Come on now. You've been here long enough to know what the/. reaction to any major ISPs blocking port 25 outbound is going to be.
"But I *like* using my mail obscure server in China!" "Switch to $COMPETITION, $ISP wouldn't know technical literacy if it bit them on the ass!" "$ISP sucks, I paid for a real connection to the internet and got put in a sandbox with the kindergarteners" "Let's start a boycott!" "If I wanted to be treated like an idiot, I would have signed up with AOL!"...and so on, and so forth, ad nauseum.
Nice. I though NY would be on the forefront of intrusive data collection, but I guess they aren't.
In the states where I've had licenses (Texas and Colorado), they store a digital photo, signature, and a scan of your right index fingerprint in the state driver's license database. Since I have a CDL, that info is also associated with my SSN, and put into a nationwide shared database that any state (and the federal government) can access.
Those abominations should be illegal. The flashing effect you get when an HID-equipped vehicle goes over any sort of bumps in the road is distracting as all hell to other drivers.
People have been creating books for a thousand years, movies for a hundred years, and video games for 25 years. Is it any surprise games (and to a lesser extent, movies) lack the deep complex ideas you can express in a book? Give them another 900 years or so, they'll catch up.
You're right. Mac users do want Apple's super-consistant interface. Because of that, it's going to be very hard to maintain an OSX port of any non-trivial app. A lot of new code would have to be written to port something like the GIMP from GTK to Aqua widgets and integrate it into the Mac desktop. Mac users are only 10% or so of the total desktop market, so it would be a lot of work for very little possible gain.
Windows users will be easier to move toward apps like OpenOffice, becase they are already used to MS Office's habit of not looking like other Windows apps. Windows users make up about 90% of the desktop computer market right now, and they will be easier to please than Mac users. If the goal of an OSS project is to gain new users, they should be concentrating on impressing Windows users.
On the other hand, I don't think that developers of OSS desktop apps should lose any sleep over the Mac market. People who have a Mac didn't tell the sales droid at BestBuy "I want a computer" and wind up owning a Macintosh. They bought a Mac knowing exactly what it was and that it would be able to run only a small subset of the apps available for other platforms (mostly Windows). I have a very hard time feeling sorry for people who buy a high priced niche-market computer and then complain when commodity open source software doesn't integrate with the rest of their desktop.
Re:Seriously... Why would you use this?
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Luckily, the GIMP is a useable program, and if you don't want to use PS, you probably don't have to, but that's not the issue. If PS is better for the job, even considering its price, it makes sense to use it.
It may be better for your job, but it has no bearing at all on mine. I'm not a professional artist. If you really need Photoshop, then spend the money and buy it. That's your perogative. For the rest of us, people who only need to color-correct digital photos or make a few icon sets for free software now and then, The GIMP is more than good enough. Just because you need a supercharged, nitromethane-fueled, 3000 horsepower graphics suite doesn't mean I do.
There is a theory (urban myth) that the extra power used during a boot outweighs any savings. If someone can disprove that then I will persuade more work mates to follow my action.
You don't need a chart, just a quick calculation. According to this a Pentium 4 desktop machine draws around 150 watts just sitting idle. 150 watts times 10 hours idle time equals 1500 watt-hours wasted per day. In order for a two minute boot process to waste 1500 watt-hours, the machine would have to draw 90,000 watts during bootup. (1500W*h * 60min/hr / 2min). Assuming your office in the US (or anywhere else where mains voltage is 120 Volts rms), that would be about a 750 amp current draw (90,000W / 120V) to turn on one computer. Most normal circuits (like you would plug a computer into) are protected by breakers that trip at about 20 amps. The wires in your office walls would melt before you could boot a computer if you tried to pull that much current through them.
Turn the computers off. Whoever pays the electric bill will thank you.
Would that be a 15GB iPod, a 20BG iPod, or a 40GB iPod? 1st generation or 4th? Do you want the one that has the "click" wheel?
Model numbers can convey all that information that you have to add on to catchy Apple product names to specify which version you're talking about. "I have an HP 3805-B" is so much clearer and more concise than "I have a blue revision C iMac with 128MB of RAM, firewire ports and the slot-loading CD drive".
Federal agents can hold American citizens indefinitely in a foriegn country without charges. They can read your email or listen to your phone conversations on little more than a whim. They can seize your property on mere suspicion of drug crimes, and you will have no recourse or compensation even if you are eventually acquitted.
The US government has already overstepped their constitutional bounds, and all our guns didn't stop it.
