Just for the record, Nokia is already using linux as an OS in their Internet Tablets. They are researching into open source software, but I doubt many non-techies are that interested about what OS their phone runs. If using Linux in a handheld means being able or having to tinker and tweak the OS, I think it would scare the most users away anyway.
Personally, I gave up using X photo organization software, because there was always a better one around the corner and making the switch was a pain in the **s. Now I'm uploading all my photos to Gallery2 php/sql -web application. It has more features then I need, is developed actively and it is a handy way to share photos to people or use it as a backend for website image storage. You can also limit the access to photos with powerful account based permission system.
This might actually be the only comment here worth modding interesting, insightful or informative. Mods, spread the love will you?
To all of the religious fanatics here: Star Wars isn't sacred wisdom buried in the sands of time, only recently discovered by George Lucas. Humanity as a whole does not suffer from the original three episodes being remastered and altered at his will, nor are those the holy relics of science fiction.
Yes I've noticed that too. Witch CGI you can create almost real-looking skin, hair, people, whatever, but once they are set in motion it's a different ballgame. I remember Shrek 2 was the first one that had a really cool motion blur, and while characters were made on purpose cartoon like, the camera's movement had a life-like feel to it, with all the blurriness and inaccuracies.
This is from TFA, I think we've found a superhuman here:
(Part of the problem here is that different people have different levels of sensitivity. Personally, I can hear the difference between an MP3 encoding at 320K and one encoded at 256K. I also know people who can't hear a difference between 128K
and 320K. This makes it difficult to test the variation across a wide audience.--Ed)
--Is just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Your.sig struck on me like a lightning. Let me quote a famous philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche:
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
So, he suggests that people seem to be stupid only in large masses. Does that mean it would be wise just to be on your own, or you could end up acting stupid?
The really puzzling part is, that no man is an island, and you really cannot make a difference on your own. This suggests, that because of the group dynamics, people are bound act stupid, and general opinion is bound to be, well, stupid one.
Thank you for your time reading this utterly unimportant rant.
There's no secret ingredient to artistic creativity. Inspiration doesn't just come along and hit you. Take a look at Beethoven's notebooks --- a seemingly simple idea like the opening bars of the 5th symphony was actually the result of many, many revisions.
I would say the key ingredient to artistic creativity (in visual arts at least) is learn to see the world on your own way. Most fascinating and praised artists in the world have seen the world in their own unique way, and that's why they've accomplished something extraordinary.
Of course they've worked hard and all, but I say you should read, listen and study other artists, and find out what's their trademark view.
I am exceedingly glad that KDE dumped the Keramik widget set as its default. That was one of the most childish and unprofessional widget sets ever devised.
Really? I thought Keramik was the best looking set I've yet to see, although I admit it had a certain pastel crayon look in it.
I see KDE as a very cool tool. It's customizability is second to none. That's what the gentoo users want (although all gentoo users I know use fluxbox -- maybe that's why they think their distro is so blazingly fast).
Customizability can be a two-edged sword. My first experiences with KDE was the options given to user in how many ways the UI could be customized, so I spent hours tweaking stuff. This was fun at first, but today I'll value most a clean, well though interface, that just works. In my experience, KDE design is still flawed in a sense that user is EXPECTED to tinker with options, until the system becomes a usable thing.
I think, that in order to bring Linux desktop to level where new users can hop in and start using it instantly requires a well thought, constant look and unified experience, like the one Gnome is offering. KDE is still a long way from there.
I'm a gentoo user too, and I'm using fluxbox still in non-desktop machines. But for my needs, it's too simple and requires even more work to bring into a usable desktop level.
Great that TB now includes RSS reader, I've always thought the email/news-reader application is the more correct place for reading the feeds. What does everyone think, is the Thunderbird or the Firefox the right place for reading RSS feeds?
OTOH, I'm testing the Firefox RSS reader as well, but I don't like the way the bookmarks sidebar eats the space from the main window. Much better place for it seems to be the Bookmarks toolbar.
