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The addition of vector graphics definitely pushes Gimp over the edge. I used to use Gimp for all sorts of little images, but occasionally had to opt for something commercial because many print corporations only use vector graphics.
Way to go Gimp! If doing practically everything photoshop can do for free didn't put Gimp on the map. The addition of SVG ought to.
Well, even if these guys are backstabbers (which apparently they are) they've disclosed their methods. And that should allow for a somewhat speedy recoding of a similar program that doesn't include screw_up_my_file(char* filename).
Seriously, it was good theory, but they didn't have anything earthshattering that couldn't be replicated.
I'll be watching for anything more that is discovered about motives. This seems to be the most curious and intriguing part of the story.
If only schools could switch to OpenOffice to, and we could probably get rid of the MS Office dominance for ever in a few years...
I'm working on a project to recycle old computer parts into working computers for schools. The school I'm working with now has no money... none. That's why we're doing this. So I can't very well turn around and ask the school to drop a couple hundred for an OS for each computer they get. Obviously we will be using 100% open source - OpenOffice on Linux.
Interestingly, for all the complaining I hear about underfunded schools, some schools refused free computers because they didn't look like the others that they had purchased. Even more refused because they had to choose between using Linux free or paying for an OS.
We're a small business, and we run open source on our server and a few desktops. We'll be moving to more in the future.
You can just imagine the look on my boss's face when he asked how much he had to pay for my software and upgrades.
Basically, we use open source because this company lives month to month. We make plenty of money, but there's not enough to throw around on wild expenses. Also, the only excuse for not using open source is not having any employees smart enough to handle it. The MS philosophy is to make computers dumbed down to the level of the dumbest user. And that's why a lot of businesses use windows. But in a sense, if you have open source knowledge and background, then the sum of all open source software is like a benefit you bring to the company once they hire you. Because you have free or cheap access to a program to do just about everything on just about any hardware. What could be better for a small business? This had a large role in my employment.
I would imagine that the array would work quite well for several reasons.
First of all, the amount of energy you have to use to send a signal decreases with distance squared. So covering an area with with several small radar stations should keep the working signal in the relatively strong range with less power consumption.
Also, there will be a lot of overlap near the edges of the stations' zones, reducing anomolous readings through error checking. (This would have to be implemented. It wouldn't happen on its own.)
And it also opens the door for the possibility of trasmitting signals from one station to the next instead of always waiting for the ping to come back. That could allow for new methods and better results and more accuracy.
New Users are strongly cationed not to sneak up on Spider Case, as it seems to sense danger moments before an incident. Accordingly, powering off the machine and taking back the CD's you placed in its drive are particularly difficult.
Also, please cover all media and other damagable items as the Spider Case occasionally squirts a very sticky weblike substance that has the strength of a steel cable 10 times its diameter. Not to worry, this will disolve within several hours.
Also, if you walk into your office to find the the Spider Case on the wall, or on the ceiling, PLEASE DO NOT RETURN Spider Case. This is a FEATURE, not a malfunction.
There's a wonderful quote (I'm not getting it word-for-word):
If we don't believe in free speech for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.
It's very difficult to draw a line in the sand to divide what is and is not acceptible as free speech. And the most damage doesn't come from misplacing the line a little to the right or the left, but from placing the line to begin with.
India will now be forever locked in a debate over what can and cannot be accessible to the public.
On the upside, the more India is cut off from the internet, the better my job security.
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I assume that when they say the 2.4 Kernel outperforms the 2.6 on a uniprocessor computer, but not on a multi processor computer, that they have recompiled the kernel for each hardware environment.
This struck me as strange, because when the kernel is compiled without SMP support, all that code is left out. So it doesn't seem like the 2.4 should outperform the 2.6 on one cpu.
The SMP code (written by Linux developers by the way) is supposed to be kicked up a notch in the new kernel. That's what I've heard anyway. I'd love to see Linux being the best OS for multiple CPU scaling.
That will help everyone from the server market, to me when I save up enough for a two processor motherboard.
# When entering your name somethere use a bogus middle initial so you know which firm sold your info when mail starts coming in with a wrong middle letter. If you get junk, return it as "Moved".
