I have no idea how they do crop in photoshop though....
Click the crop tool at your left, select an area of the image using your left mouse button and then stop pressing the mouse button. The area you selected will now be highlighted and on Photoshop's toolbar at the top, somewhat to the right, two buttons will appear, a cancel button (circle with a line through it) and an ok button (a check mark). If you want to crop, click the check mark; if not, click the marked out circle. OR, click your image menu -- top left menus -- and select "crop" (all other options will be grayed out). Much, much simpler to actually do it than tell someone how to do it.
Nerds and non-nerds will argue about whether or not the Gimp's interface sucks until they all lose their voices. All I can say is that I used to use the Gimp and hotly defended it but finally gave it up for Photoshop 7 and Paint Shop Pro 9 about a year ago (yes, I know my software is outdated but I don't care). I've tried just about all the image editing programs available on Windows and Linux now, and the Gimp's really does seem to be the hardest the learn. Several basic functions are in different menus than is most other programs, but the worst part is that some have frustrating limitations and/or trying to just figure out how to make it work after you've found it. Most of the tools shared by most image editors works the same way, but the same tool may very well not work the same in the Gimp. It's as if it were designed by an alien who just had a couple of screenshots. And the Gimp's GUI is so different from every other image editor out there that you have to hunt them all down, whereas most tools are on the same menus in Photoshop, PSP, PhotoImpact or what-have-you.
The default KDE layout most *nix distroes ship with looks like Explorer. Just right-click the screen to get to the options menu and you can make it look like no other GUI on this planet is less than 30 seconds. Don't try to make it sound like KDE is just a copy of Explorer so that Windows looks better; the default layout was set like that to make newbies comfortable years ago.
That's a reasonable view, the problem is that Microsoft has to account for the fact that a lot of their customers aren't reasonable. They'll bitch and moan no matter how much Microsoft reminds them that it was unsupported
I must have missed something over the years. I had problems with Windows once, back in 2001. It was my first computer and it ran, you guessed it, Windows ME. Did Microsoft help me? No. Would they even listen to my pleas for help? No. Did they offer to replace my copy of ME with a version of Windows that did work? Hell, no. So why is it when something like this happens I hear all this about Microsoft having to take care of their clueless customers, essentially protecting them from their own ignorance and holding their hands to work our these problems? I know this must sound like a troll, but I've never seen this helpful, supportive side of Microsoft.
Mac have comparable prices for equivilent quality.
Who modded this nonsense up? I've been building computers for several years and I only use high-quality parts, but the most expensive is not necessarily the best. A PC built of high-quality parts is still about $250 - $300 dollars cheaper than a Mac of equal power. Seriously, go check out a Mac, write down how much it costs and then go compare. (And yes, to find the high-quality parts, you need to research customer ratings at more than one site, which will be a real eye-opener, I'm sure.)
...pirates have no respect for copyright. The holders of copyrights apparently only respect their own.
Despite all the emphasis on protecting Olympic copyrights in China this year, the official web site of the Beijing Olympics features a Flash game that is a blatant copy of one of the games developed at The Pencil Farm.
They demand that others respect their copyrights and then turn around violate others. How many times have we seen stories where this happened? I've lost count.
You're not thinking of it in Star Trek terms. It would have to exist in all times at once and hence be self-perpetuating, spawning itself backwards and forwards in time, which would mean that it also created time. Being all-powerful would also mean that it can ignore or smooth over that little paradox at will. Think of TNG's last episode, with the anomaly that grew backwards in time. Well, the supreme being would be the anomaly that grew backwards and forwards in time that created itself. You go back far enough to nothingness and then it creates everything else.
Yeah, I'm totally pulling this out of my ass. But then, how did the Big Bang come about? How can anything come from absolute nothingness?
Neither would I, but the uninformed consumers out there who just want to check email, look at porn, and download music (legally of course) are being sold on vista because it looks pretty to them.
