So you're paying every site you visit for the service provided to you, which causes operating costs? Since not every site even has an option to pay, you're likely mooching from a high horse.
Overwrite is akin to Save but only appears when you've loaded a non-GIMP format. Export is always available and is akin to Save As.... They don't switch around - the only variation is that Overwrite is greyed out for being redundant with Save if you didn't start with a non-XCF file.
It could be simplified, but it's easy to see that Overwrite foo.png won't preserve everything you're looking at (e.g. layers and objects) like Save does; it's more like re-exporting to the raster format it came from.
Then again, there are much bigger faults in GIMP than menu item naming.
Compare it with Blender, with a healthy and energetic user and developer base, a continuous flow of real and useful new features, and a rapidly growing and actively using user base.
Feel free to correct me, but GIMP doesn't have the kind of sponsors that Blender has. But the help you get in the forums involves a lot of "works for me" defensiveness and that drives users away.
The day GIMP started trying to force people to save in its own proprietary format (to the great unhappiness of a large portion of its user base) rather than the format the file was OPENED in pretty much marks its death.
Native, not proprietary (the spec is out there and you're free to write readers/writers for it). Do you know of any other open format that preserves the structure of a GIMP doc?
As for writing back to the original format, I just opened a random PNG to double-check. Sure enough, under the File menu, Save (Control-S) and Save As... are for saving to XCF (so you don't lose any GIMP features you've built on top of it). Then you have Overwrite foo.png which does exactly what you want and Export As... which lets you pick a new name. Just remember that, just like with Libre|OpenOffice, opening another format is actually an import operation.
That's not where my gripes lie. For example, using the Text tool is akin to waltzing on a messy car repair shop and the font picker is an unhelpful eyesore. Installing plugins is anything but foolproof. My memory fails me right now but I'm sure you guys can pick up from here.
I use Perl everyday, and when I was learning I searched for what I recognized in the snippet. So 'perl join', 'perl special variables' and 'perl substitute operator' would've been my queries, because the first things you learn in Perl are to identify basic syntax and to match/substitute text.
Perl code was never meant to be self-explanatory, not any more than regular expressions. You learn a bit of Perl *before* reading Perl code.
You're not supposed to understand that intermediate-level mess just by looking before having learned a bit of Perl, anyway. Like regular expressions, Perl code was never designed to be self-explanatory.
The Sun doesn't go up earlier near the Equator; the length of the day is just more constant throughout the year compared to regions closer to the poles. If anything, it's closer to the poles where sunlight can last as long as 18 hours (or as little as 6) depending on the season.
Assuming it's true and representative of most companies holding onto Flash, who knows.
I'd simply say it's not a priority for us right now, plus HTML5 based solutions have only recent become usable (YouTube still has some snags that require reloading the page).
For many site owners, Flash isn't really broken - their video / audio players, animations, interactive displays and games work with enough users that they don't feel pressured to do them over again. Even video sites that support mobile browsers by serving HTML5 video and direct links to the.mp4 keep their Flash players alive in the full pages.
It's in TFA (2nd link). The peak positive pressure of the N-shaped waveform was reduced to less than half and the peak underpressure to about 2/3 compared to a conventional cone.
Interestingly, the Dice pieces linked close like this:
Conclusion
I’m obviously not a fan of formal certification. While many jobs require one or more, lots of tech pros have forged perfectly fine careers without them. Don’t let the complicated world of certificates impede you from pursuing what you want.
and
Certifications Only Prove One Thing
Malik’s supervisor, who worked his way up through the tech-industry ranks for 20 years without ever earning a certification, asked him how a career powered by certifications compares to one built primarily on real-life experience. Malik said anyone can pass a test given enough time to prepare for it; but that being said, certifications allow you to apply and interview for a role from a position of strength.
The answer of whether or not to certify is more nuanced than a simple yes or no. Take Sarin, for instance, who suggests companies look for employee traits that can be encouraged or cultivated beyond what they might learn as part of the test-taking process, even as they encourage employees to earn certifications while on the job.
What ultimately matters is if the candidate’s opinions about certifications align with those of the hiring manager. But with certification requirements not exactly going away, why not play it safe and take on the extra effort? If you guess wrong and skip getting the certification, you could lose out to the person who passed the test.
And the non-Dice article is the one that recommends some certifications.
But of course the actual content shouldn't get in the way of a good rant.
The “encounter program” includes software to prohibit the very type of automated safe mode that New Horizons executed Saturday afternoon.
“Encounter mode short-circuits the on board intelligent autopilot so that if something goes wrong, instead of calling home for help, which is what most spacecraft do and what New Horizons does during cruise flight, it will just stay on the timeline. It will try to fix the problem, but it will rejoin the timeline because if it ‘went fetal,’ as we say, if it just called home for help, it could miss the flyby,” New Horizons lead scientist Alan Stern told Discovery News before Saturday’s problem.
Turning smartphones into sonar devices to monitor movements. I'm torn between "this is really cool!" and "these people are so full of shit and just trying to publish something to get tenure!"
I wonder how they solve the problems of directional discrimination without multiple microphones? How can they tell what direction a response comes from, with only one mic?
