China? North Korea? Possibly even India down the road? Right now we're already at war with North Korea (okay, there has been a cease-fire for decades now but the war^H^H^Hpolice action is still on) and in a very real economic war with both China and India (in which many Americans are helping us to lose), plus China has been sabre-rattling since the '90s.
re: ReactOS already supports windows drivers partially
Installing Windows drivers on ReactOS is a painful experience. Have you ever configured an ATI all in wonder card to run on ReactOS? Not fun, it's WAY too much work.
(FWIW I don't think the word "fritter" will ever die, considering its use in the song "Time" from Dark Side of the Moon, a timeless album that just won't leave the charts)
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Mod parent up, please. It's an appropriate response to the troll.:)
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Is that really you, Hans? If so I would like to thank you for the wonderful filesystem you've designed. I've had abysmal luck with ext2 in the (somewhat distant - late '90s) past, and when I came back to Linux I decided to try out ReiserFS 3.6 on SuSE. It's saved data a couple of times for me when the power has gone out mid-write (yeah, I should buy UPSes for the desktops, but. ..). It's been damn near bulletproof and I haven't lost data from power outages or even from a motherboard's going south in the middle of a project. Oh sure, the files I was working on were inaccessible but dropping down to single user mode and running reiserfsck --rebuild-tree rescued them. Had it been NTFS on Windows or ext on Linux, the day's work would have been lost (backups you say? Who interrupts work to make backups many times a day?). Also, I LOVE the fact that your filesystem design leaves almost no wasted space in the form of "slack." unlike many other filesystems.
Layer Effects is a HUGE thing that Inkscape is missing (and gimp too). Inner glow, outer glow, bevel, and other effects can save an illustrator TONS of time, especially if/when adjustments need to be made. In order to duplicate layer effects you could go through 30 or even more steps to replicate what a single click in Illustrator can do, and backing out or making adjustments to the original vector requires going through all of those steps all over again, whereas in Illustrator the effect is reevaluated and reapplied on the fly with no further user intervention required.
What's your IP address? I'd like to log into your computer and see what you have. I'm sure you do not have a password set since that is a form of DRM.
Also, I'd like to clone your cellphone and to know what your ATM card number is, please.
Not all DRM is bad.
DRM which is put into effect to eliminate fair use rights allowed under Copyright Law is bad. Not all DRM is bad. DRM protecting your bank account, your cellphone, and your computer is good, right? DRM in credit card processing terminals is good, right? DRM on your VOIP connection and VPN is good, right? It does not restrict your fair use of ANYTHING.
Besides, Microsoft, AutoDesk, Adobe, etc. have all gained popularity due in large part to piracy. A limited amount of software piracy is a good thing for exposure, at least for larger software vendors, e.g., if you take M$ Office or Adobe Photoshop home to learn them, it's not a bad thing for Microsoft or Adobe at all. Now, if you use those "pirated" programs for commercial gain, that's just horrible (unless it's Fair Use in replacing a software CD after Adobe refuses to replace bad or lost media, etc.) but in those Fair Use instances you really ought to have backed up the original software, put the originals in a safe place and worked from the backup disks.
That is great (as someone else mentioned obviously done with a graphics tablet) but it's an absolutely insane number of vector objects. Impressive that a free app can handle that complex of a document.:)
When they (Inkscape) implement proper PDF and eps support, Adobe should really start to either fear open source, or embrace open source operating systems and port their creative suite to Linux before people start retraining themselves in other applications. Heck, they're starting to lose their competitive edge on PDF composition as kword matures. Inkscape's GUI is quirky but easily learned, and is fantastic for creating illustrations, so the need for Illustrator on Linux (and Windows, etc.) is beginning to fade.
I really ought to start donating to open source products I use. As it is I buy distributions we use at my office, but the Inkscape/kword/gimp/etc. developers don't see a dime of what I pay Novell, Mandriva, etc. for the distributions.
Try the latest CVS and report back.</StandardOSSReplyWithoutReadingActualBugRepo rt>
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT saying the Inkscape folks do this, but the maintainers/developers of some projects do. Confirmed or not, configuration issue or bug, their standard off-the-hip response is "try the latest CVS code" without giving ANY thought as to:
- the technical ability of the audience
- is this a configuration issue or is it something actually impacted by code defects
- is this an RTFM issue that the user can be pointed at a HowTo for?
- is this a bug with exposed gui for unimplemented features, in which case pointing even advanced users at CVS is a total waste of bandwidth and processor time
Again, I'm not saying the inkscape folks do this (in fact based on the quality of their releases, their HowTos and sample documents, and their web site, I'd assume they're one of the more friendly groups) but some OSS project members DO and it drives people away from even considering "that commie linux shit" earning an undeserved bad name for all of OSS in some people's eyes.
Just FYI, Adobe's creative suite can work with SVGs and it creates PDFs just fine.
Having to export to PNG and then using Gimp or another tool to save a PDF is a pain because it does not retain the individual elements and increases the file size (obviously).
