Did you try using the Windows 7 graphics driver in the Windows 10 install? Windows 10 supports using Windows 7 drivers.
My Windows 7 PC has an nForce chipset. The Windows 10 upgrade tool won't even let me proceed because NVIDIA refuses to make a Windows 10 driver for its GPU. Or are people supposed to seek out a half height GPU card just to qualify for the Windows 10 upgrade?
People whose laptop PCs shipped with Windows 8.1 or 10 and whose manufacturers offered no Windows 7 option with comparable hardware. Or people want security updates to continue past 2019. Or developers testing their applications and device drivers for compatibility with Windows 10.
Microsoft carefully engineered it that way by removing your "rational choices" until there was only one (unless you count switching to a decent OS, an option you seem to have missed.)
You could buy a computer with "a decent OS" for $1000 at apple.com, and people in your household would have to wait their turn to use it. Or you could buy two computers with Windows for $500 and a lot less waiting. Unless you're specifically developing apps for OS X or iOS, which is more rational?
GIMP had switched from writing the text onto a regular layer to putting text on its own layer by 2.4 at the latest, possibly even 2.0, I forget. But what is a program supposed to do when it offers a major revamp to one of its tools? Remember that you had used the tool in the past and then interrupt you with a forced tutorial about the improvement the next time you use the program?
Dealing with text in gimp is very inconvenient at best. A completely new technique is needed, something like "text objects" that could be moved, resized, and edited long after their original creation.
I don't agree with your implication that it is a common case for people to be doing software development [...] without internet access in 2005.
Or 2015 for that matter. But I work on hobby programming projects to pass the time while riding the bus to and from my day job. Because buses in my hometown do not provide Wi-Fi, I download local copies of library docs and keep them on my laptop. The question then becomes how a first-time user can learn to search through these.
I'm not entirely sure what you meant to imply by that, but I have been using GIMP to do pixel art work in projects for which I was paid.
The graphics for the menu in the anthology STREEMERZ: Action 53 Function 16 Volume One, as well as its "Concentration Room", "Thwaite", and "ZapPing" activities, were made in GIMP.
The graphics for the menu in the anthology Double Action 53: Volume 2, as well as its "RHDE" and "robotfindskitten" activities, were made in GIMP.
I did most of the programming and the art conversion pipeline for Haunted: Halloween '85. The lead artist presumably made the game's graphics in Photoshop, but my retouching to prepare them for insertion into the game was all in GIMP.
So the removal of tabs groups is exactly in line with your expectations.
Except when Mozilla makes changes to Firefox that are difficult for an extension to reverse. I've read anecdotal reports that Classic Theme Restorer is hitting limits in how thoroughly it can cover up Australis.
What we expect Mozilla to do is remove features from Firefox core and distribute them as extensions on addons.mozilla.org. For example, Pocket used to be exactly such an extension, as are various tab management extensions. "Where's my feature?" is a matter of missing machinery in the core on which to build extensions.
If you use more then 5 tabs open something is wrong and you should learn about bookmarks
I might open ten tabs, close my laptop's lid, board the bus, and read them while riding the bus. I use this as a way to avoid having to pay for mobile broadband on the way to and from work. If I were to use bookmarks instead, all I would get would be "Problem loading page: Server not found". Or is that what Pocket is intended for?
None. Nor can "I want all the exclusives" work unless you're willing to buy used previous-generation consoles as well, as not all games have been rereleased in Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Store, or Virtual Console. Some games even get pulled from these stores after a while, such as BPS's Yoshi's Cookie. So perhaps a better metric to incorporate access to exclusives is number of worthwhile exclusives per dollar of hardware cost. And among current platforms, PC exclusives on GOG and Steam tend to come out ahead.
How did you get up to $1100 for including the best version of smash bros?
"Best" is subjective, and a lot of people associate that with Melee. But I was referring to Super Smash Bros. For which is the latest with the most characters.
Then why didn't IBM start selling Personal System 3 computers in order to provide an alternative that fulfilled the original intended purpose of Other OS, namely training developers for its Cell architecture?
Color alone doesn't work for the four percent of your audience that's color blind. This is why web pages use styling cues to mark controls. The Slashdot UI shows a few: Submit, the search box, and the follow buttons at the top have a contrasting background color. So do the comment counts on the front page, the share buttons on each story. Reply to This and collapsed comments use underlined text. On the comment form, the subject and comment have outlines, the Post Anonymously switch has the platform's standard checkbox/on-off styling, and the Preview button has both an outline and a background color. The trouble is that lately, a lot of mobile apps have become flat enough not to offer even those cues.
