Point me to the studies and I'll give it a look-see. I just don't think that homosexual men have a tendency to genetically more like women than men. Ok, maybe there is a genetic difference between the two but I don't think that would make a homosexual male more like a woman. I think that aspect of it all is socialized rather than genetic. Would that mean that lebians are more like men?
I'm sorry, but I do think this line of thought is silly, but it's just my opinion. You're more than free to completely discard it.
Dude, the whole Universal thing was just a giant rumor on the web. Apple never made an official announcement that they had any intention of purchasing Universal. Apple has never said anything about Universal until last week when Jobs publicly denied the rumors.
They've given off no mixed message because they never gave off a message to being with.
Men are men, women are women. This has nothing to do with gender identification or sexual orientation. It comes down to hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. Check out the books by Robert Campbell called He, She and We. They aren't biology books, more pshychological/sociological and nature and delve into the roots of why women are better organizers than men and so forth and so on. Very good reads and a lot easier than getting through Jung!
To take your query a little further... what about "nice heterosexual guys" who are more in touch with their feminine sides than your average Joe Male? See? Sounds a little silly doesn't it?
iMacs and eMacs can be expanded with peripherals but obviously not with PCI cards. The target market for these machines has very little need for PCI expansion when they can get more USB and FireWire peripherals than they'll ever need for home uses.
That's why I always buy the towers. I don't need many PCI slots, but having them is very handy for installing a seperate video card or an video capture card.
yeah, that 1 time purchase of $150 million in NON-VOTING stock that MS sold long ago sure is saving their ass right now! Stock purchased in '97 and sold a little less than two years later.
There's no truth in your statement by which to be hurt. Check your facts you pathetic troll.
The bands that actually make a decent living making music do it by touring non-stop. It's not the ticket sales where they make money, but in selling t-shirts, hats... yadda yadda yadda. Ticket sales go to buying food, travel and equipment insurance, paying roadies and technicians, hotels, gas... you name it. If you think paying for CD's is ridiculous, think about how much hats, and stickers and t-shirts and whatnot cost in comparison to their production costs. Shirts are like 4-500% profit. Just selling 40-50 shorts a night is huge money for some bands.
Ok, I'm still trying to figure out this anti-French sentiment. Could someone please tell me what gives? I mean, come on. If it weren't for the French, we'd still be a British colony paying through the nose for simple things like tea.
Frankly, I'm perfectly happy with the Epson 777i I bought almost three years ago. I print on the thing like crazy. Mostly CD liners, CD labels and web proofs, but a lot of them. I didn't need to install anything when I moved up to OS X, the Print Center just recognized the printer and off I went. I'm sure I still have a few years left in that printer.
Now if I could just find an HP 4MV for a reasonable price i wouldn't have to spend so much time at Kinko's getting B&W laser prints done! Or an Apple LaserWriter Pro 630! Those are two of the best 85 linescreen, 600dpi B&W laser printers out there. Not great for anything with fine detail, but monsters at outputting text.
Well, if it went over to Linux or Windows... read x86, you'd never be able to take advantage of the built in AltiVec optimizations.
Trust me. If you're really into editing and have used other NLE's before, you would notice a HUGE difference between FCP 2 and FCP 3. FCP 4 is the biggest upgrade yet for the program. It handles every single digital video format on the face of the earth. HD, DV, D1, D9, D50. Native 24fps editing for HD and film. 3:2 pulldowns native to the application. (That right there used to be a seperate $999 application called Cinema Tools!)
To get an Avid system this decked out you'd have to purchase about $100k of software and hardware! FCP 4 is a mind boggliningly cool upgrade! I can't wait to get my hands on it... I teach FCP at the Seattle Film Institute.
As for the other updates, DVDSP 2 looks way better than 1.5. I know nothing about Shake or Logic, so I will not comment.
Yeah, see here we go again. Idiot as the subject of the post. Instead of a rational discussion about the issue at hand, you're immediately jumping to name calling. Tsk. Tsk.
Some people just have to ruin the fun of these threads with name calling rather than calmly and rationally discussing the benefits of Product X vs. Product Y. Fine , go ahead and call the products names and insult them. The products don't have any human feelings. But why go for the character assassination? What purpose does it serve other than to boost your ego?
