Since you're contemplating turning pro, there's really no substitute for Photoshop. But for ma and pa Windows-users I'd recommend Paint.NET ahead of the GIMP any day. (The only catch is they'll have to install.NET 2.0 as well.) Far more intuitive, better-looking, easy to find your way around, has some decent capabilities for amateurs. Personally I use both it and the GIMP, for different things.
I find it impressively short-sighted that you're proposing this in a discussion of an article called "Air Marshals Place Innocents on Secret Watch List". Unless you really believe it's fine for anyone to be flogged at the whim of the secret police. I guess I could see it if you just like being flogged, sure.
Well, I think those half-billion people across the pond might be less interested in those chunks of the internet that are non-neutral than in the restricted chunks; and with that kind of market just sitting there, really, what kind of company with international interests is going to bother putting all their eggs in chunks of the internet that are guaranteed to be both restricted and restrictive? I suspect the prestige will remain with the neutral internet. (Not to mention nearly four billion people in Asia -- OK, only two or three hundred million online --, getting on for four hundred million in South America, etc etc.)
Maybe I'm being naive to think that the sheer quantity of external economic pressure makes the idea of a non-neutral internet unsustainable in the long run. Hope not, though.
Gpp wasn't referring to you, but to this reply to your post. Which was most definitely flamebait. (I guess you might need to change your threshold to see it normally.)
Are you in the US, or where? Is this standard in your country? Sorry, but this amazes me. In my country PC games still have roughly 25% of shelf space (plus approx. 25% PS2, 25% XBox, 10% 360, 15% handheld). And the crowds don't spend all their time standing in front of the PS2 and XBox shelves either.
Administrators should be able to create an "All users" profile as default settings.
Individual users should be able to override these settings without changing the "All users" profile
Administrators should be able to block non-admin users from overriding invdividual settings in the profile.
Well, as things stand in XP, the first and second of these can be handled by adjusting the invisible "Default user" profile -- yes, there's yet another profile just to make things ultra-complicated -- but the third can only be handled by the "All users" profile. Go figure.
My laptop (Tosh Satellite 1100) is four years old. It has a 1.3 GHz Celeron. But that's plenty: the only real deficiency that truly annoys me is the speed of its hard drive, 5200(?) rpm. It's good to know that 7200 is available, but it just wouldn't enough of a leap for me to justify a new one; my old Tosh will last me until flash or hybrid drives become standard and affordable, I think.
Here's my question: if the PS3 flops where will Sony's followers turn? Microsoft? Nintendo? Or will they abandon consoles entirely? I'd like to say they will turn to Nintendo, but I'm not so sure. I'm certain the Wii will do well, but I seriously doubt it can steal Sony's market share back.
For Nintendo, I don't think it's about market share this time: the rules about owning a given fraction of a market no longer apply when one product is so much less expensive than that of other parties (the XBox and PS3). I've seen lots of people commenting on/. and elsewhere, -- heaven forfend, in games stores too! -- that they're planning to get a Wii in addition to another console. If you can afford a PS3 you can certainly afford a Wii as well; alternatively you can just about get a 360 and a Wii for the price of one PS3.
So, basically, I think the battle for market share is between the 360 and the PS3. Not many people are going to own both (or if you add in gaming PCs, more than two of a PC, 360, and PS3). The Wii is basically a separate market unto itself.
Also you can configure Opera to associate other search engines with other letters -- e.g. "a searchterm" for searching Amazon, "w searchterm" for Wikipedia, etc etc. (Adding new search engines requires first going to one of these sites and right-clicking on a search text-box on the web page to choose "add search engine" or whatever it is; you then go to preferences to associate that search engine with a letter.)
Agreed. Also, in spite of mentioning various other "bonus" features (like BitTorrent clients and RSS), they don't mention that Opera is also an e-mail client, IRC client, and newsreader. I kinda wonder why. I can see someone saying, "Well, we think that a browser should render these kinds of pages, download stuff, have an RSS reader and BitTorrent client, but not those other things", but just to keep silent about them? That's... dodgy, to say the least.
But it took until I saw the figures for memory usage in kB -- lower-than-realistic figures, too, for all three browsers -- to decide that nothing in this article is trustworthy, because it's simply not well-researched.
Of course the "kB" figures are only on the print-formatted version of the article -- oh yes, there are two articles here, and they actually say quite different things in some places.
I notice they've posted a non-apologetic correction about the false claim that Firefox has no "new tab" button (not in the print-formatted version of the article, though); no corrections to their misinformation about Opera though.
... I hope this will give at least some pause to all the tired old jokes about outsourcing. For supposedly open-minded people there're way too many racist jokes around here.
I agree in principle, but it's kind of difficult to just dismiss the one person in the room who's saying "no", if you notice s/he's brandishing thousands upon thousands of nukes at you at the same time.
You know, I disagree with you completely. Allofmp3.com provides a valuable service which is far, far better than was ever available by making illegal use of a p2p network. It's quite unique. Even if we didn't have copyright in my country, I'd probably still be paying for allofmp3.com's service.
Nice analogy, thanks. I agree. If people only ever believed and used what was logically coherent and mathematically demonstrable, the world we inhabit would be a very different beast.
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Since you're contemplating turning pro, there's really no substitute for Photoshop. But for ma and pa Windows-users I'd recommend Paint.NET ahead of the GIMP any day. (The only catch is they'll have to install .NET 2.0 as well.) Far more intuitive, better-looking, easy to find your way around, has some decent capabilities for amateurs. Personally I use both it and the GIMP, for different things.