Thank you for the breakdown. Based on the information you provided, I would be looking at roughly $2,100 over the course of three years to use Apple Music instead of storing a subset of my library on the device.
ok, let's try. what is your baseline on this. a cheapo flip phone and a phone plan with unlimited talk/text? or a phone that has very restricted limits? [...] you can just use the ipod touch and get the "ideal experience" but only on wifi.
In the past, other Slashdot users have chided me for "moving the goalposts" when I have tried to clarify requirements. But let me try to clarify anyway: The baseline I had in mind was close to the 800-minute plan you mentioned plus Internet at home, but I wanted something usable away from home. Because the buses in my hometown do not provide Wi-Fi service, I would need to additionally subscribe to cellular Internet, which is the largest cost in this breakdown. So yes
You said "Jaguar". Both the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 have a 64-bit AMD Jaguar CPU. DO THE MATH.
More seriously: Why is AMD reusing previous game console names for its technology code names lately? Jaguar was an Atari console, and GCN was the official abbreviation for GameCube.
Unless the drivers are decidedly inferior on one operating system compared to the other, as demonstrated in Slashdot stories from July and October of this year.
How should children under 16 go about "earning it"? Their house and yard chores already pay for their rent and food. Not every child on the block can have a paper route or run a lawn care service.
don't get upset because a game might not run 1080p
Especially when "this game runs at 576p" whiners ignore that sub-1080p games on a given platform are more likely to use sophisticated lighting than "give me 1080p or give me death" games, and the human visual system draws more information from light and shadow than from edge detail.
A set of consoles that plays the latest Gran Turismo, the latest Halo, and the latest Super Smash Bros. is going to cost you $1100 anyway. Yet despite this, and despite the lack of mods that extend games' replay value, certain console fans love to trumpet how much cheaper their preferred product is than a gaming PC.
The new attitude is the commercial style developer/user split. There are those who develop it and know what's best for you and you're the user. You're meant to use it, not dig into the guts. I think this attitude sits badly with an awful lot of people, people who feel the culture they are part of an in many cases helped build is being destroyed by large, moneyed interests.
Agreed. But this attitude of "take what the privileged developer class gives you and like it" has been around for decades, dating back to game consoles with cryptographic countermeasures against running user-created programs.
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Did you try using the Windows 7 graphics driver in the Windows 10 install? Windows 10 supports using Windows 7 drivers.
My Windows 7 PC has an nForce chipset. The Windows 10 upgrade tool won't even let me proceed because NVIDIA refuses to make a Windows 10 driver for its GPU. Or are people supposed to seek out a half height GPU card just to qualify for the Windows 10 upgrade?
Who is using Windows10?
People whose laptop PCs shipped with Windows 8.1 or 10 and whose manufacturers offered no Windows 7 option with comparable hardware. Or people want security updates to continue past 2019. Or developers testing their applications and device drivers for compatibility with Windows 10.
Microsoft carefully engineered it that way by removing your "rational choices" until there was only one (unless you count switching to a decent OS, an option you seem to have missed.)
You could buy a computer with "a decent OS" for $1000 at apple.com, and people in your household would have to wait their turn to use it. Or you could buy two computers with Windows for $500 and a lot less waiting. Unless you're specifically developing apps for OS X or iOS, which is more rational?
GIMP had switched from writing the text onto a regular layer to putting text on its own layer by 2.4 at the latest, possibly even 2.0, I forget. But what is a program supposed to do when it offers a major revamp to one of its tools? Remember that you had used the tool in the past and then interrupt you with a forced tutorial about the improvement the next time you use the program?
Dealing with text in gimp is very inconvenient at best. A completely new technique is needed, something like "text objects" that could be moved, resized, and edited long after their original creation.
GIMP has had this for years.
I can't even train myself to use GIMP with that horrible UI.
Does that include having tried choosing Single-Window Mode from the Windows menu?
I don't agree with your implication that it is a common case for people to be doing software development [...] without internet access in 2005.
Or 2015 for that matter. But I work on hobby programming projects to pass the time while riding the bus to and from my day job. Because buses in my hometown do not provide Wi-Fi, I download local copies of library docs and keep them on my laptop. The question then becomes how a first-time user can learn to search through these.
I notice you put "professional" in quotes.
That says a lot, really.
I'm not entirely sure what you meant to imply by that, but I have been using GIMP to do pixel art work in projects for which I was paid.
What's a "professional" again?
So how do you tell whether you've changed the image since exporting?
I understood exactly what was meant: C++98 could not compete as a modern language with a modern standard library, but C++11 could.
So the removal of tabs groups is exactly in line with your expectations.
