Why use Darwin when you can use FreeBSD. X had Aqua so there is a reason to use it. Why develop software for Apple to get rich on and get nothing in return? Do I look stoopid? Do I smell bad? Huh?
It doesn't do animation, it's closed and it doesn't even compress down as small as gif. Have any of you acturally tried this thing? It sucks. It's like that jpeg 2000. It's not even as good as the old jpeg but they still managed to fool enough people to turn it into a standard. It's just a railroad job and they are winning.
I predict that the next great world war will begin as a civil war in the US and spread from there to the entire world. On one side will be the Unix factions including Linux, BSD and the new member MacOSX (yea, prolly beos too). On the other side will be all the various flavors of Windows. The war will begin as a Troll on Slashdot and slowly degrade to low level guerrilla warfare including cracking of servers, defacing company websites etc. The huge amounts of money involved will necesitate an escalation into all out warfare with the US Army being on the MS side and China monetarilly backing the Unixes. The only one's who survive in the US will be Quaker farmers in Pennsylvania.
actually, most new RIPs will do RGB to CMYK color conversion on the fly. Quark 4.11 will also do RGB to CMYK color conversion. So if Gimp doesn't do CMYK....who cares? Not me.
(Prepress Manager by trade)
I manage a prepress department where color issues and color calibration are very important. The Mac and to a lesser extent Window have color calibration built into the OS. I don't know of any ICC profiling or calibration for Linux, but I haven't used Gimp in a while either so I don't remember. In any case an ICC profile or other file for monitor calibration is only the first step and lacking built in profiling you can alway purchase a monitor which has this ability built in. Some on the Mistubishi monitors for example. Understand that any time you change the lighting in your room recalibration will be required in order to maintain absolute color accuracy. You probably don't really need this accuracy and I recommend that you get a monity wich gamma correction built in, create a graphic with lots of colors in it (the more diversity of color the better), take that graphic on disk (or ftp) to a graphics service bureau and have them output a digital on their color corrected equipment. Put your room in the most commonly used lighting setup, hold your digital next to your monitor and adjust the gamma correction settings on you monitor until you get pretty good match. It is better to go a little dark that a little light. Paritcilary watch the reds and the blues. Also remeber that Gimp uses the RGB color space exclusively and the digital is output on a CMYK printer which has a smaller color space (is capable of fewer colors). When you get a good match between your digital and your monitor you are 95-97% as accurate as the big boys with thousands of dollars worth of color calibration equipment.
Oh great, now when my cell phone is on and I accidentally hit a few buttons I'll have to explain to my wife where all the ups packages came from. I knew "automatic buying" was coming. Now it's here. I think it sucks.
I dunno, it just doesn't seem right. You try holding your neck horizontal for a while. After a few minutes your heart will get strained from the effort and you will go back to vertical. It just doesn't seem right.
If you encrypt a message and send it away while keeping a copy for yourself and someone makes a copy of your message and trys to crack it you would know immediatly because their actions would alter your original copy and you could trash their copy by altering your copy? eh?
I saw the previews for Junkyard Wars and wanted to see it then, but I missed it. I just went to tlc's web site and did a search for "Junkyard Wars". It couldn't find it. I found the TV listings page, and did a seach from there. Found it. Went to the page. Found a link that gives showtimes. Instead of giving me a date and time it put me back at the daily tv listings, and not the day of the show, but todays listing. Like I'm going to go through day by day listings to find a show that may or may not be there and I may or may not be able to find if it does. What a crappy site. Pretty pictures: 10 usability: 0
I think they should have bought Be. It would have had a more consistent interface for Mac users, the stability and speed, and a command line. I have been using OSX for all of one day now. It's OK. Apple needed to do something. Maybe they'll release OS9 under the GPL now. Now that would be cool.
I'm sorry, but I can't even begin to imagine such gross ignorance. It boggles my mind. Hitler couldn't have done half of brainwashing to accomplish this level of ignorance in his wildest dreams. THIS is scary.
The G4's don't overclock well. Overclock a G3. By the way, in a side by side comparison my 400 mghz G4 is significantly faster than a 400 mghz Pentium II. Disk IO on the PC, though, blows the doors off the Apple. Just wanted to set the record straight.
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Why use Darwin when you can use FreeBSD. X had Aqua so there is a reason to use it. Why develop software for Apple to get rich on and get nothing in return? Do I look stoopid? Do I smell bad? Huh?
