Comment Re:I'm sure... (Score 1) 269
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out for use at home. Looks pretty interesting
Comment Re:I'm sure... (Score 1) 269
Knowing PS implies fuckall about general computer competence
Comment Re:I'm sure... (Score 2, Interesting) 269
That's certainly part of it in the professional world.
I've logged way more hours (as a hobbyist) in GIMP than I have in photoshop. I still dislike it mostly for the window management (which i've heard is better or at least changeable recently, but I haven't had a reason to go check) but a lot of other things (eg the file saving process) strike me as clumsy.
On a non-UI note, I wish it'd use multiple cores the way Lightroom (and I presume photoshop) happily will.
I've logged way more hours (as a hobbyist) in GIMP than I have in photoshop. I still dislike it mostly for the window management (which i've heard is better or at least changeable recently, but I haven't had a reason to go check) but a lot of other things (eg the file saving process) strike me as clumsy.
On a non-UI note, I wish it'd use multiple cores the way Lightroom (and I presume photoshop) happily will.
Comment Re:4-5 years ago for school (Score 1) 505
Eh?
Comment Re:HP is trying to compete with Acer (Score 1) 236
Interesting, thanks for the info!
Comment Re:You may have heard of this thing (Score 1) 236
Largely for the same reason that nerds prefer to wrestle with shitty UIs in the name of free software.
Comment Re:HP is trying to compete with Acer (Score 1) 236
Handset competition in Europe is a lot fiercer I imagine, what with less (none?) of that silly stuff about 2 year contracts and subsidizing phone costs that carriers and manufacturers in the US love.
Juror Explains Guilty Vote In Terry Childs Case 537
alphadogg writes "Terry Childs, the San Francisco network administrator who refused to hand over passwords to his boss, was found guilty of one felony count of denying computer services, a jury found Tuesday. Now, one of those jurors (Jason Chilton, juror #4) is speaking out in an interview with IDG News Service's Bob McMillan: 'The questions were, first, did the defendant know he caused a disruption or a denial of computer service. It was rather easy for us to answer, "Yes there was a denial of service." And that service was the ability to administer the routers and switches of the FiberWAN. That was the first aspect of it. The second aspect was the denial to an authorized user. And for us that's what we really had to spend the most time on, defining who an authorized user was. Because that wasn't one of the definitions given to us.'"
Comment Re:Floppy? Bring on the death of the CDROM. (Score 1) 558
When I can plug a flash drive into my car without aftermarket additions we'll talk about not buying CDRs anymore :)
Comment Re:I've heard such comments before on this topic.. (Score 1) 558
I would guess part of it is that some systems are modular, so changing connectors or storage means that the new iteration of your machine won't work with controller stations that it otherwise would, or vice versa. Also lots of new code additions to deal with USB or ethernet and so forth. It just isn't worth the cost when the current approach works.
Comment Re:Some hardware needs them (Score 1) 558
I've always though putting a portfolio on one of those cut down business-card format mini CDs would be a nice tough
Comment Re:The sky is not falling. (Score 1) 418
"I know if some unauthorised person was in the office of the person in charge of computer security after hours pulling out their hard drive I'd want to know what they were doing as well, and if that is read as harrassment so be it."
And you wouldn't simply call the police...why?
And you wouldn't simply call the police...why?
Comment 4-5 years ago for school (Score 1) 505
I had to have floppies for my engineering classes, to get waveforms off of an O-scope that either wasn't capable of ethernet or IT couldn't be bothered to get it working.
Comment Re:Never (Score 1) 505
Amusingly, once you get to college you will likely still be required to have one for some class or other.
Comment Re:Is lying an absolute right? (Score 1) 484
I feel as if you're using a peculiar definition of "cause" that to me comes across as one would use it (Not saying you are specifically) to remove responsibility from the situation.
Gravity causes things to fall to the earth. Slashdot does not cause me to waste time at work, even though i waste time at work reading Slashdot.
Gravity causes things to fall to the earth. Slashdot does not cause me to waste time at work, even though i waste time at work reading Slashdot.
