Well yes, I do agree, but even though the interface change might make it easier for some people to use the GIMP, it's my opinion that these same people are impatient and some might even refuse to learn how to use new software with a different interface that does the same thing. I used to use other software for image editing and wanted to switch to the GIMP. It took me a little while to figure out how things were done, but now I know how powerful the GIMP can be. A little patience and the desire to learn is what people really need and not some go-between interface to make them feel better about themselves.
The best free firewall that gives you control like this is Sygate's Personal Firewall. It gives you process level control of who and what can access the network on what interface and (optionally) at what time. I use this firewall on one of my computers that's running Windows Server 2003. It would be nice if Microsoft tried to make their built in firewall more flexible like this one is for the server environment.
The only thing I don't like about this idea is that anyone managing a technical project like this needs to have established technical skills and knowledge. Most politicans in governments seem to have demonstrated that they largely lack this skill. ICANN is a good regulatory body because the people there are technically qualified to work with this stuff.
If governments step in to regulate the internet instead of some organization like ICANN, then it's possible that we will see a lot of controversial decisions made on behalf of the internet that might not make a lot of sense to us. Or governments might feel compelled to exert even more control over the information that travels throught the network.
I am not sure Windows has anything to do with it as any OS supports crypto
Yes, there are encryption applications for most operating systems, but the big difference with NTFS is that encryption is built into the file system's spec. It might leave some unencrypted data around, but a lot of the recently used unclaimed space seems to get trashed quickly.
It might actually be more secure to just keep the flash drive on your key chain. It's possible that they could overlook a detail such as that, and if they raid your house while you're not home, you'll still have the key.
I really liked immersion's idea of trying to get more games and applications to support force feedback. I have an iFeel mouse, and I really love what some games can do with it. Although last time I checked, it seemed like Immersion was having trouble getting developers to add vibration support to PC games. I noticed that they had some cheesy software on their web site that enabled devices to rumble based on the sound that the user hears.. sigh.
Speaking of DRM, I was checking out IM clients for the Palm recently, and I happened to notice that one in particular was being licensed instead of sold. I find this concept to be ridiculous for most things, not to mention that it's a huge turn off.
Resource Hacker is a nice tool for editing the resource files in windows binary files. It lets you replace dialogs, icons, etc. Probably works with DLLs, but I haven't used it recently.
TDK already made hardware that is more compact than this. It's an audio player (have to convert MP3s or WMAs to a special format) that has 128MB of flash memory.. Anyway, it might not be the ideal solution, but you still can get the same effect of "singing along with headphones that don't appear to be plugged into anything."
Benedetti has since shown that a saline placebo can also reduce tremors and muscle stiffness.. They found that individual neurons in the subthalamic nucleus began to fire less often when the saline was given..
How is the saline solution a placebo? Their description of it seems to contradict the definition of one. In my opinion, a placebo in this case would have been plain water.
Microsoft had better be joking. After all, even if they see a version of CSS as flawed, a ton of web sites use it, not having compliant support for the standard would make unnecessary trouble for many web developers. This sort of thing sounds really arrogant coming from the same team that introduced the non-standard Microsoft way of doing things into just about virtually everything. (They put in a hack for IE to have it evaluate JavaScript expressions in CSS for example. Using this feature is one way to work around their non-existant support for the max/min-width properties in CSS. HMM.)
IE6 (and 5) already support 32-bit PNGs, but they don't render them correctly. The browser draws them over the background color saved in the file instead of the page for some reason, although they got it right with the transparent color in GIFs!
The article says PNG "transparency" but it's actually opacity or translucency. Sorry.
It seems irresponsible that if they are consciously aware of, and will attempt to propose changes to, the problems in the patent system to continue to abuse it until new laws are made.
Ha. That happened to me more than once, and I didn't really think it was a bug. It would be nice if it did import ALL of the information correctly, though.
I hope that the processor manufactures make some economy version of the dual core CPUs like Intel has done with the Celerons, since anything new coming out from that industry seems to be generally pretty expensive.
I use a HP DeskJet 712C and I don't often print from it, especially not in color since the ink is so expensive. It's annoying that the printer won't work without both the color and black carts in it, and I only want to print with the black one, so I leave the dried out color cart in it and the printer seems happy. Maybe 3rd parties could make dummy carts to solve this problem?
Most pop up windows these days are let through by the browser if the user first clicks on a link or something to open the window. I've seen some web pages where they will capture the clicks for the entire document then open a pop up window.
The images on the site looked nice, but I wish they had put an iPod with a regular LCD alongside the one with the nanotech display for reference.
The image remains on the display even after power is removed, and does not require a backlight. That cuts power requirements dramatically, according to the company. Although painting the initial image takes more power than with an LCD, once displayed, the image will remain for days or weeks without needing another charge.
So this doesn't sound like a replacement for most LCDs that make frequent updates to their display like an iPod, right? Although it seems well suited for the eBook and alarm clock, since they're devices that update their display infrequently. The eBook could especially benefit from the high resolution display.
Since it seems that the display doesn't clear itself if you remove the power, it would be interesting for firmware writers to have to flush the display on devices before a power down. The assumption with the current technology is no power = no display.
Along with CSS 2 compliance I would like to hope that IE7 will properly render PNGs over web pages that modulate the alpha channel. Firefox does this very nicely but IE6 just decides to render the image over the saved background color in the file.
I think the idea is wrong. People should be able to do whatever they want to the software on their systems. Although, this becomes an issue if modifications to software interferes with the experience in, lets say, a not-so-perfectly-designed online game. That's the only reason I would like to see things like the GameShark disappear; aside from the fact that I view "lets plug in the codes and never die in game x" as totally stupid, which I do understand is different from what these guys were probably doing.
