Although I agree that in this context 'redundant' was a lame mod. However, 'redundant' doesn't mean "already posted in this thread". I know I'm being pedantic, and I apologize for that, but we see so many memes here that I cannot believe anybody would still be confused about what 'redundant' means. A first post in a thread about Nexus One that says "why doesn't Google just make a phone that is just a phone without all the bells and whistles?!?!" is 'redundant'.
It's not about blaming the tools, it's about using the right tool for the job. You can use a chisel as a screwdriver, that doest mean the guy who uses said chisel is the non-whiner. An experienced user used a new tool and it had disadvantages in the real world. It's not something to get defensive about, especially when your side of the debate is simply academic.
"A problem that utterly destroyed the work of amateurs like DaVinci, Michaelangelo, and Raphael, right?"
Apples/oranges. You're not just drawing, you're using visual feedback to edit the image. So there are indicators etc for showing you how big the brush is. On top of that, the accuracy of what you're drawing on the tablet is far lower than applying pencil to paper. You can draw very neat lines easily on paper but you could try drawing the same thing on the tablet and find it is a lot more wobbly. You end up forced to use other methods that often end up just being quicker to do with a mouse. It's a lot harder to draw with a tablet than it is with a pencil. On many occasions, it's faster to do the drawing on paper and scan it in. When the tablet is seperate from the display, at least, you can see exactly where the pixel will land and adjust accordingly.
I had the same problem he did, and it was just as unexpected.
Well, yes, it can, and more -- by zooming in. And also by utilizing technologies such as bezier and spline curves. Methinks thou protests a bit too much.
It depends on what you're after. I mean, you could type LOGO commands into a computer and make great works of art. It's just a matter of how much time you want to put into it. Able to do it != practical. And he's got a point. Sure, it might be fun for doodling, but it'll likely have a distinctive sloppiness that will follow anybody who doesn't take the extra care to clean up after.
Also, even if you are stuck with the type of drawing you describe, it doesn't mean that others will be.
Welp, you're right, there's a million art-styles. Conceded. But, you do have two people now who have painted with screen devices telling you it's not all sunshine and roses.
If you stopped and asked why those 'fools' would want to accomplish a task in a browser, you'd realize why 'writing apps that run outside of the browser' isn't the ideal situation.
a.) We respond more seriously to intention to cause harm than we do accidents. I'm sure you've done a lot more door-locking than seatbelt-buckling in your life. (I know I have.)
b.) I'm guessing from your reply that you don't remember what the year following 9-11 was like, just a landmark and the number 3,000. I think that's how a lot of people here filed it away in their memories. They don't remember that a couple of hours later and over one-hundred thousand people would have been in those buildings. They don't remember the economic tanking. They don't remember states extending their unemployment benefits by 3x. They don't remember the feeling of "what next?", especially around the time we invaded Afghanistan. There's just this vision of some dude with a long beard blowing himself up and a few random people disappearing.
I don't like what's happening in airports. This story about planting explosives on people is scary. I agree that tightening up the rules isn't helping us much in a practical sense. What I don't get, though, is this philosophy that people who are intentionally causing destruction in order to get attention aren't going to escalate when they aren't getting enough of said attention. "Welp, we blew up three planes and everybody's still drinking lattes and talking on their iPhones, we better disband our group!" Right.
If the fictional nuke wielding terrorists managed to set one off every four years and kill as many people as died at Hiroshima, they'd kill about as many people as die from motor vehicle accidents in the US in the same time period.
Take the world as it is today, vehicle death-toll included, then picture what the world would be like for the year following a Hiroshima'esque attack with the exact same death toll.
Remember, that's a beta Google product vs Apple's flagship browser.
The 'beta' distinction with Google products does not apply. It's about as useful as the "you get what you pay for" cop-out when talking about the shortcomings of an OSS browser or Linux distro.
(NOTE: This post is a nitpick of the quoted line and isn't intended as a rebuttal to the rest of your post.)
The panic is that kids think that pictures given privately to their friends are going to be kept that way... nope. One wrong friend who publishes it and there's no end to it.
This is semi-off-topic, but what you said here reminds me of something that happened on a web forum I used to moderate on. We had a private section for the staff to have discussions in. Once in a while a user would get into it with another user and because of the formation of various cliques sometimes that'd rock the boat for several members of the staff in the private forum. One staff member in particular was a little too abrasive when describing the offending users that weren't in his group of friends. I tried to warn him that he should be careful about what he says. Just because it's 'private' doesn't mean that somebody watching couldn't do a copy/paste. He replied with "I shouldn't have to censor what I say, blah blah blah!" A month or so later he did manage to use the right series of words aimed at the right person at the right time for another member of the staff to see it, get pissed, and send an e-mail to the person he bad-mouthed to see what was being said behind his back. He, of course, shot into orbit. The funny thing is, if he had done this in public view, it probably would have been a short lived series of fireworks. But because he did this in a private forum, this guy got so angry he created a bunch of threads talking about how shitty the site is, then he told his story to people in another forum and for several days they'd come in and start trouble. The staff member in question never did admit to me that I was right.