I'm not getting all worked up. I'm just playing the troll game. I've got the karma to burn and when I see people trotting out the "Mac users are gay" card I have to respond, because A. it's a stupid assumption especially if not backed up by serious sociological data. B. If you can assume that Mac users are gay, why can't I assume that people who make such assumptions aren't homophobic racists. It's a two way street. I honestly don't know if you're a racist, but homophobic.. at least a bit or you wouldn't equate what you obviously consider to be an inferior technology with homosexuality.
Also, been reading your posts. You're more than a little combative, self-righteous and caustic in every single post. You tout the MS party line at every turn. (I'm a Mac user at Microsoft who saw one BSOD yesterday when trying to make a High Res print-ready PDF out of InDesign yesterday!) I use MS technology for some of my day to day tasks when the job at hand calls for it, but yes, the Mac is my preferred platform as I'm a graphic artist and video editor. (It's just the best platform for both fields these days)
You obviously can't stand other peoples' opinions if they differ from your own if you must insist on tacking on a pejroative or hateful slander of some sort after mentioning the platform each time.
Windows Media is still a horrible media delivery system, riddled with bugs and security flaws. Do you read the technology postings about all the patches that are put out every week? MS posts more security warnings than just about any software company combined! Imagine if auto manufacturers started shipping cars with such loose quality assurance and safety standards.
This is fun, playing with anonymous trolls who think that platform choice is somehow tied to sexual orientation. Kinda like people assume that you're gay if you're a vegetarian or an anti-war protester. What are you 13? A little worried that maybe the football captain caught you takin a peak at his package in the locker room and thought you needed to take out your confused frustrations on a Mac user on Slashdot?
AND
If you're such a Windows freak, why are you reading and posting to a Slashdot story in the Apple section? Your post simply panders to the MS party line. There are plenty of other boards for you to troll. Take your juvenile, homophobic, and, I'm going to assume, racist attitudes elsewhere.
I can't wait for the first Landmark theater to report a BSOD during the previews! Also, MS' claims that WM will have better resolution that 35mm film are just ludicrous. HD projection still hasn't reached that level. It's just typical MS brainless bragging. Digital projection still has a long way to go before it will match the image wuality of 35mm film... let alone 70mm.
A: you're an anonymous coward. B: Quicktime is the basis for MPEG-4 C: Quicktime Streaming Server is Open Source? D: Real Player is garbage E: Windows Media is grabage F: Quicktime has just about the best image quality of any web deliverable video format out there G: Quicktime means no DRM H: You're an anonymous coward!
I agree the upgrade message is rather annoying, but what you get with Quicktime Pro is pretty impresive. Variable bit rate MPEG-2 export just to name one. Quicktime Pro is worth the measley price if you want to do any serious goofing around with digital video.
Somehow I think a Theater owner wouldn't be so cheap as to not upgrade. It's only $30. That's what 2 buckets of popcorn to the owner.
Re:OS X Finder Laundry List - Please add yours.
on
A Better Finder?
·
· Score: 1
ooooo.... cmd+R has it's own special purpose which is "Find Original" which I use all the time. maybe option+cmd+r or some such thing. I don't mind complicated key chords just because I use Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign all day lonng and bizarre key chords are typical in design apps.
Then again, a lot of this is just person preference.
Re:OS X Finder Laundry List - Please add yours.
on
A Better Finder?
·
· Score: 1
To actually open you have to use Apple+O, which is considerably harder to key.
This is simply nitpicking IMHO. To open a document in any application it's always cmd+O. It is the same in the Finder for the sake of consistency. In fact, in most applications with tabbed interfaces, the "Enter" key is used to designate that an alteration to a object (done via a form field in a tabbed palette) is final. Want to reselect the data in the field, hit "Enter" again.
For the most part, Finder key commands behave similarly to they way they do in most applications. For the most part... they are always always always exceptions... sometime too numerous to count.
And, come on, is cmd+O really that HARD to key. I can do it in my sleep as well as close documents, etc. etc. And it certainly makes more sense that alt+f4 to close a window in Windows!
Re:OS X Finder Laundry List - Please add yours.
on
A Better Finder?
·
· Score: 1
Well pop-up folders and spring loaded folders are two different things. I think the original poster meant tabbed folders that would reside at the bottom of the screen and pop open only when you clicked the tab. I gotta say I mess this feature. I used it as a subsitute for the Launcher.... which I hated more than Hitler. I also miss the Windowshade feature. Sometimes I like to have my wondows up on the screen, but minimized with Windowshade.
After 2 years of using OS X almost exclusively, I can't imagine going back to OS 9 full time now. Sure there are things I miss, but I have a feeling a lot of our favorite features will make their way back into the OS in upcoming revisions.
