I always refer to it as the GNU Image Manipulation Program, and let others figure out the acronym for themselves. For brevity, I like to call it GNU IMP. Its official acronym has been the reason why it hasn't been adopted in two design departments I worked closely with (no, it wasn't usability, they never even tried it because "the GIMP" didn't sound like the kind of software a serious graphics designer should be associated with, despite the fact that they wouldn't have used half of the features available).
The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GNU IMP) isn't handicapped, nor does it have a strange leather fetish. IMP sounds better, but it's still less business-like.
... "no software implies pirated software" BS. I can buy a television without subscribing to cable TV service offered by Best Buy, why should a computer (for which there more options) be any different? Careful, Comcast might read this.
I have talked to many autistic children and this is only going to teach them how to mimic social skills rather than solve the problem.
Social skills are all about mimicry. Once someone can mimic the social norms of someone else, they are treated with less derision or fear, allowing them to learn (and hopefully mimic) more complex social skills. Even if this only brings kids a few steps along the spectrum, it's great! Asperger's beats full-on autism any day.
I'm a local Linux/Unix advocate. That's actually my _job_ (along with support et al). But I have a dirty little secret: Even though I use Linux for just about everything, including computer games, I keep MS windows around for some games that don't emulate well. Dual-booting isn't easy for Joe Six-pack, despite the fact that creating a dual-boot system is easy for Joe Six-pack (People get confused by the boot choices [that increase in number over time on some distros] or just the idea that they have to reboot to switch between OSes).
That said, I'm amazed at the people that stop by an AIGLX/Beryl demo box and play Sudoku and Pingus, asking where I bought the games, and they always walk away happy with some Ubuntu or knoppix CDs (even after learning that it _replaces_ MS windows [but doesn't have to]). Maybe it's just the hard core gamers that won't shift.
"GPLv2, or later" "or"
Remember, this isn't a programming language. It can mean both or and xor. User X would be within their rights to use program Y under such a license as only GPLv2 disregarding GPLvLater.
So was Captain America fighting for the Right to Bear (Super Soldier/Gamma-powered/Radioactive-Spider/Cosmic Ray Induced/X-Factor) Arms, and Richards & Stark are the eeeeevil political-party-X taking away that right? Weren't they just Thinking of the Children? Wouldn't Earth be better without vigilante superheros running around?
I'm reminded of a mindless X-men comic (one where they're still hiding out in Australia), and some aliens are about to attack. Most violent, conquering aliens steer clear of Marvel Earth for a couple reasons, which one young alien found out too late: This planet successfully repelled two attacks by Galactus, the World Eater, and is thought to be the birth place of the Dark Phoenix, the Star Killer. It's not a good idea to attack the planet. I'm also reminded of the Halloween episode of the Simpsons with the Monkey Paw. Lisa wishes for world peace, everyone destroys their guns, and Kang and Kodos begin to take over.
This whole Civil War sounds contrived, and contrived badly. Richards wouldn't react in the extreme like this; Stark might, but he'd sober up the next day and get right back on the wagon. It sounds like an X-men author decided to have the "Sentinels Future" come to life in the continuity, and used whatever he could to make it happen.
The SIMS could have made a lot of money with a "Friends" pack:
"Keep some twenty and thirty somethings living in $200,000 apartments while just drinking coffee all day."
"Hilarity ensues."
"I thought it was funnier than the episode where Joey had a drum set."
"He's her lobster!"
This is the reason I hate FreeCiv. I started playing it online, thinking it was turn-based, just like regular Civ, when suddenly, the enemy's troops attacked me on MY turn. That's the worst idea for a turn based game ever.
Will HP buy a Dell laptop, install Ubuntu, sell it to me, and support the hardware and OS? Sometimes Dell has the best choice in hardware (especially for an environment where everything else is Dell).
When a casino doesn't want to make an issue about being cheated, it's because they're cheating so many other people that it doesn't matter (and it would ruin profits by drawing attention).
