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Comment Re:Great job! (Score 0) 52

by stinkfoot on Monday March 17, 2025 @09:09PM (#65241181) Attached to: GIMP 3.0 Released

Are you serious? It's barely even an interface. It's like someone sneezed a bunch of poorly-drawn icons onto a screen and called it a day. There's NOTHING good about the interface. It's an embarrassment. You know who uses graphic design software? GRAPHIC DESIGNERS. So we open the app after holding our nose at the terrible icon and go "holy shit!" and close it immediately. It's like opening a word processor with typos in the menus. If you're so unwilling to pay attention to the details, just quit. There should be a FOSS alternative to the Adobe Industrial Complex, and GIMP ain't it.

Comment GIMP is software written by people... (Score 0) 52

by stinkfoot on Monday March 17, 2025 @08:55PM (#65241153) Attached to: GIMP 3.0 Released

...who hate software. And other people.

Comment Videos of the fire here.... (Score 1) 134

by stinkfoot on Monday June 27, 2011 @10:02PM (#36592154) Attached to: Wildfire Threatens Los Alamos Labs

http://www.youtube.com/user/NMFires2011#p/u

Submission + - Exploding Lake Provides Electricity for Rwanda (discovery.com)

Submitted by reillymj on Friday August 20, 2010 @12:39AM

reillymj writes: There are three known "exploding lakes" in the world, where volcanic gases build up near the lake bottom until they suddenly fizz over, suffocating people with huge amounts of carbon dioxide. But the lakes also hold methane and one of them, Rwanda's Lake Kivu, is being actively tapped as a source of natural gas to fuel a power plant on the lake's shores. The government hopes that within two years, the plant will be covering a third of the country's needs. By siphoning off the gas, engineers simultaneously defuse a ticking time bomb in the lake and provide power to local communities.

Submission + - Detroit Spammer Pleads Guilty (czmyt.com)

Submitted by

Czmyt

on Monday June 22, 2009 @07:49PM

Czmyt writes: "Five individuals pleaded guilty today in federal court in Detroit for their roles in a wide-ranging international stock fraud scheme involving the illegal use of bulk commercial e-mails, or "spamming." Alan M. Ralsky, 64, of West Bloomfield, Mich., and Scott K. Bradley, 38, also of West Bloomfield, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud and to violate the CAN-SPAM Act. Ralsky and Bradley also pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering, and violating the CAN-SPAM Act. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Ralsky acknowledges he is facing up to 87 months in prison ...."

Journal Journal: Objective-C 1

Journal by johndiii on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @11:21PM

For one who is very used to C++, this is an odd-looking language. I've been reading some of the Apple docs, with a view toward writing some programs for my MacBook and my iPhone using Cocoa.

String Theory Predicts Behavior of Superfluids 348

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 05, 2009 @09:48AM from the good-for-something dept.

schrodingers_rabbit writes "Despite formidable odds, condensed matter physicists have made a breakthrough most thought impossible — finding a practical use for string theory. The initial breakthrough was made by physicist and cosmologist Juan Maldacena. His theory states that the known universe is only a 2D construct in anti-de-Sitter space, projected into 3 dimensions. This theory manages to model black holes and quantum theory congruently, a feat that has eluded scientists for decades; but it fails to correspond to the shape of space-time in the known universe. However, it does predict thermodynamic properties of black holes, including higher-dimensional viscosity — the equations for which elegantly and almost exactly calculate the behavior of quark-gluon plasma and other superfluids. According to Jan Zaanen at the University of Leiden, 'The theory is calculating precisely what we are seeing in experiments.' Unfortunately, the correspondence cannot prove or disprove string theory, although it is a positive step." Not an easy path to follow: one condensed matter theorist said, "It took two years and two 1000-page books of dense mathematics, but I learned string theory and got kind of enchanted by it. [When the string-theory related] thing began to... make predictions about high-temperature superconductors, my traditional mainstay, I was one of the few condensed matter physicists with the preparation to take it up."

Submission + - Homeland Security to scan citizens exiting US (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by on Thursday May 28, 2009 @04:15PM

An anonymous reader writes: The US Department of Homeland Security is set to kickstart a controversial new pilot to scan the fingerprints of travellers departing the United States. From June, US Customs and Border Patrol will take a fingerprint scan of travellers exiting the United States from Detroit, while the US Transport Security Administration will take fingerprint scans of international travellers exiting the United States from Atlanta. The controversial plan to scan outgoing passengers — including US citizens — was allegedly hatched under the Bush Administration. An official has said it will be used in part to crack down on the US population of illegal immigrants.

Submission + - Google Adds Scripting Capabilities To Google Docs (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Thursday May 28, 2009 @10:54AM

snydeq writes: "Google will add scripting capabilities to Google Docs, allowing organizations to customize its online applications and automate tasks. Google plans to sign up about 1,000 customers over the next few weeks to test the feature, called Google Apps Script. It will be tested initially in Google Spreadsheets and extended to other Google Docs applications over time. The company isn't saying yet when Apps Script — which is based on JavaScript with object-based extensions added by Google — will be widely available. Google Docs users can apply here to try it out."

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