You're right. The Windows 7 marketing team recently released research that shows a large part of their target audience watch "48 Hours Mysteries". Hence WinFS will be left out in favor of Reiser FS.
There are some interesting correlations there, comparing relative x-height and the feel of the typography from person to person. I'm not a professional typographer, but I teach basic typography units as part of computer graphics courses.
I'm guessing a pro typographer could easily see correlation among the examples. Designer-types often express in their handwriting what they desire their overall "vibe" to be. Since typography is abused so much, and there are so many edge cases to look after, it's only natural that the fonts that result look more stilted and less artsy than the handwriting that may have inspired them.
Related principle: Design students learn very early on not to set large bodies of type with decorative fonts.
It's too bad something like this has to be paid for with a regressive tax like the lottery. There's no reason why the poor should pay a disproportionate amount of the upkeep of this place.
It's sad, this guy had an I.Q. of 170 and it sounds from the article like his extreme potential was completely ruined by sexual abuse.
To me, treating this guy like he's some hacker god is borderline mockery. He had a right to live his life unmolested, and he lost that. And instead of helping him, the government spied on him.
When I look at my old collection of hacker books, I can still feel much of the pain that I felt as a child (never as extreme as sexual abuse) and I feel disgusted that Hollywood tried to make me feel like a genius because I was different and quirky and creative. In fact, if anything, my emotional pain put me at risk of not being able to use my potential at all.
Sorry to rain on the parade, but I found the show unlistenably crude at times. There's no way I would recommend this podcast to anyone except perhaps Linux users in the Navy with some spare time on their hands and a tendency to giggle at long-in-the-tooth inside jokes.
I actually gave up searching for Linux-related podcasts because of this show.
In fact I started using a Mac a year ago and I'm very happy with where I'm at right now.
(Actually that last sentence was a complete lie, but it felt appropriate somehow).
Funny, I thought the conversation was about nutrients, not calories. Compare soda and fruit juice based on nutrients and you should (unless you're talking about Capri Sun or Sunny-D) come to the conclusion that yes, fruit juice is better for you. And it goes without saying that "balancing" a fruit-and-vegetable diet with hamburgers is something you really shouldn't be worried about. Or just be prepared to explain why your diet needs more enriched white bread, corn syrup condiments and carcinogenically enhanced (charred) meat.:)
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Your post makes you sound like you would be a very good freelancer or consultant. I am a jack-of-all-trades freelancer, and I get scads of work of different sorts, and I love it.
I subscribe to the Archive.org netlabels RSS feed...there's some really good stuff there, most of it electronic. If I find somebody reviewing something I like with more than 3 stars, I check out their Archive bookmarks to see if there's anything else worth listening to.
Some things are only free if you value your time at nothing.
What you mean to say is, "some free things take a lot of time to configure and learn, to the point that they're just not worth your time." In fact, the same can be said of much of the proprietary software out there. Try this:
"Some software takes a lot of time to configure and learn, to the point that it's just not worth it."
I know I am *much* more pissed off to use something that I paid for that fits this definition, especially something that locks up my data in a proprietary format so I can't get at it long after the company has dropped support for its product. This is the sort of thing I educate my customers about. They don't have to enjoy using open source software, they just have to be wise about using software, period.
Indeed. School used to be filled with logic and reasoning -- kids had to learn to think. Now schools are more interested in childrens' self-esteem and socialization.
That's because schools have had to pick up roles that were traditionally filled by the child's family. When we had stronger families (i.e. less thinking of marriage as a convenience that could be discarded, etc.), children tended to arrive at school ready to build higher skills on a foundation of support and a modicum of social adjustment. Now, schools have to start almost from ground zero with a large number of students, so less focus is given to higher skills. Read "Building a Bridge to the 18th Century" for more info...this is a big topic in education right now. And it's a worldwide problem, not just a U.S. problem.
Sounds like somebody needs to pick up a machine with Linux preinstalled. Try System76 or Dell...that ought to give you a better base to compare. I bought a Dell Ubuntu laptop and guess what, all the hardware works perfectly.
The fact that you can install Linux on a machine you already own, for free, is just icing on the cake and purely YMMV territory. Especially if you want to impress your wife.
Paint.net is missing a *lot* of features compared to GIMP. Last I checked it didn't even have a path tool..? The depth of features found in GIMP just wasn't there. If you like the Paint.net interface that much though, have at it.:-)
You like GMail's interface and integrated chat/calendar/documents. You like Google Reader. What are you supposed to do now that you know you've been sucked into it all? And where do you go that's more secure, knowing that DOJ owns your ISP anyway?
I "voted with my cash" as I've seen others mention, and ordered a Dell Ubuntu laptop. Best computing decision I've ever made, easily. If you are even entertaining the slightest thoughts about getting one, do it.
