Well according to the Church of Scientology, they are the greatest threat to mankind since Genghis Khan--an organized hate group aimed at overthrowing America and burning all our churches. Also, Tom Cruise is not gay.
It always amazes me how many MS-bashers still bring up the case of MS supposedly unfairly using its monopoly to push IE back in the 90's, yet ignore the fact that Apple and others engage in MUCH more egregious anti-competitive behavior today than MS ever dreamed of doing. MS's big sin was to include IE in their default Windows installation (the same as notepad, media player, and dozens of other standard apps). Never once did they block competing software from being installed on Windows. The whole case is a relic from a time when browsers were still a new toy (today pretty much every operating system comes standard with a browser, and no one considers that unfair).
But here we have Apple, actively BANNING any competing software from even being installed on their devices, and the EU and all the others who raised holy hell about MS just turn the other way and say nothing. MS gets huge fines for just including their browser in their software, yet Apple gets nothing for not only including their browser, but banning any competing browsers too. And it's not just browsers, Apple does the same thing with iTunes and other apps too. "We don't allow competition" should become Apple's new motto, especially as they move more and more away from their traditionally more open products (PC's) and focus more and more on their locked down products (iPad, iPhone, iTouch, etc.). They should name their next product the iMonopoly.
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You're going to take the word of an *Australian*?!?!? Have you gone mad, man?
According to that review, you had to type the text in a separate window, THEN place it. If he's wrong you had better write him and tell him. Apparently the idiots over at "gimp.org" have made mistakenly stated the same thing:
The Text tool places text into an image. When you click on an image with this tool the Text Editor dialog is opened where you can type your text, and a text layer is added in the Layer Dialog. In the Text Option dialog, you can change the font, color and size of your text, and justify it, interactively.
China's space program *is* the best way to sap money out of their economy. By the time they realize it's a merciless money sink with little practical return, they will have wasted billions. But they'll have a Chinese flag on the moon, who-hoo!
What good is a new missile going to do them when they already have enough nukes to wipe any other country in the world off the map? What, are they going to build one that will cause a nuclear armageddon a few minutes quicker?
Yeah, but on the upside, my student loan and all my credit card debt is in U.S. dollars. When the dollar tanks, I'll be able to pay it all off by selling a few DVD's. USA! USA! USA!
Sadly my less catchy "Let's just get together and build this motherfucker" design philosophy lacked the one-word or acronym-based approach needed to ever catch on as an industry buzzword.
Letting China waste billions of dollars building one of those money sinks, plus $700 million per launch, would probably be the worst thing we could do to them.
Being locked into 64 GB of secondary storage in 2010 is a fracking joke. The thumb drive I carry on my keychain is almost that big. Not that the iPad will be able to access that thumb drive--since it won't even have USB ports.
For $500, you could buy a pretty nice netbook (or even notebook) with a lot more muscle than an iPad, at a comparable or only slightly larger footprint and weight. And it would be wide open for you to do whatever the hell you wanted to with it and you wouldn't be locked into a data contract (use whatever ISP you like). The iPad might be a value if it were in the $200 range, but at $500 (not even including the data contract), I don't see how it's "economical" at all.
I agree with the idea that splitting export and save into separate menus is stupid. InDesign does the same thing. Instead of just letting you save a file as a pdf in the "save as" menu, you have to go to a separate "export" menu. It's just needlessly confusing. Every save that's not in the program's native format is, in a sense, an "export" after all. Why add the extra confusion of trying to figure out which formats are under "export" and which are under "save as"?
I would like to second that. Inkscape has a surprisingly good UI for open source software. It is at least as intuitive as Illustrator, and I actually prefer it over Illustrator for a lot of simple tasks (especially since it's footprint is much smaller and it's relatively quick and easy to use). The same cannot be said (in the past anyway) of GIMP vs. Photoshop. Inkscape and Firefox are two programs I regularly cite as great examples of open source software that's comparable to proprietary counterparts.
I really wish more open source coders would put more consideration into their UI. There is a reason that proprietary software companies pay actual designers to work on the UI, you know (they're not just there to make it look pretty).
If you think Photoshop is "luddite" compared to GIMP, you are truly a deluded soul. According to the review, you couldn't even type text directly onto an image until this new build. Do you realize how basic a feature that is? That doesn't suggest a program that's way ahead of Photoshop to me--it suggests a program that's way behind.
Apple is actually an excellent example. Steve Wozniak does all the work, walks away with a relative pittance. Steve Jobs bullshits and schemes, walks away with enough to buy his own country.
Great, then we get to kiss our corporations goodbye, watch the dollar turn into worthless paper, and enjoy debtor nation status for decades. I guess we better relearn those sustenance farming skills.
Wow, I've never seen a post that referred to Germany as a "proper civilized government" and then referred to the Nazis two sentences later. That should get you some kind of/. award. That goes beyond a mere Godwin Rule situation into some kind of super-Godwin rule (maybe meta-Godwin). It could well tear a hole in space-time.
