Would it be too much to ask that the writeup blurb include a ten-word summary of what makes GFS any different from any other Linux-ready filesystem? Many sites get slashdotted, making most links unusable for 12 hours or more.
A Lieutenant was radioing in a field report to the Major back at the base. "Sir, we have some problems here and..." The Major cut off the Lieutenant, saying, "Don't say 'problems' on the radio, son. It's best to think of them as 'opportunities.'" The Lieutenant, looking at the exploded husk of his jeep on the side of the road, yelled into the radio, "Sir, we have some insurmountable opportunities here, and..."
Re:War-kayaking is nothing
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War Kayaking
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Considering the A of 'base jumping' stands for Antenna, I think you might be able to figure out at least ONE access point on your descent.
Man, this has been around for years. I'd bet a decade. Almost all GPSes with mapping features use a 2D variant of this to store less line segment data for roads. 3D systems with multiple levels of detail choose among a number of differently-optimized models to reduce vertex transformation overhead on far-away objects. Where have you guys been?
The huge missing-feature for working with RAW images on Linux is not how to read the files, but how to manage color. ICC profiles are a critical part of the process to go from sensor to screen to printer without major swings in color fidelity.
sensor * sensorprofile = calibrated image
calibrated image * deviceprofile = output
High-end cameras can attach or apply various sensor profile transforms to the actual sensor data, leaving the pixels in a factory-average sRGB, such as AdobeRGB colorspace. Some can even apply or attach custom tone curves or custom colorspaces if you put the profiles on the memory card.
I haven't used Sane in a while, but it would also need a sensor profile capability.
Since the 2.0 release of GIMP, it has been making small steps leading up to support for attaching color profiles, but not actually applying color profiles.
I've heard that some people on the Xorg team have been considering the full scope of solutions for this problem, but I would rather they just hit the 90% mark with one feature: load an ICC display profile and program a single head on the video card to apply that transform for all X output on that head. Let's not wait for the whole thing (how to profile, how to work multihead, how to manage multiple profiles, etc.) to spring out of the head of Zeus.
CUPS or some other printing subsystem should be able to take ICC printer profiles also, and prefix printer jobs with those profile transforms where appropriate.
Then you'll see a LOT of people in the photography world erase their Windows and their Photoshop, and join the marketplace vote against product activation.
Try keeping your cablemodem a bit cooler than your average home. I keep my cablemodem cooled by a 120mm fan 24/7 and it never goes down. The day my fan's bearings failed, the cablemodem dropped signal again.
This idiot should take his next pay packet and sponsor a child in Africa or something. -- [ Franklin/Jeffersonian quote of "let people be free" here. ]
They that can give up someone else's essential liberty to grant some child in Africa a little temporary food deserve neither liberty nor food.
First, ask a representative sample of users what they really want to accomplish. Four developers on IRC plus a dork on slashdot does not make a representative sample.
Next, categorize the users into archetypical users, usually by job function or general experiential levels.
Then design an interface that makes ACCOMPLISHING the GOALS of users as simple as possible, but no simpler. Give lots of feedback to orient the user, but stay out of the way of the user.
The worst designs simply retrain the user to comply with whatever implementation the programmer hashed out before lunch. The back-end software should be efficient, and the front-end software should be effective. There's a difference.
Design Goal: Make the simple things effortless, and the difficult things possible.
The USPTO is NOT A REGULATORY AGENCY. It is a paid fee service. Their job is not to block patents. Their job is to grant patents for a price.
Don't SCREW the EXPERT
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The GNOME Roadmap
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Disorganized series of thoughts follow.
Make everything as simple as possible, and no simpler.
It seems the Gnome architects often forget the important second part of that goal. Or they are, frankly, deluded into thinking that there is no limit to how simple and appliance-like they can make the computer. There is a limit, and that's when I can no longer adjust it to fit me.
In contrast, this is Microsoft's lofty goal, which is good enough as it stands, but they too still forget the nuances in that goal.
Make the easy things effortless, and the hard things possible.
