Second thought. No one actually uses native file formats used in Photoshop and illustrator for the final product. Their just intermediate and thus, worthless. If, in the end, you still can't give somebody the file and still those features, why bother? ----
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It's optimized for your computer and is cross-platform. What more could you want, a nice cushy GUI that you have no idea what in the world is going in the background or this. Preferably, I would rather have the GUI install but the cross-platform capability of this is great. The greatest flaw in the MacOS was its non-standard ability to access low-level functions of the OS, such as the ability to do this. (Dragging, clicking, and dropping is not low-level). Just my two cents. ----
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Gimp on Win32 sucks!!! It crashes on almost everything I do. It is great on Linux but the port to win32 sucks. ----
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How hard could it be to install GIMP(from source)
tar -xvzf gimp.xxxyyyzzz.tgz
cd
make config
make
make install
If you have the RPM
rpm --install gimp.xxxyyyzzz.rpm
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Re:Confusion Here.... The Choise is yours
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If you like photoshop and actually own a copy, great, use it. For me, gimp meets my needs more then photoshop does(minor tweaks of photographs) so photoshop really doesn't make sense here. For people who are more serious, photoshop may be the way to go(although, in my experience, I can do nearly everything in Gimp as I can in photoshop except some of the picky stuff) but it still doesn't hurt to have a secondary graphic editor around(one may do(or not do) something better then the other). I, personally, have never been impressed by Photoshop but it's really hard to impress me so that may not be a big deal. ----
In summation, whatever the computer companies can do to make devices smaller, thus cheaper to manufacture, and more profitable, they are going to do it.
The so-called "cool" factor will come in as the devices come out and will be the major driving point of the consumer/non-business industry while the business sector will be stuck having to upgrade every three years just to be able to keep up with the consumer sector. ----
Only two? Do you mean hardware or software? Microsoft, definitely. AOL, certainly for the computer illiterate. Intel, formerly before the Athlon. Apple, mega monopoly(certainly not the most profitable one but certainly a monopoly.) Creative, formerly in the Sound Blaster market. Their are just too many to name them all. I hope nvidia doesn't become a monopoly either. This is like rivers that flow north. Their are hundreds out their but people only seem to want to mention the top three, the Ganghes, the Nile, and the Mon. ----
but it's not immediately obvious
to me that interacting with a video game contains any content that could be construed as speech; Speech is the ability to express ones self. If through voice, through movies, through a keyboard at a terminal, it is still speech. As it is on video games, as it is in movies, it is the freedom of speech of the company and a limited ability of people to choose their ideas through that media(speech by representation.)
I didn't actually read the story so my knowledge of the subject was limited in that sense.:+) ----
I know this but their is an unwritten law in democracy. "The many will answer to the few." I don't like it anymore then you do and is excellent grounds for a rebellion. It also kind of sucks and is a perfect example of stupidity at work. ----
After the fall of RH and VA Linux stock, it's hard to imagine that anybody would want to invest huge sums of money into such stock. Of course, that has a tendency to drive the long term stock price down, making it cheaper to buy, making it more enticing, causing more people to buy it, driving the long term price up. Nonetheless, unless you love Linux, you're not going to buy this stock. ----
You can't say a prayer at a graduation I agree with this this one because the constitution says their shall be no government religion. This means that their should be no religion within its developed institutions, even if it is not by the government itself. Now if they could only get the US department of treasury to comply.
you can't picket close to an abortion
clinic I agree here too. The people have the right to peacefully assemble. As soon as their are multiple cases of extremist killing abortionist, it suddenly becomes non-peaceful. Although I agree with petitioning the government or other organizations in general, if they start interfering too much with normal operations in general, they should be limited to a certain distance but not disbanned. Basically, if you violate the rights of the people you are petitioning, it is no longer peaceful and should be slightly limited but certainly, in no sense, stopped.you can't use racial slurs I disagree with this one. You should be able to use racial slurs. Freedom of speech. I also believe that people should be able to settle grievances cause by such acts if it is threatening.
