Normally I don't post stuff "About" Slashdot here since I find meta naval gazing very boring,
This brings many things into sharp focus. Lack of ethical caching of small sites. Lack of basic story duplication review. Lack of basic grammar review. Lack of basic journalistic fact-checking. Troubling comments that charge karma backlash to those who defy the editors. Lack of awareness that Slashdot is expected by its subscribers and would-be subscribers to behave like the professional corporate concern which it is, and not an unpaid hobby blog which it may have been in the distant past.
Come on, Taco. Some regular "navel gazing" is how things improve over time. Is Slashdot worth so little to you?
For the record the lack of a oval/rectangle paint tool is *the* biggest pet peeve of mine in GIMP.... I am trying to add just a small touch-up to a screenshot to be used on a web page, say a red anti-aliased oval around something I want to highlight.
Why is this so hard to understand? Select the area you want to outline using the ellipse selector tool. Choose a red color you like. Stroke the selection.
Now, what if the area you wanted to outline wasn't just an oval? The "Stroke selection" can stroke around any shape, not just boxes and rings. What if you wanted to fill the oval too? "Fill selection" followed by "Stroke selection" seems reasonable to me.
Oh, and before you ask, you draw straight lines by clicking your favorite brush/pen/cloner/eraser/whatever onto the image, then shift+clicking at the other end of the line. This lets you use any tool, not just the brush. Just because it's not how Adobe envisioned it doesn't mean it's the wrong way to conceptualize things.
Shouldn't the first paragraph indicate we're talking about a game? Spider-Man is represented in comics, movies, costumes, toys, and for all I know, confections. The only hint before digging in was the Atari 2600 joystick icon next to the story.
I'll entertain your idiocy for a moment. If the original equipment stereo killed your child thanks to an electrical problem, instead of a brake failure, this would make the analogy so much clearer? Any tangible product with known dangerous problems should be recalled, repaired, replaced or refunded, whether it has actually caused each owner damage or not. Why is this different for software?
I hate Chevrolet as much of the next guy, but I don't see what's wrong with this. It's basically saying "If you lost a child in a horrific crash due to a known brake failure problem in that line of cars, you can sue. If you didn't, you can't."
I am getting very tired of Golden Palace's penchant for putting their name in every possible attention-grabbing place. Paid tattoos, Jesus sandwich auctions, and now taxonomy for hire. All for a stupid casino ad campaign. I swear that they're gonna pay Carly Simon some obscene amount just so she'll announce that her 1973 hit song is about their business.
While the Hot Coffee debate was brewing (so to speak), my wife got started playing with The Sims 2.
Now, GTA:SA is an 'M' rated game, and the stink was about adding some extraneous clothes-on scenes to that mix.
Meanwhile, The Sims 2 has some steamy life aspirations and scenarios that are written into the game. There are little miniscenes of "whoopie" in the hot tub with cute graphics of fireworks and post coital bliss. You can fulfill goals such as being a virtual slut (boinking at least three different people), and being an illicit exhibitionist (boinking your intended in public).
I don't mind the Sims 2 even at its current rating of T for Teens, but compared to the GTA "Adult" content controversy, can I just say, uh... WTF?
And for three Mars summers in a row, deposits of frozen carbon dioxide near Mars' south pole have shrunk from the previous year's size, suggesting a climate change in progress.
Oh, sure, just drive around on the dunes for a while with a couple off-road buggies, and the rabid environmentalists start ringing the "global warming" alarms. How predictable.
"It's an interesting piece; the reason are thought-out well."
I'll grant I'm not familiar with all the politics and the specific methodology by which a Linux distro tests or achieves LSB compliance, but this blog entry sounds a lot like whining. Ulrich whines that it's hard, that the audit raises many bugs, that it's tedious, that other distros "somehow" achieve their compliance but he's not sure how, that the audit process itself has bugs, and that the LSB group must be pushing this agenda down people's throats.
If it were truly well-thought-out, I'd see either one of two lines of discussion. One would list philosophical proofs that the concept of LSB was unsound for specific philosophical reasons X, Y and Z. The other would list technical proofs that the implementation of LSB standards was unsound for specific technical reasons A, B and C. No whining that it's hard. No whining that other distros do it differently. No whining that bugs are found. No whining that there's politics involved. Just solve the problems found, improve the process of finding problems, or show why the problems or the process is untenable.
This is the kind of garbage which the $100 million in marketing is going to buy. It's amazing that ringtones, skins and wallpapers can be a successful part of a marketing strategy which will further entrench monopoly and strip computer owners of autonomy with their own data and hardware.
Every antenna must use an amplifier to turn a weak input signal into a usable internal signal. Unless the circuit is specifically shielded, which is expensive, much of the amplified signal leaks back out the antenna. Most receivers are thus noise-producers. This includes FM, TV and non-aircraft-certified GPS receivers, all of which are ostensibly of interest to airplane passengers.
