Besides ImageMagick you also have DarkTable and RawTheraPee which are perfectly replacing Adobe products for me -up to and including adjustment curves or denoising. Honestly, even if you have a macintosh or a PC you should try them... as of course they are multiplatform too.
When a politician resorts to calling for a referendum, it's very exactly admitting s/he cannot take the issue in charge. Elected people are supposed to be most responsible persons, carefully selected to take in charge unexpected problems to come -not jupt people that'll call referendums for any new problem. Otherwise we can as well replace them with automated polling machines.
I for one am not at all for direct democracy, in which obviously the majority of voter do not know all consequences.
Ideally we should vote for people we really are confident in, whose curriculum among others should be convincing -but there are fewer and fewer such, perhaps because of the way political parties work, perhaps because of the way media raise our attention (only to the most shocking out of them, etc.)
Direct democracy elects Hitlers.
This, said by a French citizen, whose country's referendum directly voted against the European Constitution, a mark I'll keep till my death.
(...) I'm pretty certain that there would be very negative consequences for society overall if the population is left to starve because of increasing automation.
I'm definitly not accurate on History things, but at some point in the past there was an event in Britain's history called the Luddite's revolution, featuring a (finally failed) anti-machinism attempt...
Maybe we could gain something by looking at what happened at the time, although I fear the relative dimension of the event was different from now (a much smaller population among others)
Like the idea of Multiverses (you know, this thing when everytime you make a decision, the whole Universe duplicates in two branches, and in the other branch you made the alternate choice), like the theory of Panspermism (life never born around here but brought by some intergalactic comets from unreachable places), we face here a nice theory that completely eliminates the risk of being tested.
In other words, it is not a scientific proposal : it's a faith that is proposed to you. And a low-grade one at that. The Matrix movie did much better.
We'll soon have enough such topics to start a dictionary, whose first historical chapter would address Angel's sex debates in the Middle Ages.
My concern is, that historical chapter probably will relate the Angel's thing to the time and place where the quarrel happened -the famous city of Byzantia, just when it was about to be destroyed.
History tells us that when a society's intelligence falls this low, its end is very near.
For vector illustration I'd say DrawExpress (admittedly the only good one I know); for cloning MS powerpoint there are various efficient things, like the german PresentationMaker/PlanMaker/Textmaker; for photo serious processing (including raw/dng files, curves correction etc.) you get Photo Mate (also the only one I know). DE and PM do propose inventive GUIs, specific to 'fingering' on small screens, with striking efficiencies.
Honestly, and while I'll never rely on android installations that are not root by default (which shrinkens enormously the market) I believe the transition from laptops to tablets has already started, and for a couple of years now.
And when it'll be over, with 99% of users not root anymore, we'll cry we hadn't seen it coming. I see VERY little ways out...
among other I retain the Dutch phone company Fairphone, which details its supply of conflict-free metals, selected a (chinese) factory explicitly allowing syndicates etc.
For they second model this year they additionally evolved towards a modular design where one can replace specifically a broken part (be it the screen, the camera, of course the battery...) with either bare hand or a standard screwdriver. Alas in parallel they moved from a pre-rooted android OS to a non-rooted one. So... I remain with their earlier model.
I know no other company doing this, apart the (also Dutch) Max Havelaar coffee suppliers and some minor green food supplies.
I'm french, and have been part of the European engineering team that built the Huygens lander, part of the Nasa/Esa common mission Cassini-Huygens to Titan. Indeed we Prime contractor were french. A part of our work was obviously to coordinate with Nasa/JPL, for which almost every quarter a significant part of our team crossed the ocean and got to Pasadena, discussing interfaces a week's long. The thing which struck us European the most, was that during these delicate and costly missions, everyone at JPL stopped any work at 16:00, whatever the criticality at stake, and even though everyone knew there were precious little hours left to advance before the end of the week. In the beginning, with the European Space agency engineers we tried to stay in the meeting rooms in order to at least prepare the next morning's meetings. We were promptly ousted out by guards. With dogs. Let's say this is the real world, instead of the spitting contest I just see here. But, I don't want to bother you in your dreams here. Don't hesitate to go on spitting. Mod me down, too.
Well I for one handle various WP sites and upgrading is absolutely not a hell. I have less than a dozen plugins on each, and just update them before upgrading the core. Never found an issue, for a couple of years on. BTW, I went here to check if some new issues would have appeared when switching to 4.4, and I see none.
your registration does not work. Or at least, I detailed my email for your database three times, worked for Google image recognition three times too with their captcha thing, then nothing.
They have a tablet, crowdfunded, that you visibly ignored. I did pay for one, that I won't receive. I don't regret it; if anythinh I regret not having bought a couple of others, which may have helped keeping them afloat. Sailfish linux OS, on a nordic-designed device, for some €200. Really too bad you missed it.
The majority of the monumental-etc. wasn't set for e-commerces nor phisers. It was set by people like me for very simple associative sites, for people only having access to simple servers with only php/mysql, and with just no plugin, only the baseline setup, sometimes with, oh, the second one of the standard appearence templates instead of the first. And there is a simple, nonagressive, neutral reason for that: nothing else was available within this minimal requirements.
