, needless to say, stands for Great Security).
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine month."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display..."
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
From what I remember from my "Wellfare 101" course
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It goes like this:
High Degree of Wellfare = High Unemployment
Low Wellfare = Less Unemployment, but a large "Working poor" class.
IOW, you wish you had Germany's economy (assuming you're an American) and enjoyed the social wellfare benefits that these countrys enjoy, earned as much money as they individualy do, enjoyed as much vacation time as they do each year, etc.
The strength of a country's economy and the measure of its social well-being are not measured by the rate of unemployment. Remember that in a eutopic idealic country noone would have to work (or at least very few would), and everyone would still enjoy life to the fullest.
It's no problem for FireFox to implement ActiveX support for their Windows versions of the browser, they just don't want to because its less-secure/not java or whatever. I think Mozilla is wrong for not supporting ActiveX. If 90% of the users that stick to IE do it because of stupid ActiveX-using web sites that don't know better, then Mozilla can collect those users by giving them even more reasons not to go back. I know ActiveX is the only reason I ever use IE... well almost, but it's the major reason.
Mozilla folks! Implement an ActiveX container plugin that optionally ships with the browser and be done with it.
It could be like:
Click here to download FireFox 1.0 Premium version, or here for an Internet Explorer compatable version.
Take a Windows XP box, turn on auto-updates, run FireFox, and be done with it.
I wish to god it were that simple. But FireFox, "whom I love more than a woman", has a distinct tendency to blow up at least 5 times a day, given enough installed plug-ins and opened tabs. I get this both at home and at my job. When more than 10 plugins are installed and many tabs are open, with different sorts of media types viewed in those tabs, FireFox crashes like a mofo. Now go figure what caused the crash.. I can't even report a bug since it's difficult to say which module is responsible.
It's getting embarressing for me, as the company's sole mozilla advocat.
I think this is a great idea. It will allow more linux software to be developed, under the assumption that the target audience now will include also Windows users. Then, one day when the company tallies up its software expenses and sees that the only thing it pays for is the MS OS, and that this OS is only an emulation for free linux software, it could easily decide to cut Windows out - without really making any drammatic change for any of it's employees.
Unless of couse MS blocks this feature in later OS's...
So not only will you get carjacked in the future but they will make you give them your wallet as well.
Avast mateys!
Electronically transfer your space doubloons afore I send thee to Davey Jarg's locker!
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How is the mail server more expensive? All it has to do is hold a whitelist for each user mailbox. It's not like it has to do the computations itself, the sender does them. I fail to see the problem...
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I see. Well that's not at all what I was talking about. I was refering to the idea of a computational cost for emails. Charging actuall money per message is something very different, and not a good idea IMO, it would just cause people to switch to another messaging format.
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What do you mean by "decide"? When subscribing to a mailing list I need to notify my mail server that that address is legitimate and should be added to the white list. That sounds simple enough.
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>> Does anyone know what they are planning on doing to make sure data is up to date?
I think items automatically expire within a maximum of 31 days.
That's exactly the problem.. creating an empty rectangle/circle is a relatively complex move in GIMP. It's missing a "draw shape" feature.
I've used GIMP now for a few days and although it's not as intuitive as Photoshop once you get the hang of it it's not bad at all. But for the life of me I can't figure out how to draw a rectangle or a circle! Probably the most basic features that even paint-brush has, yet I can't find them. I can create a rectangle of circle selection, but not a drawing...
The books answers just this kind of questions. Like, how do we know how much the earth weighs? How was its size determined?
Written by Bill Bryson.
About the earth's layers (p216): "... the various layers, using average figures:
From 0 to 40 km (25 mi) is the crust.
From 40 to 400 (250 mi) is the upper mantle.
From 400 to 650 (400 mi) is a transition zone between the upper and lower mantle.
From 650 to 2,700 km (1,700 mi) is the lower mantle.
From 2,700 to 2,890 (1,900 mi) is the "D" layer.
From 2,890 to 5,150 km (3,200 mi) is the outer core,
and from 5,150 to 6,378 km (3,967 mi) is the inner core."
About an attempt to drill the "Mohole" during the 60's (p214)
"Drilling from a ship in open waters is, in the words of one oceanographer, 'like trying to drill a hole in the sidewalks of New York from atop the Empire State Building using a strand of spaghetti.'"
A very cool book.
Firefox 1.0.3 reaches 50 crashes on my computer in a single day...
This sucks. Whenever I install more than 3 extension the whole thing goes to hell, and then I have no idea who's to blame/where to file the bug report.