Anyway, so what does that have to do with the topic at hand? You are absolutely right about the concern of the 'one wrong friend'. I'd be extra concerned when talking about teenagers and their ever-changing groups of friends and enemies. In general there's a lesson to be learned about being careful what you say when it can be copied verbatim for the rest of time. It's kinda sad, though, that the 'sexting' stories about consequences are getting more attention than the stories about people saying the wrong thing on Facebook and getting fired.
If you wanted a Windows laptop why would you pay all that money?
Windows serves me well in some applications, Mac serves me well in others. Why would anybody on Slashdot need that explained to them? If you're seriously interested in why somebody would want both, I'd be happy to go into detail. But I hope you're not offended for wanting to know if you're seriously asking as opposed to bucking to be modded up.
I was referring to Windows 2000. It had an uptime measured easily in weeks whereas Windows 9x was measured in days. (You were lucky for days to be plural.) Come to think of it, NT4 was up there, too. I remember having an Exchange Server up for like 180 days until we had an extended power failure. Pity, I was curious how long that'd have lasted. Anyway, it's pitiful compared to *nix, but that's not where the comparison was coming from. If Windows had started with the NT line BSOD jokes wouldn't have ever attained popularity.
This is widely known, but grudges can last for years.
Simply put, yes. They are a victim of the marketing department at Microsoft, which (look back for the article last week) has admitted to paying "independent" shills and stacking discussion panels to endorse their inferior product.
It is marketed better and more ruthlessly - that's why anyone pays for it.
Windows far better supported than any other OS. Sorry to suck the fun out of believing than Microsoft hired the Hypno-Toad.
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Although I agree that in this context 'redundant' was a lame mod. However, 'redundant' doesn't mean "already posted in this thread". I know I'm being pedantic, and I apologize for that, but we see so many memes here that I cannot believe anybody would still be confused about what 'redundant' means. A first post in a thread about Nexus One that says "why doesn't Google just make a phone that is just a phone without all the bells and whistles?!?!" is 'redundant'.
Ya know, a whole bunch of people do pay them to place advertising, and they have been doing so for a few years now.
I know it sounds like it matters because this response is modded up frequently, but not in this case. Mods, don't waste your mod points.
It's not about blaming the tools, it's about using the right tool for the job. You can use a chisel as a screwdriver, that doest mean the guy who uses said chisel is the non-whiner. An experienced user used a new tool and it had disadvantages in the real world. It's not something to get defensive about, especially when your side of the debate is simply academic.
"A problem that utterly destroyed the work of amateurs like DaVinci, Michaelangelo, and Raphael, right?"
Apples/oranges. You're not just drawing, you're using visual feedback to edit the image. So there are indicators etc for showing you how big the brush is. On top of that, the accuracy of what you're drawing on the tablet is far lower than applying pencil to paper. You can draw very neat lines easily on paper but you could try drawing the same thing on the tablet and find it is a lot more wobbly. You end up forced to use other methods that often end up just being quicker to do with a mouse. It's a lot harder to draw with a tablet than it is with a pencil. On many occasions, it's faster to do the drawing on paper and scan it in. When the tablet is seperate from the display, at least, you can see exactly where the pixel will land and adjust accordingly.
I had the same problem he did, and it was just as unexpected.
Well, yes, it can, and more -- by zooming in. And also by utilizing technologies such as bezier and spline curves. Methinks thou protests a bit too much.
It depends on what you're after. I mean, you could type LOGO commands into a computer and make great works of art. It's just a matter of how much time you want to put into it. Able to do it != practical. And he's got a point. Sure, it might be fun for doodling, but it'll likely have a distinctive sloppiness that will follow anybody who doesn't take the extra care to clean up after.
Also, even if you are stuck with the type of drawing you describe, it doesn't mean that others will be.
Welp, you're right, there's a million art-styles. Conceded. But, you do have two people now who have painted with screen devices telling you it's not all sunshine and roses.
There was a video of a Scandinavian chick sucking the dick of a M.U.L.E.
It blew a voluminous load in her mouth and caused her to choke.
Is that why you got yo mama Orbit gum for mother's day?
If you stopped and asked why those 'fools' would want to accomplish a task in a browser, you'd realize why 'writing apps that run outside of the browser' isn't the ideal situation.
a.) We respond more seriously to intention to cause harm than we do accidents. I'm sure you've done a lot more door-locking than seatbelt-buckling in your life. (I know I have.)
b.) I'm guessing from your reply that you don't remember what the year following 9-11 was like, just a landmark and the number 3,000. I think that's how a lot of people here filed it away in their memories. They don't remember that a couple of hours later and over one-hundred thousand people would have been in those buildings. They don't remember the economic tanking. They don't remember states extending their unemployment benefits by 3x. They don't remember the feeling of "what next?", especially around the time we invaded Afghanistan. There's just this vision of some dude with a long beard blowing himself up and a few random people disappearing.
