Serious crackhead, Fuck-tard gimp of the highest order. Oh. Wait.....was talking about the spokesfuck who could only blink with the one eye with whats left of his motor skills after hitting the pipe so hard.

All of the NBA should distance themselves from these people-like people.

I have mixed feelings regarding cycling enthusiasts. The ones who see the world as a polluted shit-hole because of cars, who dress in biking-gear and ride to work everyday and don't own a car, the SAME people who obsessively recycle their garbage and preach about it to others (as if the world would be a better place if everyone "recycled").

It's THESE insects, OCD, tweakers that I can't stand, self-absorbed, self-righteous gimps on two skinny wheels.

Add to that description the DICKHEADS that preach cycling-over-automobiles who intentionally stick their ass in the center of the road while conducting traffic and talking smack to drivers sharing the road with Professor Suicide??

THOSE motherfuckers, can moisturize my ballsack.

I had an old roommate who died in San Francisco during a Critical Mass ride, the poor fucker got creamed by a truck driver who was ALSO a dickhead, of the opposite persuasion.

I certainly believe that anyone who chooses a bicycle as their only means of transportation who do so in a large cities where the majority of people commute to work from rural areas in cars everyday, have a fucking death wish.
San Fran, NYC, Chicago, Philly?? No problem. Any city where cyclists are not very prevalent on the roadways, yer an idiot plain and simple.

Yeah.....FUCK BICYCLERS ya buncha no stop-sign-stoppin' road-hog gimp motherfuckers! Take a bath!

I broadly agree with what he's saying but he's wrong about Africa. Africa is different because the west's supply chains and the gimping of local resistance to this is already very strong and much more well established (also Somalia was in Africa last time I checked Wes).

The global supply of Gold, Diamonds, Cocoa and Coltan (used to make micro electronics) amongst others are all heavily based in African countries.
Were their supply to be jeopardised (especially Coltan) by local politics you can be assured that the relevant African country would swiftly become a scorching political hot potato.
Unfortunately such a good job as been done over the last 100 or so years of suppressing African development that such problems (with a little encouragement) tend to take care of themselves before they become a big deal. Then western interests can just back whichever co-operative warlord/corrupt regime comes out on top, quietly and without fuss.

The spice must flow!

Simply put, Africa has been beaten around by the west for that bit longer and harder than the middle east. The exploitation of Africa goes back 100's of years and around 100 years ago when western powers began to cede their direct control they made sure to fuck up the local cultural politics so badly that most countries have still yet to recover from the fallout.

The middle east only became a candy store about 60-100 years ago with the oil boom. Before that western attempts to control the middle east were largely religious in nature (though no less brutal I suppose).

I assume the "powers that shouldn't be" are well aware of this and as such the plan to which Mr. Clarke is referring represents a scheme to try and break the back of the middle east financially, politically and culturally while they still can.

That said old ideologies die hard and I suspect the old western religious motivation is still not to be downplayed. The Christian ideologues and Jewish Zionists may not use words like "Kafir" but in some way their beliefs demand that they think of outsiders in the same way.

If the God of Abraham does really exist I'm sure he finds this whole arrangement greatly amusing (I imagine nothing pleases an ego maniac more than watching sycophants fighting and killing each other for your affection).

God must die. God must remain dead. And we must kill him.

>> ^dannym3141:

What a poncing posh twat. Obama should have give it a vigorous backhand and swatted the smug bastard across the nose.
Gonna have to go watch some artist taxi driver to cheer me up


See what he's saying about Camerface today, would you?

Ain't a party until we bring out the tazer and the gimp.
>> ^Boise_Lib:

>> ^GeeSussFreeK:
This is how I imagine every party at @gwiz665 house looking like, and I must say, Im eagerly awaiting my invite!

I have to admit that's who I had in mind when I thought of this title.
(also myself, of course)

MANY thanks for your help bud. D'you know if the thumbnail slot accommodates moving gif images?

In reply to this comment by radx:
Yap. In detail, it works as follows:

1: take screenshot
2: paste into Paint.net, select "expand canvas" if neccessary
3: press "s" to select the rectangular selection
4: the lower line of your toolbar includes three pulldown selections: "tool", "selection mode" and "normal" -- click "normal" to switch to "fixed ratio"
5: enter ratio as: "width: 4, height: 3"
6: mark your chosen area of the picture
7: cut the selection (ctrl-x)
8: open new picture with properties: "width: 1, height: 1"
9: paste your selection, select "expand canvas"
10: save your new thumbnailIn reply to this comment by Barseps:
You got any idea how to do that in Paint.net?