I think of these as two very different categories. Even if the web developer does all the "back end" work along with all the "front end" web-facing interface stuff, there's often a completely different mindset when it comes to releasing/ patching/ updating to the customer. I'm not going to say there's a lack of discipline, but it is so much easier to tweak a production server than it is to make a change to a large native-compiled, retail-boxed, advertisements-printed application.
This is why America is dropping like a rock in the sciences, maths, and literacy rates, as compared to other industrialized nations. How about, "If you don't like it, fight against the apathy and ignorance"?
No, I'm saying precisely the opposite, and quite clearly, I thought. Maybe you can't read.
The technology is irrelevant. It's all the same for BitTorrent or eDonkey or whatever. Switching technologies has nothing to do with the core issue: current laws protect movie industry content in many countries. If you're copying movies that you aren't authorized by law or contract to copy, prepare to be squashed no matter what tech you are using. If the movie industry is suing to try to stop legitimate copying in countries where that right is held by the people, then the movie industry should be thrown out of court, preferably with heavy fines to stop their barratry.
If the previous uses of [insert your old P2P tech here] were valid according to the laws of the country in question, then the movie industry should be smacked out of court and life moves on.
If the previous uses of that technology were not valid according to the laws of the country in question, then the people who are sourcing the illicit data should be smacked around in court and life moves on.
If you don't like those terms, stay the fuck away from data that you don't have a legal right to transfer, and produce more original data which will have the transfer rights (public domain, creative commons, gpl, whatever) you prefer.
This has NOTHING to do with the trend to replace [insert your old P2P tech here] with [insert your new P2P tech here].
I've always wondered why they didn't just slip some mylar film into those mailers. Mylar was designed in wartime as radar chaff, but is more likely seen today as the bag around your snack or a helium balloon.
The existing patterned ink method was adopted because of cost, but really, tacking some mylar onto the form would be cheaper than tacking those thick plastic fake credit cards into those credit offers they flood you with. Yeah, I know: marketing budget can afford fake credit cards but the operations budget can't afford mylar for security.
I wasn't sure if you were describing the actual thing called the "gaming industry" or "games industry," i.e., casinos, or if you were describing your fictitious account of living in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
I think it's cute that those in the software toy field call it the "game industry." Yes, software toys, that's what you're producing; and if you think otherwise, why do you think you ship product in October and get laid off in November so often?
Rule #4 "Don't Flip The Bozo Bit". This rule is necessary to keep #2 ["Get Their Heads Into The Game"] working. The author deals with the natural tendency that people have to become defensive when criticism is offered of their ideas. This can actually cause both the critic and the one being criticized to tune each other out. The author suggests that team members call each other on it when the Bozo Bit is being flipped.
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This brings many things into sharp focus. Lack of ethical caching of small sites. Lack of basic story duplication review. Lack of basic grammar review. Lack of basic journalistic fact-checking. Troubling comments that charge karma backlash to those who defy the editors. Lack of awareness that Slashdot is expected by its subscribers and would-be subscribers to behave like the professional corporate concern which it is, and not an unpaid hobby blog which it may have been in the distant past.
Come on, Taco. Some regular "navel gazing" is how things improve over time. Is Slashdot worth so little to you?
Son, I got a .emacs file that's older than you and most of your friends.
Why is this so hard to understand? Select the area you want to outline using the ellipse selector tool. Choose a red color you like. Stroke the selection.
Now, what if the area you wanted to outline wasn't just an oval? The "Stroke selection" can stroke around any shape, not just boxes and rings. What if you wanted to fill the oval too? "Fill selection" followed by "Stroke selection" seems reasonable to me.
Oh, and before you ask, you draw straight lines by clicking your favorite brush/pen/cloner/eraser/whatever onto the image, then shift+clicking at the other end of the line. This lets you use any tool, not just the brush. Just because it's not how Adobe envisioned it doesn't mean it's the wrong way to conceptualize things.
Shouldn't the first paragraph indicate we're talking about a game? Spider-Man is represented in comics, movies, costumes, toys, and for all I know, confections. The only hint before digging in was the Atari 2600 joystick icon next to the story.
Score:5, Insightful? We need a new meta-moderation scheme, where we can moderate the moderations as Funny.
I'll entertain your idiocy for a moment. If the original equipment stereo killed your child thanks to an electrical problem, instead of a brake failure, this would make the analogy so much clearer? Any tangible product with known dangerous problems should be recalled, repaired, replaced or refunded, whether it has actually caused each owner damage or not. Why is this different for software?
I hate Chevrolet as much of the next guy, but I don't see what's wrong with this. It's basically saying "If you lost a child in a horrific crash due to a known brake failure problem in that line of cars, you can sue. If you didn't, you can't."
