If you find yourself processing a set of 100 images, doing the same repetitive 27 operations over and over, you probably could benefit from Photoshop.'
If you mostly just crop, clone, color balance and blur - you don't even need GIMP, but you may as well use it for the rare occasion when you want to build a layered image.
I've used GIMP and Photoshop over the years. Photoshop tends to be ahead on professional oriented workflow automation, GIMP tends to be on-par for more casual image editing. Both have a steep learning curve. Neither is worth thousands of dollars, but one will charge you that.
Congratulations, you have made the list of "the usual suspects" as described in the film Casablanca.
What I'd like to see is some kind of analysis of TOR traffic vs normal internet traffic, not bytes up/down but connections made. I suspect it's less than 1%, which already makes it a better hunting ground for illicit activity, probably much less than 1% in reality.
Calling TOR the Dark Web is like calling a movie you can stream on Netflix "obscure, exclusive, and little known."
The real Dark Web is the stuff you don't know that you don't know about. Packets passing through the backbone that nobody but the sender and receiver understand.
Our warehouse containerized the stock to standard tubs, it wasn't highly efficient in terms of spatial volume, but it was very well organized and mated well with the inventory database. In 1987. They can do fancier things today, 3 dimensional packing algorithms to fit different sized boxes into a bigger shipping container or truck - route planning to direct the truck packing order, etc. Still, below a certain threshold of material being handled, it's just more efficient to make a person handle it on the fly rather than plan for every contingency.
The problem is getting far field effects from an itty bitty coil - no matter if you have a 20T field at the middle, how long before that dissipates to less than Earth's magnetic field? Hint: they make these crazy fields in Tallahassee, and they don't affect compass needles on the other side of town. Mars is a few orders of magnitude bigger than a city...
So, keeping a magnet at L1 does seem practical, but if we had a higher temp superconductor that robots could fabricate out of martian soil, that would seem to be the ticket: loop the whole planet.
We had robots in our warehouse in 1987 - they couldn't jump, but they could reach higher than people standing on the ground.
That "robotic" stock handling robot easily eliminated one job per shift, and it cost much less to maintain than the workman's comp insurance premium for a single employee. 30 years ago.
In the 1990s, any acknowledgment of a spam e-mail was an invitation to more SPAM.
Lately, the unsubscribe links mostly work pretty well. I've been able to maintain the same address for 20 years now and it's still usable, sure it gets SPAM, but with billions of legitimate SPAM targets on the planet today, just knowing that the address is legit isn't enough to make it attractive anymore.
Also, there are some penalties for not handling "unsubscribe" requests properly, never looked into enforcement and collection, but I'm sure some people have.
Well, TFA is talking about 30 minute delivery from within a high density residential building, like a high rise apartment. Zero road traffic in that scenario.
One of my neighborhoods had an old gas station at the entrance, a small catering business took it over and did drive-through prepared meals, with lots of sales into the neighborhood. Their customers would stop off, literally 100 feet out of their way on the way home, and pick up fresh dinners ready to heat and eat just two minutes from their house. The caterers would buy things like mixed greens in bulk, and get good efficiency by selling dozens of dinners with fresh stuff every day. That's a plan and execute model - efficient.
TFA is talking about the big apartment building just predicting trends and doing JIT ordering to meet typical demands from people who don't plan, they just order up beer during the football game. Different kind of system, but similar efficiency.
Or, someday, the RPN users succumb to market pressure and just acquiesce. Not saying that's where OS-X is going, just that it's where RPN, Newton, OS-2, DVORAK, BetaMax, and a whole host of "superior" systems have gone before.
There's a balance to strike between "looking and feeling" like a macOS application and "write once, run everywhere." If your app has too much of a macOS look and feel to it, it will either feel out of place on other OSs, or need significant designer rework for the other platforms and then require double development, testing and maintenance. Qt could do a little better with OSX implementation, but at some point it's like trying to make RPN calculator users happy with conventional calculator interfaces - just ain't going to happen.
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If you find yourself processing a set of 100 images, doing the same repetitive 27 operations over and over, you probably could benefit from Photoshop.'
If you mostly just crop, clone, color balance and blur - you don't even need GIMP, but you may as well use it for the rare occasion when you want to build a layered image.
I've been using Photoshop since 1999, GIMP since 2003, 18 years of subscription would be closer to $2000.
I've used GIMP and Photoshop over the years. Photoshop tends to be ahead on professional oriented workflow automation, GIMP tends to be on-par for more casual image editing. Both have a steep learning curve. Neither is worth thousands of dollars, but one will charge you that.
A lot depends on how you use it. The people who crash Visual Studio are obviously using it wrong ;-)
You're paying for fast shipping with Prime, basic shipping is definitely pre-loaded into the Free Shipping items cost.
