I don't know about everywhere else, but in Arizona you are technically okay if the light is still yellow once the front of your car has entered the intersection.
At least thats what they told us in traffic school.
I think they're web server was built out of plastic parts made by a reprap...its already failing hard. Here is the text from the article:
Based in the Waitakeres, in West Auckland, software developer and artist Vik Olliver is part of a team developing an open-source, self-copying 3D printer. The RepRap (Replicating Rapid-prototyper) printer can replicate and update itself. It can print its own parts, including updates, says Olliver, who is one of the core members of the RepRap team.
The 3D printer works by building components up in layers of plastic, mainly polylactic acid (PLA), which is a bio-degradable polymer made from lactic acid. The technology already exists, but commercial machines are very expensive. They also can't copy themselves, and they can't be manipulated by users, says Olliver.
RepRap has a different idea. The team, which is spread over New Zealand, the UK and the US, develops and gives away the designs for its much cheaper machine, which also has self-copying capabilities. It wants to make the machine available to anybody -- including small communities in the developing world, as well as people in the developed world, says Olliver.
Accordingly, the RepRap machine is distributed, at no cost, under the GNU (General Public Licence).
RepRap's open-source project aims to keep on improving the machine. "So it can do what people want it to do", says Olliver. Improvements will go back to users and, in this way, the machine as a whole evolves, he says. The idea of evolution is important, he adds. The device Olliver is creating now will probably bear very little resemblance to the device that will appear on everybody's desks in the future, he says.
"We want to make sure that everything is open, not just the design and the software you control it with, but the entire tool-chain, from the ground up," he says.
Olliver works for Catalyst IT, a Wellington-based open-source business system provider. He is fortunate enough to get "Google-time" from the company, which means he is allowed to work on his own research projects one day a week -- just like employees at Google. This has led to considerable developments in the RepRap project in the last six months, his says.
New features include, for example, heads that can be changed for different kinds of plastic. A head that deposits low melting-point metal is in development, he says. The metal melts at a lower temperature than that at which plastic melts, which means the metal can be put inside plastic, says Olliver. "That means, in theory, we could build structures like motors."
RepRap also allows people to build circuits in 3D, as well as various shapes, with the result that objects, such as a cell phone, don't have to be flat, he says.
There are at least seven copies of the RepRap machine in the world that Olliver knows about. The 3D printer also allows for a new and fascinating way of communicating: Olliver can design something at home in New Zealand, which then appears on another researcher's desk, in Bath, in the UK, or the other way around.
At the moment, the RepRap uses two different kinds of plastic -- PLA, a relatively rigid plastic, which is ideal for making objects such as corner brackets; and a more flexible plastic for making, for example, iPod cases, he says.
But having the machine copy itself is the most useful thing the team can make it do, and that is the primary goal of the project, says Olliver. However, it can also be used to make other things, such as wine glasses -- definitely water-tight, he adds -- and plastic parts for machines. When Computerworld talked to him, Olliver had just printed out a small part to fix his blender.
"We know that people are going to use the printer to try to make weapons [and] sex toys and drug paraphernalia," he says. "This is obviously not what we're hoping they are going to build. We are hoping they are going to build more and better RepRaps."
Its not like there is somebody at Qwsest sitting there reading each and every one of my emails, rather they're searching through it looking for things that look suspicious. Its the same thing that couriers do looking for people shipping drugs around.
Don't get me wrong, I think its asinine, just pointing out that its not something that is exclusive to the internets.
I have a hard time believing she wouldn't know the difference; even a computer retard can tell that you don't spell Photoshop "GIMP". But if that's true, that's pure hilarity. It's pretty funny just for the idea.:) Well no, shes not stupid. The total lack of the word "photoshop" anywhere in the software is a good indicator.
It usually just takes a bit of explaining and sitting down with her to show her how things work to get her to use the GIMP instead.
Who needs to sell pirated software when you can get it for free? Now, most people YOU know would probably know how to get warez for free. Most people I know know how to get warez for free, but most PEOPLE don't.
DO you think the type of person that requires help moving their computer from one room to another would be able to figure out how to work an FTP client, or what a "tracker" was?