What we really need is p2p philosophy and encryption/privacy at every layer...We need to redistribute the net like it was originally intended...
we need mesh networks so the net (at least locally) belongs to the people and we need freedom/freenet like network all around for every damn protocol...
The problem is that Freenet and other totally encrypted/anonymous protocols is that they offend the geek nature of early adopters. People who might latch onto Freenet right now are the same people who use open-source software because they want to know exactly what their computer is doing all the time. Freenet (and similar systems) don't allow that.
Your node handles encrypted requests and stores encrypted chunks of data that you, the node operator have no access to. The odds are that 99.99% of it is plain old copyright-infringing mp3s and movie rips, but there is a slim possibility that you are helping distribute kiddie porn, viruses, spam, terrorist plots, and all sorts of other undesireable content.
Specific descriptions of a new vulnerability let sysadmins deploy new IDS/firewall rules to detect and block malware, write scripts to scan for infected hosts on their network, etc. Non-specific "there's a new remote-root hole in openSSH, but we're not telling you what it is" announcements just give people ulcers.
Your vehement rejection of cell phone technology does not make you a charismatic iconoclast, a trendy counter-culture hero, or a beautiful and unique snowflake. It makes you that guy your co-workers all hate because they can never reach you if they need help.
Oh my God. You're bitching about paying fractionally more than the Canadians are?
No, I'm not. I don't buy music on iTMS, hence I don't really give a f*** about their pricing. I'm just picking on a slashdot story submitter who can't be bothered to learn what the words he's using mean.
3. Find something more important than the price of music downloads to be pissed off about. Try the environment, civil rights or something else that suggests that you're capable of thinking about someone other than yourself for a change.
"This is probably fair since our CDs are usually cheaper here, too, at least on the west coast."
That's not a usage of "fair" I'm familiar with. Are you Canadians getting 16% less music per track than Americans? Or did you mean to say "it's unfair in a similar way to the current CD price-fixing scheme"?
CO2 sublimates, doesn't it? It does under Earth's amospheric conditions. You can liquefy CO2 by putting it under high pressure (5+ atmospheres, IIRC). When they release the liquid CO2 it'll probably produce gas and small crystals that will sublimate away, like what happens when you discharge a CO2 fire extiguisher on Earth.
It would be neat to watch a rocket powered aircraft that trails dry ice snow instead of smoke and flames...
Imagine licensing the PANTONE system for the GIMP and delivering a product that is suitable for pre-press work today and not five years down the road.
Free-as-in-speech and free-as-in-beer are obsessions only within the open source community.
That's true. For the people who don't care about either of those there is Photoshop, which has already licensed Pantone, and is ready for prepress work today. Sure it's expensive, but hey, you don't care about free-as-in-beer anyway, right?
Without the code being free (as in beer and as in speech) there is zero added value in using The GIMP over Photoshop (or any other proprietary image editor).
Usenet isn't free anymore, Suprnova is...
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What second to Usenet?
Usenet was number one for a long time, but it's a distant also-ran these days.
Seriously, who still gets unfettered access to alt.binaries.* now? Maybe some college students do, but it seems that most commercial ISPs either charge an extra $10-20 per month for the binaries groups, or don't carry them at all.
Valve releases a patch, you no longer need Steam to play
Everyone seems to assume Valve would patch HL2 to make it work without Steam if they were about to go under. Why? There hasn't ever been an official statement that they would do it. There's nothing in the EULA that obligates them to do it. There's just a vague warm fuzzy feeling from the Valve fanboys who assume they're going to play nice. It seems more likely to me that if Valve were in dire financial straits, they would try to turn Steam into a game rental system. CS:Source could suddenly cost $20/month to play.
Don't like that idea? Too bad. You should have bought a game instead of access to a game rental system.
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Come on now. You've been here long enough to know what the /. reaction to any major ISPs blocking port 25 outbound is going to be.
...and so on, and so forth, ad nauseum.
"But I *like* using my mail obscure server in China!"
"Switch to $COMPETITION, $ISP wouldn't know technical literacy if it bit them on the ass!"
"$ISP sucks, I paid for a real connection to the internet and got put in a sandbox with the kindergarteners"
"Let's start a boycott!"
"If I wanted to be treated like an idiot, I would have signed up with AOL!"
Nice. I though NY would be on the forefront of intrusive data collection, but I guess they aren't.
In the states where I've had licenses (Texas and Colorado), they store a digital photo, signature, and a scan of your right index fingerprint in the state driver's license database. Since I have a CDL, that info is also associated with my SSN, and put into a nationwide shared database that any state (and the federal government) can access.
