Ack. I do hate the file dialog of GIMP under Windows.
The name may be stupid but I sure don't feel offended by it and don't care if someone does not use GIMP because he judges the book by its cover. But I agree, naming is important if you want as many users as possible.
They are accustomed to Photoshop and do not want to start over learning how things work in GIMP.
Very few users belong to the first group and I (and Adobe as well) suspect that many do not use a licensed version of Photoshop. If they had to pay for one, many of them would be happy to use such a fine program like GIMP.
I don't know about other parts of the world, but in Germany the vast majority of broadband users are connected via ADSL, most of them with an upstream of 128 kBit/s, from which a significant part is used for TCP ACKs from the downstream.
I do not see sufficient bandwidth for distributed streaming in the near future here.
large companies such as Sun, Google, and IBM have decided that open source is the cheapest way to gang up on Microsoft, because it means they need spend nothing on support.'"
That's ok with me. I happen to have never ever desired to receive any support except man pages, user web pages or newsgroups.
Two points I's like to address: First, freedom is more important than free beer (or Metaxa or wha'ever). Not falling for Microsoft's lock-in offers is a step in the right direction.
Second, Gnome/KDE, it does not really make that much of a difference. ubuntu, kubuntu, both look nice, can run browsers, office software, software development software and definately a heck more than they would have if they were to use licensed payware.
Turning today's PCs in tomorrow's thin clients is an option. This way you can save money on new hardware and comply with centralized administration requirements.
Maybe this would even be a viable option for the original poster: Building one or two linux images for the clients with Citrix (or similar) clients and using a fat server to provide compatibility with Windows apps.
What are you talking about? The climate does not care about relative values and Canada can increase their output for ages before they reach the US'.
If you were a billionnaire and would lose 1% of your capital and a poor person would triple his capital by stealing an iPod, would that mean you were a failure and he was successfull economically?
The USA has by far the largest emission of greenhouse gases in the world (yes, that is per person). One might think they might start reconsidering, but to the contrary.
Thanks. I did try a few ext2 drivers for Windows and an ext2 plugin for Total Commander. They work ok, but I don't have a good feeling doing write accesses when the docs say these are not safe. Maybe I just have to wait a few more years for the drivers to mature. The problem is most of these file system driver projects stop being developed further once they reach the state of "works-for-the-author".
I know I could save some time on my dual-boot (Win/linux) box if I only could access my partitions from both OS. There are reiserfs drivers for Win and NTFS drivers for linux but none of them seems to be stable enough for reliable read-write operation.
Nokia is concentrating on mobile music for the rest of this year
Yeah right! When I looked for a phone that could play MP3s a year ago, only one of the dozends of models from Nokia was able to do it in stereo. By conincidence it was the N-Gage classic, which is almost unusable as a phone (short standby times and silly sidetalking).
What were the problems with teaching Darwin's evolution theory in science class again?
And who said it would deny the existance of anything supernatural?
And since when do two wrongs make one good? This is the strategy of ID proponents because there is no way to delete one of the most successful scientific theories ever from the school books.
Scientists' "a priori commitment to naturalism", if it does exist, ist not the reason for ID getting ignored as a scientific theory. The simple reason is that ID needs explanations outside science to be coherent, which makes ID a non-science, religious thing. While Darwin can explain and predict many things with scientific means, ID cannot predict anything and neither can it explain anything without reverting to powers beyond science.
Relying on commercial companies to ensure all applications are accessible will do the trick. Yeah, right.
Dear blind and other challenged people: Please give OSS some time to do their homework. Results will be [b]way[/b] better in the long run compared to e.g. Microsoft.
the record labels are going to get ahold of this and turn it around to actually produce the music. then it will all sound the same.
Well, this was the most obvious comment to the subject. I am sure, the record labels will be very interested in using this analysis to synthesize elements of hit records. But this is a much more difficult task than it may sound. It is hard enough to identify the elements that makes a song successful.
Trying to shape a song so it becomes successful has been tried many times before - with unsatisfying success. On a higher level it led to the categories of music we know today, like Blues, Trance, Metal, etc.. On a lower level we see follow-ups to first hits, that use the same kind of harmonies, rhythm and sounds. But there still are a lot of songs that become successful not because they sound the same like other songs but because they are innovative, think Kraftwerk or Nirvana.