I don't like what's happening in airports. This story about planting explosives on people is scary. I agree that tightening up the rules isn't helping us much in a practical sense. What I don't get, though, is this philosophy that people who are intentionally causing destruction in order to get attention aren't going to escalate when they aren't getting enough of said attention. "Welp, we blew up three planes and everybody's still drinking lattes and talking on their iPhones, we better disband our group!" Right.
If the fictional nuke wielding terrorists managed to set one off every four years and kill as many people as died at Hiroshima, they'd kill about as many people as die from motor vehicle accidents in the US in the same time period.
Take the world as it is today, vehicle death-toll included, then picture what the world would be like for the year following a Hiroshima'esque attack with the exact same death toll.
Remember, that's a beta Google product vs Apple's flagship browser.
The 'beta' distinction with Google products does not apply. It's about as useful as the "you get what you pay for" cop-out when talking about the shortcomings of an OSS browser or Linux distro.
(NOTE: This post is a nitpick of the quoted line and isn't intended as a rebuttal to the rest of your post.)
So, you're comparing a third-generation iPhone with a first generation Android phone?
What was he supposed to do? Borrow somebody's Delorean?
Hehe. No.
The panic is that kids think that pictures given privately to their friends are going to be kept that way... nope. One wrong friend who publishes it and there's no end to it.
This is semi-off-topic, but what you said here reminds me of something that happened on a web forum I used to moderate on. We had a private section for the staff to have discussions in. Once in a while a user would get into it with another user and because of the formation of various cliques sometimes that'd rock the boat for several members of the staff in the private forum. One staff member in particular was a little too abrasive when describing the offending users that weren't in his group of friends. I tried to warn him that he should be careful about what he says. Just because it's 'private' doesn't mean that somebody watching couldn't do a copy/paste. He replied with "I shouldn't have to censor what I say, blah blah blah!" A month or so later he did manage to use the right series of words aimed at the right person at the right time for another member of the staff to see it, get pissed, and send an e-mail to the person he bad-mouthed to see what was being said behind his back. He, of course, shot into orbit. The funny thing is, if he had done this in public view, it probably would have been a short lived series of fireworks. But because he did this in a private forum, this guy got so angry he created a bunch of threads talking about how shitty the site is, then he told his story to people in another forum and for several days they'd come in and start trouble. The staff member in question never did admit to me that I was right.
Anyway, so what does that have to do with the topic at hand? You are absolutely right about the concern of the 'one wrong friend'. I'd be extra concerned when talking about teenagers and their ever-changing groups of friends and enemies. In general there's a lesson to be learned about being careful what you say when it can be copied verbatim for the rest of time. It's kinda sad, though, that the 'sexting' stories about consequences are getting more attention than the stories about people saying the wrong thing on Facebook and getting fired.
We're reading a summary not running around with a ruler taking measurements.
Finally, we might actually be able to find Osama Bin Laden.
Oh, please. With a resolution of 30 meters, the only person we're gonna find is yo mama!
The Mayans were right about 2012!
According to Autodesk Maya 2012 only really cares about the MAC address.
In the scammers case, the boss wouldnt give two shits if someone spent a day dressing up to do what an email asked.
Making it funny it raises awareness of the scam. Raised awareness of the scam means more resistance to the scam.
If you wanted a Windows laptop why would you pay all that money?
Windows serves me well in some applications, Mac serves me well in others. Why would anybody on Slashdot need that explained to them? If you're seriously interested in why somebody would want both, I'd be happy to go into detail. But I hope you're not offended for wanting to know if you're seriously asking as opposed to bucking to be modded up.
We've made a Major breakthrough!
"If you push something hard enough, it will fall over." - Fudd's First Law of Opposition
Is this the same Fudd who stuck his shotgun in a hole in the ground and shot himself in the ass?
I was referring to Windows 2000. It had an uptime measured easily in weeks whereas Windows 9x was measured in days. (You were lucky for days to be plural.) Come to think of it, NT4 was up there, too. I remember having an Exchange Server up for like 180 days until we had an extended power failure. Pity, I was curious how long that'd have lasted. Anyway, it's pitiful compared to *nix, but that's not where the comparison was coming from. If Windows had started with the NT line BSOD jokes wouldn't have ever attained popularity.
This is widely known, but grudges can last for years.
Try your own experiment, only replace Linux with Mac.
The relative merits of Windows and Linux have nothing to do with the fact that Microsoft did in fact hire the Hypno-Toad.
The relative merits of Windows and Linux are why people are paying for Windows.
its not complete without BSOD copy too.
The article didn't say anything about Win9x.
Simply put, yes. They are a victim of the marketing department at Microsoft, which (look back for the article last week) has admitted to paying "independent" shills and stacking discussion panels to endorse their inferior product.
It is marketed better and more ruthlessly - that's why anyone pays for it.
Windows far better supported than any other OS. Sorry to suck the fun out of believing than Microsoft hired the Hypno-Toad.
Just add a cron script that has a 5% chance to reboot the system every half hour, and you're there! :P
For those of you who first started using PCs less than ten years ago, he's referring to the lack of stability Windows suffered from back then.