I tried using GIMP, I really did. I gave it several good chances, struggled with the docs, struggled learning the hotkeys, struggled with the sometimes-different names for stuff in the interface, etc etc...I really did. But I just couldn't use it as fluidly and as productively as either Photoshop or CorelDraw.
Maybe it was me, maybe it wasn't...all I know is I liked the idea of a truly open-source graphics tool and I would have been happy to support it but I just never really felt like I was getting in the groove with it, so to speak.
And then Photoshop started coming out with boatloads of brushes and plugins and filters that did some genuinely cool and useful stuff, and I just stopped using GIMP. I had stuff to do and for whatever reason I found I could always manage to do it in Photoshop faster and more easily than GIMP. I don't know why.
There are also about a billion tutorials on Photoshop available (some good, some that suck) and I could almost always find a page with info on what I needed to do in Photoshop. Sadly, the same simply wasn't true of GIMP. The docs were "eh" but the lack of a good tutorial base was a major stumbling block for me personally.
I'm probably not the only one to go through this. I really liked the idea of using GIMP but it just never really coalesced for me.
I was a little kid when I saw that show, and even then, it was obvious it was a piece of crap. The bottom of the barrel, we scrape it here.
Yeah, it was dreadful, no two ways about it. It sucked miserably.
What next, "My Mother, the Car"?
Oh god, kill me now.
I'd rather watch reruns of Johnny Quest or Clutch Cargo. Or Speed Racer (the original crappy cartoon), which was the absolute worst piece of shit ever to hit the airwaves.
A friend is trying to recruit me to join her company. One of the "benefits" was 24-hour hackathons.
1) She's not your friend, she's a con artist trying to fuck you over and use you by pretending to be a "friend".
2) A 24-hour hackathon is not a "benefit" by any stretch of the imagination. Seriously, if you like hackathons then you're probably a big fan of root canals and waterboarding.
3) Tell her to fuck off and die. Preferably in a fire.
Whah, hail no!!! We don' want none o' them smarty pants egghead perfessers and braniacs messing' with our beloved holy sacred bullshit stories, or where will it end?
Purty soon lil' Johnny and Janey won't be believin' that this here Earth is flat an' was given to us personally by Jebus Christ hisself!!
And the so-called "slaves", they wuzn't slaves, they wuz "involuntary happy helpers" who got free food and shelter!
Not only that, but mah ancestors hunted dinosaurs with a flintlock way back when, it sez so in mah Holy Book, Not that OTHER filthy dirty lyin' FAKE "holy book" that those differnt' lookin' peeple read from, 'cuz they's all goin' ta' HAIL when they die, yes siree, mah pappy done tol' me so.
The idea that violence would stop entirely if religion was gone is quite extraordinary.
Correct, and no one is saying that, not even me. What I'm saying is that all these whack-ass religious shitheads would have nothing to fight over because without their religion they wouldn't exist.
The Sunnis and the Shiites wouldn't exist if not for some 2000-year old pissing match about who should have inherited the goodies after Mohammed died. No Mohammed, no Islam, and no dumbfucks to fight over which magical sky-daddy was the "real" one.
Yes, people will always fight about something, but without religion they sure as shit wouldn't be fighting over religion.
At home I develop in a more refined fashion: diving right in without much prep or research, working on it for weeks to months, then finding that the project is 100 times more complex than I expected and someone else has already done it.
Scrum has no long tasks. The very first and most fundamental step in Scum, or any agile process really, is to break down long tasks into smaller tasks.
"Okay, you type the first 5 letters, Bob, then Steve will finish the name of the function call. Jack and Nick will add the parentheses and semi-colons. Mary will press the RETURN key when it's time for a new line. Okay team, GO!!"
"What do you think? Is Scrum still a viable approach to software development, or is it time to make way for a different process?"
NO.
It's definitely time to come up with a new, trendy name that hides the fact that most programming is, in fact, a solitary sport, even if done by teams of coders all stuffed into a common room.
I propose "SUCK", "BALLDROP", "HOPELESS", and "VOID" because none of them stand for anything and they all sound cool when uttered in between slurps of brogrammer's favorite energy drinks.
Actually, you see lots of people willing to fight for reasons entirely separate from religion.
Yes, and no one, including myself, is disagreeing with that.
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I'd rather be honest and get rid of the ideological grandstanding and look at the REAL roots of large-scale violence - poverty, tribalism, perceived inequality, culture conflicts, etc. People commit horrific acts for all sorts of reasons, and there are much better correlates out there than religion.
That may be, but it doesn't disprove my point at all, not even a little bit.
Looks to me like your over-active fantasy life is leaching out into your everyday life
If that's what it looks like to you then you probably just need a new pair of glasses. Sadly, they do not make glasses to correct pedantry, but you could always try some Xanax or Midol in the convenient suppository form.
...and I may make some replies to other posts mainly for the benefit of others.
I'm sure that the Collective thanks you deeply for your generous and selfless Public Service announcements which you spout in order to set the record straight as regards my many egregious mistakes, which undoubtedly flow like a river of raging incorrectness.
