i author DVDs for a living. thankfully in a slightly saner country.
this shit just pisses me off.
DVD retail sales were shrinking at a whopping 15% per quarter this time last year.
so how do you sell more DVDs? by punishing the only people loyal/moral/dumb enough to buy them!
FYI, if a client asks for their shit to be unskippable, i politely forget to disable skip and fast-forward. say "oh, crap, i forgot, you see our policy is to make all that stuff skippable, so i didn't change that bit from the template project". usually it doesn't come to that though.
myself and my colleagues are all painfully aware that downloads are faster, better quality and more convenient than DVDs. they're approaching blu-ray for quality, and shit all over them for convenience. do we really need to scare off what remains of our market?
dcraw is open source and widely available, in fact it drives many commercial "darkroom" style programs out there. point being it'll be available in the long term unless the zombie apocalypse takes out sourceforge, github, and most of the world's local storage.
why not archive in raw and have a png or jpg offline for casual viewing?
the only advantage i can see of tiff is it's dead simple uncompressed and could be deciphered in future generations by some new species that evolves from our rubble. but that's if the storage media survives...
that's a nice OS philosophy, but why is it that almost anybody who's used both programs prefers photoshop to gimp for usability?
photo editing is a specific enough use case that changing the whole window manager around it it likely to break something, no matter how good the implementations are. reducing that variability is a good idea,
of course, i love the freedom of choice with window managers, and would not have it any other way. but making a program out of piles of windows rather than just 1, then letting the window manager handle how those piles of windows behave looks like a recipe for confusion.
in the user's defence, a program should be robust enough to function adequately in any desktop environment. something as fundamental as the UI can't be left to chance!
such an approach would work in windows or OSX, but the linux world is too varied an ecosystem.
you be trolling? i'm pretty sure current has some kind of contribution here. 110, 240, 12, it's gonna kill you if you're not careful (especially if you're a sweaty type).
some research (no links... i found it while wiki walking) indicates that lower exposures over longer times reduce the risk somewhat, which seems in stark contrast to TFA. sort of like reciprocity failure on photographic film, or the thresholded linear thing.
also, Sv and Gy fit better into SI units - 1 joule per Kg, and in Sv, it's tweaked depending on what it hits and what sort of radiation it is (though other than that they're interchangable)
if you want 100% uptime, surely you wouldn't want all your eggs in one basket.
what's wrong with generating not-quite-totally-reliable power, selling back to the utility, and having it as a baseload backup if grid power fails?
nothing wrong with diesel generators as backup, but something else is always good to have, especially if the fuel is coming from a source that's not being utilised at all.
see how far feeding the world on corn gets you. most of it is indigestible cellulose, but if you let it decay on it's own, you'll get some useful stuff out of it.
Slashdot Mirror
dunno about that. economically it makes sense, and has a similar amount of environmental concern surrounding it.
a frack is cheaper than a new nuke plant, and governments are more willing to sign off on one.
i author DVDs for a living. thankfully in a slightly saner country.
this shit just pisses me off.
DVD retail sales were shrinking at a whopping 15% per quarter this time last year.
so how do you sell more DVDs? by punishing the only people loyal/moral/dumb enough to buy them!
FYI, if a client asks for their shit to be unskippable, i politely forget to disable skip and fast-forward. say "oh, crap, i forgot, you see our policy is to make all that stuff skippable, so i didn't change that bit from the template project". usually it doesn't come to that though.
myself and my colleagues are all painfully aware that downloads are faster, better quality and more convenient than DVDs. they're approaching blu-ray for quality, and shit all over them for convenience. do we really need to scare off what remains of our market?
you don't think, seeing as train service is likely to be disrupted, that it might be a better move to turn the power off on the rails??
this needs an insightful mod at least.
this is starting to sound like the TSA...
dcraw is open source and widely available, in fact it drives many commercial "darkroom" style programs out there. point being it'll be available in the long term unless the zombie apocalypse takes out sourceforge, github, and most of the world's local storage.
why not archive in raw and have a png or jpg offline for casual viewing?
the only advantage i can see of tiff is it's dead simple uncompressed and could be deciphered in future generations by some new species that evolves from our rubble. but that's if the storage media survives...
he's still around. this happened to him:
http://xkcd.com/810/
the pen is mightier than the sword...
that's a nice OS philosophy, but why is it that almost anybody who's used both programs prefers photoshop to gimp for usability?
photo editing is a specific enough use case that changing the whole window manager around it it likely to break something, no matter how good the implementations are. reducing that variability is a good idea,
of course, i love the freedom of choice with window managers, and would not have it any other way. but making a program out of piles of windows rather than just 1, then letting the window manager handle how those piles of windows behave looks like a recipe for confusion.
kotakee or katakee?
shill is a shill shill with shills in it's shill.
that's dumb.
Britons call it "the beeb" anyway, should we not call them the Bbc?
what's your OSS project called? nigger?
in the user's defence, a program should be robust enough to function adequately in any desktop environment. something as fundamental as the UI can't be left to chance!
such an approach would work in windows or OSX, but the linux world is too varied an ecosystem.
photoshop used to be like that...
only "pub rules" footy, mate.
you be trolling? i'm pretty sure current has some kind of contribution here. 110, 240, 12, it's gonna kill you if you're not careful (especially if you're a sweaty type).
if slashdot allows, i'll start spelling it Googl€, just to square things up a little.
yes! troll math!
spoiler - it still equals 4. those ints aren't optional.
you seem to go by the assumption that terrorists just want to learn, are exceptionally naive and childlike and just need to be shown the way.
i can't wait to see what the MS shills have to say about this :)
+1 on the 1-beer-per-day prescription. must be an Indian thing, as the same happened with my mother-in-law, but it was a kidney stone.
but it smacks of truth.
intuition. the best kind of truth...
some research (no links... i found it while wiki walking) indicates that lower exposures over longer times reduce the risk somewhat, which seems in stark contrast to TFA. sort of like reciprocity failure on photographic film, or the thresholded linear thing.
also, Sv and Gy fit better into SI units - 1 joule per Kg, and in Sv, it's tweaked depending on what it hits and what sort of radiation it is (though other than that they're interchangable)
if you want 100% uptime, surely you wouldn't want all your eggs in one basket.
what's wrong with generating not-quite-totally-reliable power, selling back to the utility, and having it as a baseload backup if grid power fails?
nothing wrong with diesel generators as backup, but something else is always good to have, especially if the fuel is coming from a source that's not being utilised at all.
see how far feeding the world on corn gets you. most of it is indigestible cellulose, but if you let it decay on it's own, you'll get some useful stuff out of it.