GIMP has a number of tools which are actually really useful - for professionals and amateurs alike. The select tools for example are far better than those provided even in photoshop cs3. yes, CMYK support is lacking, 9 times out of 10 thats the main argument people give me for when this topic invariably comes up and i would say 6 or 7 times out of ten they have no actual need for CMYK output.
Photoshop is brilliant, GIMP is also brilliant. I frequently use both in tandem to get things done. comparing GIMP to elements shows a lack of understanding of just how good GIMP is.
More color modes would be good, as would grouping layers but for a lot of touch-up work or compositing GIMP does a very good job. Comments like 'its worthless to a professional' make me think you havent really used it that much or you are so used to photoshop that you write off GIMP as worthless as its not a total clone.
The other thing I never got was the hostility to was the UI. Photoshop has the same sort of idea on windows - the floating boxes like navigation/layers/paths etc. In fact I always thought it looked a lot like a mac app with the 'totally floating' look unlike a 'normal' app which was self contained in its own container window. I fail to see the complication.
Anyway, these never-ending recurring topics (linux v windows, gimp v photoshop, vi v everything) really tire me. So I'm done. If your a 'professional' designer you probably already using Creative Suite and if so then it wont do you any harm to try GIMP or to use it alongside PS. If youre a home user (who doesnt want to pirate) then either pay the $/£/E for Photoshop or use GIMP and be thankful that software like this is even available...
I was having much the same thoughts. I graduated with a degree in Information Systems Engineering, which sort of is a cross over of CS & EEE and have worked IT before for quite a while (in development now) and what you've said is spot on.
The theory and appreciation you get for systems as a whole with CS does give you an analytic edge I think even if you're not writing a compiler or building some new sorting algorithm...
I'd prefer a PDF reader for homebrew. ComicBookDS is quite a cool little application that will let you read CBR files, you'll need to convert them first but its essentially just scaling & rar'ing them in a particular way.
PP derives from a fork of ActiveCollab before it went closed-source, AC being a knock-off so to speak of Basecamp.
The one thing that stopped PP being adopted for my org. was the lack of built-in time tracking. I think AC has that in a much later version but ClockingIt has a 'push-on/push-off' AJAX-y timer which the PM's at my place fell in love with:(
PP would work well for a freelancer I think, if they need to do invoicing and bill for time by hours I'd use a little desktop timer, theres one or two for KDE in the PIM tools I think.
We used project pier for a while internally before the PM's insisted we move to clockingit. The thing I like about project pier is that its basically basecamp, is very simple to use and you can install it very easily on your own dev server.
for managing your project or interacting with a client more than a ftp dump have a look at it.
Is there some reason why we couldn't just have a 'standard' subdomain like tel.company.com or dir.company.com or whateverthehellmakessense.company.com ? Sure introducing the.tel means that naming convention problem is forcibly solved but maybe its because I'm getting older and more jaded, but i keep looking at the introduction of new tld's as a license to print money (almost).
no degree or a 'bad' degree score aint too bad
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i graduated without honors, pretty much unheard of in the UK and people thought my prospects would be terrible. I took a job doing some development at a small company, worked fucking hard and did well. i've always been a good coder etc, i just didnt get into the uni way of life.
a few years later i get paid more than any of my graduate friends in the same field, am further up the ladder and can jump between jobs. when i was recently looking for work not one recruitment agent asked about my degree, it was all about experience.
if you are good at what you do and you like doing it then your likely better than the majority that are treating it as 'just a job'.
When i was playing doom 3 the last thing on my mind was reading pages of 'text' on a virtual PDA or checking my 'email' mid game. Having said that I have sometimes found myself reading books in Oblivion, but not enough. It is a nice touch though but I did wonder 'wow, someone has had to sit and write all this stuff down for probably only 0.01% of people to even _open_ it let alone _read_ it'
That was a pretty poor error, particularly because the writer is trying to sound intelligent and not stupid. I'm with everyone else, I like idle but keep it off the front page.
Come to London, there are ton's of jobs here, there always are. I checked out your project a while back when reading a totally different thread and thought it was very cool by the way. I remember playing around with STFT's at uni. I don't see why you wouldn't be able to swing a coding job here. You might have to lower expectations though, don't expect the dream job first time, I had to spend a while doing tech support along with coding to give me that ever-marketable 'experience' and then after a couple of years of that I landed a job as a developer at a design agency [which is what i wanted to do in the first place:)]
ah ok, the vbscript is quite cool. cheers for the reply!:) I do find that small software that you maybe pay under $30 is worth the price more often than not and its really not a lot to spend. I had a friend that bought Alcohol 120% for burning discs, he had an issue, fired off an email to the developer and got a reply (and fix) within a day or two.
