But the transition from a kid with rounded features to the thin Hayden and then to the more rounded features of the face that Darth Vader had in the death scene annoys me more.
Fair enough, just like in B5 where the Centari Ambassador's aide went from a fat guy to a thin guy. Oh wait, that was the same actor and reality made the change! Still, continuity issues like that are annoying without a story reason.
While meanwhile photoshop has gone multi-window like gimp used to be:) Once people got more than a single workspace (virtual desktops) or another monitor it made sense to go that way. Still, if you are stuck on a single monitor with no virtual desktops the single window gimp where you use the application as a window manger (to make up for the shortcomings of the OS) sort of makes sense.
It's not a coreldraw or photoshop clone it is it's own thing instead of a later copy so treating it like a copy will only end in disappointment. If you have already paid for the other ones why are you using gimp?
As for me, I went from AutoCAD to photoshop and was extremely pissed off that it did not have undo at the time - treating it like something else will only end in disappointment.
Since it was about web graphics from day one and not pre-press stuff it's like comparing a text editor to a desktop publishing application - different tools for different jobs. If a co-worker wants to crop baby photos gimp is the tool. If a co-worker wants to take screenshots and put them in reports gimp is the tool. If an expensive per hour graphic artist wants to do something that it took them ages to learn then something like photoshop is the tool. For those of us who didn't go to art school gimp is more than enough.
As for your last comment - gimp started with some more functionality than photoshop at the time, such as the "undo" function. I started a flamewar on a newsgroup by accident by asking where "undo" was in photoshop when I was attempting to use it on a machine with a licenced copy. Apparently "no true professional will ever need undo because they will know to save before every major step". Of course the feature was added to photoshop a few years later no matter what the fanboys thought.
so that it would be very difficult to have one modern GUI system that would run
at a decent speed on old platforms while still having all the flash of a new platform.
Apart from things like Enlightenment, the window manager that Rob Malda posted things about before he started Slashdot, a window manager that has been changed and updated a lot and still performs on slow hardware. It even uses OpenGL if you let it.
It's just a toolkit. Gimp could be ported to it just like Mozilla was (in less than 24 hours after source code release). But there is no point because it's just a toolkit. There's none of the other gnome weirdness in gimp so there's not a lot to change. Menus, button etc are the least of what makes gimp useful.
Don't blame the toolkit for gnome politics. It was a victim not the perpetrator. The gnome people just looked for something already available to use and chose GTK.
architecting the Citrix solution that is going to propel the company into the brave future of 1998
Don't knock it, many software developers haven't made it to where they should have been in 1998. We're still knee deep in 32bit single threaded applications. Fortunately most applications no longer need admin rights to run so at least they've made it to 1992.
I should add that not all ash ends up in the ash dam just the fly ash so that's why the numbers may look weird at first glance. Bottom ash, which is taken out of the bottom of the boiler, typically ends up in concrete and cinder blocks among other things.
finally, nearly all coal has Mercury and large amounts of other elements
No. Ten percent of anything that does not burn is considered a lot for coal - so no "large amounts" of anything else and most of the ash is usually silicates. As for mercury look at what I've written above. It's not a common thing, but in areas where it is found it can also end up in coal. I've never seen it in ash when I've been looking for other elements (using spectroscopy gives you lines for each element present) because the coals used in those power stations were not from the deposits known to have it. Look at a map to see where mercury is mined and you'll see where the coal is likely to have mercury in it. To get a bit of an idea, remember those ash dams I mentioned that had 30+ years of ash in them. Sure they are big, but the amount of coal burned over that time would be an order of magnitude or two more than the volume of the ash dam.
What's wrong is they get tarred by the same brush as whatever Monsanto is getting up to lately if they have the GM label - sucks even if they have nothing to hide.
The sort of thing I mean was Monsanto suing farmers adjacent to those with GM crops for "stealing" their product via cross pollonation by insects and wind.