1. On updates. I own a Fairphone from the previous generation. I can say that straight while they were feverishly finalizing the new model and OS, they did find the energy to publish an OS update for the last Android Stagefright issue in TWO days. Just tell me how long it was for your phone. 2. On the OS in general. Other than that, and although I find them not very pushy at this very moment on that point, Fairphone still officially announced they support Sailfish OS aside Android -so in addition to being fair if, like me, you don't want to belong to Apple/Google, you have a way, and with a modern phone. I won't buy this new model because, well, I have the previous one which is still perfectly working, but I know where I'll buy the next one.
What I have been waiting for quite a long time is the extension, or the iCab of sorts, that'll slightly upgrade most of the borwser fingerprint (screensize changed by some pixels, 1% of my fontlist hidden) every 1/4h or so. I truly believe this is not so difficult to prepare, and once it'll be done most of this fingerprinting issue will be over. The only trouble for the moment is, I'm not a programmer myself:(
Frankly, and not to flame any side, my take is the trope is clear and true simply by analyzing the money flows. Who is paying for what. Who Google is paid by. We indeed are the product sold by Google to its customers. Now, obviously Google needs to catch us first, and for free, so, as their business is definitely very lucrative, they hire a number of good designers that build a very good interface that seduce us, good and efficient ways to register easily, etc. In this sense they indeed are somehow innovators : they drove the competition to better products. But this doesn't remove the fact Google customers are definitely not us.
Ideally, what it should do if you say 'no' is proposing to download Openstreetmap instead;-) Preferably from the F-Droid repository. But now, now. You get what you want...
Abour 15 years ago I had a camper -an average European camper, based on a very robust Ford base, the only issue was the noise when driving. I bought, at that time 15 years ago, a radio that simply detected the speed based on the variations in the 12V mains line, that visibly is modulated by the engine rate. I thought there would be some settings to adjust, at least. It worked out of the box. 15 years ago. Without GPS, numeric car speed indication, or 'engine fluid temperature'. That we need a numeric connection to the car to perform this is a lie. I know it. Not sure I convinced you, since I sold the camper since then and forgot the radioset name... But I know it.
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Besides ImageMagick you also have DarkTable and RawTheraPee which are perfectly replacing Adobe products for me -up to and including adjustment curves or denoising. Honestly, even if you have a macintosh or a PC you should try them... as of course they are multiplatform too.
When a politician resorts to calling for a referendum, it's very exactly admitting s/he cannot take the issue in charge.
Elected people are supposed to be most responsible persons, carefully selected to take in charge unexpected problems to come -not jupt people that'll call referendums for any new problem.
Otherwise we can as well replace them with automated polling machines.
I for one am not at all for direct democracy, in which obviously the majority of voter do not know all consequences.
Ideally we should vote for people we really are confident in, whose curriculum among others should be convincing -but there are fewer and fewer such, perhaps because of the way political parties work, perhaps because of the way media raise our attention (only to the most shocking out of them, etc.)
Direct democracy elects Hitlers.
This, said by a French citizen, whose country's referendum directly voted against the European Constitution, a mark I'll keep till my death.
(...) I'm pretty certain that there would be very negative consequences for society overall if the population is left to starve because of increasing automation.
I'm definitly not accurate on History things, but at some point in the past there was an event in Britain's history called the Luddite's revolution, featuring a (finally failed) anti-machinism attempt...
Maybe we could gain something by looking at what happened at the time, although I fear the relative dimension of the event was different from now (a much smaller population among others)
Like the idea of Multiverses (you know, this thing when everytime you make a decision, the whole Universe duplicates in two branches, and in the other branch you made the alternate choice), like the theory of Panspermism (life never born around here but brought by some intergalactic comets from unreachable places), we face here a nice theory that completely eliminates the risk of being tested.
In other words, it is not a scientific proposal : it's a faith that is proposed to you.
And a low-grade one at that. The Matrix movie did much better.
We'll soon have enough such topics to start a dictionary, whose first historical chapter would address Angel's sex debates in the Middle Ages.
My concern is, that historical chapter probably will relate the Angel's thing to the time and place where the quarrel happened -the famous city of Byzantia, just when it was about to be destroyed.
History tells us that when a society's intelligence falls this low, its end is very near.
and nobody will need to code anymore ;-)
And.. you didn't go to Openstreetmap, where you could have added it yourself?
What can I say. It may be your fault then, you know...
"If there is something Tetris taught me, it is that failures pile up when successes disappear"...
Could someone remember me where I saw this first?
For vector illustration I'd say DrawExpress (admittedly the only good one I know); for cloning MS powerpoint there are various efficient things, like the german PresentationMaker/PlanMaker/Textmaker; for photo serious processing (including raw/dng files, curves correction etc.) you get Photo Mate (also the only one I know).
DE and PM do propose inventive GUIs, specific to 'fingering' on small screens, with striking efficiencies.
Honestly, and while I'll never rely on android installations that are not root by default (which shrinkens enormously the market) I believe the transition from laptops to tablets has already started, and for a couple of years now.
And when it'll be over, with 99% of users not root anymore, we'll cry we hadn't seen it coming.