Desktop designers can't just cherry-pick a few simple problems and write a few lines to make it easy. While it's noble to strip out the rarely used options, or the options that "confuse" the newcomer, it is NOT ACCEPTABLE to bury the familiar power interface behind a gconf/registry setting, or to make the familiar power interface unreachable. (You hear me, Nautilus?)
Allow configurability. Allow personalization beyond just the stupid passive things like wallpaper and skins. Let a user choose their favorite way of presenting information, and be smart about it.
Commit to finishing the features you start. How long has a Gnome-Menu editor been promised, but neglected? Ever since Gnome 2.0, they've said, "well, real soon now." We thought it just barely missed the deadlines for the first distros with Gnome 2.0, but I still can't edit my launcher menu. If obvious features aren't usable, then don't go announcing major X.0 version releases.
Math correction. If you have two paychecks a month, and (rent=paycheck[1]-$100), this leaves you with (paycheck[2]+$100) for everything else that month.
I don't know where you live, but the general rule of thumb is to spend no more than 1/3 of your take-home on rent. If you only have (rent=paycheck+paycheck-$100), then you are probably overspending on rent. Consider your options.
Also, it's easy to become a packrat without realizing it. SELL, don't toss, your unused items. eBay and flea-market that stuff ruthlessly, every few months. For most things you find in your home, if you haven't used it in 3mo, then you don't need to keep it around.
"OMFG, if we XOR the ASCII for 'wilfrid', as in the Quaker Oats guy 'Wilfrid Brimley', and we XOR it with 'hotgrit', and XOR *that* with the Goatse Guy's picture, all we need to do is take a CRC-32 of the resulting file and we have the next four bytes of the key! w00t!"
Of course, you would have to mis-spell Wilford Brimley's name exactly the same way as your lame late pal, or you'd get the wrong results...
That is, of course, assuming He didn't leave the bag of tricks out in the open on purpose, to watch us discover His Creation in all its great depth and subtlety.
People should not be allowed to live without aging. The world is already overpopulated as is, we don't need to prolong it anymore.
Wow, how's that for not reading the article? The blurb even says it has his comments on the "overpopulation" argument. My view is: how in the FUCK will cloning or anti-aging have any MEASURABLE effect on population? I'ts the babies, man, and it's the babies of the pre-developing and developing countries in particular, which drive the population growth. Cloning and anti-aging will cost a LOT of money, for a long time, so few people will be trying it out.
And who the FUCK are you for saying I should not be allowed to live? Oh, you said "should not be allowed to live without aging." Well, if I can't reach 120 with aging, you're saying I should not be able to live to 120. You're telling me I should be required to die. I'm telling you to get lost.
Ray tracing can be done in real time today, at around a million rays per second on a P4-class host CPU.
I fail to see how one million rays per second is "real time" for most images people associate with ray-tracing. Even at one ray per pixel, you're limited to a single 500x500 image per second. But the value of ray tracing is the recursion: one ray hits an object, and anywhere between 2 and 200 rays result (counting for any subsequent recursions, lights and diffusions).
Your budget: 1000000 rays per second. Take a guess at an average of 10 rays per resulting pixel including all recursion, and you're down to a paltry 100x100 pixels at 10fps. You fail on all metrics of expected quality: poor fidelity, poor resolution, and poor framerate. Even on faster CPUs, you haven't made up the difference for what users want to see.
Re:what MS funded "study" about Linux isn't FUD?
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How does Richard Stallman say "GNU/Linux" when he speaks? I always wonder if he says "guh-new OVER linux" or he says "guh-new DIVIDED BY linux." I think he intended it to mean "GNU + Linux" but that's not how it looks on paper, or in his diatribe.
Kidding aside, this seems to be his only topic of conversation now. He's the legless veteran on the front porch, bemoaning the fates of battles fought long ago, and not budging or even listening to the greater conversation. He is just as divisive as the GNU/Linux terminology looks.
Instead, I just shut off the power to their video game/DVD player when they start yelling at each other.
