Compared to navigating to a competitor's website that works in $browser? For the average non-technical person, or the office drone locked down to IE6, the answer is yes.
I think the best way to learn Blender is to follow along with one of the thousands of free video tutorials found on Vimeo, YouTube, or some of my favorites:
As opposed to the teenage dipshits who are attacked by glittery "plugins" for their MySpace page. Most people are completely clueless about how they get attacked - It's got nothing to do with age at all.
I can believe it just fine. I just opened a 3 page paper I'm working on, and my citations moved around on me between saving the document on Tuesday and opening it today - all on the same machine. Somehow, the kerning grew in the intervening time. It was noticeable because it shunted a word down to the second line, and MLA requires the second line of a citation to be indented. I'd have been dinged a few points for that if I hadn't checked before turning in the paper.
Seriously. By frivolously calling because your water tastes bad, you're potentially drawing rescue personnel away from a real rescue. Somebody could _die_ either rescuing your sorry ass, or somebody in a real emergency could die because the rescue crews were dealing with you. Maybe a few days in jail would help you think about it.
Flying into Islamabad, Pakistan, the flight attendant announced that it was illegal to take aerial photos. Sad to hear this nonsense is coming to a country that should know better.
I can't tell if you're using hyperbole, made a mistake, or just don't know what a megabyte is. I seriously doubt you have 100 gigabytes of RAM on your system.
You're not in school either. I'm stuck with a bunch of online courses that require the use of Internet Explorer 6 or 7. Blackboard mostly works under Firefox and IE8, but not completely. MyItLab absolutely requires IE7.
I'm by no means a Photoshop power user, but I can get around in it and use it just fine. Personally, I'm much more comfortable in GIMP's UI setup at the moment.
For example, the single window paradigm doesn't take advantage of Compiz's present windows feature. With my current KDE setup, I mouse to the lower right corner of the screen and it lays out all the windows in the workspace. Click on one, and off you go. With Photoshop, You have to sift through the windows manually.
Honestly, I'm thinking it's just what you're used to using that makes you like one or the other, and it looks like GIMP will be giving us a choice between single and multi window in the near future. The single window mockups look rather good, and more usable than Photoshop in my opinion.
Honestly, I think what GIMP really needs is 16 bits/channel image support (WTF guys?), adjustment layers, etc. That's what still keeps me opening up Photoshop, not the UI.
One thing you should consider is that OpenOffice, while supporting Word documents, doesn't support annotations to Word documents. My wife ran into this at her school. The prof wants her to turn in her assignments in MS-Word format, and then add annotations to parts of the document. When she gets the assignment back, she can't read the annotations. She's perfectly happy using Linux whenever she can, but in this case, Windows was required. (Yeah, I know about Crossover Office, but the license fee isn't worth it when you can simply install XP for a few dollars more.)
If cities are shortening the timing of yellow lights just to increase revenue, passing this law will have the added benefit of maybe saving a few lives.
The chicken/egg problem is that not enough people have linux running in the first place in part because there are no games for it. I've toyed around with the idea of installing a copy of Windows XP, specifically to play some games, but the hassle of installing/maintaining Windows, not to mention the cost, hasn't been worth it when I have a half dozen games that already run native in Linux. If you're more of a hard core gamer than I am, you probably will already have Windows, and won't go to the hassle of installing Linux.
Huh, I'm running at exactly the same resolution with no trouble at all. It makes a 800x600 viewport on my left monitor (like all my other fullscreen games) I'm guessing you need to tweak your xorg.conf file. (mine required a lot of tweaking to get it to play fullscreen games like ut2004)
I always hated that quote. How about "those who do can't teach".
The thing that people often forget is that teaching itself is a serious talent/skill. Just as often, as a twit teacher, you'll find the knowledgeable people who can't communicate an idea if their lives depended upon it.
Ideally, you get someone who knows their subject and has a passion for teaching. Unfortunately, those people are quite rare.
