This whole spelling thread reminds me of a Monty Python sketch, LOL.
Kewl
BTW, te original poster, the teacher and me are all Spaniards, and in JC's and my case we are neither Spanish-speakers as we are from the Valencian/Catalonian zone (Yes, Spain is this weird)...
This University, as most of the Spanish universities, is *Public*... We, the taxpayers pay the roles.
And those taxpayers are not specially fond of the SGAE / Promiscae, as they fees us for buying bunrable CD's for storing our pictures and also fees bars and the like for having a TV set, radio or HiFi equipment. Even when the spanish TV stations are either public or earns their income from publicity We are paying IP for TV Commarcials!
And the funniest of all this is that it's not the TV stations which receive the money, nor the publicists, it's SGAE themselves.
The University we are talking about is also famouse for it's 'infamous' Dean, because of his engagement in nationalistic-linguistical discussions (Valencià vs. Català) and because of serving as a base for a particular nationalist group related to left-wing activities. So, it's not a very popular guy among he's colleagues. So it's easy to understand that Cortell is now being invited to dozens of conferences in universities such as the UPM, one of Spains top-notch unis. Some of those conferences with RMS and Marcelo D'Elia Branco.
The Important Fact(TM): Spanish public opinion, even at a very basic non-geek level is clearly against SGAE and it's clones, it's the guy-from-the-street and the teenage school girl which are afected by the taxes and the bullying against P2P (a legal act, as far as we pay taxes for this). They perhaps don't know about the details, but they know for sure they are being robbed. JC could become a real media-star if things develop further in the direction of SGAE doing stupid moves.
One Thing I Forgot: The people at the SGAE are not specially smart, the are real *assholes* who could let Dubya seem intelligent. So people are much more upset as it would have been if they behaved like real loobyist instead of playing Bozo the clown.
The fact is that as a result he's got a real lot of publicity. And now he is on tour like a rock-star, LOL.
The situation is Spain is somewhat different as in the rest of the world:
We have a monster called SGAE:
It's kinda mixture of trade union, governmental department and private enterprise (?), which acts as a lobby group for EMI-Odeon Spain, as an obligatory trade-union (authors must pay fees to them so that they can see a cent from their IP), does music production as a private enterprise (it's partly responsible for the infamous "Latin Grammies"), fights against piracy, pirates copyrighted stuff from the spanish Wikipedia and at the same time runs an online music store, lobbys for non-related stuff such as an internet driving license and gets fees for public broadcast of public television and music bands which are not members of the SGAE.
MPAA should be concerned, as those guys also get payd for the IP of "unknown" artists, this means anybody which is potentially non-spaniard.
Now they are even getting money from a blank media 'tax' (30% of a CD or DVD's price), a 'tax' which is paid even by the Spanish administration itself (!)
So, we Spaniards can be cosidered a dumb bunch, but in matters of robbery and piracy those guys are Number One.
I was wrong to, the case of el Hierro is not related to this one, it took place 50.000 years ago, but the
new tread comes from the Cumbre Vieja mountain:
Link in Spanish This volcano is actually not active, but it's not considered to be death.
El Hierro. Not the whole island, but a good part of it.
This is a frecuent (geologically speaking) phenomenon in volcanic islands, the same is expected to take place in Hawai...
AFAIK the last time such a thing happened in el Hierro was 50.000 before current, you will prolly have to wait 50.000 years more if you want to take pictures of this, LOL
> I don't think Tsunami's are a common event in this region so no one is prepared.
Indeed the Maldivas archipielago had no emergency response plans at all, they live 2.500 Km away from the epicenter in the middle of the Indian ocean between Africa and Asia, the last thing they would expect would be a earthquake in Sumatar affecting their coast.
What I wonder about is the fact that in spite the high volcanic activity in the zone tsunamis seems actually to be rare in this zone, I read that it was the first time such a phenomenon reached the Indian coasts, so this could explain why nobody took any preventive messure.
You USians indeed have a very accurate surveilance system in the Pacific (NOAA and the USGS), as those monster waves are relatively frecuent in the pacific, but there is also more time for evacuation. Yesterdays's tsunami travelled at 800Km/h and crossed the 1.600 Km from Sumatra to Thailand in 30m, the earthquake's shockwave arrived in India about 3h later and the tsunami hit the coast other 30m later.
As India and Malaysia are well equipped and reminding that Indonesia has lots of international volcanologic observatorys I would thing that this disaster was fully unexpected and very uncommon.
So perhaps the title "anti-gimp" is because it is exactly the opposite of Gimp X'D
No, seriously, I don't know why this stuff has got so much attention, it's kinda kewl, but nothing more than an early alfa stuff from which we can find dozens in freshmeat for every imaginable OS and written in any language you can think about.
MS is not directly involved either, they are just sponsors...
Dont' take me wrong, the app roxxorz, the licence is politcally correct and would even allow GPL compatibility, I also like C# and I woud like to see this stuff ported to Linux... but it's not killer yet, it's just a little nice app with a long road to run before it can be called "gimp-killer"
This would be nice to be ported to Linux/BSD using mono and/or eclipse... The licence is BSD stile, the only thing required is to place the copyright notice in a 'visible' place.
No, sorry, I myself are completly unable to even install Mono, I'm only a little Perl guy, but it would be a nice app, not spectacular, but nice
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This whole spelling thread reminds me of a Monty Python sketch, LOL.
Kewl
BTW, te original poster, the teacher and me are all Spaniards, and in JC's and my case we are neither Spanish-speakers as we are from the Valencian/Catalonian zone (Yes, Spain is this weird)...
