Do that many people really use Photoshop? For what little image editing I do, GIMP works fine; usually, the only things I ever do are crop and resize. I just don't have any reason to mess around with colors and such, let alone doing crazy stuff like putting objects on different backgrounds and the like. Resizing (like to make images 1/4 size so I can upload them at places where the full-size image is too big) is frequently done easily just with an Imagemagick script.
Are enough people really doing advanced Photoshop editing to hold back Linux adoption?
For those use cases, digikam plugins are much easier. Batch handling of the most common things needed too. And if you need some edit, just press F4
There are plenty of serfs and slaves in the world today. But they have dark skin and live far away from you so it's easy to pretend that they don't exist. A thousand or so were crushed in Bangladesh less than a month ago. You may have heard about it.
That is called globalization, and studies indicate we do them a favour with it (shipping jobs and wealth to poorer countries). It is bad what happened there, but it are their own rulers who make the laws in those countries.
If you want to complain about the West living off the poor nations, it's not work outsourcing you need to complain about, but stealing of natural resources.
That will work for now, but over time many GTK+ 2 applications will migrate to GTK+ 3; and if GTK+ 3 is not a go on other desktops then that's a problem.
?? Everything will move to GTK 3, obviously. It's a library to draw components. It will be supported everywhere. I'm running GTK 3 apps now on KDE, and they looks much, much, much more lovely than the GTK 2 apps. Get your facts right.
"without the euro, greece, portugal, spain, ireland would also have been in big trouble"
Actually without the Euro these countries would be far better by now, devaluation of a country coin is very used to lower income without reducing wages, also limits imports and makes exports grow.
Well, this is what they used to do, and see, they are still the poorer countries. So does that really work that well. Furthermore, is it not hypocrite politicians have no problem devaluating with 10%, making your savings money, pension,... also 10% less valued, while they are not able to cut wages with 10%? I'm not a German, but to all those complaining, I think they should assume the German propositions are good ones and truthfull. And they should not fight against them, but work with them. They are right when they want countries to solve the real problems, instead of trying to win another year or two with a small measure here and there.
I don't agree here. You assume our current economics remains the norm, but a future of abundance is also possible, with machines doing labour. Groups can easily form with specific motives. Certainly should telescopes show life on a planet in the stellar neighbourhood. Question like "how does it look like" would pop up and keep on nagging.
I'm doing many things now with no economic argument because I'm in the liberty to do so for the time being. So, assuming cost actually would be VAST in 1000 years (how could we know?), that would be a requirement: not caring for the cost, as the economics is irrelevant to your goal and own bottom line. As long as it increases your happiness, money can be considered well spent.
We know the Earth will be destroyed, many don't care so far in the future, but a small percentage does, already today.
Aliens pay to be transported to Earth, in the return trip they take the gold/minerals/pelts back? Like the colonization of the USA? Give humans new green pastures, and again many people would emigrate there. Would be a bonus though if this time there were no natives waiting for you.
Just to be complete, the Commission is pushing to reintroduce this in the upcoming bill for part of the "green" subsidies, which under Irish precidency should arrive around June 2013. This time the Parliament will need to vote too though, so if it is reintroduced, it's because our representation wants that, not some bureaucrat.
You must have stupid farmers in your country. That rule was abolished in 2008. You should know by now that when politicians in Europe say "Europe orders us to...", what they really mean is "We order you to... but don't want to take responsibility"
Where do you get the plans for those miniatures? I was thinking about doing the same thing.
Not easy to find miniatures that print nice on current printers, that is, miniatures with no difficult overhang or holes. Pocket-dungeon on thingiverse is good though, and made for printers:
http://www.thingiverse.com/dutchmogul/designs
They overcome overhang problem by using heavily robes around the legs little facial detail (nose and such), and cutting of the designs requiring glueing them. I print ABS and want to try vapour acetone treatment on prints next.
How about the ink? Probably the same game as with current printer ink cartridges - ongoing profit maker...ripoff
Questionable if it's fair right now and in future???
Lets be honest, we barely use our home printers. I'm glad I have it, but I bought my color laser in 2009 and have never changed the toners. I print everything to PDF. I have no desire to own a 3D printer because I see no use for it, the little models and small items I've seen people print could have been bought for a few dollars rather than buying a $2,000+ printer and the plastic it uses. If I really need a 3D model I imagine paying someone a few bucks on ebay or craiglist to print custom items. Sorry 3D printer makers, but these will always be for a very niche market, never mainstream.
