discs would be perfect for any new audio standard, storing 1.8GB a piece if I remember correctly. Then Discmans would become as small as MiniDisc players or possibly smaller, yet the production costs of media would be cheaper as it's already an accepted format.
..ATI X800XT Platimum Edition video cards for $450 to replace their $450 to $500 top end ATI 9800XT cards they bought a month or two ago!
Unless you have much more money then sense, you're not going to throw away a near high-end card just because you have a newer one that can do 15fps more. With a spare card you can put together another high end gaming rig, or have a backup in case you screw up the new one when you epoxy shiny ramsinks onto it and things go horribly wrong (true story).
Getting rid of a card like that wouldn't be all that hard either; you can easily find people that are willing to pay at least half of the original price, probably a lot more. Especially if you're the kind that goes to lan gatherings.
It will ship along with Duke Nukem Forever, and in an effort to have it released on the same day, Microsoft will rush Longhorn development and release an inferior OS.
The DS design might have its own upsides, but for me a widescreen GBA SP (GBA SPWS!) would make much more sense. Think about it, It's like the difference between a single widescreen TV and two smaller regular TVs stacked on top of each other. With the DS we can have neat touchscreen menus, maps and all sorts of other wacky crap, but what happens with games that wouldn't really make much use of it? Having a single wide screen might not be as adult and PDA-ish but I'm pretty sure that it could display just as much information as two smaller screens would, plus it would less limit the way said information is displayed. Every game would benefit.
I guess this means that I have to start crossing my fingers so that rumours of a vanilla gameboy successor will come true.
Text messaging isn't useless when you want to tell someone something that can be said in a few words like "be there in 15" without having to engage in unimportant conversation and annoy people around you.
To compare, how many people do you hear making calls to say something like "be there in 15", then keep talking for a solid 5 or 10 minutes? I get this all the time when i'm on the train and it bugs the crap out of me, even more so when it's a person sitting right next to me talking so loudly that I can hear their entire conversation though my headphones.
I'm not exactly sure exactly how png compression works, but i'd guess that using anti-aliased fonts would have bumped up the detail enough to increase file size by a little bit. (pardon the pun)
And we all know that every little bit matters on/. (again, sorry)
It's one thing to be able to cover up your own LEDs but try going to a LAN Party where no-one else thinks that blue HDD activity floodlights are a stupid idea.
Now that the damn things are all the rage the only game I ever get to play is Disk Activity 3: Arena
There's a reason we have the Mono project...there are devs who recognize what the future will be
A Future where Microsoft compatibility is still of utmost importance? It's hard to tell people that your OS is better than theirs when yours seems like nothing more than a cheap rip-off.
Or like saying they've invented a vehicle that goes faster than a NASCAR racetrack.
Put any car on a racetrack filled with pot-holes and the car won't be able to get anywhere very quickly, will it? With this protocol these guys have made a smoother road.
Do they still develop for PPC? It seems like all we get is gentoo these days.
Are we forgetting Debian? From what I can tell Sarge is coming along nicely and right now while still in development is very easy to use and works flawlessly.
On the other hand I think the people running Gentoo on Zauruses are nuts. Gentoo might be good, but man if there was ever a place for Debian that was it!
Actually, assuming you cross compile all the source you won't be putting the thing though much stress at all, so it's not as if it'd do any harm. If anything a handheld is a great place for gentoo as with a relatively low performance cpu it would benefit the most from the optimisations that compiling would give you.
It's not that I disagree with the points you made - you're right to some degree on all of them - but I don't think they're a solid enough reason to avoid using the GIMP entirely. It's a good image manipulation tool, certainly one of the best i've used. The few interface issues don't exactly make it impossible to work with, and for the price you can't really complain if it takes a day or two to get used to them, especially after you realise that you can be just as productive with the GIMP as you normally would with PS, PSP, etc.
I don't mean to troll, but half of the things you pointed out could be fixed if you simply stretched out the windows far enough to see the text that isn't visible. You do know that you can resize those window things, right? Keeping the size of any window extremely small - yes, even a Paint Shop Pro one - will effect the usability of the application.
If you're discounting the GIMP over something as trivial as window placement and sizing in a poorly taken screenshot then I wonder how many other good applications you're avoiding for no good reason.
Sure, for a few dollars, it might let you feel it up, but if you go around claiming that you shagged it, it goes and changes its entire rating system and drops your pages to the bottom of its list.
You might want to work on using analogies that us slashdot readers can relate to.
Yes, you can fix it, but that's not the point here. Having to do this every time you install windows or use someone elses computer is very annoying. You have to click away the dog, wait for the fun animation to finish, then change the preferences to simply make it more bearable. Then you have to do the same to fix the many other supposedly intuitive features.
All this because MS is decides to use annoying moron friendly features that you can't avoid; treating every user as though they have no intelligence whatsoever. I mean I'm all for making everything a simple experience for newbies and idiots, but not at the expense of every other users productivity. I mean honestly, how difficult can it be to key in a filename and click a button without accidently formatting your hard drive? If you need step-by-step instructions at this point then sorry, you're too dumb to use a computer.
