these companies haven't "taken over" GIMP. They are paying some developers to expand it. I personally consider this a good thing. besides, GIMP seems (to me) to have completely replaced Photoshop; I think now is as good a time as any to expand the GIMP's development goals to fill an area which no other OSS has a presence in.
I for one would love to see motion video editing capabilities in a free software package. GIMP rules; might as well carry that ruling-ness into the motion video arena.
I sorta wonder whether it might be smarter to make a motion-video-only program that shares a lot of code with GIMP, sort of like Premier and Photoshop.
these companies haven't "taken over" GIMP. They are paying some developers to expand it. I personally consider this a good thing. besides, GIMP seems (to me) to have completely replaced Photoshop; I think now is as good a time as any to expand the GIMP's development goals to fill an area which no other OSS has a presence in.
I for one would love to see motion video editing capabilities in a free software package. GIMP rules; might as well carry that ruling-ness into the motion video arena.
I sorta wonder whether it might be smarter to make a motion-video-only program that shares a lot of code with GIMP, sort of like how Adobe has Photoshop and whatever-their-motion-video-product-is-called.
"A five year commitment is too long a technology commitment in today's marketplace. Computer needs change on the order of months, not years. Even at $10/month, a company would be stupid to commit to five years."
... but if the client is lightweight like the Sun Ray, would you ever need to replace it? you certainly don't need to replace X terminals every six months - if you want better performance, you just upgrade your network or your server. and of course, that's sun's whole premise - the network is the computer.
the analogy made in the article comparing a computing system where all the user saw was a thin client to modern telefone networks was a pretty good one. when's the last time you felt like your fone was obsolete? but unbeknownst to most people, the telcos are constantly upgrading their network infrastructure and switches.
and the smartcard feature - that just plain rules.
"you all" and, worse, "y'all" are NOT proper english. the plural of "you" is "you". if you say "you all" or "y'all", I will point my finger at you and laugh and say "look, an idiot!"
At about the same time, an entirely different scientific discipline yielded an equally unanticipated but important discovery. Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman were engaged in research on computational complexity, a sub-discipline of theoretical computer science. Their pursuit of abstract mathematical concepts led them, however, to the foundation for public key encryption, a mathematics-based methodology that can be used to protect electronic information. Today, many years later, their discovery is felt profoundly, as encryption not only protects from prying eyes the e-mails we send, but also has made the burgeoning realm of electronic commerce viable by ensuring the confidentiality and security of internet-based financial transactions.
so which is it? does the government want to teach our children well so that they can come up with inventions like public key encryption? or would they rather ban this encryption and let other children in other countries work with such things?
this is why our government is useless. they pull in two different directions on every issue. lets make sure we have a strong research capacity, but god forbid they are researching something we dislike.
why do so many people worship mitnick? because he got caught? because he spent a lot of time in jail? because he's a chronic repeat offender and parole violator?
I don't understand why noone gets behind murderers or burglars like they're getting behind mitnick.
the big news today is that someone got caught accessing a computer which he was not authorized to access, and now the federal government is going to aggressively prosecute him both as a penalty and as a high-profile deterrent to other hackers.
is this surprising? no. is this a problem? no. as we move into the future, the feds are goign to get better and better at catching and prosecuting those who chose to trespass in computers that they are not supposed to access. good for them.
well, you've got to admit that in a way, a lot of linux users are "immature unix children of sorts". how many hundreds of thousands of people are using linux today? how many of them were using a unix-type OS in 1994? 1984?
being an operating system bigot is pointless. operating systems are good for different things. I like freeBSD a lot; I switched from linux to freeBSD on my primary workstation maybe 4 years ago, and I've been very impressed with it. but when the time came to run some software that ran best on linux, I didn't hesitate a moment to install debian on one of my machines, because that was the best operating system for the task.
I dunno; we all seem to waste a lot of time arguing about which system is best when we could be doing useful work - perhaps even workign to make our favorite OS better. or reading slashdot...
oh, so any positive comments about any other os than linux must be automatically false? thats a really retarded viewpoint, even for a linux bigot.
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I've been giving this a lot of thought lately - when critical systems fail, and these systems are running software developed under open-source-type systems, who is responsible?
one could make an argument that the responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of the individual or group of individuals who chose to use the software package. after all, noone is forcing this 911 center to use linux, and more importantly, if they think that there is a potential for disaster, well, they have all the source, and they are not only welcomed, but encouraged to improve the software so that it is less likely to fail.
