You can call me stupid or whatever, but that doesn't excuse programmers from writing stuff that is a pain in the ass to use.
As others above has said already: if you don't like it, don't use it. Saying that in YOUR opinion it sucks will only anger people to war, no matter it's YOUR opinion you're talking about.
I don't understand one thing: if one has found his way and is happy with a solution (i.e. Mac&OSX) than why's the need to spread that linux sucks ? You just have too much time to spare now that you don't compile your softwares ? Baaah.
Anyways, we have some choices for OS's these days which is a very good thing. You stick to yours and help it evolve if you wish (most guys who talk like you don't do that, just talk) and be glad that you don't _have_ to choose MS, because there are other options, like Debian which is my personal favourite for ages now, and like OSX which you'll be very happy with.
Instead of trolling other people's favourites, you could just tell the best of your favourite without bashing the others. That would be a nice way to go. Very few people are following that.
I assume you weren't mugged as you would probably have mentioned it. I would also assume you didn't mug anyone yourself, you'd have mentioned that too.
Well, just been in the UK for a week (first time), in London and a smaller city, and after a while it really started to annoy and disturb me that wherever I was if I took a good look around I could find a camera covering my position.
It may help the police's work, but I don't know how I ever could get used to it.
Don't tell me you never ever went out to an empty lot or parking place in winter to twist and turn and slide and slip and slither on the icy snow. Come on, you really never ever ?:)
With this box this ends. But not just this. Imagine a late night drive when as far as you can see 1 or two cars on the road. Now tell me you've never been in a situation like this and never pushed harder. Now you'll have your little black tamagochi who won't let you.
Then tell me you've never been in a really crowded traffic when changing lines is a matter of seconds really and sometimes quick turns sudden breaking etc may happen. Well, not from now on.
Hey people, get a bike or better, a horse. Box that.
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Well, let's say you're right. How would that change anything ? At the beginning they (i.e. Gates and co) had one goal: to place dos on every PC. They did that, look where we got now.
It doesn't really matter how good or bad their OS is, what matters is that wherever you look it's there (I speak here about ordinary nongeek people out there). That's the point.
hooks inside their kernel in order to get some extra functionality or a bit of performance increase
Here you go, proving yourself wrong. Performance increase ? What do you say, MS software could be even more slower than they are ? Ohhhcomeonnn be serious this time:P;]
Anyways, Ballmers "argument" that we would be more frequently attacked and 0wned if we were higher in numbers is an old and now completely out-of-fashion "argument" everyplace. Only a lamer would state something like that and saying he's no FUD spreader.
The character that he so vividly created is a part of every American geek's cultural heritage
Oh man, that was so American of you.
I for one have only been once to the states (and then only on my way to Canada), yet TOS and Star Trek as a whole has been a part of my life since I remember.
As for Scotty, he'll never die, he'll live in hour hearts and minds for long. We just have to make certain we won't be the last generation to hear from THE crew. I just hope he won't suffer much in his remaining days.
This guy is a bad dream. Would top the wall of shame, if (s)he only had a name besides being an anonymous, obviously unprofessional and clearly totally ignorant COWARD. But oh, then he never ever got a consultant job again. I can but guess how those consulted companies manage to survive when listening to such an idiot.
Funny thing, when we in eastern europe start loosing papers, you guys just begin to get some more.
I don't like what I see day by day, that people just have to give up a bit more freedom to ascertain "safety" (baah). Where I have lived most of my life, you could go nowhere without papers, let alone fly (god forbid).
Hopefully you guys won't loose too much and hopefully we will get some more and then we could meet half ways up:)
Thing is, being in image processing and somewhat in graphics research (doing my phd) and going to conferences from time to time I hear pretty much recently that SIGGRAPH isn't what it used to be. And I hear this from big name people who visit about every major CG and/or IP conference there is.
I've never been to SIGGRAPH myself, which I very much regret, but I hope I can be there next year.
From what I experienced is smaller conferences can often be more useful, often very interesting ideas can be born where 50-100 people can gather and talk to each other over some beers.
As to other big conferences, probably one day also Eurographics will turn to fully be like SIGGRAPH. I really can't tell whether this is good or bad, it's just way things are.