...what about the "US Government now knows your fingerprint etc details" problem?
Got a US driver's license? If so, the government already has your picture, fingerprint, etc.
1. It requires .NET. Why? I don't have a clue.
.NET framework", not "make a better paintbrush.exe".
Because Microsoft's goal for the project was "get more users to install the
I can't comment on the UI since the site is so slashdotted that I can't get the screenshots or the installer...
HID/xenon headlamps (better visibility)
Those abominations should be illegal. The flashing effect you get when an HID-equipped vehicle goes over any sort of bumps in the road is distracting as all hell to other drivers.
People have been creating books for a thousand years, movies for a hundred years, and video games for 25 years. Is it any surprise games (and to a lesser extent, movies) lack the deep complex ideas you can express in a book? Give them another 900 years or so, they'll catch up.
You're right. Mac users do want Apple's super-consistant interface. Because of that, it's going to be very hard to maintain an OSX port of any non-trivial app. A lot of new code would have to be written to port something like the GIMP from GTK to Aqua widgets and integrate it into the Mac desktop. Mac users are only 10% or so of the total desktop market, so it would be a lot of work for very little possible gain.
Windows users will be easier to move toward apps like OpenOffice, becase they are already used to MS Office's habit of not looking like other Windows apps. Windows users make up about 90% of the desktop computer market right now, and they will be easier to please than Mac users. If the goal of an OSS project is to gain new users, they should be concentrating on impressing Windows users.
On the other hand, I don't think that developers of OSS desktop apps should lose any sleep over the Mac market. People who have a Mac didn't tell the sales droid at BestBuy "I want a computer" and wind up owning a Macintosh. They bought a Mac knowing exactly what it was and that it would be able to run only a small subset of the apps available for other platforms (mostly Windows). I have a very hard time feeling sorry for people who buy a high priced niche-market computer and then complain when commodity open source software doesn't integrate with the rest of their desktop.
Luckily, the GIMP is a useable program, and if you don't want to use PS, you probably don't have to, but that's not the issue. If PS is better for the job, even considering its price, it makes sense to use it.
It may be better for your job, but it has no bearing at all on mine. I'm not a professional artist. If you really need Photoshop, then spend the money and buy it. That's your perogative. For the rest of us, people who only need to color-correct digital photos or make a few icon sets for free software now and then, The GIMP is more than good enough. Just because you need a supercharged, nitromethane-fueled, 3000 horsepower graphics suite doesn't mean I do.
Of your 8 complaints, 4 are specific to the godawful GTK theme in that screenshot, and a further 3 are equally applicable to all X11 apps on OSX.
and if you play it backwards it reads:
ALL HAIL THE LORD SATAN! GIVE HIM YOUR UNBORN CHILDREN AND ALLOW HIM TO PUT COPYRIGHTS ON THEM! WE KNOW WHAT IS BEST! DO NOT HOLD DOWN THE SHIFT KEY!
Even worse, if you play it forward you hear major-label pop music...
Rean no further, this is a longwinded lowercase sentence added solely for the purpose of defeating the slashdot "lameness filter".
There is a theory (urban myth) that the extra power used during a boot outweighs any savings. If someone can disprove that then I will persuade more work mates to follow my action.
You don't need a chart, just a quick calculation. According to this a Pentium 4 desktop machine draws around 150 watts just sitting idle. 150 watts times 10 hours idle time equals 1500 watt-hours wasted per day. In order for a two minute boot process to waste 1500 watt-hours, the machine would have to draw 90,000 watts during bootup. (1500W*h * 60min/hr / 2min). Assuming your office in the US (or anywhere else where mains voltage is 120 Volts rms), that would be about a 750 amp current draw (90,000W / 120V) to turn on one computer. Most normal circuits (like you would plug a computer into) are protected by breakers that trip at about 20 amps. The wires in your office walls would melt before you could boot a computer if you tried to pull that much current through them.
Turn the computers off. Whoever pays the electric bill will thank you.
"Mom and Dad, I want an iPod".
Would that be a 15GB iPod, a 20BG iPod, or a 40GB iPod? 1st generation or 4th? Do you want the one that has the "click" wheel?
Model numbers can convey all that information that you have to add on to catchy Apple product names to specify which version you're talking about. "I have an HP 3805-B" is so much clearer and more concise than "I have a blue revision C iMac with 128MB of RAM, firewire ports and the slot-loading CD drive".