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I doubt there is much evidence that would persuade you that you've got something wrong to the point you would change your mind.
See, there you go again, assuming facts not in evidence. I've been wrong more times than I can count (even if I take my shoes off!) and I'm more than willing to admit it when it happens and change my mind. I've had a lot of practice being wrong and so actually I'm quite good at it, probably way better than you. lol:)
Thanks, but I've seen the effects of religion firsthand as well as in a historical context, and it's mindless bullshit designed to control people and fuck up the world at large. Don't waste your breath telling me that it's not the root cause of many of the world's problems, because it damn sure is.
Anger should be directed only at those persons who perpetrated murders, who individually hold responsibility
Yes, but anger should also be directed at those who perpetuate these myths in order to get others to commit atrocities in the name of their invisible magic sky-being.
Let's be real fucking clear here: If I deliberately mindfuck you and manage to convince you to murder someone, I'm guilty too.
And it doesn't matter if it's a religious mindfuck or a white supremacist mindfuck or a "we need some money" mindfuck.
In cases like that, responsibility doesn't stop at the handle of the knife.
I'm not sure what happened but I retired and I somehow stopped being functional but I kept up the alcoholic part. So, I quit.
I went through something similar with pot. I used to toke up regularly, and then one day I just didn't want to anymore. There was no conscious decision to quit or anything like that, no defining event...I just stopped. I may still have a couple of puffs at a party or something, but the urge to get high just disappeared one day for no reason I can discern. I still don't quite understand it, lol.
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I tried using GIMP, I really did. I gave it several good chances, struggled with the docs, struggled learning the hotkeys, struggled with the sometimes-different names for stuff in the interface, etc etc...I really did. But I just couldn't use it as fluidly and as productively as either Photoshop or CorelDraw.
Maybe it was me, maybe it wasn't...all I know is I liked the idea of a truly open-source graphics tool and I would have been happy to support it but I just never really felt like I was getting in the groove with it, so to speak.
And then Photoshop started coming out with boatloads of brushes and plugins and filters that did some genuinely cool and useful stuff, and I just stopped using GIMP. I had stuff to do and for whatever reason I found I could always manage to do it in Photoshop faster and more easily than GIMP. I don't know why.
There are also about a billion tutorials on Photoshop available (some good, some that suck) and I could almost always find a page with info on what I needed to do in Photoshop. Sadly, the same simply wasn't true of GIMP. The docs were "eh" but the lack of a good tutorial base was a major stumbling block for me personally.
I'm probably not the only one to go through this. I really liked the idea of using GIMP but it just never really coalesced for me.
I was a little kid when I saw that show, and even then, it was obvious it was a piece of crap.
The bottom of the barrel, we scrape it here.
Yeah, it was dreadful, no two ways about it. It sucked miserably.
What next, "My Mother, the Car"?
Oh god, kill me now.
I'd rather watch reruns of Johnny Quest or Clutch Cargo. Or Speed Racer (the original crappy cartoon), which was the absolute worst piece of shit ever to hit the airwaves.
40 to 50 hours is still hellish, I see it sneaking into conversations as if it's the expected norm. I get everything done in 40 hours or less.
Same here. I get everything done in 40 hours whether it's done or not. At the end of the day I go home, and that's that.
I've never heard of anyone on their deathbed wishing they'd spent more time at the office.
A friend is trying to recruit me to join her company. One of the "benefits" was 24-hour hackathons.
1) She's not your friend, she's a con artist trying to fuck you over and use you by pretending to be a "friend".
2) A 24-hour hackathon is not a "benefit" by any stretch of the imagination. Seriously, if you like hackathons then you're probably a big fan of root canals and waterboarding.
3) Tell her to fuck off and die. Preferably in a fire.
Ehm.. a backdoor doesn't program itself and then ends up in firmware because of a 'programming mistake', or because 'corners were cut'.
Oh, I don't know...one time I tried to program "Hello world" and accidentally coded a medical billing system with an accounts receivable dashboard.
"...the city of Chicago has been misusing traffic cameras to trigger automated speeding tickets.
My my, this certainly is shocking news. *cough*
"Will this help stem the tide of bad DMCA takedown requests"
No.
Your prejudice is showing. Rather like the stereotypes you are repeating.
Stereotypes exist for a reason; they don't spring fully-formed from out of the blue.
Whah, hail no!!! We don' want none o' them smarty pants egghead perfessers and braniacs messing' with our beloved holy sacred bullshit stories, or where will it end?
Purty soon lil' Johnny and Janey won't be believin' that this here Earth is flat an' was given to us personally by Jebus Christ hisself!!
And the so-called "slaves", they wuzn't slaves, they wuz "involuntary happy helpers" who got free food and shelter!
Not only that, but mah ancestors hunted dinosaurs with a flintlock way back when, it sez so in mah Holy Book, Not that OTHER filthy dirty lyin' FAKE "holy book" that those differnt' lookin' peeple read from, 'cuz they's all goin' ta' HAIL when they die, yes siree, mah pappy done tol' me so.
I repeat, "Whoopdee fucking doo", which means, "Who fucking cares?"