Thing is I hear/read sentences starting with Would you give up your privacy in... lately. And this doesn't make me happy in any (un)imaginable way.
It just starts by giving up a bit. And at the end there remains nothing to be given up anymore. This wouldn't bother me in any way, unless it's all about our privacy and personal freedoms (which were held sacrosanct in now seemingly forgotten ancient times).
I don't think I wish my children to grow someday into a world where freedom and privacy tend to loose their meaning.
Well many of you said that during university years there's a lot of crap, and that peeps don't go to univ. to learn... and I could continue.
Thing is, there are some of us who do. I mean after 4-5 years of univ. time (for me it was 2 degrees - partially - in parallel, done in 7 years) you just prove one thing: you can keep up, can do your thing and still be able to concentrate on other matters that don't precisely relate to your major(s). That you can learn new things quickly and adapt to new challenges and requirements.
And on that I don't just mean learning a new programming language, but the ability to quickly familiarize yourself to new systems, concepts, designs and ideas. One can get a way of thinking and attitude that can't be picked up in 2 years of coders' crash-course.
And besides, it's not always the things you pick up on lectures that prove to be themost important, sometimes it's what you pick up between them. That also needs time (which 2 years can't possibly provide).
Seeing how m$ gets every and more both obvious and non-obvious patents granted, soon everyody and everywhere will infringe some m$ patents when writing more then 2 lines of code.
Thing is, it is surprisingly easy to detect on an image those areas which were copied from another image. The situation can arise when you could simply just draw exactly the contours of the pasted portions.
Things get harder when some areas are changed with parts copied from the image itself (i.e. not from another image), e.g. you cover or replace a part of an image with a part of itself from another place. In this case statistical evaluations can (in some cases) fool you.
It gets even harder when the modified image gets through a strong lossy compression, but in most cases this doesn't mean altered areas can't be correctly identified (especially when the whole image gets encoded in the same way, and the statistics of the image areas relative to each other degrade similarly).
All in all, what I'd like to say is that this problem isn't as hard to solve as most everyday people from next door would think.
One possible solution would be the widespread use of robust watermarking algorithms on the original images. There are some pretty heavily robust methods out there, some of them can even withstand hardprint+copy and more.
This thing seems to me like if somebody would come up with the idea that if you eat your hunger goes away.
Rest assured, if Firefox ever does make it big time, ~20-30% of browsers, malware writers WILL exploit any hole they can find.
Am I the only one who simply got fed up with these kinds of arguments over the years ?:P M$ and the Win crowd should one hell of a day understand that this argument does NOT justify a bad and slow development and update process.
It's _because_ the much more larger user base that they should pay much more attention on this matter. Not just in talks and speeches, but (at least one day, perhaps, maybe) also in action (yes I know, sp2 will come and we will be saved and a whole new secure world will begin, but then again, dreams are nice, reality is different).
And maybe one day noone will blame a 3rd party application and developer base for a flaw that the running os/api contains.
Windows XP Professional saw 46 advisories in 2003-2004
Right. 46. In 2003-2004. 46. If this was 42, I would've swallowed it with a sad grin. 46. Jeez, people, counting shouldn't be so hard:P
Anyway, I'm sick and tired of these kinds of "opinions" and "reviews":thumbsdown: People who "know" try to persuade and convince dumb lames who "think they know". And they get loads of cash for it.
They know they lie. We know they lie. Those who don't, will find out eventually. I'm waiting for that day:P
4 plates of NVidia video (TNT2, GForce2 or GForce4), being 1 AGP and 3 PCI or 4 PCI
Pretty funny. Instead of the whole shebang you'd need only 1 piece of a lousy NIC. Ever heard of remote x sessions ? This "solution" is just a waste of video card hardware in the server (which wouldn't need any of them), and at the same time limits the number of "clients" to 4, which is a shame in itself.
Well, it's always fun when newbies discover useful linux capabilties, but I don't think these discoveries merit a/. appearance.
And, as always, Google-ing sometimes can prove to be very useful. E.g. try "remote x access".
Well, I could just be more tired than usual.
Well, you're not wrong. If everyone used PGP/GPG-signed and encrypted messaging (for mail - e.g. thunderbird+enigmail, for im - e.g. kopete, gaim, for voip - sip w/ GPG+voice encryption, etc) with military strength encoding then there would be not enough resources to decrypt all the communication, and if there would be, they would need so much time it wouldn't worth the trouble.
