Wait... so if he teaches them Photoshop 7, they'll be better prepared to use Photoshop CS3 than if they learned with GIMP? The interfaces are completely different, so they'll have to re-learn things anyway. Why not let them use a modern tool to learn on?
Enough if you want to do 90% of what Photoshop can do (basically you don't need CMYK output). The only thing it won't do is run Photoshop filters, or have a crappy MDI interface that gets in the way of actual work.
$5? Wow, you certainly are sure of your convictions.
Just because you don't like GIMP doesn't mean that it's useless. I find it easier to use than Photoshop. The only problem with it is if you think the Windows way of thinking is the only way to think. But hey, that's what schools are for, right, teach kids what to do, rather than how to think.
If you had links or anything other than hearsay, you wouldn't be. But so far, you really DO sound like some nut decrying the moon landings based on "evidence" such as a flag supposedly waving.
I still get depressed every time I find a non-native English speaker that writes better than a native speaker. It happens more often than not, unfortunately. If you see a properly spelled and grammatically correct post on slashdot, I'd give you 2:1 odds that it wasn't posted by a native English speaker.
Notice how they refer to it as 'radiation', because radiation is clearly a *bad thing*. It killed all those people in Hiroshima didn't it? Nasty. It didn't even necessarily kill all those people. Radiation was just set up as a boogeyman because it's invisible and really easy to be scared of. I'm not saying it's not dangerous, I'm saying that policy makers and other people that communicate to the public don't have the requisite experience or knowledge to adequately judge it.
Says you! I can see fire, I can't see cell phone waves. They must be dangerous, they work like magic!
I think that's a lot of the problem... people haven't figured out that cell phones and wireless transmissions AREN'T magic. Hell, I didn't even get into wave physics until my second year in college, and that was at an engineering school... what chance does a liberal arts major or high-school dropout have of understanding it?
I wish I had mod points. It's the same thing with the water companies "Save water!". So when we do, what do we get? Rate increases because they aren't making as much money as they did previously.
Media burning? Try k3b. Works better for me than Nero and it's infatuation with wizards and crap any more. I just drag the files and burn, like it's supposed to work.
You mean I'm not entitled to a big screen TV and a brand new car, as well as all kinds of luxury items? I'm sure there was some line about that on my last credit card statement... that's as good as it being in the Constitution, right?
And even if you hear me, you can ignore it. The only time free speech is a problem is if it interferes with someone else's right to free speech. You don't have a right to not be offended or not hear things you don't like. You have a right to make your viewpoint known, and that's it.
Wow, Symbolics was ahead of the curve. Too bad their hardware cost and arm and a leg.
I don't remember the fist web site I visited - but I remember it was using Lynx. I used gopher all the time, though. Turbogopher ran a lot better on the Mac LC3s at the University computer lab than the pre-beta of Mosaic. PLEASE tell me that's a typo and not a Freudian slip... *shudders at thought of ASCII fist*
2) Police can't be everywhere, unless you want to live in a police state. Unfortunately, people sometimes need to take some responsibility for their own safety, rather than depending on a nanny-state to protect them from every boogieman. Arming someone who is threatened doesn't turn them into a wolf. It turns them into an adult buffalo, rather than a yearling, allowing them more opportunity to defend themselves against a threat. Even if all they want to do is just eat the grass.
3) Why not? If people do things that are a detriment to society, then they should be punished. They shouldn't be punished for just wanting to smoke a little dope, or have some personal protection.
3) If a "living thing" makes me choose between my life and their life, I will always choose my (and my family's) life over it. Always. And if a gun helps me attain that goal, so be it. That's a tool to protect my life. A car is a tool to move me from point A to point B. Both have legitimate uses, and illegitimate uses. Also, please note that you have an implicit assumption built into your statement that life is ultimately precious, over everything else, including someone else's right to life and safety, or society's ability to keep functioning in a non-fearful, non-police state.
Not everyone is the safe, benign gun collector. But I'd rather have a few criminals armed (as well as myself armed) on the street than live in a police state where I have no rights except what the state grants me.
Yet people elsewhere get more bandwidth for less money. Seems kinda fishy to me. Just because it used to be that way doesn't mean it can't have changed.
You keep saying that. I don't think you understand the realities of a true capitalist market and the fact that perfect information on the part of the consumer can never be had. Do you just hope that the medicine you get does what you think it should, or do you trust the doctor that prescribed it? There needs to be some level of accountability on the part of the seller as well as the buyer. Your mom got ripped off, and should work up the food chain at Best Buy. They sold her a product that doesn't work, and they need to take it back as it is resalable, and she didn't get the value implicitly promised from the deal.
You're an apologist, and probably work for Microsoft. Stop being a troll. If their ad exec can't get it straight, how do you actually say with a straight face that you expect the average consumer to be able to tell what the advertising means? Caveat emptor, sure, but that still doesn't let you sell your piss in a bottle and label it "spring water".
Even if it's not THE busiest day of the year, it's still when most retailers turn the corner from red ink (spending more money than they're making) into black ink (the converse). Hence, BLACK Friday.
Yeah, I mean, what's wrong with a little 'roid rage? Someone wacked out on PCP feeling no pain deciding to go on a rampage, people OD'ing because of ready access to heroin, cocaine, whatever.
I'm for a little deregulation of things like pot that aren't that addictive or dangerous, but a completely uncontrolled drug system would be at least as bad or worse for our country than the drug war is now.
