GIMP developers, have you been tracking any project-related expenses? Disk space, power useage, bandwidth for your own machines? Time? Send Forgent a bill! (-:
It's not nice that they said they would not pursue the patent and then changed their mind, but that's beside the fact.
What you meant to say was "beside the point [#16]" and it's not. Any public promises they made count as a defence, and in some ways a licence for anyone accused. Probably more so under.au law than.us, but nevertheless a real consideration.
If it comes to the worst, The GIMP will have to deal with ordinary JPEGs through an offshore-hosted plugin. JPEG2000 appears to be both patent-unencumbered and a more useful/effective standard, so I see a major effect of this nuisance being serious attention paid to that standard, at long last.
The original company that patented this particular system made it clear from the start that they would not persue the patent for people who are merely using it in JPEGs.
Under Australian law, at least, that statement is legally binding if made publicly. Which would open the black hats for imprisonment for either or both of fraud or entrapment if they were stupid enough to try that here.
...inasmuch as if there's another way that will work, I'll take it.
Generally, the aftermath of a war is that everybody loses. On the other hand, the aftermath of caving in to bullying is usually everyone loses. The only reasonable approach is to support the possibility of war (which means being prepared to follow through) but put pride aside and work really hard to avoid it.
Blowing up the WTC was a stupid idea for a large number of reasons, the relevant one here being that it gave the USA some justification for doing essentially what they liked in the Middle East. This and a number of other hints that the US Gummint knew it was coming lead me to suspect it was a setup. Anything which will undo the effects of that is, in my book, good.
However... complaining about Linux being used by the armed forces is silly. Throw away your knives, the military uses them, too. Tyres? Spanners? Anything with a bolt or laser in it? Telephones and radios? How about peace-keeping forces? Police?
Meanwhile, Historicist prophecy (which identifies the USA as a power which starts off with good intentions and separation betwen State and religion, but goes bad and starts throwing its weight about on a religious basis - and consider the political power of the Roman Catholic Church filtered through "Evangelical" agents in the USA vs the political power of Islam in the Middle East<*>) is looking better and better every week.
Instead of turning this into a pick-on-Linux fest, how about "Linux for Peace" campaign - Switch to Linux and donate the savings to relief agencies and other peacemakers?
The US military, no doubt including the troops in Iraq, also use MS Windows, Mac OS X and some of the open/free BSDs. And MS-DOS, in embedded devices not including (AFAIK) bullets. That leaves, possibly, OS/2 or BeOS and I wouldn't make any guarantees there either way.
...it's the breathtaking amount of bandwidth and huge number of servers vs what appears to be one overloaded machine at the end of a glowing piece of barbed wire.
It certainly defecates on hotmail from a substantial altitude.
fish://yourname@yourserver/path/to/website (or ftp://yourname@yourserver/path/to/website) plus drag and drop. Fabulous! The MS Windows version ain't as smooth or up to date, but it is a great deal safer than IE. (-:
For images, GIMP 2 doesn't have an image-chopper-upper by default, and while there are plugins to do that, I often prefer to do it (with GIMP, set some guides and then crop to that; you can make some sections of an image JPEG and others PNG (or omit them and replace that piece with flat colour) to suit the content) "by hand". It does have all manner of other nice features, more than enough to keep the average punter occupied for weeks.
To test things with IE 'coz "everyone" uses it, I could maybe-illegally run it under WINE (someone's even done an RPM, but I can't be bothered finding it) but as it turns out, I have a friend with a Windows2003 box exposed to the internet, so I aim rdesktop at that when I want IE-testing.
Plenty good enough to get started with, WYSIWYG and all. Produces much nicer HTML if started in HTML mode rather than writer mode, but even so in writer mode, it's chalk-and-cheese better than the abominations MS-Word spits out.
My own website, while hardly a paragon of usability or graphic design, is mostly built on OOW-edited HTML that's been fed to a gawk script which rips off the head and tail, replacing them with PHP calls to generic top-and-tail scripts which do the preamble, headings, menu, links-here, translation form (thanks Google) etc.
