That is true, but there are still many countries in Europe that are not part of the EU. So please say EU and not Europe when you mean EU.
The U.S. could be argued to be a confederacy of many states. Do you think the Canadians and the Mexicans like it when the U.S. Goverment is called the American goverment? Probably not, and this is the same thing. Europe is a geographical name, not a political one.
I think they mean that its not in there at the moment, but that it will be before the next stable release of gimp is relased. Remember that this discussion is about an early alpha release.
Actually I don't use gimp for that purpose at themoment. I use ufraw-batch as a stand alone app, then run simple app I made afterwards that is just a GUI frontend for a few tools like imagemagick, netpnm, and enfuse (to recover some dynamic range aviable in the raw file, very nice app), to do some simple adjustments. Produces great results imo. But it would be nice to be able to use gimp for some manual adjustments afterwards for the images that need it without having to degrade them to 8-bit.
Also, grandparent, thanks for correcting me, you are right of course.
And the parent is right about the bayer filter as well. If you are into HDR imaging give enfuse a try, produces nicer results than any of the tone mapping software I have seen.
Wrong. Finally getting higher than 8-bit depth is great news for anyone who does more than a bit of hobby work with the gimp.
To take myself as an example I take photos with a digital camera that gives me RAW files. Those are 12-bit files, which means 4096 colors per pixel rather than the 256 you get with 8 bit. Now I will be able to edit those in the gimp without loosing any quality, which means alot less posterisation when adjusting contrast and settings like that. The output image will simply look alot better, with the same tools that we already have in the gimp (assuming that the input image is of good quality of course).
a party to get over 4% of the votes to get into parliment here in sweden. Currently there are 7 parties who passed that limit and thus are included in the votes, 4 of those have formed a coalition and are the ones with the political power at the moment. The pirate party got 0.63% of the votes of the votes in the election, which is not bad for a party that only existed for 9 months prior to the election. I think the next election in 2010 will decide their fate.
They are also not the only party in favor of reducing the effects of copyright and legalising file sharing. The green party has this on their agenda, and just last week a group of people within the second largest party spoke out in favor of it.
Personally I don't think the pirate party will ever join parliment, but their politics will get the attention of people, and it might change the attitudes of other politicians.
I have a disk like this, and my ugly fix was a cron job that ran every 5 minutes that did some things on the disk to keep it from going idle. But this is a much nicer solution:)
To whoever came up with it, I can only say: Thank you!
Yes, but they don't have to break it, they just have to find the public key. It must be stored somewhere on the wii, so it can do the encryption of the saves. They were able to find the keys for blu-ray and hd-dvd, so why not here?
Maybe its a civilization that managed to blow themselves out of history trought an accident somehow? If it is, I hope we can control that technology better when we advance enough to have it.
In a swedish newspaper they stated that they hadn't removed anything. Guess both sides are lying here.
Anyway, here is some info about the filter: The filter is not mandatory in anyway. Its voluntary for the ISPs to implement it, and I'd estimate that about half of the swedish ISPs does it. Its also just a simple DNS filter, so its easy to get around by using another dns server, or running your own.
What is interesting in here is the fact that the agreement between the ISPs and the police states that neither party can show the list to anyone except a few technicians needed to implement the list. That kind of worries me, since they won't even show us what is censored. I think it may even be illegal, since Swedish freedom of press law says that you can't stop anyone from publishing anything, you can only take action against them after it has been published and spread if they are spreading illegal content, this is just because they want the people to be able to see what it is they want to censor, to make sure it can't get out of hand I suppose.
This is what I would like to see in new computers: Chips dedicated to specific common alghoritms, that software could take advantage of. This has been done on a small scale, but imagine if every computer had chips that did things like encryption, compression, encoding/decoding of common movie/music/image formats, etc, etc, and faster than any program would be able to do in software, without putting load on the CPU.
There is no limit to how far we could go, maybe there could be a chip with common image manipulation alghoritms for use by various photo editing software, maybe one with a few alghoritms commonly used when compiling programs that compilers could take advantage of, random number generators, hashing alghoritms, alghoritms used by databases to find data fast. Who knows.
Its not going to happen any time soon, but I can still dream.
Java and Javascript? Why would anyone do that, since those two are not related other than the name. Sun developed Java, and Netscape developed Javascript. Totally independent of each other. I'm starting to get tired of people thinking that they have something to do with each other.
No, they didn't close the website of a political party. The Piracy Bureau and The Pirate Bay are not affiliated with The Piracy Party, as I've seen so many wrongly post here today. They are completly separate, run by different people at different locations.
