It's not Mozilla. In this picture, the titlebar clearly has two words and you can just make out it saying "Netscape Communicator". By comparing what's in the photo to a Mozilla running the 'classic' skin, you can see that it's not the same. Not to mention, the throbber isn't a Mozilla lizard icon, but the trademark Netscape 'N'.
My 1000Mhz Athlon -> 1450Mhz = 145% speed increase.
I would never say that overclocking is necessary, but it's still giving the same sort of performance boosts today as it did a few years ago. When I got my 1Ghz chip, 1.4Ghz Athlons weren't even available yet. And when they did come out, they were far more expensive than what I paid. My 'fancy cooling solution' is a Globalwin FOP-32. It doesn't sound like a hairdryer and it's quite efficient and cost me about US$15. So the cost benefits are definitely still there too.
Sounds like you need the (superior IMO) Blender Web Plugin. So far a beta is available for Linux and Windows, with SGI and MacOSX support on its way.
Not to mention the Blender creator software being available for Windows, Sun, Linux Alpha, Linux x86, PPC Linux, BSD x86, SGI and MacOSX soon to come. Oh and it's absolutely free.
Just to clarify something that may not be so clear - the gray pixels that AA adds isn't really interpolation per se - i.e. it doesn't make a guess based on the pixels around it.
Antialiasing approximates the colour of the pixel based on the proportion covered by the imaginary vector curve passing through that pixel.
For example, with no antialiasing, if a pixel would be partially covered by the mathematical vector curve of the font - the renderer would display a white pixel if 50% of that pixel was covered by the curve.
With antialiasing however, it's not an either/or black/white situation. If a pixel is partially covered by the edge vector of the glyph, it determines the colour to display for that pixel based on the proportion of the pixel covered. So if the imaginary curve of the font covered a small piece (say 10% worth) on the corner of the pixel, then the pixel would be drawn at 10% black. If the glyph theoretically covered up 80% of the pixel, then it would be drawn at 80% black. This way the curve can be approximated by using variations in colour, since there isn't any more resolution to use in displaying it.
This is the theory anyway AFAIK - I'm not too sure of the implementation details in xft for example. However most AA techniques I've heard of have involved rendering the image at double the size or something, and making the guesses on how much of the pixel is covered based on that larger image.
Miscorost's core collection of TrueType fonts (Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana, etc) are quite possibly the most well-built fonts in existence.
Well built for screen, that is. Even though they look very similar, just about any designer will choose Helvetica over Arial. The proportions and spacing are subtly, yet not insignificantly more even and easy on the eye. Of course Arial is an MS knock-off of Helvetica, so that's to be expected.
A similar idea is 'Photoshop Tennis' where the participants email back and forth a Photoshop file, adding new layers each time. The game ends when one person gives up or decides that any new additions will just make it worse. It's an experiment rather than a competition.
Or from a workstation user's (i.e. Me) perspective,
one has to ask what good a free kernel would be without a free desktop environment. Or a free file/web browser. Or free office/multimedia/* applications.
For me, software like KDE is far more important to me, and gets used far more often than compilers, debuggers and shells are (of course I know they're essential, just not for me). Should I be calling it KDE/Linux?
Because that's what the people running these streams are trying to support. They're not going to stream in OGG if less than 5% of the population can actually hear it. It's a waste of their resources. That's why I'm saying this is bad, because when content providers have to choose between OGG and WMA (since MP3 is encumbered), they won't give OGG a thought at all.
A compelling reason to move to Ogg Vorbis for those who have been holding out?
Unfortunately, apart from in some OSS circles, *nobody* knows about OGG. Apart from the fact that the name (whilst cool to us geeks) is confusing and bizarre to most people, it gets no publicity in the eyes of the people we should be encouraging to use it, and there is next to no audio available in OGG format.
All the companies who have been streaming MP3 (which has been relatively friendly to *nix) will just switch to WMA (Windows Media Audio) since AFAIK, Microsoft gives away the encoding tools for free (beer), and most people actually know about it and can play it with no fuss. This is *bad news* for free audio, not good.
I'm a bit of both (I use Linux and dabble in PHP, Python etc, whilst also being a graphic design student) and I'd have to say yes, the interface is a mess. I've had experience with a wide range of user interfaces and can usually adapt to something that's *different* (like Combustion, or Blender) but using the Gimp is frustrating for me - it's like they're deliberately making it difficult to do the most simple things. I must say though I've used it in a few circumstances where it has been wonderful, but the others just give you that annoying, frustrating feeling that makes you wonder why you are battling with it, rather than using it as a tool.