The machine made it through its first major presentation to clients today (not presenting the laptop, but presenting materials to the client) without a hitch. I've installed Kubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Enlightenment, and Fluxbox on it so far. I was really, *really* tempted to run Enlightenment during the presentation today, just because of the slick animations and minimal GUI.
I'm not the most talented Ubuntu apologist, but I think that most of us who should be using it, know who we are.
BTW, my non-techie wife uses this machine every day without problems.
The linked article reads more like a bug report. A badly-written bug report, too. Here's what will happen: The Automatix devs (or some other team under a different name) will fix the bugs and provide the software again.
This debate has its roots in the "repos vs. downloading binaries from wherever" debate, so the only thing left to complain about is the client software that does the "downloading from wherever." But bugs will be fixed and we're back to the old debate.
I've run Automatix on two systems and it's a very nice way to get software you need, just before you leave on vacation with your Ubuntu laptop. Moreover, you know the software is "good", meaning that if it's not in the official Ubuntu repos already, it's *better* than what you'll find in the official repos. That means you don't get to your trendy vacation hut in the bahamas without and internet connection, and realize you have the version of your favorite music/cd burning/etc. software that crashes on startup every time.
Anyway, you can tell me my system is tainted all you want, but that's just counterproductive. I know why I used it, I'm aware of the risks, I know how to troubleshoot, and I know an over-emotional bug report (a rant really, even if it does point out some nice bugs) when I see one. I'm not losing any sleep.
Definitely trackball. I use one, and I'm in graphic design. With that said though, I think mouse-level precision should be enough for any graphic designer. Thousands of graphic designers use mice every day. The best things about a trackball are, it's usable with your laptop too, so you can use the same pointing device when you're on the road, and you can use it on your lap when your cat is stretched out across your mousepad. Or you can place it on your chair's armrest and use it there. Anyway, you *never* have to move it around, which still gets me as the most amazing improvement over a mouse, ever.:)
*Casually forgetting to mention the several-month training period before I regained my mouse-level dexterity*
Last I checked, this stuff (dual head autoconf) will be taken care of within the next two Ubuntu releases as updated X.org technologies are put to work. Hand-editing xorg.conf will be a thing of the past, across the board (I mean, regardless of dual-head or not). Anyway, your problem is why I went with a larger monitor rather than the dual setup.
the big players who can leverage lots of applications without paying for all of the developers
Isn't that exact statement also true for the small players? In the mostly-proprietary days it was, "the big players can afford to leverage lots of applications because they can pay for the developers..." and now both sides have the benefit.
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You're right. The Windows 7 marketing team recently released research that shows a large part of their target audience watch "48 Hours Mysteries". Hence WinFS will be left out in favor of Reiser FS.
There are some interesting correlations there, comparing relative x-height and the feel of the typography from person to person. I'm not a professional typographer, but I teach basic typography units as part of computer graphics courses.
I'm guessing a pro typographer could easily see correlation among the examples. Designer-types often express in their handwriting what they desire their overall "vibe" to be. Since typography is abused so much, and there are so many edge cases to look after, it's only natural that the fonts that result look more stilted and less artsy than the handwriting that may have inspired them.
Related principle: Design students learn very early on not to set large bodies of type with decorative fonts.
It's too bad something like this has to be paid for with a regressive tax like the lottery. There's no reason why the poor should pay a disproportionate amount of the upkeep of this place.
It's sad, this guy had an I.Q. of 170 and it sounds from the article like his extreme potential was completely ruined by sexual abuse.
To me, treating this guy like he's some hacker god is borderline mockery. He had a right to live his life unmolested, and he lost that. And instead of helping him, the government spied on him.
When I look at my old collection of hacker books, I can still feel much of the pain that I felt as a child (never as extreme as sexual abuse) and I feel disgusted that Hollywood tried to make me feel like a genius because I was different and quirky and creative. In fact, if anything, my emotional pain put me at risk of not being able to use my potential at all.
Sorry to rain on the parade, but I found the show unlistenably crude at times. There's no way I would recommend this podcast to anyone except perhaps Linux users in the Navy with some spare time on their hands and a tendency to giggle at long-in-the-tooth inside jokes.
I actually gave up searching for Linux-related podcasts because of this show.
In fact I started using a Mac a year ago and I'm very happy with where I'm at right now.
(Actually that last sentence was a complete lie, but it felt appropriate somehow).
Observation: I am not involved in "ethical research."
Hypothesis: The rest of that sentence does not apply to me.
Conclusion: Never been a better time to be an evil scientist. >:-)
Blender Model Repository:
http://e2-productions.com/repository/modules/PDdownloads/
Art of Illusion is worth a look if the Blender interface is too daunting. It can export as .obj and extrude 2D shapes quite well...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_Illusion
Funny, I thought the conversation was about nutrients, not calories. Compare soda and fruit juice based on nutrients and you should (unless you're talking about Capri Sun or Sunny-D) come to the conclusion that yes, fruit juice is better for you. And it goes without saying that "balancing" a fruit-and-vegetable diet with hamburgers is something you really shouldn't be worried about. Or just be prepared to explain why your diet needs more enriched white bread, corn syrup condiments and carcinogenically enhanced (charred) meat. :)
And yet, not too many people have heard of the very intuitive software package Art of Illusion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_Illusion
Your post makes you sound like you would be a very good freelancer or consultant. I am a jack-of-all-trades freelancer, and I get scads of work of different sorts, and I love it.