The answer to the Verizon situation is to call up customer support and get the PPP username and password and enter it into your router manually. Since the Verizon installation CD has a whole shitload of flash presentations explaining the difference between a power cord, phone cord and ethernet cord that need to be skipped through by clicking the mouse a million times, the pain of being on the phone with customer support is about the same. The actual entering of the username/password takes about 30 seconds including firing up Firefox. On the other hand, I have my doubts that this person would have understood how to do this. I doubt the support technicians would have been able to walk it through with her either. (the guy I got on the phone last time sounded a bit panicked when I told him I was using Linux to set up my DSL)
Openoffice most definitely DOES come with Ubuntu, and if, for some reason, Dell didn't ship OO with it, it's a simple installation via Synaptic. The Dell support folks should have know that.
One thing that my wife has had trouble with in her online courses (besides Blackboard being super slow in Firefox) is that Openoffice can't read annotations put in her papers by her professors and vice versa, because the professors use Word. It would be really nice if colleges would switch to some sort of open format for this sort of thing!
The problem in all the above is that most people are entirely unaware of Microsoft's incompatibility/lock-in games.
I wouldn't go that far. In fact, I bought the Lugaru game mentioned in the summary. I'm sure other Linux users have too. Actually, I'd buy a lot of games if they ran on my Ubuntu system without messing around with WINE. Personally, there's no way I'm going to buy a subscription for something.
One thing that would be nice is if we could do an apt-get (or yum or whatever) install via Canonical's or somebody else's non-free repository, and have the opportunity to buy/register it while installing it.
Reading through the article, it doesn't look like anyone is asking for money at all. It's simply a bunch of people that are protesting the action, that's all. More power to them.
My mother-in-law knows next to nothing about computers other than how to check her email. She has an iPod, and was wondering how to rip DVDs like she (or rather, my father-in-law) rips CDs. I explained to her that the reason that iTunes doesn't have a DVD ripping feature is not because of some technical reason, it's because the DMCA makes it illegal. I briefly explained how DVD CSS works, and while I was at it, how iTunes Fair Play works. She got the idea pretty quickly, and now buys her music from Amazon.
I'm not convinced that the guys showing up at Apple stores in hazmat suits help, but a simple explanation sure does.
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Compared to navigating to a competitor's website that works in $browser? For the average non-technical person, or the office drone locked down to IE6, the answer is yes.
a. "I clicked on the Internet"
b. "The thingy didn't work"
Using NotScript? NoScript is nicer, but NotScript does mostly the same thing.
I think the best way to learn Blender is to follow along with one of the thousands of free video tutorials found on Vimeo, YouTube, or some of my favorites:
Have fun!
As opposed to the teenage dipshits who are attacked by glittery "plugins" for their MySpace page. Most people are completely clueless about how they get attacked - It's got nothing to do with age at all.
Don't forget the "First Post!"
I can believe it just fine. I just opened a 3 page paper I'm working on, and my citations moved around on me between saving the document on Tuesday and opening it today - all on the same machine. Somehow, the kerning grew in the intervening time. It was noticeable because it shunted a word down to the second line, and MLA requires the second line of a citation to be indented. I'd have been dinged a few points for that if I hadn't checked before turning in the paper.
Seriously. By frivolously calling because your water tastes bad, you're potentially drawing rescue personnel away from a real rescue. Somebody could _die_ either rescuing your sorry ass, or somebody in a real emergency could die because the rescue crews were dealing with you. Maybe a few days in jail would help you think about it.
Yep, it definitely results in a satisfying explosion. I can't remember whether or not it makes for a less or more painful mosquito bite.
Flying into Islamabad, Pakistan, the flight attendant announced that it was illegal to take aerial photos. Sad to hear this nonsense is coming to a country that should know better.
I'm sure Edison was still busy inventing past 40.
I can't tell if you're using hyperbole, made a mistake, or just don't know what a megabyte is. I seriously doubt you have 100 gigabytes of RAM on your system.
You're not in school either. I'm stuck with a bunch of online courses that require the use of Internet Explorer 6 or 7. Blackboard mostly works under Firefox and IE8, but not completely. MyItLab absolutely requires IE7.
I'm by no means a Photoshop power user, but I can get around in it and use it just fine. Personally, I'm much more comfortable in GIMP's UI setup at the moment.
For example, the single window paradigm doesn't take advantage of Compiz's present windows feature. With my current KDE setup, I mouse to the lower right corner of the screen and it lays out all the windows in the workspace. Click on one, and off you go. With Photoshop, You have to sift through the windows manually.
