In April of 2005 I might an unusual flight change, by cancelling the return portion of my trip after arriving at my destination. For exactly one year after that point I was "randomly" chosen on every flight I took in the United States, including on the outbound end of international flights. I believe I took around 8 flights within that time period, and was security screened on each one. I became very familiar with the highlighted letters "SSSS", which would appear on my ticket to indicate that I was being screened. After a year though it stopped, and I haven't been randomly selected since.
The arguments here seem to me to be outstandingly one sided. I wonder how many of these people have even used the latest version of the Gimp? I worked professionally for a year and a half training people in the use of Photoshop, and I can say with confidence that its user interface is not that easy for novices. I don't think it would really be possible for any application, the Gimp included, with that many powerful and technical features. IMHO most people who complain about the UI probably only do so because it is not an exact Photoshop clone.
Most of the comments posted have also ignored some of the Gimp's strengths, such as its scripting language and plugins, which give Gimp many features that Photoshop does not offer. I can understand how a professional would have gripes with it, but I believe it to be an excellent software package, even if its UI is vastly different than Photoshop.
Since the switch from @Home to Comcast, Comcast hasn't even been supporting their multiple IP services, event though they're still charging for it, so many customers have been forced to create their own routing networks.
I run an open source multiplayer game, Dusk, and while there are many people who attempt to exploit bugs, there are equally many people working hard to track both the people who exploit them and the bugs themselves, so problems are usually fixed quickly and without too much loss. Have some faith in the ethics of good hackers.
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In April of 2005 I might an unusual flight change, by cancelling the return portion of my trip after arriving at my destination. For exactly one year after that point I was "randomly" chosen on every flight I took in the United States, including on the outbound end of international flights. I believe I took around 8 flights within that time period, and was security screened on each one. I became very familiar with the highlighted letters "SSSS", which would appear on my ticket to indicate that I was being screened. After a year though it stopped, and I haven't been randomly selected since.
Actually, it was George Bernard Shaw, not Einstein. The actual quote was closer to "But what if they had my looks and your brains?"
The arguments here seem to me to be outstandingly one sided. I wonder how many of these people have even used the latest version of the Gimp? I worked professionally for a year and a half training people in the use of Photoshop, and I can say with confidence that its user interface is not that easy for novices. I don't think it would really be possible for any application, the Gimp included, with that many powerful and technical features. IMHO most people who complain about the UI probably only do so because it is not an exact Photoshop clone.
Most of the comments posted have also ignored some of the Gimp's strengths, such as its scripting language and plugins, which give Gimp many features that Photoshop does not offer. I can understand how a professional would have gripes with it, but I believe it to be an excellent software package, even if its UI is vastly different than Photoshop.
Since the switch from @Home to Comcast, Comcast hasn't even been supporting their multiple IP services, event though they're still charging for it, so many customers have been forced to create their own routing networks.
I run an open source multiplayer game, Dusk, and while there are many people who attempt to exploit bugs, there are equally many people working hard to track both the people who exploit them and the bugs themselves, so problems are usually fixed quickly and without too much loss. Have some faith in the ethics of good hackers.
Our nation was based on the principal that the government should not force any one value system upon its members© Schools should not try to define the culture that the government thinks is proper©
Being a java coder and having finished the AP comp sci course only a year ago, I feel I can shed some light onto this subject© At first glance, java may seem like a very good choice for teaching Comp Sci AP© The goal of the course is to teach object oriented programming, recursion, and various other language-independent concepts© Java is a finelanguage to do all these things in, so it seems to follow logically that it would be equally suited for teaching them© However, this is not necessarily so© A large portion of the AP test involves pointers© In java, everything is a pointer© Teachers must therefore go out of their way to explain the difference between pointers and regular variables, without being able to show examples in code to the students© Therefore, it seems to me that C++, despite it's often times dangerous nature for begginers, remains the otimal choice for the class©
I suppose you think they should give you your money back, eh?