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Well according to the Church of Scientology, they are the greatest threat to mankind since Genghis Khan--an organized hate group aimed at overthrowing America and burning all our churches. Also, Tom Cruise is not gay.
It always amazes me how many MS-bashers still bring up the case of MS supposedly unfairly using its monopoly to push IE back in the 90's, yet ignore the fact that Apple and others engage in MUCH more egregious anti-competitive behavior today than MS ever dreamed of doing. MS's big sin was to include IE in their default Windows installation (the same as notepad, media player, and dozens of other standard apps). Never once did they block competing software from being installed on Windows. The whole case is a relic from a time when browsers were still a new toy (today pretty much every operating system comes standard with a browser, and no one considers that unfair).
But here we have Apple, actively BANNING any competing software from even being installed on their devices, and the EU and all the others who raised holy hell about MS just turn the other way and say nothing. MS gets huge fines for just including their browser in their software, yet Apple gets nothing for not only including their browser, but banning any competing browsers too. And it's not just browsers, Apple does the same thing with iTunes and other apps too. "We don't allow competition" should become Apple's new motto, especially as they move more and more away from their traditionally more open products (PC's) and focus more and more on their locked down products (iPad, iPhone, iTouch, etc.). They should name their next product the iMonopoly.
You're going to take the word of an *Australian*?!?!? Have you gone mad, man?
That's exactly how a reviewer at IGN described it. Go forth and enjoy.
Better set them straight too.
China's space program *is* the best way to sap money out of their economy. By the time they realize it's a merciless money sink with little practical return, they will have wasted billions. But they'll have a Chinese flag on the moon, who-hoo!
What good is a new missile going to do them when they already have enough nukes to wipe any other country in the world off the map? What, are they going to build one that will cause a nuclear armageddon a few minutes quicker?
Yeah, but on the upside, my student loan and all my credit card debt is in U.S. dollars. When the dollar tanks, I'll be able to pay it all off by selling a few DVD's. USA! USA! USA!
Good, maybe they can improve on it. Nationalism has already kept our countries from cooperating on space ventures for far too long.
Sadly my less catchy "Let's just get together and build this motherfucker" design philosophy lacked the one-word or acronym-based approach needed to ever catch on as an industry buzzword.
Letting China waste billions of dollars building one of those money sinks, plus $700 million per launch, would probably be the worst thing we could do to them.
Being locked into 64 GB of secondary storage in 2010 is a fracking joke. The thumb drive I carry on my keychain is almost that big. Not that the iPad will be able to access that thumb drive--since it won't even have USB ports.
For $500, you could buy a pretty nice netbook (or even notebook) with a lot more muscle than an iPad, at a comparable or only slightly larger footprint and weight. And it would be wide open for you to do whatever the hell you wanted to with it and you wouldn't be locked into a data contract (use whatever ISP you like). The iPad might be a value if it were in the $200 range, but at $500 (not even including the data contract), I don't see how it's "economical" at all.
I agree with the idea that splitting export and save into separate menus is stupid. InDesign does the same thing. Instead of just letting you save a file as a pdf in the "save as" menu, you have to go to a separate "export" menu. It's just needlessly confusing. Every save that's not in the program's native format is, in a sense, an "export" after all. Why add the extra confusion of trying to figure out which formats are under "export" and which are under "save as"?
I would like to second that. Inkscape has a surprisingly good UI for open source software. It is at least as intuitive as Illustrator, and I actually prefer it over Illustrator for a lot of simple tasks (especially since it's footprint is much smaller and it's relatively quick and easy to use). The same cannot be said (in the past anyway) of GIMP vs. Photoshop. Inkscape and Firefox are two programs I regularly cite as great examples of open source software that's comparable to proprietary counterparts.
I really wish more open source coders would put more consideration into their UI. There is a reason that proprietary software companies pay actual designers to work on the UI, you know (they're not just there to make it look pretty).
If you think Photoshop is "luddite" compared to GIMP, you are truly a deluded soul. According to the review, you couldn't even type text directly onto an image until this new build. Do you realize how basic a feature that is? That doesn't suggest a program that's way ahead of Photoshop to me--it suggests a program that's way behind.
And every step you take *away* from government leads you closer to anarchy.
Apple is actually an excellent example. Steve Wozniak does all the work, walks away with a relative pittance. Steve Jobs bullshits and schemes, walks away with enough to buy his own country.
Eh, works for me. If the dollar was worthless, it would be a helluva lot easier to pay back my student loans.
Great, then we get to kiss our corporations goodbye, watch the dollar turn into worthless paper, and enjoy debtor nation status for decades. I guess we better relearn those sustenance farming skills.
...But if we hadn't paid them a competitive salary we might have lost them.
I'll learn it just as soon as Sarah Palin does.
Send him a reply asking for a job as his sycophant/prostitute-acquisition-manager?
10 wrongs don't make a right.
Wow, I've never seen a post that referred to Germany as a "proper civilized government" and then referred to the Nazis two sentences later. That should get you some kind of /. award. That goes beyond a mere Godwin Rule situation into some kind of super-Godwin rule (maybe meta-Godwin). It could well tear a hole in space-time.