1. I like freedom
2. I like freedom
3. I like freedom
4. I like freedom
5. I like freedom
6. I like freedom
7. I like freedom
8. I like freedom
9. I like freedom
10. I like freedom
Hence, I use a few different variations of Linux on my boxes. No MS. No Apple. Just open-source and freedom.
I don't give a shit that I can't play the newest games. I don't give a shit that I can't run the latest and greatest commercial apps. I don't give a shit that I can't use every cheap off-the-shelf piece of hardware. I don't give a shit that I don't belong to a an elitist club with a superior GUI. I value freedom over all. Am I an idealist? You bet.
Instead of going after every "botmaster", lets unite as geeks and nerds for justice and take down the enablers of these cybercrimes. Starting with www.180solutions.com
I looked a bit further into DigiKam.. and realized there is also Showfoto, which is exactly what I'm looking for. Heck, I've been using Linux this long and didn't know about Showfoto, I feel like an idiot!
I hate to reply to my own post, but I did fail to mention "DigiKam", which is almost exactly what I would want in simple photo editing software... as it has "red-eye reduction" as a menu item, as well as some other basic tools. The problem with it (apart from being a QT/KDE app) is that you can't just load and edit a single image directly with it. You have to "import" and image into your album, then "export" it back. Stupid. If anybody know of a GTK equivalent to DigiKam that allows direct access to individual image files, please post here and tell me!
Hell, I've "learned" to draw circles and rectangles in Gimp many times now. Each time I need to do it, I forget how, and need to google for it. What kind of application requires you to google search every time you want to draw a basic shape. HA! That is what I call VERY BAD, UNINTUITIVE design. I'm a Linux user, so Gimp is all I have and it's a love/hate relationship.
Yes, I fully agree with you. Although I don't use my Windows machine much... easy image manipulation is much easier with it using the give-away software. I hardly ever work on graphics, except for your basic needs, resize, crop, red-eye fix, color or brightness enhancement, etc... These are not simple one-click things to do in the Gimp. Even when I have learned the methods of how to do things like red-eye reduction in the Gimp, it seems like a stupid and hackish method, with not always desirable results. In ANY give-away windows photo manipulation product there is a simple option "Reduce red-eye" and you click it and it just works. Why doesn't Gimp have something as simple as this built in? For that matter, why is there no open-source image manipulator that has this built in? (at least none that I can find)
There really is a need for a simple image manipulator for the masses with just the basic photo editing functions available in a single-click. I wish I knew how to code C++, I would program it myself.
3. The GUI impedes getting real work done.. as it is not properly laid out (read some of the MANY posts before yours for detailed examples)
4. The name sucks and is innappropriate for a business setting. Why the hell did they name a product "The Gimp"?! That is just utterly stupid and offensive. I mean, come on, use some common sense and rename it already!
I'm a Linux and open-source zealot. I love that the Gimp exists and it is a powerful product... BUT I admit that it needs a lot of work on the GUI. Maybe the people that made it and maintain it, like it... but NOBODY ELSE DOES! This is NOT a generalization. The GUI really stinks, even with all the improvement they've made to it over the years! I don't see why Gimp hasn't had a successfull (meaning popular, yes I know about cinepaint or filmgimp or whatever, hardly popular and not a better GUI anyway) fork yet with a completely redesigned GUI.
I'm glad my post wasn't moderated troll... even if it ended up as "funny". That's good.
But I am serious! I am a zealot. I am an idealist. Without people like me, where do you think Linux and open source would be? NOWHERE! You need the zealots and the freaks in this world to make change just as much as you need the sheeple to stay in line and keep the systems from collapsing.
I also love programming. I accept the fact that MS has some good products. But I will not bow down to them. I refuse. I'm idealistic and I don't like MS business tactics.
I can afford to be idealistic... so I am. I am not about to embrace MS anymore. I realize they may have some excellent products... that is not my point. I don't like them as a corporation. I don't agree with their business tactics. I will not support them in any way. That includes how I make a living. I will not go where the money is... because I am standing up for what I truly believe in. I will not sell out. I would rather change career paths altogether.
I don't care if you and I will get moderated as flamebait or troll!!
I have a university degree in CS and have been working in the industry for about a decade now... and I REFUSE to work with anything Microsoft related. I would not take a job because of it and I will quit a job that introduces it later.
More jobs for the shmoo's who have no personal integrity... good... I don't f*cking care!
Our LUG (kwlug.org) got 3 robots (the new robosapien, raptor and dog) from this guy. We all put our names in a hat and raffled them off. This was all thanks to the fact that one active member of the LUG knows the guy personally.
What? No!? Well, then I guess your "blows FF out of the water" comment is a bit.... WRONG!
Heck, I can't even run IE because I run Linux! But yet, Windows users can run FF! What kind of crappy product is IE?
.. the "real" role-players hang out (basically live) in the town of Hydlaa in the free online game Planeshift (from
planeshift.it)
Check it out, it runs on Mac, Linux and Windows!
