Copyright doesn't give anyone the right to sell a defective product. Period.
Furthermore, copyright was not intended to protect corporations and in fact should not as they are not persons despite 100 years of corporations pretending that they have personhood when they legally do not.
There is no contract. When was the last time you walked into a record store and saw "this disc might not play on your cd player because we assume you are a fucking thief, do you agree: [y]es | [n]o" written on the packaging?
These assholes just put the shit on the CD, DVD, whatever, and then fuck you over when you open it up and find out that you can't play the fucking thing. And you are an asshole for even suggesting otherwise.
Where's the advantage on a Mac again? Is it the 100$ fee for minor revisions? Or is it the interface that slows you down and makes working with multiple programs open so much trouble that you end up running only one thing at a time? Or is it the locking away of all the features of the OS so you have to jump through hoops to get anything done?
For that price you can get a much nicer box running Linux, with a better interface and the ability to run the same 2 games that you could on the Mac. Even at 500$ that machine is still about twice the cost (once you have a monitor and all) as a PC running Windows with similar performance. Only the Windows will have more software that anyone wants to run.
The point I was making actually has nothing to do with snes9x which as far as I'm concerned isn't even worth the beating that a redheaded step child like it deserves. The point was about intuitive. And how all of you morons seem to think that "intuitive" in the context of software a) means anything at all and b) that GUI == intuitive.
Having a GUI hardly makes anything "intuitive", easy to use, or anything at all for that matter. Given the logic that is almost exclusively used alongside the word "intuitive" on/. my left nut would have an "intuitive" interface since it's graphical (20$ for wallpaper-sized photographic evidence) and you can interface with it.
Though yeah, I just tried snes9x for the first time in years and it really does blow the monkey's balls on Linux. It's almost as lame to use as gnome...
My left nut has an intuitive interface. Can we all please find real reasons to support the software that we like and stop hiding behind buzzwords that distort the true meaning of the words?
And how much more intuitive do you need than "load rom"? Seems to me that damn near every emulator over 1.0 has an "intuitive" interfae.
And you my friend (actually foe) are what makes morons so loveable. Intuitive has become just another buzz word for dumbing down and crippling. If you've got a legitimate problem with Gimp (and there are many) then that's fine. But hiding behind a word popularized by Apple (who probably actually had good intentions when they first started trying to make computers "easy" to use) and now brought to sickening heights by the gnome crowd is infantile.
I think you're missing the point. I was suggesting that maybe (I know it's hard to believe for you brain-dead windows fanbois) windows is not the target platform for Gimp and is thus more along the lines of a port similar to those Dreamcast games ported to newer consoles where the time and money wasn't spent to rework the product to the platform beyond making it run.
And spelling it micros~1 is a joke. You see, when they finally allowed windows to have filenames longer than 8 characters with a 3 character extension it still internally saw them as 8.3 filenames. And you would often see filenames truncated to 6 characters with ~# on the end when their names were too long. But maybe you aren't old enough to remember that.
Pay attention folks, this is how you gripe about the Gimp. You talk about the problems with IT not with YOU. Though the always-on-top thing isn't really an issue if you're using something like KDE where you can arbitrarily keep windows on top, use sloppy focus, and easily drop any window to the background.
You sound like someone who really doesn't understand how to use The Gimp. It's sad that you're so incapable. I still generally use Photoshop for most serious image work because its layers are a lot more full featured and I need the grouping, but that guy has it completely right. In a sloppy focus environment with multiple desktops so you can have one dedicated to Gimp the window setup is REALLY nice. Much better than Photoshop's. And micros~1's window manager is a serious problem and given the multiplatform nature of Gimp it shouldn't have to be "fixed" just because windows sucks ass.
It's really funny how everyone here keeps whining about the "problems" with Gimp that are nothing more than their own inabilities to operate the software and never with the features that are lacking or underdeveloped. Just shows that none of you have actually used it enough to have a worthwhile opinion.
Which is not to say that GTK doesn't suck, because it does. But aside from the new GTK2 file dialogs that isn't what is wrong with the Gimp.
Done. Then you Windows users can pay for it like you do for Photoshop and the rest of us can get out from under the crap that is GTK2 and still have a GPL version.
As far as keybindings go Gimp's generally got the edge. Stuff like -/+ to zoom instead of Ctrl--/+ and being able to move around the canvas with the middle mouse button rather than having to hold down space are really nice.
Though I don't see why no one has ever bothered to organise the keybindings based on function (like most 3D programs now do) rather than by the letter the word starts with, which is really kind of dumb if you think about it.
And now for some flamebait. If they don't get rid of the lame GTK2 file dialogs there's no way Gimp will ever catch up to Photoshop because no one will want to use it because it's so fucking annoying. Though maybe someone will fork it and actually work on improving Gimp where it needs it, such as making the layers setup more usable (ie layer groups) and making the filters not look ass-to-ass.
Until a few years ago it was illegal to drive in downtown Seattle at night without someone carrying a lantern running a couple blocks ahead of your to warn pedestrians. Discuss.
CTRL+L is neither standard nor intuitive. And I don't know what operating system you're running on, but I run Gimp on Linux. And being able to navigate to my files with the keyboard IS a basic feature on Linux and one of the ones that makes it so much better than windows or macos.
If you fail to see the usability problem here then I fail to see how you can even operate your computer let alone find your way to/. or any other website.
Or maybe people who are sick of using windows and don't want to write a custom frontend to create and use simple databases? While I don't think anyone is really going to say that OSS is going to take down micros~1 this year or next, it's getting the features in place so that when the time comes it can happen that matters. And any addition that bring OpenOffice.org closer to being a full featured replacement for MS Office is a good.
