well, if you see that it guesses wrong, you can just continue typing. On the other hand, if your about to type a ten letters word, and on the fourth letter it guesses what you're trying to type, it save five or six keystrokes. Sometimes, even when I see that the word it guesses is a bit mistaken (another gramatical form of that word), I prefer to let it complete it and hit backspace to correct it. Seems faster to me.
I really like the autocomplete feature from OpenOffice. So much that when I need to write something more than a page I use Writer. Not everybody likes it, and it needs getting used to, but to me it seems that it really helps and speeds my typing. One of the better features is to have it act like a spell-checker, if, for example, your language doesn't have a dictionary.
I was a KDE convert (and probably still am), but I gave Ubuntu a spin after I was annoyed by Fedora 3 + amarok (probably not fedora's fault). Anyway, after some fidling with my sound cards (I have an extra audigy 2 card) it works, even wine - double clicking in nautilus of a windows.exe starts the app corectly, after I manually told it to open exes with wine. Anyway, Ubuntu got me to replace my daily windows desktop with the gnome desktop and become, in the process, a (sometimes unhappy) gnome user. I have kde installed, but 3.4.2 has some bugs related to the way the panels work, and I felt in love with the way gnome's desktop resembles macos. Some things that I don't appreciate about gnome and wish that they could take some cues from kde: the gnome start menu "swallows" applications, meaning I only get to see 1/4 of all the menu entries I have in KDE, network transparency is not working well (not all the apps are integrated with it), and after I've added some network "places", I get asked by keyring all the time about the password, because it wants to connect to those places, even when I open a file open dialog. I've done the same thing with KDE and I get a smarter behaviour. And one more thing:) xcomgmgr is really nice. Too bad that it's kind of buggy (it crashes on different ocasions) and I can't get the movies to work with it (although I didn't really try).
Gimp may be powerfull and all, but I gave it a shot last night and I had to quickly abandon it. All I wanted to do was a multi-value gradient. That gradient editor is horrible, slow (as in workflow) and non-intuitive. The #gimp guys recommend iit that I should read the manual. Well, I'm a part-time graphic designer and I never read the Photoshop manual. Why would I want to read Gimp's just to figure out basic stuff?
1. Work in 16 bit instead of 8bit color depth 2. What's stopping you from using the vector tools in Photoshop to have your desired workflow? 3. I would be really curios to see your "vector shadow effect" compared to a raster based one. To me, it seems imposible to have complex, photorealistic effects created with vector. Even the most complex vector creations can be distinguished from those raster-based equivalents.
I'm programming "database applications" with python. I'm storing with zodb or simple pickle. Of course, they're not big apps, but that's the point. For small apps, why bother with an SQL engine/server? About optimization. If you need to do lots of specific lookups, you can do your own indexes. Have an extra dict that points to a list with the ids for that record. {'kw1':[id1,id2],'kw2':[id3,id1],}. Or better, use ZODB + ZCatalog.
Man, you must really don't know what you're talking about.
The reason for the success of Photoshop is given by not trying to be a niche tool for either designers or photographers. Any designer can, in any day, need Photoshop under its multiple facets. Creating a photo album or a contact sheet, designing a webpage or touching a photo for that website, it all has to be under the same app, with the same familiar workflow. The photographer might need to add a frame to that photo, or maybe he wants to add some text to get a postcard out of his picture.
Reading your comment, I have such a deja-vu feeling... I even checked if slashdot is not fucked up and it shows an old story. Wasn't some guy in UK under suspicion for hacking because he used lynx?
Btw, I use very often elinks2 (links) and that has frames and mouse suport (and with more effort even images), and I click stuff it it a lot of times. The banners are most of the times "accesible" with alt text, sometimes that text is more appealing than a graphic that we tend to ignore.
I almost ditched firefox to opera because it was freezing like hell on each page reload or download start. It turns out that I had to cleanup the download history in the download manager. Still a bug, but less important.
Dell preloads the computers with OpenOffice 2.0 and sells them 100$ cheaper than the ones with Microsoft Office? Now, if we could only persuade them to stop supporting Microsoft so much.
The new 2.1 release is pretty sweet. Has everything you can ask for from an open source CMS. There is a special product, Plone Help Center, that can help you organize things. Have multiple PHCs (they act as folders), and you can categorize things based on meta-subjects. You can even use it to index and search your doc/pdf/xls files.
Dovecot is very very stable. In the 3 years I've been using it, I never had any problems with it. I can't say the same, for example, about Courier IMAP, which I've been using for about 3 months before.
Maybe the alpha state signifies some lack of features. But it's in widespread use (for example, I can find it on the Fedora install disks).
I'm afraid you don't really know what you're talking about I use KDE 3.2 with cygwin over the network and, although it's a bit slower, it's perfectly usable.
Firstclass sucks. What do they have so special? It's just a message board without the web interface. And, btw, where's the linux client that they've promised and they're "testing" for the last 3 years?
I don't know about you, but I get browser-mail integration, using Thunderbird and Firefox. Really.
There is even a button that you can add (right click on the toolbar, customize), that gets a button with popup, for ex., in my case: Read Mail (7 new) and New Message.
I'm too young to have used wordstar, but I can tell you one thing: is a lot easier to use wordstar keys for clipboard operation then it is to do the weird ctrl+c/ctrl+v thingy
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well, if you see that it guesses wrong, you can just continue typing. On the other hand, if your about to type a ten letters word, and on the fourth letter it guesses what you're trying to type, it save five or six keystrokes. Sometimes, even when I see that the word it guesses is a bit mistaken (another gramatical form of that word), I prefer to let it complete it and hit backspace to correct it. Seems faster to me.