Honestly, I'm thinking it's just what you're used to using that makes you like one or the other, and it looks like GIMP will be giving us a choice between single and multi window in the near future. The single window mockups look rather good, and more usable than Photoshop in my opinion.
Honestly, I think what GIMP really needs is 16 bits/channel image support (WTF guys?), adjustment layers, etc. That's what still keeps me opening up Photoshop, not the UI.
Actually, that's officially being worked on right now.
Personally, I like the multi-window layout, but I'll certainly give the single-window UI a shot.
One thing you should consider is that OpenOffice, while supporting Word documents, doesn't support annotations to Word documents. My wife ran into this at her school. The prof wants her to turn in her assignments in MS-Word format, and then add annotations to parts of the document. When she gets the assignment back, she can't read the annotations. She's perfectly happy using Linux whenever she can, but in this case, Windows was required. (Yeah, I know about Crossover Office, but the license fee isn't worth it when you can simply install XP for a few dollars more.)
If cities are shortening the timing of yellow lights just to increase revenue, passing this law will have the added benefit of maybe saving a few lives.
The chicken/egg problem is that not enough people have linux running in the first place in part because there are no games for it. I've toyed around with the idea of installing a copy of Windows XP, specifically to play some games, but the hassle of installing/maintaining Windows, not to mention the cost, hasn't been worth it when I have a half dozen games that already run native in Linux. If you're more of a hard core gamer than I am, you probably will already have Windows, and won't go to the hassle of installing Linux.
Huh, I'm running at exactly the same resolution with no trouble at all. It makes a 800x600 viewport on my left monitor (like all my other fullscreen games) I'm guessing you need to tweak your xorg.conf file. (mine required a lot of tweaking to get it to play fullscreen games like ut2004)
I always hated that quote. How about "those who do can't teach".
The thing that people often forget is that teaching itself is a serious talent/skill. Just as often, as a twit teacher, you'll find the knowledgeable people who can't communicate an idea if their lives depended upon it.
Ideally, you get someone who knows their subject and has a passion for teaching. Unfortunately, those people are quite rare.
The answer to the Verizon situation is to call up customer support and get the PPP username and password and enter it into your router manually. Since the Verizon installation CD has a whole shitload of flash presentations explaining the difference between a power cord, phone cord and ethernet cord that need to be skipped through by clicking the mouse a million times, the pain of being on the phone with customer support is about the same. The actual entering of the username/password takes about 30 seconds including firing up Firefox. On the other hand, I have my doubts that this person would have understood how to do this. I doubt the support technicians would have been able to walk it through with her either. (the guy I got on the phone last time sounded a bit panicked when I told him I was using Linux to set up my DSL) Openoffice most definitely DOES come with Ubuntu, and if, for some reason, Dell didn't ship OO with it, it's a simple installation via Synaptic. The Dell support folks should have know that. One thing that my wife has had trouble with in her online courses (besides Blackboard being super slow in Firefox) is that Openoffice can't read annotations put in her papers by her professors and vice versa, because the professors use Word. It would be really nice if colleges would switch to some sort of open format for this sort of thing! The problem in all the above is that most people are entirely unaware of Microsoft's incompatibility/lock-in games.
I wouldn't go that far. In fact, I bought the Lugaru game mentioned in the summary. I'm sure other Linux users have too. Actually, I'd buy a lot of games if they ran on my Ubuntu system without messing around with WINE. Personally, there's no way I'm going to buy a subscription for something.
One thing that would be nice is if we could do an apt-get (or yum or whatever) install via Canonical's or somebody else's non-free repository, and have the opportunity to buy/register it while installing it.
Reading through the article, it doesn't look like anyone is asking for money at all. It's simply a bunch of people that are protesting the action, that's all. More power to them.
Um, your example for level 2 seems a bit off. The kids featured in child pornography are definitely harmed.
My mother-in-law knows next to nothing about computers other than how to check her email. She has an iPod, and was wondering how to rip DVDs like she (or rather, my father-in-law) rips CDs. I explained to her that the reason that iTunes doesn't have a DVD ripping feature is not because of some technical reason, it's because the DMCA makes it illegal. I briefly explained how DVD CSS works, and while I was at it, how iTunes Fair Play works. She got the idea pretty quickly, and now buys her music from Amazon.
I'm not convinced that the guys showing up at Apple stores in hazmat suits help, but a simple explanation sure does.