This makes consistency much easier, it's quick to edit stuff up (I use Linux, but that remains true even on MS Windows) and massaging MS-Word docs and the like to suit (precious few of those on my site but I do this elsewhere too) is fairly straightforward, although I usually have sed discuss some of the resulting HTML's shortcomings up close and personal before feeding it to the top-and-tailer. You'll notice that all of the W3C buttons work.
If I've just got to add an item to a menu or whatever, simple little tasks, it's vim all the way, and of course for a larger, more complex site I'd take a completely different approach.
See here and here. More and more pieces of the moviemaking toolchain are available Openly, only a matter of time before someone adds a GUI wrapper to integrate it all. Will they dare call it Raxip? (-:
I'm getting tired of the slashdot mentality that everything has to be free.
If you haven't contributed financially to this blog then you're a serious hypocrite - aren't you? (-:<
Free-as-in-beer isn't absolutely necessary, but it does solve an awful lot of "parking meter change" style problems, and it's a highly viable services leader.
...you basically have to be a monopoly to aggregate that much cash, to have an income so far above your expenses. The bottom line is that MS could still provide the same value to their customers for a fraction of the price and still make a handy profit.
They would be unable to do that in a free market because somebody else would sell the same service or facility for 90% of the price and still make a fat profit, then someone else would cut in at 80% and so on. Therefore, they are controlling their market.
Now do you see why they're terrified of Linux and FOSS?
WINE runs some MS Windows applications faster on Linux than natively.
The same phenomenomenomenomenom applies to Win4Lin.
That said, far better to just build a portable application and be done with it. The few geek points you get from using VC++'s spiffy optimisations are going to drown in the background noise of coping with MS Windows' OS interface.
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GIMP developers, have you been tracking any project-related expenses? Disk space, power useage, bandwidth for your own machines? Time? Send Forgent a bill! (-:
What you meant to say was "beside the point [#16]" and it's not. Any public promises they made count as a defence, and in some ways a licence for anyone accused. Probably more so under
If it comes to the worst, The GIMP will have to deal with ordinary JPEGs through an offshore-hosted plugin. JPEG2000 appears to be both patent-unencumbered and a more useful/effective standard, so I see a major effect of this nuisance being serious attention paid to that standard, at long last.
...in those attacks, like they have in the numerous Microsoft leaks. Imagine the strife we'd be in if they stole the source to Debian!
But seriously, how shall I put this? ChkRootKit, TripWire, AIDE, FICC, ProSum, Toby, msec, Nessus, LSAT, Saint, LIDS and of course if you want totally proactive, try SELinux, Medusa DS9 or OpenWall. That's hardly an exhaustive list, but it does hit many of the highlights. Boy, youse bin livin in a monoculture too damn long!
AFAICT it compresses better than JPEG, is patent-free, also compresses selected areas of the image [big PDF, see part 6] differently for better effect, and (hooraw!) believes in an Alpha channel and other "sideband" information.
why not spell garbage "refuze" and SCOX lawsuits "confuze"?
Under Australian law, at least, that statement is legally binding if made publicly. Which would open the black hats for imprisonment for either or both of fraud or entrapment if they were stupid enough to try that here.
...inasmuch as if there's another way that will work, I'll take it.
Generally, the aftermath of a war is that everybody loses. On the other hand, the aftermath of caving in to bullying is usually everyone loses. The only reasonable approach is to support the possibility of war (which means being prepared to follow through) but put pride aside and work really hard to avoid it.
Blowing up the WTC was a stupid idea for a large number of reasons, the relevant one here being that it gave the USA some justification for doing essentially what they liked in the Middle East. This and a number of other hints that the US Gummint knew it was coming lead me to suspect it was a setup. Anything which will undo the effects of that is, in my book, good.
However... complaining about Linux being used by the armed forces is silly. Throw away your knives, the military uses them, too. Tyres? Spanners? Anything with a bolt or laser in it? Telephones and radios? How about peace-keeping forces? Police?
Meanwhile, Historicist prophecy (which identifies the USA as a power which starts off with good intentions and separation betwen State and religion, but goes bad and starts throwing its weight about on a religious basis - and consider the political power of the Roman Catholic Church filtered through "Evangelical" agents in the USA vs the political power of Islam in the Middle East<*>) is looking better and better every week.
