Y could Apple not "invest" in US manufacturer?
Maybe pay a company with better working conditions here in the United States to manufacture their parts?
Still not enough profit margin?
Guess I'm really old-fashioned, still an American trying to buy American, (when I can.)
For folks waiting for specific features,
I understand your frustration with GIMPs development pace.
Open Source projects often stutter and stumble, sometimes they even seem to disappear;
so let's not forget the bottom line:
A lot of people have been able to do things with images
they could never have afforded to do if it were not for the GIMP.
Viva la GNU Image Manipulation Program!
(catchy:)
Market is what creates this.
I was from upstate NY, smaller recyclers went out of business due to large one that takes in all donations/recycles, strips parts to sell on ebay, then dumps the rest out of country. They made money off sales, pay next to nothing to dump.
This killed off legit recyclers.
See this video clip from Stargate "heroes" episode about the importance of freedom of the press:
The guy BLASTS the camera crew for turning off camera...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVV-Pi9gviE
Faster, more secure,lower memory usage. That's what they should work on and would make it even more popular. Why waste their time making it more boated and vulnerable to hack/attack. (Integrating with OS cannot help but do this...)
It only makes sense that Google wants to offer the best to advertisers (to make money) while at the same time they don't want to become big brother to do it.
Those with the most personal info about online users have a distinct advantage when serving ads, and advertisers know this. If there is a limit to what info can be kept -- then Google can compete in other ways, not have to fight a war of escalating personal information intrusion.
Linux is not just about having "another" system -- it is about open source, and for several legitimate reasons... though admittedly, sometimes the arguments come off sounding and being carried to the extremes of religious zealotry. But why Google would choose to fund a proprietary piece of software, when funding GEGL would help propel GIMP to the functionality inherent in Photoshop, as well as enable other parties (such as Google) to create offerings utilizing that codebase (GEGL stands for Generic Graphics Library), strikes me as a bit foolish.
I think their monies would be better spent on GEGL/GIMP -- but the funding for Photoshop on Linux is still a good thing. But here's to looking a gift horse in the mouth!:)
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Y could Apple not "invest" in US manufacturer? Maybe pay a company with better working conditions here in the United States to manufacture their parts?
Still not enough profit margin?
Guess I'm really old-fashioned, still an American trying to buy American, (when I can.)
For folks waiting for specific features, I understand your frustration with GIMPs development pace. Open Source projects often stutter and stumble, sometimes they even seem to disappear; so let's not forget the bottom line: A lot of people have been able to do things with images they could never have afforded to do if it were not for the GIMP. Viva la GNU Image Manipulation Program! (catchy :)
Market is what creates this. I was from upstate NY, smaller recyclers went out of business due to large one that takes in all donations/recycles, strips parts to sell on ebay, then dumps the rest out of country. They made money off sales, pay next to nothing to dump. This killed off legit recyclers.
See this video clip from Stargate "heroes" episode about the importance of freedom of the press: The guy BLASTS the camera crew for turning off camera... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVV-Pi9gviE
Likely true -- but I was just joking as to an appropriate size of such a "fine", that it would be massive, as is the US debt...
If the EU can fine a US company for what amounted to unfair business practices, what should the US do to China? Debt? What debt?
Faster, more secure,lower memory usage.
That's what they should work on and would make it even more popular.
Why waste their time making it more boated and vulnerable
to hack/attack. (Integrating with OS cannot help but do this...)
It only makes sense that Google wants to offer the best to advertisers (to make money) while at the same time they don't want to become big brother to do it. Those with the most personal info about online users have a distinct advantage when serving ads, and advertisers know this. If there is a limit to what info can be kept -- then Google can compete in other ways, not have to fight a war of escalating personal information intrusion.
Linux is not just about having "another" system -- it is about open source, and for several legitimate reasons... though admittedly, sometimes the arguments come off sounding and being carried to the extremes of religious zealotry. But why Google would choose to fund a proprietary piece of software, when funding GEGL would help propel GIMP to the functionality inherent in Photoshop, as well as enable other parties (such as Google) to create offerings utilizing that codebase (GEGL stands for Generic Graphics Library), strikes me as a bit foolish. I think their monies would be better spent on GEGL/GIMP -- but the funding for Photoshop on Linux is still a good thing. But here's to looking a gift horse in the mouth! :)
For students and teachers. Make it so useful for the schools they'd be crazy not to use it. All else would follow...