If you don't like the name, you can always change the name and rebrand it. Besides, "GIMP" is a simple name that's easy to remember and it translates easily into "gimping" images (which sounds quite a bit better than "photoshopping").
Of course, my real opinion on the matter is this: who cares what the name is? Under many GNOME desktops, it shows up as "Image Manipulation Program" or "Photo Manipulation Program" or some such name. Since GIMP can be packaged with anything, I don't see why its name is even important; the user may not even see it.
And don't try and use the argument "but those are closed source; open source is better!" argument -- in the end, it's just software people use, regardless of the licensing / development model.
This isn't really true since proprietary codecs with patents and huge licensing fees are often not used by people because they can't afford a license. Additionally, the development model is very important to users as closed source projects, once abandoned, begin to have their user base eroded (ex. the number of users switching away from IE and all its bugs).
That doesn't mean it's not funny that JPEG2000 (which has been championed by some because it's... it's... wavelet-based) often appears worse than JPEG. The part I find humorous is that wavelets are supposed to save the world and blow away DCT methods, but JPEG2000 (which is heavily patent encumbered) seems inferior to me.
That aside, I sometimes don't read articles that are linked to (even on Slashdot).
Ogg is not a good container for video! They haven't even finished the spec (one of the main things holding Theora back) and there's just a bunch of arguing about how to support discontinuous channels like subtitles (which I have absolutely no interest in).
Sure, Ogg has some interesting properties (to combine Ogg streams you can just concatenate files and such), but it's certainly not ready for primetime yet.
I'm sure it'll be great once it comes out, but Xiph development on Theora and Ogg has died down quite a lot and I'm not terribly confident in those guys anymore (though I thank them for creating Ogg Vorbis).
1. I've never seen a Mac or OS X proponent claim that Macs will be more popular than Windows. If that happened, they couldn't be the elitest jerks they enjoy being.
2. BSD is dying, right?;) Although I seriously have never heard a FreeBSD fan claim that any BSD will dominate the desktop.
3. Some Amiga users actually believe that Amiga has overtaken Windows. They also think that they can fly and enjoy spending their time musing about the animated colors that adorn their walls while their friend takes another hit from the bong that they pooled their money to purchase.
4. What's a slide-rule professor? For that matter, what's a slide-rule? I enjoyed Mortal Kombat by Midway though, so your props are deserved. They're actually a US company, by the way, even though they developed for Nintendo.
Something else that bothers me is that every single RPG from Square (and most from Enix) seems to end with the characters saving the world. It was exciting the first time, but I've done it so many times, it feels like a job; back to the ol' saving the world grind...
Good explanation, although I think the events that you describe happen a lot less often than Hollywood has brainwashed some people to think.
With your points in mind, I think it's an interesting experiment (though I'm glad it's not happening where I live). I have a feeling that such a system will result in criminals not using cars to get around or stealing license plates and cars and crime will only be slightly reduced, but I don't think anyone can accurately predict what the outcome will be.
Or the poster could just save almost everyone the need to Google and just state the guy's commonly-known pen name.
This is basically the same as people complaining about acronyms/project names never being explained in summaries. Given that such summaries are written for the general Slashdot reader who may not care about mlDonkey or Sancho, I think the people writing summaries such as this one are making a mistake.
I agree with your ipse dixit despite your ad hominem, although prima facie evidence has indicated ad infinitum (as you noted a priori) that Slashdotters are cannot post sans such phrases a fortiori, being that said phrases are the de facto lingua franca of condescending morons et cetera and it is easier to insert such phrases than to begin with tabula rasa.
My thoughts exactly... unfortunately, no one seems to want to answer that question. I'm not sure why these people feel that they have a right to privacy when they're out in public; it's not like they're tracking you within your own home.
Additionally, if you don't like it, move. The cameras are to prevent burglaries in a rich town and I have a feeling that the rich old folk are quite happy with this new setup.
"Oh no! They can track my movements!" You're out in public; any moron can track your movements if they really want to. Would you rather a law be passed where everyone must be blind folded and wearing ear plugs before going out into public so as to not violate anyone's right to privacy?
Then roll the car sidways down the road. Or hop on the bus after looting another rich old man's home for jewelry, after all, what kind of use is he going to get out of it?
Many/most people today (especially young people), do not view file sharing of music and videos as wrong.
Doesn't mean anything. It's wrong. If this website was made up of musicians and not Linux geeks, the entire opinion of the hivemind would change.
How does this not mean anything? The fact that's it's wrong means nothing; people still do it. The fact that's it's wrong isn't what the RIAA claims is losing them money; it's the fact that people are doing it that the RIAA claims is losing them money.
Remind me of that again when some company violates the copyright of the GPL. Is it "strongarm tactics" to enforce the law then?