I wouldn't say that nowadays. All the bad press Vista has been getting for being so much slower than XP and its various other problems is hitting home even with people like that. I had to explain to my neighbor a few days ago that his computer wasn't slowing down because he had so many files in memory (i.e., he didn't understand the difference between memory and hard drive storage), and even he knew that Vista is slower than XP and has compatibility issues. It seems that is fast becoming common knowledge around the internet among all kinds.
I was going to mod this thread until I saw your post. That's the worst shit I've read in a long time. Sharing needles isn't a factor? That's exactly how my sister caught it, you fucking moron. She died ten years ago.
So some HIV-positive people never get AIDS? Stop the presses! It's a miracle! No one in the history of the world has ever been a carrier of disease and never shown symptoms of it before... except Typhoid Mary. And a few million other people. Aside from them though (hey, maybe they're aliens or something) it doesn't happen ever.
A disease that simulates another disease? Oh, how extraordinary! Medical personnel have all kinds of different names for that, because it HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. Hundreds of people are misdiagnosed every year because they show symptoms of of a disease that are different from the one they actually have or because so many diseases have such similar symptoms. Look it up. You must be amazingly ignorant if you don't realize that -- or more likely, you know it but choose to ignore it to make your ideas look legitimate.
Yeah, I know my post is flamebait, but like I said, my sister died of it. I actually have an idea what I'm talking about. It feels rather like your dead relative is being made fun of when run across shit like this. My siblings aside, everything the parent post cited is easily-refutable nonsense. I'm just a volunteer caregiver, not even a nurse, and even I know better than that.
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No, not everyone who enjoys MS products is astroturfing, but SnprBoB86's post falls into the "it sure sounds like it" category. Scroll up and read it. Why? Mostly because of his tone, but the fact that he was able to cough the exact page on microsoft.com ththat addresses this complaint would need is suspicious. Sure, one might be able to find it with a search engine, but I'd bet my keyboard they'd get a lot of other pages that answer the same issue before that one. And finally, we all know good and well that the major companies -- MS, Apple, Sony, you name 'em -- have astroturfers here and on other sites like Digg. If someone tried to claim that they don't it would be an insult to the intelligence of our pets, let alone us.
The ability of someone to take GPL code, even expensive purchased software, and give it to anyone, anywhere, for free, hurts development in many cases.
You're dead-on, but you forgot to mention that they have no incentive whatsoever to incur the massive overhead of implementing support for the broad range of commodity hardware that Windows must run on. Their control of the hardware not only buys them a nice profit margin, it also drastically reduces their development QA costs.
That's a nonsensical excuse. Why would they have to do that? They could just include the drivers in the BSD database, let hardware manufacturers write their own drivers and completely disclaim responsibility if some hardware doesn't work. You think they couldn't get away with that? Try getting support from Microsoft if your video card driver doesn't work.
Most ISPs still had 30MB caps, as did most other freemail services.
Dude, who was your ISP then? And what freemail services were these? I remember those days well. All the ISPs I'd tried had a 6 - 10 MB limit. Freemail providers were dropping rapidly; yahoo had dropped new accounts from 6 to 4 MB, and hotmail was down to a pitiful 2 MB. At the time, the amount of space gmail was offering was unbelievable. No one else was doing anything like it, and it took more than a year for others like yahoo to catch up.
Now, I wouldn't really want a "driving license" for computers, but I'd very much enjoy seeing people taking some more responsibility for their computers and what they do to others on the internet.
So would I! (Hope the following makes sense, as I'm high on cold medicine.) This would require some education. Unfortunately, from what I've seen, all they are teaching kids in school about computers is typing and how to search online; the teens I've talked to don't even know what Unix is. I don't mean to sound self-aggrandizing because I'm no expert -- especially in the area of networking -- but it's blatantly apparent that I'm more qualified to teach computer tech than our local high-school teachers. College is a different matter, but so few take anything related to computer technology in college that it doesn't really make a difference.
