Consider that the Gimp was written for linux, and that in linux, there's (as stated previously) multiple desktops, therefore just put the Gimp in it's own desktop, and voila, your desktop serves basically the same purpose as photoshop's overall gui. What need is there, in a multiple desktop environment for a gui to hold everything in? Photoshop has unconnected panels, but they are just sitting in a wrapper, ever notice that? What's the difference?
Also, if I'm using gimp, and I have just opened firefox to come get my daily dose of liber'l libel, all I have to do is think, and click on the firefox quick launch, which minimizes firefox, bringing me back to all of my Gimp interfaces. Of course it takes knowing how to use a computer to know to do this, and I really wonder about people some times... (works in windows or linux, btw)
I'll post back from the house later with instructions on how to get Gimp to just two windows instead of three for the majority of tasks. It's really simple.
The way I see it, Sweeney and the rest keep putting the cart ahead of the horse by trying to outdo the competition by making new and unreal things (lmao blatant pun intended) that need hardware that either doesn't exist yet, or is in the final stages of development. What they need to do is be more responsive to the overall market, and make game engines that can run on just about anything, regardless. I'm not saying make the latest unreal engine be able to run on 150 meg cpus, but if Sweeney were really sharp, his game engines would step down and allow games to play on not only new systems, but would pull back automatically on the (totally unnecessary eye-fluff) extras and still give a person a good game. Look at it like this: say people all of a sudden start getting more and more healthy. Restroom developers start making restrooms catering to these people. Guess what? Handicap (for lack of desire to think of a more pc term) people (gee, they want to use restrooms, too) won't be able to go make pee, or poodoo where in these new restrooms. Anyway, Unreal Tournament releases have been a total disappointment since after it reached it's zenith with GOTY anyway (2k3, 2k4, ut3, etc), so aaaactually, it's best if no more Unreal series are released for PCs anyway, because the GOTY community keeps loosing clan members who play the new games for a few months, then come back with their tails between their legs wanting back in. (except in clans that run servers for both games) So yeah, go ahead and knock yourself out, Tim. This is actually great news for the faithful GOTY fans.
I'm going to go right now and patent teleporting doo doo from your toilet to the rings of Saturd. One of these days it will be feasible, and then, BAM, the bucks will come rolling in, baby!
This isn't insightful, it's ironic, and funny. Who the heck put insightful? Who the heck let that person in? And why are they going to mark me a troll or flamebait? I'm inquisitive, that's what I am.
Even if it came pre installed, people would not want it. Most folks would rather not own a car that you have to manually install stuff on, and has to have the dashboard recompiled every time they get to a red light. I use linux, but I have yet to actually foist it on anyone, because it would be a nightmare for me to have to help them when they ran into a glitch. Windows (dang it) just works. Of course, I'm waiting for the day when Linux truly does just work, but until then, no, free has nothing to do with it. People would jump all over free XP. Oooh, free Vista on the other hand,... right. Those disks would be sitting with the Linux discs.
I'm using firefox 2.0.0.12 and have Windows Live Hotmail open right now. With all the bells and whistles. No problem. I can do it at home on my ubuntu box, too. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Is there a tutorial on how to mess up my firefox install so that it doesn't work?
Speaking of buying a computer with Vista on it... It seems like I heard before that you can ask to have XP on a machine instead of Vista, and that retailers like Circus City had to abide by your wishes, or did I just dream that, or get my wires crossed? The one here in town refused to put XP on a friend of mine's computer. And I don't think he could handle using a different OS, or I'd put ubuntu on it for him.
So I guess that seeing as how it's going to hit North America (maybe), there's no software we civilians could use to keep tabs on it, eh? I already have gnome predict, but I know it doesn't have keyhole satellites listed. (duh)
The platters reflect light like crazy. Save up a bunch and send them to Mythbusters, and tell them to make a parabolic mirror death ray out of them and burn a boat or something. And make sure you tell them the Ticklemonster sent you.:)
Oh, and if you are a first time destructor type, be careful playing with the magnets. They will pinch the ever loving day lights out of your finger tips. I like to take them and build little magnet sculptures with them, though I am sure they are great for degaussing little bitty monitors, too.
Lol.. So if I don't agree with you I'm a wacko? Is that how it works. I guess I can see the funniness of it now. It is the "you have to believe what we believe to be taken seriously" joke right?
Whatever happened to science being about questions and answers and not some popular vote on how we worship this week? There is plenty of evidence suggesting that humans might not be the entire (sole) cause of global warming and there is plenty of it suggesting that we aren't the defining factor in it.