I don't know about you but I've never used a program that I didn't know nearly everything about it after 1 or 2 days of active usage. Gimp is incredibly easy. Of course, I think Linux is incredibly easy but that's another story altogether.
You must be some kind of average IQ idiot who can't figure things out by yourself.
You you've used Photoshop for 2 days, and you know everything about it? You can use and manipulate alpha masks on different layers? Export colour separations with correct trapping? Prepare for halftoning?
I suppose after 2 days you're also an expert in Maya, Blender, and other *really easy* programs that mere artists use?
And it's not just knowing what things do - that can be acheived by reading the manuals. It's knowing how things work, and how to use them to their greatest potential (in ways that aren't immediately obvious) that is important, and that's where a lot of the investment is.
But of course we're all just average IQ idiots without 1337 skills like yours, huh?
Actually no, people do use native images. Integration between PS and Illu is quite good, especially working with layered PSDs in Illustrator. While a lot of jobs will just take a flattened TIFF with no problems, there are many circumstances where using the native files is much more efficient.
And native format compatibility is important with other programs. I've just been working on an animation project, and being able to import my PSDs into Combustion (a digital video compositing software, like After Effects on steroids), whilst preserving layers etc. has been very useful.
They have a semi-monopoly over 'apple-ish' computers, but they have by no means a monopoly over computers/software/hardware in general, which is the issue at hand.
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How about you learn what K IO slaves are before making such comments, hmm?
Anime is a medium, not a genre.
It's not Mozilla. In this picture, the titlebar clearly has two words and you can just make out it saying "Netscape Communicator". By comparing what's in the photo to a Mozilla running the 'classic' skin, you can see that it's not the same. Not to mention, the throbber isn't a Mozilla lizard icon, but the trademark Netscape 'N'.
So indeed, it is quite puzzling.
Celeron300A -> 450Mhz = 150% speed increase.
My 1000Mhz Athlon -> 1450Mhz = 145% speed increase.
I would never say that overclocking is necessary, but it's still giving the same sort of performance boosts today as it did a few years ago. When I got my 1Ghz chip, 1.4Ghz Athlons weren't even available yet. And when they did come out, they were far more expensive than what I paid. My 'fancy cooling solution' is a Globalwin FOP-32. It doesn't sound like a hairdryer and it's quite efficient and cost me about US$15. So the cost benefits are definitely still there too.
I can make my whole user interface look exactly like MacOS 8 (which I do).
;)
With a working mac-style menu bar like KDE does, eh?
Sounds like you need the (superior IMO) Blender Web Plugin. So far a beta is available for Linux and Windows, with SGI and MacOSX support on its way.
Not to mention the Blender creator software being available for Windows, Sun, Linux Alpha, Linux x86, PPC Linux, BSD x86, SGI and MacOSX soon to come. Oh and it's absolutely free.
The civil engineering faculty at Sydney University has another (quite informative) analysis here:
http://www.civil.usyd.edu.au/wtc.htm
1337 :)
Just to clarify something that may not be so clear - the gray pixels that AA adds isn't really interpolation per se - i.e. it doesn't make a guess based on the pixels around it.
Antialiasing approximates the colour of the pixel based on the proportion covered by the imaginary vector curve passing through that pixel.
For example, with no antialiasing, if a pixel would be partially covered by the mathematical vector curve of the font - the renderer would display a white pixel if 50% of that pixel was covered by the curve.
With antialiasing however, it's not an either/or black/white situation. If a pixel is partially covered by the edge vector of the glyph, it determines the colour to display for that pixel based on the proportion of the pixel covered. So if the imaginary curve of the font covered a small piece (say 10% worth) on the corner of the pixel, then the pixel would be drawn at 10% black. If the glyph theoretically covered up 80% of the pixel, then it would be drawn at 80% black. This way the curve can be approximated by using variations in colour, since there isn't any more resolution to use in displaying it.
This is the theory anyway AFAIK - I'm not too sure of the implementation details in xft for example. However most AA techniques I've heard of have involved rendering the image at double the size or something, and making the guesses on how much of the pixel is covered based on that larger image.
Miscorost's core collection of TrueType fonts (Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana, etc) are quite possibly the most well-built fonts in existence.