I think what would really do the trick is to set up computers to teach the person using it as they go along. There would still be problems, as it couldn't teach them everything all at once, but it would go a long way towards helping them with computer security as time passed; instead of the same insecure system they still have a year later because they haven't learned anything, they'd know enough to set it up better and get rid of the malware on their system. And that wouldn't have to be the only thing they learned either. The only problem would be those who already know this. If you make it as easy as "click this box to skip this stuff" or have an expert mode then everyone would do that and no one would learn anything. On the other hand, having to take a quiz to use your new computer sounds pretty obnoxious.
If an author wishes to not distribute their book any more, then damn it, that's their right. If they wish to make money off every copy sold, it's also their right.
So the content distributors should have all the rights while the customer who is actually paying for that content should have no rights, huh? Why the hell should they have all the rights while the person whose money they are taking has no rights?
Hello, nice to meet ya. I'm no script kiddie nor do I spend time posting screenshots. I do, however, spend about 10 minutes with a new KDE installation to configure it and I change practically everything. I change the size of the taskbar and add a new one on auto-hide along the left side of the screen for applets and my favorite shortcuts. I remove all icons off the desktop and use the trash applet instead. Of course, I also change the wallpaper and select a screensaver. Then I pick out a theme, colors and window decorations. No, not all power-users are script kiddies or any such nonsense, some of us just like to have control of our system, right down to the GUI, to make as usable as possible. If that costs an extra 10 minutes every couple of months or so, no big deal.
I still don't get why this is a problem for Apple. Other telecoms would be quick to swoop in if Apple dropped AT&T. This would only be a problem if the iPhone were a regular, everyday cellphone, which it isn't.
I know AT&T is a much larger, more powerful company than Apple, but exactly how can they play hardball with Apple on this issue? If Apple drops them, signs with another carrier -- or even none -- for their next iPhone, it would be AT&T that loses money, not Apple. Apple has already made a nice bundle with the iPhone, so they probably don't really need AT&T anymore and as popular as the iPhone is, AT&T can be replaced. Does AT&T think that the primary reason people want the iPhone is because of AT&T? Obviously that is not the case, since so many people are unlocking them as soon as they get them. Seems like it would be the other way around, with Apple in a good position to play hardball with AT&T. Maybe I need more coffee, because I just don't see it.
No one I know wants to upgrade from XP to Vista; the only person I know that had Vista hated it and downgraded to XP. Now, I remember when XP came out lots of people loved it immediately because it was more stable than 98 -- apparently, not that many had 2000. I got 2000 myself soon after and didn't upgrade to XP until SP 2 came out. Many/.ers have said that XP was none too great until SP2. I wasn't on/. back in those days and I don't know how XP was regarded on the "nerd sites" back then. So, was it like this with XP before SP 2?
Ah, one of my foes/freak/whatever didn't have the guts to post as himself. I've posted AC myself many a-time, but I've never done so just to troll somebody. Y'know, if you hate someone enough to do this that you've never actually met, maybe you're taking your online life a bit too seriously.
I wouldn't say it makes you superficial. Good screenshots can be very informative when deciding whether or not you might like a program (or desktop environment), especially if you can see effects and/or menus.
"The real problem lies within the buyer"? On what planet at this time would that be? Have you watched any of these home-selling shows on HGTV lately? (I'm a care-giver and it's very popular where I do volunteer work.) A great deal of the problem -- and thus, the "hold up" you mention -- is all too often the sellers trying to get two or three times the amount of money they've invested in the house. That's no exaggeration; I saw a show once in which the seller had bought the house for $95,000, invested about $40,000 in remodeling and was trying to sell it for $375,000. He only got $300,000 and bitched about for the last 5 minutes of the show. Jesus, $165,000 wasn't enough of a profit? That was a rather extreme case, but I've seen a lot of others on that show. On pretty much every episode, the sellers inflate the price to at least double what they've spent on the property. It's pure greed that has inflated the cost of a home to absolutely ridiculous levels, and folks like you wonder why it takes so long to sell a house? Duh, not only do your potential buyers have to get a loan for a humongous amount of money, and most likely these "ignorant" people are looking at other houses too -- why the hell shouldn't they? More than anything, artificially inflating prices like this -- not just on homes but on many, many things like cars -- is why we have a debt-based society. So what the hell are you griping about? They have to go through a hell of a lot more trouble to than you do. You sound just like the greedy jerks on that show, bitching that people just don't fall head over heels in love with your house the moment they see it and immediately puke a few hundred grand all over you, no matter how much the house is actually worth.