This is why my sister always asks me for a copy of Photoshop for her birthday. She has no idea how to get it for free online. SHHH!!!! Don't tell her I have been secretly slipping her copies of the GIMP all these years.
They're throwing the word "terrorism" around a bit too much here, but at least a BIG part of the movie bootlegging scene is rooted in Russian Organized crime. Telecine machines are really expensive and, believe it or not, bootlegging movies can be very profitable.
No, i'm not talking about grabbing the latest RLS off of Usenet, or racing it across FTPs. I'm talking about large scale DVD pressing facilities that are selling to the guy who is, in turn, selling to people on the street corner. Groups get to release high quality stuff, the Mob gets their source for a DVD. Its very simple.
Or did you all really think that guys were risking serious jail time and throwing down thousands on Telecine machines because it was "fun"?
Now, i don't know much about the warez scene, but I would imagine that its a very similar situation.
Organized crime != terrorism. But a lot of the really large scale operations are certainly not being run by a rogue group of 16 year olds.
Yes, because companies are who are willing to work with what you give them should be avoided at all costs.
Whats that sir? You work in an environment that you are comfortable with? Well in that case we refuse to do business with you! Get back to us 4 years from now when you have relearned every skill that you have in a software suite that we support!
Sounds like a software company that the majority of slashdot hates.
One thing that most graphic designers struggle with at first is the concept that they are (usually) not designing things for other graphic designers.
Regular people aren't going to notice something like what was illustrated in the photos in the linked page (I didn't).
Now, I'm sure that if I sent that to our large format printer, put it under the color-correct lights, and looked at it on a white background with nothing else in the room to distract me, i MIGHT be able notice the stuff that was pointed out at first glance.
But probably not.
So, to me is it worth re-learning EVERYTHING that i can do in the gimp?
I don't get it. I can tell they look different, but they both look equally good. I guess #2 is a little sharper; is that the GIMP one? Do you hear that whooshing sound? You might want to sit down.
it is not professional grade (I may be simplifying it), not something you can turn in to a professional printing company, but for the hobbyist and/or FOSS fan, it's enough. This would be news to every printing company I've ever worked with.
I can't use GIMP because I NEED CMYK (seriously, how many people on/. need CMYK?) and I'm a professional photo editor (according to GIMP related threads,/. is positively infested with photographic professionals). And because I've spent so long pirating it that I am incapable of learning another UI. Oh, and apparently the name prevents me from using it as well. I do all the design work for my company in Scribus/Gimp/Inkscape. I have NEVER had a problem sending something to a printer. Ever.
Gimp is NOT Photoshop, nor is it even remotely comparable. Inkscape, though a nice program, isn't quite up to the same bar as Illustrator (though it can most certainly get the job done). And InDesign is the best, with Scribus and Quark being in a close second. Probably a flame, but I'll bite. What specifically can you do in Photoshop that I can't do in Gimp? Its probably just a matter of what you're used to. I grew up on gimp. If you stuck me in front of a Photoshop rig, there is very little chance that I would be able to do ANYTHING with it. As far as Inkscape, have you used version 0.46 yet? Its really really good. It just came out a couple of days ago, so I suggest you check that out. Honestly, people talk about firefox, or gimp being great examples of what OSS can do, but IMHO, Inkscape is one of the BEST examples of just how awesome F/OSS software can be.
As far as scribus goes: I use it EVERY SINGLE DAY. The ONLY thing that it can't do that commercial software can is Spot Colors out of the box. This is pretty simple to fix though, you just need to edit a config file. If you're a designer, you really ought to have a pantone book laying around, so just match up the colors you want, and put the names in the Config. Google it, its pretty simple.
Really, if this was more than a flame i would love to know. What really can you do in Adobe products that I can't do in OSS ones?
They said the tires (tyres) would cook off in 14 minutes at top speed. I suspect the designers sized the fuel tank to empty prior to the tires going away. Sounds like a safety feature to me Bug as a feature?
No emails, but it's not the ORDB system. I just don't have any friends. I have tons and tons of emails. None of them are from people who are friends:(.
Recieved email, instead of loving signs of friendship, message contained bobcat. Would not communicate with again.
