>For example, what justifies the 5 pixel gap between the tool icons?
So are you trolling, or just ignorant and don't know that it can be changed? And I am not talking about downloading the source code, editing some lines ov programming, and recompiling. I am talking right clicking, and selecting preview size > small. The dialog boxes *CAN* all be made more compact. Or they can be made bigger, in case you have bad eyesight. How about you go try that in photoshop; I won't wait, because you can't do that in photoshop. Photoshop 0, GIMP 1.
Why do I even need a window manager if every application reproduces that functionality? Windows inside windows, cascading and tiling windows inside cascading and tiling windows; Often times I find myself with 30 images open, all from different projects; I keep one project on one face ov my cube, and another other project on a different face. And what if I want layers and tools dialogs on each face? In the gimp, I can just create a new dialog, and add tabs to it. I can have a layers dialog for each image open. I can move images between projects by moving the window the image is in to a different cube face.
Even if a) microsoft windows or mac osx had a virtual desktop pager, and b)you managed to open separate instances ov photoshop for each virtual desktop, and c) you had enough memory left over to open more then one image file, you would not be able to move the images from one project to another, and you can't create more then one ov each specific dialog.
Therefore, my only conclusion is that Photoshop has an extremely awkward UI and a poorly designed workflow model, and GIMP is not only nice and clean, but far more powerful. MDI is a workaround for platform specific limitations; if microsoft windows did a good job at actually managing windows, then application developers would not have to write a window manager into the applications they develop.
Disclaimer: I am not a graphic artist. I am a programmer, who happens to be asked to do things to graphic art; mostly to make the graphics that the artists make work in the programs I am writing. Most graphic artists see my desktop, get confused and get a headache. too many windows they say! then they go open macrodobie macroaftereffects, stretch it across 2 monitors, open 20 windows inside it and say how much cleaner their workflow is. Then they spend half their day minimizing and maximizing, shuffling around windows inside windows. I never minimize windows anymore - I just rotate my cube.
Some ov the best games ever made were made by 3 guys in a garage with a couple grand worth of gear. One ov the most famous garage developers now owns a space ship.
The BDP-300 and BDP-500 do not have network adapters, and are therefore not compliant with blu ray 2.0.
The BDP-300 and BDP-500 are not equipped with 7 3.2 ghz cpu, and take up to 60 seconds to boot a blue ray disk.
The ps3 is better - it is blue ray 2.0, and has faster load times. Even if you are not going to use any ov the other features the ps3 has over the standalone players, those two points are more then worth 30$.
"so long as the purchaser still owns the device" sounds like they are tying the drm model into the specific device. 3 to 5 year lifespan on an ipod; once the battery dies, throw it away and get a new one. pay the one-time fee and download as many songs as you want for it.
Microsoft's urge went out of business when MTV pulled out, and all the songs I downloaded to listen to in my Zune stopped working. Good thing Microsoft was kind enough to make a nice popup window to tell you that if you subscribe to rhapsody you could download everything again.
The spinning cube virtual desktop really is a good example. It really is useful; so much that I would say it has changed my life. (or at least the way i use computers) it is as big a change as going from windows xp's single desktop to linux's virtual desktops.
>Wouldn't it perhaps be more useful to have a little widget that showed your virtual desktops and when you moused over showed a zoomed in realtime view of them?
You can. Compiz does not mean spinning cube. Cube is just one desktop plugin, along with wall and plane. And they are all optional. You can have a pager widget, but why? My cube is transparent. I don't minimize windows anymore. I don't need a system tray, or a taskbar. And w/ right click on desktop I don't even need start menu. Lets get rid ov the ugly blue screen destroying bar.
Right now I can see 17 windows, and the contents ov each, all updated in realtime. If a window gets in my way, I can fling it across the desktop, and it wobbles and slides across the cube to another face. If I flick my mouse hard enough, I can make the window slide all the way around the cube and stop more or less where it started. so, For example if I need to use a window behind the current window real quick I will fling my current window to the side, click a few things in the rear window and then go back to the first window when it slides to a stop, all without missing a beat.
I am one ov the people that had bad things to say about Vista. I had never actually used it. I "Read about all the bad things somewhere," and "Some people I know told me all the bad things" and so on. I had no experience with it, yet I would repeat the stories.
