Before there was such legislation you could still restrict yourself to only purchase from companies that voluntarily got certified and voluntarily informed ingredients.
What? WHAT?! What "voluntarily certified" products/companies were there??? Oh, you mean like Crest toothpaste certified by the American Dental Association, created by that very same toothpaste company?! And, sorry, but what the hell is "voluntarily informed ingredients" supposed to mean?
"No one (sic) were making you buy food who didn't list ingredients."
To this day the FDA doesn't insist on labeling the rat feces in your can of tomatoes or fruit flies in your canned peaches. You seriously think that you're going to know the difference when you buy that bag of frozen tilapia, wherever the provenence?
"...contract a well known specialist etc." Really?! Please. You obvious have missed very few meals in your lifetime to be so callous. Nanny State my ass.
FWIW (not much, I know, since (a) you don't know me and (b) I'm a Google employee), I know one of the engineers who works on the "do not track" stuff, and they are pretty ferocious about making sure that no data gets recorded about queries with the do-not-track cookies set. Google's culture is such that if it turned out the do-not-track cookies weren't being honored, and that information became known in the company (and there's basically zero censorship and lots and lots of internal communication so it *would* become known), it would create a firestorm of internal protest. Fully half of Google employees are engineers, and engineers tend not to like deceptive practices.
As a "professional" (paid broadcast designer/graphic asrtist), in your case i'd recommend GIMP. In my case, Photoshop (but not CS5, but that's another story). Difference being you have no real deadlines and i can't afford to do in 15 minutes with GIMP what i can do in 3 minutes with Photoshop.*
*Not pulling numbers out of my colon: i actually timed it for a project (GIMP 2.6 vs CS2).
You beat me to the punch...The technology is still under development, like when the first flat screen TVs came out....
Everybody needs to stop whining right now and give it time. No-one is forcing you to buy it anyways, f'ing hell...
Oh, that's just crap. Stereoscopy has existed for almost as long as conventional photography. So what are we talking about? Almost 200 years now? Personally i have St. John comics from the 1950s (red/cyan tech), a bunch of the Ray Zone comics from the 1980s, not to mention who-knows-how-many Viewmaster disks. Creature From The Black Lagoon? Andy Warhol's Frankenstein? Monsters Vs. Aliens? 3D is a gimmick. They roll it out every 20 years or so. And holography? Wow, i have a keyring from Las Vegas with a holographic skull from the 1990s. Avatar, Shemp in a graveyard...it's a gimmick.
Until the actual presentation hardware advances, that is, until the presentation is no longer confined to a two-dimensional screen a la TV monitor or cinema screen (think R2D2 transmitting Princess Leia's message OR a Holodeck situation), it will continue to remain a gimmick.
And to the GP, the early Beatles duophonic/stereo stuff doesn't ping-pong. It's mostly vox panned left, everything else panned right. Now go and listen to Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin and you'll hear loads of ping-ponging.
1) CTRL-F2 (yes, yes, bear with me)
2) Type the first letter of the menu item you want*
3) Down arrow
4) Repeat step 2
5) Repeat 2-3 until you drill down to the desired command and hit "enter"
* If by chance there are two menu items with the same first letter, it's sufficient to type the first and second letter.
How is this slower if not more efficient than ALT-whatever?
System Prefs > Mouse & Keyboard > Keyboard shortcuts*.
A quick look tells me that CTRL-F2 puts focus on the menubar, CTRL-F3 places focus on the Dock, etc etc. OSX has had this since (someone correct if i'm wrong) since at least 10.2 .
So, that's about enough of this "can't navigate in OSX without the mouse" propaganda. [/wishful thinking]
* Apologies if the wording isn't exact as i'm translating from the italian.
Think ATM/Cashpoint/Bancomat. Whether they're on-screen or real metal buttons, they're always there.
All appliances have an OK button. Call it an ON switch, call it what you will but there is a Big Obvious OK button (or that silly "Apply" button*) that begs "press me to do what i'm supposed to do". And it's always somewhere visible, usually right there on its face. Not in the other room hiding. Not in some other dimension waiting to be invoked by a ouija board.
Being how software that follows a windowed GUI model has no other side than its face (even when it's pretending to be 3D), the "press to continue" button always has to be visible.
Anything less, documented in the FM or not, is a secret handshake. And not spoiled.