This University, as most of the Spanish universities, is *Public*... We, the taxpayers pay the roles.
And those taxpayers are not specially fond of the SGAE / Promiscae, as they fees us for buying bunrable CD's for storing our pictures and also fees bars and the like for having a TV set, radio or HiFi equipment. Even when the spanish TV stations are either public or earns their income from publicity We are paying IP for TV Commarcials!
And the funniest of all this is that it's not the
TV stations which receive the money, nor the publicists, it's SGAE themselves.
The University we are talking about is also famouse for it's 'infamous' Dean, because of his engagement in nationalistic-linguistical discussions (Valencià vs. Català) and because of serving as a base for a particular nationalist group related to left-wing activities. So, it's not a very popular guy among he's colleagues.
So it's easy to understand that Cortell is now being invited to dozens of conferences in universities such as the UPM, one of Spains top-notch unis. Some of those conferences with RMS and Marcelo D'Elia Branco.
The Important Fact(TM): Spanish public opinion, even at a very basic non-geek level is clearly against SGAE and it's clones, it's the guy-from-the-street and the teenage school girl which are afected by the taxes and the bullying against P2P (a legal act, as far as we pay taxes for this). They perhaps don't know about the details, but they know for sure they are being robbed. JC could become a real media-star if things develop further in the direction of SGAE doing stupid moves.
One Thing I Forgot: The people at the SGAE are not specially smart, the are real *assholes* who could let Dubya seem intelligent. So people are much more upset as it would have been if they behaved like real loobyist instead of playing Bozo the clown.
Stay tuned, the war has just begun.
> anybody which is potentially non-spaniard.
:P
Potentially anybody which is non-Spaniard.
Sorry
He indeed did.
The fact is that as a result he's got a real lot of publicity. And now he is on tour like a rock-star, LOL.
The situation is Spain is somewhat different as in the rest of the world:
We have a monster called SGAE:
It's kinda mixture of trade union, governmental department and private enterprise (?), which acts as a lobby group for EMI-Odeon Spain, as an obligatory trade-union (authors must pay fees to them so that they can see a cent from their IP), does music production as a private enterprise (it's partly responsible for the infamous "Latin Grammies"), fights against piracy, pirates copyrighted stuff from the spanish Wikipedia and at the same time runs an online music store, lobbys for non-related stuff such as an internet driving license and gets fees for public broadcast of public television and music bands which are not members of the SGAE.
MPAA should be concerned, as those guys also get payd for the IP of "unknown" artists, this means anybody which is potentially non-spaniard.
Now they are even getting money from a blank media 'tax' (30% of a CD or DVD's price), a 'tax' which is paid even by the Spanish administration itself (!)
So, we Spaniards can be cosidered a dumb bunch, but in matters of robbery and piracy those guys are Number One.
Somalia was hit
I was wrong to, the case of el Hierro is not related to this one, it took place 50.000 years ago, but the new tread comes from the Cumbre Vieja mountain: Link in Spanish
This volcano is actually not active, but it's not considered to be death.
El Hierro. Not the whole island, but a good part of it. This is a frecuent (geologically speaking) phenomenon in volcanic islands, the same is expected to take place in Hawai... AFAIK the last time such a thing happened in el Hierro was 50.000 before current, you will prolly have to wait 50.000 years more if you want to take pictures of this, LOL
> I don't think Tsunami's are a common event in this region so no one is prepared.
Indeed the Maldivas archipielago had no emergency response plans at all, they live 2.500 Km away from the epicenter in the middle of the Indian ocean between Africa and Asia, the last thing they would expect would be a earthquake in Sumatar affecting their coast.
What I wonder about is the fact that in spite the high volcanic activity in the zone tsunamis seems
actually to be rare in this zone, I read that it was the first time such a phenomenon reached the Indian coasts, so this could explain why nobody took any preventive messure.
You USians indeed have a very accurate surveilance system in the Pacific (NOAA and the USGS), as those monster waves are relatively frecuent in the pacific, but there is also more time for evacuation. Yesterdays's tsunami travelled at 800Km/h and crossed the 1.600 Km from Sumatra to Thailand in 30m, the earthquake's shockwave arrived in India about 3h later and the tsunami hit the coast other 30m later.
As India and Malaysia are well equipped and reminding that Indonesia has lots of international volcanologic observatorys I would thing that this disaster was fully unexpected and very uncommon.
Yes, a very clever post, and of great interest for those of us /. users which comes from the UE, Asia or anywhere else.
I seriously expect that you already made a donation. http://www.oxfam.co.uk or at the red cross. Thanks, now you can continue writing nonsense.
So perhaps the title "anti-gimp" is because it is exactly the opposite of Gimp X'D
No, seriously, I don't know why this stuff has got so much attention, it's kinda kewl, but nothing more
than an early alfa stuff from which we can find dozens in freshmeat for every imaginable OS and written in any language you can think about.
MS is not directly involved either, they are just sponsors...
Dont' take me wrong, the app roxxorz, the licence is politcally correct and would even allow GPL compatibility, I also like C# and I woud like to see this stuff ported to Linux... but it's not killer yet, it's just a little nice app with a long road to run before it can be called "gimp-killer"
This would be nice to be ported to Linux/BSD using mono and/or eclipse... The licence is BSD stile, the only thing required is to place the copyright notice
in a 'visible' place.
No, sorry, I myself are completly unable to even install Mono, I'm only a little Perl guy, but it would be a nice app, not spectacular, but nice