Then, I bought my girlfriend a new pc with vista preinstalled, and got to experience everything firsthand: UAC issues, randomly dropping wireless and bluetooth connections, preventing software from installing or functioning, etc. About 3 hours after using the system, my gf was on about replacing with xp. And she would have too, if I had not managed to fix it. I had no experience with it, but already how to fix everything simply from all the stories I had heard.
I have had plenty ov experience with microsoft - enough to know that any product released by them is going to be second rate consumer grade drool-proof crap, and everything bad that is said about them is going to be generally true.
>Funny-- celebrate Nazi victories, try to enter into an alliance with Hitler,..., get elected PM of Israel. Yes, the world has gone mad.
"I hope that the concept of Jews will be completely extinguished through the possibility of a large emigration of all Jews to Africa or some other colony."
-Heinrich Himmler, 1939
It is no small secret that the Zionist movement exploited the Nazi regime, and by extension their own people, to the benefit ov Israel. Many ov the Nazi's Jewish policies were recommended by the Zionists, and even the 'final solution' was supported by Zionist groups as it was seen as a way to boost emigration to Israel.
> No, Israeli politics is far from rational.
Israel is a theocracy, and it's politics are based on religion.
>But these people didn't engineer the attacks; they're just opportunists.
I wouldn't put it past them, as in the past those same people have put forth proposals to stage mock terrorist attacks and blame them on enemy forces in an attempt to create justification for invasion; including hijackings and attacks that would result in U.S. citizens being killed, with a secondary suggestion of possibly using unmanned drones masquerading as a commercial aircraft and fake funerals instead.
I am not saying 9/11 was a Northwoods style false flag operation committed by the US government and the military industrial complex, but the list of those who have benefited from this situation is short. In any criminal investigation, the first suspect is always the party that stands to gain the most, and the US governmet has the means, motive, and opportunity.
You don't see exactly what the other person is seeing on their computer when you ghost them. Your camera moves from your dead or unspawned entity to the position that your client-side prediction has determined the player is at, and it renders at your detail settings. with your skins. If you have a wall hack and you ghost someone who doesn't, you still see the wallhack only from their perspective. Conversely the same is true. The white skin hack is pretty cheezy just replace the player textures with blank white squares, it makes seeing things real easy.
You can't detect hacks by ghosting.
Anyway I have not played urban terror a lot since quake wars came out. And it is not like I suck at fps games, currently I am ranked 2,405th in et:qw (and I have only played once in the last 2 weeks, if I marathon I can get closer to 1k). But it does seem like I was getting owned quite a bit more in UrT4 then I am in et:qw. In etqw I am almost always in the top 3 players on a server, and sometimes I totally own everyone. In UrT I would be in the top 50%. It might be a case ov metrics, as the only way to score in Urt is capping teh flag and killing peeps, while in quake wars you can rack up quite a bit ov points from battlesense xp just by being cautious and staying alive...
Totally off topic, but the first time I played quake wars, I thought the movement kinda sucked because you couldn't trick jump like in UrT. It turns out you can, but it takes a lot more skill.
loki was more like "They thought a small team porting games would be profitable, and it was, but it turned out no one at loki knew how to manage money"
I spent $400 on a new computer about 6 months ago. I mostly bought year old parts; 200$ on a dual core 3.0 ghz pentium d, an entry level motherboard, and a gig ov ddr2. Then I spent 200$ on a geforce 8.
The machine has only Slackware 12, blinged out with compiz. Since that time I have played (finished) dawn ov war, sim city 4, knights ov the old republic 1 and 2, quake wars, dungeon siege 1 and 2, supcom, farcry, and half life 2. I have not used my world ov warcraft gift card yet, and I still wanted to try eve online. I just have not had the time.
Most ov the games I picked up in the bargin bin, except for quake wars. I bought several copies ov that new.
This is not counting all the playstation 1 & 2 games that I play (tekken, wipeout, ghost in the shell, shining force). Or the open source/linux games I play.
Now before you go omg teh old games, remember that Halo 2 is older then most ov the games I listed.
What ov the evidence of usa doing truly vile things?
What ov all the bad things the usa's bitter enemies do, that the USA also does. Often justifying it's truly vile actions by stating the enemy does worse.
As a thought experiment, lets try something. First, count the number ov innocent people the government ov cuba has killed in the last 5 years.