I see VERY little ways out...
I find the info quite aggressive agains WP, the plugin indeed has been banned, and before this second post...
why is parent modded down? Maybe by someone ignoring the legal sense of Laches?
among other I retain the Dutch phone company Fairphone, which details its supply of conflict-free metals, selected a (chinese) factory explicitly allowing syndicates etc.
For they second model this year they additionally evolved towards a modular design where one can replace specifically a broken part (be it the screen, the camera, of course the battery...) with either bare hand or a standard screwdriver. Alas in parallel they moved from a pre-rooted android OS to a non-rooted one. So... I remain with their earlier model.
I know no other company doing this, apart the (also Dutch) Max Havelaar coffee suppliers and some minor green food supplies.
Anyone?
He must be on /. like me, using Ghostery and Privacy badger on Firefox. Not you?
I may be naive but I didn't know archive.is
I'm french, and have been part of the European engineering team that built the Huygens lander, part of the Nasa/Esa common mission Cassini-Huygens to Titan. Indeed we Prime contractor were french.
A part of our work was obviously to coordinate with Nasa/JPL, for which almost every quarter a significant part of our team crossed the ocean and got to Pasadena, discussing interfaces a week's long.
The thing which struck us European the most, was that during these delicate and costly missions, everyone at JPL stopped any work at 16:00, whatever the criticality at stake, and even though everyone knew there were precious little hours left to advance before the end of the week.
In the beginning, with the European Space agency engineers we tried to stay in the meeting rooms in order to at least prepare the next morning's meetings. We were promptly ousted out by guards. With dogs.
Let's say this is the real world, instead of the spitting contest I just see here. But, I don't want to bother you in your dreams here.
Don't hesitate to go on spitting.
Mod me down, too.
Well I for one handle various WP sites and upgrading is absolutely not a hell. I have less than a dozen plugins on each, and just update them before upgrading the core. Never found an issue, for a couple of years on.
BTW, I went here to check if some new issues would have appeared when switching to 4.4, and I see none.
your registration does not work. Or at least, I detailed my email for your database three times, worked for Google image recognition three times too with their captcha thing, then nothing.
They have a tablet, crowdfunded, that you visibly ignored. I did pay for one, that I won't receive. I don't regret it; if anythinh I regret not having bought a couple of others, which may have helped keeping them afloat. Sailfish linux OS, on a nordic-designed device, for some €200.
Really too bad you missed it.
The majority of the monumental-etc. wasn't set for e-commerces nor phisers.
It was set by people like me for very simple associative sites, for people only having access to simple servers with only php/mysql, and with just no plugin, only the baseline setup, sometimes with, oh, the second one of the standard appearence templates instead of the first.
And there is a simple, nonagressive, neutral reason for that: nothing else was available within this minimal requirements.
1. On updates. I own a Fairphone from the previous generation. I can say that straight while they were feverishly finalizing the new model and OS, they did find the energy to publish an OS update for the last Android Stagefright issue in TWO days. Just tell me how long it was for your phone.
2. On the OS in general. Other than that, and although I find them not very pushy at this very moment on that point, Fairphone still officially announced they support Sailfish OS aside Android -so in addition to being fair if, like me, you don't want to belong to Apple/Google, you have a way, and with a modern phone.
I won't buy this new model because, well, I have the previous one which is still perfectly working, but I know where I'll buy the next one.
all is in the title. Too bad I don't have points now...
What I have been waiting for quite a long time is the extension, or the iCab of sorts, that'll slightly upgrade most of the borwser fingerprint (screensize changed by some pixels, 1% of my fontlist hidden) every 1/4h or so. :(
I truly believe this is not so difficult to prepare, and once it'll be done most of this fingerprinting issue will be over.
The only trouble for the moment is, I'm not a programmer myself
Frankly, and not to flame any side, my take is the trope is clear and true simply by analyzing the money flows.
Who is paying for what.
Who Google is paid by.
We indeed are the product sold by Google to its customers.
Now, obviously Google needs to catch us first, and for free, so, as their business is definitely very lucrative, they hire a number of good designers that build a very good interface that seduce us, good and efficient ways to register easily, etc.
In this sense they indeed are somehow innovators : they drove the competition to better products.
But this doesn't remove the fact Google customers are definitely not us.
Ideally, what it should do if you say 'no' is proposing to download Openstreetmap instead;-)
Preferably from the F-Droid repository.
But now, now. You get what you want...
Abour 15 years ago I had a camper -an average European camper, based on a very robust Ford base, the only issue was the noise when driving.
I bought, at that time 15 years ago, a radio that simply detected the speed based on the variations in the 12V mains line, that visibly is modulated by the engine rate.
I thought there would be some settings to adjust, at least.
It worked out of the box. 15 years ago.
Without GPS, numeric car speed indication, or 'engine fluid temperature'.
That we need a numeric connection to the car to perform this is a lie. I know it. Not sure I convinced you, since I sold the camper since then and forgot the radioset name...
But I know it.
You want Privacy Badger, from the EFF. Unfortunately not validated on the latest Firefox version. ..
https://www.eff.org/privacybad...