Malcolm Rabson, the managing director at software company Dariel Solutions, said the open-source technology appeared to be free but did not come with a "rich" set of documentation for the project, which required high-end skills. This guy has never talked to any OpenBSD folk, has he? I recommend this to him.
Jump into #openbsd on freenode, and ask the guys to explain something to you. See if you still have any trouble finding "rich" documentation for open source projects then.
It really is stupid for them to say something like this, when there are thousands of people who develop great free software for Windows And even more people (like me and everyone at my company) who USE that software.
Lets see: Our webserver runs OpenBSD. Our proxy runs Squid on top of Gentoo Our FTP is VsFTPd on top of Gentoo Our mailserver will be (I'm still building/testing) Unison on top of Centos (hey, people that write the centos install script, will you please let me install it manually...your install flames out *every* *single* *time*) Our VPN is OpenVPN on Gentoo
All of our office Applications are OpenOffice stuff (microsoft...don't f*cking change the gui after over 10 years of the same thing!!) I do design work. I do everything in: Scribus (for layouts, and final product) Inkscape (for vector work, logos mostly) Gimp (for bitmap stuff. Photo retouching, sometimes initial test layouts (rough sketchs) are done in here). I build EPS files using Ghostscript and view them in GSviewer.
We have several wireless access point in that I built on Soekris boards, they run: The madwifi driver suite. A custom stripped-down version of gentoo with the vanilla kernel sources.
I build and run reports on Mysql which is (once again) running on gentoo linux. The web front ends for these reports are running in apache. The pages are generated using Pythong with the CGI module. Anything that needs regex is done in perl (shut up....regex in python is UGGGGGGGGLLLLYYYYY)
Point is, pretty much the ONLY thing in our office that WASN'T given to us for free by the open source community was windows XP and windows server 2003. These will probably both be replaced by a mix of Ubuntu workstations and OpenBSD/Centos/Gentoo servers once Microsoft stops selling us copies of XP.
The Iraq / Afghanistan wars are currently breaking the back of the American economy, and McCain thinks that staying in Iraq for a 100 years is a good thing, Could you please explain how pumping billions of dollars of taxpayer money BACK into American Companies (hello Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed-Martin) is "breaking the back of the American Economy"?
What IS breaking our backs is the export of labor overseas, and the IMPORT of ultra-cheap poverty-ridden overseas (well...the Rio Grande isn't exactly a "sea") labor to the United States.
Now mod me flaimbait because I don't agree with your narrow-minded "omg the sky is falling and its everybody ELSE's fault" world view.
Just wait until they open your closet and find that those 24 dbi dish antennas, a bunch of Ubiquit SR9 cards, some Ubiquit XR2 cards, a bunch of soekris boards, and a 32 WATT amplifier (yes, I said 32 Watts.
"Officer, I assure you, I have NO IDEA how my laptop connected to my neighbors lan...honest, that spectrum diagram poster, that spectrometer, that wi-spy stick, and this Ubiquiti t-shirt are all my roomates!"/haha//runs home to apartment and hides gear.
I was getting 12K a year in student loan surpluses. I bought suits because I like to look nice. So you were borrowing an extra 12k a year so that you could buy SUITS to wear to class, CDs, and trips to Europe a couple times a year?
Thats not called being smart about your money, thats called being a douche-bag.
If you live in a large city, you don't need a car because public transportation is adequate. You can bargain with your local neighbourhood dry cleaner's if you are giving them suits to press on a regular basis. Chicago, new york, and the Bay area are probably the ONLY places in the country where that actually applies.
I live in Phoenix. There is little or NO public transportation here (at least not that goes to and from my work). There is no "neighborhood" anything. There are actually LAWS in the city that prevent this from happening because it wouldn't be "pretty".
And what job were you working that required a suit and only payed 12k a year? I call BS.
The description is just flat out wrong. Employees today (skilled employees, not "data input specialists") are OVER educated for their jobs. Think about how common it is for people to be in college these days. EVERYONE has a bachelor's degree in something. Schools are pumping out MBAs by the Auditorium load. The sad thing is that these people are UNDER paid. Their bosses expectations are also WAY too high. People work 60+ hours a week for 30,000 a year. These are people with college degrees! These same people are given HUGE ammounts of responsibility, but very little authority to actually take care of their responsibilities without interaction from "higher-ups".