As far as dragging a window without finding its title bar, that is an optional interaction. The "chrome" (i believe that's the term) is where all primary interaction with the window container happens. The contents of the window is where data interaction happens. I want to push pixels, i click and drag and dance inside a window; i want to move/resize said window to different coordinates, i drag its chrome around.
*"Apply" (imho) has always seemed a redundant way of being redundant. And repetitively and unnecessarily repetitive.
Consider Mac OS X Leopard. If you do not choose a hint for your password, it will happily display your password in cleartext at the login screen when the hint button is clicked.
What? WHAT??? Where on earth did you see that? I just did a logout to see if this was true, maybe never noticing a hint button when i log on. Silly me. I fell for it too. "Hint button", indeed.
There's no, i repeat, no "hint button" on the OSX login screen, Leopard or otherwise.
Gee, i did just that about 12 years ago. Actually i was kinda forced into it being how the only computer available to me was a Mac. Took me a couple of days to understand the whole thing. In my opinion it has always "just worked." If i remember correctly, i had designed an album cover in that week. I have never looked back since. Thank you and good night.
I'm a broadcast designer and, gee, i use Quicktime every stinking day. I teach a class in motion graphics and tell my students to always render out to Quicktime as, last i looked, that's industry-standard.
Hey, i just looked this morning...nothing's changed yet, Zippy.
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BLOCK WARS! I'm with Rowdy Yates Block! Who you with?
Good on both counts. Congratulations.
Alternative title: Cox acting like a bunch of dicks.
Wouldn't that be "Cox acting like a bunch of dix"?
I can't believe i'm adding to this nonsense.
Before there was such legislation you could still restrict yourself to only purchase from companies that voluntarily got certified and voluntarily informed ingredients.
What? WHAT?! What "voluntarily certified" products/companies were there??? Oh, you mean like Crest toothpaste certified by the American Dental Association, created by that very same toothpaste company?! And, sorry, but what the hell is "voluntarily informed ingredients" supposed to mean?
"No one (sic) were making you buy food who didn't list ingredients."
To this day the FDA doesn't insist on labeling the rat feces in your can of tomatoes or fruit flies in your canned peaches. You seriously think that you're going to know the difference when you buy that bag of frozen tilapia, wherever the provenence?
"...contract a well known specialist etc." Really?! Please. You obvious have missed very few meals in your lifetime to be so callous. Nanny State my ass.
FWIW (not much, I know, since (a) you don't know me and (b) I'm a Google employee), I know one of the engineers who works on the "do not track" stuff, and they are pretty ferocious about making sure that no data gets recorded about queries with the do-not-track cookies set. Google's culture is such that if it turned out the do-not-track cookies weren't being honored, and that information became known in the company (and there's basically zero censorship and lots and lots of internal communication so it *would* become known), it would create a firestorm of internal protest. Fully half of Google employees are engineers, and engineers tend not to like deceptive practices.
You mean like Google's Safari cookie trick?
Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
In the middle of America the only way to dump that water is to put it into a tributary of the Mississipi.
JESUS CHRIST, don't give them any more ideas!!!
As a "professional" (paid broadcast designer/graphic asrtist), in your case i'd recommend GIMP. In my case, Photoshop (but not CS5, but that's another story). Difference being you have no real deadlines and i can't afford to do in 15 minutes with GIMP what i can do in 3 minutes with Photoshop.*
*Not pulling numbers out of my colon: i actually timed it for a project (GIMP 2.6 vs CS2).
NEW dictators!
I'll buy the eggs.
Easy, killer. If i'm not mistaken, under US law that could be considered libel.
You're not in a back room somewhere drinking beer with friends, you're posting on the Internet. /just sayin'
Gosh...when i hear "libre," i think of this.
You'd be wrong. Think of the difference between Hershey's Special Dark chocolate and Lindt 72% (or higher) chocolate.
You beat me to the punch...The technology is still under development, like when the first flat screen TVs came out.... Everybody needs to stop whining right now and give it time. No-one is forcing you to buy it anyways, f'ing hell...
