GIMP is nice in that it's better than nothing, and I use it a lot because I don't have a copy of Photoshop at home. But GIMP's layer management is absolutely primitive compared to Photoshop's, and the "History" window only lets you go back 5 steps. (I know you can increase the number of steps, but if that wouldn't make it eat up all your memory why's it limited to 5 in the first place?) The History window also gives astoundingly unhelpful names to actions (it calls every drawing tool "paint core", for example).
The thing which makes Photoshop really shine is its wonderfully consistent interface. GIMP, meanwhile, won't let you crop to a selection and instead gives you the bizarre "crop tool". Half the time you start working with layers you get "floating selections", which work differently, instead. Features which are very prominent in Photoshop tend to be buried in the "Script-Fu" menu in Python.
Before I used Photoshop, I was taken in by the people on Slashdot constantly compare GIMP to it. Granted, there were dissenting views, but they generally didn't help. Often people who say that GIMP is less featureful than Photoshop give an elitist impression by pointing out the lack of features that ordinary people don't care about, such as patented CMYK algorithms and Pantone colors, while totally missing the obvious things like being able to move a selection while creating it.
GIMP should instead be compared to Paint Shop Pro for the sake of honesty.
Wireless Man, Wireless Man.
Doing the things that wireless can.
What's he like? It's not important.
Wireless Man.
Is he a standard or is he a spec?
When he's in the last mile does he connect?
Or does the mile connect him instead?
Nobody knows. Wireless Man.
Listen Up is a troll. Every single post of his is written in very inflammatory language and appeals to the lack of education of whoever he's replying to, and constructs his responses based on reading a few random sentences of a post (such as here, where he takes the phrase "God's Units" completely out of context).
Unlike the typical hypocrisy troll, you can actually spell "hypocrisy". I commend you on that.
However, I am now obligated to point out that the Slashdot community is made up of various members who are capable of holding different opinions, you fool.
Some people believe that MS was wrong for releasing info on security exploits too late. Some people believe that Slashdot is wrong for releasing info on security exploits too soon. These are very likely not the same people. This is not called "hypocrisy", it is called "discussion", and you should try it sometime.
I find the Borg touch in your version interesting:
Make up your minds. Either it is a Good Thing to release this sort of information to the public or not.
Do you really believe that thousands of people are capable of suddenly coming to a consensus on what is a "Good Thing", but haven't so far because you never ordered them to?
The only people who could possibly be such sheep are the 4 moderators who turned off their brains and moderated this up.
Man. It would really suck if they wanted exact change, and you'd search your flaming, disintegrating pockets for that melted dime in the hope that they'd still take it, but just then you got ripped to shreds by the wind and gravity while simultaneously exploding into tiny burning pieces from all the sodium, and you never got your drink.
It's good to see that Debian is maintaining their quality even when rushed. Making threats like this is one way to accomplish that - saying to maintainers with broken patches, "if you don't submit a patch, the release will suck and it will be ALL YOUR FAULT".
And I'm frankly amazed they got Mozilla in in the first place - they hadn't since M18, and with no packaged version Mozilla it was practically impossible to install Galeon.
The reason the first HHGTTG is like that is because it is an adaptation of the first few episodes of the radio series. The second book split off from the plot of the radio series halfway through, and the rest of the books were entirely independent.
So true Adams fans should go find a copy of the radio series and listen to it - most of it will be an entirely new experience. Some very different stuff happens to the characters. BBC-Americas sells CDs of the series sporadically (mine took 14 months to arrive), and if you don't have the patience you can easily find MP3s of it.
Arthur found the WRONG question, because his evolution had been tainted by the Golgafrinchans. It is not a typo, and it is not base 13. It is simply supposed to be wrong.
You sound like an ass when you try to convince people to say things that nobody actually says, for the purpose of "correctness". Some grammatical errors impede clarity and are useful to correct, but not this. If the "correct" version sounds wrong to absolutely everybody, it is wrong.
Please remember this in the future.