Yeah, like is said in the other replies already, you have to teach the ham likewise the spam. But when it learns it's stuff, it works like charm! For example, my email forwarding operator http://www.iki.fi/ is currently testing spamassassin, and it marks the messages it thinks is spam with a *SPAM** in the subject. Well, it works fairly well, but it doesn't catch them all, some come into my inbox unmarked, but Thunderbird does catch them!
And I've yet to see it miss a single message, or incorrectly marking it as a "Junk". Truly magnificent piece of software.
There should be a clear distinction between ideas and goods/products based on those ideas. The matter with IP is that, the property owner has surely based his work on someone else's ideas. Trying to ride with a pure innovation is forgetting the work done by others, before the innovation. Ideas should flow free, but the products based on those ideas can be sold for cash.
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Why don't you try reading all the bibles about post-industrial revolution and the increased importance of the brands and culture and stuff?? Heck, that's no news.
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Yeah, they are making great films, for the children and the child-minded. Somehow, while I watched Monsters Inc., I felt uncomfortable with their hilariously expressive faces, obviously to draw young people's attention. But for the older, I suppose that kind of intensive face expression gets tiring after a while (at least, if trying to pay attention to every bit in a movie, like me).
I wish they would try and produce some more adult minded fantasy, or science fiction (along the lines of, say Final Fantasy). And while I am in it, I didn't think Final Fantasy was disappointment story-wise at all, I ranked (and still do) it among the best CG films ever.
My biggest disappointments were the Matrix sequals. WTF happened? Jackson did it right and the Wachowskis did not. My personal theory is that if the Wachowskis had been given the opporunity to shoot the three all at once The Matrix would be held up as a peer to LotR. The huge delay between The Matrix and Reloaded caused all kinds of subtle problems and gave the brothers too much time to think about the screenplay. Sometimes less is more.
What happened, you ask? It's hard to even compare these trilogies. The other has two very talented, young guns putting their lifelong influence on popular culture into screen, and the other has one of the best fantasy novels behind the story. If Wachowskis had the LotR-quality script to make a film of, I think they would've made it to the end.
Now, the great deal of the best thoughts was already in the first part, the others were merely warming on it's afterglow.
I were on the impression, that the first part was made as an independent film, that is, they didn't know if there were to be any sequels. Naturally, the story became a little bit unbalanced. Stuff was merely added to the end (the sequels). It's all about the story...
In this case, predictability was indeed a good thing. I wish more of these old fashioned adventures were made, they have to have some plot and story in them (and over their bones in this case), instead of running purely on CGI.
I guess (and hope), that this is about to be the revival of the adventure film genre, judging by the popularity of the LotR-trilogy. We want heroes, not antiheroes!
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Just for the record, Nokia is already using linux as an OS in their Internet Tablets. They are researching into open source software, but I doubt many non-techies are that interested about what OS their phone runs. If using Linux in a handheld means being able or having to tinker and tweak the OS, I think it would scare the most users away anyway.
Personally, I gave up using X photo organization software, because there was always a better one around the corner and making the switch was a pain in the **s. Now I'm uploading all my photos to Gallery2 php/sql -web application. It has more features then I need, is developed actively and it is a handy way to share photos to people or use it as a backend for website image storage. You can also limit the access to photos with powerful account based permission system.
Dscaler project is developing free MPEG-decoders (mpeg1 & mpeg2), get the latest alpha here: http://www.dscaler.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=4343& sid=38619993305aa424b62fd8065cc2c093
This might actually be the only comment here worth modding interesting, insightful or informative. Mods, spread the love will you?
To all of the religious fanatics here: Star Wars isn't sacred wisdom buried in the sands of time, only recently discovered by George Lucas. Humanity as a whole does not suffer from the original three episodes being remastered and altered at his will, nor are those the holy relics of science fiction.
Yes I've noticed that too. Witch CGI you can create almost real-looking skin, hair, people, whatever, but once they are set in motion it's a different ballgame. I remember Shrek 2 was the first one that had a really cool motion blur, and while characters were made on purpose cartoon like, the camera's movement had a life-like feel to it, with all the blurriness and inaccuracies.