Funny you mention that, I had an idea to do Turing Tests as captchas a while back (I called it Jury Captcha since you're judged by your peers). There are some obvious problems with it (like not being able to control the possibly objectionable content, and needing people to be active on the site before you can post), but if you want a simple way to determine if someone's human, it's better to have humans do it than a computer. Here's a copy/paste of the stream of conciousness I had on it:
I just thought of a strange idea for a captcha: IM/BB based. On a well-traversed site, you could have old-fashioned community Turing tests off to the side, and when Randomly assigned user number X at [hidden] IP gets a thumbs up, the user can make a post anonymously
Hey, another idea: if you could build a trustworthy name for your site, you could handle requests for other sites... so multiple sites could have a common IM captcha, thus increasing the body-count for testing. Still some possibilties for abuse...
even if you randomly pair the conversations, and require multiple thumbs-up, you could have bots giving each other thumbs-up
random three-four way conversations that are randomly meta-moderated? minimum two votes to kick for objectionable content in chat (abusable...)
And the result is that the scripts start being written to send some fields blank, possibly in successively greater amounts of blank fields in different configurations. You'd have to use something like ModSecurity to track the repeated attempts, then block the IP for a while. But... the script will eventually get through.
My guess is that the system writes its questions from something akin to prolog, and as a result, prolog (and a good enough knowledge DB, several of which are freely available for AI research) could easily do the same. The big problem for solving such a captcha would be the size of the knowledge DB that the attacker would have to spread amongst his/her botnet (assuming they want fully-distributed attacks).
I have not seen any translation of Isaiah 34:14 that does not mention a bird (never a woman, demon, or vampiress), and the Dead Sea Scrolls aren't exactly scripture (of less value than Talmud for reference).
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I always refer to it as the GNU Image Manipulation Program, and let others figure out the acronym for themselves. For brevity, I like to call it GNU IMP. Its official acronym has been the reason why it hasn't been adopted in two design departments I worked closely with (no, it wasn't usability, they never even tried it because "the GIMP" didn't sound like the kind of software a serious graphics designer should be associated with, despite the fact that they wouldn't have used half of the features available).
The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GNU IMP) isn't handicapped, nor does it have a strange leather fetish. IMP sounds better, but it's still less business-like.
... "no software implies pirated software" BS. I can buy a television without subscribing to cable TV service offered by Best Buy, why should a computer (for which there more options) be any different? Careful, Comcast might read this.Social skills are all about mimicry. Once someone can mimic the social norms of someone else, they are treated with less derision or fear, allowing them to learn (and hopefully mimic) more complex social skills. Even if this only brings kids a few steps along the spectrum, it's great! Asperger's beats full-on autism any day.
I'm a local Linux/Unix advocate. That's actually my _job_ (along with support et al). But I have a dirty little secret: Even though I use Linux for just about everything, including computer games, I keep MS windows around for some games that don't emulate well. Dual-booting isn't easy for Joe Six-pack, despite the fact that creating a dual-boot system is easy for Joe Six-pack (People get confused by the boot choices [that increase in number over time on some distros] or just the idea that they have to reboot to switch between OSes).
That said, I'm amazed at the people that stop by an AIGLX/Beryl demo box and play Sudoku and Pingus, asking where I bought the games, and they always walk away happy with some Ubuntu or knoppix CDs (even after learning that it _replaces_ MS windows [but doesn't have to]). Maybe it's just the hard core gamers that won't shift.
Remember, this isn't a programming language. It can mean both or and xor. User X would be within their rights to use program Y under such a license as only GPLv2 disregarding GPLvLater.
So was Captain America fighting for the Right to Bear (Super Soldier/Gamma-powered/Radioactive-Spider/Cosmic Ray Induced/X-Factor) Arms, and Richards & Stark are the eeeeevil political-party-X taking away that right? Weren't they just Thinking of the Children? Wouldn't Earth be better without vigilante superheros running around?
I'm reminded of a mindless X-men comic (one where they're still hiding out in Australia), and some aliens are about to attack. Most violent, conquering aliens steer clear of Marvel Earth for a couple reasons, which one young alien found out too late: This planet successfully repelled two attacks by Galactus, the World Eater, and is thought to be the birth place of the Dark Phoenix, the Star Killer. It's not a good idea to attack the planet.