In reply to this comment by radx:
1: take screenshot
2: paste into GIMP
3: use rectangular selection with fixed 4:3 ratio
4: profit!

You got any idea how to do that in Paint.net?

In reply to this comment by radx:
1: take screenshot
2: paste into GIMP
3: use rectangular selection with fixed 4:3 ratio
4: profit!

1: take screenshot
2: paste into GIMP
3: use rectangular selection with fixed 4:3 ratio
4: profit!

No wonder they pay people to gimp devices so you have to watch those ads, I'd be pissed if I paid half a million dollars and you didn't watch my 30 second ad.

Although I'd argue the scarcity of commercials, they seem to be getting more plentiful as the years go by, seems the scarcity thing was forgotten awhile back. Hour long show is really 40 minutes show and 20 minutes commercials. And hell they even put commercials and stuff in during the credit, on the screen at the bottom while watching and even during the opening bits. Not to mention product placing and what not. Hawaii 5-0 cars and tech placement even mentioning features of the cars and tech during the show.

So.......scarcity.....meh. Content not revolving around advertising is probably the real scarcity.

Yeah this guys ebullience is unwarranted. Voxels are fine for something like fixed geometry, but are gimped for anything involving animation or physiscs (hence the lack of it in these videos).

This tech might be fine for middleware but I don't see it revolutionising graphics engines any time soon.

Edit: I'm actually far more impressed visually by Hardware tessellation, which is tech we have now.

I can't believe I fucked up something as simple as a bloody screenshot. Didn't even notice it when I cut it down in GIMP.

So embarassing.

I've been running Linux on my production machine for 2 years now, after trying it out for a year before that. For out-of-the-box usability, there are several distros that are very close to Windows or OSX and even surpass them in some ways. Ubuntu is a great place to start.

And let's not forget that open-source goes way beyond Linux. OpenOffice, the GIMP image editor, Inkscape vector editor, Pidgin IM, Audacity audio editor, Firefox, Thunderbird... there is a huge list of FOSS applications that can do just about anything you want.

Games, agreed, are more problematic on Linux, but as Tymbrwulf mentioned that is a function of the userbase, if it does catch on the way Firefox did, you can be sure that there will be a lot of Linux game releases. Meanwhile games and proprietary software can be run in VirtualBox.

>> ^rychan:

>> ^westy:
Windows live photogalery , for people to thick to download "thegimp" or get photo shop,
of course if wlphotogalery is good then thats cool , but if its annything like windows movi maker then its an epic fail, windows movi maker has just got progresavely worse .

Microsoft has good automatic panorama construction tools, because they have some of the best minds in computer vision and computer graphics in their interactive visual media research group:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/interactivevisualmedia/
Panorama stitching is only trivial if
1) The scene is completely static.
2) The optical center of the camera doesn't translate.
3) The intrinsic camera parameters (focal length, exposure time, flash) don't change
4) The scene has sufficient texture to recover the relative transformations between the images.
5) The camera has no vignetting or barrel distortion.
6) There are no gaps between the captures images.
Typically (and in this scenario) few of these constraints are satisfied so you actually end up with a computer-vision-hard problem. You could have duplicate objects that have shifted position between image captures. You could have the sun come out from behind a cloud between the first and last photograph. You could have the camera translate (as it always will when being hand held, unless you're shooting something really far away in which the translation won't matter, but even in this case it might matter for the foreground).
But sure, go ahead and fire up gimp and show me how it handles all of this automatically.



as i said if its good fair enoughf , but bassing things on , other windows free programs its likely to be shit.

>> ^westy:

Windows live photogalery , for people to thick to download "thegimp" or get photo shop,
of course if wlphotogalery is good then thats cool , but if its annything like windows movi maker then its an epic fail, windows movi maker has just got progresavely worse .


Microsoft has good automatic panorama construction tools, because they have some of the best minds in computer vision and computer graphics in their interactive visual media research group:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/interactivevisualmedia/

Panorama stitching is only trivial if
1) The scene is completely static.
2) The optical center of the camera doesn't translate.
3) The intrinsic camera parameters (focal length, exposure time, flash) don't change
4) The scene has sufficient texture to recover the relative transformations between the images.
5) The camera has no vignetting or barrel distortion.
6) There are no gaps between the captured images.

Typically (and in this scenario) few of these constraints are satisfied so you actually end up with a computer-vision-hard problem. You could have duplicate objects that have shifted position between image captures. You could have the sun come out from behind a cloud between the first and last photograph. You could have the camera translate (as it always will when being hand held, unless you're shooting something really far away in which the translation won't matter, but even in this case it might matter for the foreground).

But sure, go ahead and fire up gimp and show me how it handles all of this automatically.