Turn in your nerd card! You can only print stuff ordered that others designed. If you design yourself, you need to prototype. This is no different from making software versus using software. Everybody who makes software needs a device to work on, instead of only consume, everybody who makes objects needs a printer to try it on, instead of a service that delivers prints at home.
What you claim is hence: "I don't make or design stuff, so I don't need a 3D printer." Yes, but there are many people out there that do make things, probably more than there are software coders. 3D design is also easier than programming, so schools will quicker pick this up than adding coding to the curriculum.
This is indeed not mainstream, but most houses have kids at a certain time, so a 3D printer will be handy, and if people are fed up waiting for a package or the 3D services are not that good, buying one will be an option. In the end, it will come down to ease of use of the printer. I'm able to service my 3D printer, 95% of the population would not manage with the printers in use today. My first order to shapeways took 2 weeks before they notified it could not be printed, and refunded me. Second order took 1.5 weeks to arrive.
I print quality D&D miniatures with my Makerbot Replicator. That's with 0.125 mm layers. If you give it an acetone vapour bath, they are smooth too.
Problem with additive layer however is not quality of these prints, it is the impossibility to print overhang, what you need for nice feet, hands sticking out,... .
So that is the problem, not the layer thickness. The stereographic prints might fix this, or two material print with one material that dissolves in water. I can't print dual head two materials on my Replicator on 0.125 layers, nor can I do it as nicely as needed on thicker prints.
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Which is why we need the 3D for the internet as the original poster claims, no?
Tinkercad works on linux without problems, by the way. Once you are past above issue, he will complain if use a browser with no webGL support. Firefox or Chrome can do that though on the desktop.
Actually, the wave function of the universe can contain different realities at the same time. No need for actual multiverses. The problem is only that at some point, a collapse of parts of the wave function needs to occur, so the alternatives, although present in the wave-function, do not come to fruition.
The point of a time travel movie should hence be to make sure the wave function collapses in the direction you want further in time, so in the future. The question is how one can achieve this. Probably some mixing with a quantum state outside our solar system would be needed.;-)
Unfortunately I already switched to python 3 for my own coding. They need funding to support python 3: http://pypy.org/py3donate.html so clearly money is an issue.
That makes about as much sense as a job posting for a truck driver saying Ford F150 preferred, only because the Ford F150 is the most common truck in the world.
Never heard of it, never seen it. Pretty sure I'm on Earth somewhere.
Well, I said matlab, and not simulink or labview with a reason. The first is better done with python in my opinion. If you need the last two however....
Concerning pictures, I actually sometimes extract the lines from a matlab fig, so as to use python matplotlib to create something nice for an actual publication:-D
I guarantee you, I can walk out my door today and buy a fully-auto submachine-gun or assault rifle with high-capacity magazines and the ammo (including 'cop-killer' AP rounds) off the streets within a few hours and be home in time to watch the evening news while I clean and prep it. And I'm an old gray-haired white dude!
Yes, but with a partial ban, and heavy fines for transgressors, after some years of this ban, that behavior will hopefully have changed. That is, there is not that much incentive at the moment to assign port and cop duties to policing the sale of cop-killer round, although they are prohibited.
Also, how good are cop-killers bought on the street in reality? I wonder if it is not like medicine bought on the internet.
He is actually not that wrong. In the sense: you need to be clever to obtain an illegal gun. Chances are you will not find it. So if they make big magazines illegal, but normal magazines are still ok, the nutjob will get the smaller magazine, and not go through the troubles of obtaining big. Same if they prohibit semi-automatic,...
Yes, organized crime will have no problem obtaining those weapons, they have them in Europe too, they just steal them from an army depot,.... But the common nutjob is not in organized crime, and will use the weapons available to him in the most easy fashion. As a consequence, the number of deaths he can cause will be less.
Matlab is exceptional, but of course has some cost..
Everything you can do in Matlab, you can do better in python. I work in a mathematics department at this moment, so I do know the subject somewhat. If you need some package of a person which is only present in matlab, then porting to python is not that hard, as the syntax can be easily translated to numpy/scipy. For high school students: ipython notebook: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/htmlnotebook.html
For pure mathematics, preference goes to Sage in many circles, However, having been on a conference and seeing the new features in ipython notebook, and knowing they just received a 1.15 million grant by the Sloan foundation, it has a bright future.