I hate political correctness and the fact children do not have as much first amendment as others. This is a direct result of the children not having the education or the vote to prevent this. The strong shall oppress the weak. ----
It was bound to happen. Napseter emerges, people hear about napster, napster rises, people like napster, napster becomes glorious. Napster gets sued, napster falls. The cycle starts over again replacing Napster with XYZ. Men know glory and will persue it. Napster will live again, even if under another name. ----
This is why their must atleast be some emulation of gravity, so muscles don't do this. On the softer side, if your muscles do go into atrophy, as long as your in space, you're fine. It's when you leave free fall is when the problem occurs. ----
some more perspective. While it will rank as one of the greatest achievements of mankind. During the first ten years of the Apollo moon program
(up to the actual first man on the moon), cost 5% of the US gross national product for the period. For 10 years, 5% of the gross production of the
US went to the moon program. Think about it. Kennedy had some serious balls.
Back then, it was the cold war and people were willing to accept that number. They had to beat the commies and the pink blooded Americans to the moon and so, no price was too small. It also really helped the local economy(5% of the gdp going to 1% of the people, that is a lot of hamburgers) ----
1) Freedom of speech. I have the right to express myself as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. Computer games are a type of expression that doesn't hurt anybody.
2) Freedom of the Press. Computer games are a type media that are allowed to say and do whatever they please. The government should not limit media unless violation of personal rights.
I think this law is extremely stupid and certainly won't pass. ----
An American minor geek knows how a
human looks from the inside but he doesn't know what tits look like. That is so untrue. Yes, the government sucks in that department because society is developing faster then government. It sucks but Hell's Bells, what are you going to do, overthrow it? ----
The governments of the world can only project the space program so far because it is unprofitable. If someone can successfully create a profit in space, it will result in more interest in the project and thus, more private funds. The space race of the people and for the people is on. ----
My goodness. Has anyone even given any thought to why boys like games associated with war and strategy?
I would probably be out picking bats off in the middle of the night with a shotgun or birds off my back porch with a low-caliber rifle such as a 22. Wait, I already do that.
Frankly, I believe that if we remove all the virtual outlets for male aggresion, we'll see a whole lot more violence amoung those kids who aren't
typically interested in sports (most sports being war-like games themselves).
I agree. We would see a whole lot more dead birds and violence on the streets if they couldn't take off their aggression on the objects around them. ----
I've got an idea, let's create a law that will disband immoral games from the public view, such as "3d Shoot'em up" and "point and shoot" games. YES! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooo.
This is a "democracy", the morale code is not and should not be the law code. I'm surprised that anybody with half a brain would even be able to comtemplate creating such a law in a non-theocracy. It just doesn't make sense. ----
Just curious. I'd actually be interested in hearing pro-Microsoft sentiment coming from other countries -- if for no other reason than novelty.
I don't know about you but in some third world countries, ethiopia, cambodia, china, etc. People have to actually work *year(s)* just to be able to afford a copy of Winnt. I'm sure these countries are definately not pro-microsoft. ----
It means to contain or have the feature of. Such as being "my watch sports the ability to change its own time" ----
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We need a law to restrict all lawyers to flat fees, not case specific, across the board. If we did that, we would never have good lawyers like Johnny Cohran and OJ might've never got off. Wait a second, that might be a good thing in that case. Never mind that example. We need an unspecified price so that people will be encourage to go into the business because they have the skills and not just for the love of it. Wait a second, that might be a good thing too. Never mind, forget what I said. ----
I had this same battle with the Gas company. They wanted to put a privately owned building(by them) on our property with some purpose and run a huge ass pipe through my land. Its my land so I should get compensated. I mean, it is my land, my yard, and my little piece of paradise. Why shouldn't they pay for damages such as noise pollution(digging, maintenance work, etc.) If they didn't compensate, they would be destroying my land without fear and punishment and thus, wouldn't limit their construction. Cable is the same way. People have to bury it, creating a mess, they make lots and lots of unneeded noise, and they have to, occassionally(on cable it is extremely rare) do maintenance work, all on your property. It's not selfish or rude, its capitalism at work. Do whatever benefits you the most. ----
So they've all resulted in casualties at one point or another. My point was, not every single war of those types results in casualties(undeclared, etc.) but, in honesty, most do. ----
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Conceivably but why? It would lose something in the conversion.