Instead of wasting their time on SVG development and sh1t like live bookmarks the firefox team should focus on stabilizing their application with its 10 top extensions and plugin. I want to argue in favor of this browser to my friends, but this version makes it very difficult.
Bandwidth considerations and legal issues are very different things. You can always limit the bandwidth that's allocated for p2p application in your network. But if RIAA decides to sue the university for huge sums of money it's in for a financial burn. The cost of the legal battle in itself is enough to deter almost any institution.
Of course I agree that universities should not censor information, especially not in such unclever ways as declaring a protocol illegal. But I can understand why some universities have to kneel before the commerical powers that be.
Can't the impersonator just pass all zeros, so that any summation would yield 0, or something similar?
I heard a rumor that one's fingerprints can be faked by using a gummy bear.
I see, so it's the Israeli lobby in the U.S. that pressures the government to support Israel, not the Jewish lobby. Of course. You're not blaming the jews for anything. I'm sure some of your best friends are jews as well. It's the neo-conservatives and Israeli pressure groups in DC that are to blame for all of America's troubles - not the jews. The jews have nothing to do with it. Those two groups are so obviously seperate and mutualy exclusive.
Blaming all your problems on the jews is such a cliche. The Germans wrote the book on it and the Arabs are now adding chapters.
That's an amazing fact, which I think says it all.
Well, Israel is an exception. Americans have always been and are always very welcomed. Israel kinda looks-up to the U.S. and there's also the big-uncle-sam-that's-got-out-back relationaship going on. So the upshot of all this is that being an American in Israel is pretty nice.
A ha! But your cross platform code could not have been compiled with the holy golden flag of security. I speak of course, of none other than
"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine month."
..."
"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."
"But the plans were on display
"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."
"That's the display department."
"With a flashlight."
"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."
"So had the stairs."
"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"
"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
It goes like this:
High Degree of Wellfare = High Unemployment
Low Wellfare = Less Unemployment, but a large "Working poor" class.
IOW, you wish you had Germany's economy (assuming you're an American) and enjoyed the social wellfare benefits that these countrys enjoy, earned as much money as they individualy do, enjoyed as much vacation time as they do each year, etc.
The strength of a country's economy and the measure of its social well-being are not measured by the rate of unemployment. Remember that in a eutopic idealic country noone would have to work (or at least very few would), and everyone would still enjoy life to the fullest.
Longhorn seems less appealing than ever.
Few people know that Joe Pesci was in a hair-band during the 80's.
It's no problem for FireFox to implement ActiveX support for their Windows versions of the browser, they just don't want to because its less-secure/not java or whatever. I think Mozilla is wrong for not supporting ActiveX. If 90% of the users that stick to IE do it because of stupid ActiveX-using web sites that don't know better, then Mozilla can collect those users by giving them even more reasons not to go back. I know ActiveX is the only reason I ever use IE... well almost, but it's the major reason.
Mozilla folks! Implement an ActiveX container plugin that optionally ships with the browser and be done with it.
It could be like:
Click here to download FireFox 1.0 Premium version,
or here for an Internet Explorer compatable version.
Take a Windows XP box, turn on auto-updates, run FireFox, and be done with it.
I wish to god it were that simple. But FireFox, "whom I love more than a woman", has a distinct tendency to blow up at least 5 times a day, given enough installed plug-ins and opened tabs.
I get this both at home and at my job. When more than 10 plugins are installed and many tabs are open, with different sorts of media types viewed in those tabs, FireFox crashes like a mofo. Now go figure what caused the crash.. I can't even report a bug since it's difficult to say which module is responsible.
It's getting embarressing for me, as the company's sole mozilla advocat.
I think this is a great idea. It will allow more linux software to be developed, under the assumption that the target audience now will include also Windows users. Then, one day when the company tallies up its software expenses and sees that the only thing it pays for is the MS OS, and that this OS is only an emulation for free linux software, it could easily decide to cut Windows out - without really making any drammatic change for any of it's employees.
Unless of couse MS blocks this feature in later OS's...
So not only will you get carjacked in the future but they will make you give them your wallet as well.
Avast mateys!
Electronically transfer your space doubloons afore I send thee to Davey Jarg's locker!
How is the mail server more expensive? All it has to do is hold a whitelist for each user mailbox. It's not like it has to do the computations itself, the sender does them. I fail to see the problem...
I see. Well that's not at all what I was talking about. I was refering to the idea of a computational cost for emails. Charging actuall money per message is something very different, and not a good idea IMO, it would just cause people to switch to another messaging format.
What do you mean by "decide"? When subscribing to a mailing list I need to notify my mail server that that address is legitimate and should be added to the white list. That sounds simple enough.