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I can't imagine shows like these cost much to make.
Why is Futurama so expensive?
1. Billy West 2. Katey Sagal 3. John Di Maggio 4. Maurice LaMarche 5. David X. Cohen 6. Quite a bit of Futurama is actually rendered in 3D. Watch closely sometime.
It has a great cast and great writers, and blends both 2D and 3D animation. It is not a cheap production. Want to see a cheap-to-produce animation? See Family Guy, or even better, South Park. Or, a lot of the Saturday-morning animated crap from the '70s.
Bringing Ted McGinley's head in would be pretty funny, actually. They've already spoofed Married With children.:D
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What are you talking about? Family Guy started out on "mainstream TV" (as you put it) in the first place. Family Guy has always gotten by on lowest-common-denominator pop references, dick and fart jokes, and repetition. Nothing has changed, it is just that you've finally noticed it!;)
You forgot to mention the patented "musical timeslot" game that Fox likes to do to shows that are loved by viewers but hated by one or more execs, and then there is actually the airing of promotions and publishing the schedules only to preempt it with a "special presentation" of their crap sci-fi movie ID4.
If the parent was referring to the lightning striking a person myth, it was the one where they tested how a tongue piercing affects a lightning strike.
If you have piercings, metal dental fillings, braces, necklaces, watches, metal zippers and get struck by lightning, in contact with the skin it disrupts the flashover and increases the odds of internal injuries and death from a lightning strike.
In other words: nothing is changed whether you're on your cellphone or not, only that if you get struck while chatting and remain conscious AND the phone remains operational, you can tell your buddy "hey dude, I just got struck by lightning. Cool!"
Either way you got zapped, and either way you probably have some metal in contact with your body anyhow.
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Fox still owns the show, so Fox had to approve ANY Futurama production. According to various rumors you might find online, Cohen and Groening have been wanting to bring it back in any form, but Fox has been the stumbling block. Groening made a huge mistake when he did not retain ownership of his work. Understandable, considering most of the time if you keep ownership, you'll have a hard time getting the networks to fund the production.
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China? North Korea? Possibly even India down the road? Right now we're already at war with North Korea (okay, there has been a cease-fire for decades now but the war^H^H^Hpolice action is still on) and in a very real economic war with both China and India (in which many Americans are helping us to lose), plus China has been sabre-rattling since the '90s.
re: ReactOS already supports windows drivers partially
Installing Windows drivers on ReactOS is a painful experience. Have you ever configured an ATI all in wonder card to run on ReactOS? Not fun, it's WAY too much work.
Groovy!
(FWIW I don't think the word "fritter" will ever die, considering its use in the song "Time" from Dark Side of the Moon, a timeless album that just won't leave the charts)
Mod parent up, please. It's an appropriate response to the troll. :)
Is that really you, Hans? If so I would like to thank you for the wonderful filesystem you've designed. I've had abysmal luck with ext2 in the (somewhat distant - late '90s) past, and when I came back to Linux I decided to try out ReiserFS 3.6 on SuSE. It's saved data a couple of times for me when the power has gone out mid-write (yeah, I should buy UPSes for the desktops, but. . .). It's been damn near bulletproof and I haven't lost data from power outages or even from a motherboard's going south in the middle of a project. Oh sure, the files I was working on were inaccessible but dropping down to single user mode and running reiserfsck --rebuild-tree rescued them. Had it been NTFS on Windows or ext on Linux, the day's work would have been lost (backups you say? Who interrupts work to make backups many times a day?). Also, I LOVE the fact that your filesystem design leaves almost no wasted space in the form of "slack." unlike many other filesystems.
Any user or prospective customer is qualified to state opinions regarding the software, at least informed opinions at any rate.
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Layer Effects is a HUGE thing that Inkscape is missing (and gimp too). Inner glow, outer glow, bevel, and other effects can save an illustrator TONS of time, especially if/when adjustments need to be made. In order to duplicate layer effects you could go through 30 or even more steps to replicate what a single click in Illustrator can do, and backing out or making adjustments to the original vector requires going through all of those steps all over again, whereas in Illustrator the effect is reevaluated and reapplied on the fly with no further user intervention required.
Inkscape tracing works nowhere near that well, at least not in .43. I haven't tried .44 yet.
DRM IS WRONG. In any form ever for anything.
Oh really?
What's your IP address? I'd like to log into your computer and see what you have. I'm sure you do not have a password set since that is a form of DRM.
Also, I'd like to clone your cellphone and to know what your ATM card number is, please.
Not all DRM is bad.
DRM which is put into effect to eliminate fair use rights allowed under Copyright Law is bad. Not all DRM is bad. DRM protecting your bank account, your cellphone, and your computer is good, right? DRM in credit card processing terminals is good, right? DRM on your VOIP connection and VPN is good, right? It does not restrict your fair use of ANYTHING.
