There is just as good a chance that the information stolen is bad information, as there is that it is good information. Now the Chinese/Russian spies need to determine what is and isn't good information from what they stole
I always arrive to late for these discussions when it comest to graphics related OSS.
I've been using all of these non-professional programs for years, Gimp, Blender.. etc. I have yet to meet someone learning about graphics software that can actually use the functions available in the Gimp. That said, I use it all the time and don't feel inhibited by it in any way.
Blender on the other hand has very few limitations compared with other major players in the 3d creation software business. Probably because they do have full time paid staff, but you'd know that if you'd have spent more than 30 seconds with it. I'm not trying to roast you with that, it's just a statement of fact.
Putting all of that aside, there is no way that software, no matter how much you pay for it will make you a better artist, and you learn to use the tools you have
From what I can scrape together quickly off of the Internet IANASE (I am not a software engineer). The biggest difference seems to be the lack of a need for error checking and disk defrag etc. Since the a normal spinning hdd does not actually delete a file but just removes the markers the filesystem treats all areas the same and does the same things to both real and non-real data to keep the disk state sane.
In an SSD all of this leads to a lot of unneeded disk usage and premature degradation of the drive itself.
There seems to be more about Data set management but I don't quite understand it.. maybe someone more knowledgeable could explain it?
Ah, but I beg to differ. I was in Victoria BC back sometime in the mid 90's eating the free food they serve on weekends at a Sikh temple when suddenly a fight broke out between the conservative and reformist sects of the Sikh... and I can assure you they were not using daggers, they were freakin swords!
I don't know how it ended I was went outside and waited while the cops showed up.
Your argument would sound less ridiculous if it wasn't obvious that your average street merchant invariable is not the same person that hacked the software in the first place. If I were selling hacked copies of anything on the street for a profit of a few cents each I would be much more inclined to download it off TPB (the pirate bay) than I would be actually have cracked the copy protection myself.
I can't even seem to find a no-cd crack for COD4 that doesn't have a trojan in it.
The fact that there would be greater suspicion if Bush had tried to do this does in no way interfere with the fact that there would have been good reason to be more suspicious if Bush had attempted it.
I once wrote a wxgtk python (might have been PyQt) script for a Zaurus hand-held for an ex-girlfriend who was waiting tables, that did exactly what this patent claims.
All she had to do was create groups by selecting radio buttons beside the items on the bill with the stylus, and then clicking a button "new bill", and it would separate them and create a new bill for each group. The only thing is that she did have to go up to the register and put all this information in, but she was doing that before with paper.
I also have to mention that I am not a real programmer. This is mostly back in the days I was dabbling at it. This isn't rocket science.
I thought it was going to be a 3d system for creating 2d drawings.. that would have been useful.
As it is (from a 3d artists point of view) this is just a more intense way of doing the same things that are already done with traditional 3d, and in fact comes nowhere close to what you can do with a sculpting program like z-brush.
If it gave me a 2d page I could turn and draw on like a real piece of paper.. that would be cool.. super cool.
Is food a right? If so, how much food? What kind of food? Think about it...
depends.. personally I think those frozen party pizza'a are a'right.. but then someone else might think some other king of food is a'right.. so I would have to say at least on my behalf most food is a'right.. but not all..
I like you're thinking. So since there doesn't seem to be any other reasonable method of paying for it, does that mean you are fronting the cash??
Seriously, you read a magazine, you get ads. You look through the Yellowpages for info you get ads. Hell if I remember right the last time my dad bought the encyclopedia Britanica.. there were ads.
So outside of some bristling new concept for web income that no one else knows about... or you could just stop using the web all together.. that would solve your issue...
I like the Idea. For the simple reason that if it were truly open it could be used for other purposes. Like alternative communications devices for the speech impaired (i.e. autistic, cerebral palsy, kids, with motor speech problems).
Currently the only thing available to my knowledge is the Prentkey Romich tablets at about $6,000 US a pop.