Oh, that's just crap. Stereoscopy has existed for almost as long as conventional photography. So what are we talking about? Almost 200 years now? Personally i have St. John comics from the 1950s (red/cyan tech), a bunch of the Ray Zone comics from the 1980s, not to mention who-knows-how-many Viewmaster disks. Creature From The Black Lagoon? Andy Warhol's Frankenstein? Monsters Vs. Aliens? 3D is a gimmick. They roll it out every 20 years or so. And holography? Wow, i have a keyring from Las Vegas with a holographic skull from the 1990s. Avatar, Shemp in a graveyard...it's a gimmick.
Until the actual presentation hardware advances, that is, until the presentation is no longer confined to a two-dimensional screen a la TV monitor or cinema screen (think R2D2 transmitting Princess Leia's message OR a Holodeck situation), it will continue to remain a gimmick.
And to the GP, the early Beatles duophonic/stereo stuff doesn't ping-pong. It's mostly vox panned left, everything else panned right. Now go and listen to Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin and you'll hear loads of ping-ponging.
Now get off my lawn.
So I've had a lot of exposure to Kodak over the years.
STOP IT! YOU'RE KILLIN' ME! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Okay, try this...
1) CTRL-F2 (yes, yes, bear with me)
2) Type the first letter of the menu item you want*
3) Down arrow
4) Repeat step 2
5) Repeat 2-3 until you drill down to the desired command and hit "enter"
* If by chance there are two menu items with the same first letter, it's sufficient to type the first and second letter.
How is this slower if not more efficient than ALT-whatever?
Only happy to help.
OOOPS! My reply was meant for the GP and not parent poster...ehmmm, yeh.
Insomma, not for Dupple but for Procasinator.
System Prefs > Mouse & Keyboard > Keyboard shortcuts*.
A quick look tells me that CTRL-F2 puts focus on the menubar, CTRL-F3 places focus on the Dock, etc etc. OSX has had this since (someone correct if i'm wrong) since at least 10.2 .
So, that's about enough of this "can't navigate in OSX without the mouse" propaganda. [/wishful thinking]
* Apologies if the wording isn't exact as i'm translating from the italian.
Think ATM/Cashpoint/Bancomat. Whether they're on-screen or real metal buttons, they're always there.
All appliances have an OK button. Call it an ON switch, call it what you will but there is a Big Obvious OK button (or that silly "Apply" button*) that begs "press me to do what i'm supposed to do". And it's always somewhere visible, usually right there on its face. Not in the other room hiding. Not in some other dimension waiting to be invoked by a ouija board.
Being how software that follows a windowed GUI model has no other side than its face (even when it's pretending to be 3D), the "press to continue" button always has to be visible.
Anything less, documented in the FM or not, is a secret handshake. And not spoiled.
As far as dragging a window without finding its title bar, that is an optional interaction. The "chrome" (i believe that's the term) is where all primary interaction with the window container happens. The contents of the window is where data interaction happens. I want to push pixels, i click and drag and dance inside a window; i want to move/resize said window to different coordinates, i drag its chrome around.
*"Apply" (imho) has always seemed a redundant way of being redundant. And repetitively and unnecessarily repetitive.
-nod- I suspect most people who've been using Linux for a while are spoiled by alt-window-dragging, which renders that problem moot
I'm sorry but on what planet is knowing a "secret handshake" to see a UI element you should never have to search for to begin with being spoiled?
Consider Mac OS X Leopard. If you do not choose a hint for your password, it will happily display your password in cleartext at the login screen when the hint button is clicked.
What? WHAT??? Where on earth did you see that? I just did a logout to see if this was true, maybe never noticing a hint button when i log on. Silly me. I fell for it too. "Hint button", indeed.
There's no, i repeat, no "hint button" on the OSX login screen, Leopard or otherwise.
Well...uh, yeah!
Teacher: "And what do you want to be when you grow up?"
Me: "A hermit."
Gee, i did just that about 12 years ago. Actually i was kinda forced into it being how the only computer available to me was a Mac. Took me a couple of days to understand the whole thing. In my opinion it has always "just worked." If i remember correctly, i had designed an album cover in that week. I have never looked back since. Thank you and good night.
I'm a broadcast designer and, gee, i use Quicktime every stinking day. I teach a class in motion graphics and tell my students to always render out to Quicktime as, last i looked, that's industry-standard.
Hey, i just looked this morning...nothing's changed yet, Zippy.
Waitaminute! That WAS American radia...errrr, never mind.