Instead of turning this into a pick-on-Linux fest, how about "Linux for Peace" campaign - Switch to Linux and donate the savings to relief agencies and other peacemakers?
<*> Which is actually west of here...
The US military, no doubt including the troops in Iraq, also use MS Windows, Mac OS X and some of the open/free BSDs. And MS-DOS, in embedded devices not including (AFAIK) bullets. That leaves, possibly, OS/2 or BeOS and I wouldn't make any guarantees there either way.
...it's the breathtaking amount of bandwidth and huge number of servers vs what appears to be one overloaded machine at the end of a glowing piece of barbed wire.
It certainly defecates on hotmail from a substantial altitude.
fish://yourname@yourserver/path/to/website (or ftp://yourname@yourserver/path/to/website) plus drag and drop. Fabulous! The MS Windows version ain't as smooth or up to date, but it is a great deal safer than IE. (-:
For images, GIMP 2 doesn't have an image-chopper-upper by default, and while there are plugins to do that, I often prefer to do it (with GIMP, set some guides and then crop to that; you can make some sections of an image JPEG and others PNG (or omit them and replace that piece with flat colour) to suit the content) "by hand". It does have all manner of other nice features, more than enough to keep the average punter occupied for weeks.
To test things with IE 'coz "everyone" uses it, I could maybe-illegally run it under WINE (someone's even done an RPM, but I can't be bothered finding it) but as it turns out, I have a friend with a Windows2003 box exposed to the internet, so I aim rdesktop at that when I want IE-testing.
Plenty good enough to get started with, WYSIWYG and all. Produces much nicer HTML if started in HTML mode rather than writer mode, but even so in writer mode, it's chalk-and-cheese better than the abominations MS-Word spits out.
My own website, while hardly a paragon of usability or graphic design, is mostly built on OOW-edited HTML that's been fed to a gawk script which rips off the head and tail, replacing them with PHP calls to generic top-and-tail scripts which do the preamble, headings, menu, links-here, translation form (thanks Google) etc.
This makes consistency much easier, it's quick to edit stuff up (I use Linux, but that remains true even on MS Windows) and massaging MS-Word docs and the like to suit (precious few of those on my site but I do this elsewhere too) is fairly straightforward, although I usually have sed discuss some of the resulting HTML's shortcomings up close and personal before feeding it to the top-and-tailer. You'll notice that all of the W3C buttons work.
If I've just got to add an item to a menu or whatever, simple little tasks, it's vim all the way, and of course for a larger, more complex site I'd take a completely different approach.
/ME pictures the typical geek doing this, then hurriedly exits stage left... whimpering...
See here and here. More and more pieces of the moviemaking toolchain are available Openly, only a matter of time before someone adds a GUI wrapper to integrate it all. Will they dare call it Raxip? (-:
If you haven't contributed financially to this blog then you're a serious hypocrite - aren't you? (-:<
Free-as-in-beer isn't absolutely necessary, but it does solve an awful lot of "parking meter change" style problems, and it's a highly viable services leader.
...called a "Jupiter" or a "Saturn" of raytracers? (-:
Interview who?
Stick to Python or Ruby, the results are both more predictable and safer.
At least that would be easier to search for.
Are you really, really sure about that? (-:
...you basically have to be a monopoly to aggregate that much cash, to have an income so far above your expenses. The bottom line is that MS could still provide the same value to their customers for a fraction of the price and still make a handy profit.
They would be unable to do that in a free market because somebody else would sell the same service or facility for 90% of the price and still make a fat profit, then someone else would cut in at 80% and so on. Therefore, they are controlling their market.
Now do you see why they're terrified of Linux and FOSS?
WINE runs some MS Windows applications faster on Linux than natively.
The same phenomenomenomenomenom applies to Win4Lin.
That said, far better to just build a portable application and be done with it. The few geek points you get from using VC++'s spiffy optimisations are going to drown in the background noise of coping with MS Windows' OS interface.
...Ken Thompson's version of the C compiler went! (-:
...if it can't "bless" you with .NET on the way in.
...with WINE. (-:
This is a C++ compiler, not a K++ compiler.
Bow to Obergruppenfuhrer Klippy, you enemy of the Bandwidth Sucking Animated Companion Riech! (-: