I just discovered that GIMP has a clone tool. I could easily retouch a picture. Agreed, the UI is obnoxious as hell, but it has advanced.
BTW, Krita (from KOffice) is still behind GIMP (no script-fu), but it's running much faster in the multimedia race, and it already supports CMYK and 16bit color space.
That said, yes, it's sad that FOSS multimedia tools are years behind their commercial counterparts.
Moore's Law predicts that in fifty years, computers will be a billion times more powerful than they are today. I don't think anyone has any idea of the fantastic emergent properties you get from a billion-times increase in computing power.
I do have an idea. For starters, Holovideo. Computers a billion times more powerful than today's will be able to calculate the interference equations required to display true color live holograms on flat screens - or glasses.
Just think about it, put on your glasses and everything seems normal. Turn on your (wearable?) computer and you'll be able to interact (let's assume the glasses got tiny cameras on them, thanks to transparent electronics) with holographic objects - which may include virtual displays which you can move with your hand, a-la minority report (or a-la Nadesico if you're an anime fan ^^). Who says you'll need to use physical keyboards? Probably they'll be virtual, too! No more Repetitive Strain. And that's just for starters - imagine playing with rubik cubes or analyzing/debugging code (for programmers) in 3D.
However, I wonder if software will be advanced enough by then to have AI agents assisting you like most sci-fi flicks. Usually software is the barrier in computing. Programmers are slow.
...you're pretty much always going to be at the mercy of somebody else.
The problem is that with proprietary applications, it doesn't matter whether you're the best hacker and programmer in the world - the software makers STILL have control over your computing.
Have you thought about just buying the Codeweavers products?
It's very different. Buying the Codeweavers products will just provide money to the Crossover developers, and will not help the community. Sponsoring Codeweavers and the Crossover products is making Linux NON-FREE (oh, if you want to use Office, you have to PURCHASE crossover), which is very different than having a free implementation of the Win32 API (Linux supports MS Office FOR FREE! Just install Wine!).
One of the reasons for not using Linux is incompatibility with Windows software. By asking for money, Codeweavers are effectively holding Windows compatibility hostage for a ransom. That goes against the Free as in Freedom philosophy of GNU/Linux. In fact, Codeweavers forked Wine (a free software) and began selling it with their adaptations. What does the community get from them? NOTHING!
Codeweavers are just leechers, they wouldn't be earning money if Wine hadn't been released into the public. And I wonder whether Linux adoption would have arrived earlier if they had given back their software to the community.
This is why I cannot promote Crossover. Donating to Wine is the way to go.
Of course, but I still use Nero 5.5. It does everything I want, so if I upgrade to Vista I have to shell out money for a new buring program?
Welcome to the world of proprietary software! Where the programmers, and NOT YOU, have control over your computing.
Personally, to those users with this problem, I recommend using an open source CD burner, like InfraRecorder - or at least a freeware one, like CDBurnerXP.
Or if you definitely hate vista, switch to Linux;-)
in 10 years time so much of what we not take for granted will have been patented, copyrighted, DRMd, protected or licenced that the average net user will have much less access to information, and therefore much less reason to "surf".
In 10 years Windows will be over. There will be native Linux versions (still proprietary binaries) of Photoshop and productivity software, but a few people will see the newborn open source alternatives and try them out. Perhaps there will be price-fixing lawsuits against free software by proprietary software makers, and, in the worst case, patent lawsuits (depending on whether software patents are abolished by then or not).
Most people will run old versions of Windows (probably XP SP3, maybe SP4 - or perhaps Windows 7, but Vista will be another WinME) or ReactOS 1.x (it'll be too early for 2.x) in a virtualized PC running Linux. Unixphobes will run ReactOS (around 60 to 70%) or Windows (the rest) natively. Probably Microsoft will retreat from the OS business and stick with consoles or Office software, and Google will absorb the MSN messenger network.
I really hope that the Windows^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HReactOS and similar OSs' security model will be revamped, with sandboxed registries and directories. Passwords will be asked for installations, unless software is ran by only one user. Botnets will be rarer (and therefore much more expensive to rent than they are now), but they'll still exist due to user stupidity ("this game needs to run with root privileges"). They'll run in Anonymous P2P nets.
About Anonymous P2P, they'll be the norm for file sharing, but they'll be definitely banned by draconian governments - whether or not the US goes that way, is up to your imagination. Perhaps we'll see a struggle between anonymous P2P and content providers/law enforcement agencies, similar to what happened with Napster a few years ago.
However, website security will face more or less the same problems we're facing now, due to negligence to patch existing webservers. Botnets and phishers will use infected servers to keep stealing identities, and let's not forget about inside jobs and "user account info gone missing". These will go on. Hackers will be government sponsored - to hack into other countries' machines. Buffer overflows will be the favorite vulnerability, while hacker websites will run in anonymous P2P networks.
Let's put this post in a time capsule and see how well it fares in 2018.
The <empty/> tag form is allowed, but not required for <br> or <hr>
Precisely the point of XHTML was to SEPARATE SYNTAX FROM MARKUP, so that you don't need to know in advance which tags are closed and which ones aren't.
Truthfully, I do not believe that those particular items matter to clearance that much nor would they likely cause you to lose your job (unless they are illegal), but what DOES MATTER is the failure to disclose the information to the security reviewers
Actually it's the opposite. You don't believe those particular items matter to clearance - but you won't know until you disclose them and you get fired supposedly for some other reason. If they don't matter, then why bother asking in the first place?
And according to the article summary, the tests are *NOT* mandatory. They're optional but people are being fired if they refuse to take them. Why say they're optional (voluntary) if you're getting fired? It's illogical, and clearly shows a hidden agenda behind this. If they're becoming mandatory, then at least the NASA should make a public privacy statement or something.
You say you wrote the statement about privacy in the context of the JPL, but privacy is a right which EVERYONE must have - not just the common people. If someone RESIGNS from that right to gain something, like serving the US forces or something, well that's their problem. But the NASA workers did not resign from their privacy right. And for that, they're being punished. If you really think it's a matter of national security, then the govt can at least give them a one-year of salary so they can get another job, but I don't think that'll happen.
Now, about top secret jobs: People working in there are ALREADY IN. If they were terrorists they could have already sneaked out important documents and data. But firing them is taking away their income. I agree with new employees being subject to such tests, but making it retroactive is unfair.
And I don't agree with the US export restrictions anyway. Just look at what the export restrictions regarding cryptography have done: non-ssl sessions in mail services, which can be hijacked if your connection's wireless. The US govt. is being too paranoid and with that, they're only helping the enemy - whatever that's supposed to mean.
First - if they want to look for terrorists they could as well do standard background checks and have a psychometric test applied at you. But these are no simple background checks. They want to have access to EVERYTHING about you, about your past girlfriends, your emotional problems, what's in your closet, what religion you have, etc. etc.
In other words, they want to do a mental cavity search on you and fire you if you don't seem adequate for them. Still don't get it? I'm talking about DISCRIMINATION.
And they're ALREADY discriminating the people who aren't brave enough to fight for their rights. They just want slaves who obey their ruler, not people with ideals to fight for.
And you wonder how Americans can really be concerned about this? Pfft.
Your rights to privacy CANNOT be more important than National Security.
You mean Government (or Current Administration) Security then, because the people (NASA workers or not) *ARE* the Nation. You can't secure the nation and at the same time destroy the lives of the very people you want to secure. If you can't balance Privacy with National Security, then you're effectively admitting that there are americans of second category with LESS rights than the rest (and here I thought that ALL MEN were CREATED EQUAL!)
P.S. As a measure of security - just in case you're someone paid by Bush, I'll add you to my foe list unless you allow me to do a complete and transparent background check of you, including e-mail, street address, past aliases and everything. Safe enough for ya?:)
This is different from Yahoo, I report spam all the time and yet the same exact message types make it past the filters into my inbox. I even report phishing there, but that doesnt' seem to help.
Everybody knows Yahoo tech support had been replaced with brain-eating zombies since a while ago. It's useless to report.
Are they or how do they plan to notify these people that their machines are infected and that they need to be cleaned...???
I had tried to before, but I lack the legal tools: subpoenas. It's so interesting that the FBI considers botnets dangerous, but so far I haven't seen a government-sponsored campaign to prevent botnets and virus infections.
If all the major e-mail companies (hotmail, google, yahoo) and the US government united in identifying the bot-infected machines in the U.S (assume every spam comes from a zombie) so that the owners could be notified, things would be very different today.
Slashdot Mirror
who do you beat it?
:P
I am not understand you're question!
I just discovered that GIMP has a clone tool. I could easily retouch a picture. Agreed, the UI is obnoxious as hell, but it has advanced.