Except when Mozilla makes changes to Firefox that are difficult for an extension to reverse. I've read anecdotal reports that Classic Theme Restorer is hitting limits in how thoroughly it can cover up Australis.
What we expect Mozilla to do is remove features from Firefox core and distribute them as extensions on addons.mozilla.org. For example, Pocket used to be exactly such an extension, as are various tab management extensions. "Where's my feature?" is a matter of missing machinery in the core on which to build extensions.
If you use more then 5 tabs open something is wrong and you should learn about bookmarks
I might open ten tabs, close my laptop's lid, board the bus, and read them while riding the bus. I use this as a way to avoid having to pay for mobile broadband on the way to and from work. If I were to use bookmarks instead, all I would get would be "Problem loading page: Server not found". Or is that what Pocket is intended for?
Yes. When I went to college, "lab" was the name for any section that students in a particular class were required to take in addition to a lecture.
None. Nor can "I want all the exclusives" work unless you're willing to buy used previous-generation consoles as well, as not all games have been rereleased in Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Store, or Virtual Console. Some games even get pulled from these stores after a while, such as BPS's Yoshi's Cookie. So perhaps a better metric to incorporate access to exclusives is number of worthwhile exclusives per dollar of hardware cost. And among current platforms, PC exclusives on GOG and Steam tend to come out ahead.
How did you get up to $1100 for including the best version of smash bros?
"Best" is subjective, and a lot of people associate that with Melee. But I was referring to Super Smash Bros. For which is the latest with the most characters.
Then why didn't IBM start selling Personal System 3 computers in order to provide an alternative that fulfilled the original intended purpose of Other OS, namely training developers for its Cell architecture?
Color alone doesn't work for the four percent of your audience that's color blind. This is why web pages use styling cues to mark controls. The Slashdot UI shows a few: Submit, the search box, and the follow buttons at the top have a contrasting background color. So do the comment counts on the front page, the share buttons on each story. Reply to This and collapsed comments use underlined text. On the comment form, the subject and comment have outlines, the Post Anonymously switch has the platform's standard checkbox/on-off styling, and the Preview button has both an outline and a background color. The trouble is that lately, a lot of mobile apps have become flat enough not to offer even those cues.
Thank you for the breakdown. Based on the information you provided, I would be looking at roughly $2,100 over the course of three years to use Apple Music instead of storing a subset of my library on the device.
ok, let's try. what is your baseline on this. a cheapo flip phone and a phone plan with unlimited talk/text? or a phone that has very restricted limits? [...] you can just use the ipod touch and get the "ideal experience" but only on wifi.
In the past, other Slashdot users have chided me for "moving the goalposts" when I have tried to clarify requirements. But let me try to clarify anyway: The baseline I had in mind was close to the 800-minute plan you mentioned plus Internet at home, but I wanted something usable away from home. Because the buses in my hometown do not provide Wi-Fi service, I would need to additionally subscribe to cellular Internet, which is the largest cost in this breakdown. So yes
Get them a Dreamcast, N64, Saturn, 3DO or Jaguar
You said "Jaguar". Both the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 have a 64-bit AMD Jaguar CPU. DO THE MATH.
More seriously: Why is AMD reusing previous game console names for its technology code names lately? Jaguar was an Atari console, and GCN was the official abbreviation for GameCube.
Once in the game, the OS is irrelevant.
Unless the drivers are decidedly inferior on one operating system compared to the other, as demonstrated in Slashdot stories from July and October of this year.
How should children under 16 go about "earning it"? Their house and yard chores already pay for their rent and food. Not every child on the block can have a paper route or run a lawn care service.
don't get upset because a game might not run 1080p
Especially when "this game runs at 576p" whiners ignore that sub-1080p games on a given platform are more likely to use sophisticated lighting than "give me 1080p or give me death" games, and the human visual system draws more information from light and shadow than from edge detail.
A set of consoles that plays the latest Gran Turismo, the latest Halo, and the latest Super Smash Bros. is going to cost you $1100 anyway. Yet despite this, and despite the lack of mods that extend games' replay value, certain console fans love to trumpet how much cheaper their preferred product is than a gaming PC.
The new attitude is the commercial style developer/user split. There are those who develop it and know what's best for you and you're the user. You're meant to use it, not dig into the guts. I think this attitude sits badly with an awful lot of people, people who feel the culture they are part of an in many cases helped build is being destroyed by large, moneyed interests.
Agreed. But this attitude of "take what the privileged developer class gives you and like it" has been around for decades, dating back to game consoles with cryptographic countermeasures against running user-created programs.