This is why open source is the REAL engine to the advancement of the arts, and not copyright and trademark.

>> ^volumptuous:

Why don't you guys just write your own version of Videosift for Ubuntu? Or do you think you're just entitled?


Do you come from the school of 'you may not ever question because it's not your site'? And do you carry that over to all other areas of the world and disallow making critiques of anything that you didn't make. Geeze. I'm sure we can find cases where you've disagreed with something here or elsewhere.

I guess you've never had issue with any feature of a free open source product? And any time you did, you just had the time to go ahead and code your own fix to that did you? (Not that VS is open source, but it's something else free that by volumptuous's reckoning may never be questioned)

The only time I can imagine myself owning an iPad is if I attain it in a way in which I don't pay Apple for it. I'd hope by then there would be an open source alternative OS that I would be able to load onto it so that I don't have to go through all of Apple's "proprietary bullshit"

Posted from Ubuntu.

You people are fucking idiots.

Who gives one shit what kind of a computer someone else uses? Do you also care that I'm wearing OsPop shoes? REI socks? a SanDisk SD card? Drinking a mexican coca-cola out of a hand blown glass? I love how I innocently buy a product, and now I'm some sort of delusional fan, who was tricked into buying expensive nonsense by clever advertising.

Did you ever think that maybe I would personally find it useful to me? Oh no, that would only be fucking logical, so there MUST be something more sinister here!!

And this straw man "fanboy" talk is as retarded as it is childish. It's like saying I'm a Gloucester fanboy because I like the way their cheese tastes more than other cheeses.


I have an iPad and I love it.

Wanna know why? Because of stuff like TouchOSC:
http://hexler.net/software/touchosc

And AC-7 Pro:
http://www.saitarasoftware.com/Site/Home.html

And iTap VNC client:
http://www.jokeandbiagio.com/ipad-for-film-and-tv-production-final-cut-pro-screen-sharing

And iElectribe:
http://www.korg.com/iElectribe

And Air Display for FCP:
http://www.canonfilmmakers.com/2010/05/ipad-controls-final-cut-pro-audio.html


Yeah. Open-source, using Open Sound Control messaging, wifi to my desktop, use it in Logic Studio, Final Cut, Max, Reaktor and pretty much whatever else I want. But I guess I'm a "fanboy" because of my increased functionality in my production studio?

Really? Seriously? I should just not have better functionality to soothe the poor babies fee-fee's out there who want to claim that we're all just delusional?

And yes, there's lots of rabid Apple fans, and I don't get the whole sticker-on-the-car thing. But then again, I don't wear logos of any kind. But it seems to me that for every rabid Apple fan, there's 100 internet idiots who froth at the mouth with seething hatred every time Apple makes a new product.


blaaargh!

I already explained what I meant. He won't allow Flash on his mobile devices, because he believes HTML5 will be superior. But why not have both? Why not empower your users? He is quoted as saying Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. Okay, even if that's true, wouldn't it be in your best interest to work with the vendor to help improve the product for your users' sake? It's like he's holding top secret documents and he won't let anyone have a look. I can understand not wanting to pay licensing fees or whatnot to get DirectX on your platform, and I wasn't trying to assert one way or the other which is better (DX or OGL).

Back in the day, I was all for OpenGL because it was the open-sourced (although, not entirely) underdog, and I loved it when a game would come out in OpenGL. Quake is one example I can think of at the moment. It was awesome. The colored lighting was one option that easily made it stand out, where DirectX barely handled poly accelleration.

Then, one day, DirectX progressed faster than OpenGL did, and every developer embraced it as the language of choice. Now, it's really hard to get anything in OpenGL, and if OpenGL has come to a point where it rivals DirectX, feature- and performance-wise, I would gladly use it over DirectX, regardless of the platform, as I use both Macs and Windows. Although, for gaming, at the moment, Windows stands high above MacOS in that regard.

>> ^kagenin:

How much is Photoshop going for nowadays? With the money you save on using the GIMP, you could invest in faster hardware (an SSD drive would improve performance to the point where the speed differences between PS and the GIMP are barely noticeable). I'd rather keep the money for myself, rather than line Adobe's pockets. Besides, Adobe needs to get off their ass, and give Opera the code they need to update the Wii Internet browser's Flash plug-in. v7 is practically archaic, and only a handful of sites use backup applets for the older flash versions out there.
Besides, the GIMP is open source. If you want a better Content-Aware fill, write your own.


The piont is that photoshop is aimed at profesoinals , and you would earn the money back very fast making it cost afecctive.