Only ctrl+c/v are widely used shortcuts that have been around a LONG time and were taught through their association with buttons and menu links. Furthermore they speed up the process of doing their respective tasks by removing the need to clickedy clack with the mouse.
The new gtk dialog slows things down. Previously you could type with tab completion and get to things extremely quickly, even in very deep directory trees. This new stuff is crap. It was crap when apple did it and it's double crap when gtk does it because they had prior art to show them that it was a bad idea.
If having to jump through hoops to get at basic features is now called "usability" then put me squarely in the anti-usability column.
If they want to subject gnome fanbois to it, that's fine. But leave the rest of us out of it. How about we get a fork of Gimp with the old dialog or a QT port? Because this is fucking retarded.
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Furthermore, copyright was not intended to protect corporations and in fact should not as they are not persons despite 100 years of corporations pretending that they have personhood when they legally do not.
How about just "Windows"? You can take the Windows out of a virus but you can't take the virus out of Windows.
These assholes just put the shit on the CD, DVD, whatever, and then fuck you over when you open it up and find out that you can't play the fucking thing. And you are an asshole for even suggesting otherwise.
I thought we wanted there not to be any MS products. They're like serial killers. Got to be put to death for the common good.
For that price you can get a much nicer box running Linux, with a better interface and the ability to run the same 2 games that you could on the Mac. Even at 500$ that machine is still about twice the cost (once you have a monitor and all) as a PC running Windows with similar performance. Only the Windows will have more software that anyone wants to run.
When are we going to get -1 fanboi moderation?
Having a GUI hardly makes anything "intuitive", easy to use, or anything at all for that matter. Given the logic that is almost exclusively used alongside the word "intuitive" on /. my left nut would have an "intuitive" interface since it's graphical (20$ for wallpaper-sized photographic evidence) and you can interface with it.
Though yeah, I just tried snes9x for the first time in years and it really does blow the monkey's balls on Linux. It's almost as lame to use as gnome...
And how much more intuitive do you need than "load rom"? Seems to me that damn near every emulator over 1.0 has an "intuitive" interfae.
BTW, ZSNES is better because it has snow effects.
And you my friend (actually foe) are what makes morons so loveable. Intuitive has become just another buzz word for dumbing down and crippling. If you've got a legitimate problem with Gimp (and there are many) then that's fine. But hiding behind a word popularized by Apple (who probably actually had good intentions when they first started trying to make computers "easy" to use) and now brought to sickening heights by the gnome crowd is infantile.
And spelling it micros~1 is a joke. You see, when they finally allowed windows to have filenames longer than 8 characters with a 3 character extension it still internally saw them as 8.3 filenames. And you would often see filenames truncated to 6 characters with ~# on the end when their names were too long. But maybe you aren't old enough to remember that.
Pay attention folks, this is how you gripe about the Gimp. You talk about the problems with IT not with YOU. Though the always-on-top thing isn't really an issue if you're using something like KDE where you can arbitrarily keep windows on top, use sloppy focus, and easily drop any window to the background.
It's really funny how everyone here keeps whining about the "problems" with Gimp that are nothing more than their own inabilities to operate the software and never with the features that are lacking or underdeveloped. Just shows that none of you have actually used it enough to have a worthwhile opinion.
Which is not to say that GTK doesn't suck, because it does. But aside from the new GTK2 file dialogs that isn't what is wrong with the Gimp.
Done. Then you Windows users can pay for it like you do for Photoshop and the rest of us can get out from under the crap that is GTK2 and still have a GPL version.
Though I don't see why no one has ever bothered to organise the keybindings based on function (like most 3D programs now do) rather than by the letter the word starts with, which is really kind of dumb if you think about it.
And now for some flamebait. If they don't get rid of the lame GTK2 file dialogs there's no way Gimp will ever catch up to Photoshop because no one will want to use it because it's so fucking annoying. Though maybe someone will fork it and actually work on improving Gimp where it needs it, such as making the layers setup more usable (ie layer groups) and making the filters not look ass-to-ass.
Wouldn't that cause all the parts to slip around a lot? And everyone knows what happens if you drop your COM in the shower...
Until a few years ago it was illegal to drive in downtown Seattle at night without someone carrying a lantern running a couple blocks ahead of your to warn pedestrians. Discuss.
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No, that would be patent infringement. Stealing would only be involved if they took a physical object that belonged to someone else.
PS: "intuitable" isn't a word, asshat.
Spatial mode, I rest my case. Thanks for playing.
If you fail to see the usability problem here then I fail to see how you can even operate your computer let alone find your way to /. or any other website.
Or maybe people who are sick of using windows and don't want to write a custom frontend to create and use simple databases? While I don't think anyone is really going to say that OSS is going to take down micros~1 this year or next, it's getting the features in place so that when the time comes it can happen that matters. And any addition that bring OpenOffice.org closer to being a full featured replacement for MS Office is a good.
The new gtk dialog slows things down. Previously you could type with tab completion and get to things extremely quickly, even in very deep directory trees. This new stuff is crap. It was crap when apple did it and it's double crap when gtk does it because they had prior art to show them that it was a bad idea.
If having to jump through hoops to get at basic features is now called "usability" then put me squarely in the anti-usability column.
If they want to subject gnome fanbois to it, that's fine. But leave the rest of us out of it. How about we get a fork of Gimp with the old dialog or a QT port? Because this is fucking retarded.
So they can have the superior feeling of owning a Mac and worshipping the blue apple. Where have you been?
Hopefully not.
This also isn't anything new. It's been like this for years. Why are we even talking about it again?