It would be nice to be able to have the ability to develop an open source low cost alternative. Something with maybe only one button besides the screen. For people that cannot afford these devices for one reason or the other.
I've been a supporter of Obama. That said I am an independent. I support those who reflect my views, not the views of big corporations and lobbyists. Until this issue is cleared I intend to withhold financial support. I ask those who believe strongly enough in this to do the same. We need to send a strong message.
If you had a family member in Iraq, and an impeachment led to a withdrawal of troops, would it have real benefit then?
Pardon the sarcasm, but if we had packed up years ago, how long would it have taken to have the next 9/11 with their new nuke program funded by the high price we pay for oil. Think about it. Who is supplying the crude. Did the cost to pump it really skyrocket? Follow the money. Just what do you think they are spending the money on?
That would make sense if Iraq had a nuke program. It would even make some sense if Iran and North Korea didn't have nuke programs, because then at least it wouldn't seem like such a huge waste of time and money.
Think along the lines of building a nuke program (look next door to Iran) and the hate to the infidels of Istral and the US. Think targets...
Most of our resources are being spent in Iraq.. we can't do anything about Iran remember?
Cutting and running and leaving them alone with the pile of money is not someting I am willing to not pay attention to. We are fighting an arms race where we are buying their military build up everytime we fill up.
The only reason they have a big pile of money right now is because we gave it to them. That and thousand and thousands of weapons that they don't know what happened to.
We want to bring our truops home safe and sound? There is nothing safe or sound in this in the long run. They will be back and boy are they pissed.
Our troups are what???
The domestic spying thing is just and extension of keeping an eye on the danger instead of pretending it isn't there till after the domesting war bombs go off.
The FBI/CIA/NSA have been able to tap phones whenever they want, and are allowed to get retroactive warrants. That means as long as they have a reason they can tap anyones phone, legally.
The problem is they don't want any oversight. In the past few years since the patriot act was signed into law. Warrantless wire tapping has been done thousands of times for reasons that had nothing to do with terrorism. I agree we need to watch the bad guys and our agencies need to have the tools to do their job, but this goes well beyond that. There need to be oversight to make sure that we don't wake up in the Soviet Union some day.
I would rather they keep the war overseas instead of letting it start here in my yard.
For anyone who think the Oil tax is a good idea, don't forget this is a world economy. If the price to sell in the US market goes up, it's easy to cut shipments. Do research on the 1970's. I lived it. Making a trip back from Idaho to Central Oregon ran me through several small towns in a row all with NO GAS. I parked stranded in Shaniko (officaly a ghost town) as the other option was to die on the highway unable to make it to the next town. I literally waited at the station for the truck to arrive.
Here is info on this delightful town.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=N&tab=lw&q=Shaniko+OR
We want to do this again why?
I lived through it to. It was called an oil shortage. We do not have an oil shortage right now. We have really expensive oil. However there is plenty of it. Much of the problem with high prices today has to do with speculators and the price of futures. I don't necessarily think that raising taxes for the oil companies will help the situation, but after they have been getting free oil from public land it might make me feel better:)
The fact is that a lot of us are tired of lugging around a laptop. If the screen and features on my smart phone were capable I would just use that.
The reality is that my $400 eeepc is almost perfect for my needs. I'd be willing to say perfect if the screen was a little bigger. (the next model will have this)
The fact is, a lot of people aren't using their laptop as a desktop at work. We just want to be able to have an easy mobile system that we can use when we need to access other systems or to carry data to and from remote locations.
That being the case, I find 3 hours more than enough. I usually keep the power adapter in my bag and pull the end out and plug it in while I'm sitting at my desk. I've never run out of power when I needed it.
I have a laptop as well, but its been sitting on the shelf at home now for a few months, and my shoulder is very thankful for it.
At $600, this is not really such a good laptop. I know it's been mentioned before, but they just lost the impulse buyer. Now it's just another laptop, and really not a very good one. I'd say ok, at $400, but at $600 they have priced themselves out of the game.
I do a a lot of 3d character work in Blender.