They don't, and they don't need to. Think of the ultrasound motion sensors in car / room alarms: if you emit chirps inside a closed volume they'll bounce off everything solid, and the pattern received at any point depends on everything inside, so you'll know if something moves. If you can keep track of the changes, you know if it's moving rhythmically and at what rate. Using multiple frequencies makes it more sensitive to changes, roughly speaking.
And how do they intend to make this work on multiple phones, for that matter...with their vast differences in both microphone and speaker setups? I'm really skeptical of this.
They also talk about using ultrasonic frequencies...which I also doubt most phones can actually produce.
Again, no need. Put on some earplugs, or stick your head in a box, and you'll still recognize the beat of your favourite song in drastically altered acoustical conditions. The app is not measuring the transfer function to compare against some carefully calibrated curve, but the changes that tell it that something's moving, and with some smart processing it can tell apart your respiratory movements from the cat wandering in. A second person in the room might throw it off, though.
They also talk about using ultrasonic frequencies...which I also doubt most phones can actually produce.
This is the part that got me wondering. A cursory Google search gave me plots like this and this for the speaker and this one for the mic (yeah, condenser microphones have a pretty good range). So for this particular bit my answer is "feasible, and effectively inaudible if you're over 30".
You may love it, but for others it is absolutely horrendous! The problem arises when you have an intranet, and wish to go to internal websites.
Um, I'm behind a proxy and apparently for single-word queries it launches a search ahead of time. Meanwhile:
* if the word resolves to a hostname, Firefox asks me "Did you mean to go to 'foo'? [Yes, take me to 'foo'] / [No, thanks].
- if I say Yes it sets browser.fixup.domainwhitelist.foo = true and the prompt is suppressed the next time I enter this word.
- if I say No the prompt closes and I'm left at the search it already did. Nothing is changed.
* if it doesn't resolve, no prompt is shown (though the proxy might still process it since it will try to resolve the name on its own).
It should wait for my answer before attempting a search. Queries with a whitespace before the/any "/" first result in a search because that can't possibly be a valid URL.
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If you're not paying a site for the service or contributing content, and are not allowing any ads, you're freeloading on their dollar.
So you're paying every site you visit for the service provided to you, which causes operating costs? Since not every site even has an option to pay, you're likely mooching from a high horse.
Which are slower than ballistic ammo and are stopped by bulkheads and doors. Also, no blaster grenades?
Betteridge's law of headlines doesn't look so good now, does it?
Overwrite is akin to Save but only appears when you've loaded a non-GIMP format. Export is always available and is akin to Save As.... They don't switch around - the only variation is that Overwrite is greyed out for being redundant with Save if you didn't start with a non-XCF file.
It could be simplified, but it's easy to see that Overwrite foo.png won't preserve everything you're looking at (e.g. layers and objects) like Save does; it's more like re-exporting to the raster format it came from.
Then again, there are much bigger faults in GIMP than menu item naming.
Compare it with Blender, with a healthy and energetic user and developer base, a continuous flow of real and useful new features, and a rapidly growing and actively using user base.
Feel free to correct me, but GIMP doesn't have the kind of sponsors that Blender has. But the help you get in the forums involves a lot of "works for me" defensiveness and that drives users away.
The day GIMP started trying to force people to save in its own proprietary format (to the great unhappiness of a large portion of its user base) rather than the format the file was OPENED in pretty much marks its death.
Native, not proprietary (the spec is out there and you're free to write readers/writers for it). Do you know of any other open format that preserves the structure of a GIMP doc?
As for writing back to the original format, I just opened a random PNG to double-check. Sure enough, under the File menu, Save (Control-S) and Save As... are for saving to XCF (so you don't lose any GIMP features you've built on top of it). Then you have Overwrite foo.png which does exactly what you want and Export As... which lets you pick a new name. Just remember that, just like with Libre|OpenOffice, opening another format is actually an import operation.
That's not where my gripes lie. For example, using the Text tool is akin to waltzing on a messy car repair shop and the font picker is an unhelpful eyesore. Installing plugins is anything but foolproof. My memory fails me right now but I'm sure you guys can pick up from here.
Heh. Some experimentation may be required, but the same happens with regexes and C/C++ declarations and casts.
I use Perl everyday, and when I was learning I searched for what I recognized in the snippet. So 'perl join', 'perl special variables' and 'perl substitute operator' would've been my queries, because the first things you learn in Perl are to identify basic syntax and to match/substitute text.
Perl code was never meant to be self-explanatory, not any more than regular expressions. You learn a bit of Perl *before* reading Perl code.
I only had trouble with the $-somethings, but here you go, in order of appearance:
http://perldoc.perl.org/functi...
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlop...
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlva...
You're not supposed to understand that intermediate-level mess just by looking before having learned a bit of Perl, anyway. Like regular expressions, Perl code was never designed to be self-explanatory.
The Sun doesn't go up earlier near the Equator; the length of the day is just more constant throughout the year compared to regions closer to the poles. If anything, it's closer to the poles where sunlight can last as long as 18 hours (or as little as 6) depending on the season.