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That's the future, though. Pay for the service, you don't own anything. It's all the corporation's property, and they'll tell you how to watch it.
Wait... so if he teaches them Photoshop 7, they'll be better prepared to use Photoshop CS3 than if they learned with GIMP? The interfaces are completely different, so they'll have to re-learn things anyway. Why not let them use a modern tool to learn on?
Enough if you want to do 90% of what Photoshop can do (basically you don't need CMYK output). The only thing it won't do is run Photoshop filters, or have a crappy MDI interface that gets in the way of actual work.
$5? Wow, you certainly are sure of your convictions.
Just because you don't like GIMP doesn't mean that it's useless. I find it easier to use than Photoshop. The only problem with it is if you think the Windows way of thinking is the only way to think. But hey, that's what schools are for, right, teach kids what to do, rather than how to think.
If you had links or anything other than hearsay, you wouldn't be. But so far, you really DO sound like some nut decrying the moon landings based on "evidence" such as a flag supposedly waving.
Literacy? Ive hurd ov it.
I still get depressed every time I find a non-native English speaker that writes better than a native speaker. It happens more often than not, unfortunately. If you see a properly spelled and grammatically correct post on slashdot, I'd give you 2:1 odds that it wasn't posted by a native English speaker.
Says you! I can see fire, I can't see cell phone waves. They must be dangerous, they work like magic!
I think that's a lot of the problem... people haven't figured out that cell phones and wireless transmissions AREN'T magic. Hell, I didn't even get into wave physics until my second year in college, and that was at an engineering school... what chance does a liberal arts major or high-school dropout have of understanding it?
FREEDOM!!!!!!
I wish I had mod points. It's the same thing with the water companies "Save water!". So when we do, what do we get? Rate increases because they aren't making as much money as they did previously.
Media burning? Try k3b. Works better for me than Nero and it's infatuation with wizards and crap any more. I just drag the files and burn, like it's supposed to work.
You mean I'm not entitled to a big screen TV and a brand new car, as well as all kinds of luxury items? I'm sure there was some line about that on my last credit card statement... that's as good as it being in the Constitution, right?
And even if you hear me, you can ignore it. The only time free speech is a problem is if it interferes with someone else's right to free speech. You don't have a right to not be offended or not hear things you don't like. You have a right to make your viewpoint known, and that's it.
I don't remember the fist web site I visited - but I remember it was using Lynx. I used gopher all the time, though. Turbogopher ran a lot better on the Mac LC3s at the University computer lab than the pre-beta of Mosaic. PLEASE tell me that's a typo and not a Freudian slip... *shudders at thought of ASCII fist*
I'm impressed. I think he's the second person I've seen on slashdot that can correctly distinguish "fewer" and "less"
2) Police can't be everywhere, unless you want to live in a police state. Unfortunately, people sometimes need to take some responsibility for their own safety, rather than depending on a nanny-state to protect them from every boogieman. Arming someone who is threatened doesn't turn them into a wolf. It turns them into an adult buffalo, rather than a yearling, allowing them more opportunity to defend themselves against a threat. Even if all they want to do is just eat the grass.
3) Why not? If people do things that are a detriment to society, then they should be punished. They shouldn't be punished for just wanting to smoke a little dope, or have some personal protection.
3) If a "living thing" makes me choose between my life and their life, I will always choose my (and my family's) life over it. Always. And if a gun helps me attain that goal, so be it. That's a tool to protect my life. A car is a tool to move me from point A to point B. Both have legitimate uses, and illegitimate uses. Also, please note that you have an implicit assumption built into your statement that life is ultimately precious, over everything else, including someone else's right to life and safety, or society's ability to keep functioning in a non-fearful, non-police state.
Not everyone is the safe, benign gun collector. But I'd rather have a few criminals armed (as well as myself armed) on the street than live in a police state where I have no rights except what the state grants me.
But... Microsoft told me they take security seriously! They wouldn't lie to me!
Yet people elsewhere get more bandwidth for less money. Seems kinda fishy to me. Just because it used to be that way doesn't mean it can't have changed.
You keep saying that. I don't think you understand the realities of a true capitalist market and the fact that perfect information on the part of the consumer can never be had. Do you just hope that the medicine you get does what you think it should, or do you trust the doctor that prescribed it? There needs to be some level of accountability on the part of the seller as well as the buyer. Your mom got ripped off, and should work up the food chain at Best Buy. They sold her a product that doesn't work, and they need to take it back as it is resalable, and she didn't get the value implicitly promised from the deal.
You're an apologist, and probably work for Microsoft. Stop being a troll. If their ad exec can't get it straight, how do you actually say with a straight face that you expect the average consumer to be able to tell what the advertising means? Caveat emptor, sure, but that still doesn't let you sell your piss in a bottle and label it "spring water".
MS certified it and put forward the requirements to be Vista Capable. It's not the manufacturer's fault.
Even if it's not THE busiest day of the year, it's still when most retailers turn the corner from red ink (spending more money than they're making) into black ink (the converse). Hence, BLACK Friday.
Access+VB almost certainly means VBA (which isn't VBScript). And no, it's not compiled.
Yeah, I mean, what's wrong with a little 'roid rage? Someone wacked out on PCP feeling no pain deciding to go on a rampage, people OD'ing because of ready access to heroin, cocaine, whatever.
I'm for a little deregulation of things like pot that aren't that addictive or dangerous, but a completely uncontrolled drug system would be at least as bad or worse for our country than the drug war is now.
I can quit any time I want!!!