The fact is that raster images use less memory, and have quite a few more options in dealing with extremely complex images than vector. Have you ever tried making realistic looking dirt in a vector graphic program?
Inkscape does have it's place, I'll be the first to admit that, but it would take gigs of memory to handle some the insane amounts of per pixel coloring in vector that raster programs can do easily.
tab.. that is all you needed to do was hit.. tab..and the tools will pop up.
Personally I prefer the fact that in gimp I can use the whole screen for image editing. I can put the tools on a second monitor if I wish, or I can use one and hide and reveal the tools with the tab button.
In photoshop I'm forced to use whatever area of my monitor is left after the tools get their area.
So I still don't get your point. You didn't know about the tab button, and you don't care about how much of your screen you get for image editing. This is your preference. It has nothing to do with the layout of gimp.
Being an amateur, I just set up an wins server on my Ubuntu machine here at home and connected my girlfriends, two laptops to it. (something she has asked me to do before).
It took about 10 minutes and that is only because I was reading a howto, on a forum. The one thing I realized when doing it, is that instead of having a list of options, like the smb.conf file. The windows machines had an endless series of gui's. I don't think that the windows way was any easier, actually it seemed a bit more confusing at times, but I could understand that if I did it enough times I could get used to it.
The truth is I think I could sit here and go through all of your points and none of them seem to make any real sense. I don't see how an endless set of dialog boxes are any easier than a series of lines that you uncomment and fill out.
I did use a gui (http://www.fs-security.com/) to open the port in my firewall. I didn't use a netsh command because, like you said, "I DON'T FUCKING HAVE TO!.
In fact, I have a backup server here using CentOS, and I don't remember doing a lot of command line operations for that either.... hmm..
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There is just as good a chance that the information stolen is bad information, as there is that it is good information. Now the Chinese/Russian spies need to determine what is and isn't good information from what they stole
I always arrive to late for these discussions when it comest to graphics related OSS.
I've been using all of these non-professional programs for years, Gimp, Blender.. etc. I have yet to meet someone learning about graphics software that can actually use the functions available in the Gimp. That said, I use it all the time and don't feel inhibited by it in any way.
Blender on the other hand has very few limitations compared with other major players in the 3d creation software business. Probably because they do have full time paid staff, but you'd know that if you'd have spent more than 30 seconds with it. I'm not trying to roast you with that, it's just a statement of fact.
Putting all of that aside, there is no way that software, no matter how much you pay for it will make you a better artist, and you learn to use the tools you have
Not trying to plug myself. This is just for reference.. My portfolio site is horribly out of date but http://proviction.com/deathguppie/index.html
I can't believe I read through so many posts and found so little actual information. So here's one.
Schoolforge/
From what I can scrape together quickly off of the Internet IANASE (I am not a software engineer). The biggest difference seems to be the lack of a need for error checking and disk defrag etc. Since the a normal spinning hdd does not actually delete a file but just removes the markers the filesystem treats all areas the same and does the same things to both real and non-real data to keep the disk state sane. In an SSD all of this leads to a lot of unneeded disk usage and premature degradation of the drive itself.
There seems to be more about Data set management but I don't quite understand it.. maybe someone more knowledgeable could explain it?
Why is it that when I make a petition it takes thousands of signatures.. but when a lawyer makes a petition it just takes him??
well said.. mod this up please..
Ah, but I beg to differ. I was in Victoria BC back sometime in the mid 90's eating the free food they serve on weekends at a Sikh temple when suddenly a fight broke out between the conservative and reformist sects of the Sikh... and I can assure you they were not using daggers, they were freakin swords!
I don't know how it ended I was went outside and waited while the cops showed up.
Your argument would sound less ridiculous if it wasn't obvious that your average street merchant invariable is not the same person that hacked the software in the first place. If I were selling hacked copies of anything on the street for a profit of a few cents each I would be much more inclined to download it off TPB (the pirate bay) than I would be actually have cracked the copy protection myself.
I can't even seem to find a no-cd crack for COD4 that doesn't have a trojan in it.
