The phrase "real-time" means something very different to most people. When you try to "correct" them by invoking a narrow definition only used within a particular domain, it just comes across as pointless pedantry.

I agree it sounds pedantic, but think about how muddled discussions areabout what "object-oriented programming" means. "real-time" is a well-established term and actually means something really specific. Diluting it doesn't benefit anyone.

So there can only be one meaning? No different meaning depending on the context? ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time

I'd say this is real-time in the context of the interwebs, against the usual request-response cycle.

I'd be completely comfortable with calling that malware.

It has to request it on install if it is ever going to use it at all.

>Doubtful. Not unless they're a STEM or Finance major.

You're just wrong about this. Introductory calc classes are some of the larger classes offered at a lot of universities.

I had this pop up today, the wording was pretty misleading.

In my case not activating Secure By Visa let me proceed with the transaction normally, but they certainly tried to imply it was necessary.

They've discussed this from the very beginning of the project -- third party hosting.

The goal of diaspora is to make it so that you can run it on your own server, but they assume most folk won't want to do that.

It is extremely meaningful if you, you know, actually consider the context of this thread -- which is not someone telling an artist to use GIMP, but a discussion of "fixing up" the program.

You should check that statement again!

http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html

The official 2.8 release was what, a week ago? I don't think it's a big deal if it comes out on one platform a few days late. :)

Unless I'm missing something, the latest download available on that site is 2.6. I realize it's free software, so it probably is a little cheeky to complain, but it can't be a photoshop alternative if it's not available on OSX. From what I understand, the new GTK broke tablet compatibility for OSX. If anyone knows enough about those issues and the underlying languages and libraries behind GIMP, consider this an invitation to get involved: http://www.gimp.org/develop/

I'm excited about the unified interface and the new transform tool, so here's hoping it is just a couple more days.

That's odd, 2.8 was clearly available when I viewed that page. Maybe you just had an old version cached?

They only seem to offer links to 2.8 for Snow Leopard and Lion, so that could also be an issue.

OK here it is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimponosx/

Of course Mozilla doesn't like how Apple behaves on iOS devices!

Do you honestly think they do, or were you just trying to be provocative?

The point is, why raise a big stink about it when Microsoft does it (which at this point, affects no one), when Apple has been doing the same thing for the past 7 years, which affects millions?

Because with Microsoft they actually have a chance of changing things. Apple are a completely lost cause when it comes to freedom.

Anna Anthropy has an older blog article about exactly that:

http://www.auntiepixelante.com/?p=465