"Tubes" are more traditional.
Um, no it isn't. (I live in a country other than the US.)
I find it impressively short-sighted that you're proposing this in a discussion of an article called "Air Marshals Place Innocents on Secret Watch List". Unless you really believe it's fine for anyone to be flogged at the whim of the secret police. I guess I could see it if you just like being flogged, sure.
Well, I think those half-billion people across the pond might be less interested in those chunks of the internet that are non-neutral than in the restricted chunks; and with that kind of market just sitting there, really, what kind of company with international interests is going to bother putting all their eggs in chunks of the internet that are guaranteed to be both restricted and restrictive? I suspect the prestige will remain with the neutral internet. (Not to mention nearly four billion people in Asia -- OK, only two or three hundred million online --, getting on for four hundred million in South America, etc etc.)
Maybe I'm being naive to think that the sheer quantity of external economic pressure makes the idea of a non-neutral internet unsustainable in the long run. Hope not, though.
Also interestingly, it's the number one hit on MSN, A9, and Vivisimo. Only number 5 on Search.com.
Not sure if that's deliberate or not, but either way a very nice portmanteau word.
It's called a priamel. (I was going to link to the Wikipedia article on it, but it's crap -- check a reputable dictionary instead.)
Gpp wasn't referring to you, but to this reply to your post. Which was most definitely flamebait. (I guess you might need to change your threshold to see it normally.)
I'd kind of like the past participle, "ita fornicatus", since that would also simultaneously convey the sense of "haha PWNED!!!!11"
Are you in the US, or where? Is this standard in your country? Sorry, but this amazes me. In my country PC games still have roughly 25% of shelf space (plus approx. 25% PS2, 25% XBox, 10% 360, 15% handheld). And the crowds don't spend all their time standing in front of the PS2 and XBox shelves either.
Well, as things stand in XP, the first and second of these can be handled by adjusting the invisible "Default user" profile -- yes, there's yet another profile just to make things ultra-complicated -- but the third can only be handled by the "All users" profile. Go figure.
My laptop (Tosh Satellite 1100) is four years old. It has a 1.3 GHz Celeron. But that's plenty: the only real deficiency that truly annoys me is the speed of its hard drive, 5200(?) rpm. It's good to know that 7200 is available, but it just wouldn't enough of a leap for me to justify a new one; my old Tosh will last me until flash or hybrid drives become standard and affordable, I think.
So install themes, for goodness' sake. Here you go: GNOME based themes, and KDE themes.
For Nintendo, I don't think it's about market share this time: the rules about owning a given fraction of a market no longer apply when one product is so much less expensive than that of other parties (the XBox and PS3). I've seen lots of people commenting on /. and elsewhere, -- heaven forfend, in games stores too! -- that they're planning to get a Wii in addition to another console. If you can afford a PS3 you can certainly afford a Wii as well; alternatively you can just about get a 360 and a Wii for the price of one PS3.
So, basically, I think the battle for market share is between the 360 and the PS3. Not many people are going to own both (or if you add in gaming PCs, more than two of a PC, 360, and PS3). The Wii is basically a separate market unto itself.
Also you can configure Opera to associate other search engines with other letters -- e.g. "a searchterm" for searching Amazon, "w searchterm" for Wikipedia, etc etc. (Adding new search engines requires first going to one of these sites and right-clicking on a search text-box on the web page to choose "add search engine" or whatever it is; you then go to preferences to associate that search engine with a letter.)
Agreed. Also, in spite of mentioning various other "bonus" features (like BitTorrent clients and RSS), they don't mention that Opera is also an e-mail client, IRC client, and newsreader. I kinda wonder why. I can see someone saying, "Well, we think that a browser should render these kinds of pages, download stuff, have an RSS reader and BitTorrent client, but not those other things", but just to keep silent about them? That's ... dodgy, to say the least.
But it took until I saw the figures for memory usage in kB -- lower-than-realistic figures, too, for all three browsers -- to decide that nothing in this article is trustworthy, because it's simply not well-researched.
Of course the "kB" figures are only on the print-formatted version of the article -- oh yes, there are two articles here, and they actually say quite different things in some places.
I notice they've posted a non-apologetic correction about the false claim that Firefox has no "new tab" button (not in the print-formatted version of the article, though); no corrections to their misinformation about Opera though.
Curious. In hindsight, I could understand mods of "Troll"; bit silly of me in that regard. "Flamebait" I do not get at all, though.
Yup, those "funny" mods are really gonna help ...
I misread that for a moment as "billig". Tee-hee. (= German for "cheap 'n' nasty")
... I hope this will give at least some pause to all the tired old jokes about outsourcing. For supposedly open-minded people there're way too many racist jokes around here.
I agree in principle, but it's kind of difficult to just dismiss the one person in the room who's saying "no", if you notice s/he's brandishing thousands upon thousands of nukes at you at the same time.
You know, I disagree with you completely. Allofmp3.com provides a valuable service which is far, far better than was ever available by making illegal use of a p2p network. It's quite unique. Even if we didn't have copyright in my country, I'd probably still be paying for allofmp3.com's service.
Nice analogy, thanks. I agree. If people only ever believed and used what was logically coherent and mathematically demonstrable, the world we inhabit would be a very different beast.
I'd say running an app as complex as Firefox is fairly impressive.