Good one. I have a hard time understanding the moderation of Troll and Flamebait. I get that the mods that modded the above comment think that social security is a good system and being lazy and on welfare is a goal to reach? Who actually thinks that social security is a good thing? It's a bunch of freaking IOU's and to be dependant on it would put you well below the poverty line.
Why the hatred towards the Gimp UI? Has anyone actually used it or do you just jump on the "Im a photoshop user and Gimp sucks"?
I use Photoshop on my Mac and I use Gimp with Linux on a daily basis. Gimp's UI is no more retarded than Photoshops. Your opinions are evidence that you don't use it.
Their current UI is much better than Gimp 1.0 but it's not horrible. I can fly through with just as much ease as Photoshop.
Serious users will still use professional products. Look at te current crop of prosumer digital cameras, they have Adobe sRGB color profiles. It'll be a while if at all before MS comes out with anything considered professional.
The only print shops I know only use windows when customers give them a Publisher file to print. Those customers don't understand what colormatching is yet complain when it is off in the slightest bit.
Tabs have been around for a while and really aren't neccessary. Most of us power users have gotten used to them and actually require them to be productive. RSS, take it or leave it. That's a natural evolution towards information gathering and any user application is going to get it regardless of 'who got it first'.
The anti-Phishing is nothing more than user security. Firefox has been under constant development for a while so why can't this be on their roadmap and if it wasn't, so what?? Kudos to them for doing it.
What makes IE the copycat is that they've done nothing for 5 years once they've gained their browser monopoly. Of course they're going to copy popular features from other browsers, they sure as hell aren't driving innovation anywhere with browsing and in fact are taking a step backward with the Eolas decision (but what else can they do?)
I see the anti-Phishing as important as being able to view the SSL cert when you are on a connection that requires a cert. Not an 'idea' that one camp has thats innovative, just an evolution of where browsing is going.
A directors take would be worthwhile however a good bit of large budget directors use Lucas' tools to finish their product. With yesterdays visual technology coming into the desktop today, I can see Lucas' take.
How many directors are going to use 60 inch plasma displays instead of a small monitor for instant feedback?
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Those look pretty cool. Thanks for the link.
I am being naively serious about that type of life form. Our returning spacecraft only have heat sheilds on the gravity side to pretect the rest of the craft. I'm sure that some meteors hit ground. What is to stop some spore from hitching a ride on a meteor or even breaking off in the upper atmosphere where it can gently rain down?
Because he single handedly changed the way movies are made and presented.
It wasn't Douglas Trumbull that proved it could be done but ILM that bred competition creating a market for directors to see their visions through.
Lucas' contribution is far greater than Jerry Lewis' who developed Video Assist. Other than those 2 guys, no other filmaker has influenced the way movies are made on that scale.
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I think sea monkeys are pretty amazing. Why couldn't some life form like that just hitch a ride on/in a rock until it hits water? Doesn't matter what planet, when the conditions are right, it'll hatch.
We need this ice to melt so we can have more water for the 6.5 billion people on the planet.
All kidding aside, so what. The Earth evolves with us or without us. If we kill ourselves then we probably deserve it. The Earth won't care in the least bit. There will be a balance somewhere as the law of nature dictates it as much as the law of nature dictates that an apple will fall from a tree if it's stem breaks.
I care more about economic stability (not that I don't care about this but any change is beyond me) because our society, community, and personal comfort demands it. The world has always been screwed up for a snapshot of any generation. Anybody thinking that they shouldn't continue to have children because of the screwed up world is more concerned with influences outside of their circle of control and probably shouldn't have kids anyway because of the indoctrination that Earth is a bad place to live (but usually those kids are better adjusted because they know they have screwed up parents).
If you want to see some cool North American Paleogeographic maps, check out this link, it might put some things into perspective: http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/nam.html
I'll give them the 95>98>98SE>ME>XP upgrade Paths but you can't excuse the lameness security that XP offered for 5 years and nothing done for 6+months on public vulnerabilities. I'd rather give them a pass if they released XPV1 in 2000 and kept releasing a version each year touting security instead of "we're working on it and we're serious about it."
On top of that, 3rd party software is still required to keep it secure. And they can't even fix that so they have to buy the companies that add that 'layer of security'.
They wonder why Google steals their thunder. Google creates X, Microsoft comes up with a DDR device to delete emails. Microsoft needs to continue to copy good ideas instead of coming up with their own.
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I agree and get Troll and Flamebait. ??!!?!?
Good one.
I have a hard time understanding the moderation of Troll and Flamebait. I get that the mods that modded the above comment think that social security is a good system and being lazy and on welfare is a goal to reach?
Who actually thinks that social security is a good thing? It's a bunch of freaking IOU's and to be dependant on it would put you well below the poverty line.
Social security is nothing but passing dept to the next generation and the 'belief' that it's OK to be lazy.
Misrosoft Office has a horrible UI.
True that most OSS apps have an unpolished UI but workflow should also factor in the UI detail.
I can fly around Photoshop just as fast as GIMP.
What is so horrible about GIMP that you are unable to use it?
OK, then don't use Windows.
If you have to use Windows, use it in a non network environment in a VM setting.
Why the hatred towards the Gimp UI?
Has anyone actually used it or do you just jump on the "Im a photoshop user and Gimp sucks"?
I use Photoshop on my Mac and I use Gimp with Linux on a daily basis. Gimp's UI is no more retarded than Photoshops. Your opinions are evidence that you don't use it.