Exactly like the RIAA lawsuits, if they can prove the case, then no, it's not a strongarm tactic. But keep in mind that an IP address is not much evidence (what if a virus was downloading files? What if someone else was doing the downloading?).
I don't think you'll be happy unless everything is free.
I would be willing to pay 10 cents per song. Free is better, yes, but 10 cents per song would be ok with me. So basically, you're just wrong on this point.
They don't pay for any. But don't pirate it either. That's illegal and immoral. They don't owe you anything. Like you said, music is just entertainment and is not a right. Which means people around here who justify it as some sort of innate right to pirate music because it's too expensive are wrong by your own argument.
The parent poster said he'd be willing to pay $1-$2 for a CD, so he considers the current $10 CDs to be overpriced.
As for hundreds of purchases at $10/CD, that's a lot of money. I don't remember the last time I paid more than $8 for a CD and I've decided that even that is more than I'd like to pay.
Ah, thanks, I wasn't sure how to search for the zeroeth IndieJam. I still stand by my claim that programmers start counting with 1 and only start with 0 for storing offsets.
actually the third year, as programmers start counting from 0
Is this true or just some lame attempt at humor? I couldn't find any mention of it being the 3rd Game Jam, so I'm assuming this was meant as a joke. Unfortunately, the reasoning is kind of crazy: programmers don't start counting from zero, they just count offsets from the beginning of a list/array because it can be more efficient (doesn't matter nowadays, but it used to). This works out well since all integer types contain 0 as a number, so a single byte could address 8 elements instead of just 7. This contrasts with functions like strlen which count the characters in a string. strlen starts counting with 1 just like any sane human being. To summarize: the joke is not funny and untrue =)
I am a Linux user and I favor nVidia cards for their better (as I perceive it) driver support. I can't speak for everyone, but I'll do it anyway: the answer to your query is "yes".
I think you meant your post as a joke, but the parent poster mentioned pawn shops.
Also, people that steal things usually want money more than the object itself and pawn/sell the stolen merchandise so they can pay the rent/feed their family/purchase more drugs.
I would imagine that very few people would be willing to steal laptops from children and risk going to jail just so that they could have more processing power; most theives would be in it for the money.
Oops, did not mean to post as AC there. And you're right, after looking at the other comments, my argument, while valid, is not sound. I guess I gave Slashdot too much credit.
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If you don't like the name, you can always change the name and rebrand it. Besides, "GIMP" is a simple name that's easy to remember and it translates easily into "gimping" images (which sounds quite a bit better than "photoshopping").
Of course, my real opinion on the matter is this: who cares what the name is? Under many GNOME desktops, it shows up as "Image Manipulation Program" or "Photo Manipulation Program" or some such name. Since GIMP can be packaged with anything, I don't see why its name is even important; the user may not even see it.
This isn't really true since proprietary codecs with patents and huge licensing fees are often not used by people because they can't afford a license. Additionally, the development model is very important to users as closed source projects, once abandoned, begin to have their user base eroded (ex. the number of users switching away from IE and all its bugs).
That doesn't mean it's not funny that JPEG2000 (which has been championed by some because it's... it's... wavelet-based) often appears worse than JPEG. The part I find humorous is that wavelets are supposed to save the world and blow away DCT methods, but JPEG2000 (which is heavily patent encumbered) seems inferior to me.
That aside, I sometimes don't read articles that are linked to (even on Slashdot).
Ogg is not a good container for video! They haven't even finished the spec (one of the main things holding Theora back) and there's just a bunch of arguing about how to support discontinuous channels like subtitles (which I have absolutely no interest in).
Sure, Ogg has some interesting properties (to combine Ogg streams you can just concatenate files and such), but it's certainly not ready for primetime yet.
I'm sure it'll be great once it comes out, but Xiph development on Theora and Ogg has died down quite a lot and I'm not terribly confident in those guys anymore (though I thank them for creating Ogg Vorbis).
That's funny; in the last two examples, I prefer the JPEG artifacts to the JPEG2000 ones.
Funny, yes, insightful? I don't think so.
;) Although I seriously have never heard a FreeBSD fan claim that any BSD will dominate the desktop.
1. I've never seen a Mac or OS X proponent claim that Macs will be more popular than Windows. If that happened, they couldn't be the elitest jerks they enjoy being.
2. BSD is dying, right?
3. Some Amiga users actually believe that Amiga has overtaken Windows. They also think that they can fly and enjoy spending their time musing about the animated colors that adorn their walls while their friend takes another hit from the bong that they pooled their money to purchase.
4. What's a slide-rule professor? For that matter, what's a slide-rule? I enjoyed Mortal Kombat by Midway though, so your props are deserved. They're actually a US company, by the way, even though they developed for Nintendo.