The problem is that the anti-GM people are not logical. They spread lies and paranoid bull and can not be trusted.
The majority of that is a reaction to companies such as Monsanto who acted in a way to inspire that paranoia and confirm it in a few cases. Sadly the tool is blamed instead of the misuser of the tool so the entire thing is branded as dangerous and those in politics have listened for when it comes to publicly funded projects. That has killed off potentially world-changing projects such as vaccines delivered by banana (cheap production, long shelf life and delivered by eating a portion of the fruit). "Big Pharma" is not interested in anything other than tweaking what they have or playing on certain bets delivered to them via publicly funded research so they are not going to touch that.
A similar thing has already happened with things like gluten free
It's been highjacked by the naturopaths and other frauds who are now mainstream. Don't knock it because it's actually rolling back some processed foods towards better options - for instance so many rice and corn based things have other stuff as a filler so are no longer as gluten free as a "home cooked" version would be. It may be trendy for most and hyped to the max but I find it a bit annoying that corn flakes have gluten in there in the first place by a bit of substitution with a filler to raise the profit margins - so bring on the gluten free versions of the stuff that normally wouldn't have it anyway. File it with "nut free, dairy free" in most cases - it's just trendy so no need to get annoyed since there are far worse superstitions that naturopaths and other con-artists inflict. BTW - I'm not one of the "gluten people" but I've noticed it a bit more because I have a friend who does have celiac disease and I do make gluten free stuff for her. It just means that when I make oat biscuits/cookies for me I do amaretto ones for her made out of crushed almonds.
The US government is NOT there to help people be superstitious. You want something to be labelled? Prove a negative consequence.
I'd say prove an effective difference. I'm keen on ingredients being listed but very much doubt there's a need to list "GM salmon" instead of just "salmon".
Yes the decommissioned ash dams tend to have things sorted nicely by density and as easy to dig as sand. With typically 30+ years of ash in a dam those tiny traces of things add up. Coal gasification has been done a bit over the years but to date it's actually had worse pollution problems probably due to nothing more than a lack of care.
Americans tend to focus on mercury in coal and tend to forget that it's a fairly rare thing and there just happens to be some large US coal deposits in locations with a lot of mercury - it's a local problem - just like all that extra sulphur you have. There's plenty of other toxic stuff to worry about despite pretty well zero mercury making it out of scrubbers in most of the world (and not much more than zero making it as far as the scrubbers anyway).
Scrubbers remove NOx and SOx but not CO2 and they are relatively cheap although you need a lot of space for water storage to go with them. The currently experimental measures to remove CO2 are a different story and look like they will be very expensive.
That's what I was attempting to point out. The taxi companies are stuck with extra costs while Uber is not. They can't take the easy way out without being shut down while Uber can. Uber - bringing all the joys of third-world piecework home. If they were not blatant liars pushing the "ride-sharing" fiction I'd give them a bit more of the benefit of the doubt.
I'm denying that I said the words YOU wrote and you know it. Of course the thing is going to fall down when the majority of the structure no longer works. What's going to hold it up? That thing that is not there any more. The majority of the structure is a little bit different to a single rivet. How about we discuss reality instead of having a stupid fucking debate where one person decides they need to argue on the side of fantasy and has no scruples about how they so it.
Now you are attempting to put words in my mouth. Comparing what I wrote to a single rivet is an act of bastardry and you should be ashamed of yourself.
Nuclear reactor causing a nuclear explosion (they can't do that, their fuel isn't even the right type to attain uncontrolled criticality)
There was a Russian fast breeder RTG thing that could have been like that if it was scaled up and a similar US design - but yes, unlikely to the point of near impossibility even then. See also exploding cars and a vast list of Hollywood getting silly for no good reason. Compare the scary scene but realistic scene of a drop of nitro going off with a bang and small dust cloud in "wages of fear" to the utterly stupid escalation of a drop of nitro on a thrown boot in another movie going off like a truckload of ANFO.