Again, mail is only for old people....... isn't it? At least it is here in Sweden. We use Cell Phones, not the postal service. You guys are oldfashioned!
Just because a technology has been around for a while doesn't mean that there is no use for it.
sorry for duping this reply, but I messed up the formatting alot in the first one, and I really want to reply to this. *kicks self for not using preview*
Sound. I have to kill -9 the ESD process to get some applications to work. A lot of applications had to be tweaked individually after install.
Synaptic. Synaptic does its job, I can say that. But the user interface leaves a lot to be desired. I upgraded to Hoary yesterday. Why did that have to involve editing sources.list by hand?
Applications. Why the hell do newly installed applications need to be added to the menus manually? This is Ubuntu's biggest flaw. When you install a new program, you'd better know how to invoke it from the command line -- and good luck finding that out from Synaptic's description, which disappears after install anyway.
Firefox. Ubuntu's web browser of choice, Firefox, is unresponsive after opening new tabs. Firefox is much nicer in Windows. And IE for Windows is far more responsive than either.
Menus. I like the start menu organization. The "Places" menu is great. I was beginning to think that Linux was congenitally incapable of setting up the most important bit of UI on the system. The menu is even better in Hoary.
Folder Navigation. I don't like the fact that there is no back or up arrow when exploring file folders. This is massively stupid UI design.
yes, the sound thing is a bit of a problem, but you don't have to kill -9 it, just disable gnomes sound server and then edit the esd configs (which I'm sure you can handlle if you can handle kill -9) to auto-spawn whenever its needed and then kill itself one second after it has stopped being used.
editing sources.list by hand? just use the update manager. its in the menues.
I've installed three different apps on my ubuntu setups today, they all ended up in the menu automatically.
Firefox works fine here, and what does ie have to do with this? Firefox is the most popular browser, so its the default one. If you like opera or some other browser then just install it.
Yep, the menu is great.
And for the folder navigation thing, there is what you want, but its not enabled by default. You can enable it in the file manager preferences dialog (can't tell you more details since I'm not using an english locale, so I would get the names wrong)
Sound. I have to kill -9 the ESD process to get some applications to work. A lot of applications had to be tweaked individually after install.
Synaptic. Synaptic does its job, I can say that. But the user interface leaves a lot to be desired. I upgraded to Hoary yesterday. Why did that have to involve editing sources.list by hand?
Applications. Why the hell do newly installed applications need to be added to the menus manually? This is Ubuntu's biggest flaw. When you install a new program, you'd better know how to invoke it from the command line -- and good luck finding that out from Synaptic's description, which disappears after install anyway.
Firefox. Ubuntu's web browser of choice, Firefox, is unresponsive after opening new tabs. Firefox is much nicer in Windows. And IE for Windows is far more responsive than either.
Menus. I like the start menu organization. The "Places" menu is great. I was beginning to think that Linux was congenitally incapable of setting up the most important bit of UI on the system. The menu is even better in Hoary.
Folder Navigation. I don't like the fact that there is no back or up arrow when exploring file folders. This is massively stupid UI design.
yes, the sound thing is a bit of a problem, but you don't have to kill -9 it, just disable gnomes sound server and then edit the esd configs (which I'm sure you can handlle if you can handle kill -9) to auto-spawn whenever its needed and then kill itself one second after it has stopped being used.
editing sources.list by hand? just use the update manager. its in the menues.
I've installed three different apps on my ubuntu setups today, they all ended up in the menu automatically.
Firefox works fine here, and what does ie have to do with this? Firefox is the most popular browser, so its the default one. If you like opera or some other browser then just install it.
Yep, the menu is great.
And for the folder navigation thing, there is what you want, but its not enabled by default. You can enable it in the file manager preferences dialog (can't tell you more details since I'm not using an english locale, so I would get the names wrong)
Is this already blocked?
I tried it out, this is what I got:
File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 412, in http_error_default
raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 502: Bad Gateway
I'm going to try to use this thing for backups of my config files. Its the perfect solution for that, can be automated in cron to do daily backups for example (unlike most web-based storage things)
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That is true, but there are still many countries in Europe that are not part of the EU. So please say EU and not Europe when you mean EU.
The U.S. could be argued to be a confederacy of many states. Do you think the Canadians and the Mexicans like it when the U.S. Goverment is called the American goverment? Probably not, and this is the same thing. Europe is a geographical name, not a political one.
I think they mean that its not in there at the moment, but that it will be before the next stable release of gimp is relased. Remember that this discussion is about an early alpha release.