TFL have been saying that whilst the hack does work and is a concern they'll be able to identify cloned or reloaded cards and cancel them, so the most you'd get for your effort is a free travel card for the day.
"We wouldn't go into what security systems we've got, but we do have extra layers within the whole Oyster system," the spokesperson claimed. "We run daily tests for any cloned cards or rogue devices and none have been discovered. We are aware of the situation in Holland but, at this stage, there's no reason to migrate to a different system due to any security concerns."
When they say 'none have been discovered' its not clear if that includes the Dutch hack. While Im sure there are probably ways around that too in the future and that saying this is partly to play down the impact of 'omg free travel!' I would imagine that an organisation like TFL with the resources they've got they probably can do such scans every evening or in transit. It's interesting regardless to see how this plays out...
As a web developer, the death of IE would be greeted with a street party in my neighbourhood. Ever since I loaded up designs in 5.5 only to spend hours re-jigging them I could long live with out it. That said, I suppose you could look at the extra overhead of ensuring a site is IE-friendly and renders the same as more hours work and therefore more money but its hours I could've spent on more (useful) development than css hacks.
I'm so tired of browser wars/os wars/editor wars. I think you should just use what works for you. Reading your post, this caught my eye:
I use IE more than any other browser out there. Yeah... Really. I use it for the add-ons. IE has the add-ons that I want that work how I like them and so I use it.
I've not used IE7 very much at all except for test renders so I was just wondering if you could elaborate a little on what add-ons you use on it? My friends that are using IE rarely mention any add-ons at all whilst my Firefox friends often say 'Im using this extension... You have to try it...'.
Those of you talking about how people can't hold their arms out for hours on end:Do you really sit around with one hand on the mouse for hours on end
I think people are referring to the fact you'd need to have your arm extended in the air for these sort of systems. which would be a definite pain after a short while. especially if you're jumping between 'mouse' & keyboard input (assuming the keyboard isnt dead:)).
As for fingerprints--think of it as an incentive to practice good hygiene; do you really want to know what's living on the surface of your mouse?
you cant be serious!? even the cleanest of hands produce their own grease.
the very fact that using a touch screen obscures part of the viewport for me completely turns me off to using them for any sort of general computing. they work fine for 640x480 displays on a big monitor for booking your cinema tickets but for actual 'work' computing i cant imagine wanting to use them for more than 5 minutes.
as long as pc's have usb there will be mice to use years down the line, thank god!
i read about this a few days ago on the bbc and thought 'wait til this hits slashdot'. i can't see any reason why on earth i'd want to use a touch screen compared to a mouse (or graphics tablet at a push).
for one, given my current desktop setup i'd have to reach to the screen by half a metre to touch the thing. there would need to be a _huge_ shift in UI design to facilitate that being any where near useful.
the whole tone of this thought reminds me of how we'd all be controlling our computers/'typing' emails & letters/switching on the coooker with voice commands and look how that all took off so quickly...
i had a look through the linuxhater blog and clicked a couple of random entries to see what all the fuss was about. while there were a couple of good points made, they seemed to be interspersed with casual trolling. i got totally put off when i read him moaning about the GIMP. he wanted to draw a straight line with the paint brush, couldnt figure it out and then bitched at how terribly complicated this photoshop clone was.
i had a smile on my face reading the myriad of comments pointing out using shift+click is the defacto behavior of most image apps for drawing straight lines, photoshop included. after reading that i couldnt take anything he said seriously again...
Not to be boring but I'm pretty sure a company in the UK can call itself what it wants regardless of if a company in the states is using that name. Otherwise registering companies would get jolly tricky. This is why my email is googlemail and not gmail. Kind of. I think:) That said, Companies House doesnt seem to list a Majestic Studios.
In any case, yeah, this somewhat blew me away when i read it. They really must be out of their mind. I would absolutely hate to be them right now with the whole worlds gaming population essentially pointing the finger at them and saying 'twats'.
the first image (the artists rendering i assume) where its glowing looks great, it made me think of how I'd visualize the Black Sun looking in Snow Crash's metaverse.
it will be impressive if they keep the idea throughout the insides as well.
russian? so you've not actually played GTA IV then. regardless of that, i thought he did a pretty good job. all these people saying 'oh please it was terrible acting anyway', i'd really hate to have to listen to their rendition.
you would not believe how many companies i've seen that have a problem spending $500 on a spare machine but will bust their nuts once a machine dies. you'd think they would learn but i've found more often than not people are more willing to run with the risk:/ then again, maybe i've just seen a lot of tight-fisted companies:D
i cant be the only person that is sick of this mandatory chapter in almost every book i come across. i would think if you're a developer setting up a complex site running drupal 6, you probably already have your hosting platform set up, or if not, are capable of checking one of a million guides on the internet.
it seems like nothing short of padding to include this. maybe if there are discussions with regards tuning it up to run with heavy load, but basic setup should really be left out of technical books like this.
on a side note, i agree with the developer loyalty thing, i've been using drupal for a few years and love it...
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GIMP has a number of tools which are actually really useful - for professionals and amateurs alike. The select tools for example are far better than those provided even in photoshop cs3. yes, CMYK support is lacking, 9 times out of 10 thats the main argument people give me for when this topic invariably comes up and i would say 6 or 7 times out of ten they have no actual need for CMYK output.
Photoshop is brilliant, GIMP is also brilliant. I frequently use both in tandem to get things done. comparing GIMP to elements shows a lack of understanding of just how good GIMP is.
More color modes would be good, as would grouping layers but for a lot of touch-up work or compositing GIMP does a very good job. Comments like 'its worthless to a professional' make me think you havent really used it that much or you are so used to photoshop that you write off GIMP as worthless as its not a total clone.
The other thing I never got was the hostility to was the UI. Photoshop has the same sort of idea on windows - the floating boxes like navigation/layers/paths etc. In fact I always thought it looked a lot like a mac app with the 'totally floating' look unlike a 'normal' app which was self contained in its own container window. I fail to see the complication.
Anyway, these never-ending recurring topics (linux v windows, gimp v photoshop, vi v everything) really tire me. So I'm done. If your a 'professional' designer you probably already using Creative Suite and if so then it wont do you any harm to try GIMP or to use it alongside PS. If youre a home user (who doesnt want to pirate) then either pay the $/£/E for Photoshop or use GIMP and be thankful that software like this is even available...
I was having much the same thoughts. I graduated with a degree in Information Systems Engineering, which sort of is a cross over of CS & EEE and have worked IT before for quite a while (in development now) and what you've said is spot on.
The theory and appreciation you get for systems as a whole with CS does give you an analytic edge I think even if you're not writing a compiler or building some new sorting algorithm...
+1 insightful if i had the points...
I'd prefer a PDF reader for homebrew. ComicBookDS is quite a cool little application that will let you read CBR files, you'll need to convert them first but its essentially just scaling & rar'ing them in a particular way.
PP derives from a fork of ActiveCollab before it went closed-source, AC being a knock-off so to speak of Basecamp.
:(
The one thing that stopped PP being adopted for my org. was the lack of built-in time tracking. I think AC has that in a much later version but ClockingIt has a 'push-on/push-off' AJAX-y timer which the PM's at my place fell in love with
PP would work well for a freelancer I think, if they need to do invoicing and bill for time by hours I'd use a little desktop timer, theres one or two for KDE in the PIM tools I think.
We used project pier for a while internally before the PM's insisted we move to clockingit. The thing I like about project pier is that its basically basecamp, is very simple to use and you can install it very easily on your own dev server.
for managing your project or interacting with a client more than a ftp dump have a look at it.
Is there some reason why we couldn't just have a 'standard' subdomain like tel.company.com or dir.company.com or whateverthehellmakessense.company.com ? Sure introducing the .tel means that naming convention problem is forcibly solved but maybe its because I'm getting older and more jaded, but i keep looking at the introduction of new tld's as a license to print money (almost).
i graduated without honors, pretty much unheard of in the UK and people thought my prospects would be terrible. I took a job doing some development at a small company, worked fucking hard and did well. i've always been a good coder etc, i just didnt get into the uni way of life.
a few years later i get paid more than any of my graduate friends in the same field, am further up the ladder and can jump between jobs. when i was recently looking for work not one recruitment agent asked about my degree, it was all about experience.
if you are good at what you do and you like doing it then your likely better than the majority that are treating it as 'just a job'.
(web dev in london)
When i was playing doom 3 the last thing on my mind was reading pages of 'text' on a virtual PDA or checking my 'email' mid game. Having said that I have sometimes found myself reading books in Oblivion, but not enough. It is a nice touch though but I did wonder 'wow, someone has had to sit and write all this stuff down for probably only 0.01% of people to even _open_ it let alone _read_ it'
The original story is from Friday afternoon, he was killed just after 9am so we all knew about this a couple of days ago this side of the pond...
because its starting to feel like it... :(
That was a pretty poor error, particularly because the writer is trying to sound intelligent and not stupid. I'm with everyone else, I like idle but keep it off the front page.
fail...
Come to London, there are ton's of jobs here, there always are. I checked out your project a while back when reading a totally different thread and thought it was very cool by the way. I remember playing around with STFT's at uni. I don't see why you wouldn't be able to swing a coding job here. You might have to lower expectations though, don't expect the dream job first time, I had to spend a while doing tech support along with coding to give me that ever-marketable 'experience' and then after a couple of years of that I landed a job as a developer at a design agency [which is what i wanted to do in the first place :)]
ah ok, the vbscript is quite cool. cheers for the reply! :) I do find that small software that you maybe pay under $30 is worth the price more often than not and its really not a lot to spend. I had a friend that bought Alcohol 120% for burning discs, he had an issue, fired off an email to the developer and got a reply (and fix) within a day or two.
http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/communications/0,39044192,62040565,00.htm
When they say 'none have been discovered' its not clear if that includes the Dutch hack. While Im sure there are probably ways around that too in the future and that saying this is partly to play down the impact of 'omg free travel!' I would imagine that an organisation like TFL with the resources they've got they probably can do such scans every evening or in transit. It's interesting regardless to see how this plays out...
As a web developer, the death of IE would be greeted with a street party in my neighbourhood. Ever since I loaded up designs in 5.5 only to spend hours re-jigging them I could long live with out it. That said, I suppose you could look at the extra overhead of ensuring a site is IE-friendly and renders the same as more hours work and therefore more money but its hours I could've spent on more (useful) development than css hacks.
I've not used IE7 very much at all except for test renders so I was just wondering if you could elaborate a little on what add-ons you use on it? My friends that are using IE rarely mention any add-ons at all whilst my Firefox friends often say 'Im using this extension... You have to try it...'.
I think people are referring to the fact you'd need to have your arm extended in the air for these sort of systems. which would be a definite pain after a short while. especially if you're jumping between 'mouse' & keyboard input (assuming the keyboard isnt dead :)).
you cant be serious!? even the cleanest of hands produce their own grease.
the very fact that using a touch screen obscures part of the viewport for me completely turns me off to using them for any sort of general computing. they work fine for 640x480 displays on a big monitor for booking your cinema tickets but for actual 'work' computing i cant imagine wanting to use them for more than 5 minutes.
as long as pc's have usb there will be mice to use years down the line, thank god!
i read about this a few days ago on the bbc and thought 'wait til this hits slashdot'. i can't see any reason why on earth i'd want to use a touch screen compared to a mouse (or graphics tablet at a push).
for one, given my current desktop setup i'd have to reach to the screen by half a metre to touch the thing. there would need to be a _huge_ shift in UI design to facilitate that being any where near useful.
the whole tone of this thought reminds me of how we'd all be controlling our computers/'typing' emails & letters/switching on the coooker with voice commands and look how that all took off so quickly...
seconded.
i had a look through the linuxhater blog and clicked a couple of random entries to see what all the fuss was about. while there were a couple of good points made, they seemed to be interspersed with casual trolling. i got totally put off when i read him moaning about the GIMP. he wanted to draw a straight line with the paint brush, couldnt figure it out and then bitched at how terribly complicated this photoshop clone was.
i had a smile on my face reading the myriad of comments pointing out using shift+click is the defacto behavior of most image apps for drawing straight lines, photoshop included. after reading that i couldnt take anything he said seriously again...
Not to be boring but I'm pretty sure a company in the UK can call itself what it wants regardless of if a company in the states is using that name. Otherwise registering companies would get jolly tricky. This is why my email is googlemail and not gmail. Kind of. I think :) That said, Companies House doesnt seem to list a Majestic Studios.
In any case, yeah, this somewhat blew me away when i read it. They really must be out of their mind. I would absolutely hate to be them right now with the whole worlds gaming population essentially pointing the finger at them and saying 'twats'.
the first image (the artists rendering i assume) where its glowing looks great, it made me think of how I'd visualize the Black Sun looking in Snow Crash's metaverse. it will be impressive if they keep the idea throughout the insides as well.
russian? so you've not actually played GTA IV then. regardless of that, i thought he did a pretty good job. all these people saying 'oh please it was terrible acting anyway', i'd really hate to have to listen to their rendition.
ok, it is of sorts, but you could hold your fist 'loosely'. you can still 'tighten' your fist up. its just rather awkward.
you would not believe how many companies i've seen that have a problem spending $500 on a spare machine but will bust their nuts once a machine dies. you'd think they would learn but i've found more often than not people are more willing to run with the risk :/ then again, maybe i've just seen a lot of tight-fisted companies :D
i cant be the only person that is sick of this mandatory chapter in almost every book i come across. i would think if you're a developer setting up a complex site running drupal 6, you probably already have your hosting platform set up, or if not, are capable of checking one of a million guides on the internet.
it seems like nothing short of padding to include this. maybe if there are discussions with regards tuning it up to run with heavy load, but basic setup should really be left out of technical books like this.
on a side note, i agree with the developer loyalty thing, i've been using drupal for a few years and love it...