Of course, we don't need to remind you that your kids are growing up with video tubes mounted in front of them, instead of books or the passing scenery. How many hours of NTSC do your kids consume, anyway?
Of course, if you're going to start throwing around language like "leftist FUD," I won't point you to google or any of the photographers' forums who bring up this topic on a weekly basis. Those in the media are so biased, you know.
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"Own it on DVD!" "Buy your copy today!" Yeah, fuck that twisted logic, baby.
Would it be too much to ask that the writeup blurb include a ten-word summary of what makes GFS any different from any other Linux-ready filesystem? Many sites get slashdotted, making most links unusable for 12 hours or more.
A Lieutenant was radioing in a field report to the Major back at the base. "Sir, we have some problems here and..." The Major cut off the Lieutenant, saying, "Don't say 'problems' on the radio, son. It's best to think of them as 'opportunities.'" The Lieutenant, looking at the exploded husk of his jeep on the side of the road, yelled into the radio, "Sir, we have some insurmountable opportunities here, and..."
Considering the A of 'base jumping' stands for Antenna, I think you might be able to figure out at least ONE access point on your descent.
And if my manager gets ahold of this, I'll end up having to program in it by the month's end!
Don't worry. He'll hand it to Human Resources, and ask that they be on the lookout for candidates with six years of ActionScript 2.0 experience.
And then you'll lose your job to some twit who claims seven years experience in ActionScript 1.0, 2.0 *and* 3.0.
Man, this has been around for years. I'd bet a decade. Almost all GPSes with mapping features use a 2D variant of this to store less line segment data for roads. 3D systems with multiple levels of detail choose among a number of differently-optimized models to reduce vertex transformation overhead on far-away objects. Where have you guys been?
calibrated image * deviceprofile = output
High-end cameras can attach or apply various sensor profile transforms to the actual sensor data, leaving the pixels in a factory-average sRGB, such as AdobeRGB colorspace. Some can even apply or attach custom tone curves or custom colorspaces if you put the profiles on the memory card.
I haven't used Sane in a while, but it would also need a sensor profile capability.
Since the 2.0 release of GIMP, it has been making small steps leading up to support for attaching color profiles, but not actually applying color profiles.
I've heard that some people on the Xorg team have been considering the full scope of solutions for this problem, but I would rather they just hit the 90% mark with one feature: load an ICC display profile and program a single head on the video card to apply that transform for all X output on that head. Let's not wait for the whole thing (how to profile, how to work multihead, how to manage multiple profiles, etc.) to spring out of the head of Zeus.
CUPS or some other printing subsystem should be able to take ICC printer profiles also, and prefix printer jobs with those profile transforms where appropriate.
Then you'll see a LOT of people in the photography world erase their Windows and their Photoshop, and join the marketplace vote against product activation.
Try keeping your cablemodem a bit cooler than your average home. I keep my cablemodem cooled by a 120mm fan 24/7 and it never goes down. The day my fan's bearings failed, the cablemodem dropped signal again.
This idiot should take his next pay packet and sponsor a child in Africa or something.
--
[ Franklin/Jeffersonian quote of "let people be free" here. ]
They that can give up someone else's essential liberty to grant some child in Africa a little temporary food deserve neither liberty nor food.
First, ask a representative sample of users what they really want to accomplish. Four developers on IRC plus a dork on slashdot does not make a representative sample.
Next, categorize the users into archetypical users, usually by job function or general experiential levels.
Then design an interface that makes ACCOMPLISHING the GOALS of users as simple as possible, but no simpler. Give lots of feedback to orient the user, but stay out of the way of the user.
The worst designs simply retrain the user to comply with whatever implementation the programmer hashed out before lunch. The back-end software should be efficient, and the front-end software should be effective. There's a difference.
Design Goal: Make the simple things effortless, and the difficult things possible.
The USPTO is NOT A REGULATORY AGENCY. It is a paid fee service. Their job is not to block patents. Their job is to grant patents for a price.
Disorganized series of thoughts follow.
