...different projects can work towards different design goals. The Gimp isn't designed for the creation of original art; it is an image manipulation application, not a paint application. Krita could become that free paint application that is still missing.
What are Krita's Development Goals?
Krita is primarily a painting program, although it has image processing capabilities. This means that Krita is intended for creative people who desire to paint and draw with computer software as they do with real-world tools in an art studio. If you are looking for a tool primarily to apply effects to existing images or photos, to catalog images, or to view images other software may be more suitable. Ease of use and power as a painting application will always have a higher priority in Krita's ongoing development.
I doubt it. All this does is make GTK widgets look like Qt widgets; as I understand it, it draws GTK things by first getting Qt to draw the same thing offscreen, and then copying it to where the GTK thing is. Works damn well, though.
AFAIK, KDE4 will use Cairo, which is a freedesktop.org 2D standard thingy that can render to OpenGL or any number of other things. Memory fuzzy though:/
So the US would suddenly start caring about international treaties? Hasn't shown very much inclination recently...
Realistically, pulling out of international treaties is a bad thing, but the current copyright situation is worse. The end doesn't always justify the means, but in this case, I'd say it does.
...why not just reduce its duration rather significantly? It has been shown to be a good incentive for innovation and creative, err, creation, so it's a good thing to have around, but the current situation where it lasts 100+ years cannot be (and is not) healthy. Bring it down to something like five years. That would seem like the best solution for everyone*: people get to share their music around completely freely and legally, artists get to make money off of their work (I don't have any statistics, but I'm fairly certain the vast majority of albums are sold within the first few years after release), and people suddenly have a whole lot less motivation to actively go around pirating -- there'd be plenty of legally free music around to satisfy just about anyone, and five years isn't too long to wait if there's something new they want but don't have the money for. People might even actually feel it's wrong to pirate, as (a) there's be no reason to, and (b) they wouldn't have the excuse of the current "just about anything is illegal, so who cares?" situation to justify it.
A similar solution could also be applied to software patents (and maybe other patents, dunno), though with the speed the industry is moving something like two years would be more appropriate.
* No, I did not include the RIAA in 'everyone', as while they technically are most unfortunately a part of it, statistically they are an entirely insignificant portion (there's like, a single to double digit number of executives, and maybe a few hundred employees?).
Looks like the iMacs are a very comparable value:). Much better video card and hard drive, slightly to somewhat worse processor (G5s are a lot more MHz-efficient than P4s - last I checked, a 2GHz G5 was comparable to a 2GHz Opteron/A64, which is in turn somewhere around a 3GHz P4, so these should be comparable to 2.4-2.8GHz ones) - though this is very hard to compare directly as it's an entirely different platform/architecture. Especially the video card cannot be overestimated -- integrated Intel "Extreme" Graphics is so bad, it's awful. (The 5200 Ultra isn't too good in the realm of discrete cards, but it's pretty decent, and magnitudes better than integrated.)
Speaking of which... doesn't the integrated video eat up 64MB of main system memory, meaning the Dell actually only has 192MB? Given that, and the iMac's better aesthetics and OS, and -- leaving PC/Mac partisanship aside -- I'd even call the iMac a better buy. The 20-incher should've gotten 512MB memory, though:/.
Doesn't SP2 become available for automatic download tomorrow? Half the world downloading 120MB simultaneously will more than account for an 'internet meltdown' in and of itself, no need for teh cyberterrorists.
No one has an implicit right to profit till the end of their lives (or beyond) for a nice piece of IP (music, code, whatever) that they came up with once. The biggest problem with the copyright/patent laws isn't that they exist, as they have been shown to be effective at encouraging innovation/creation, but rather that they last, for all practical purposes, damn near forever. Reduce the duration of software patents (possibly other patents as well, but I have no idea whether it'd be good or bad) to no more than five years, but more like two, and copyright to something around 5-10, and I would call that a nice compromise -- the law gets to serve its original purpose (providing a limited monopoly), corporations/artists can profit, and everyone else can either pay money to get it now, or wait a few years to get it for free (note: I don't think most people are that patient -- it'd be more like the current situation where most people buy the music they have money for and download the rest (later), except legal).
Most of your points are valid to an extent, but this one is off:
First off, the cost for manufacturing XBoxes, like all the other consoles, has steadily been decreasing. Second, the Gamecube is a slightly more elegant PowerPC kludge of a console. The fact that the XBox is based on PC hardware doesn't make it any less of a console. And finally, what "problem" was Microsoft "throwing money at" to solve with a hard drive? You can still use memory cards, but putting a fixed storage device in a console is a very good idea.
Microsoft is still taking a huge loss for every Xbox sold. Enough of one that not even the games people buy for it afterwards have been enough to make the business as a whole profitable. A large part of the reason for that is the hard drive - and they are most likely removing it from Xbox2 because of that.