I'm also reminded of the Halloween episode of the Simpsons with the Monkey Paw. Lisa wishes for world peace, everyone destroys their guns, and Kang and Kodos begin to take over.
This whole Civil War sounds contrived, and contrived badly. Richards wouldn't react in the extreme like this; Stark might, but he'd sober up the next day and get right back on the wagon. It sounds like an X-men author decided to have the "Sentinels Future" come to life in the continuity, and used whatever he could to make it happen.
Try increasing his coolness factor:o ochie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itchy_%26_Scratchy#P
I'm guessing he figured you were being purposely offensive to CNJ's; replace CNJ with X and you get the basic format of a troll comment.
;)
Oh, and for full disclosure: I'm a CNJ you insensitive clod!
You and this gentleman must be kindred spirits:s trophe_abusers.html
http://www.wgz.org/chromatic/projects/emperor/apo
The SIMS could have made a lot of money with a "Friends" pack:
"Keep some twenty and thirty somethings living in $200,000 apartments while just drinking coffee all day."
"Hilarity ensues."
"I thought it was funnier than the episode where Joey had a drum set."
"He's her lobster!"
This is the reason I hate FreeCiv. I started playing it online, thinking it was turn-based, just like regular Civ, when suddenly, the enemy's troops attacked me on MY turn. That's the worst idea for a turn based game ever.
I for one welcome our educated processed meat overlords.
Heh, I've used the name Moonlight to refer to Moonlight|3D / Moonlight Atelier. I suppose I need to start emphasizing the 3D part.
Maybe Microsoft could adopt a Gentoo compile-everything model to make Windows more stable... oh wait, never mind.
They've even taken to using shoddy electronics, and using multiple types of components within a product line (so parts don't replace as easily).
Will HP buy a Dell laptop, install Ubuntu, sell it to me, and support the hardware and OS? Sometimes Dell has the best choice in hardware (especially for an environment where everything else is Dell).
If they're clueful at all, they'd submit a story about slashdot, complete with a link. Has slashdot ever been slashdotted?
When a casino doesn't want to make an issue about being cheated, it's because they're cheating so many other people that it doesn't matter (and it would ruin profits by drawing attention).
Good point; didn't think about that. Otherwise, the Turing Test would become the SPAM-field. Oh well, back to the drawering board.
This is just as good as releasing redacted data in the undo history of an MS-Office file. I would laugh if it weren't my government doing this.
Funny you mention that, I had an idea to do Turing Tests as captchas a while back (I called it Jury Captcha since you're judged by your peers). There are some obvious problems with it (like not being able to control the possibly objectionable content, and needing people to be active on the site before you can post), but if you want a simple way to determine if someone's human, it's better to have humans do it than a computer. Here's a copy/paste of the stream of conciousness I had on it:
I just thought of a strange idea for a captcha: IM/BB based. On a well-traversed site, you could have old-fashioned community Turing tests off to the side, and when Randomly assigned user number X at [hidden] IP gets a thumbs up, the user can make a post anonymously
Hey, another idea: if you could build a trustworthy name for your site, you could handle requests for other sites... so multiple sites could have a common IM captcha, thus increasing the body-count for testing. Still some possibilties for abuse...
even if you randomly pair the conversations, and require multiple thumbs-up, you could have bots giving each other thumbs-up
random three-four way conversations that are randomly meta-moderated? minimum two votes to kick for objectionable content in chat (abusable...)
What's yellow and dangerous?
Yellow Mold. "Save versus poison... okay, half the party dies."
And the result is that the scripts start being written to send some fields blank, possibly in successively greater amounts of blank fields in different configurations. You'd have to use something like ModSecurity to track the repeated attempts, then block the IP for a while. But... the script will eventually get through.
My guess is that the system writes its questions from something akin to prolog, and as a result, prolog (and a good enough knowledge DB, several of which are freely available for AI research) could easily do the same. The big problem for solving such a captcha would be the size of the knowledge DB that the attacker would have to spread amongst his/her botnet (assuming they want fully-distributed attacks).
I have not seen any translation of Isaiah 34:14 that does not mention a bird (never a woman, demon, or vampiress), and the Dead Sea Scrolls aren't exactly scripture (of less value than Talmud for reference).