Apparently no one out at Intel has yet to get 127 devices actually connected all at the same time. 4 years ago after Apple's WWDC, apparently a bunch of drunk Apple engineers went back to the Apple campus and managed to get 127 devices connected to an iMac!
Drunk Apple engineers managing to pull off what the brainiacs over at Intel (who own the USB technology) can't... even when sober!
But who knows, this could all be stupid urban myth.
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Ninja Scrool, Princess Mononoke, The Seven Samurai, Young Frankenstein, Sleeper, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King, Being John Malkovich... damn too many movies... EVIL DEAD... any of them!
My various copies of Photoshop (registered version 3.0.5 - 7.0) have paid for themselves many times over... usually on the very next job after purchase. Also, upgrading is the way to go. $500 initial purchase and the $99-140 thereafter. I've probably spent ~$1000 total on Photoshop in the last 8 years... not counting filters which almost always cost more than the PS upgrade itself!
I don't even want to try and calculate how much income Photoshop has earned me compared to my investment in the program itself. It's paid for itself so many times over it's ridiculous. As have Illustrator, Dreamweaver, BBedit and all the others I regularly use.
I think a lot of graphic designers have grown up on Photoshop and maybe have forgotten how hard it was to learn how to use Photoshop properly and get use to it. I think this is why many existing graphic designers may not want to switch (developers stuffer from the same issue when new languages come out - there is a productivity trade off to be made by sticking with what you areadly know vs. learning a new technology).
Man, I can't stop replying to this! When I started learning photoshop, my only real computer knowledge was from PageMaker 1 thru 3 and Word up until the early 90's. I was a photography student and Photoshop 2 & 2.5 really made sense to me. The overarching metaphor of a digital darkrrom made learning the program a breeze...at leaston a base functional level. This is where I think the OSS, *NIX developers need some help. Their only real metaphor for using a computer is, well, using and maintaining the computer itself and networks. Their backgrounds, in general, and views of usability are based on their use of the computer as a programming and networking tool. Graphics types, grab onto other metaphors to help them cope with and understand the technology at their fingertips. People with backgrounds in photography gravitated toward Photoshop because it successfully implemented a digital darkroom metaphor. The program has grown quite a bit in scope since version 2, but the overall experience of using the program has remained essentially the same.
Lots of people had a rough time getting comfortable with Flash 4 and up because the interactivity elements of the program became more important. The "traditional cell animation" metaphor took a back seat to the new robust scriptability it had acquired. Now, in order to use Flash effectively, people who were once designers, artists, had to learn how to script or had to learn how to explain to those who knew how to script but don't really know animation how to execute what the animator wanted to happen. Adobe tried to make a firendlier version of Flash called LiveMotion... it failed miserably. It had some great features in it. It was much better at doing some things than Flash was, but it never really integrated what USERS wanted out of a SWF capable authoring tool which was current compatibility ActionScript. Adobe was behind the times in this regard and LiveMotion suffered and died as a result. See? Even the titans of industry can take one in the shorts if their products don't match up with USER expectations.
Now, Flash is used primarily by people who could be considered "developers" who work in tandem with artists who develop the art elements for the Flash piece. This is precisely why I went iinto film and video editing rather than deeper into Flash. I loved the idea of motion graphics, but was turned off by having to know so much scripting. Instead, I took my knowledge of photography and moved into a field where the metaphors and frames of reference more closely resembled what I was already accustomed to and enjoyed. Non-linear digital video editing. Having been a photographer and having done 16mm film editing on a flatbed Moviola, I was able to grasp the metaphors used in Avid and Final Cut Pro very easily. Avid and Apple have done a good job of creating a workspace that their TARGETusers can easily understand. Adobe has fallen flat on their face here, as Premiere is a nightmarish hell to work with. People would rather pay $999 for FCP than pay $500 for Premiere. (There's your paradigm shift, buddy!)
So, see, you can relate to the GIMP because you're a UNIX guy and The GIMP was developed by people like yourself who have a similar frame of reference when it comes down to how a program should be laid out and how it should behave. Those of us with significantly more graphical views of the world find the GIMP to be a usability nightmare because it does not reference any of the metaphors that make us feel comfortable and want to use a program. Sure, the raw power and talent may be under the hood of the GIMP, but none of us
Slashdot Mirror
Point me to the studies and I'll give it a look-see. I just don't think that homosexual men have a tendency to genetically more like women than men. Ok, maybe there is a genetic difference between the two but I don't think that would make a homosexual male more like a woman. I think that aspect of it all is socialized rather than genetic. Would that mean that lebians are more like men?