Yes indeed my observant friend, death is in fact also a disease. I say death to death!!!
The fact that there would be greater suspicion if Bush had tried to do this does in no way interfere with the fact that there would have been good reason to be more suspicious if Bush had attempted it.
ooooooh... it says nm, not m&m.. my bad ..
I once wrote a wxgtk python (might have been PyQt) script for a Zaurus hand-held for an ex-girlfriend who was waiting tables, that did exactly what this patent claims.
All she had to do was create groups by selecting radio buttons beside the items on the bill with the stylus, and then clicking a button "new bill", and it would separate them and create a new bill for each group. The only thing is that she did have to go up to the register and put all this information in, but she was doing that before with paper.
I also have to mention that I am not a real programmer. This is mostly back in the days I was dabbling at it. This isn't rocket science.
I thought it was going to be a 3d system for creating 2d drawings.. that would have been useful.
... but it doesn't
As it is (from a 3d artists point of view) this is just a more intense way of doing the same things that are already done with traditional 3d, and in fact comes nowhere close to what you can do with a sculpting program like z-brush.
If it gave me a 2d page I could turn and draw on like a real piece of paper.. that would be cool.. super cool.
Is food a right? If so, how much food? What kind of food? Think about it...
depends.. personally I think those frozen party pizza'a are a'right.. but then someone else might think some other king of food is a'right.. so I would have to say at least on my behalf most food is a'right.. but not all..
I like you're thinking. So since there doesn't seem to be any other reasonable method of paying for it, does that mean you are fronting the cash??
Seriously, you read a magazine, you get ads. You look through the Yellowpages for info you get ads. Hell if I remember right the last time my dad bought the encyclopedia Britanica.. there were ads.
So outside of some bristling new concept for web income that no one else knows about... or you could just stop using the web all together.. that would solve your issue...
No it's not. Patent ,5,987,808 is actually a Fish stringer with floating weight indicator.
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5987808.html
I like the Idea. For the simple reason that if it were truly open it could be used for other purposes. Like alternative communications devices for the speech impaired (i.e. autistic, cerebral palsy, kids, with motor speech problems).
Currently the only thing available to my knowledge is the Prentkey Romich tablets at about $6,000 US a pop.
It would be nice to be able to have the ability to develop an open source low cost alternative. Something with maybe only one button besides the screen. For people that cannot afford these devices for one reason or the other.
I've been a supporter of Obama. That said I am an independent. I support those who reflect my views, not the views of big corporations and lobbyists. Until this issue is cleared I intend to withhold financial support. I ask those who believe strongly enough in this to do the same. We need to send a strong message.
If lobbyists can do it.. so can we...
Pardon the sarcasm, but if we had packed up years ago, how long would it have taken to have the next 9/11 with their new nuke program funded by the high price we pay for oil. Think about it. Who is supplying the crude. Did the cost to pump it really skyrocket? Follow the money. Just what do you think they are spending the money on?
That would make sense if Iraq had a nuke program. It would even make some sense if Iran and North Korea didn't have nuke programs, because then at least it wouldn't seem like such a huge waste of time and money.
Think along the lines of building a nuke program (look next door to Iran) and the hate to the infidels of Istral and the US. Think targets...
Most of our resources are being spent in Iraq.. we can't do anything about Iran remember?
Cutting and running and leaving them alone with the pile of money is not someting I am willing to not pay attention to. We are fighting an arms race where we are buying their military build up everytime we fill up.
The only reason they have a big pile of money right now is because we gave it to them. That and thousand and thousands of weapons that they don't know what happened to.
We want to bring our truops home safe and sound? There is nothing safe or sound in this in the long run. They will be back and boy are they pissed.
Our troups are what???
The domestic spying thing is just and extension of keeping an eye on the danger instead of pretending it isn't there till after the domesting war bombs go off.
The FBI/CIA/NSA have been able to tap phones whenever they want, and are allowed to get retroactive warrants. That means as long as they have a reason they can tap anyones phone, legally.