Well built for screen, that is. Even though they look very similar, just about any designer will choose Helvetica over Arial. The proportions and spacing are subtly, yet not insignificantly more even and easy on the eye. Of course Arial is an MS knock-off of Helvetica, so that's to be expected.
I totally agree about the hinting though.
AFAIK, DivX doesn't stream.
What a great idea! I wonder why nobody has thought about doing something like that before?
A similar idea is 'Photoshop Tennis' where the participants email back and forth a Photoshop file, adding new layers each time. The game ends when one person gives up or decides that any new additions will just make it worse. It's an experiment rather than a competition.
Info and examples -here-
Or from a workstation user's (i.e. Me) perspective,
one has to ask what good a free kernel would be without a free desktop environment. Or a free file/web browser. Or free office/multimedia/* applications.
For me, software like KDE is far more important to me, and gets used far more often than compilers, debuggers and shells are (of course I know they're essential, just not for me). Should I be calling it KDE/Linux?
Why must Ogg Vorbis be used by the popular group?
Because that's what the people running these streams are trying to support. They're not going to stream in OGG if less than 5% of the population can actually hear it. It's a waste of their resources. That's why I'm saying this is bad, because when content providers have to choose between OGG and WMA (since MP3 is encumbered), they won't give OGG a thought at all.
A compelling reason to move to Ogg Vorbis for those who have been holding out?
Unfortunately, apart from in some OSS circles, *nobody* knows about OGG. Apart from the fact that the name (whilst cool to us geeks) is confusing and bizarre to most people, it gets no publicity in the eyes of the people we should be encouraging to use it, and there is next to no audio available in OGG format.
All the companies who have been streaming MP3 (which has been relatively friendly to *nix) will just switch to WMA (Windows Media Audio) since AFAIK, Microsoft gives away the encoding tools for free (beer), and most people actually know about it and can play it with no fuss. This is *bad news* for free audio, not good.
I'm a bit of both (I use Linux and dabble in PHP, Python etc, whilst also being a graphic design student) and I'd have to say yes, the interface is a mess. I've had experience with a wide range of user interfaces and can usually adapt to something that's *different* (like Combustion, or Blender) but using the Gimp is frustrating for me - it's like they're deliberately making it difficult to do the most simple things. I must say though I've used it in a few circumstances where it has been wonderful, but the others just give you that annoying, frustrating feeling that makes you wonder why you are battling with it, rather than using it as a tool.
I don't know about you but I've never used a program that I didn't know nearly everything about it after 1 or 2 days of active usage. Gimp is incredibly easy. Of course, I think Linux is incredibly easy but that's another story altogether.
You must be some kind of average IQ idiot who can't figure things out by yourself.
You you've used Photoshop for 2 days, and you know everything about it? You can use and manipulate alpha masks on different layers? Export colour separations with correct trapping? Prepare for halftoning?
I suppose after 2 days you're also an expert in Maya, Blender, and other *really easy* programs that mere artists use?
And it's not just knowing what things do - that can be acheived by reading the manuals. It's knowing how things work, and how to use them to their greatest potential (in ways that aren't immediately obvious) that is important, and that's where a lot of the investment is.
But of course we're all just average IQ idiots without 1337 skills like yours, huh?
Actually no, people do use native images. Integration between PS and Illu is quite good, especially working with layered PSDs in Illustrator. While a lot of jobs will just take a flattened TIFF with no problems, there are many circumstances where using the native files is much more efficient.
And native format compatibility is important with other programs. I've just been working on an animation project, and being able to import my PSDs into Combustion (a digital video compositing software, like After Effects on steroids), whilst preserving layers etc. has been very useful.
I bought a name recently for US$16. I use www.zoneedit.com for DNS, redirections, MX, blah blah blah.
You can have up to 5 zones free - not bad!
Whoever this Linus Trovalds is, I bet he's wondering why he's getting all this money sent to him :)
All your hellmouth post are belong to JonKatz .
"What are you doing, honey, and what are those groaning noises coming from the computer?"
..er.. exercising my vote to ..er.. make the internet a better place for our children..."
" *cough* Just
They have a semi-monopoly over 'apple-ish' computers, but they have by no means a monopoly over computers/software/hardware in general, which is the issue at hand.
me too.. /. has improved lately with the extra mods.
I've been a mod twice in the last few days. I actually think that the quality of