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Click the crop tool at your left, select an area of the image using your left mouse button and then stop pressing the mouse button. The area you selected will now be highlighted and on Photoshop's toolbar at the top, somewhat to the right, two buttons will appear, a cancel button (circle with a line through it) and an ok button (a check mark). If you want to crop, click the check mark; if not, click the marked out circle. OR, click your image menu -- top left menus -- and select "crop" (all other options will be grayed out). Much, much simpler to actually do it than tell someone how to do it.
Nerds and non-nerds will argue about whether or not the Gimp's interface sucks until they all lose their voices. All I can say is that I used to use the Gimp and hotly defended it but finally gave it up for Photoshop 7 and Paint Shop Pro 9 about a year ago (yes, I know my software is outdated but I don't care). I've tried just about all the image editing programs available on Windows and Linux now, and the Gimp's really does seem to be the hardest the learn. Several basic functions are in different menus than is most other programs, but the worst part is that some have frustrating limitations and/or trying to just figure out how to make it work after you've found it. Most of the tools shared by most image editors works the same way, but the same tool may very well not work the same in the Gimp. It's as if it were designed by an alien who just had a couple of screenshots. And the Gimp's GUI is so different from every other image editor out there that you have to hunt them all down, whereas most tools are on the same menus in Photoshop, PSP, PhotoImpact or what-have-you.
The default KDE layout most *nix distroes ship with looks like Explorer. Just right-click the screen to get to the options menu and you can make it look like no other GUI on this planet is less than 30 seconds. Don't try to make it sound like KDE is just a copy of Explorer so that Windows looks better; the default layout was set like that to make newbies comfortable years ago.
I must have missed something over the years. I had problems with Windows once, back in 2001. It was my first computer and it ran, you guessed it, Windows ME. Did Microsoft help me? No. Would they even listen to my pleas for help? No. Did they offer to replace my copy of ME with a version of Windows that did work? Hell, no. So why is it when something like this happens I hear all this about Microsoft having to take care of their clueless customers, essentially protecting them from their own ignorance and holding their hands to work our these problems? I know this must sound like a troll, but I've never seen this helpful, supportive side of Microsoft.
Who modded this nonsense up? I've been building computers for several years and I only use high-quality parts, but the most expensive is not necessarily the best. A PC built of high-quality parts is still about $250 - $300 dollars cheaper than a Mac of equal power. Seriously, go check out a Mac, write down how much it costs and then go compare. (And yes, to find the high-quality parts, you need to research customer ratings at more than one site, which will be a real eye-opener, I'm sure.)
...pirates have no respect for copyright. The holders of copyrights apparently only respect their own.
They demand that others respect their copyrights and then turn around violate others. How many times have we seen stories where this happened? I've lost count.
You're not thinking of it in Star Trek terms. It would have to exist in all times at once and hence be self-perpetuating, spawning itself backwards and forwards in time, which would mean that it also created time. Being all-powerful would also mean that it can ignore or smooth over that little paradox at will. Think of TNG's last episode, with the anomaly that grew backwards in time. Well, the supreme being would be the anomaly that grew backwards and forwards in time that created itself. You go back far enough to nothingness and then it creates everything else.
Yeah, I'm totally pulling this out of my ass. But then, how did the Big Bang come about? How can anything come from absolute nothingness?