Then count the number ov innocent people the US government has killed in the last 5 years.
If killing innocent people is evil then tell me, what country is more evil?
Since 2001 Cuba has had 3 executions. The usa has had 63 executions in 2006 alone, not including the military executions ov terrorist suspects. Not including collateral damage caused by the invasion and occupation ov 2 sovereign nations.
What country is more evil, Communist Cuba or Communist China? What is the fundamental difference that allows the USA to be most favored trading partners with the Communist government ov China, but mortal enemies with the Communist government ov Cuba?
What country has worse human rights violations, Cuba or China? So, have you REALLY given thought as to exactly why is it that China is our ally, but Cuba is our enemy?
Where is the disconnect?
I'll give you a hint - Cuba is not willing to enslave its population for the economic benefit ov the USA, but China is. Cuba is not willing to let US corporations take advantage ov its people, but China is.
The reason that the communist dictatorship ov China is an ally and the communist dictatorship ov Cuba is an enemy is that the gp is correct in stating that the US wants democracy, only if the people elect people who will do as we say. If not, a dictator will do nicely.
uhh, yeah. ben there, done that. got the shirt. my meticulously crafted solution relies on first hand knowledge ov the issue's subtle complexities. What is worse is when the firm does decide to pay the initial outlay for a well-trained programmer, but doesn't want to give said programmer the time or equipment required for a project and insists they instead use an ill fitting pre-canned solution.
'bob in marketing said that phpfox is the best, so we want you to use it to build our E-commerce site. oh, and we need it by friday, so that you have time to do lots of social networking optimization.'
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>For example, what justifies the 5 pixel gap between the tool icons?
So are you trolling, or just ignorant and don't know that it can be changed? And I am not talking about downloading the source code, editing some lines ov programming, and recompiling. I am talking right clicking, and selecting preview size > small. The dialog boxes *CAN* all be made more compact. Or they can be made bigger, in case you have bad eyesight. How about you go try that in photoshop; I won't wait, because you can't do that in photoshop. Photoshop 0, GIMP 1.
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Why do I even need a window manager if every application reproduces that functionality? Windows inside windows, cascading and tiling windows inside cascading and tiling windows; Often times I find myself with 30 images open, all from different projects; I keep one project on one face ov my cube, and another other project on a different face. And what if I want layers and tools dialogs on each face? In the gimp, I can just create a new dialog, and add tabs to it. I can have a layers dialog for each image open. I can move images between projects by moving the window the image is in to a different cube face.
Even if a) microsoft windows or mac osx had a virtual desktop pager, and b)you managed to open separate instances ov photoshop for each virtual desktop, and c) you had enough memory left over to open more then one image file, you would not be able to move the images from one project to another, and you can't create more then one ov each specific dialog.
Therefore, my only conclusion is that Photoshop has an extremely awkward UI and a poorly designed workflow model, and GIMP is not only nice and clean, but far more powerful. MDI is a workaround for platform specific limitations; if microsoft windows did a good job at actually managing windows, then application developers would not have to write a window manager into the applications they develop.
Disclaimer: I am not a graphic artist. I am a programmer, who happens to be asked to do things to graphic art; mostly to make the graphics that the artists make work in the programs I am writing. Most graphic artists see my desktop, get confused and get a headache. too many windows they say! then they go open macrodobie macroaftereffects, stretch it across 2 monitors, open 20 windows inside it and say how much cleaner their workflow is. Then they spend half their day minimizing and maximizing, shuffling around windows inside windows. I never minimize windows anymore - I just rotate my cube.
Microsoft's "price of innovation" is the purchase price ov the company who is doing the innovation.
hypocritical? kinda like violating the un charter to invade a country for violating a un resolution?
you can save bandwidth if you set up your cam to only send pictures when your motion detection software trips an alarm.
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/How+to+implement+an+alarm+system+with+Asterisk+and+a+webcam
Some ov the best games ever made were made by 3 guys in a garage with a couple grand worth of gear. One ov the most famous garage developers now owns a space ship.
The BDP-300 and BDP-500 do not have network adapters, and are therefore not compliant with blu ray 2.0.
The BDP-300 and BDP-500 are not equipped with 7 3.2 ghz cpu, and take up to 60 seconds to boot a blue ray disk.