Make everything as simple as possible, and no simpler.
It seems the Gnome architects often forget the important second part of that goal. Or they are, frankly, deluded into thinking that there is no limit to how simple and appliance-like they can make the computer. There is a limit, and that's when I can no longer adjust it to fit me.
In contrast, this is Microsoft's lofty goal, which is good enough as it stands, but they too still forget the nuances in that goal.
Make the easy things effortless, and the hard things possible.
Desktop designers can't just cherry-pick a few simple problems and write a few lines to make it easy. While it's noble to strip out the rarely used options, or the options that "confuse" the newcomer, it is NOT ACCEPTABLE to bury the familiar power interface behind a gconf/registry setting, or to make the familiar power interface unreachable. (You hear me, Nautilus?)
Allow configurability. Allow personalization beyond just the stupid passive things like wallpaper and skins. Let a user choose their favorite way of presenting information, and be smart about it.
Commit to finishing the features you start. How long has a Gnome-Menu editor been promised, but neglected? Ever since Gnome 2.0, they've said, "well, real soon now." We thought it just barely missed the deadlines for the first distros with Gnome 2.0, but I still can't edit my launcher menu. If obvious features aren't usable, then don't go announcing major X.0 version releases.
Math correction. If you have two paychecks a month, and (rent=paycheck[1]-$100), this leaves you with (paycheck[2]+$100) for everything else that month.
Also, it's easy to become a packrat without realizing it. SELL, don't toss, your unused items. eBay and flea-market that stuff ruthlessly, every few months. For most things you find in your home, if you haven't used it in 3mo, then you don't need to keep it around.
Of course, you would have to mis-spell Wilford Brimley's name exactly the same way as your lame late pal, or you'd get the wrong results...
That is, of course, assuming He didn't leave the bag of tricks out in the open on purpose, to watch us discover His Creation in all its great depth and subtlety.
And super-interesting pastimes to wile away the tens of thousands of idle days or months...
Wow, how's that for not reading the article? The blurb even says it has his comments on the "overpopulation" argument. My view is: how in the FUCK will cloning or anti-aging have any MEASURABLE effect on population? I'ts the babies, man, and it's the babies of the pre-developing and developing countries in particular, which drive the population growth. Cloning and anti-aging will cost a LOT of money, for a long time, so few people will be trying it out.
And who the FUCK are you for saying I should not be allowed to live? Oh, you said "should not be allowed to live without aging." Well, if I can't reach 120 with aging, you're saying I should not be able to live to 120. You're telling me I should be required to die. I'm telling you to get lost.
Now I see the inspiration for Beavis and Butthead's workplace antics...
(Math correction: 1ray per pixel would be 500x500 pixels at 4fps.)
I fail to see how one million rays per second is "real time" for most images people associate with ray-tracing. Even at one ray per pixel, you're limited to a single 500x500 image per second. But the value of ray tracing is the recursion: one ray hits an object, and anywhere between 2 and 200 rays result (counting for any subsequent recursions, lights and diffusions).
Your budget: 1000000 rays per second. Take a guess at an average of 10 rays per resulting pixel including all recursion, and you're down to a paltry 100x100 pixels at 10fps. You fail on all metrics of expected quality: poor fidelity, poor resolution, and poor framerate. Even on faster CPUs, you haven't made up the difference for what users want to see.
Kidding aside, this seems to be his only topic of conversation now. He's the legless veteran on the front porch, bemoaning the fates of battles fought long ago, and not budging or even listening to the greater conversation. He is just as divisive as the GNU/Linux terminology looks.
A Klingon does not sleep easily, he regroups warily. A Klingon does not seek appreciation, he aims to be feared.
Of course, we don't need to remind you that your kids are growing up with video tubes mounted in front of them, instead of books or the passing scenery. How many hours of NTSC do your kids consume, anyway?
Of course, if you're going to start throwing around language like "leftist FUD," I won't point you to google or any of the photographers' forums who bring up this topic on a weekly basis. Those in the media are so biased, you know.