I wouldn't say that nowadays. All the bad press Vista has been getting for being so much slower than XP and its various other problems is hitting home even with people like that. I had to explain to my neighbor a few days ago that his computer wasn't slowing down because he had so many files in memory (i.e., he didn't understand the difference between memory and hard drive storage), and even he knew that Vista is slower than XP and has compatibility issues. It seems that is fast becoming common knowledge around the internet among all kinds.
Because they're invisible?
I was going to mod this thread until I saw your post. That's the worst shit I've read in a long time. Sharing needles isn't a factor? That's exactly how my sister caught it, you fucking moron. She died ten years ago.
So some HIV-positive people never get AIDS? Stop the presses! It's a miracle! No one in the history of the world has ever been a carrier of disease and never shown symptoms of it before... except Typhoid Mary. And a few million other people. Aside from them though (hey, maybe they're aliens or something) it doesn't happen ever.
A disease that simulates another disease? Oh, how extraordinary! Medical personnel have all kinds of different names for that, because it HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. Hundreds of people are misdiagnosed every year because they show symptoms of of a disease that are different from the one they actually have or because so many diseases have such similar symptoms. Look it up. You must be amazingly ignorant if you don't realize that -- or more likely, you know it but choose to ignore it to make your ideas look legitimate.
Yeah, I know my post is flamebait, but like I said, my sister died of it. I actually have an idea what I'm talking about. It feels rather like your dead relative is being made fun of when run across shit like this. My siblings aside, everything the parent post cited is easily-refutable nonsense. I'm just a volunteer caregiver, not even a nurse, and even I know better than that.
No, not everyone who enjoys MS products is astroturfing, but SnprBoB86's post falls into the "it sure sounds like it" category. Scroll up and read it. Why? Mostly because of his tone, but the fact that he was able to cough the exact page on microsoft.com ththat addresses this complaint would need is suspicious. Sure, one might be able to find it with a search engine, but I'd bet my keyboard they'd get a lot of other pages that answer the same issue before that one. And finally, we all know good and well that the major companies -- MS, Apple, Sony, you name 'em -- have astroturfers here and on other sites like Digg. If someone tried to claim that they don't it would be an insult to the intelligence of our pets, let alone us.
How, exactly?
Yes, I think that sums up their attitude quite well.
That's a nonsensical excuse. Why would they have to do that? They could just include the drivers in the BSD database, let hardware manufacturers write their own drivers and completely disclaim responsibility if some hardware doesn't work. You think they couldn't get away with that? Try getting support from Microsoft if your video card driver doesn't work.
That doesn't help the poor aliens living in that neck of the cosmos, you insensitive clod!
Dude, who was your ISP then? And what freemail services were these? I remember those days well. All the ISPs I'd tried had a 6 - 10 MB limit. Freemail providers were dropping rapidly; yahoo had dropped new accounts from 6 to 4 MB, and hotmail was down to a pitiful 2 MB. At the time, the amount of space gmail was offering was unbelievable. No one else was doing anything like it, and it took more than a year for others like yahoo to catch up.
So would I! (Hope the following makes sense, as I'm high on cold medicine.) This would require some education. Unfortunately, from what I've seen, all they are teaching kids in school about computers is typing and how to search online; the teens I've talked to don't even know what Unix is. I don't mean to sound self-aggrandizing because I'm no expert -- especially in the area of networking -- but it's blatantly apparent that I'm more qualified to teach computer tech than our local high-school teachers. College is a different matter, but so few take anything related to computer technology in college that it doesn't really make a difference.
I think what would really do the trick is to set up computers to teach the person using it as they go along. There would still be problems, as it couldn't teach them everything all at once, but it would go a long way towards helping them with computer security as time passed; instead of the same insecure system they still have a year later because they haven't learned anything, they'd know enough to set it up better and get rid of the malware on their system. And that wouldn't have to be the only thing they learned either. The only problem would be those who already know this. If you make it as easy as "click this box to skip this stuff" or have an expert mode then everyone would do that and no one would learn anything. On the other hand, having to take a quiz to use your new computer sounds pretty obnoxious.