Besides, Microsoft, AutoDesk, Adobe, etc. have all gained popularity due in large part to piracy. A limited amount of software piracy is a good thing for exposure, at least for larger software vendors, e.g., if you take M$ Office or Adobe Photoshop home to learn them, it's not a bad thing for Microsoft or Adobe at all. Now, if you use those "pirated" programs for commercial gain, that's just horrible (unless it's Fair Use in replacing a software CD after Adobe refuses to replace bad or lost media, etc.) but in those Fair Use instances you really ought to have backed up the original software, put the originals in a safe place and worked from the backup disks.
That is great (as someone else mentioned obviously done with a graphics tablet) but it's an absolutely insane number of vector objects. Impressive that a free app can handle that complex of a document. :)
When they (Inkscape) implement proper PDF and eps support, Adobe should really start to either fear open source, or embrace open source operating systems and port their creative suite to Linux before people start retraining themselves in other applications. Heck, they're starting to lose their competitive edge on PDF composition as kword matures. Inkscape's GUI is quirky but easily learned, and is fantastic for creating illustrations, so the need for Illustrator on Linux (and Windows, etc.) is beginning to fade.
I really ought to start donating to open source products I use. As it is I buy distributions we use at my office, but the Inkscape/kword/gimp/etc. developers don't see a dime of what I pay Novell, Mandriva, etc. for the distributions.
It's nice except that if you do any alpha blending you lose all alpha information when exporting to eps, pdf, ps, etc.
Try the latest CVS and report back.</StandardOSSReplyWithoutReadingActualBugRepo rt>
DISCLAIMER: I am NOT saying the Inkscape folks do this, but the maintainers/developers of some projects do. Confirmed or not, configuration issue or bug, their standard off-the-hip response is "try the latest CVS code" without giving ANY thought as to:
- the technical ability of the audience
- is this a configuration issue or is it something actually impacted by code defects
- is this an RTFM issue that the user can be pointed at a HowTo for?
- is this a bug with exposed gui for unimplemented features, in which case pointing even advanced users at CVS is a total waste of bandwidth and processor time
Again, I'm not saying the inkscape folks do this (in fact based on the quality of their releases, their HowTos and sample documents, and their web site, I'd assume they're one of the more friendly groups) but some OSS project members DO and it drives people away from even considering "that commie linux shit" earning an undeserved bad name for all of OSS in some people's eyes.
Just FYI, Adobe's creative suite can work with SVGs and it creates PDFs just fine.
Having to export to PNG and then using Gimp or another tool to save a PDF is a pain because it does not retain the individual elements and increases the file size (obviously).
Why is Futurama so expensive?
1. Billy West
2. Katey Sagal
3. John Di Maggio
4. Maurice LaMarche
5. David X. Cohen
6. Quite a bit of Futurama is actually rendered in 3D. Watch closely sometime.
It has a great cast and great writers, and blends both 2D and 3D animation. It is not a cheap production. Want to see a cheap-to-produce animation? See Family Guy, or even better, South Park. Or, a lot of the Saturday-morning animated crap from the '70s.
You need to upgrade to wife 2.0.
Um, believe it or not, there ARE non-Americans here on slashdot. We are not alone in the world! ;)
It's an animated series. 320x240 or 2048x1536, who cares? What I care about with animated shows is the voice acting and of course the writing.
Bringing Ted McGinley's head in would be pretty funny, actually. They've already spoofed Married With children. :D
What are you talking about? Family Guy started out on "mainstream TV" (as you put it) in the first place. Family Guy has always gotten by on lowest-common-denominator pop references, dick and fart jokes, and repetition. Nothing has changed, it is just that you've finally noticed it! ;)
You forgot to mention the patented "musical timeslot" game that Fox likes to do to shows that are loved by viewers but hated by one or more execs, and then there is actually the airing of promotions and publishing the schedules only to preempt it with a "special presentation" of their crap sci-fi movie ID4.
Yes, but it's rarely discussed because if her being a mutant becomes public, she would then lose her career chip and would be banished to the sewers.
Take out a multimeter and see if it's conductive. Many notebooks and cellphones are finished with a conductive paint for RFI shielding.
If the parent was referring to the lightning striking a person myth, it was the one where they tested how a tongue piercing affects a lightning strike.
If you have piercings, metal dental fillings, braces, necklaces, watches, metal zippers and get struck by lightning, in contact with the skin it disrupts the flashover and increases the odds of internal injuries and death from a lightning strike.
In other words: nothing is changed whether you're on your cellphone or not, only that if you get struck while chatting and remain conscious AND the phone remains operational, you can tell your buddy "hey dude, I just got struck by lightning. Cool!"
Either way you got zapped, and either way you probably have some metal in contact with your body anyhow.
Fox still owns the show, so Fox had to approve ANY Futurama production. According to various rumors you might find online, Cohen and Groening have been wanting to bring it back in any form, but Fox has been the stumbling block. Groening made a huge mistake when he did not retain ownership of his work. Understandable, considering most of the time if you keep ownership, you'll have a hard time getting the networks to fund the production.