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Second thought. No one actually uses native file formats used in Photoshop and illustrator for the final product. Their just intermediate and thus, worthless. If, in the end, you still can't give somebody the file and still those features, why bother?
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It's optimized for your computer and is cross-platform. What more could you want, a nice cushy GUI that you have no idea what in the world is going in the background or this. Preferably, I would rather have the GUI install but the cross-platform capability of this is great. The greatest flaw in the MacOS was its non-standard ability to access low-level functions of the OS, such as the ability to do this. (Dragging, clicking, and dropping is not low-level). Just my two cents.
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Gimp on Win32 sucks!!! It crashes on almost everything I do. It is great on Linux but the port to win32 sucks.
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How hard could it be to install GIMP(from source)
tar -xvzf gimp.xxxyyyzzz.tgz
cd
make config
make
make install
If you have the RPM
rpm --install gimp.xxxyyyzzz.rpm
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If you like photoshop and actually own a copy, great, use it. For me, gimp meets my needs more then photoshop does(minor tweaks of photographs) so photoshop really doesn't make sense here. For people who are more serious, photoshop may be the way to go(although, in my experience, I can do nearly everything in Gimp as I can in photoshop except some of the picky stuff) but it still doesn't hurt to have a secondary graphic editor around(one may do(or not do) something better then the other). I, personally, have never been impressed by Photoshop but it's really hard to impress me so that may not be a big deal.
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In summation, whatever the computer companies can do to make devices smaller, thus cheaper to manufacture, and more profitable, they are going to do it.
The so-called "cool" factor will come in as the devices come out and will be the major driving point of the consumer/non-business industry while the business sector will be stuck having to upgrade every three years just to be able to keep up with the consumer sector.
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Only two? Do you mean hardware or software? Microsoft, definitely. AOL, certainly for the computer illiterate. Intel, formerly before the Athlon. Apple, mega monopoly(certainly not the most profitable one but certainly a monopoly.) Creative, formerly in the Sound Blaster market. Their are just too many to name them all. I hope nvidia doesn't become a monopoly either. This is like rivers that flow north. Their are hundreds out their but people only seem to want to mention the top three, the Ganghes, the Nile, and the Mon.
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but it's not immediately obvious to me that interacting with a video game contains any content that could be construed as speech; Speech is the ability to express ones self. If through voice, through movies, through a keyboard at a terminal, it is still speech. As it is on video games, as it is in movies, it is the freedom of speech of the company and a limited ability of people to choose their ideas through that media(speech by representation.)
:+)
I didn't actually read the story so my knowledge of the subject was limited in that sense.
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I know this but their is an unwritten law in democracy. "The many will answer to the few." I don't like it anymore then you do and is excellent grounds for a rebellion. It also kind of sucks and is a perfect example of stupidity at work.
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After the fall of RH and VA Linux stock, it's hard to imagine that anybody would want to invest huge sums of money into such stock. Of course, that has a tendency to drive the long term stock price down, making it cheaper to buy, making it more enticing, causing more people to buy it, driving the long term price up. Nonetheless, unless you love Linux, you're not going to buy this stock.
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You can't say a prayer at a graduation I agree with this this one because the constitution says their shall be no government religion. This means that their should be no religion within its developed institutions, even if it is not by the government itself. Now if they could only get the US department of treasury to comply.
you can't picket close to an abortion clinic I agree here too. The people have the right to peacefully assemble. As soon as their are multiple cases of extremist killing abortionist, it suddenly becomes non-peaceful. Although I agree with petitioning the government or other organizations in general, if they start interfering too much with normal operations in general, they should be limited to a certain distance but not disbanned. Basically, if you violate the rights of the people you are petitioning, it is no longer peaceful and should be slightly limited but certainly, in no sense, stopped.you can't use racial slurs I disagree with this one. You should be able to use racial slurs. Freedom of speech. I also believe that people should be able to settle grievances cause by such acts if it is threatening.
I hate political correctness and the fact children do not have as much first amendment as others. This is a direct result of the children not having the education or the vote to prevent this. The strong shall oppress the weak.