Music trends are a system between unification and diversification. The more songs sound alike, the more people will appreciate songs that differ and vice versa. This system is very hard to predict. I am sure the music industry tries to predict it and synthesize hit records and I think this is why there are so few truely creative artists with a contract from a major record label.
Nowadays the creative part of music is not the sequence of tones but the samples and voices used. So if you ask me, melodies, rythms and harmonies should not be subject to copyright at all. I'm not sure about samples either, but propably it would not work out to give them to the public domain in general.
BTW we've seen this question arise many years before in the golden age of MODs. You gotta love 'em, but almost none of them have vocals.
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SCO claimed ownership of the tomb. They could not find any evidence in their own records but somewhere in the pharao's records must be a proof....
The name may be stupid but I sure don't feel offended by it and don't care if someone does not use GIMP because he judges the book by its cover. But I agree, naming is important if you want as many users as possible.
Very few users belong to the first group and I (and Adobe as well) suspect that many do not use a licensed version of Photoshop. If they had to pay for one, many of them would be happy to use such a fine program like GIMP.
I do not see sufficient bandwidth for distributed streaming in the near future here.
In other news, parts of the cooling suits had to be covered up with digital effects.
Second, Gnome/KDE, it does not really make that much of a difference. ubuntu, kubuntu, both look nice, can run browsers, office software, software development software and definately a heck more than they would have if they were to use licensed payware.
I was talking about the 40,000 PCs already in place. But maybe you get more benefits from a unified, well supported, power saving hardware platform.
Maybe this would even be a viable option for the original poster: Building one or two linux images for the clients with Citrix (or similar) clients and using a fat server to provide compatibility with Windows apps.
If you were a billionnaire and would lose 1% of your capital and a poor person would triple his capital by stealing an iPod, would that mean you were a failure and he was successfull economically?
The USA has by far the largest emission of greenhouse gases in the world (yes, that is per person). One might think they might start reconsidering, but to the contrary.
Cool, you don't just get the car but also a nice keypad that comes with it. * hotwiring rental as usual *
Am I the only one who thinks of Cap'n Crunch?
Thanks. I did try a few ext2 drivers for Windows and an ext2 plugin for Total Commander. They work ok, but I don't have a good feeling doing write accesses when the docs say these are not safe. Maybe I just have to wait a few more years for the drivers to mature. The problem is most of these file system driver projects stop being developed further once they reach the state of "works-for-the-author".
And FAT32 has many more problems, like no users/groups and fragmentation.
Does anyone have a (serious) suggestion for me?
And who said it would deny the existance of anything supernatural?
And since when do two wrongs make one good? This is the strategy of ID proponents because there is no way to delete one of the most successful scientific theories ever from the school books.
Scientists' "a priori commitment to naturalism", if it does exist, ist not the reason for ID getting ignored as a scientific theory. The simple reason is that ID needs explanations outside science to be coherent, which makes ID a non-science, religious thing. While Darwin can explain and predict many things with scientific means, ID cannot predict anything and neither can it explain anything without reverting to powers beyond science.
Dear blind and other challenged people: Please give OSS some time to do their homework. Results will be [b]way[/b] better in the long run compared to e.g. Microsoft.
Why would someone first put up a torrent and then poison it with bad blocks?
**AAs are interested in poisoning data they did not publish themselves. They cannot make the uploader use blocks they have collisions for.
* shrug *
She was not that hot, though.
Trying to shape a song so it becomes successful has been tried many times before - with unsatisfying success. On a higher level it led to the categories of music we know today, like Blues, Trance, Metal, etc.. On a lower level we see follow-ups to first hits, that use the same kind of harmonies, rhythm and sounds. But there still are a lot of songs that become successful not because they sound the same like other songs but because they are innovative, think Kraftwerk or Nirvana.
Music trends are a system between unification and diversification. The more songs sound alike, the more people will appreciate songs that differ and vice versa. This system is very hard to predict. I am sure the music industry tries to predict it and synthesize hit records and I think this is why there are so few truely creative artists with a contract from a major record label.
I for one welcome our new weightless overlords.
BTW we've seen this question arise many years before in the golden age of MODs. You gotta love 'em, but almost none of them have vocals.