I'm sorry, but I do think this line of thought is silly, but it's just my opinion. You're more than free to completely discard it.
Dude, the whole Universal thing was just a giant rumor on the web. Apple never made an official announcement that they had any intention of purchasing Universal. Apple has never said anything about Universal until last week when Jobs publicly denied the rumors.
They've given off no mixed message because they never gave off a message to being with.
Men are men, women are women. This has nothing to do with gender identification or sexual orientation. It comes down to hundreds of thousands of years of evolution. Check out the books by Robert Campbell called He, She and We. They aren't biology books, more pshychological/sociological and nature and delve into the roots of why women are better organizers than men and so forth and so on. Very good reads and a lot easier than getting through Jung!
To take your query a little further... what about "nice heterosexual guys" who are more in touch with their feminine sides than your average Joe Male? See? Sounds a little silly doesn't it?
Come on! The Linux crowd can now proudly say "I'm running OS X on a non-Apple PPC machine". Not many people can say that.
iMacs and eMacs can be expanded with peripherals but obviously not with PCI cards. The target market for these machines has very little need for PCI expansion when they can get more USB and FireWire peripherals than they'll ever need for home uses.
That's why I always buy the towers. I don't need many PCI slots, but having them is very handy for installing a seperate video card or an video capture card.
Yeah, $4.4 billion in the bank and routine profiatbility, they're doing horribly!
yeah, that 1 time purchase of $150 million in NON-VOTING stock that MS sold long ago sure is saving their ass right now! Stock purchased in '97 and sold a little less than two years later.
There's no truth in your statement by which to be hurt. Check your facts you pathetic troll.
The bands that actually make a decent living making music do it by touring non-stop. It's not the ticket sales where they make money, but in selling t-shirts, hats... yadda yadda yadda. Ticket sales go to buying food, travel and equipment insurance, paying roadies and technicians, hotels, gas... you name it. If you think paying for CD's is ridiculous, think about how much hats, and stickers and t-shirts and whatnot cost in comparison to their production costs. Shirts are like 4-500% profit. Just selling 40-50 shorts a night is huge money for some bands.
I have always wished that Courtney would just get it over with and call the band Asshole. I mean that's what we all think she is anyway.
Ok, I'm still trying to figure out this anti-French sentiment. Could someone please tell me what gives? I mean, come on. If it weren't for the French, we'd still be a British colony paying through the nose for simple things like tea.
Frankly, I'm perfectly happy with the Epson 777i I bought almost three years ago. I print on the thing like crazy. Mostly CD liners, CD labels and web proofs, but a lot of them. I didn't need to install anything when I moved up to OS X, the Print Center just recognized the printer and off I went. I'm sure I still have a few years left in that printer.
Now if I could just find an HP 4MV for a reasonable price i wouldn't have to spend so much time at Kinko's getting B&W laser prints done! Or an Apple LaserWriter Pro 630! Those are two of the best 85 linescreen, 600dpi B&W laser printers out there. Not great for anything with fine detail, but monsters at outputting text.
Well, if it went over to Linux or Windows... read x86, you'd never be able to take advantage of the built in AltiVec optimizations.
Trust me. If you're really into editing and have used other NLE's before, you would notice a HUGE difference between FCP 2 and FCP 3. FCP 4 is the biggest upgrade yet for the program. It handles every single digital video format on the face of the earth. HD, DV, D1, D9, D50. Native 24fps editing for HD and film. 3:2 pulldowns native to the application. (That right there used to be a seperate $999 application called Cinema Tools!)
To get an Avid system this decked out you'd have to purchase about $100k of software and hardware! FCP 4 is a mind boggliningly cool upgrade! I can't wait to get my hands on it... I teach FCP at the Seattle Film Institute.
As for the other updates, DVDSP 2 looks way better than 1.5. I know nothing about Shake or Logic, so I will not comment.
Yeah, see here we go again. Idiot as the subject of the post. Instead of a rational discussion about the issue at hand, you're immediately jumping to name calling. Tsk. Tsk.
Some people just have to ruin the fun of these threads with name calling rather than calmly and rationally discussing the benefits of Product X vs. Product Y. Fine , go ahead and call the products names and insult them. The products don't have any human feelings. But why go for the character assassination? What purpose does it serve other than to boost your ego?