Let's assume this is your main point:
Let's not, because that's not my main point.
The idea that violence would stop entirely if religion was gone is quite extraordinary.
Correct, and no one is saying that, not even me. What I'm saying is that all these whack-ass religious shitheads would have nothing to fight over because without their religion they wouldn't exist.
The Sunnis and the Shiites wouldn't exist if not for some 2000-year old pissing match about who should have inherited the goodies after Mohammed died. No Mohammed, no Islam, and no dumbfucks to fight over which magical sky-daddy was the "real" one.
Yes, people will always fight about something, but without religion they sure as shit wouldn't be fighting over religion.
At home I develop in a more refined fashion: diving right in without much prep or research, working on it for weeks to months, then finding that the project is 100 times more complex than I expected and someone else has already done it.
Lol, I'm gonna print that out and frame it. :)
Scrum has no long tasks. The very first and most fundamental step in Scum, or any agile process really, is to break down long tasks into smaller tasks.
"Okay, you type the first 5 letters, Bob, then Steve will finish the name of the function call. Jack and Nick will add the parentheses and semi-colons. Mary will press the RETURN key when it's time for a new line. Okay team, GO!!"
"What do you think? Is Scrum still a viable approach to software development, or is it time to make way for a different process?"
NO.
It's definitely time to come up with a new, trendy name that hides the fact that most programming is, in fact, a solitary sport, even if done by teams of coders all stuffed into a common room.
I propose "SUCK", "BALLDROP", "HOPELESS", and "VOID" because none of them stand for anything and they all sound cool when uttered in between slurps of brogrammer's favorite energy drinks.
Actually, you see lots of people willing to fight for reasons entirely separate from religion.
Yes, and no one, including myself, is disagreeing with that.
-
I'd rather be honest and get rid of the ideological grandstanding and look at the REAL roots of large-scale violence - poverty, tribalism, perceived inequality, culture conflicts, etc. People commit horrific acts for all sorts of reasons, and there are much better correlates out there than religion.
That may be, but it doesn't disprove my point at all, not even a little bit.
Yep, I like it here too, even though I grumble about it sometimes. :)
And I hope y'all would accept me at the beer table. Cheers.
We'll save you a spot and see you there, or then, or whatever. :)
Looks to me like your over-active fantasy life is leaching out into your everyday life
If that's what it looks like to you then you probably just need a new pair of glasses. Sadly, they do not make glasses to correct pedantry, but you could always try some Xanax or Midol in the convenient suppository form.
...and I may make some replies to other posts mainly for the benefit of others.
I'm sure that the Collective thanks you deeply for your generous and selfless Public Service announcements which you spout in order to set the record straight as regards my many egregious mistakes, which undoubtedly flow like a river of raging incorrectness.
-
I doubt there is much evidence that would persuade you that you've got something wrong to the point you would change your mind.
See, there you go again, assuming facts not in evidence. I've been wrong more times than I can count (even if I take my shoes off!) and I'm more than willing to admit it when it happens and change my mind. I've had a lot of practice being wrong and so actually I'm quite good at it, probably way better than you. lol :)
Seems fair, I doubt you would be.
Lol, still butthurt from your last spanking? :)
Dear FCC,
Thanks for telling me that I can do what I'm going to do anyway, regardless of your rules.
Signed,
Router Owner
Well, the police themselves often come with malware installed (bully syndrome) so this doesn't really surprise me.
Also, as near as I can tell, "viruses" is a perfectly acceptable term, but "virii" isn't really even a word.
"Viruses" doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nicely, but both the Boeing and Microsoft style guides recommend it (as does Teh Google).
Thanks, but I've seen the effects of religion firsthand as well as in a historical context, and it's mindless bullshit designed to control people and fuck up the world at large. Don't waste your breath telling me that it's not the root cause of many of the world's problems, because it damn sure is.
Anger should be directed only at those persons who perpetrated murders, who individually hold responsibility
Yes, but anger should also be directed at those who perpetuate these myths in order to get others to commit atrocities in the name of their invisible magic sky-being.
Let's be real fucking clear here: If I deliberately mindfuck you and manage to convince you to murder someone, I'm guilty too.
And it doesn't matter if it's a religious mindfuck or a white supremacist mindfuck or a "we need some money" mindfuck.
In cases like that, responsibility doesn't stop at the handle of the knife.
Great, a new way to justify charging more for a service just when it's needed the most.
Will the wonders of marketing never cease??
I'm not sure what happened but I retired and I somehow stopped being functional but I kept up the alcoholic part. So, I quit.
I went through something similar with pot. I used to toke up regularly, and then one day I just didn't want to anymore. There was no conscious decision to quit or anything like that, no defining event...I just stopped. I may still have a couple of puffs at a party or something, but the urge to get high just disappeared one day for no reason I can discern. I still don't quite understand it, lol.
Cheers
One problem it shares with Rabies, Herpes, and HIV is that those afflicted with some forms of it can not be cured.
Not yet, anyway, but I suspect these diseases will eventually be conquered. Religion, I'm not so sure of but I still have hope there too. :)