However you probably know how Uncle Sam hates PGP/GPG and prohibits strong encryption.
How I love not living in the U.S., I can't tell this enough times these days (weeks/years).
when we was robbed by the fucking Swiss greengrocer bastard cocksucker of a referee
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you most certainly know there are quite some of us out there who wouldn't agree with this
neither the contents, nor the low language
flambait/troll
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as for the hardly sudden Dutch opinion change, a very good thing in this case; but in my opinion a vote should be a vote, not a money/lobby-dependent joke - once cast, cast for good
this looks to be a cool toy, hope someday will become a bit more uable and useful
for an also free win brother of metisse check out spherexp (http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/)
actually it was Alienware who came up with the idea of stacking up two of them first
and that was many months ago, and it isn't SLI
just a few weeks ago they started shipping
now Nvidia can't let them do that, so they came out with this SLI stuff
anyway, I'm not on any of those guys' part (I'm on Matrox's part for that matter:)) but give credit where's due
I just wish iTunes was European, not "European". It's like I started some company on the southern shores of Florida and tell that I have an [U.S.] American service (well, poor example but you get the point). Nonetheless, true to a point, but that point is one I don't like.
I was very happy to hear that iTunes was coming to Europe. Than I was a bit worried about the possibly high prices (well, we've gotten used to that when things come across the ocean to us). Than, when that was cleared up, best of all, turned out Apple's vocabulary and/or geographical knowledge is fairly limited concerning European countries:D
But hey, I always try to be as positive as I can, so now I hope iTunes will arrive to us before I begin my pensionary years:P
/* well this is my first post, hooray, whatever */
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You can call me stupid or whatever, but that doesn't excuse programmers from writing stuff that is a pain in the ass to use.
As others above has said already: if you don't like it, don't use it. Saying that in YOUR opinion it sucks will only anger people to war, no matter it's YOUR opinion you're talking about.
I don't understand one thing: if one has found his way and is happy with a solution (i.e. Mac&OSX) than why's the need to spread that linux sucks ? You just have too much time to spare now that you don't compile your softwares ? Baaah.
Anyways, we have some choices for OS's these days which is a very good thing. You stick to yours and help it evolve if you wish (most guys who talk like you don't do that, just talk) and be glad that you don't _have_ to choose MS, because there are other options, like Debian which is my personal favourite for ages now, and like OSX which you'll be very happy with.
Instead of trolling other people's favourites, you could just tell the best of your favourite without bashing the others. That would be a nice way to go. Very few people are following that.
Great, now a title like this rings the bell of M. Moore instead of R. Bradbury. Great indeed.
It's like when I saw in a DVD review of TRON that it was the Matrix of the eighties. I shouldn't comment on this further.
I just guess today's bright minds can't take the burden of even just 10-20 years of cultural heritage. Let alone history.
I assume you weren't mugged as you would probably have mentioned it. I would also assume you didn't mug anyone yourself, you'd have mentioned that too.
:) Say I was lucky ? :D
Yup, I would've
Well, just been in the UK for a week (first time), in London and a smaller city, and after a while it really started to annoy and disturb me that wherever I was if I took a good look around I could find a camera covering my position.
It may help the police's work, but I don't know how I ever could get used to it.
Don't tell me you never ever went out to an empty lot or parking place in winter to twist and turn and slide and slip and slither on the icy snow. Come on, you really never ever ? :)
With this box this ends. But not just this. Imagine a late night drive when as far as you can see 1 or two cars on the road. Now tell me you've never been in a situation like this and never pushed harder. Now you'll have your little black tamagochi who won't let you.
Then tell me you've never been in a really crowded traffic when changing lines is a matter of seconds really and sometimes quick turns sudden breaking etc may happen. Well, not from now on.
Hey people, get a bike or better, a horse. Box that.
Well, let's say you're right. How would that change anything ? At the beginning they (i.e. Gates and co) had one goal: to place dos on every PC. They did that, look where we got now.