Their current UI is much better than Gimp 1.0 but it's not horrible. I can fly through with just as much ease as Photoshop.
Serious users will still use professional products.
Look at te current crop of prosumer digital cameras, they have Adobe sRGB color profiles. It'll be a while if at all before MS comes out with anything considered professional.
The only print shops I know only use windows when customers give them a Publisher file to print.
Those customers don't understand what colormatching is yet complain when it is off in the slightest bit.
That's what I get too. And what the hell does this mean?
a metric showing how many users would recommend the site to others -- of all MSN.com properties
Everybody that uses MSN would recommend to use live.com or everybody that WORKS at MSN would recommend live.com?
To add to the music tag, how many teenagers today know any of 'New Kids On The Block' music versus tunes from Super Mario Brothers?
You live in the boonies. I used to drive that route all the time.
Made in 1998 at an estimated cost of $90 million http://imdb.com/title/tt0120751/
I think Robert Townsend could do a better Blackula.
Not really sure that's a fair assessment.
Tabs have been around for a while and really aren't neccessary. Most of us power users have gotten used to them and actually require them to be productive.
RSS, take it or leave it. That's a natural evolution towards information gathering and any user application is going to get it regardless of 'who got it first'.
The anti-Phishing is nothing more than user security. Firefox has been under constant development for a while so why can't this be on their roadmap and if it wasn't, so what?? Kudos to them for doing it.
What makes IE the copycat is that they've done nothing for 5 years once they've gained their browser monopoly. Of course they're going to copy popular features from other browsers, they sure as hell aren't driving innovation anywhere with browsing and in fact are taking a step backward with the Eolas decision (but what else can they do?)
I see the anti-Phishing as important as being able to view the SSL cert when you are on a connection that requires a cert. Not an 'idea' that one camp has thats innovative, just an evolution of where browsing is going.
Microsoft use Photoshop? No, that Acrylic!!r aphic_designer/default.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/en/g
A directors take would be worthwhile however a good bit of large budget directors use Lucas' tools to finish their product.
With yesterdays visual technology coming into the desktop today, I can see Lucas' take.
How many directors are going to use 60 inch plasma displays instead of a small monitor for instant feedback?
Those look pretty cool. Thanks for the link.
I am being naively serious about that type of life form.
Our returning spacecraft only have heat sheilds on the gravity side to pretect the rest of the craft. I'm sure that some meteors hit ground. What is to stop some spore from hitching a ride on a meteor or even breaking off in the upper atmosphere where it can gently rain down?
Why listen to Lucas?
Because he single handedly changed the way movies are made and presented.
It wasn't Douglas Trumbull that proved it could be done but ILM that bred competition creating a market for directors to see their visions through.
Lucas' contribution is far greater than Jerry Lewis' who developed Video Assist.
Other than those 2 guys, no other filmaker has influenced the way movies are made on that scale.
I think sea monkeys are pretty amazing. Why couldn't some life form like that just hitch a ride on/in a rock until it hits water?
Doesn't matter what planet, when the conditions are right, it'll hatch.
We need this ice to melt so we can have more water for the 6.5 billion people on the planet.
All kidding aside, so what. The Earth evolves with us or without us. If we kill ourselves then we probably deserve it. The Earth won't care in the least bit. There will be a balance somewhere as the law of nature dictates it as much as the law of nature dictates that an apple will fall from a tree if it's stem breaks.
I care more about economic stability (not that I don't care about this but any change is beyond me) because our society, community, and personal comfort demands it.
The world has always been screwed up for a snapshot of any generation. Anybody thinking that they shouldn't continue to have children because of the screwed up world is more concerned with influences outside of their circle of control and probably shouldn't have kids anyway because of the indoctrination that Earth is a bad place to live (but usually those kids are better adjusted because they know they have screwed up parents).
If you want to see some cool North American Paleogeographic maps, check out this link, it might put some things into perspective:
http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rcb7/nam.html
Isn't that when any program written in C is supposed to expire like the Y2K bug?
The rich get richer because they have habits that grow wealth.
The poor stay poor because they have habits that continue to keep them poor.
There is nothing evil in being rich.
The evil is when someone takes a liberty or property through force from someone else.
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And those bright people give us Dance Dance Revolution to remove spam
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/01/14121
I'll give them the 95>98>98SE>ME>XP upgrade Paths but you can't excuse the lameness security that XP offered for 5 years and nothing done for 6+months on public vulnerabilities.
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I'd rather give them a pass if they released XPV1 in 2000 and kept releasing a version each year touting security instead of "we're working on it and we're serious about it."
On top of that, 3rd party software is still required to keep it secure. And they can't even fix that so they have to buy the companies that add that 'layer of security'.
Microsoft is not serious about security otherwise they wouldn't sell it as an addon package. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/may
They wonder why Google steals their thunder. Google creates X, Microsoft comes up with a DDR device to delete emails.
Microsoft needs to continue to copy good ideas instead of coming up with their own.
Drinking the Kool-Aid huh??
"Not bundling iexplore or wmplayer is a legal issue with very little technical bearing on security."
Tell me why spyware and adware and auto installing toolbars became an issue please instead of a user choice.
As for *this* Mac OSX is the greatest ever
What's wrong with that? You buy a car this year, next years model is better, no?
Face it, Microsoft does few things right, writing software isn't one of them. Marketing it and confusing the hell out of the public is.