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Fair enough, just like in B5 where the Centari Ambassador's aide went from a fat guy to a thin guy. Oh wait, that was the same actor and reality made the change! Still, continuity issues like that are annoying without a story reason.
While meanwhile photoshop has gone multi-window like gimp used to be :)
Once people got more than a single workspace (virtual desktops) or another monitor it made sense to go that way.
Still, if you are stuck on a single monitor with no virtual desktops the single window gimp where you use the application as a window manger (to make up for the shortcomings of the OS) sort of makes sense.
It's not a coreldraw or photoshop clone it is it's own thing instead of a later copy so treating it like a copy will only end in disappointment.
If you have already paid for the other ones why are you using gimp?
As for me, I went from AutoCAD to photoshop and was extremely pissed off that it did not have undo at the time - treating it like something else will only end in disappointment.
Since it was about web graphics from day one and not pre-press stuff it's like comparing a text editor to a desktop publishing application - different tools for different jobs.
If a co-worker wants to crop baby photos gimp is the tool. If a co-worker wants to take screenshots and put them in reports gimp is the tool. If an expensive per hour graphic artist wants to do something that it took them ages to learn then something like photoshop is the tool. For those of us who didn't go to art school gimp is more than enough.
As for your last comment - gimp started with some more functionality than photoshop at the time, such as the "undo" function. I started a flamewar on a newsgroup by accident by asking where "undo" was in photoshop when I was attempting to use it on a machine with a licenced copy. Apparently "no true professional will ever need undo because they will know to save before every major step". Of course the feature was added to photoshop a few years later no matter what the fanboys thought.
Apart from things like Enlightenment, the window manager that Rob Malda posted things about before he started Slashdot, a window manager that has been changed and updated a lot and still performs on slow hardware. It even uses OpenGL if you let it.
It's just a toolkit. Gimp could be ported to it just like Mozilla was (in less than 24 hours after source code release). But there is no point because it's just a toolkit. There's none of the other gnome weirdness in gimp so there's not a lot to change. Menus, button etc are the least of what makes gimp useful.
Don't blame the toolkit for gnome politics. It was a victim not the perpetrator. The gnome people just looked for something already available to use and chose GTK.
Don't knock it, many software developers haven't made it to where they should have been in 1998. We're still knee deep in 32bit single threaded applications. Fortunately most applications no longer need admin rights to run so at least they've made it to 1992.
I should add that not all ash ends up in the ash dam just the fly ash so that's why the numbers may look weird at first glance. Bottom ash, which is taken out of the bottom of the boiler, typically ends up in concrete and cinder blocks among other things.
No.
Ten percent of anything that does not burn is considered a lot for coal - so no "large amounts" of anything else and most of the ash is usually silicates. As for mercury look at what I've written above. It's not a common thing, but in areas where it is found it can also end up in coal. I've never seen it in ash when I've been looking for other elements (using spectroscopy gives you lines for each element present) because the coals used in those power stations were not from the deposits known to have it. Look at a map to see where mercury is mined and you'll see where the coal is likely to have mercury in it.
To get a bit of an idea, remember those ash dams I mentioned that had 30+ years of ash in them. Sure they are big, but the amount of coal burned over that time would be an order of magnitude or two more than the volume of the ash dam.
I agree. Fads come and go. This one is more useful than most.
You analogy is very misleading - why?
Sticking to the facts is not good enough for you?
What's wrong is they get tarred by the same brush as whatever Monsanto is getting up to lately if they have the GM label - sucks even if they have nothing to hide.
The sort of thing I mean was Monsanto suing farmers adjacent to those with GM crops for "stealing" their product via cross pollonation by insects and wind.