The problem is they don't want any oversight. In the past few years since the patriot act was signed into law. Warrantless wire tapping has been done thousands of times for reasons that had nothing to do with terrorism. I agree we need to watch the bad guys and our agencies need to have the tools to do their job, but this goes well beyond that. There need to be oversight to make sure that we don't wake up in the Soviet Union some day.
I would rather they keep the war overseas instead of letting it start here in my yard.
For anyone who think the Oil tax is a good idea, don't forget this is a world economy. If the price to sell in the US market goes up, it's easy to cut shipments. Do research on the 1970's. I lived it. Making a trip back from Idaho to Central Oregon ran me through several small towns in a row all with NO GAS. I parked stranded in Shaniko (officaly a ghost town) as the other option was to die on the highway unable to make it to the next town. I literally waited at the station for the truck to arrive.
Here is info on this delightful town. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=N&tab=lw&q=Shaniko+OR We want to do this again why?
I lived through it to. It was called an oil shortage. We do not have an oil shortage right now. We have really expensive oil. However there is plenty of it. Much of the problem with high prices today has to do with speculators and the price of futures. I don't necessarily think that raising taxes for the oil companies will help the situation, but after they have been getting free oil from public land it might make me feel better
The fact is that a lot of us are tired of lugging around a laptop. If the screen and features on my smart phone were capable I would just use that.
The reality is that my $400 eeepc is almost perfect for my needs. I'd be willing to say perfect if the screen was a little bigger. (the next model will have this)
The fact is, a lot of people aren't using their laptop as a desktop at work. We just want to be able to have an easy mobile system that we can use when we need to access other systems or to carry data to and from remote locations.
That being the case, I find 3 hours more than enough. I usually keep the power adapter in my bag and pull the end out and plug it in while I'm sitting at my desk. I've never run out of power when I needed it.
I have a laptop as well, but its been sitting on the shelf at home now for a few months, and my shoulder is very thankful for it.
At $600, this is not really such a good laptop. I know it's been mentioned before, but they just lost the impulse buyer. Now it's just another laptop, and really not a very good one. I'd say ok, at $400, but at $600 they have priced themselves out of the game.
I do a a lot of 3d character work in Blender. The fact is that raster images use less memory, and have quite a few more options in dealing with extremely complex images than vector. Have you ever tried making realistic looking dirt in a vector graphic program? Inkscape does have it's place, I'll be the first to admit that, but it would take gigs of memory to handle some the insane amounts of per pixel coloring in vector that raster programs can do easily.
tab.. that is all you needed to do was hit.. tab..and the tools will pop up. Personally I prefer the fact that in gimp I can use the whole screen for image editing. I can put the tools on a second monitor if I wish, or I can use one and hide and reveal the tools with the tab button. In photoshop I'm forced to use whatever area of my monitor is left after the tools get their area. So I still don't get your point. You didn't know about the tab button, and you don't care about how much of your screen you get for image editing. This is your preference. It has nothing to do with the layout of gimp.
this situation seems to be going around a bit lately..
Being an amateur, I just set up an wins server on my Ubuntu machine here at home and connected my girlfriends, two laptops to it. (something she has asked me to do before).
... hmm..
It took about 10 minutes and that is only because I was reading a howto, on a forum. The one thing I realized when doing it, is that instead of having a list of options, like the smb.conf file. The windows machines had an endless series of gui's. I don't think that the windows way was any easier, actually it seemed a bit more confusing at times, but I could understand that if I did it enough times I could get used to it.
The truth is I think I could sit here and go through all of your points and none of them seem to make any real sense. I don't see how an endless set of dialog boxes are any easier than a series of lines that you uncomment and fill out.
I did use a gui (http://www.fs-security.com/) to open the port in my firewall. I didn't use a netsh command because, like you said, "I DON'T FUCKING HAVE TO!.
In fact, I have a backup server here using CentOS, and I don't remember doing a lot of command line operations for that either.
Just my 2 cents..