The ps3 is better - it is blue ray 2.0, and has faster load times. Even if you are not going to use any ov the other features the ps3 has over the standalone players, those two points are more then worth 30$.
no, a lot of the backlash against BSG in the last season was the switch from tv-ma (l/s/v) to tv-pg.
"so long as the purchaser still owns the device" sounds like they are tying the drm model into the specific device. 3 to 5 year lifespan on an ipod; once the battery dies, throw it away and get a new one. pay the one-time fee and download as many songs as you want for it.
Microsoft's urge went out of business when MTV pulled out, and all the songs I downloaded to listen to in my Zune stopped working. Good thing Microsoft was kind enough to make a nice popup window to tell you that if you subscribe to rhapsody you could download everything again.
The spinning cube virtual desktop really is a good example. It really is useful; so much that I would say it has changed my life. (or at least the way i use computers) it is as big a change as going from windows xp's single desktop to linux's virtual desktops.
>Wouldn't it perhaps be more useful to have a little widget that showed your virtual desktops and when you moused over showed a zoomed in realtime view of them?
You can. Compiz does not mean spinning cube. Cube is just one desktop plugin, along with wall and plane. And they are all optional. You can have a pager widget, but why? My cube is transparent. I don't minimize windows anymore. I don't need a system tray, or a taskbar. And w/ right click on desktop I don't even need start menu. Lets get rid ov the ugly blue screen destroying bar.
Right now I can see 17 windows, and the contents ov each, all updated in realtime. If a window gets in my way, I can fling it across the desktop, and it wobbles and slides across the cube to another face. If I flick my mouse hard enough, I can make the window slide all the way around the cube and stop more or less where it started. so, For example if I need to use a window behind the current window real quick I will fling my current window to the side, click a few things in the rear window and then go back to the first window when it slides to a stop, all without missing a beat.
I am one ov the people that had bad things to say about Vista. I had never actually used it. I "Read about all the bad things somewhere," and "Some people I know told me all the bad things" and so on. I had no experience with it, yet I would repeat the stories.
Then, I bought my girlfriend a new pc with vista preinstalled, and got to experience everything firsthand: UAC issues, randomly dropping wireless and bluetooth connections, preventing software from installing or functioning, etc. About 3 hours after using the system, my gf was on about replacing with xp. And she would have too, if I had not managed to fix it. I had no experience with it, but already how to fix everything simply from all the stories I had heard.
I have had plenty ov experience with microsoft - enough to know that any product released by them is going to be second rate consumer grade drool-proof crap, and everything bad that is said about them is going to be generally true.
Expose and Flip3D don't let me see the contents ov all my windows my desktop. Compiz-fusion with the cube plugin and transparent windows does.
>No, they are called terrorists since they are not legal combatants.
they are not legal combatants because they have no country.
>Funny-- celebrate Nazi victories, try to enter into an alliance with Hitler, ..., get elected PM of Israel. Yes, the world has gone mad.
"I hope that the concept of Jews will be completely extinguished through the possibility of a large emigration of all Jews to Africa or some other colony."
-Heinrich Himmler, 1939
It is no small secret that the Zionist movement exploited the Nazi regime, and by extension their own people, to the benefit ov Israel. Many ov the Nazi's Jewish policies were recommended by the Zionists, and even the 'final solution' was supported by Zionist groups as it was seen as a way to boost emigration to Israel.
> No, Israeli politics is far from rational.
Israel is a theocracy, and it's politics are based on religion.
>But these people didn't engineer the attacks; they're just opportunists.
I wouldn't put it past them, as in the past those same people have put forth proposals to stage mock terrorist attacks and blame them on enemy forces in an attempt to create justification for invasion; including hijackings and attacks that would result in U.S. citizens being killed, with a secondary suggestion of possibly using unmanned drones masquerading as a commercial aircraft and fake funerals instead.
I am not saying 9/11 was a Northwoods style false flag operation committed by the US government and the military industrial complex, but the list of those who have benefited from this situation is short. In any criminal investigation, the first suspect is always the party that stands to gain the most, and the US governmet has the means, motive, and opportunity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
You don't see exactly what the other person is seeing on their computer when you ghost them. Your camera moves from your dead or unspawned entity to the position that your client-side prediction has determined the player is at, and it renders at your detail settings. with your skins. If you have a wall hack and you ghost someone who doesn't, you still see the wallhack only from their perspective. Conversely the same is true. The white skin hack is pretty cheezy just replace the player textures with blank white squares, it makes seeing things real easy.