Probably. There's not supposed to be anything new after the 3700+, which is already out. Maybe some Semprons, but that's about.
(Again, this is what's *supposed* to happen, AMD may change its mind and frequently does.)
Interesting, haven't heard half of that (though the backwards compatibility was fairly known). The internet part is especially interesting - did it specifically mention internet gaming over WLAN, or did you just extrapolate that?
Took the test, using Opera. All the links, when I hovered over them, pointed to http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/phishingtest/message_1/message1.htm#, which I assumed was part of their thing to not let you see the links. Got 6/10. Was somewhat puzzled, as I'm otherwise not a complete braindead dumbass. Check back at it with IE... turns out if you hover over them in IE, it actually displays the URL it's supposed to go to, meaning I'd've (double contraction, eh) gotten 10/10 most likely.
So is it taking advantage of an IE security bug, or what? (For the record, I just checked it with Firefox and it does the same thing, so this is not just Opera being a piece of crap.)
(I'll probably get modded down, and deserve it too, but I'm too amused at the moment to care.)
I have a KT400 system that's been giving me zero problems for close to a year now, running a Radeon card at AGP8x with fast writes enabled. (Although mine is a KT400A, dunno if it makes a difference.) I'm not saying VIA is perfect, but they've come a long way - with the KT133 your situation was the rule and not the exception (except it was probably worse).
Also helping things is that with the A64s a big chunk of the northbridge is integrated on the processor, giving VIA that much less opportunity to screw up.
Here's how it is: Socket A: Athlon XPs and Semprons which are the same thing except with a different name. Socket 754: Athlon 64 "value socket". It'll have A64s up to the 3700+, as well as some Semprons, which are A64s minus the 64-bit capability and half the cache (the latter of which has only a minor effect on performance). Socket 939: Mainstream desktop socket. It'll have Athlon 64s for a while to come (4000+ and up). Dunno whether it'll have Semprons. Socket 940: Highend socket. This is exclusively Opteron territory and will stay that way for the foreseeable future.
As for technical differences between the A64 sockets, s754 has single channel memory while the other two have dual channel (which make them slightly faster, roughly the performance equivalent of 100MHz), and socket 940 requires ECC/Registered memory which is slower by roughly the same amount.
...it was the crappy motherboards and chipsets at the time that gave them a bad name. In particular, VIA's godawful KT133. Intel never really had this problem as they make their own motherboards and chipsets. AMD is on equal footing now that nVidia has started making some excellent chipsets for them, though, and VIA has made some major leaps in quality since then as well.
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Indeed, when according to the Krita FAQ itself:
I doubt it. All this does is make GTK widgets look like Qt widgets; as I understand it, it draws GTK things by first getting Qt to draw the same thing offscreen, and then copying it to where the GTK thing is. Works damn well, though.
Try the GTK-Qt Theme Engine; with it, widgets in the GIMP (and GTK apps in general) look exactly the same as widgets in any other Qt app ;).
It says it requires the .NET runtime and DX 9.0b, actually. Wonder whether it could be made to work with Mono...
Indeed. ;)
For example, have a look at this.
AFAIK, KDE4 will use Cairo, which is a freedesktop.org 2D standard thingy that can render to OpenGL or any number of other things. Memory fuzzy though :/
So the US would suddenly start caring about international treaties? Hasn't shown very much inclination recently...
Realistically, pulling out of international treaties is a bad thing, but the current copyright situation is worse. The end doesn't always justify the means, but in this case, I'd say it does.
...why not just reduce its duration rather significantly? It has been shown to be a good incentive for innovation and creative, err, creation, so it's a good thing to have around, but the current situation where it lasts 100+ years cannot be (and is not) healthy. Bring it down to something like five years. That would seem like the best solution for everyone*: people get to share their music around completely freely and legally, artists get to make money off of their work (I don't have any statistics, but I'm fairly certain the vast majority of albums are sold within the first few years after release), and people suddenly have a whole lot less motivation to actively go around pirating -- there'd be plenty of legally free music around to satisfy just about anyone, and five years isn't too long to wait if there's something new they want but don't have the money for. People might even actually feel it's wrong to pirate, as (a) there's be no reason to, and (b) they wouldn't have the excuse of the current "just about anything is illegal, so who cares?" situation to justify it.
A similar solution could also be applied to software patents (and maybe other patents, dunno), though with the speed the industry is moving something like two years would be more appropriate.
* No, I did not include the RIAA in 'everyone', as while they technically are most unfortunately a part of it, statistically they are an entirely insignificant portion (there's like, a single to double digit number of executives, and maybe a few hundred employees?).