BTW, Krita (from KOffice) is still behind GIMP (no script-fu), but it's running much faster in the multimedia race, and it already supports CMYK and 16bit color space.
That said, yes, it's sad that FOSS multimedia tools are years behind their commercial counterparts.
It just means they're starting to make Intel's mistakes! They're on-par now! :D
I do have an idea. For starters, Holovideo. Computers a billion times more powerful than today's will be able to calculate the interference equations required to display true color live holograms on flat screens - or glasses.
Just think about it, put on your glasses and everything seems normal. Turn on your (wearable?) computer and you'll be able to interact (let's assume the glasses got tiny cameras on them, thanks to transparent electronics) with holographic objects - which may include virtual displays which you can move with your hand, a-la minority report (or a-la Nadesico if you're an anime fan ^^). Who says you'll need to use physical keyboards? Probably they'll be virtual, too! No more Repetitive Strain. And that's just for starters - imagine playing with rubik cubes or analyzing/debugging code (for programmers) in 3D.
However, I wonder if software will be advanced enough by then to have AI agents assisting you like most sci-fi flicks. Usually software is the barrier in computing. Programmers are slow.
The problem is that with proprietary applications, it doesn't matter whether you're the best hacker and programmer in the world - the software makers STILL have control over your computing.
I agree wholeheartedly. Anything else we can do besides donating to the EFF?
It's very different. Buying the Codeweavers products will just provide money to the Crossover developers, and will not help the community. Sponsoring Codeweavers and the Crossover products is making Linux NON-FREE (oh, if you want to use Office, you have to PURCHASE crossover), which is very different than having a free implementation of the Win32 API (Linux supports MS Office FOR FREE! Just install Wine!).
One of the reasons for not using Linux is incompatibility with Windows software. By asking for money, Codeweavers are effectively holding Windows compatibility hostage for a ransom. That goes against the Free as in Freedom philosophy of GNU/Linux. In fact, Codeweavers forked Wine (a free software) and began selling it with their adaptations. What does the community get from them? NOTHING!
Codeweavers are just leechers, they wouldn't be earning money if Wine hadn't been released into the public. And I wonder whether Linux adoption would have arrived earlier if they had given back their software to the community.
This is why I cannot promote Crossover. Donating to Wine is the way to go.
Welcome to the world of proprietary software! Where the programmers, and NOT YOU, have control over your computing.
Personally, to those users with this problem, I recommend using an open source CD burner, like InfraRecorder - or at least a freeware one, like CDBurnerXP.
Or if you definitely hate vista, switch to Linux
IANAL, but why don't OSS developers offer a GPL-free version of their software for some really high price.
Ever heard of MYSQL?
And the difference is that GPL lawsuits are used to enforce COPYLEFT, while **AA lawsuits are used to enforce COPYRIGHT.
MPAA was caught committing a copyright infringement. :)
It's funny, I wrote a journal entry about such a future. I called it "Trapping Mozart in a soundproof cage".
In 10 years Windows will be over. There will be native Linux versions (still proprietary binaries) of Photoshop and productivity software, but a few people will see the newborn open source alternatives and try them out. Perhaps there will be price-fixing lawsuits against free software by proprietary software makers, and, in the worst case, patent lawsuits (depending on whether software patents are abolished by then or not).
Most people will run old versions of Windows (probably XP SP3, maybe SP4 - or perhaps Windows 7, but Vista will be another WinME) or ReactOS 1.x (it'll be too early for 2.x) in a virtualized PC running Linux. Unixphobes will run ReactOS (around 60 to 70%) or Windows (the rest) natively. Probably Microsoft will retreat from the OS business and stick with consoles or Office software, and Google will absorb the MSN messenger network.
I really hope that the Windows^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HReactOS and similar OSs' security model will be revamped, with sandboxed registries and directories. Passwords will be asked for installations, unless software is ran by only one user.
Botnets will be rarer (and therefore much more expensive to rent than they are now), but they'll still exist due to user stupidity ("this game needs to run with root privileges"). They'll run in Anonymous P2P nets.
About Anonymous P2P, they'll be the norm for file sharing, but they'll be definitely banned by draconian governments - whether or not the US goes that way, is up to your imagination. Perhaps we'll see a struggle between anonymous P2P and content providers/law enforcement agencies, similar to what happened with Napster a few years ago.