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discs would be perfect for any new audio standard, storing 1.8GB a piece if I remember correctly. Then Discmans would become as small as MiniDisc players or possibly smaller, yet the production costs of media would be cheaper as it's already an accepted format.
Getting rid of a card like that wouldn't be all that hard either; you can easily find people that are willing to pay at least half of the original price, probably a lot more. Especially if you're the kind that goes to lan gatherings.
It will ship along with Duke Nukem Forever, and in an effort to have it released on the same day, Microsoft will rush Longhorn development and release an inferior OS.
:(
Oh how times have changed.
every day is 'hate redhat day'.
It's the cool thing to do.
The DS design might have its own upsides, but for me a widescreen GBA SP (GBA SPWS!) would make much more sense. Think about it, It's like the difference between a single widescreen TV and two smaller regular TVs stacked on top of each other. With the DS we can have neat touchscreen menus, maps and all sorts of other wacky crap, but what happens with games that wouldn't really make much use of it? Having a single wide screen might not be as adult and PDA-ish but I'm pretty sure that it could display just as much information as two smaller screens would, plus it would less limit the way said information is displayed. Every game would benefit.
I guess this means that I have to start crossing my fingers so that rumours of a vanilla gameboy successor will come true.
I've seen a website about that somewhere. Where exactly i'm not sure, though I think it's been taken down recently.
Text messaging isn't useless when you want to tell someone something that can be said in a few words like "be there in 15" without having to engage in unimportant conversation and annoy people around you.
To compare, how many people do you hear making calls to say something like "be there in 15", then keep talking for a solid 5 or 10 minutes? I get this all the time when i'm on the train and it bugs the crap out of me, even more so when it's a person sitting right next to me talking so loudly that I can hear their entire conversation though my headphones.
I'm not exactly sure exactly how png compression works, but i'd guess that using anti-aliased fonts would have bumped up the detail enough to increase file size by a little bit. (pardon the pun)
/. (again, sorry)
And we all know that every little bit matters on
It's one thing to be able to cover up your own LEDs but try going to a LAN Party where no-one else thinks that blue HDD activity floodlights are a stupid idea.
Now that the damn things are all the rage the only game I ever get to play is Disk Activity 3: Arena
There's a reason we have the Mono project...there are devs who recognize what the future will be
A Future where Microsoft compatibility is still of utmost importance? It's hard to tell people that your OS is better than theirs when yours seems like nothing more than a cheap rip-off.
Spam sandwiches
Or like saying they've invented a vehicle that goes faster than a NASCAR racetrack.
Put any car on a racetrack filled with pot-holes and the car won't be able to get anywhere very quickly, will it? With this protocol these guys have made a smoother road.
FreeBSD?
Why would anyone want to waste their time posting on slashdot?
Wait...
Do they still develop for PPC? It seems like all we get is gentoo these days.
Are we forgetting Debian? From what I can tell Sarge is coming along nicely and right now while still in development is very easy to use and works flawlessly.
On the other hand I think the people running Gentoo on Zauruses are nuts. Gentoo might be good, but man if there was ever a place for Debian that was it!
Actually, assuming you cross compile all the source you won't be putting the thing though much stress at all, so it's not as if it'd do any harm. If anything a handheld is a great place for gentoo as with a relatively low performance cpu it would benefit the most from the optimisations that compiling would give you.
It's not that I disagree with the points you made - you're right to some degree on all of them - but I don't think they're a solid enough reason to avoid using the GIMP entirely. It's a good image manipulation tool, certainly one of the best i've used. The few interface issues don't exactly make it impossible to work with, and for the price you can't really complain if it takes a day or two to get used to them, especially after you realise that you can be just as productive with the GIMP as you normally would with PS, PSP, etc.
I don't mean to troll, but half of the things you pointed out could be fixed if you simply stretched out the windows far enough to see the text that isn't visible. You do know that you can resize those window things, right? Keeping the size of any window extremely small - yes, even a Paint Shop Pro one - will effect the usability of the application.
If you're discounting the GIMP over something as trivial as window placement and sizing in a poorly taken screenshot then I wonder how many other good applications you're avoiding for no good reason.
Sure, for a few dollars, it might let you feel it up, but if you go around claiming that you shagged it, it goes and changes its entire rating system and drops your pages to the bottom of its list.
You might want to work on using analogies that us slashdot readers can relate to.
That would make for a good UT Mutator.
Yes, you can fix it, but that's not the point here. Having to do this every time you install windows or use someone elses computer is very annoying. You have to click away the dog, wait for the fun animation to finish, then change the preferences to simply make it more bearable. Then you have to do the same to fix the many other supposedly intuitive features.
All this because MS is decides to use annoying moron friendly features that you can't avoid; treating every user as though they have no intelligence whatsoever. I mean I'm all for making everything a simple experience for newbies and idiots, but not at the expense of every other users productivity. I mean honestly, how difficult can it be to key in a filename and click a button without accidently formatting your hard drive? If you need step-by-step instructions at this point then sorry, you're too dumb to use a computer.