The majority of that is a reaction to companies such as Monsanto who acted in a way to inspire that paranoia and confirm it in a few cases. Sadly the tool is blamed instead of the misuser of the tool so the entire thing is branded as dangerous and those in politics have listened for when it comes to publicly funded projects. That has killed off potentially world-changing projects such as vaccines delivered by banana (cheap production, long shelf life and delivered by eating a portion of the fruit). "Big Pharma" is not interested in anything other than tweaking what they have or playing on certain bets delivered to them via publicly funded research so they are not going to touch that.
It's been highjacked by the naturopaths and other frauds who are now mainstream. Don't knock it because it's actually rolling back some processed foods towards better options - for instance so many rice and corn based things have other stuff as a filler so are no longer as gluten free as a "home cooked" version would be. It may be trendy for most and hyped to the max but I find it a bit annoying that corn flakes have gluten in there in the first place by a bit of substitution with a filler to raise the profit margins - so bring on the gluten free versions of the stuff that normally wouldn't have it anyway.
File it with "nut free, dairy free" in most cases - it's just trendy so no need to get annoyed since there are far worse superstitions that naturopaths and other con-artists inflict.
BTW - I'm not one of the "gluten people" but I've noticed it a bit more because I have a friend who does have celiac disease and I do make gluten free stuff for her. It just means that when I make oat biscuits/cookies for me I do amaretto ones for her made out of crushed almonds.
I'd say prove an effective difference. I'm keen on ingredients being listed but very much doubt there's a need to list "GM salmon" instead of just "salmon".
You are blaming science when instead you should be blaming advertising.
They found a weak government that was only interested in slogans and keeping the other party out of power. A soft target for them.
Yes the decommissioned ash dams tend to have things sorted nicely by density and as easy to dig as sand. With typically 30+ years of ash in a dam those tiny traces of things add up.
Coal gasification has been done a bit over the years but to date it's actually had worse pollution problems probably due to nothing more than a lack of care.
Americans tend to focus on mercury in coal and tend to forget that it's a fairly rare thing and there just happens to be some large US coal deposits in locations with a lot of mercury - it's a local problem - just like all that extra sulphur you have. There's plenty of other toxic stuff to worry about despite pretty well zero mercury making it out of scrubbers in most of the world (and not much more than zero making it as far as the scrubbers anyway).
Scrubbers remove NOx and SOx but not CO2 and they are relatively cheap although you need a lot of space for water storage to go with them. The currently experimental measures to remove CO2 are a different story and look like they will be very expensive.
That's what I was attempting to point out. The taxi companies are stuck with extra costs while Uber is not. They can't take the easy way out without being shut down while Uber can.
Uber - bringing all the joys of third-world piecework home. If they were not blatant liars pushing the "ride-sharing" fiction I'd give them a bit more of the benefit of the doubt.
You don't know what "majority" means, do you?
Everything apart from the deck in this case.
Why are you bothering to pick a fight while unarmed?
I'm denying that I said the words YOU wrote and you know it.
Of course the thing is going to fall down when the majority of the structure no longer works. What's going to hold it up? That thing that is not there any more. The majority of the structure is a little bit different to a single rivet.
How about we discuss reality instead of having a stupid fucking debate where one person decides they need to argue on the side of fantasy and has no scruples about how they so it.
Now you are attempting to put words in my mouth. Comparing what I wrote to a single rivet is an act of bastardry and you should be ashamed of yourself.
It isn't, otherwise the remainder of the bridge would not be necessary.
Even fantasy has a wizard stand up and wave things around to give a clue that there is some sort of cause to the unrealistic effect.
There was a Russian fast breeder RTG thing that could have been like that if it was scaled up and a similar US design - but yes, unlikely to the point of near impossibility even then. See also exploding cars and a vast list of Hollywood getting silly for no good reason. Compare the scary scene but realistic scene of a drop of nitro going off with a bang and small dust cloud in "wages of fear" to the utterly stupid escalation of a drop of nitro on a thrown boot in another movie going off like a truckload of ANFO.