So the content distributors should have all the rights while the customer who is actually paying for that content should have no rights, huh? Why the hell should they have all the rights while the person whose money they are taking has no rights?
Hello, nice to meet ya. I'm no script kiddie nor do I spend time posting screenshots. I do, however, spend about 10 minutes with a new KDE installation to configure it and I change practically everything. I change the size of the taskbar and add a new one on auto-hide along the left side of the screen for applets and my favorite shortcuts. I remove all icons off the desktop and use the trash applet instead. Of course, I also change the wallpaper and select a screensaver. Then I pick out a theme, colors and window decorations. No, not all power-users are script kiddies or any such nonsense, some of us just like to have control of our system, right down to the GUI, to make as usable as possible. If that costs an extra 10 minutes every couple of months or so, no big deal.
I still don't get why this is a problem for Apple. Other telecoms would be quick to swoop in if Apple dropped AT&T. This would only be a problem if the iPhone were a regular, everyday cellphone, which it isn't.
I know AT&T is a much larger, more powerful company than Apple, but exactly how can they play hardball with Apple on this issue? If Apple drops them, signs with another carrier -- or even none -- for their next iPhone, it would be AT&T that loses money, not Apple. Apple has already made a nice bundle with the iPhone, so they probably don't really need AT&T anymore and as popular as the iPhone is, AT&T can be replaced. Does AT&T think that the primary reason people want the iPhone is because of AT&T? Obviously that is not the case, since so many people are unlocking them as soon as they get them. Seems like it would be the other way around, with Apple in a good position to play hardball with AT&T. Maybe I need more coffee, because I just don't see it.
No one I know wants to upgrade from XP to Vista; the only person I know that had Vista hated it and downgraded to XP. Now, I remember when XP came out lots of people loved it immediately because it was more stable than 98 -- apparently, not that many had 2000. I got 2000 myself soon after and didn't upgrade to XP until SP 2 came out. Many /.ers have said that XP was none too great until SP2. I wasn't on /. back in those days and I don't know how XP was regarded on the "nerd sites" back then. So, was it like this with XP before SP 2?
I've mod points right now, but I can't seem to find the "bullshit" modifier. Why doesn't /. have that?
Ah, one of my foes/freak/whatever didn't have the guts to post as himself. I've posted AC myself many a-time, but I've never done so just to troll somebody. Y'know, if you hate someone enough to do this that you've never actually met, maybe you're taking your online life a bit too seriously.
I wouldn't say it makes you superficial. Good screenshots can be very informative when deciding whether or not you might like a program (or desktop environment), especially if you can see effects and/or menus.
"The real problem lies within the buyer"? On what planet at this time would that be? Have you watched any of these home-selling shows on HGTV lately? (I'm a care-giver and it's very popular where I do volunteer work.) A great deal of the problem -- and thus, the "hold up" you mention -- is all too often the sellers trying to get two or three times the amount of money they've invested in the house. That's no exaggeration; I saw a show once in which the seller had bought the house for $95,000, invested about $40,000 in remodeling and was trying to sell it for $375,000. He only got $300,000 and bitched about for the last 5 minutes of the show. Jesus, $165,000 wasn't enough of a profit? That was a rather extreme case, but I've seen a lot of others on that show. On pretty much every episode, the sellers inflate the price to at least double what they've spent on the property. It's pure greed that has inflated the cost of a home to absolutely ridiculous levels, and folks like you wonder why it takes so long to sell a house? Duh, not only do your potential buyers have to get a loan for a humongous amount of money, and most likely these "ignorant" people are looking at other houses too -- why the hell shouldn't they? More than anything, artificially inflating prices like this -- not just on homes but on many, many things like cars -- is why we have a debt-based society. So what the hell are you griping about? They have to go through a hell of a lot more trouble to than you do. You sound just like the greedy jerks on that show, bitching that people just don't fall head over heels in love with your house the moment they see it and immediately puke a few hundred grand all over you, no matter how much the house is actually worth.