It doesn't really matter how good or bad their OS is, what matters is that wherever you look it's there (I speak here about ordinary nongeek people out there). That's the point.
hooks inside their kernel in order to get some extra functionality or a bit of performance increase Here you go, proving yourself wrong. Performance increase ? What do you say, MS software could be even more slower than they are ? Ohhhcomeonnn be serious this time :P ;]
Anyways, Ballmers "argument" that we would be more frequently attacked and 0wned if we were higher in numbers is an old and now completely out-of-fashion "argument" everyplace. Only a lamer would state something like that and saying he's no FUD spreader.
The character that he so vividly created is a part of every American geek's cultural heritage
Oh man, that was so American of you.
I for one have only been once to the states (and then only on my way to Canada), yet TOS and Star Trek as a whole has been a part of my life since I remember.
As for Scotty, he'll never die, he'll live in hour hearts and minds for long. We just have to make certain we won't be the last generation to hear from THE crew. I just hope he won't suffer much in his remaining days.
Internet Explorer is the standard for all web protocols
Now it's obvious you don't know what you are talking about, so why bother boring us with your "ideas" ?
As of GmailFS... who cares what new stuff they introduce as long as Gmail is barely accessible ? Brb...
This guy is a bad dream. Would top the wall of shame, if (s)he only had a name besides being an anonymous, obviously unprofessional and clearly totally ignorant COWARD. But oh, then he never ever got a consultant job again. I can but guess how those consulted companies manage to survive when listening to such an idiot.
Funny thing, when we in eastern europe start loosing papers, you guys just begin to get some more.
:)
I don't like what I see day by day, that people just have to give up a bit more freedom to ascertain "safety" (baah). Where I have lived most of my life, you could go nowhere without papers, let alone fly (god forbid).
Hopefully you guys won't loose too much and hopefully we will get some more and then we could meet half ways up
Thing is, being in image processing and somewhat in graphics research (doing my phd) and going to conferences from time to time I hear pretty much recently that SIGGRAPH isn't what it used to be. And I hear this from big name people who visit about every major CG and/or IP conference there is.
I've never been to SIGGRAPH myself, which I very much regret, but I hope I can be there next year.
From what I experienced is smaller conferences can often be more useful, often very interesting ideas can be born where 50-100 people can gather and talk to each other over some beers.
As to other big conferences, probably one day also Eurographics will turn to fully be like SIGGRAPH. I really can't tell whether this is good or bad, it's just way things are.
Thing is I hear/read sentences starting with Would you give up your privacy in ... lately. And this doesn't make me happy in any (un)imaginable way.
It just starts by giving up a bit. And at the end there remains nothing to be given up anymore. This wouldn't bother me in any way, unless it's all about our privacy and personal freedoms (which were held sacrosanct in now seemingly forgotten ancient times).
I don't think I wish my children to grow someday into a world where freedom and privacy tend to loose their meaning.
Well many of you said that during university years there's a lot of crap, and that peeps don't go to univ. to learn... and I could continue.
Thing is, there are some of us who do. I mean after 4-5 years of univ. time (for me it was 2 degrees - partially - in parallel, done in 7 years) you just prove one thing: you can keep up, can do your thing and still be able to concentrate on other matters that don't precisely relate to your major(s). That you can learn new things quickly and adapt to new challenges and requirements.
And on that I don't just mean learning a new programming language, but the ability to quickly familiarize yourself to new systems, concepts, designs and ideas. One can get a way of thinking and attitude that can't be picked up in 2 years of coders' crash-course.
And besides, it's not always the things you pick up on lectures that prove to be themost important, sometimes it's what you pick up between them. That also needs time (which 2 years can't possibly provide).
Seeing how m$ gets every and more both obvious and non-obvious patents granted, soon everyody and everywhere will infringe some m$ patents when writing more then 2 lines of code.
I just guess these guys never heard of electro-retinograms. But some peeps did, time when these ones writing the "news" were never even born.
Thing is, it is surprisingly easy to detect on an image those areas which were copied from another image. The situation can arise when you could simply just draw exactly the contours of the pasted portions. Things get harder when some areas are changed with parts copied from the image itself (i.e. not from another image), e.g. you cover or replace a part of an image with a part of itself from another place. In this case statistical evaluations can (in some cases) fool you. It gets even harder when the modified image gets through a strong lossy compression, but in most cases this doesn't mean altered areas can't be correctly identified (especially when the whole image gets encoded in the same way, and the statistics of the image areas relative to each other degrade similarly). All in all, what I'd like to say is that this problem isn't as hard to solve as most everyday people from next door would think. One possible solution would be the widespread use of robust watermarking algorithms on the original images. There are some pretty heavily robust methods out there, some of them can even withstand hardprint+copy and more. This thing seems to me like if somebody would come up with the idea that if you eat your hunger goes away.