Could you shoot a video of that and upload to Youtube? I think that would be a really neat bit of technology trivia to see in action.
Thanks, I just blew my eardrums out with that music. :-) Fun little game though.
I subscribe to the Archive.org netlabels RSS feed...there's some really good stuff there, most of it electronic. If I find somebody reviewing something I like with more than 3 stars, I check out their Archive bookmarks to see if there's anything else worth listening to.
What you mean to say is, "some free things take a lot of time to configure and learn, to the point that they're just not worth your time." In fact, the same can be said of much of the proprietary software out there. Try this:
"Some software takes a lot of time to configure and learn, to the point that it's just not worth it."
I know I am *much* more pissed off to use something that I paid for that fits this definition, especially something that locks up my data in a proprietary format so I can't get at it long after the company has dropped support for its product. This is the sort of thing I educate my customers about. They don't have to enjoy using open source software, they just have to be wise about using software, period.
Sounds like somebody needs to pick up a machine with Linux preinstalled. Try System76 or Dell...that ought to give you a better base to compare. I bought a Dell Ubuntu laptop and guess what, all the hardware works perfectly.
The fact that you can install Linux on a machine you already own, for free, is just icing on the cake and purely YMMV territory. Especially if you want to impress your wife.
Paint.net is missing a *lot* of features compared to GIMP. Last I checked it didn't even have a path tool..? The depth of features found in GIMP just wasn't there. If you like the Paint.net interface that much though, have at it. :-)
You like GMail's interface and integrated chat/calendar/documents. You like Google Reader. What are you supposed to do now that you know you've been sucked into it all? And where do you go that's more secure, knowing that DOJ owns your ISP anyway?
Seriously, somebody Doctorow me up some answers.
I "voted with my cash" as I've seen others mention, and ordered a Dell Ubuntu laptop. Best computing decision I've ever made, easily. If you are even entertaining the slightest thoughts about getting one, do it.
The machine made it through its first major presentation to clients today (not presenting the laptop, but presenting materials to the client) without a hitch. I've installed Kubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Enlightenment, and Fluxbox on it so far. I was really, *really* tempted to run Enlightenment during the presentation today, just because of the slick animations and minimal GUI.
I'm not the most talented Ubuntu apologist, but I think that most of us who should be using it, know who we are.
BTW, my non-techie wife uses this machine every day without problems.
The linked article reads more like a bug report. A badly-written bug report, too. Here's what will happen: The Automatix devs (or some other team under a different name) will fix the bugs and provide the software again.
This debate has its roots in the "repos vs. downloading binaries from wherever" debate, so the only thing left to complain about is the client software that does the "downloading from wherever." But bugs will be fixed and we're back to the old debate.
I've run Automatix on two systems and it's a very nice way to get software you need, just before you leave on vacation with your Ubuntu laptop. Moreover, you know the software is "good", meaning that if it's not in the official Ubuntu repos already, it's *better* than what you'll find in the official repos. That means you don't get to your trendy vacation hut in the bahamas without and internet connection, and realize you have the version of your favorite music/cd burning/etc. software that crashes on startup every time.
Anyway, you can tell me my system is tainted all you want, but that's just counterproductive. I know why I used it, I'm aware of the risks, I know how to troubleshoot, and I know an over-emotional bug report (a rant really, even if it does point out some nice bugs) when I see one. I'm not losing any sleep.
Definitely trackball. I use one, and I'm in graphic design. With that said though, I think mouse-level precision should be enough for any graphic designer. Thousands of graphic designers use mice every day. The best things about a trackball are, it's usable with your laptop too, so you can use the same pointing device when you're on the road, and you can use it on your lap when your cat is stretched out across your mousepad. Or you can place it on your chair's armrest and use it there. Anyway, you *never* have to move it around, which still gets me as the most amazing improvement over a mouse, ever. :)
*Casually forgetting to mention the several-month training period before I regained my mouse-level dexterity*
Last I checked, this stuff (dual head autoconf) will be taken care of within the next two Ubuntu releases as updated X.org technologies are put to work. Hand-editing xorg.conf will be a thing of the past, across the board (I mean, regardless of dual-head or not). Anyway, your problem is why I went with a larger monitor rather than the dual setup.
No, miyo and miro are both imperative, and miyou is the volitional.
Isn't that exact statement also true for the small players? In the mostly-proprietary days it was, "the big players can afford to leverage lots of applications because they can pay for the developers..." and now both sides have the benefit.