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You win. This is the best answer I have seen yet.
2. I like freedom
3. I like freedom
4. I like freedom
5. I like freedom
6. I like freedom
7. I like freedom
8. I like freedom
9. I like freedom
10. I like freedom
Hence, I use a few different variations of Linux on my boxes. No MS. No Apple. Just open-source and freedom. I don't give a shit that I can't play the newest games. I don't give a shit that I can't run the latest and greatest commercial apps. I don't give a shit that I can't use every cheap off-the-shelf piece of hardware. I don't give a shit that I don't belong to a an elitist club with a superior GUI. I value freedom over all. Am I an idealist? You bet.
Instead of going after every "botmaster", lets unite as geeks and nerds for justice and take down the enablers of these cybercrimes. Starting with www.180solutions.com
http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/ seems to be catching on a bit.
But you realize some prefer jam over caviar. While others. like myself, prefer hot sauce (Linux).
I looked a bit further into DigiKam.. and realized there is also Showfoto, which is exactly what I'm looking for. Heck, I've been using Linux this long and didn't know about Showfoto, I feel like an idiot!
I hate to reply to my own post, but I did fail to mention "DigiKam", which is almost exactly what I would want in simple photo editing software... as it has "red-eye reduction" as a menu item, as well as some other basic tools. The problem with it (apart from being a QT/KDE app) is that you can't just load and edit a single image directly with it. You have to "import" and image into your album, then "export" it back. Stupid. If anybody know of a GTK equivalent to DigiKam that allows direct access to individual image files, please post here and tell me!
Hell, I've "learned" to draw circles and rectangles in Gimp many times now. Each time I need to do it, I forget how, and need to google for it. What kind of application requires you to google search every time you want to draw a basic shape. HA! That is what I call VERY BAD, UNINTUITIVE design. I'm a Linux user, so Gimp is all I have and it's a love/hate relationship.
There really is a need for a simple image manipulator for the masses with just the basic photo editing functions available in a single-click. I wish I knew how to code C++, I would program it myself.
4. The name sucks and is innappropriate for a business setting. Why the hell did they name a product "The Gimp"?! That is just utterly stupid and offensive. I mean, come on, use some common sense and rename it already!
On a different note, I am planning a new distribution of Linux called "Crack Whore Linux©". It will be awesome and powerful... why would people not use it?
I'm a Linux and open-source zealot. I love that the Gimp exists and it is a powerful product... BUT I admit that it needs a lot of work on the GUI. Maybe the people that made it and maintain it, like it... but NOBODY ELSE DOES! This is NOT a generalization. The GUI really stinks, even with all the improvement they've made to it over the years! I don't see why Gimp hasn't had a successfull (meaning popular, yes I know about cinepaint or filmgimp or whatever, hardly popular and not a better GUI anyway) fork yet with a completely redesigned GUI.
I'm glad my post wasn't moderated troll... even if it ended up as "funny". That's good. But I am serious! I am a zealot. I am an idealist. Without people like me, where do you think Linux and open source would be? NOWHERE! You need the zealots and the freaks in this world to make change just as much as you need the sheeple to stay in line and keep the systems from collapsing.
I also love programming. I accept the fact that MS has some good products. But I will not bow down to them. I refuse. I'm idealistic and I don't like MS business tactics.
I can afford to be idealistic... so I am. I am not about to embrace MS anymore. I realize they may have some excellent products... that is not my point. I don't like them as a corporation. I don't agree with their business tactics. I will not support them in any way. That includes how I make a living. I will not go where the money is... because I am standing up for what I truly believe in. I will not sell out. I would rather change career paths altogether.
Damn right! Except it's most like Freedom Lover.
You are already selling out and going with .NET, what difference would it make if you train with Microsoft?
/me spits at .NET and MS
.NET can bite me. I WILL NOT bow down before the MS god!
/me spits at .NET and MS!
I have a university degree in CS and have been working in the industry for about a decade now... and I REFUSE to work with anything Microsoft related. I would not take a job because of it and I will quit a job that introduces it later.
More jobs for the shmoo's who have no personal integrity... good... I don't f*cking care!
Death to Microsoft!
Our LUG (kwlug.org) got 3 robots (the new robosapien, raptor and dog) from this guy. We all put our names in a hat and raffled them off. This was all thanks to the fact that one active member of the LUG knows the guy personally.
Yes, he's from the Waterloo area... or at least went to university at the UofW. RIM is practically beside the university.
I'm Linux Boy!! And proud of it.
No? Thanks, but I'll stick with Firefox.
Wow, did the guy that survived a 2000 foot drop continue on to become a superman and save the world from evil villians?!
What? No!? Well, then I guess your "blows FF out of the water" comment is a bit .... WRONG!
Heck, I can't even run IE because I run Linux! But yet, Windows users can run FF! What kind of crappy product is IE?
.. the "real" role-players hang out (basically live) in the town of Hydlaa in the free online game Planeshift (from planeshift.it) Check it out, it runs on Mac, Linux and Windows!