Rest assured, if Firefox ever does make it big time, ~20-30% of browsers, malware writers WILL exploit any hole they can find.
:P M$ and the Win crowd should one hell of a day understand that this argument does NOT justify a bad and slow development and update process.
Am I the only one who simply got fed up with these kinds of arguments over the years ?
It's _because_ the much more larger user base that they should pay much more attention on this matter. Not just in talks and speeches, but (at least one day, perhaps, maybe) also in action (yes I know, sp2 will come and we will be saved and a whole new secure world will begin, but then again, dreams are nice, reality is different).
And maybe one day noone will blame a 3rd party application and developer base for a flaw that the running os/api contains.
Windows XP Professional saw 46 advisories in 2003-2004
:P
:thumbsdown: People who "know" try to persuade and convince dumb lames who "think they know". And they get loads of cash for it.
:P
Right. 46. In 2003-2004. 46. If this was 42, I would've swallowed it with a sad grin. 46. Jeez, people, counting shouldn't be so hard
Anyway, I'm sick and tired of these kinds of "opinions" and "reviews"
They know they lie. We know they lie. Those who don't, will find out eventually. I'm waiting for that day
4 plates of NVidia video (TNT2, GForce2 or GForce4), being 1 AGP and 3 PCI or 4 PCI /. appearance.
Pretty funny. Instead of the whole shebang you'd need only 1 piece of a lousy NIC. Ever heard of remote x sessions ? This "solution" is just a waste of video card hardware in the server (which wouldn't need any of them), and at the same time limits the number of "clients" to 4, which is a shame in itself.
Well, it's always fun when newbies discover useful linux capabilties, but I don't think these discoveries merit a
And, as always, Google-ing sometimes can prove to be very useful. E.g. try "remote x access".
Well, I could just be more tired than usual.
Well, you're not wrong. If everyone used PGP/GPG-signed and encrypted messaging (for mail - e.g. thunderbird+enigmail, for im - e.g. kopete, gaim, for voip - sip w/ GPG+voice encryption, etc) with military strength encoding then there would be not enough resources to decrypt all the communication, and if there would be, they would need so much time it wouldn't worth the trouble. However you probably know how Uncle Sam hates PGP/GPG and prohibits strong encryption. How I love not living in the U.S., I can't tell this enough times these days (weeks/years).
when we was robbed by the fucking Swiss greengrocer bastard cocksucker of a referee [OFF] you most certainly know there are quite some of us out there who wouldn't agree with this neither the contents, nor the low language flambait/troll [/OFF] as for the hardly sudden Dutch opinion change, a very good thing in this case; but in my opinion a vote should be a vote, not a money/lobby-dependent joke - once cast, cast for good
this looks to be a cool toy, hope someday will become a bit more uable and useful for an also free win brother of metisse check out spherexp (http://www.hamar.sk/sphere/)
actually it was Alienware who came up with the idea of stacking up two of them first and that was many months ago, and it isn't SLI just a few weeks ago they started shipping now Nvidia can't let them do that, so they came out with this SLI stuff anyway, I'm not on any of those guys' part (I'm on Matrox's part for that matter :)) but give credit where's due
I just wish iTunes was European, not "European". It's like I started some company on the southern shores of Florida and tell that I have an [U.S.] American service (well, poor example but you get the point). Nonetheless, true to a point, but that point is one I don't like.
:D
:P
/* well this is my first post, hooray, whatever */
I was very happy to hear that iTunes was coming to Europe. Than I was a bit worried about the possibly high prices (well, we've gotten used to that when things come across the ocean to us). Than, when that was cleared up, best of all, turned out Apple's vocabulary and/or geographical knowledge is fairly limited concerning European countries
But hey, I always try to be as positive as I can, so now I hope iTunes will arrive to us before I begin my pensionary years