Nevertheless, the relativity department here uses maple for their theoretical work. Most engineers also, but those always try to solve problems first by throwing money toward it:-) From a 'get your work done fast' and from an engineering point of view, maple/mathematica/matlab are great off course. From a 'control your own work', 'know what you are doing', and 'build for the future', chosing a python solution (ipython, matplotlib, sage,...) is a good bet.
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Do that many people really use Photoshop? For what little image editing I do, GIMP works fine; usually, the only things I ever do are crop and resize. I just don't have any reason to mess around with colors and such, let alone doing crazy stuff like putting objects on different backgrounds and the like. Resizing (like to make images 1/4 size so I can upload them at places where the full-size image is too big) is frequently done easily just with an Imagemagick script.
Are enough people really doing advanced Photoshop editing to hold back Linux adoption?
For those use cases, digikam plugins are much easier. Batch handling of the most common things needed too. And if you need some edit, just press F4
There are plenty of serfs and slaves in the world today. But they have dark skin and live far away from you so it's easy to pretend that they don't exist. A thousand or so were crushed in Bangladesh less than a month ago. You may have heard about it.
That is called globalization, and studies indicate we do them a favour with it (shipping jobs and wealth to poorer countries). It is bad what happened there, but it are their own rulers who make the laws in those countries.
If you want to complain about the West living off the poor nations, it's not work outsourcing you need to complain about, but stealing of natural resources.
That will work for now, but over time many GTK+ 2 applications will migrate to GTK+ 3; and if GTK+ 3 is not a go on other desktops then that's a problem.
?? Everything will move to GTK 3, obviously. It's a library to draw components. It will be supported everywhere. I'm running GTK 3 apps now on KDE, and they looks much, much, much more lovely than the GTK 2 apps. Get your facts right.
"without the euro, greece, portugal, spain, ireland would also have been in big trouble"
Actually without the Euro these countries would be far better by now, devaluation of a country coin is very used to lower income without reducing wages, also limits imports and makes exports grow.
Well, this is what they used to do, and see, they are still the poorer countries. So does that really work that well. Furthermore, is it not hypocrite politicians have no problem devaluating with 10%, making your savings money, pension, ... also 10% less valued, while they are not able to cut wages with 10%? I'm not a German, but to all those complaining, I think they should assume the German propositions are good ones and truthfull. And they should not fight against them, but work with them. They are right when they want countries to solve the real problems, instead of trying to win another year or two with a small measure here and there.
I'm doing many things now with no economic argument because I'm in the liberty to do so for the time being. So, assuming cost actually would be VAST in 1000 years (how could we know?), that would be a requirement: not caring for the cost, as the economics is irrelevant to your goal and own bottom line. As long as it increases your happiness, money can be considered well spent.
We know the Earth will be destroyed, many don't care so far in the future, but a small percentage does, already today.
Aliens pay to be transported to Earth, in the return trip they take the gold/minerals/pelts back? Like the colonization of the USA? Give humans new green pastures, and again many people would emigrate there. Would be a bonus though if this time there were no natives waiting for you.
Just to be complete, the Commission is pushing to reintroduce this in the upcoming bill for part of the "green" subsidies, which under Irish precidency should arrive around June 2013. This time the Parliament will need to vote too though, so if it is reintroduced, it's because our representation wants that, not some bureaucrat.
You must have stupid farmers in your country. That rule was abolished in 2008. You should know by now that when politicians in Europe say "Europe orders us to ...", what they really mean is "We order you to ... but don't want to take responsibility"
Where do you get the plans for those miniatures? I was thinking about doing the same thing.
Not easy to find miniatures that print nice on current printers, that is, miniatures with no difficult overhang or holes. Pocket-dungeon on thingiverse is good though, and made for printers: http://www.thingiverse.com/dutchmogul/designs They overcome overhang problem by using heavily robes around the legs little facial detail (nose and such), and cutting of the designs requiring glueing them. I print ABS and want to try vapour acetone treatment on prints next.
How about the ink? Probably the same game as with current printer ink cartridges - ongoing profit maker...ripoff Questionable if it's fair right now and in future???
That's the great thing, make your own, or buy a device that makes it: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/833191773/filastruder-a-robust-inexpensive-filament-extruder
Lets be honest, we barely use our home printers. I'm glad I have it, but I bought my color laser in 2009 and have never changed the toners. I print everything to PDF. I have no desire to own a 3D printer because I see no use for it, the little models and small items I've seen people print could have been bought for a few dollars rather than buying a $2,000+ printer and the plastic it uses. If I really need a 3D model I imagine paying someone a few bucks on ebay or craiglist to print custom items. Sorry 3D printer makers, but these will always be for a very niche market, never mainstream.