Do you order "two Whoppers Junior" at Burger King too?
what's with Slashdot failing to put a line break before the sig now?
You can't "wait" until copyrights expire anymore. The best thing you could do is work toward getting the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act ruled unconstitutional, and ensure that copyrights one day will expire.
People should have enough of a sense of pattern recognition by now to realize that in 20 years, Disney will still be around to make sure nothing created after Mickey ever goes out of copyright. So classic works like the Rhapsody in Blue may never be available to the public, and the books you mention may very well fade quietly into the night.
The compromise is multiple desktops, offered by practically every window manager there is. I'm surprise the submitter didn't mention them.
Since windows tend to be maximized most of the time, multiple desktops are an effective way of dealing with many of them, and then you can still have a desktop with small overlapping windows.
Realize that Call to Power (not part of the Civilization series, despite the trademark) was not designed by Sid Meier, so that's why the gameplay was all wrong.
I have recently discovered that GNOME works fine (and loads fast) if you don't run gmc OR nautilus.
I don't need a file manager when I have the command line. I definitely don't need desktop icons (I find those useless no matter what windowing system they're in). So what GNOME gives me is just the panel.
The parent poster is right, and it has in fact happened, here on Earth.
A finite number of primates, which you could call "monkeys" as long as you don't care about being too specific, without using _any typewriters at all_, managed to evolve into Shakespeare. Who then wrote his complete works.
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"Feature-for-feature clone of Photoshop"?
GIMP is nice in that it's better than nothing, and I use it a lot because I don't have a copy of Photoshop at home. But GIMP's layer management is absolutely primitive compared to Photoshop's, and the "History" window only lets you go back 5 steps. (I know you can increase the number of steps, but if that wouldn't make it eat up all your memory why's it limited to 5 in the first place?) The History window also gives astoundingly unhelpful names to actions (it calls every drawing tool "paint core", for example).
The thing which makes Photoshop really shine is its wonderfully consistent interface. GIMP, meanwhile, won't let you crop to a selection and instead gives you the bizarre "crop tool". Half the time you start working with layers you get "floating selections", which work differently, instead. Features which are very prominent in Photoshop tend to be buried in the "Script-Fu" menu in Python.
Before I used Photoshop, I was taken in by the people on Slashdot constantly compare GIMP to it. Granted, there were dissenting views, but they generally didn't help. Often people who say that GIMP is less featureful than Photoshop give an elitist impression by pointing out the lack of features that ordinary people don't care about, such as patented CMYK algorithms and Pantone colors, while totally missing the obvious things like being able to move a selection while creating it.
GIMP should instead be compared to Paint Shop Pro for the sake of honesty.
I'll simply be puzzled if a significant number of people answer "Yes" to the second one.
Also, under Mozilla, the page becomes entirely unusable once there's a "shoshkele" on it. You simply can't click anything.
Then again, this is probably a good thing, as by then you'd most likely have decided to leave the site anyway.
Wireless Man, Wireless Man.
Doing the things that wireless can.
What's he like? It's not important.
Wireless Man.
Is he a standard or is he a spec?
When he's in the last mile does he connect?
Or does the mile connect him instead?
Nobody knows. Wireless Man.
Listen Up is a troll. Every single post of his is written in very inflammatory language and appeals to the lack of education of whoever he's replying to, and constructs his responses based on reading a few random sentences of a post (such as here, where he takes the phrase "God's Units" completely out of context).
He should be ignored with extreme prejudice.
However, I am now obligated to point out that the Slashdot community is made up of various members who are capable of holding different opinions, you fool.
Some people believe that MS was wrong for releasing info on security exploits too late. Some people believe that Slashdot is wrong for releasing info on security exploits too soon. These are very likely not the same people. This is not called "hypocrisy", it is called "discussion", and you should try it sometime.
I find the Borg touch in your version interesting:
Do you really believe that thousands of people are capable of suddenly coming to a consensus on what is a "Good Thing", but haven't so far because you never ordered them to?