Looks like the iMacs are a very comparable value :). Much better video card and hard drive, slightly to somewhat worse processor (G5s are a lot more MHz-efficient than P4s - last I checked, a 2GHz G5 was comparable to a 2GHz Opteron/A64, which is in turn somewhere around a 3GHz P4, so these should be comparable to 2.4-2.8GHz ones) - though this is very hard to compare directly as it's an entirely different platform/architecture. Especially the video card cannot be overestimated -- integrated Intel "Extreme" Graphics is so bad, it's awful. (The 5200 Ultra isn't too good in the realm of discrete cards, but it's pretty decent, and magnitudes better than integrated.) :/.
Speaking of which... doesn't the integrated video eat up 64MB of main system memory, meaning the Dell actually only has 192MB? Given that, and the iMac's better aesthetics and OS, and -- leaving PC/Mac partisanship aside -- I'd even call the iMac a better buy. The 20-incher should've gotten 512MB memory, though
Doesn't SP2 become available for automatic download tomorrow? Half the world downloading 120MB simultaneously will more than account for an 'internet meltdown' in and of itself, no need for teh cyberterrorists.
No one has an implicit right to profit till the end of their lives (or beyond) for a nice piece of IP (music, code, whatever) that they came up with once. The biggest problem with the copyright/patent laws isn't that they exist, as they have been shown to be effective at encouraging innovation/creation, but rather that they last, for all practical purposes, damn near forever. Reduce the duration of software patents (possibly other patents as well, but I have no idea whether it'd be good or bad) to no more than five years, but more like two, and copyright to something around 5-10, and I would call that a nice compromise -- the law gets to serve its original purpose (providing a limited monopoly), corporations/artists can profit, and everyone else can either pay money to get it now, or wait a few years to get it for free (note: I don't think most people are that patient -- it'd be more like the current situation where most people buy the music they have money for and download the rest (later), except legal).
so that now I don't have to. I'd mod you up, if I had points.
Codename: Deep Thought.
Microsoft is still taking a huge loss for every Xbox sold. Enough of one that not even the games people buy for it afterwards have been enough to make the business as a whole profitable. A large part of the reason for that is the hard drive - and they are most likely removing it from Xbox2 because of that.
Wasn't there this story on some piracy database thing for this exact purpose a few days ago?
...looks like that reverse psychology thing really *does* work :)
Probably. There's not supposed to be anything new after the 3700+, which is already out. Maybe some Semprons, but that's about.
(Again, this is what's *supposed* to happen, AMD may change its mind and frequently does.)
Which I did, roughly two seconds after hitting the submit button ;).
Interesting, haven't heard half of that (though the backwards compatibility was fairly known). The internet part is especially interesting - did it specifically mention internet gaming over WLAN, or did you just extrapolate that?
Took the test, using Opera. All the links, when I hovered over them, pointed to http://survey.mailfrontier.com/survey/phishingtest /message_1/message1.htm#, which I assumed was part of their thing to not let you see the links. Got 6/10. Was somewhat puzzled, as I'm otherwise not a complete braindead dumbass. Check back at it with IE... turns out if you hover over them in IE, it actually displays the URL it's supposed to go to, meaning I'd've (double contraction, eh) gotten 10/10 most likely.
So is it taking advantage of an IE security bug, or what? (For the record, I just checked it with Firefox and it does the same thing, so this is not just Opera being a piece of crap.)
(I'll probably get modded down, and deserve it too, but I'm too amused at the moment to care.)
I have a KT400 system that's been giving me zero problems for close to a year now, running a Radeon card at AGP8x with fast writes enabled. (Although mine is a KT400A, dunno if it makes a difference.) I'm not saying VIA is perfect, but they've come a long way - with the KT133 your situation was the rule and not the exception (except it was probably worse).
Also helping things is that with the A64s a big chunk of the northbridge is integrated on the processor, giving VIA that much less opportunity to screw up.
Here's how it is:
Socket A: Athlon XPs and Semprons which are the same thing except with a different name.
Socket 754: Athlon 64 "value socket". It'll have A64s up to the 3700+, as well as some Semprons, which are A64s minus the 64-bit capability and half the cache (the latter of which has only a minor effect on performance).
Socket 939: Mainstream desktop socket. It'll have Athlon 64s for a while to come (4000+ and up). Dunno whether it'll have Semprons.
Socket 940: Highend socket. This is exclusively Opteron territory and will stay that way for the foreseeable future.
As for technical differences between the A64 sockets, s754 has single channel memory while the other two have dual channel (which make them slightly faster, roughly the performance equivalent of 100MHz), and socket 940 requires ECC/Registered memory which is slower by roughly the same amount.
...it was the crappy motherboards and chipsets at the time that gave them a bad name. In particular, VIA's godawful KT133. Intel never really had this problem as they make their own motherboards and chipsets. AMD is on equal footing now that nVidia has started making some excellent chipsets for them, though, and VIA has made some major leaps in quality since then as well.