Something else that bothers me is that every single RPG from Square (and most from Enix) seems to end with the characters saving the world. It was exciting the first time, but I've done it so many times, it feels like a job; back to the ol' saving the world grind...
Ah, so it's a cross between a camel and... wait, what is it? Other than massive and scary, I mean.
Good explanation, although I think the events that you describe happen a lot less often than Hollywood has brainwashed some people to think.
With your points in mind, I think it's an interesting experiment (though I'm glad it's not happening where I live). I have a feeling that such a system will result in criminals not using cars to get around or stealing license plates and cars and crime will only be slightly reduced, but I don't think anyone can accurately predict what the outcome will be.
NULL is usually defined to be zero, so no, that doesn't work. If you're returning a pointer, then yes, but that's not the same as counting.
Never mind, though. No one seems to understand my point...
Or the poster could just save almost everyone the need to Google and just state the guy's commonly-known pen name.
This is basically the same as people complaining about acronyms/project names never being explained in summaries. Given that such summaries are written for the general Slashdot reader who may not care about mlDonkey or Sancho, I think the people writing summaries such as this one are making a mistake.
I agree with your ipse dixit despite your ad hominem, although prima facie evidence has indicated ad infinitum (as you noted a priori) that Slashdotters are cannot post sans such phrases a fortiori, being that said phrases are the de facto lingua franca of condescending morons et cetera and it is easier to insert such phrases than to begin with tabula rasa.
Handy list of Latin phrases said morons use. Now you, too, can sound like a condescendant!
My thoughts exactly... unfortunately, no one seems to want to answer that question. I'm not sure why these people feel that they have a right to privacy when they're out in public; it's not like they're tracking you within your own home.
Additionally, if you don't like it, move. The cameras are to prevent burglaries in a rich town and I have a feeling that the rich old folk are quite happy with this new setup.
"Oh no! They can track my movements!" You're out in public; any moron can track your movements if they really want to. Would you rather a law be passed where everyone must be blind folded and wearing ear plugs before going out into public so as to not violate anyone's right to privacy?
Then roll the car sidways down the road. Or hop on the bus after looting another rich old man's home for jewelry, after all, what kind of use is he going to get out of it?
How does this not mean anything? The fact that's it's wrong means nothing; people still do it. The fact that's it's wrong isn't what the RIAA claims is losing them money; it's the fact that people are doing it that the RIAA claims is losing them money.
Exactly like the RIAA lawsuits, if they can prove the case, then no, it's not a strongarm tactic. But keep in mind that an IP address is not much evidence (what if a virus was downloading files? What if someone else was doing the downloading?).
I would be willing to pay 10 cents per song. Free is better, yes, but 10 cents per song would be ok with me. So basically, you're just wrong on this point.
Finally a good point. Luckily, it's been discussed before.
The parent poster said he'd be willing to pay $1-$2 for a CD, so he considers the current $10 CDs to be overpriced.
As for hundreds of purchases at $10/CD, that's a lot of money. I don't remember the last time I paid more than $8 for a CD and I've decided that even that is more than I'd like to pay.
My point is that you don't start counting with 0 instead of 1, because then how would you count 0 items?
In C/C++, you index array elements by their offset from the beginning as I stated before. There is no "counting" involved.
Since when did the meaning of "-1, Off-topic" change to "+5, Insightful"?
Ah, thanks, I wasn't sure how to search for the zeroeth IndieJam. I still stand by my claim that programmers start counting with 1 and only start with 0 for storing offsets.
Is this true or just some lame attempt at humor? I couldn't find any mention of it being the 3rd Game Jam, so I'm assuming this was meant as a joke. Unfortunately, the reasoning is kind of crazy: programmers don't start counting from zero, they just count offsets from the beginning of a list/array because it can be more efficient (doesn't matter nowadays, but it used to). This works out well since all integer types contain 0 as a number, so a single byte could address 8 elements instead of just 7. This contrasts with functions like strlen which count the characters in a string. strlen starts counting with 1 just like any sane human being. To summarize: the joke is not funny and untrue =)
I am a Linux user and I favor nVidia cards for their better (as I perceive it) driver support. I can't speak for everyone, but I'll do it anyway: the answer to your query is "yes".
I think you meant your post as a joke, but the parent poster mentioned pawn shops.
Also, people that steal things usually want money more than the object itself and pawn/sell the stolen merchandise so they can pay the rent/feed their family/purchase more drugs.
I would imagine that very few people would be willing to steal laptops from children and risk going to jail just so that they could have more processing power; most theives would be in it for the money.
On the other hand, I don't get jokes, so I just mod them as Off-topic/Troll/Flamebait.
Oops, did not mean to post as AC there. And you're right, after looking at the other comments, my argument, while valid, is not sound. I guess I gave Slashdot too much credit.