The pay scales need to change. $30,000 a year might have been enough money to live on in 1990, but it isn't anymore. Try and rent an apartment in a major city in this country on a $30,000 a year salary. Now pay your power bill, your internet bill (so that you can work even while you're AT HOME), pay your car payment, your insurance, buy the clothes that meet your companies dress code, oh yeah, and maybe even buy food while you're at it. Don't even THINK about buying gas for that car too.
As far as disrespect towards older employees: This is just ridiculous. Age should NOT be an issue related to making decisions. It should be based on experience, and knowledge. If I am more experience, and more knowledgeable about a topic then you are, you're damned right I'm going to tell you if you are forcing me to do something that is going to make ME look bad./rant over.
To the body, a transplanted organ is a big giant mass of cells that don't match the DNA of its own. These cells that don't match the rest of your bodies DNA reproduce themselves.
Explain to me how that ISN'T the same thing as a cancer.
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I don't know about everywhere else, but in Arizona you are technically okay if the light is still yellow once the front of your car has entered the intersection.
At least thats what they told us in traffic school.
I think they're web server was built out of plastic parts made by a reprap...its already failing hard. Here is the text from the article:
Based in the Waitakeres, in West Auckland, software developer and artist Vik Olliver is part of a team developing an open-source, self-copying 3D printer. The RepRap (Replicating Rapid-prototyper) printer can replicate and update itself. It can print its own parts, including updates, says Olliver, who is one of the core members of the RepRap team.
The 3D printer works by building components up in layers of plastic, mainly polylactic acid (PLA), which is a bio-degradable polymer made from lactic acid. The technology already exists, but commercial machines are very expensive. They also can't copy themselves, and they can't be manipulated by users, says Olliver.
RepRap has a different idea. The team, which is spread over New Zealand, the UK and the US, develops and gives away the designs for its much cheaper machine, which also has self-copying capabilities. It wants to make the machine available to anybody -- including small communities in the developing world, as well as people in the developed world, says Olliver.
Accordingly, the RepRap machine is distributed, at no cost, under the GNU (General Public Licence).
RepRap's open-source project aims to keep on improving the machine. "So it can do what people want it to do", says Olliver. Improvements will go back to users and, in this way, the machine as a whole evolves, he says. The idea of evolution is important, he adds. The device Olliver is creating now will probably bear very little resemblance to the device that will appear on everybody's desks in the future, he says.
"We want to make sure that everything is open, not just the design and the software you control it with, but the entire tool-chain, from the ground up," he says.
Olliver works for Catalyst IT, a Wellington-based open-source business system provider. He is fortunate enough to get "Google-time" from the company, which means he is allowed to work on his own research projects one day a week -- just like employees at Google. This has led to considerable developments in the RepRap project in the last six months, his says.
New features include, for example, heads that can be changed for different kinds of plastic. A head that deposits low melting-point metal is in development, he says. The metal melts at a lower temperature than that at which plastic melts, which means the metal can be put inside plastic, says Olliver. "That means, in theory, we could build structures like motors."
RepRap also allows people to build circuits in 3D, as well as various shapes, with the result that objects, such as a cell phone, don't have to be flat, he says.
There are at least seven copies of the RepRap machine in the world that Olliver knows about. The 3D printer also allows for a new and fascinating way of communicating: Olliver can design something at home in New Zealand, which then appears on another researcher's desk, in Bath, in the UK, or the other way around.
At the moment, the RepRap uses two different kinds of plastic -- PLA, a relatively rigid plastic, which is ideal for making objects such as corner brackets; and a more flexible plastic for making, for example, iPod cases, he says.
But having the machine copy itself is the most useful thing the team can make it do, and that is the primary goal of the project, says Olliver. However, it can also be used to make other things, such as wine glasses -- definitely water-tight, he adds -- and plastic parts for machines. When Computerworld talked to him, Olliver had just printed out a small part to fix his blender.