However, website security will face more or less the same problems we're facing now, due to negligence to patch existing webservers. Botnets and phishers will use infected servers to keep stealing identities, and let's not forget about inside jobs and "user account info gone missing". These will go on. Hackers will be government sponsored - to hack into other countries' machines. Buffer overflows will be the favorite vulnerability, while hacker websites will run in anonymous P2P networks.
Let's put this post in a time capsule and see how well it fares in 2018.
It's a patent troll lawsuit. Bad enough for me.
I bet if you offered those people some free iPods or Wiis they'd pass that test just fine.
There, fixed it for ya.
Shit, I meant RTFA.
Ahh... you were in the control group, I see.
or it seems that George Bush is rushing to make the US as totalitarian as possible before leaving the chair?
I see where you could have been confused. 2.0.0.11 looks very similar to 3.x.x.x
Gee, isn't it obvious? 2 + 0 + 0 + 1/1 = 3. There!
is that, most of the time, they're an awful workaround for an awful defficiency: Lack of Client side includes.
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Part of my proposal is having a friggin' INCLUDE tag which would save tons of problems and bandwidth.
<include href="heregoesthemenu.html"
For simplicity, the include tag cannot include unbalanced html, but it will generate a DOM subtree.
There ya go. Ta-da!
Precisely the point of XHTML was to SEPARATE SYNTAX FROM MARKUP, so that you don't need to know in advance which tags are closed and which ones aren't.
Someone mod the article lame, please.
And it *HAS* to do with president Bush. He's the one who issued the directive in question.
Actually it's the opposite. You don't believe those particular items matter to clearance - but you won't know until you disclose them and you get fired supposedly for some other reason. If they don't matter, then why bother asking in the first place?
And according to the article summary, the tests are *NOT* mandatory. They're optional but people are being fired if they refuse to take them. Why say they're optional (voluntary) if you're getting fired? It's illogical, and clearly shows a hidden agenda behind this. If they're becoming mandatory, then at least the NASA should make a public privacy statement or something.
You say you wrote the statement about privacy in the context of the JPL, but privacy is a right which EVERYONE must have - not just the common people. If someone RESIGNS from that right to gain something, like serving the US forces or something, well that's their problem. But the NASA workers did not resign from their privacy right. And for that, they're being punished. If you really think it's a matter of national security, then the govt can at least give them a one-year of salary so they can get another job, but I don't think that'll happen.
Now, about top secret jobs: People working in there are ALREADY IN. If they were terrorists they could have already sneaked out important documents and data. But firing them is taking away their income. I agree with new employees being subject to such tests, but making it retroactive is unfair.
And I don't agree with the US export restrictions anyway. Just look at what the export restrictions regarding cryptography have done: non-ssl sessions in mail services, which can be hijacked if your connection's wireless. The US govt. is being too paranoid and with that, they're only helping the enemy - whatever that's supposed to mean.
First - if they want to look for terrorists they could as well do standard background checks and have a psychometric test applied at you. But these are no simple background checks. They want to have access to EVERYTHING about you, about your past girlfriends, your emotional problems, what's in your closet, what religion you have, etc. etc.
In other words, they want to do a mental cavity search on you and fire you if you don't seem adequate for them. Still don't get it? I'm talking about DISCRIMINATION.
And they're ALREADY discriminating the people who aren't brave enough to fight for their rights. They just want slaves who obey their ruler, not people with ideals to fight for.
And you wonder how Americans can really be concerned about this? Pfft.
You mean Government (or Current Administration) Security then, because the people (NASA workers or not) *ARE* the Nation. You can't secure the nation and at the same time destroy the lives of the very people you want to secure. If you can't balance Privacy with National Security, then you're effectively admitting that there are americans of second category with LESS rights than the rest (and here I thought that ALL MEN were CREATED EQUAL!)
P.S. As a measure of security - just in case you're someone paid by Bush, I'll add you to my foe list unless you allow me to do a complete and transparent background check of you, including e-mail, street address, past aliases and everything. Safe enough for ya?
Everybody knows Yahoo tech support had been replaced with brain-eating zombies since a while ago. It's useless to report.
I had tried to before, but I lack the legal tools: subpoenas. It's so interesting that the FBI considers botnets dangerous, but so far I haven't seen a government-sponsored campaign to prevent botnets and virus infections.
If all the major e-mail companies (hotmail, google, yahoo) and the US government united in identifying the bot-infected machines in the U.S (assume every spam comes from a zombie) so that the owners could be notified, things would be very different today.