What people do, vs what people say they do, vs what people say that people do are three almost disconnected things.
Do you break the law? Would you stop if X? How many paying customers do you have?
All of these are extremely loaded questions, without some form of independent validation of the results - voluntary answers are highly unreliable.
What kind of 2107 message board has no edit function?!? - 5 ish years ago in 2012....
I put myself on "the list" by direct application about 8 years ago: http://mangocats.com/stegamail...
nothing bad has happened, yet.
Congratulations, you have made the list of "the usual suspects" as described in the film Casablanca.
What I'd like to see is some kind of analysis of TOR traffic vs normal internet traffic, not bytes up/down but connections made. I suspect it's less than 1%, which already makes it a better hunting ground for illicit activity, probably much less than 1% in reality.
So, I'd call TOR the "light grey market" of the web, just shady enough to slip past those who haven't bothered to shut it down yet.
It's also a good way to draw attention to yourself... very few people actually use it, so a search of just them is much more practical.
Calling TOR the Dark Web is like calling a movie you can stream on Netflix "obscure, exclusive, and little known."
The real Dark Web is the stuff you don't know that you don't know about. Packets passing through the backbone that nobody but the sender and receiver understand.
Our warehouse containerized the stock to standard tubs, it wasn't highly efficient in terms of spatial volume, but it was very well organized and mated well with the inventory database. In 1987. They can do fancier things today, 3 dimensional packing algorithms to fit different sized boxes into a bigger shipping container or truck - route planning to direct the truck packing order, etc. Still, below a certain threshold of material being handled, it's just more efficient to make a person handle it on the fly rather than plan for every contingency.
They don't mention much about how this magical magnetic barrier is going to be generated or powered.
If only there was an easy way to make working superconductors in near-zero ambient temperature environments.
(or even an easy way to read articles from the comfort of home)
Or Neodymium magnets. Remarkably strong.
Oh, that would be fun: launching thousands of tiny magnets into different orbits...
The problem is getting far field effects from an itty bitty coil - no matter if you have a 20T field at the middle, how long before that dissipates to less than Earth's magnetic field? Hint: they make these crazy fields in Tallahassee, and they don't affect compass needles on the other side of town. Mars is a few orders of magnitude bigger than a city...
So, keeping a magnet at L1 does seem practical, but if we had a higher temp superconductor that robots could fabricate out of martian soil, that would seem to be the ticket: loop the whole planet.
We had robots in our warehouse in 1987 - they couldn't jump, but they could reach higher than people standing on the ground.
That "robotic" stock handling robot easily eliminated one job per shift, and it cost much less to maintain than the workman's comp insurance premium for a single employee. 30 years ago.
That's not SPAM, that's a fish.
In the 1990s, any acknowledgment of a spam e-mail was an invitation to more SPAM.
Lately, the unsubscribe links mostly work pretty well. I've been able to maintain the same address for 20 years now and it's still usable, sure it gets SPAM, but with billions of legitimate SPAM targets on the planet today, just knowing that the address is legit isn't enough to make it attractive anymore.
Also, there are some penalties for not handling "unsubscribe" requests properly, never looked into enforcement and collection, but I'm sure some people have.
Well, TFA is talking about 30 minute delivery from within a high density residential building, like a high rise apartment. Zero road traffic in that scenario.
One of my neighborhoods had an old gas station at the entrance, a small catering business took it over and did drive-through prepared meals, with lots of sales into the neighborhood. Their customers would stop off, literally 100 feet out of their way on the way home, and pick up fresh dinners ready to heat and eat just two minutes from their house. The caterers would buy things like mixed greens in bulk, and get good efficiency by selling dozens of dinners with fresh stuff every day. That's a plan and execute model - efficient.
TFA is talking about the big apartment building just predicting trends and doing JIT ordering to meet typical demands from people who don't plan, they just order up beer during the football game. Different kind of system, but similar efficiency.
Or, someday, the RPN users succumb to market pressure and just acquiesce. Not saying that's where OS-X is going, just that it's where RPN, Newton, OS-2, DVORAK, BetaMax, and a whole host of "superior" systems have gone before.
There are shades of grey, and the Apple is getting blacker every year.
There's a balance to strike between "looking and feeling" like a macOS application and "write once, run everywhere." If your app has too much of a macOS look and feel to it, it will either feel out of place on other OSs, or need significant designer rework for the other platforms and then require double development, testing and maintenance. Qt could do a little better with OSX implementation, but at some point it's like trying to make RPN calculator users happy with conventional calculator interfaces - just ain't going to happen.
As you say, incompatibility is not a bug, it's a feature.
I think you got the list order wrong, IMO it gets worse as you go: Android, Windows, OS X, iOS.
iOS intentionally poisons the well for "unblessed" development environments. It's one of the things I like the least about the whole ecosystem.