The only people who could possibly be such sheep are the 4 moderators who turned off their brains and moderated this up.
I find it rather amusing that with all the typos or misspellings throughout your comment, you attempted to use the word "whom". And you got it wrong.
Um, how could they get your private key from intercepting an e-mail on the receiving end?
Or is this a conspiracy theory that the FBI is going to connect to keyservers and (gasp) steal your public key?
Man. It would really suck if they wanted exact change, and you'd search your flaming, disintegrating pockets for that melted dime in the hope that they'd still take it, but just then you got ripped to shreds by the wind and gravity while simultaneously exploding into tiny burning pieces from all the sodium, and you never got your drink.
It's good to see that Debian is maintaining their quality even when rushed. Making threats like this is one way to accomplish that - saying to maintainers with broken patches, "if you don't submit a patch, the release will suck and it will be ALL YOUR FAULT".
And I'm frankly amazed they got Mozilla in in the first place - they hadn't since M18, and with no packaged version Mozilla it was practically impossible to install Galeon.
It said "both the Question and Answer".
The reason the first HHGTTG is like that is because it is an adaptation of the first few episodes of the radio series. The second book split off from the plot of the radio series halfway through, and the rest of the books were entirely independent.
So true Adams fans should go find a copy of the radio series and listen to it - most of it will be an entirely new experience. Some very different stuff happens to the characters. BBC-Americas sells CDs of the series sporadically (mine took 14 months to arrive), and if you don't have the patience you can easily find MP3s of it.
That explanation is very clever and very wrong.
Arthur found the WRONG question, because his evolution had been tainted by the Golgafrinchans. It is not a typo, and it is not base 13. It is simply supposed to be wrong.
Those sound interesting, but everyone knows how arbtirarily Slashdot's articles are chosen. Why not submit them to K5 instead?
I'm not a lawyer but I have played Nomic
That's a pretty amusing quote.
If only the real world had a benevolent Administrator to ensure that nobody cheated...
I'd say your theory is just a special case of Sturgeon's Law: "90% of everything is crap."
How is WindowMaker more "default" than GNOME is? I've never installed WindowMaker on Debian and it has never even suggested that I install it.
What kind of file-sharing program would break the GPL? Would it take all the code that passed through it and sell it to Microsoft?
You sound like an ass when you try to convince people to say things that nobody actually says, for the purpose of "correctness". Some grammatical errors impede clarity and are useful to correct, but not this. If the "correct" version sounds wrong to absolutely everybody, it is wrong.
Please remember this in the future.
Do you order "two Whoppers Junior" at Burger King too?
what's with Slashdot failing to put a line break before the sig now?
You can't "wait" until copyrights expire anymore. The best thing you could do is work toward getting the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act ruled unconstitutional, and ensure that copyrights one day will expire.
People should have enough of a sense of pattern recognition by now to realize that in 20 years, Disney will still be around to make sure nothing created after Mickey ever goes out of copyright. So classic works like the Rhapsody in Blue may never be available to the public, and the books you mention may very well fade quietly into the night.
The compromise is multiple desktops, offered by practically every window manager there is. I'm surprise the submitter didn't mention them.
Since windows tend to be maximized most of the time, multiple desktops are an effective way of dealing with many of them, and then you can still have a desktop with small overlapping windows.
Realize that Call to Power (not part of the Civilization series, despite the trademark) was not designed by Sid Meier, so that's why the gameplay was all wrong.
Of course, but that's not tied to the interface - you can use the GNOME infrastructure under KDE or BlackBox or whatever.
I have recently discovered that GNOME works fine (and loads fast) if you don't run gmc OR nautilus.
I don't need a file manager when I have the command line. I definitely don't need desktop icons (I find those useless no matter what windowing system they're in). So what GNOME gives me is just the panel.
The parent poster is right, and it has in fact happened, here on Earth.
A finite number of primates, which you could call "monkeys" as long as you don't care about being too specific, without using _any typewriters at all_, managed to evolve into Shakespeare. Who then wrote his complete works.