Doesn't that just piss you off?
No, what pisses me off is that people like you think you have found your holy grail and want to stop everyone else from looking. This is the most unscientific thing that could come from a group of people that claim science to the be basis of their beliefs and the answers to their problems. It actually takes a lot of scientific interpretations over to the religious like faith side of arguments. And you want to pretend that your interpretations of things are somehow better then everyone else's so they are wackos too incompetent to understand your positions and undeserving the entertainment of their own.
Three fourth the science behind global warming and humans being the cause of politically motivated. All the answers presented thus far stem with the desire to limit first world countries and promote third world countries by either direct payments or investments in infrastructure and industrial development. If someone as bright as you is completely convinces this isn't a scam of some sorts, fine. but what you want to believe and the evidence doesn't equal the same things. Keep your beliefs as solid as you want in something we actually know very little about. Keep on denying the chance that something you believe in could be wrong. Continue to act like a religious zealot in your beliefs and cast all non believers off as wackos not worthy of your cult. It doesn't bother me one bit at all. But it does make me think that there is a scam afoot more then ever.
BTW, I have some swamp land in Nevada for sale if your interested. It isn't swampy right now but it should be in the next couple hundred of years and you should be able to get some good productive use out of it between now and then. Assuming that your beliefs are true that is. And remember, El Nino just did a turn on us, shortly after the "no sunspot" event, and look, there's waves of storms headed towards the Pacific Northwest. All of which are directly sun related. The Day After Tomorrow even said it, "but the sun is the only thing that can effect the weather on the Earth in such scale" (or something like that, then they do a 180 and blame man. Hollywood rocks.)
I recognized it as a joke. Of course both brain cells just reversed polarity on me or I wouldn't have. I knew they'd reversed polarity because the echoes sounded like old ohce ohce, as they tumbled about in their cavernous abode.
Arrrr, we've been Scuddered. Scudder me tumbers!!! Okay, I ran out of steam there. Great that it was a hoax, and it's a good think the principal was a good enough fellow to contact/. and let them know what was going on.
They should allow automatic username with no @fterward email address for hotmail users, and have a couple of radio buttons for the others (which would also not require an email suffix). At least that's how I'd do it.
I'm not against abortion on any religious ground, I just think it's repulsive. Besides, if what religion tells us is true, then the aborted get a free ticket to heaven, so how can that be bad from a religious point of view anyway?
But I think it's great that someone stood their ground against embryonic stem cell research (which, for those of you who just don't get it, is still going on, it was never stopped) anyway, someone stood their ground and now we have new ways to achieve the same goal without using aborted babies. And the funniest part is that old GW was right all along about scientists being able to do this stuff without embryos. The muttering fool was right. Go figure. Ain't science grand?
Anyway, http://mmmgroup.altervista.org/e-trees.html I have yet to find out if this is a hoax or not. If it's not, why not drop a probe in the bush area (Yeah, keep smilin') depicted and see what pops up? (okay, that did it, I'm outta here) (doh!)
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I think his real name is Hardon Harry.
It was "bricken" but he fixed it.
Also, if I'm using gimp, and I have just opened firefox to come get my daily dose of liber'l libel, all I have to do is think, and click on the firefox quick launch, which minimizes firefox, bringing me back to all of my Gimp interfaces. Of course it takes knowing how to use a computer to know to do this, and I really wonder about people some times... (works in windows or linux, btw) I'll post back from the house later with instructions on how to get Gimp to just two windows instead of three for the majority of tasks. It's really simple.
Well, this goes a long way towards explaining the existence of spiders. Must have been another meteorite somewhere along the way...
This should have been scored +10, Hilarious. I can't believe it got a 1 and troll status.
(yes, THAT Ticklemonster)
I'm going to go right now and patent teleporting doo doo from your toilet to the rings of Saturd. One of these days it will be feasible, and then, BAM, the bucks will come rolling in, baby!
This isn't insightful, it's ironic, and funny. Who the heck put insightful? Who the heck let that person in? And why are they going to mark me a troll or flamebait? I'm inquisitive, that's what I am.
Finally, a good reason to change my sig.
Even if it came pre installed, people would not want it. Most folks would rather not own a car that you have to manually install stuff on, and has to have the dashboard recompiled every time they get to a red light. I use linux, but I have yet to actually foist it on anyone, because it would be a nightmare for me to have to help them when they ran into a glitch. Windows (dang it) just works. Of course, I'm waiting for the day when Linux truly does just work, but until then, no, free has nothing to do with it. People would jump all over free XP. Oooh, free Vista on the other hand, ... right. Those disks would be sitting with the Linux discs.