This is from TFA, I think we've found a superhuman here:
That's the most commercially biased news site I've seen, wonder if they write articles by orders?
That must be one of the most insightful comments I've read here for a long time.
Your .sig struck on me like a lightning. Let me quote a famous philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche:
"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
So, he suggests that people seem to be stupid only in large masses. Does that mean it would be wise just to be on your own, or you could end up acting stupid?
The really puzzling part is, that no man is an island, and you really cannot make a difference on your own. This suggests, that because of the group dynamics, people are bound act stupid, and general opinion is bound to be, well, stupid one.
Thank you for your time reading this utterly unimportant rant.
Recent versions of KDE have a tool to adjust the monitor gamma in a similar fashion as with Adobe Gamma.
I think, that in order to bring Linux desktop to level where new users can hop in and start using it instantly requires a well thought, constant look and unified experience, like the one Gnome is offering. KDE is still a long way from there.
I'm a gentoo user too, and I'm using fluxbox still in non-desktop machines. But for my needs, it's too simple and requires even more work to bring into a usable desktop level.
Ok people, all gone.
If anyone is still in need of an invite, send me an email. First 6 will get them.
Great that TB now includes RSS reader, I've always thought the email/news-reader application is the more correct place for reading the feeds. What does everyone think, is the Thunderbird or the Firefox the right place for reading RSS feeds?
OTOH, I'm testing the Firefox RSS reader as well, but I don't like the way the bookmarks sidebar eats the space from the main window. Much better place for it seems to be the Bookmarks toolbar.
We'll see...
Yeah, like is said in the other replies already, you have to teach the ham likewise the spam. But when it learns it's stuff, it works like charm! For example, my email forwarding operator http://www.iki.fi/ is currently testing spamassassin, and it marks the messages it thinks is spam with a *SPAM** in the subject. Well, it works fairly well, but it doesn't catch them all, some come into my inbox unmarked, but Thunderbird does catch them!
And I've yet to see it miss a single message, or incorrectly marking it as a "Junk". Truly magnificent piece of software.
There should be a clear distinction between ideas and goods/products based on those ideas. The matter with IP is that, the property owner has surely based his work on someone else's ideas. Trying to ride with a pure innovation is forgetting the work done by others, before the innovation. Ideas should flow free, but the products based on those ideas can be sold for cash.
Why don't you try reading all the bibles about post-industrial revolution and the increased importance of the brands and culture and stuff?? Heck, that's no news.
omg? really?! where's the "beef"?
Yeah, they are making great films, for the children and the child-minded. Somehow, while I watched Monsters Inc., I felt uncomfortable with their hilariously expressive faces, obviously to draw young people's attention. But for the older, I suppose that kind of intensive face expression gets tiring after a while (at least, if trying to pay attention to every bit in a movie, like me).
I wish they would try and produce some more adult minded fantasy, or science fiction (along the lines of, say Final Fantasy). And while I am in it, I didn't think Final Fantasy was disappointment story-wise at all, I ranked (and still do) it among the best CG films ever.
What happened, you ask? It's hard to even compare these trilogies. The other has two very talented, young guns putting their lifelong influence on popular culture into screen, and the other has one of the best fantasy novels behind the story. If Wachowskis had the LotR-quality script to make a film of, I think they would've made it to the end. Now, the great deal of the best thoughts was already in the first part, the others were merely warming on it's afterglow.
I were on the impression, that the first part was made as an independent film, that is, they didn't know if there were to be any sequels. Naturally, the story became a little bit unbalanced. Stuff was merely added to the end (the sequels). It's all about the story...
In this case, predictability was indeed a good thing. I wish more of these old fashioned adventures were made, they have to have some plot and story in them (and over their bones in this case), instead of running purely on CGI.
I guess (and hope), that this is about to be the revival of the adventure film genre, judging by the popularity of the LotR-trilogy. We want heroes, not antiheroes!