I am getting very tired of Golden Palace's penchant for putting their name in every possible attention-grabbing place. Paid tattoos, Jesus sandwich auctions, and now taxonomy for hire. All for a stupid casino ad campaign. I swear that they're gonna pay Carly Simon some obscene amount just so she'll announce that her 1973 hit song is about their business.
CNN, Time Warner.
FOX, 20th Century Fox (NewsCorp).
ABC, Walt Disney.
NBC, Universal (GE).
CBS, Viacom.
And so on. Get the picture?
Now, GTA:SA is an 'M' rated game, and the stink was about adding some extraneous clothes-on scenes to that mix.
Meanwhile, The Sims 2 has some steamy life aspirations and scenarios that are written into the game. There are little miniscenes of "whoopie" in the hot tub with cute graphics of fireworks and post coital bliss. You can fulfill goals such as being a virtual slut (boinking at least three different people), and being an illicit exhibitionist (boinking your intended in public).
I don't mind the Sims 2 even at its current rating of T for Teens, but compared to the GTA "Adult" content controversy, can I just say, uh... WTF?
Oh, sure, just drive around on the dunes for a while with a couple off-road buggies, and the rabid environmentalists start ringing the "global warming" alarms. How predictable.
Also try Robo Rally. Of course, this deals with how to program a computer with a VERY limited instruction set, and with damaged hardware. :)
I'll grant I'm not familiar with all the politics and the specific methodology by which a Linux distro tests or achieves LSB compliance, but this blog entry sounds a lot like whining. Ulrich whines that it's hard, that the audit raises many bugs, that it's tedious, that other distros "somehow" achieve their compliance but he's not sure how, that the audit process itself has bugs, and that the LSB group must be pushing this agenda down people's throats.
If it were truly well-thought-out, I'd see either one of two lines of discussion. One would list philosophical proofs that the concept of LSB was unsound for specific philosophical reasons X, Y and Z. The other would list technical proofs that the implementation of LSB standards was unsound for specific technical reasons A, B and C. No whining that it's hard. No whining that other distros do it differently. No whining that bugs are found. No whining that there's politics involved. Just solve the problems found, improve the process of finding problems, or show why the problems or the process is untenable.
This is the kind of garbage which the $100 million in marketing is going to buy. It's amazing that ringtones, skins and wallpapers can be a successful part of a marketing strategy which will further entrench monopoly and strip computer owners of autonomy with their own data and hardware.
Every antenna must use an amplifier to turn a weak input signal into a usable internal signal. Unless the circuit is specifically shielded, which is expensive, much of the amplified signal leaks back out the antenna. Most receivers are thus noise-producers. This includes FM, TV and non-aircraft-certified GPS receivers, all of which are ostensibly of interest to airplane passengers.
Thankfully, the girls already understand this urge and keep their distance from most geeks.
Did you pay the ASCAP fees for that?
I think of these as two very different categories. Even if the web developer does all the "back end" work along with all the "front end" web-facing interface stuff, there's often a completely different mindset when it comes to releasing/ patching/ updating to the customer. I'm not going to say there's a lack of discipline, but it is so much easier to tweak a production server than it is to make a change to a large native-compiled, retail-boxed, advertisements-printed application.
This is why America is dropping like a rock in the sciences, maths, and literacy rates, as compared to other industrialized nations. How about, "If you don't like it, fight against the apathy and ignorance"?
You mean the US Copyright Office, right? Because the USPTO isn't likely to start patenting and trademarking abandoned creative expressions.
The technology is irrelevant. It's all the same for BitTorrent or eDonkey or whatever. Switching technologies has nothing to do with the core issue: current laws protect movie industry content in many countries. If you're copying movies that you aren't authorized by law or contract to copy, prepare to be squashed no matter what tech you are using. If the movie industry is suing to try to stop legitimate copying in countries where that right is held by the people, then the movie industry should be thrown out of court, preferably with heavy fines to stop their barratry.
If the previous uses of that technology were not valid according to the laws of the country in question, then the people who are sourcing the illicit data should be smacked around in court and life moves on.
If you don't like those terms, stay the fuck away from data that you don't have a legal right to transfer, and produce more original data which will have the transfer rights (public domain, creative commons, gpl, whatever) you prefer.
This has NOTHING to do with the trend to replace [insert your old P2P tech here] with [insert your new P2P tech here].
The existing patterned ink method was adopted because of cost, but really, tacking some mylar onto the form would be cheaper than tacking those thick plastic fake credit cards into those credit offers they flood you with. Yeah, I know: marketing budget can afford fake credit cards but the operations budget can't afford mylar for security.
I think it's cute that those in the software toy field call it the "game industry." Yes, software toys, that's what you're producing; and if you think otherwise, why do you think you ship product in October and get laid off in November so often?