:)
You can't detect hacks by ghosting.
Anyway I have not played urban terror a lot since quake wars came out. And it is not like I suck at fps games, currently I am ranked 2,405th in et:qw (and I have only played once in the last 2 weeks, if I marathon I can get closer to 1k). But it does seem like I was getting owned quite a bit more in UrT4 then I am in et:qw. In etqw I am almost always in the top 3 players on a server, and sometimes I totally own everyone. In UrT I would be in the top 50%. It might be a case ov metrics, as the only way to score in Urt is capping teh flag and killing peeps, while in quake wars you can rack up quite a bit ov points from battlesense xp just by being cautious and staying alive...
Totally off topic, but the first time I played quake wars, I thought the movement kinda sucked because you couldn't trick jump like in UrT. It turns out you can, but it takes a lot more skill.
>Hardly anyone offers entry-level these days.
Not true. I see ads all the time for jobs with entry level positions and wages that require five years experience minimum.
You got worked in Urban Terror because everyone uses wallhacks and aimbots.
loki was more like "They thought a small team porting games would be profitable, and it was, but it turned out no one at loki knew how to manage money"
My favorite game is Quake Wars. The 222 hours I have played has really cut into my tinkering with Linux time.
I spent $400 on a new computer about 6 months ago. I mostly bought year old parts; 200$ on a dual core 3.0 ghz pentium d, an entry level motherboard, and a gig ov ddr2. Then I spent 200$ on a geforce 8.
The machine has only Slackware 12, blinged out with compiz. Since that time I have played (finished) dawn ov war, sim city 4, knights ov the old republic 1 and 2, quake wars, dungeon siege 1 and 2, supcom, farcry, and half life 2. I have not used my world ov warcraft gift card yet, and I still wanted to try eve online. I just have not had the time.
Most ov the games I picked up in the bargin bin, except for quake wars. I bought several copies ov that new.
This is not counting all the playstation 1 & 2 games that I play (tekken, wipeout, ghost in the shell, shining force). Or the open source/linux games I play.
Now before you go omg teh old games, remember that Halo 2 is older then most ov the games I listed.
What ov the evidence of usa doing truly vile things?
What ov all the bad things the usa's bitter enemies do, that the USA also does. Often justifying it's truly vile actions by stating the enemy does worse.
As a thought experiment, lets try something. First, count the number ov innocent people the government ov cuba has killed in the last 5 years.
Then count the number ov innocent people the US government has killed in the last 5 years.
If killing innocent people is evil then tell me, what country is more evil?
Since 2001 Cuba has had 3 executions. The usa has had 63 executions in 2006 alone, not including the military executions ov terrorist suspects. Not including collateral damage caused by the invasion and occupation ov 2 sovereign nations.
What country is more evil, Communist Cuba or Communist China? What is the fundamental difference that allows the USA to be most favored trading partners with the Communist government ov China, but mortal enemies with the Communist government ov Cuba?
What country has worse human rights violations, Cuba or China? So, have you REALLY given thought as to exactly why is it that China is our ally, but Cuba is our enemy?
Where is the disconnect?
I'll give you a hint - Cuba is not willing to enslave its population for the economic benefit ov the USA, but China is. Cuba is not willing to let US corporations take advantage ov its people, but China is.
The reason that the communist dictatorship ov China is an ally and the communist dictatorship ov Cuba is an enemy is that the gp is correct in stating that the US wants democracy, only if the people elect people who will do as we say. If not, a dictator will do nicely.
Everything else is a lie.
uhh, yeah. ben there, done that. got the shirt. my meticulously crafted solution relies on first hand knowledge ov the issue's subtle complexities. What is worse is when the firm does decide to pay the initial outlay for a well-trained programmer, but doesn't want to give said programmer the time or equipment required for a project and insists they instead use an ill fitting pre-canned solution.
...
'bob in marketing said that phpfox is the best, so we want you to use it to build our E-commerce site. oh, and we need it by friday, so that you have time to do lots of social networking optimization.'
I got flamed on irc one time for saying that.