I did something similar to this once, but worse for the companies. I was living in a dorm, and we got a MASS mailing from a credit card company. Three bags of mail came in that day. One was completely filled with credit card offers. Many people got more than one.
Well that was too much. So I rounded up everyone by the mail desk, and asked them to open their offers, tear out anything with their name on it, and mail the offer, and torn up envelope back using the postage-paid envelope sent by the company.
That way, they have to pay the postage, pay someone to open the mail, and pay extra while that person tries to figure out exactly what he's holding in his hand.
Sort of like calling telemarketers at home... The old -taste-of-your-own-medicine- ploy.
Well, they can only track you by your smartcard ticket.
So if you're worried, just take your card and smash it all up with a hammer. Far more effective and much cheaper than any sort of jamming device. And the results are virtually instantaneous. I've heard rumors that this method also works 99.999% of the time.
Those are pretty reasonably priced. A bit high for a motherboard, but novelty and hard-to-come-by items are always expensive. I wonder if we can expect similar prices for the Nano-ITX.
But they never specified their units. They only used the prefix nano. But they never said nano-whats. Their unit of distance could be root acres, or astronomical units, or in this case, the unit of measurement is 12cm*10^9
I wonder what kind of power supplies they will release to drive these. I assume a standard power supply will work... but it seems wrong. The power would take up more space the entire workings of the computer. Anyway, for my embedded projects, I really hope they follow with some tiny power supplies.
I can't say how many times I've wanted to make a small, embedded controller system, but couldn't do it. Most projects need the ability of pc, but can't handle the space requirements for a desktop sized box. These little babies aught to make my life much more fun, and possibly fully automated.
So I say DDoS them Back! Spammers have always operated outside the realm of good-and-proper. And people act like that generally meet an unfortunate end.
There was a/. article about an Ausie Spam operation shut down by DDoS, and nobody felt bad about it. And the more they pull this crap, the more likely law enforcement will look the other way while spammers are DDoSed back to 1960.
I think this happened in the Old West a lot. Definitely in the movies. When law enforcement was too slow, too incompetent, or just plain absent, the good old cowboys saddled up and handled things themselves.
There are a lot of people who'd like to lull you into a sit-back-and-let-the-government-or-other-auhtoriti es-do -do-every-thing attitude. Your function is to buy things and support the structure.
While government is not a bad thing, heck it's a good thing, some of our founding fathers pointed out not only the option to act, but the responsibility to act beyond the law in certain situations.
This is the reasoning behind checks and balances, due process and other protections provided under the Constitution.
Pre-US European governments used to be notorious for going after people without a leg to stand on. But it didn't matter. All that mattered was the witch-hunt-like frenzy. That was enough to get them hung or at least imprisoned.
That's when my good pals Hancock, Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson, along with a few other buds, got together and came up with this whole fair trial system. And that was pretty cool up until a few years ago when people really started using the internet.
Thats when, well everybody in congress, who's names are too many to mention, (and not worth mentioning considering what they did) overturned two centuries worth of a tried and true system.
And where does it get you? Sueing grandmas.
I guess those old guys really had some stuff figured out. Their system isn't really silly or outdated like some people might think.
I wonder how they will be enforcing the zip code registration. The main drive behind google and the page rank thing was to take search engine optimization off the page and out of the hands of the web master so as to avoid keyword stuffing and not-quite-honest optimization techniques.
But it seems sort of hard to determine the "location" of a website without input from the people behind the site. There are possibilities for abuse.
But maybe there's no incentive to be listed in the wrong zip code... well, maybe there is.
If you do a lot of business on the web or by mail, and your physical location doesn't matter, you might post 100 versions of your site, each with the zip code of a large metropolitan area. But then how many people would do that?
I've seen this cryptographic art all over in the modern art museums. There're paintings, statues, you name it. You can look at them for hours and still not know what the hell they are.
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The addition of vector graphics definitely pushes Gimp over the edge. I used to use Gimp for all sorts of little images, but occasionally had to opt for something commercial because many print corporations only use vector graphics.
Way to go Gimp! If doing practically everything photoshop can do for free didn't put Gimp on the map. The addition of SVG ought to.
Well, even if these guys are backstabbers (which apparently they are) they've disclosed their methods. And that should allow for a somewhat speedy recoding of a similar program that doesn't include screw_up_my_file(char* filename).