Guns oppress you!
Federal agents can hold American citizens indefinitely in a foriegn country without charges. They can read your email or listen to your phone conversations on little more than a whim. They can seize your property on mere suspicion of drug crimes, and you will have no recourse or compensation even if you are eventually acquitted.
The US government has already overstepped their constitutional bounds, and all our guns didn't stop it.
Once you start improving the graphics, where do you stop?
You don't. Duh...
What we really need is p2p philosophy and encryption/privacy at every layer...We need to redistribute the net like it was originally intended...
we need mesh networks so the net (at least locally) belongs to the people and we need freedom/freenet like network all around for every damn protocol...
The problem is that Freenet and other totally encrypted/anonymous protocols is that they offend the geek nature of early adopters. People who might latch onto Freenet right now are the same people who use open-source software because they want to know exactly what their computer is doing all the time. Freenet (and similar systems) don't allow that.
Your node handles encrypted requests and stores encrypted chunks of data that you, the node operator have no access to. The odds are that 99.99% of it is plain old copyright-infringing mp3s and movie rips, but there is a slim possibility that you are helping distribute kiddie porn, viruses, spam, terrorist plots, and all sorts of other undesireable content.
Specific descriptions of a new vulnerability let sysadmins deploy new IDS/firewall rules to detect and block malware, write scripts to scan for infected hosts on their network, etc. Non-specific "there's a new remote-root hole in openSSH, but we're not telling you what it is" announcements just give people ulcers.
Your vehement rejection of cell phone technology does not make you a charismatic iconoclast, a trendy counter-culture hero, or a beautiful and unique snowflake. It makes you that guy your co-workers all hate because they can never reach you if they need help.
Oh my God. You're bitching about paying fractionally more than the Canadians are?
No, I'm not. I don't buy music on iTMS, hence I don't really give a f*** about their pricing. I'm just picking on a slashdot story submitter who can't be bothered to learn what the words he's using mean.
3. Find something more important than the price of music downloads to be pissed off about. Try the environment, civil rights or something else that suggests that you're capable of thinking about someone other than yourself for a change.
Oh the irony...
"This is probably fair since our CDs are usually cheaper here, too, at least on the west coast."
That's not a usage of "fair" I'm familiar with. Are you Canadians getting 16% less music per track than Americans? Or did you mean to say "it's unfair in a similar way to the current CD price-fixing scheme"?
for example: GIMP's lack previews for most filters.
Preview filters were job #1 on the UI hit list for Gimp 2.2. Almost everything has a preview now.
If you would do a little teeny bit of research first, you could troll so much more effectively...
CO2 sublimates, doesn't it?
It does under Earth's amospheric conditions. You can liquefy CO2 by putting it under high pressure (5+ atmospheres, IIRC). When they release the liquid CO2 it'll probably produce gas and small crystals that will sublimate away, like what happens when you discharge a CO2 fire extiguisher on Earth.
It would be neat to watch a rocket powered aircraft that trails dry ice snow instead of smoke and flames...
Imagine licensing the PANTONE system for the GIMP and delivering a product that is suitable for pre-press work today and not five years down the road.
Free-as-in-speech and free-as-in-beer are obsessions only within the open source community.
That's true. For the people who don't care about either of those there is Photoshop, which has already licensed Pantone, and is ready for prepress work today. Sure it's expensive, but hey, you don't care about free-as-in-beer anyway, right?
Without the code being free (as in beer and as in speech) there is zero added value in using The GIMP over Photoshop (or any other proprietary image editor).
What second to Usenet?
Usenet was number one for a long time, but it's a distant also-ran these days.
Seriously, who still gets unfettered access to alt.binaries.* now? Maybe some college students do, but it seems that most commercial ISPs either charge an extra $10-20 per month for the binaries groups, or don't carry them at all.
Valve releases a patch, you no longer need Steam to play
Everyone seems to assume Valve would patch HL2 to make it work without Steam if they were about to go under. Why? There hasn't ever been an official statement that they would do it. There's nothing in the EULA that obligates them to do it. There's just a vague warm fuzzy feeling from the Valve fanboys who assume they're going to play nice. It seems more likely to me that if Valve were in dire financial straits, they would try to turn Steam into a game rental system. CS:Source could suddenly cost $20/month to play.
Don't like that idea? Too bad. You should have bought a game instead of access to a game rental system.
How many years until we have "September 11th, the video game"?
It's called "Microsoft Flight Simulator" and it's been around since the 1980s...