Nah, there are tons of movies rotting away in freezers at the *AA associated studios.
OP was talking about digital files. Everything that is accessible, of some value, isn't digital yet and is in danger of rotting away should be digitalized ASAP. The worst are libraries and archives that don't digitalise things because they are afraid that the process might destroy their precious, unique, might-soon-be-gone-anyway, you-can't-see-them-beacuse-they're-too-fragile, pieces...
That is what the industry claims they may even believe it... Fact is that unauthorized copying still gives them mindshare, how exactly it influences profit is less then clear. It is however quite certain if it would kill them they would be dead (or near it) by now. If you want to kill them consciously ignore them, this is one case where ignoring just might help.
How about selling music on regular "Compact Disc Digital Audio"(TM) disks instead of non-descript shiny disks that might or might not play on a regular "Compact Disc Digital Audio"(TM) player?
The main page look quite nice to me without a style in Firefox, there is a bit too much vertical spacing between posts and the braces around the 'Read more' portion should go into the CSS. Aside from that all I'm missing is a 'Jump to content' link at the top.
How should one write comments correctly anyway? <br> tags make me sick, but <p> tags create ugly vertical spacing. And what are the <div> tags doing inside of blockquotes?
RIAA resisted technology, and look what happened. Apple did not, and as such iTunes has been one of the greatest success stories in a while.
They are going after uploaders, getting most of what Apple takes via iTunes and are tightening the DRM screws every chance they get. What should I see? All I see is artist associations around the world using the 'flawless copy' stick on goverments to put their tax on digital media.
There is a huge scale from 'resize the pic for the web and maybe correct some red eye' the functionality you are talking about, putting GIMP at the bottom of the scale is an insult to the developers no matter what features from the other end you are missing.
when the developers will actually listen to what users want (a PS-like interface, adjustment layers, CYMK,...) instead of to themselves, my attitude towards Gimp will change.
The developers do listen to what users want and the majority of GIMP users (like me) don't want a PS-like interface. CMYK will come when the infrastructure is ready for it, GIMP developers would love to have full CMYK support, but it's a huge task and takes time. Same for adjustment layers, GEGL needs to be done first.
Every single time I brought up a Gimp shortcoming I've been told that "why don't I code it if I want it", I want a graphic program that works, I already code all day for my job and extending the Gimp is not what I'm interested in, that's why I have given several hundred $ to Adobe for CS2 (and elements 3 before that).
No, you want a program that works in a particular way, the GIMP works just fine, saying that it doesn't is absurd. But features just don't magicly happen someone has to code them and GIMP developers are currently working to make a stable version so that GIMP users don't complain about bugs and crushes while they work on GEGL. I will be using GIMP and wait for the new cool features and you will be using CS2 and that is fine, but that is not a reason to attack GIMP, it's developers or users.
I respect the fact that they aren't paid for their work, and that consequently I shouldn't expect too much, that's why I decided to actually buy what I need instead of continuing to gripe about the Gimp.
Xfig has an easier interface than GIMP? I think it's just that people look at it, get confused and never touch it again. While everyone complains about GIMP the interface is atleast somewhat familiar to many.
You know what's so bad about focus-follows-mouse? It does things that you might not want. Imagine you have two images open in GIMP (it's even on topic!) you need something from the layer dialog, but on the way there the cursor goes trough the other image and when you are there you have the layers for the wrong dialog.
Adobe realizes this, therefore no scripting is required.
That does not change the fact that GIMP has batch processing, that means that making a GUI batch processer may be as simple as writing one script.
Scheme and Perl are not easy to learn for non-CS types.
Fortunately there is Python, learning enough for basic, but usefull, GIMP scripts shouldn't be too difficult. On the other hand I haven't done so yet myself.
The last time I used GIMP (2.2.0, I believe), the dockable "pallets" or dialogs were very buggy.
Haven't notcied any docking specific problems, not even in the 1.3 branch. Might be platform specific.
Overall, while GIMP is great as free software, it's nowhere near production quality for design and photography professionals.
It might not be enough for everyone, but not all professionals are alike. There should be some who simply do net require anything beyond what gimp offers, there should be some who can take advantage of the scriptability and there should be some who have very special needs and inhouse programmers who will extend GIMP to fill them.
Sure, the gimp is fine for the 'resize the pic for the web and maybe correct some red eye' crowd, but as soon as you have to do something more involved even the humble (and cheap) PS Elements is light years ahead.
Yes, Adobe is years ahead of GIMP (not light years, unless they have developed FTL travel secretly), that is not surprising as they started earlier. But saying that all that GIMP can do is 'resize the pic for the web and maybe correct some red eye' is an insult to the developers.
You can make a new layer out of a float by clicking the "New Layer" button or by right clicking on the float in the layers dialog, there should also be a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+N?). Save in GIMPs native xcf format to keep the layers.
But, it doesn't get used by the general public or big business a whole lot these days because language is a part of culture and so it changes as the people and culture do.
Yes it is, the western culture isn't the only one with a general public.
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But it's the second/third result if you search for internet...
That's the invisible shield, it protects them from the invisible hand. You can't let economics get in the way of good business..
Not beeing in the target demographic is a bad thing?
How about selling music on regular "Compact Disc Digital Audio"(TM) disks instead of non-descript shiny disks that might or might not play on a regular "Compact Disc Digital Audio"(TM) player?
The main page look quite nice to me without a style in Firefox, there is a bit too much vertical spacing between posts and the braces around the 'Read more' portion should go into the CSS. Aside from that all I'm missing is a 'Jump to content' link at the top.
How should one write comments correctly anyway? <br> tags make me sick, but <p> tags create ugly vertical spacing. And what are the <div> tags doing inside of blockquotes?
It would be quite easy to clear the potentialy dangerous pieces once the elevator is up.
You don't need the captcha if you fill in username and password.
If you mean the 'a' and 'b' buttons then it's perfactly clear--just imagine the controller rotated 90 degrees counter clockwise.
You would think that Alien Space Soucer sounds cooler then Unidentified Flying Object, but few believers seem to use the former...
Xfig has an easier interface than GIMP? I think it's just that people look at it, get confused and never touch it again. While everyone complains about GIMP the interface is atleast somewhat familiar to many.
You know what's so bad about focus-follows-mouse? It does things that you might not want. Imagine you have two images open in GIMP (it's even on topic!) you need something from the layer dialog, but on the way there the cursor goes trough the other image and when you are there you have the layers for the wrong dialog.
Is PhotoShop a toy because Cinepaint is better suited for film retouching? Since when do you speak for all professionals?
GIMP does batch processing, just not from the GUI. It also has dockable dialogs.
You can make a new layer out of a float by clicking the "New Layer" button or by right clicking on the float in the layers dialog, there should also be a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+N?). Save in GIMPs native xcf format to keep the layers.