This autogen company scares me. They were do illegal genetic research on... No wait, that was a James Bond movie. Sorry. Never mind.
It doesn't do animation, it's closed and it doesn't even compress down as small as gif. Have any of you acturally tried this thing? It sucks. It's like that jpeg 2000. It's not even as good as the old jpeg but they still managed to fool enough people to turn it into a standard. It's just a railroad job and they are winning.
I don't read artilces in Dr Dobbs anymore. It's a waste of time.
I predict that the next great world war will begin as a civil war in the US and spread from there to the entire world. On one side will be the Unix factions including Linux, BSD and the new member MacOSX (yea, prolly beos too). On the other side will be all the various flavors of Windows. The war will begin as a Troll on Slashdot and slowly degrade to low level guerrilla warfare including cracking of servers, defacing company websites etc. The huge amounts of money involved will necesitate an escalation into all out warfare with the US Army being on the MS side and China monetarilly backing the Unixes. The only one's who survive in the US will be Quaker farmers in Pennsylvania.
actually, most new RIPs will do RGB to CMYK color conversion on the fly. Quark 4.11 will also do RGB to CMYK color conversion. So if Gimp doesn't do CMYK....who cares? Not me. (Prepress Manager by trade)
I manage a prepress department where color issues and color calibration are very important. The Mac and to a lesser extent Window have color calibration built into the OS. I don't know of any ICC profiling or calibration for Linux, but I haven't used Gimp in a while either so I don't remember. In any case an ICC profile or other file for monitor calibration is only the first step and lacking built in profiling you can alway purchase a monitor which has this ability built in. Some on the Mistubishi monitors for example. Understand that any time you change the lighting in your room recalibration will be required in order to maintain absolute color accuracy. You probably don't really need this accuracy and I recommend that you get a monity wich gamma correction built in, create a graphic with lots of colors in it (the more diversity of color the better), take that graphic on disk (or ftp) to a graphics service bureau and have them output a digital on their color corrected equipment. Put your room in the most commonly used lighting setup, hold your digital next to your monitor and adjust the gamma correction settings on you monitor until you get pretty good match. It is better to go a little dark that a little light. Paritcilary watch the reds and the blues. Also remeber that Gimp uses the RGB color space exclusively and the digital is output on a CMYK printer which has a smaller color space (is capable of fewer colors). When you get a good match between your digital and your monitor you are 95-97% as accurate as the big boys with thousands of dollars worth of color calibration equipment.
Oh great, now when my cell phone is on and I accidentally hit a few buttons I'll have to explain to my wife where all the ups packages came from. I knew "automatic buying" was coming. Now it's here. I think it sucks.
I like the one about less gravity back then being proof about the bicameral mind.
I dunno, it just doesn't seem right. You try holding your neck horizontal for a while. After a few minutes your heart will get strained from the effort and you will go back to vertical. It just doesn't seem right.
If you encrypt a message and send it away while keeping a copy for yourself and someone makes a copy of your message and trys to crack it you would know immediatly because their actions would alter your original copy and you could trash their copy by altering your copy? eh?
damn skippy. Moderate this up.
About 200 years ago.
I saw the previews for Junkyard Wars and wanted to see it then, but I missed it. I just went to tlc's web site and did a search for "Junkyard Wars". It couldn't find it. I found the TV listings page, and did a seach from there. Found it. Went to the page. Found a link that gives showtimes. Instead of giving me a date and time it put me back at the daily tv listings, and not the day of the show, but todays listing. Like I'm going to go through day by day listings to find a show that may or may not be there and I may or may not be able to find if it does. What a crappy site. Pretty pictures: 10 usability: 0
I think they should have bought Be. It would have had a more consistent interface for Mac users, the stability and speed, and a command line. I have been using OSX for all of one day now. It's OK. Apple needed to do something. Maybe they'll release OS9 under the GPL now. Now that would be cool.
I'm sorry, but I can't even begin to imagine such gross ignorance. It boggles my mind. Hitler couldn't have done half of brainwashing to accomplish this level of ignorance in his wildest dreams. THIS is scary.
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The G4's don't overclock well. Overclock a G3. By the way, in a side by side comparison my 400 mghz G4 is significantly faster than a 400 mghz Pentium II. Disk IO on the PC, though, blows the doors off the Apple. Just wanted to set the record straight.