Case in point, Namibia is located around 22 S and sunrise is at 6:16 currently due to “winter”; Bolivia is around 17 S and sunrise is at 6:02. Here in Caracas (10 N) the Sun came up at 5:46.
volunteer software engineers with no teaching experience into high schools to teach kids and their teachers computer science
It's like they're trying to put kids off CS before they even have to choose.
Assuming it's true and representative of most companies holding onto Flash, who knows.
I'd simply say it's not a priority for us right now, plus HTML5 based solutions have only recent become usable (YouTube still has some snags that require reloading the page).
For many site owners, Flash isn't really broken - their video / audio players, animations, interactive displays and games work with enough users that they don't feel pressured to do them over again. Even video sites that support mobile browsers by serving HTML5 video and direct links to the .mp4 keep their Flash players alive in the full pages.
100 Grand
3 Musketeers
5 (gum)
5-Hour Energy (I've had phones like that)
7-Up
No love for even numbers ):
It's in TFA (2nd link). The peak positive pressure of the N-shaped waveform was reduced to less than half and the peak underpressure to about 2/3 compared to a conventional cone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
Interestingly, the Dice pieces linked close like this:
Conclusion
I’m obviously not a fan of formal certification. While many jobs require one or more, lots of tech pros have forged perfectly fine careers without them. Don’t let the complicated world of certificates impede you from pursuing what you want.
and
Certifications Only Prove One Thing
Malik’s supervisor, who worked his way up through the tech-industry ranks for 20 years without ever earning a certification, asked him how a career powered by certifications compares to one built primarily on real-life experience. Malik said anyone can pass a test given enough time to prepare for it; but that being said, certifications allow you to apply and interview for a role from a position of strength.
The answer of whether or not to certify is more nuanced than a simple yes or no. Take Sarin, for instance, who suggests companies look for employee traits that can be encouraged or cultivated beyond what they might learn as part of the test-taking process, even as they encourage employees to earn certifications while on the job.
What ultimately matters is if the candidate’s opinions about certifications align with those of the hiring manager. But with certification requirements not exactly going away, why not play it safe and take on the extra effort? If you guess wrong and skip getting the certification, you could lose out to the person who passed the test.
And the non-Dice article is the one that recommends some certifications.
But of course the actual content shouldn't get in the way of a good rant.
Listen, kiddo, Slashdot is a Dice Holdings property and you don't expect it to publish their owners' content?
One day I'll want to visit your fantasy world, but in this one Slashdot wouldn't have been sold to Dice if it was profitable.
an unadorned robot ball [...] is about the least threatening robot
Ahem...
The article is too scant. Here's a better one.
From T(rather brief)FA:
The “encounter program” includes software to prohibit the very type of automated safe mode that New Horizons executed Saturday afternoon.
“Encounter mode short-circuits the on board intelligent autopilot so that if something goes wrong, instead of calling home for help, which is what most spacecraft do and what New Horizons does during cruise flight, it will just stay on the timeline. It will try to fix the problem, but it will rejoin the timeline because if it ‘went fetal,’ as we say, if it just called home for help, it could miss the flyby,” New Horizons lead scientist Alan Stern told Discovery News before Saturday’s problem.
Dilberito (archived copy)
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Turning smartphones into sonar devices to monitor movements. I'm torn between "this is really cool!" and "these people are so full of shit and just trying to publish something to get tenure!"
I wonder how they solve the problems of directional discrimination without multiple microphones? How can they tell what direction a response comes from, with only one mic?
They don't, and they don't need to. Think of the ultrasound motion sensors in car / room alarms: if you emit chirps inside a closed volume they'll bounce off everything solid, and the pattern received at any point depends on everything inside, so you'll know if something moves. If you can keep track of the changes, you know if it's moving rhythmically and at what rate. Using multiple frequencies makes it more sensitive to changes, roughly speaking.
And how do they intend to make this work on multiple phones, for that matter...with their vast differences in both microphone and speaker setups? I'm really skeptical of this.
They also talk about using ultrasonic frequencies...which I also doubt most phones can actually produce.
Again, no need. Put on some earplugs, or stick your head in a box, and you'll still recognize the beat of your favourite song in drastically altered acoustical conditions. The app is not measuring the transfer function to compare against some carefully calibrated curve, but the changes that tell it that something's moving, and with some smart processing it can tell apart your respiratory movements from the cat wandering in. A second person in the room might throw it off, though.
They also talk about using ultrasonic frequencies...which I also doubt most phones can actually produce.
This is the part that got me wondering. A cursory Google search gave me plots like this and this for the speaker and this one for the mic (yeah, condenser microphones have a pretty good range). So for this particular bit my answer is "feasible, and effectively inaudible if you're over 30".
You may love it, but for others it is absolutely horrendous! The problem arises when you have an intranet, and wish to go to internal websites.
Um, I'm behind a proxy and apparently for single-word queries it launches a search ahead of time. Meanwhile:
It should wait for my answer before attempting a search. Queries with a whitespace before the/any "/" first result in a search because that can't possibly be a valid URL.
Time to check Bugzilla.