I really like the autocomplete feature from OpenOffice. So much that when I need to write something more than a page I use Writer. Not everybody likes it, and it needs getting used to, but to me it seems that it really helps and speeds my typing. One of the better features is to have it act like a spell-checker, if, for example, your language doesn't have a dictionary.
What's the difference to having Ubuntu+KDE installed?
I was a KDE convert (and probably still am), but I gave Ubuntu a spin after I was annoyed by Fedora 3 + amarok (probably not fedora's fault). Anyway, after some fidling with my sound cards (I have an extra audigy 2 card) it works, even wine - double clicking in nautilus of a windows .exe starts the app corectly, after I manually told it to open exes with wine. :) xcomgmgr is really nice. Too bad that it's kind of buggy (it crashes on different ocasions) and I can't get the movies to work with it (although I didn't really try).
Anyway, Ubuntu got me to replace my daily windows desktop with the gnome desktop and become, in the process, a (sometimes unhappy) gnome user. I have kde installed, but 3.4.2 has some bugs related to the way the panels work, and I felt in love with the way gnome's desktop resembles macos.
Some things that I don't appreciate about gnome and wish that they could take some cues from kde: the gnome start menu "swallows" applications, meaning I only get to see 1/4 of all the menu entries I have in KDE, network transparency is not working well (not all the apps are integrated with it), and after I've added some network "places", I get asked by keyring all the time about the password, because it wants to connect to those places, even when I open a file open dialog. I've done the same thing with KDE and I get a smarter behaviour.
And one more thing
Gimp may be powerfull and all, but I gave it a shot last night and I had to quickly abandon it. All I wanted to do was a multi-value gradient. That gradient editor is horrible, slow (as in workflow) and non-intuitive. The #gimp guys recommend iit that I should read the manual. Well, I'm a part-time graphic designer and I never read the Photoshop manual. Why would I want to read Gimp's just to figure out basic stuff?
1. Work in 16 bit instead of 8bit color depth
2. What's stopping you from using the vector tools in Photoshop to have your desired workflow?
3. I would be really curios to see your "vector shadow effect" compared to a raster based one. To me, it seems imposible to have complex, photorealistic effects created with vector. Even the most complex vector creations can be distinguished from those raster-based equivalents.
I'm programming "database applications" with python. I'm storing with zodb or simple pickle. Of course, they're not big apps, but that's the point. For small apps, why bother with an SQL engine/server?
About optimization. If you need to do lots of specific lookups, you can do your own indexes. Have an extra dict that points to a list with the ids for that record. {'kw1':[id1,id2],'kw2':[id3,id1],}. Or better, use ZODB + ZCatalog.
you can do the one line sql statament in one line python, using list comprehension.
Man, you must really don't know what you're talking about.
The reason for the success of Photoshop is given by not trying to be a niche tool for either designers or photographers. Any designer can, in any day, need Photoshop under its multiple facets. Creating a photo album or a contact sheet, designing a webpage or touching a photo for that website, it all has to be under the same app, with the same familiar workflow. The photographer might need to add a frame to that photo, or maybe he wants to add some text to get a postcard out of his picture.
Reading your comment, I have such a deja-vu feeling... I even checked if slashdot is not fucked up and it shows an old story.
Wasn't some guy in UK under suspicion for hacking because he used lynx?
Btw, I use very often elinks2 (links) and that has frames and mouse suport (and with more effort even images), and I click stuff it it a lot of times. The banners are most of the times "accesible" with alt text, sometimes that text is more appealing than a graphic that we tend to ignore.
Actually, in KDE...
I almost ditched firefox to opera because it was freezing like hell on each page reload or download start. It turns out that I had to cleanup the download history in the download manager. Still a bug, but less important.
I bet you mean Kupu or something like that :)
see subject.
Cut the access to my deviant porn? :) (Not that I'm from/in US, or know what exactly is deviant porn)
What if, what if...
Dell preloads the computers with OpenOffice 2.0 and sells them 100$ cheaper than the ones with Microsoft Office? Now, if we could only persuade them to stop supporting Microsoft so much.
The new 2.1 release is pretty sweet. Has everything you can ask for from an open source CMS.
:)
There is a special product, Plone Help Center, that can help you organize things. Have multiple PHCs (they act as folders), and you can categorize things based on meta-subjects. You can even use it to index and search your doc/pdf/xls files.
Hope this helps
Dovecot is very very stable. In the 3 years I've been using it, I never had any problems with it. I can't say the same, for example, about Courier IMAP, which I've been using for about 3 months before.
Maybe the alpha state signifies some lack of features. But it's in widespread use (for example, I can find it on the Fedora install disks).
I'm afraid you don't really know what you're talking about
I use KDE 3.2 with cygwin over the network and, although it's a bit slower, it's perfectly usable.
And what's your point?
This are the opinions of individuals and not the opinion of a security firm, or an article in a media.
Journalists should be impartial, us, slashdoters, shouldn't.
Firstclass sucks. What do they have so special? It's just a message board without the web interface. And, btw, where's the linux client that they've promised and they're "testing" for the last 3 years?
I don't know about you, but I get browser-mail integration, using Thunderbird and Firefox. Really.
There is even a button that you can add (right click on the toolbar, customize), that gets a button with popup, for ex., in my case: Read Mail (7 new) and New Message.
And what you've asked for is there, believe me.
give up on your pirated copy of photoshop just like that?
Ctrl+H, it will hide the selection. Plus, open the character panel and you can set the color there, if you have a text layer selected.
I'm too young to have used wordstar, but I can tell you one thing: is a lot easier to use wordstar keys for clipboard operation then it is to do the weird ctrl+c/ctrl+v thingy