Turn in your nerd card! You can only print stuff ordered that others designed. If you design yourself, you need to prototype. This is no different from making software versus using software. Everybody who makes software needs a device to work on, instead of only consume, everybody who makes objects needs a printer to try it on, instead of a service that delivers prints at home.
What you claim is hence: "I don't make or design stuff, so I don't need a 3D printer." Yes, but there are many people out there that do make things, probably more than there are software coders. 3D design is also easier than programming, so schools will quicker pick this up than adding coding to the curriculum.
This is indeed not mainstream, but most houses have kids at a certain time, so a 3D printer will be handy, and if people are fed up waiting for a package or the 3D services are not that good, buying one will be an option. In the end, it will come down to ease of use of the printer. I'm able to service my 3D printer, 95% of the population would not manage with the printers in use today. My first order to shapeways took 2 weeks before they notified it could not be printed, and refunded me. Second order took 1.5 weeks to arrive.
Oh, and this replicator was less than 2000$.
Fully agree! Why is this thread not a poll?
Which is why we need the 3D for the internet as the original poster claims, no? Tinkercad works on linux without problems, by the way. Once you are past above issue, he will complain if use a browser with no webGL support. Firefox or Chrome can do that though on the desktop.
Sorry, the quote went missing somewhere ...
I've been around 3D for decades and I still don't know what people are imagining when they say "3D web!!"
(and AFAICT the people want it most are all stoners...)
Well, by example: tinkercad
Is this not why they open source it? So the radeon/ati driver can take over? For me that works great.
Actually, the wave function of the universe can contain different realities at the same time. No need for actual multiverses. The problem is only that at some point, a collapse of parts of the wave function needs to occur, so the alternatives, although present in the wave-function, do not come to fruition.
The point of a time travel movie should hence be to make sure the wave function collapses in the direction you want further in time, so in the future. The question is how one can achieve this. Probably some mixing with a quantum state outside our solar system would be needed. ;-)
In Belgium, you MUST vote, or you get a fine. It is called 'election DUTY' instead of the common 'election right'.
Unfortunately I already switched to python 3 for my own coding. They need funding to support python 3: http://pypy.org/py3donate.html so clearly money is an issue.
That makes about as much sense as a job posting for a truck driver saying Ford F150 preferred, only because the Ford F150 is the most common truck in the world.
Never heard of it, never seen it. Pretty sure I'm on Earth somewhere.
Concerning pictures, I actually sometimes extract the lines from a matlab fig, so as to use python matplotlib to create something nice for an actual publication :-D
I guarantee you, I can walk out my door today and buy a fully-auto submachine-gun or assault rifle with high-capacity magazines and the ammo (including 'cop-killer' AP rounds) off the streets within a few hours and be home in time to watch the evening news while I clean and prep it. And I'm an old gray-haired white dude!
Yes, but with a partial ban, and heavy fines for transgressors, after some years of this ban, that behavior will hopefully have changed. That is, there is not that much incentive at the moment to assign port and cop duties to policing the sale of cop-killer round, although they are prohibited.
Also, how good are cop-killers bought on the street in reality? I wonder if it is not like medicine bought on the internet.
Yes, organized crime will have no problem obtaining those weapons, they have them in Europe too, they just steal them from an army depot, .... But the common nutjob is not in organized crime, and will use the weapons available to him in the most easy fashion. As a consequence, the number of deaths he can cause will be less.
Matlab is exceptional, but of course has some cost. .
Everything you can do in Matlab, you can do better in python. I work in a mathematics department at this moment, so I do know the subject somewhat. If you need some package of a person which is only present in matlab, then porting to python is not that hard, as the syntax can be easily translated to numpy/scipy. For high school students: ipython notebook: http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/dev/interactive/htmlnotebook.html
For pure mathematics, preference goes to Sage in many circles, However, having been on a conference and seeing the new features in ipython notebook, and knowing they just received a 1.15 million grant by the Sloan foundation, it has a bright future.
Nevertheless, the relativity department here uses maple for their theoretical work. Most engineers also, but those always try to solve problems first by throwing money toward it :-) From a 'get your work done fast' and from an engineering point of view, maple/mathematica/matlab are great off course. From a 'control your own work', 'know what you are doing', and 'build for the future', chosing a python solution (ipython, matplotlib, sage, ...) is a good bet.