I'm not getting all worked up. I'm just playing the troll game. I've got the karma to burn and when I see people trotting out the "Mac users are gay" card I have to respond, because A. it's a stupid assumption especially if not backed up by serious sociological data. B. If you can assume that Mac users are gay, why can't I assume that people who make such assumptions aren't homophobic racists. It's a two way street. I honestly don't know if you're a racist, but homophobic.. at least a bit or you wouldn't equate what you obviously consider to be an inferior technology with homosexuality.
Also, been reading your posts. You're more than a little combative, self-righteous and caustic in every single post. You tout the MS party line at every turn. (I'm a Mac user at Microsoft who saw one BSOD yesterday when trying to make a High Res print-ready PDF out of InDesign yesterday!) I use MS technology for some of my day to day tasks when the job at hand calls for it, but yes, the Mac is my preferred platform as I'm a graphic artist and video editor. (It's just the best platform for both fields these days)
You obviously can't stand other peoples' opinions if they differ from your own if you must insist on tacking on a pejroative or hateful slander of some sort after mentioning the platform each time.
Windows Media is still a horrible media delivery system, riddled with bugs and security flaws. Do you read the technology postings about all the patches that are put out every week? MS posts more security warnings than just about any software company combined! Imagine if auto manufacturers started shipping cars with such loose quality assurance and safety standards.
This is fun, playing with anonymous trolls who think that platform choice is somehow tied to sexual orientation. Kinda like people assume that you're gay if you're a vegetarian or an anti-war protester. What are you 13? A little worried that maybe the football captain caught you takin a peak at his package in the locker room and thought you needed to take out your confused frustrations on a Mac user on Slashdot?
AND
If you're such a Windows freak, why are you reading and posting to a Slashdot story in the Apple section? Your post simply panders to the MS party line. There are plenty of other boards for you to troll. Take your juvenile, homophobic, and, I'm going to assume, racist attitudes elsewhere.
I can't wait for the first Landmark theater to report a BSOD during the previews! Also, MS' claims that WM will have better resolution that 35mm film are just ludicrous. HD projection still hasn't reached that level. It's just typical MS brainless bragging. Digital projection still has a long way to go before it will match the image wuality of 35mm film... let alone 70mm.
A: you're an anonymous coward. B: Quicktime is the basis for MPEG-4 C: Quicktime Streaming Server is Open Source? D: Real Player is garbage E: Windows Media is grabage F: Quicktime has just about the best image quality of any web deliverable video format out there G: Quicktime means no DRM H: You're an anonymous coward!
I agree the upgrade message is rather annoying, but what you get with Quicktime Pro is pretty impresive. Variable bit rate MPEG-2 export just to name one. Quicktime Pro is worth the measley price if you want to do any serious goofing around with digital video.
Somehow I think a Theater owner wouldn't be so cheap as to not upgrade. It's only $30. That's what 2 buckets of popcorn to the owner.
ooooo.... cmd+R has it's own special purpose which is "Find Original" which I use all the time. maybe option+cmd+r or some such thing. I don't mind complicated key chords just because I use Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign all day lonng and bizarre key chords are typical in design apps.
Then again, a lot of this is just person preference.
To actually open you have to use Apple+O, which is considerably harder to key.
This is simply nitpicking IMHO. To open a document in any application it's always cmd+O. It is the same in the Finder for the sake of consistency. In fact, in most applications with tabbed interfaces, the "Enter" key is used to designate that an alteration to a object (done via a form field in a tabbed palette) is final. Want to reselect the data in the field, hit "Enter" again.
For the most part, Finder key commands behave similarly to they way they do in most applications. For the most part... they are always always always exceptions... sometime too numerous to count.
And, come on, is cmd+O really that HARD to key. I can do it in my sleep as well as close documents, etc. etc. And it certainly makes more sense that alt+f4 to close a window in Windows!
Well pop-up folders and spring loaded folders are two different things. I think the original poster meant tabbed folders that would reside at the bottom of the screen and pop open only when you clicked the tab. I gotta say I mess this feature. I used it as a subsitute for the Launcher.... which I hated more than Hitler. I also miss the Windowshade feature. Sometimes I like to have my wondows up on the screen, but minimized with Windowshade.
After 2 years of using OS X almost exclusively, I can't imagine going back to OS 9 full time now. Sure there are things I miss, but I have a feeling a lot of our favorite features will make their way back into the OS in upcoming revisions.