"We know that people are going to use the printer to try to make weapons [and] sex toys and drug paraphernalia," he says. "This is obviously not what we're hoping they are going to build. We are hoping they are going to build more and better RepRaps."
Fedex and UPS DO do this.
Its not like there is somebody at Qwsest sitting there reading each and every one of my emails, rather they're searching through it looking for things that look suspicious. Its the same thing that couriers do looking for people shipping drugs around.
Don't get me wrong, I think its asinine, just pointing out that its not something that is exclusive to the internets.
It usually just takes a bit of explaining and sitting down with her to show her how things work to get her to use the GIMP instead.
I usually just get her a sweater or something.
DO you think the type of person that requires help moving their computer from one room to another would be able to figure out how to work an FTP client, or what a "tracker" was?
This is why my sister always asks me for a copy of Photoshop for her birthday. She has no idea how to get it for free online.
SHHH!!!! Don't tell her I have been secretly slipping her copies of the GIMP all these years.
Kids, if you like a piece of software...BUY IT!
They're throwing the word "terrorism" around a bit too much here, but at least a BIG part of the movie bootlegging scene is rooted in Russian Organized crime. Telecine machines are really expensive and, believe it or not, bootlegging movies can be very profitable.
No, i'm not talking about grabbing the latest RLS off of Usenet, or racing it across FTPs. I'm talking about large scale DVD pressing facilities that are selling to the guy who is, in turn, selling to people on the street corner. Groups get to release high quality stuff, the Mob gets their source for a DVD. Its very simple.
Or did you all really think that guys were risking serious jail time and throwing down thousands on Telecine machines because it was "fun"?
Now, i don't know much about the warez scene, but I would imagine that its a very similar situation.
Organized crime != terrorism. But a lot of the really large scale operations are certainly not being run by a rogue group of 16 year olds.
Honestly, if the limiting factor in your artwork is the photo editor you're using, you're not much of an artist.
Yes, because companies are who are willing to work with what you give them should be avoided at all costs.
Whats that sir? You work in an environment that you are comfortable with? Well in that case we refuse to do business with you! Get back to us 4 years from now when you have relearned every skill that you have in a software suite that we support!
Sounds like a software company that the majority of slashdot hates.
One thing that most graphic designers struggle with at first is the concept that they are (usually) not designing things for other graphic designers.
Regular people aren't going to notice something like what was illustrated in the photos in the linked page (I didn't).
Now, I'm sure that if I sent that to our large format printer, put it under the color-correct lights, and looked at it on a white background with nothing else in the room to distract me, i MIGHT be able notice the stuff that was pointed out at first glance.
But probably not.
So, to me is it worth re-learning EVERYTHING that i can do in the gimp?
no.
As a supplement to your comment, here is the very next page of the link you posted:
Link
Yeah...16 bit color makes a HUUUUUGE and TOTALLY NOTICEABLE difference.
Now if only the open source community could come up with a Solution to this HUGE problem.
You might want to sit down.
Ever.
What specifically can you do in Photoshop that I can't do in Gimp? Its probably just a matter of what you're used to. I grew up on gimp. If you stuck me in front of a Photoshop rig, there is very little chance that I would be able to do ANYTHING with it.
As far as Inkscape, have you used version 0.46 yet? Its really really good. It just came out a couple of days ago, so I suggest you check that out. Honestly, people talk about firefox, or gimp being great examples of what OSS can do, but IMHO, Inkscape is one of the BEST examples of just how awesome F/OSS software can be.
As far as scribus goes: I use it EVERY SINGLE DAY. The ONLY thing that it can't do that commercial software can is Spot Colors out of the box. This is pretty simple to fix though, you just need to edit a config file. If you're a designer, you really ought to have a pantone book laying around, so just match up the colors you want, and put the names in the Config. Google it, its pretty simple.
Really, if this was more than a flame i would love to know. What really can you do in Adobe products that I can't do in OSS ones?
Praising the OpenBSD community's ability to document their work is OBVIOUSLY flamebait.
None of them are from people who are friends
Recieved email, instead of loving signs of friendship, message contained bobcat.
Would not communicate with again.
I recommend this to him.
Jump into #openbsd on freenode, and ask the guys to explain something to you.