The gimp is realy good for people doing art for fun. less than 1 logo job , or basic peace of web content would probably cover the cost of photoshop for most people , and after that u have something thats far faster and wider used than the gimp.

as i said though open source is gr8 and maby we will get to a piont where the gimp can compere with photoshop in a profesoinal inviroment.

>> ^dag:

I haven't found Camino to be particularly fast. It's like Firefox without the capability of extensions. Chrome is the browser to beat for me at the moment.

Camino is lean and open source. Not a lot of whizzy-pop. It's fast because it's not a huge, clunky browser like Safari or Firefox. I surf VideoSift a lot on my Macbook Air, and there's a major issue with one of the MBA's processors shutting off while playing videos, and vids become choppy and the computer non-responsive.

Camino is lean therefore faster for me. I haven't used Chrome on Mac, but I'm not a fan of it on PC.

How much is Photoshop going for nowadays? With the money you save on using the GIMP, you could invest in faster hardware (an SSD drive would improve performance to the point where the speed differences between PS and the GIMP are barely noticeable). I'd rather keep the money for myself, rather than line Adobe's pockets. Besides, Adobe needs to get off their ass, and give Opera the code they need to update the Wii Internet browser's Flash plug-in. v7 is practically archaic, and only a handful of sites use backup applets for the older flash versions out there.

Besides, the GIMP is open source. If you want a better Content-Aware fill, write your own.

Resynthesizer plugin for open source image editor GIMP has apparently been doing this for years. Check out http://o3.tumblr.com/post/470608946/photoshops-caf-content-a
ware-fill-unbelievable for a comparison. I personally think Resynthesizer does a better job except for the sky where the tree used to be. I don't know if resynthesizer is as easy to use though.
-Karl

I have flash 10,0,45,2.

Something is being blocked. But I don't know where. I'm only using the basic XP firewall and have taken this machine off the router.

"LongTail Video, home of the JW Player, is the premier destination for online video solutions. We offer the #1 open source FLV and Silverlight players along with plugins, skins and a self-serve ad solution that empowers publishers to monetize their videos. Our players have streamed billions of videos and our AdSolution serves millions of pre-roll, overlay mid-roll and post-roll ads daily."

Everyone of the videos I can't play connects to plugins.longtailvideo.com. I can play every other video here. ugh.
Are you using Firefox?

Apple is great for its innovations in UI and interaction. But it is the new Microsoft. I totally agree with what Campionidelmondo said.

They seriously need to open up their platform and allow more open source content in. This Nintendo style crap of controlling applications is ridiculous. Everyone knows that iPad could multitask but they lock it down.

It's not think different anymore, its think Apple.

I'd start by revising the ten commandments to:

Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
Thou shalt not kill
This commandment has been left intentionally blank

Maybe people might take the hint this time. The last commandment is there to reflect the possible need for future revision and the open source nature of the commandments.

OMG ron paul is such a liberal pinko hollywood ACLU hugger.


BTW, in news today, open source software people get added to a piracy watch list. I think they might be terrorists too. Kill them all and install windows in their graves.

When it pertains to the work you do nothing is private. If it can be used against you later, do not say it. Do not write it. Do not whisper it. Do not talk about it with people who may gain from your folly.

If I went and did some Load Testing on a website, and then talked with a co-worker about it; we decided to add some calumny into our banter about website owners then that would be unethical.

But what do I know, ethical hackers, and open source developers don't know shit about anything.

The only way to know if an encryption is safe is to let the public have it. IE: PGP

Always keep your private feelings out of work. Its unethical and unprofessional.

Alas, none of the above has to do with the validity of the science, just the lack of professionalism by the scientists involved.

>> ^NordlichReiter:
DGhandi, I suppose open source Application writers are Naive too.

Coders don't need time on supercolliders, or satellite high resolution IR cameras. People who do large scale science need access to resources which are limited to large institutions, these institutions, as a common practice, enforce strict IP regulation.

The fact that it is bad for science/society is a problem, but has NOTHING to do with any wrong doing by the CRU.

>> ^MilkmanDan: I just mean that the burden of proof needs to be on the AGW supporting people

That's birther logic.

Science is not about perfection, it's about the best available hypothesis. AGW opponents have not yet put forth models which work better than the models being used by supporters of AGW, therefor AGW is considered the consensus scientific opinion. None of these models are perfect, but we should still use the best ones, even if some folks don't like the implications.

How can you expect me to take these folks seriously, much less award them correctness by default, when Ball supports ,the trivially falsifiable, urban-concrete-island hypothesis for GW?