The current development build is fully 16bpc - About a decade later than I would have liked but still - that leap has been made.

Also I think it always was the case that internally where it was needed image data is sampled up to floating point space internally to do such calculations.

Personally I think there is a bit of pissing and whining going on with both the FOSS enthusiasts and the Professionals over this. The gimp is neither as good as the former point out or as lousy as the later claim. I use the GIMP in a professional environment. I am not going to pretend that it is as good as Photoshop but given the amount of time it would save for the things I actually need to do I would take a long time for me to break even (I am in Australia so the Australia tax is a significant contributor to that).

If you are doing motion graphics, texture art or digital painting, I would say look at the Krita project (www.krita.org). They are interested in producing a tool for professionals and it has a healthy amount of development going on behind it.

I don't think so - I think that using something like google image search must be part of a diligent search. In which case image would show up at site X would show up with the relevant copyright information.

How would you try solving the problem then?

That's so 90's - now-a-days we use fudge dice

Actually being scientifically literate more or less the exact opposite of this.
In science we know that all knowledge is probabilistic. We know that nothing can be known with 100% certainty. The laws of physics are useful abstractions of nature derived from observation that allow us to make accurate preditictions.

The main difference in belief I can see is seeing careful research and observation as being a more important indicator of truth than opinion or emotional sentiment.

I would add that the degree to which a person is considered ethical with regards to scientific literacy varies through time as the scientific understanding of the world changes.

I really like the keyboard on my elitebook

If you want duplicate image search functionality, then you can move up to the heavyweight of the KDE image viewer world - digikam

These are currently modular but enabled by default. I think Nepomuk is the main offender here. Akonadi is just a front end agnostic backend for PIM software in much the same way that telepathy is for instant messaging

yeah kuickshow has been a dead project for many years now - I am surprised you could find a copy... This kind of dates your reply

or Leisure Suit Lazarus

My take home from your post - you think Apple is God... And possibly you want protection from yourself.
Is that pretty much it?

the x and delete keys do exactly the same thing in blender. x is also available because delete is a common operation and x is in the part of the keyboard where the left hand normally sits

How do you use Nvidia Settings to reconfigure your screen layout automatically when you plug in a new screen? I have a laptop that gets a second screen when I am in the office and this would save me a few clicks.

That happened exactly once in recently times in the transition between 2.4->2.5 what on earth are you talking about.

It's more the case that CUDA has supported the features necessary for hardware accelerated pathtracing for a lot longer than OpenCL. Also there are driver bugs on the AMD side that cause problems. This may not be the same going on into the future...