This story is similar to the car key RFID system being cracked but if you look carefully the content is actually different and provides a more technical perspective to the situation. The other one was fluff compared to this. People here need to stop being so nit-picky because I find that most of these "duplicated" articles are informative and contain interesting content that I would have not seen otherwise.
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Well yes, I do agree, but even though the interface change might make it easier for some people to use the GIMP, it's my opinion that these same people are impatient and some might even refuse to learn how to use new software with a different interface that does the same thing. I used to use other software for image editing and wanted to switch to the GIMP. It took me a little while to figure out how things were done, but now I know how powerful the GIMP can be. A little patience and the desire to learn is what people really need and not some go-between interface to make them feel better about themselves.
The best free firewall that gives you control like this is Sygate's Personal Firewall. It gives you process level control of who and what can access the network on what interface and (optionally) at what time. I use this firewall on one of my computers that's running Windows Server 2003. It would be nice if Microsoft tried to make their built in firewall more flexible like this one is for the server environment.
If governments step in to regulate the internet instead of some organization like ICANN, then it's possible that we will see a lot of controversial decisions made on behalf of the internet that might not make a lot of sense to us. Or governments might feel compelled to exert even more control over the information that travels throught the network.
Yes, there are encryption applications for most operating systems, but the big difference with NTFS is that encryption is built into the file system's spec. It might leave some unencrypted data around, but a lot of the recently used unclaimed space seems to get trashed quickly.
It might actually be more secure to just keep the flash drive on your key chain. It's possible that they could overlook a detail such as that, and if they raid your house while you're not home, you'll still have the key.
I really liked immersion's idea of trying to get more games and applications to support force feedback. I have an iFeel mouse, and I really love what some games can do with it. Although last time I checked, it seemed like Immersion was having trouble getting developers to add vibration support to PC games. I noticed that they had some cheesy software on their web site that enabled devices to rumble based on the sound that the user hears.. sigh.
Speaking of DRM, I was checking out IM clients for the Palm recently, and I happened to notice that one in particular was being licensed instead of sold. I find this concept to be ridiculous for most things, not to mention that it's a huge turn off.
Resource Hacker is a nice tool for editing the resource files in windows binary files. It lets you replace dialogs, icons, etc. Probably works with DLLs, but I haven't used it recently.
TDK already made hardware that is more compact than this. It's an audio player (have to convert MP3s or WMAs to a special format) that has 128MB of flash memory.. Anyway, it might not be the ideal solution, but you still can get the same effect of "singing along with headphones that don't appear to be plugged into anything."
They found that individual neurons in the subthalamic nucleus began to fire less often when the saline was given..
How is the saline solution a placebo? Their description of it seems to contradict the definition of one. In my opinion, a placebo in this case would have been plain water.
Microsoft had better be joking. After all, even if they see a version of CSS as flawed, a ton of web sites use it, not having compliant support for the standard would make unnecessary trouble for many web developers. This sort of thing sounds really arrogant coming from the same team that introduced the non-standard Microsoft way of doing things into just about virtually everything. (They put in a hack for IE to have it evaluate JavaScript expressions in CSS for example. Using this feature is one way to work around their non-existant support for the max/min-width properties in CSS. HMM.)
The article says PNG "transparency" but it's actually opacity or translucency. Sorry.
The one picture that site has is linked to a AOL user's web site? Ok.. Anyway, more information about solar technology and a picture of a light tube!
It seems irresponsible that if they are consciously aware of, and will attempt to propose changes to, the problems in the patent system to continue to abuse it until new laws are made.
Ha. That happened to me more than once, and I didn't really think it was a bug. It would be nice if it did import ALL of the information correctly, though.
Mmm dual core Celeron..
I use a HP DeskJet 712C and I don't often print from it, especially not in color since the ink is so expensive. It's annoying that the printer won't work without both the color and black carts in it, and I only want to print with the black one, so I leave the dried out color cart in it and the printer seems happy. Maybe 3rd parties could make dummy carts to solve this problem?
Most pop up windows these days are let through by the browser if the user first clicks on a link or something to open the window. I've seen some web pages where they will capture the clicks for the entire document then open a pop up window.
The image remains on the display even after power is removed, and does not require a backlight. That cuts power requirements dramatically, according to the company. Although painting the initial image takes more power than with an LCD, once displayed, the image will remain for days or weeks without needing another charge.
So this doesn't sound like a replacement for most LCDs that make frequent updates to their display like an iPod, right? Although it seems well suited for the eBook and alarm clock, since they're devices that update their display infrequently. The eBook could especially benefit from the high resolution display.
Since it seems that the display doesn't clear itself if you remove the power, it would be interesting for firmware writers to have to flush the display on devices before a power down. The assumption with the current technology is no power = no display.
Along with CSS 2 compliance I would like to hope that IE7 will properly render PNGs over web pages that modulate the alpha channel. Firefox does this very nicely but IE6 just decides to render the image over the saved background color in the file.
I think the idea is wrong. People should be able to do whatever they want to the software on their systems. Although, this becomes an issue if modifications to software interferes with the experience in, lets say, a not-so-perfectly-designed online game. That's the only reason I would like to see things like the GameShark disappear; aside from the fact that I view "lets plug in the codes and never die in game x" as totally stupid, which I do understand is different from what these guys were probably doing.
So what's everyone's problem with Enterprise? I actually think it's fun to watch..
Why aren't such cheap machines being sold to people in developed countries? I'd buy one.
This story is similar to the car key RFID system being cracked but if you look carefully the content is actually different and provides a more technical perspective to the situation. The other one was fluff compared to this. People here need to stop being so nit-picky because I find that most of these "duplicated" articles are informative and contain interesting content that I would have not seen otherwise.
This is what a good slashdotting will do to
You browke them!!