Actually I don't use gimp for that purpose at themoment. I use ufraw-batch as a stand alone app, then run simple app I made afterwards that is just a GUI frontend for a few tools like imagemagick, netpnm, and enfuse (to recover some dynamic range aviable in the raw file, very nice app), to do some simple adjustments. Produces great results imo. But it would be nice to be able to use gimp for some manual adjustments afterwards for the images that need it without having to degrade them to 8-bit.
Also, grandparent, thanks for correcting me, you are right of course.
And the parent is right about the bayer filter as well. If you are into HDR imaging give enfuse a try, produces nicer results than any of the tone mapping software I have seen.
Wrong. Finally getting higher than 8-bit depth is great news for anyone who does more than a bit of hobby work with the gimp.
To take myself as an example I take photos with a digital camera that gives me RAW files. Those are 12-bit files, which means 4096 colors per pixel rather than the 256 you get with 8 bit. Now I will be able to edit those in the gimp without loosing any quality, which means alot less posterisation when adjusting contrast and settings like that. The output image will simply look alot better, with the same tools that we already have in the gimp (assuming that the input image is of good quality of course).
a party to get over 4% of the votes to get into parliment here in sweden. Currently there are 7 parties who passed that limit and thus are included in the votes, 4 of those have formed a coalition and are the ones with the political power at the moment. The pirate party got 0.63% of the votes of the votes in the election, which is not bad for a party that only existed for 9 months prior to the election. I think the next election in 2010 will decide their fate.
They are also not the only party in favor of reducing the effects of copyright and legalising file sharing. The green party has this on their agenda, and just last week a group of people within the second largest party spoke out in favor of it.
Personally I don't think the pirate party will ever join parliment, but their politics will get the attention of people, and it might change the attitudes of other politicians.
I use FBReader on a linux based pda (Nokia N800). I have tried various others, and like this one the best.
I have a disk like this, and my ugly fix was a cron job that ran every 5 minutes that did some things on the disk to keep it from going idle. But this is a much nicer solution :)
To whoever came up with it, I can only say: Thank you!
Yes, but they don't have to break it, they just have to find the public key. It must be stored somewhere on the wii, so it can do the encryption of the saves. They were able to find the keys for blu-ray and hd-dvd, so why not here?
Maybe its a civilization that managed to blow themselves out of history trought an accident somehow? If it is, I hope we can control that technology better when we advance enough to have it.
In a swedish newspaper they stated that they hadn't removed anything. Guess both sides are lying here.
Anyway, here is some info about the filter:
The filter is not mandatory in anyway. Its voluntary for the ISPs to implement it, and I'd estimate that about half of the swedish ISPs does it. Its also just a simple DNS filter, so its easy to get around by using another dns server, or running your own.
What is interesting in here is the fact that the agreement between the ISPs and the police states that neither party can show the list to anyone except a few technicians needed to implement the list. That kind of worries me, since they won't even show us what is censored. I think it may even be illegal, since Swedish freedom of press law says that you can't stop anyone from publishing anything, you can only take action against them after it has been published and spread if they are spreading illegal content, this is just because they want the people to be able to see what it is they want to censor, to make sure it can't get out of hand I suppose.
This is what I would like to see in new computers: Chips dedicated to specific common alghoritms, that software could take advantage of.
This has been done on a small scale, but imagine if every computer had chips that did things like encryption, compression, encoding/decoding of common movie/music/image formats, etc, etc, and faster than any program would be able to do in software, without putting load on the CPU.
There is no limit to how far we could go, maybe there could be a chip with common image manipulation alghoritms for use by various photo editing software, maybe one with a few alghoritms commonly used when compiling programs that compilers could take advantage of, random number generators, hashing alghoritms, alghoritms used by databases to find data fast. Who knows.
Its not going to happen any time soon, but I can still dream.
Java and Javascript? Why would anyone do that, since those two are not related other than the name. Sun developed Java, and Netscape developed Javascript. Totally independent of each other. I'm starting to get tired of people thinking that they have something to do with each other.
No, they didn't close the website of a political party. The Piracy Bureau and The Pirate Bay are not affiliated with The Piracy Party, as I've seen so many wrongly post here today. They are completly separate, run by different people at different locations.
oops, accidentaly used the bold tag instead of the link tag. clickable version of the url: http://www.tpwch.com/temp/the_complete_freebsd.tor renthttp://www.tpwch.com/temp/the_complete_freebsd .torrent>
since its going pretty slow, help save their bandwidth. here is a torrent: http://www.tpwch.com/temp/the_complete_freebsd.tor rent
Again, mail is only for old people....... isn't it? At least it is here in Sweden. We use Cell Phones, not the postal service. You guys are oldfashioned!