I don't see any reason why we should hold software developers responsible for faulty software. that's not to say that they shouldnt feel a need to create robust software; it's just that it is the choice of the user what systems to use.
software written in Java can be constructed in such a way that it can be executed as a standalone application without any need for a web browser or applet viewer.
whether this particular software is an applet or a standalone application, well, I'm not _sure_, but I would imagine it is satandalone.
a lot of people bust on Java and say it's slow and unstable - many of the stability and performance issues are actually the result of poor browser JVM implementations. it's been my experience that standalone applications are quite stable and acceptably not-that-slow.
"linus refuses to answer the fone at work to answer non-work-related questions."
this is unexpected? why would it surprise a single soul that he opts not to take calls at work? transmeta (presumably) doesnt pay him to chat on the fone all day with his legions of devotees; he should do his job and ZD should stop reporting unnews.
did I miss something? when exactly did the general public cease to be a bunch of retards? the average american _cant_ sort out fact and fiction. hello blair witch, hello war of the worlds, hello urban legends.
okay, I think you're missing the point here. this isnt a mac, its a PPC clone. your professed loyalty to intel is nothing more than herd-mentality idiocy. you're completely ignoring possibly superior technology in favor of the company who just so happened to be the dominant maker of chips when you started using computers; why does that mean that they will be in 10,000 years?
it sickens me to see people who are so blinded by the present that they refuse to see the future.
/. posters assuming that the number one priority of every company on the face of the planet should be to make sure that they are providing as much support as they possibly can for the linux market. IM sucks, ICQ sucks, Netscape sucks. Why shouldn't Sun ignore linux users? What makes you so special?
If linux is screwed without a high end browser, why dont you write one?
You don't have to be violent to be a danger to society. In a world where we're rapidly moving all of our critical activities at least partially into the computer realm, we can't afford to have people like mitnick running around thinking they have free license to abuse their technological skills. I say lock him up.
Slashdot Mirror
dude, dont you read slashdot?
(someone's review of some GIMP tutorial book)
these companies haven't "taken over" GIMP. They are paying some developers to expand it. I personally consider this a good thing. besides, GIMP seems (to me) to have completely replaced Photoshop; I think now is as good a time as any to expand the GIMP's development goals to fill an area which no other OSS has a presence in.
I for one would love to see motion video editing capabilities in a free software package. GIMP rules; might as well carry that ruling-ness into the motion video arena.
I sorta wonder whether it might be smarter to make a motion-video-only program that shares a lot of code with GIMP, sort of like Premier and Photoshop.
these companies haven't "taken over" GIMP. They are paying some developers to expand it. I personally consider this a good thing. besides, GIMP seems (to me) to have completely replaced Photoshop; I think now is as good a time as any to expand the GIMP's development goals to fill an area which no other OSS has a presence in.
I for one would love to see motion video editing capabilities in a free software package. GIMP rules; might as well carry that ruling-ness into the motion video arena.
I sorta wonder whether it might be smarter to make a motion-video-only program that shares a lot of code with GIMP, sort of like how Adobe has Photoshop and whatever-their-motion-video-product-is-called.
"A five year commitment is too long a technology commitment in today's marketplace. Computer needs change on the order of months, not years. Even at $10/month, a company would be stupid to commit to five years."
... but if the client is lightweight like the Sun Ray, would you ever need to replace it? you certainly don't need to replace X terminals every six months - if you want better performance, you just upgrade your network or your server. and of course, that's sun's whole premise - the network is the computer.
the analogy made in the article comparing a computing system where all the user saw was a thin client to modern telefone networks was a pretty good one. when's the last time you felt like your fone was obsolete? but unbeknownst to most people, the telcos are constantly upgrading their network infrastructure and switches.
and the smartcard feature - that just plain rules.
try looking at your user info page.
what is Karma? (in the slashdot context)
how does one's Karma rise and fall?
ok, since you people don't know english:
"you all" and, worse, "y'all" are NOT proper english. the plural of "you" is "you". if you say "you all" or "y'all", I will point my finger at you and laugh and say "look, an idiot!"
because when you say "y'all", you sound like some retard inbred southerner.
(just another transplanted new englander suffering in atlanta)
I was under the impression that OpsenBSD was based in canada because that's where theo lives.
all of you people getting bent out of shape for no reason, sheesh. I'm glad for your sakes we got a clarification.
so, uh... where'd _you_ learn math?
you learn all your skills in school. you learn your specialty anywhere you can.
yeah, well, heres the quote from the webpage.