Seriously, it was good theory, but they didn't have anything earthshattering that couldn't be replicated.
I'll be watching for anything more that is discovered about motives. This seems to be the most curious and intriguing part of the story.
If only schools could switch to OpenOffice to, and we could probably get rid of the MS Office dominance for ever in a few years...
I'm working on a project to recycle old computer parts into working computers for schools. The school I'm working with now has no money... none. That's why we're doing this. So I can't very well turn around and ask the school to drop a couple hundred for an OS for each computer they get. Obviously we will be using 100% open source - OpenOffice on Linux.
Interestingly, for all the complaining I hear about underfunded schools, some schools refused free computers because they didn't look like the others that they had purchased. Even more refused because they had to choose between using Linux free or paying for an OS.
We're a small business, and we run open source on our server and a few desktops. We'll be moving to more in the future.
You can just imagine the look on my boss's face when he asked how much he had to pay for my software and upgrades.
Basically, we use open source because this company lives month to month. We make plenty of money, but there's not enough to throw around on wild expenses. Also, the only excuse for not using open source is not having any employees smart enough to handle it. The MS philosophy is to make computers dumbed down to the level of the dumbest user. And that's why a lot of businesses use windows. But in a sense, if you have open source knowledge and background, then the sum of all open source software is like a benefit you bring to the company once they hire you. Because you have free or cheap access to a program to do just about everything on just about any hardware. What could be better for a small business? This had a large role in my employment.
I would imagine that the array would work quite well for several reasons.
First of all, the amount of energy you have to use to send a signal decreases with distance squared. So covering an area with with several small radar stations should keep the working signal in the relatively strong range with less power consumption.
Also, there will be a lot of overlap near the edges of the stations' zones, reducing anomolous readings through error checking. (This would have to be implemented. It wouldn't happen on its own.)
And it also opens the door for the possibility of trasmitting signals from one station to the next instead of always waiting for the ping to come back. That could allow for new methods and better results and more accuracy.
New Users are strongly cationed not to sneak up on Spider Case, as it seems to sense danger moments before an incident. Accordingly, powering off the machine and taking back the CD's you placed in its drive are particularly difficult.
Also, please cover all media and other damagable items as the Spider Case occasionally squirts a very sticky weblike substance that has the strength of a steel cable 10 times its diameter. Not to worry, this will disolve within several hours.
Also, if you walk into your office to find the the Spider Case on the wall, or on the ceiling, PLEASE DO NOT RETURN Spider Case. This is a FEATURE, not a malfunction.
There's a wonderful quote (I'm not getting it word-for-word):
If we don't believe in free speech for people we despise, we do not believe in it at all.
It's very difficult to draw a line in the sand to divide what is and is not acceptible as free speech. And the most damage doesn't come from misplacing the line a little to the right or the left, but from placing the line to begin with.
India will now be forever locked in a debate over what can and cannot be accessible to the public.
On the upside, the more India is cut off from the internet, the better my job security.
as long as I can use a command line instead of that pen thing.
From MS (in the letter)
Claim forms submitted through the www.msfreepc.com website will be invalid because they will not be signed. Instead, these claims will include only the claimant's typed name (called a "digital signature" by the website) which is invalid under the Settlement Agreement.
Please Click Below to show that you Accept the EULA before using Windows/Word/Excel
I assume that when they say the 2.4 Kernel outperforms the 2.6 on a uniprocessor computer, but not on a multi processor computer, that they have recompiled the kernel for each hardware environment.
This struck me as strange, because when the kernel is compiled without SMP support, all that code is left out. So it doesn't seem like the 2.4 should outperform the 2.6 on one cpu.
Does anyone know why this might be?
The SMP code (written by Linux developers by the way) is supposed to be kicked up a notch in the new kernel. That's what I've heard anyway. I'd love to see Linux being the best OS for multiple CPU scaling.
That will help everyone from the server market, to me when I save up enough for a two processor motherboard.
# When entering your name somethere use a bogus middle initial so you know which firm sold your info when mail starts coming in with a wrong middle letter. If you get junk, return it as "Moved".
I did something similar to this once, but worse for the companies. I was living in a dorm, and we got a MASS mailing from a credit card company. Three bags of mail came in that day. One was completely filled with credit card offers. Many people got more than one.