Apparently no one out at Intel has yet to get 127 devices actually connected all at the same time. 4 years ago after Apple's WWDC, apparently a bunch of drunk Apple engineers went back to the Apple campus and managed to get 127 devices connected to an iMac!
Drunk Apple engineers managing to pull off what the brainiacs over at Intel (who own the USB technology) can't... even when sober!
But who knows, this could all be stupid urban myth.
Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Ninja Scrool, Princess Mononoke, The Seven Samurai, Young Frankenstein, Sleeper, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King, Being John Malkovich... damn too many movies... EVIL DEAD... any of them!
Yeah, I know. I keep getting turned down for jobs because I don't know Killustrator or GIMP! It's such a shame.
My various copies of Photoshop (registered version 3.0.5 - 7.0) have paid for themselves many times over... usually on the very next job after purchase. Also, upgrading is the way to go. $500 initial purchase and the $99-140 thereafter. I've probably spent ~$1000 total on Photoshop in the last 8 years... not counting filters which almost always cost more than the PS upgrade itself!
I don't even want to try and calculate how much income Photoshop has earned me compared to my investment in the program itself. It's paid for itself so many times over it's ridiculous. As have Illustrator, Dreamweaver, BBedit and all the others I regularly use.
I think a lot of graphic designers have grown up on Photoshop and maybe have forgotten how hard it was to learn how to use Photoshop properly and get use to it. I think this is why many existing graphic designers may not want to switch (developers stuffer from the same issue when new languages come out - there is a productivity trade off to be made by sticking with what you areadly know vs. learning a new technology).
Man, I can't stop replying to this! When I started learning photoshop, my only real computer knowledge was from PageMaker 1 thru 3 and Word up until the early 90's. I was a photography student and Photoshop 2 & 2.5 really made sense to me. The overarching metaphor of a digital darkrrom made learning the program a breeze...at leaston a base functional level. This is where I think the OSS, *NIX developers need some help. Their only real metaphor for using a computer is, well, using and maintaining the computer itself and networks. Their backgrounds, in general, and views of usability are based on their use of the computer as a programming and networking tool. Graphics types, grab onto other metaphors to help them cope with and understand the technology at their fingertips. People with backgrounds in photography gravitated toward Photoshop because it successfully implemented a digital darkroom metaphor. The program has grown quite a bit in scope since version 2, but the overall experience of using the program has remained essentially the same.
Lots of people had a rough time getting comfortable with Flash 4 and up because the interactivity elements of the program became more important. The "traditional cell animation" metaphor took a back seat to the new robust scriptability it had acquired. Now, in order to use Flash effectively, people who were once designers, artists, had to learn how to script or had to learn how to explain to those who knew how to script but don't really know animation how to execute what the animator wanted to happen. Adobe tried to make a firendlier version of Flash called LiveMotion... it failed miserably. It had some great features in it. It was much better at doing some things than Flash was, but it never really integrated what USERS wanted out of a SWF capable authoring tool which was current compatibility ActionScript. Adobe was behind the times in this regard and LiveMotion suffered and died as a result. See? Even the titans of industry can take one in the shorts if their products don't match up with USER expectations.
Now, Flash is used primarily by people who could be considered "developers" who work in tandem with artists who develop the art elements for the Flash piece. This is precisely why I went iinto film and video editing rather than deeper into Flash. I loved the idea of motion graphics, but was turned off by having to know so much scripting. Instead, I took my knowledge of photography and moved into a field where the metaphors and frames of reference more closely resembled what I was already accustomed to and enjoyed. Non-linear digital video editing. Having been a photographer and having done 16mm film editing on a flatbed Moviola, I was able to grasp the metaphors used in Avid and Final Cut Pro very easily. Avid and Apple have done a good job of creating a workspace that their TARGETusers can easily understand. Adobe has fallen flat on their face here, as Premiere is a nightmarish hell to work with. People would rather pay $999 for FCP than pay $500 for Premiere. (There's your paradigm shift, buddy!)
So, see, you can relate to the GIMP because you're a UNIX guy and The GIMP was developed by people like yourself who have a similar frame of reference when it comes down to how a program should be laid out and how it should behave. Those of us with significantly more graphical views of the world find the GIMP to be a usability nightmare because it does not reference any of the metaphors that make us feel comfortable and want to use a program. Sure, the raw power and talent may be under the hood of the GIMP, but none of us