At about the same time, an entirely different scientific discipline yielded an equally unanticipated but important discovery. Ronald Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman were engaged in research on computational complexity, a sub-discipline of theoretical computer science. Their pursuit of abstract mathematical concepts led them, however, to the foundation for public key encryption, a mathematics-based methodology that can be used to protect electronic information. Today, many years later, their discovery is felt profoundly, as encryption not only protects from prying eyes the e-mails we send, but also has made the burgeoning realm of electronic commerce viable by ensuring the confidentiality and security of internet-based financial transactions.
from the text of this webpage:
so which is it? does the government want to teach our children well so that they can come up with inventions like public key encryption? or would they rather ban this encryption and let other children in other countries work with such things?
this is why our government is useless. they pull in two different directions on every issue. lets make sure we have a strong research capacity, but god forbid they are researching something we dislike.
fucking retards.
why do so many people worship mitnick? because he got caught? because he spent a lot of time in jail? because he's a chronic repeat offender and parole violator?
I don't understand why noone gets behind murderers or burglars like they're getting behind mitnick.
the big news today is that someone got caught accessing a computer which he was not authorized to access, and now the federal government is going to aggressively prosecute him both as a penalty and as a high-profile deterrent to other hackers.
is this surprising? no. is this a problem? no. as we move into the future, the feds are goign to get better and better at catching and prosecuting those who chose to trespass in computers that they are not supposed to access. good for them.
well, you've got to admit that in a way, a lot of linux users are "immature unix children of sorts". how many hundreds of thousands of people are using linux today? how many of them were using a unix-type OS in 1994? 1984?
being an operating system bigot is pointless. operating systems are good for different things. I like freeBSD a lot; I switched from linux to freeBSD on my primary workstation maybe 4 years ago, and I've been very impressed with it. but when the time came to run some software that ran best on linux, I didn't hesitate a moment to install debian on one of my machines, because that was the best operating system for the task.
I dunno; we all seem to waste a lot of time arguing about which system is best when we could be doing useful work - perhaps even workign to make our favorite OS better. or reading slashdot...
yeah, I agree. this type of thing may be boring to the point of yawns to you, but there are peopel who would like to duplicate your setup. post URL.
oh, so any positive comments about any other os than linux must be automatically false? thats a really retarded viewpoint, even for a linux bigot.
I've been giving this a lot of thought lately - when critical systems fail, and these systems are running software developed under open-source-type systems, who is responsible?
one could make an argument that the responsibility falls squarely on the shoulders of the individual or group of individuals who chose to use the software package. after all, noone is forcing this 911 center to use linux, and more importantly, if they think that there is a potential for disaster, well, they have all the source, and they are not only welcomed, but encouraged to improve the software so that it is less likely to fail.
I don't see any reason why we should hold software developers responsible for faulty software. that's not to say that they shouldnt feel a need to create robust software; it's just that it is the choice of the user what systems to use.
software written in Java can be constructed in such a way that it can be executed as a standalone application without any need for a web browser or applet viewer.
whether this particular software is an applet or a standalone application, well, I'm not _sure_, but I would imagine it is satandalone.
a lot of people bust on Java and say it's slow and unstable - many of the stability and performance issues are actually the result of poor browser JVM implementations. it's been my experience that standalone applications are quite stable and acceptably not-that-slow.
"linus refuses to answer the fone at work to answer non-work-related questions."
this is unexpected? why would it surprise a single soul that he opts not to take calls at work? transmeta (presumably) doesnt pay him to chat on the fone all day with his legions of devotees; he should do his job and ZD should stop reporting unnews.
did I miss something? when exactly did the general public cease to be a bunch of retards? the average american _cant_ sort out fact and fiction. hello blair witch, hello war of the worlds, hello urban legends.
okay, I think you're missing the point here. this isnt a mac, its a PPC clone. your professed loyalty to intel is nothing more than herd-mentality idiocy. you're completely ignoring possibly superior technology in favor of the company who just so happened to be the dominant maker of chips when you started using computers; why does that mean that they will be in 10,000 years?
it sickens me to see people who are so blinded by the present that they refuse to see the future.
I'll tell you what I'm sick of:
/. posters assuming that the number one priority of every company on the face of the planet should be to make sure that they are providing as much support as they possibly can for the linux market. IM sucks, ICQ sucks, Netscape sucks. Why shouldn't Sun ignore linux users? What makes you so special?
If linux is screwed without a high end browser, why dont you write one?
You don't have to be violent to be a danger to society. In a world where we're rapidly moving all of our critical activities at least partially into the computer realm, we can't afford to have people like mitnick running around thinking they have free license to abuse their technological skills. I say lock him up.