No no no. You're looking at it the wrong way. Thanks to Apple's requirement that people send their phones back to them for battery replacement, they're ensuring that the batteries are disposed of properly!
(yes, it's a joke, but it will probably also be their defense)
Agreed. This guy doesn't understand the difference between using a TV tuner card and watching online videos via a website. By not understanding this distinction, his entire article and all the arguments it makes are nonsensical.
Guess this is why my local Radio Shack has been selling new DS Lites for 95 bucks for the past few weeks. Since the new one has no GBA slot (and no new features that I really care about), I may have to go grab one on clearance.
...to check if your boss is one of the people making use of the 'loophole' before going to report on him;=)
He wasn't in on it. I think it was more of an issue of my boss not wanting it to come down on his head. Safer to just play dumb about the whole thing than to actually acknowledge that there's a problem.
Nope, not unusual at all. I used to work with a guy who told me in detail several times (unasked) exactly how you could get equipment out of the building (move it over here to the freight area, wait until after hours to take it to the basement, at this time of day the back doors are opened, so you can then pull a car in, etc etc). I had recently been put in charge of an equipment audit and there were several pieces of equipment missing (some of which this guy had previously shown a keen interest in). When I brought the issue up with my boss I was told "Oh no, he would never do something like that." Case closed. No investigation, nothing. I received a slight reprimand for even suggesting something like that might happen. I quit shortly after that.
I guess nothing you buy ever comes in a package, or you never get physical mail, or you don't see movie posters or billboards anywhere, or you don't read magazines or catalogs, or your coffee mug doesn't have a logo on it, or on and on and on and on....
If you know you need CMYK, it's not even a discussion. If you THINK you need CMYK, you don't.
Oh, trust me, I'm well aware of the number of people who "think" they need something, but can't simply tell you why, or even what it is/does. My frustration comes from KNOWING that I need something, and then being told "No you don't" by people that fall into your second category. You can actually see quite a bit of that here in this very thread.
So what do you do if you have an image at the resolution it needs to be and you want to put text on it? Do you upsample the image, apply the text, and then rescale it back down to the original resolution? Or do you create the text in a separate document at the higher resolution and then layer it onto the image (which is already at the correct resolution)? Honestly, I'm curious. There are times where you don't necessarily have the luxury of starting with a really high-res image that you can then scale down.
I haven't used GIMP in a long time, but what you describe sounds more like an issue with how it handles antialiasing. Photoshop gives you several different options for how it applies antialiasing, which you adjust depending on the character shapes and how they interact with the background imagery you're dealing with (for instance, you might use 'smooth' for small text on a dark background, or 'sharp' for a large headline). With GIMP it looks like it's just a single checkbox--on or off.
Don't you just love the number of times people say "You don't really need CMYK support"? For those of use who work in the professional publishing world and see our work printed on real presses, YES WE DO!
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The OS X version is Intel only. This probably won't affect most of you, but it does kinda suck for those of us still on PPC machines.
No no no. You're looking at it the wrong way. Thanks to Apple's requirement that people send their phones back to them for battery replacement, they're ensuring that the batteries are disposed of properly!
(yes, it's a joke, but it will probably also be their defense)
I was hoping they'd bring games to ads. And then for some reason I felt like punching a monkey.
So you don't buy that memory to use with your new chip--that memory is out of spec.
hell, when one of those Budweiser ads comes on I'll wait until that ad is over before I go to get another Killian.
Good to see that the Budweiser ads are working you...
Agreed. This guy doesn't understand the difference between using a TV tuner card and watching online videos via a website. By not understanding this distinction, his entire article and all the arguments it makes are nonsensical.
Mod up! The article got this one completely backwards.
Dollars to donuts the CRASH was gravity related...
Oh, there you go pushing your little pet "theories" again....
My hobbies include &ndash too!
So, is a muck a single horseshit?
Because they are defrauding Google, Spamming US citizens and generally running a muck. That's what jails for for.
Yeah, jail all those muck-runners! (what is a 'muck'?)
I've had a few 'pick the cat' captchas where I couldn't even identify if the thing was actually supposed to be a cat!
Guess this is why my local Radio Shack has been selling new DS Lites for 95 bucks for the past few weeks. Since the new one has no GBA slot (and no new features that I really care about), I may have to go grab one on clearance.
What's the nationality of the person involved got to do with it?
It was a humourous jab using the oft-quoted stereotype of Frenchmen having a displeasing odour.
...to check if your boss is one of the people making use of the 'loophole' before going to report on him ;=)
He wasn't in on it. I think it was more of an issue of my boss not wanting it to come down on his head. Safer to just play dumb about the whole thing than to actually acknowledge that there's a problem.
Nope, not unusual at all. I used to work with a guy who told me in detail several times (unasked) exactly how you could get equipment out of the building (move it over here to the freight area, wait until after hours to take it to the basement, at this time of day the back doors are opened, so you can then pull a car in, etc etc). I had recently been put in charge of an equipment audit and there were several pieces of equipment missing (some of which this guy had previously shown a keen interest in). When I brought the issue up with my boss I was told "Oh no, he would never do something like that." Case closed. No investigation, nothing. I received a slight reprimand for even suggesting something like that might happen. I quit shortly after that.
I guess nothing you buy ever comes in a package, or you never get physical mail, or you don't see movie posters or billboards anywhere, or you don't read magazines or catalogs, or your coffee mug doesn't have a logo on it, or on and on and on and on....
If you know you need CMYK, it's not even a discussion. If you THINK you need CMYK, you don't.
Oh, trust me, I'm well aware of the number of people who "think" they need something, but can't simply tell you why, or even what it is/does. My frustration comes from KNOWING that I need something, and then being told "No you don't" by people that fall into your second category. You can actually see quite a bit of that here in this very thread.
So what do you do if you have an image at the resolution it needs to be and you want to put text on it? Do you upsample the image, apply the text, and then rescale it back down to the original resolution? Or do you create the text in a separate document at the higher resolution and then layer it onto the image (which is already at the correct resolution)? Honestly, I'm curious. There are times where you don't necessarily have the luxury of starting with a really high-res image that you can then scale down.
I haven't used GIMP in a long time, but what you describe sounds more like an issue with how it handles antialiasing. Photoshop gives you several different options for how it applies antialiasing, which you adjust depending on the character shapes and how they interact with the background imagery you're dealing with (for instance, you might use 'smooth' for small text on a dark background, or 'sharp' for a large headline). With GIMP it looks like it's just a single checkbox--on or off.
Don't you just love the number of times people say "You don't really need CMYK support"? For those of use who work in the professional publishing world and see our work printed on real presses, YES WE DO!
Ahhh, I now see how I misinterpreted it. Thanks for the clarification.
Valve denied it was being purchased by Google, but it leads me to believe that the opposite may be true.
Valve's planning on buying Google?!? Folks, you heard it here first. Now go spread the word!
I think it's really just a typo. Someone hit 'v' instead of 'k'.
The final trick: preloading desktop environment files while waiting for the user to type her password.
A female Linux user?!? You can compile and install Gentoo while waiting for that to happen. : p