Just because a technology has been around for a while doesn't mean that there is no use for it.
sorry for duping this reply, but I messed up the formatting alot in the first one, and I really want to reply to this. *kicks self for not using preview*
Sound. I have to kill -9 the ESD process to get some applications to work. A lot of applications had to be tweaked individually after install.
Synaptic. Synaptic does its job, I can say that. But the user interface leaves a lot to be desired. I upgraded to Hoary yesterday. Why did that have to involve editing sources.list by hand?
Applications. Why the hell do newly installed applications need to be added to the menus manually? This is Ubuntu's biggest flaw. When you install a new program, you'd better know how to invoke it from the command line -- and good luck finding that out from Synaptic's description, which disappears after install anyway.
Firefox. Ubuntu's web browser of choice, Firefox, is unresponsive after opening new tabs. Firefox is much nicer in Windows. And IE for Windows is far more responsive than either.
Menus. I like the start menu organization. The "Places" menu is great. I was beginning to think that Linux was congenitally incapable of setting up the most important bit of UI on the system. The menu is even better in Hoary.
Folder Navigation. I don't like the fact that there is no back or up arrow when exploring file folders. This is massively stupid UI design.
yes, the sound thing is a bit of a problem, but you don't have to kill -9 it, just disable gnomes sound server and then edit the esd configs (which I'm sure you can handlle if you can handle kill -9) to auto-spawn whenever its needed and then kill itself one second after it has stopped being used.
editing sources.list by hand? just use the update manager. its in the menues.
I've installed three different apps on my ubuntu setups today, they all ended up in the menu automatically.
Firefox works fine here, and what does ie have to do with this? Firefox is the most popular browser, so its the default one. If you like opera or some other browser then just install it.
Yep, the menu is great.
And for the folder navigation thing, there is what you want, but its not enabled by default. You can enable it in the file manager preferences dialog (can't tell you more details since I'm not using an english locale, so I would get the names wrong)
Sound. I have to kill -9 the ESD process to get some applications to work. A lot of applications had to be tweaked individually after install. Synaptic. Synaptic does its job, I can say that. But the user interface leaves a lot to be desired. I upgraded to Hoary yesterday. Why did that have to involve editing sources.list by hand? Applications. Why the hell do newly installed applications need to be added to the menus manually? This is Ubuntu's biggest flaw. When you install a new program, you'd better know how to invoke it from the command line -- and good luck finding that out from Synaptic's description, which disappears after install anyway. Firefox. Ubuntu's web browser of choice, Firefox, is unresponsive after opening new tabs. Firefox is much nicer in Windows. And IE for Windows is far more responsive than either. Menus. I like the start menu organization. The "Places" menu is great. I was beginning to think that Linux was congenitally incapable of setting up the most important bit of UI on the system. The menu is even better in Hoary. Folder Navigation. I don't like the fact that there is no back or up arrow when exploring file folders. This is massively stupid UI design. yes, the sound thing is a bit of a problem, but you don't have to kill -9 it, just disable gnomes sound server and then edit the esd configs (which I'm sure you can handlle if you can handle kill -9) to auto-spawn whenever its needed and then kill itself one second after it has stopped being used. editing sources.list by hand? just use the update manager. its in the menues. I've installed three different apps on my ubuntu setups today, they all ended up in the menu automatically. Firefox works fine here, and what does ie have to do with this? Firefox is the most popular browser, so its the default one. If you like opera or some other browser then just install it. Yep, the menu is great. And for the folder navigation thing, there is what you want, but its not enabled by default. You can enable it in the file manager preferences dialog (can't tell you more details since I'm not using an english locale, so I would get the names wrong)
They removed the pages from wordpress.org/articles/
If you check their website it says on the front page that it will all get refunded if things doesn't work out.
Yes, but its kind of hard to delete the old files from gmail from a shell script...
Is this already blocked? I tried it out, this is what I got: File "/usr/lib/python2.3/urllib2.py", line 412, in http_error_default raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp) urllib2.HTTPError: HTTP Error 502: Bad Gateway
I'm going to try to use this thing for backups of my config files. Its the perfect solution for that, can be automated in cron to do daily backups for example (unlike most web-based storage things)
Great, give me a list and I'll block them on my mail server.
As librarians go, I'm pretty tech-savvy, but as Slashdotters go, I'm pretty much a luser.
Considering that most slashdotters are 12-year-old boys without a life, I think you're doing ok in that area too.