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It was bound to happen. Napseter emerges, people hear about napster, napster rises, people like napster, napster becomes glorious. Napster gets sued, napster falls. The cycle starts over again replacing Napster with XYZ. Men know glory and will persue it. Napster will live again, even if under another name.
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This is why their must atleast be some emulation of gravity, so muscles don't do this. On the softer side, if your muscles do go into atrophy, as long as your in space, you're fine. It's when you leave free fall is when the problem occurs.
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some more perspective. While it will rank as one of the greatest achievements of mankind. During the first ten years of the Apollo moon program (up to the actual first man on the moon), cost 5% of the US gross national product for the period. For 10 years, 5% of the gross production of the US went to the moon program. Think about it. Kennedy had some serious balls.
Back then, it was the cold war and people were willing to accept that number. They had to beat the commies and the pink blooded Americans to the moon and so, no price was too small. It also really helped the local economy(5% of the gdp going to 1% of the people, that is a lot of hamburgers)
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1) Freedom of speech. I have the right to express myself as long as it doesn't hurt anybody. Computer games are a type of expression that doesn't hurt anybody.
2) Freedom of the Press. Computer games are a type media that are allowed to say and do whatever they please. The government should not limit media unless violation of personal rights.
I think this law is extremely stupid and certainly won't pass.
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An American minor geek knows how a human looks from the inside but he doesn't know what tits look like. That is so untrue. Yes, the government sucks in that department because society is developing faster then government. It sucks but Hell's Bells, what are you going to do, overthrow it?
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The governments of the world can only project the space program so far because it is unprofitable. If someone can successfully create a profit in space, it will result in more interest in the project and thus, more private funds. The space race of the people and for the people is on.
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My goodness. Has anyone even given any thought to why boys like games associated with war and strategy?
I would probably be out picking bats off in the middle of the night with a shotgun or birds off my back porch with a low-caliber rifle such as a 22. Wait, I already do that.
Frankly, I believe that if we remove all the virtual outlets for male aggresion, we'll see a whole lot more violence amoung those kids who aren't typically interested in sports (most sports being war-like games themselves).
I agree. We would see a whole lot more dead birds and violence on the streets if they couldn't take off their aggression on the objects around them.
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I've got an idea, let's create a law that will disband immoral games from the public view, such as "3d Shoot'em up" and "point and shoot" games. YES! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooo.
This is a "democracy", the morale code is not and should not be the law code. I'm surprised that anybody with half a brain would even be able to comtemplate creating such a law in a non-theocracy. It just doesn't make sense.
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Just curious. I'd actually be interested in hearing pro-Microsoft sentiment coming from other countries -- if for no other reason than novelty.
I don't know about you but in some third world countries, ethiopia, cambodia, china, etc. People have to actually work *year(s)* just to be able to afford a copy of Winnt. I'm sure these countries are definately not pro-microsoft.
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It means to contain or have the feature of. Such as being "my watch sports the ability to change its own time"
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We need a law to restrict all lawyers to flat fees, not case specific, across the board. If we did that, we would never have good lawyers like Johnny Cohran and OJ might've never got off. Wait a second, that might be a good thing in that case. Never mind that example. We need an unspecified price so that people will be encourage to go into the business because they have the skills and not just for the love of it. Wait a second, that might be a good thing too. Never mind, forget what I said.
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I had this same battle with the Gas company. They wanted to put a privately owned building(by them) on our property with some purpose and run a huge ass pipe through my land. Its my land so I should get compensated. I mean, it is my land, my yard, and my little piece of paradise. Why shouldn't they pay for damages such as noise pollution(digging, maintenance work, etc.) If they didn't compensate, they would be destroying my land without fear and punishment and thus, wouldn't limit their construction. Cable is the same way. People have to bury it, creating a mess, they make lots and lots of unneeded noise, and they have to, occassionally(on cable it is extremely rare) do maintenance work, all on your property. It's not selfish or rude, its capitalism at work. Do whatever benefits you the most.
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So they've all resulted in casualties at one point or another. My point was, not every single war of those types results in casualties(undeclared, etc.) but, in honesty, most do.
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