From the perspective of someone who uses the GIMP daily, Photoshop utterly sucks, on the rare occasions I try to use it. Mainly it's because I don't use it daily and I'm not used to it, so I can't find anything and the workflow seems unintuitive. That's the thing with complicated software: you have to use it enough to get comfortable with it. You stick with Photoshop; you probably need the small number of things it does that the GIMP doesn't do, whereas I don't. I'll stick with the GIMP because I can't afford Photoshop, I don't need that small number of things, I don't trust Adobe not to fill my system with unwanted crap, and I absolutely hate their horrible update processes.
The day GIMP started trying to force people to save in its own proprietary format (to the great unhappiness of a large portion of its user base) rather than the format the file was OPENED in pretty much marks its death.
It doesn't "mark its death" at all. Lots of us continue to use the GIMP daily, and are more or less happy with it, while simultaneously being a bit annoyed by the decision to try to push the native file format on us through the interface. Since the menu option to overwrite the opened file was added, it's much less annoying.
It's such a common thing on Slashdot to announce the complete failure of a long-term project just on the basis that the poster and his friends (if he has any) are annoyed by one or two changes that didn't suit them. There should be a word for it.
The GIMP is a very useful, highly functional, stable and reliable piece of software. It's not perfect, but nothing is. Get some perspective.
As previous commenters have noted, this is no help to Turing himself. But it's useful as a reminder for us to look around at the legal systems we have now, and try to imagine who we are currently terrorizing and prosecuting and shaming and bullying in ways that, in fifty years, a government is going to have to issue another pardon or another apology for. What's the current equivalent of the vicious homophobia we're now finally becoming collectively ashamed of?
I used to be mainly a Delphi developer, and switched to Qt a couple of years ago because I thought Embarcadero had dropped the ball on the need for cross-platform compilation (basically Mac support). But in the last week, they've announced Delphi XE2, which if the hype is to be believed, lets you do Windows, Mac and iOS development in one IDE (with Android and Linux coming soon). So don't discount Delphi -- I'm thinking of going back to it, because it really was the best IDE and language I've ever used.
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From the perspective of someone who uses the GIMP daily, Photoshop utterly sucks, on the rare occasions I try to use it. Mainly it's because I don't use it daily and I'm not used to it, so I can't find anything and the workflow seems unintuitive. That's the thing with complicated software: you have to use it enough to get comfortable with it. You stick with Photoshop; you probably need the small number of things it does that the GIMP doesn't do, whereas I don't. I'll stick with the GIMP because I can't afford Photoshop, I don't need that small number of things, I don't trust Adobe not to fill my system with unwanted crap, and I absolutely hate their horrible update processes.
The day GIMP started trying to force people to save in its own proprietary format (to the great unhappiness of a large portion of its user base) rather than the format the file was OPENED in pretty much marks its death.
It doesn't "mark its death" at all. Lots of us continue to use the GIMP daily, and are more or less happy with it, while simultaneously being a bit annoyed by the decision to try to push the native file format on us through the interface. Since the menu option to overwrite the opened file was added, it's much less annoying. It's such a common thing on Slashdot to announce the complete failure of a long-term project just on the basis that the poster and his friends (if he has any) are annoyed by one or two changes that didn't suit them. There should be a word for it. The GIMP is a very useful, highly functional, stable and reliable piece of software. It's not perfect, but nothing is. Get some perspective.
As previous commenters have noted, this is no help to Turing himself. But it's useful as a reminder for us to look around at the legal systems we have now, and try to imagine who we are currently terrorizing and prosecuting and shaming and bullying in ways that, in fifty years, a government is going to have to issue another pardon or another apology for. What's the current equivalent of the vicious homophobia we're now finally becoming collectively ashamed of?
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I used to be mainly a Delphi developer, and switched to Qt a couple of years ago because I thought Embarcadero had dropped the ball on the need for cross-platform compilation (basically Mac support). But in the last week, they've announced Delphi XE2, which if the hype is to be believed, lets you do Windows, Mac and iOS development in one IDE (with Android and Linux coming soon). So don't discount Delphi -- I'm thinking of going back to it, because it really was the best IDE and language I've ever used.