See if you still have any trouble finding "rich" documentation for open source projects then.
Lets see:
Our webserver runs OpenBSD.
Our proxy runs Squid on top of Gentoo
Our FTP is VsFTPd on top of Gentoo
Our mailserver will be (I'm still building/testing) Unison on top of Centos (hey, people that write the centos install script, will you please let me install it manually...your install flames out *every* *single* *time*)
Our VPN is OpenVPN on Gentoo
All of our office Applications are OpenOffice stuff (microsoft...don't f*cking change the gui after over 10 years of the same thing!!)
I do design work. I do everything in:
Scribus (for layouts, and final product)
Inkscape (for vector work, logos mostly)
Gimp (for bitmap stuff. Photo retouching, sometimes initial test layouts (rough sketchs) are done in here).
I build EPS files using Ghostscript and view them in GSviewer.
We have several wireless access point in that I built on Soekris boards, they run:
The madwifi driver suite.
A custom stripped-down version of gentoo with the vanilla kernel sources.
I build and run reports on Mysql which is (once again) running on gentoo linux.
The web front ends for these reports are running in apache.
The pages are generated using Pythong with the CGI module.
Anything that needs regex is done in perl (shut up....regex in python is UGGGGGGGGLLLLYYYYY)
Point is, pretty much the ONLY thing in our office that WASN'T given to us for free by the open source community was windows XP and windows server 2003. These will probably both be replaced by a mix of Ubuntu workstations and OpenBSD/Centos/Gentoo servers once Microsoft stops selling us copies of XP.
What IS breaking our backs is the export of labor overseas, and the IMPORT of ultra-cheap poverty-ridden overseas (well...the Rio Grande isn't exactly a "sea") labor to the United States.
Now mod me flaimbait because I don't agree with your narrow-minded "omg the sky is falling and its everybody ELSE's fault" world view.
Just wait until they open your closet and find that those 24 dbi dish antennas, a bunch of Ubiquit SR9 cards, some Ubiquit XR2 cards, a bunch of soekris boards, and a 32 WATT amplifier (yes, I said 32 Watts.
/haha //runs home to apartment and hides gear.
"Officer, I assure you, I have NO IDEA how my laptop connected to my neighbors lan...honest, that spectrum diagram poster, that spectrometer, that wi-spy stick, and this Ubiquiti t-shirt are all my roomates!"
Thats not called being smart about your money, thats called being a douche-bag.
I live in Phoenix. There is little or NO public transportation here (at least not that goes to and from my work). There is no "neighborhood" anything. There are actually LAWS in the city that prevent this from happening because it wouldn't be "pretty".
And what job were you working that required a suit and only payed 12k a year?
I call BS.
The description is just flat out wrong.
/rant over.
Employees today (skilled employees, not "data input specialists") are OVER educated for their jobs. Think about how common it is for people to be in college these days. EVERYONE has a bachelor's degree in something. Schools are pumping out MBAs by the Auditorium load. The sad thing is that these people are UNDER paid.
Their bosses expectations are also WAY too high. People work 60+ hours a week for 30,000 a year. These are people with college degrees! These same people are given HUGE ammounts of responsibility, but very little authority to actually take care of their responsibilities without interaction from "higher-ups".
The pay scales need to change.
$30,000 a year might have been enough money to live on in 1990, but it isn't anymore. Try and rent an apartment in a major city in this country on a $30,000 a year salary. Now pay your power bill, your internet bill (so that you can work even while you're AT HOME), pay your car payment, your insurance, buy the clothes that meet your companies dress code, oh yeah, and maybe even buy food while you're at it. Don't even THINK about buying gas for that car too.
As far as disrespect towards older employees:
This is just ridiculous. Age should NOT be an issue related to making decisions. It should be based on experience, and knowledge. If I am more experience, and more knowledgeable about a topic then you are, you're damned right I'm going to tell you if you are forcing me to do something that is going to make ME look bad.
To the body, a transplanted organ is a big giant mass of cells that don't match the DNA of its own.
These cells that don't match the rest of your bodies DNA reproduce themselves.
Explain to me how that ISN'T the same thing as a cancer.