I'm using firefox 2.0.0.12 and have Windows Live Hotmail open right now. With all the bells and whistles. No problem. I can do it at home on my ubuntu box, too. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Is there a tutorial on how to mess up my firefox install so that it doesn't work?
Speaking of buying a computer with Vista on it... It seems like I heard before that you can ask to have XP on a machine instead of Vista, and that retailers like Circus City had to abide by your wishes, or did I just dream that, or get my wires crossed? The one here in town refused to put XP on a friend of mine's computer. And I don't think he could handle using a different OS, or I'd put ubuntu on it for him.
So I guess that seeing as how it's going to hit North America (maybe), there's no software we civilians could use to keep tabs on it, eh? I already have gnome predict, but I know it doesn't have keyhole satellites listed. (duh)
I love the "lobotomy" tag this thread has!!!
Oh, and if you are a first time destructor type, be careful playing with the magnets. They will pinch the ever loving day lights out of your finger tips. I like to take them and build little magnet sculptures with them, though I am sure they are great for degaussing little bitty monitors, too.
Whatever happened to science being about questions and answers and not some popular vote on how we worship this week? There is plenty of evidence suggesting that humans might not be the entire (sole) cause of global warming and there is plenty of it suggesting that we aren't the defining factor in it. No, what pisses me off is that people like you think you have found your holy grail and want to stop everyone else from looking. This is the most unscientific thing that could come from a group of people that claim science to the be basis of their beliefs and the answers to their problems. It actually takes a lot of scientific interpretations over to the religious like faith side of arguments. And you want to pretend that your interpretations of things are somehow better then everyone else's so they are wackos too incompetent to understand your positions and undeserving the entertainment of their own.
Three fourth the science behind global warming and humans being the cause of politically motivated. All the answers presented thus far stem with the desire to limit first world countries and promote third world countries by either direct payments or investments in infrastructure and industrial development. If someone as bright as you is completely convinces this isn't a scam of some sorts, fine. but what you want to believe and the evidence doesn't equal the same things. Keep your beliefs as solid as you want in something we actually know very little about. Keep on denying the chance that something you believe in could be wrong. Continue to act like a religious zealot in your beliefs and cast all non believers off as wackos not worthy of your cult. It doesn't bother me one bit at all. But it does make me think that there is a scam afoot more then ever.
BTW, I have some swamp land in Nevada for sale if your interested. It isn't swampy right now but it should be in the next couple hundred of years and you should be able to get some good productive use out of it between now and then. Assuming that your beliefs are true that is. And remember, El Nino just did a turn on us, shortly after the "no sunspot" event, and look, there's waves of storms headed towards the Pacific Northwest. All of which are directly sun related. The Day After Tomorrow even said it, "but the sun is the only thing that can effect the weather on the Earth in such scale" (or something like that, then they do a 180 and blame man. Hollywood rocks.)
I recognized it as a joke. Of course both brain cells just reversed polarity on me or I wouldn't have. I knew they'd reversed polarity because the echoes sounded like old ohce ohce, as they tumbled about in their cavernous abode.
lmao don't get me started. Just kicked some tush over at the VSC.
I'd buy the Dell, dump the ATI card, put in an Nvidia, and wipe the hard drive and install linux, and use the restore disk for a coaster.
Arrrr, we've been Scuddered. Scudder me tumbers!!! Okay, I ran out of steam there. Great that it was a hoax, and it's a good think the principal was a good enough fellow to contact /. and let them know what was going on.
Wow, people still use Opera?
They should allow automatic username with no @fterward email address for hotmail users, and have a couple of radio buttons for the others (which would also not require an email suffix). At least that's how I'd do it.
But I think it's great that someone stood their ground against embryonic stem cell research (which, for those of you who just don't get it, is still going on, it was never stopped) anyway, someone stood their ground and now we have new ways to achieve the same goal without using aborted babies. And the funniest part is that old GW was right all along about scientists being able to do this stuff without embryos. The muttering fool was right. Go figure. Ain't science grand?
Anyway, http://mmmgroup.altervista.org/e-trees.html I have yet to find out if this is a hoax or not. If it's not, why not drop a probe in the bush area (Yeah, keep smilin') depicted and see what pops up? (okay, that did it, I'm outta here) (doh!)
By god, when I was a kid, we played Wow on an abacus.