Well that was too much. So I rounded up everyone by the mail desk, and asked them to open their offers, tear out anything with their name on it, and mail the offer, and torn up envelope back using the postage-paid envelope sent by the company.
That way, they have to pay the postage, pay someone to open the mail, and pay extra while that person tries to figure out exactly what he's holding in his hand.
Sort of like calling telemarketers at home... The old -taste-of-your-own-medicine- ploy.
Well, they can only track you by your smartcard ticket.
So if you're worried, just take your card and smash it all up with a hammer. Far more effective and much cheaper than any sort of jamming device. And the results are virtually instantaneous. I've heard rumors that this method also works 99.999% of the time.
Those are pretty reasonably priced. A bit high for a motherboard, but novelty and hard-to-come-by items are always expensive. I wonder if we can expect similar prices for the Nano-ITX.
Thanks! That would be ideal.
1 centimeter = 1x10^-2m, 1 nanometer = 1x10^-9m.
FALSE ADVERTISING.
But they never specified their units. They only used the prefix nano. But they never said nano-whats. Their unit of distance could be root acres, or astronomical units, or in this case, the unit of measurement is 12cm*10^9
Heh heh, the devil is in the details my friend.
Oh yes, one more thing I forgot to write...
I wonder what kind of power supplies they will release to drive these. I assume a standard power supply will work... but it seems wrong. The power would take up more space the entire workings of the computer. Anyway, for my embedded projects, I really hope they follow with some tiny power supplies.
I can't say how many times I've wanted to make a small, embedded controller system, but couldn't do it. Most projects need the ability of pc, but can't handle the space requirements for a desktop sized box. These little babies aught to make my life much more fun, and possibly fully automated.
whoops not done...
/. article about an Ausie Spam operation shut down by DDoS, and nobody felt bad about it. And the more they pull this crap, the more likely law enforcement will look the other way while spammers are DDoSed back to 1960.
So I say DDoS them Back! Spammers have always operated outside the realm of good-and-proper. And people act like that generally meet an unfortunate end.
There was a
I think this happened in the Old West a lot. Definitely in the movies. When law enforcement was too slow, too incompetent, or just plain absent, the good old cowboys saddled up and handled things themselves.
i es-do -do-every-thing attitude. Your function is to buy things and support the structure.
There are a lot of people who'd like to lull you into a sit-back-and-let-the-government-or-other-auhtorit
While government is not a bad thing, heck it's a good thing, some of our founding fathers pointed out not only the option to act, but the responsibility to act beyond the law in certain situations.
The American spirit is still alive.
This is the reasoning behind checks and balances, due process and other protections provided under the Constitution.
Pre-US European governments used to be notorious for going after people without a leg to stand on. But it didn't matter. All that mattered was the witch-hunt-like frenzy. That was enough to get them hung or at least imprisoned.
That's when my good pals Hancock, Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson, along with a few other buds, got together and came up with this whole fair trial system. And that was pretty cool up until a few years ago when people really started using the internet.
Thats when, well everybody in congress, who's names are too many to mention, (and not worth mentioning considering what they did) overturned two centuries worth of a tried and true system.
And where does it get you? Sueing grandmas.
I guess those old guys really had some stuff figured out. Their system isn't really silly or outdated like some people might think.
I wonder how they will be enforcing the zip code registration. The main drive behind google and the page rank thing was to take search engine optimization off the page and out of the hands of the web master so as to avoid keyword stuffing and not-quite-honest optimization techniques.
But it seems sort of hard to determine the "location" of a website without input from the people behind the site. There are possibilities for abuse.
But maybe there's no incentive to be listed in the wrong zip code... well, maybe there is.
If you do a lot of business on the web or by mail, and your physical location doesn't matter, you might post 100 versions of your site, each with the zip code of a large metropolitan area. But then how many people would do that?
Ah hell, I don't know. I'm rambling...
I love the Simpsons. That's the one where he gets a mumu and a fat guy hat.
And don't forget the REAL problem that plagues touch screen voting...
Fat fingers.
What if the fewest number of candidates you can vote for is three at a time?
I've seen this cryptographic art all over in the modern art museums. There're paintings, statues, you name it. You can look at them for hours and still not know what the hell they are.