For those of you wondering how Orin Hatch can continue to collect votes, remember that tech savvy people are still a minority. Most voters don't understand what problems can arise from not understanding the society they live in. Our society is becoming more tech-centric as time goes on, but those issues do not matter to the average Joe or Jane. Check his stance on "more important" matters
Project Vote Smart has more detailed information on him as well as our other corporate appointed representatives.
Whether I vote Democrat or Republican I will feel as though I have handed my freedom to a fascist. I do not feel that either of the mainstream choices in the next presidential election are fit to serve. I will be voting for a person I respect and share interests with. I have a lot of research to do, but if anybody can offer suggestions for candidates ( write-in or otherwise ) who truly love freedom more than money, I will be happy to consider them.
Mod me redundant for agreeing with previous posters, but most of the problems the reviewer lists are due to his expectations and not the GIMP design.
I prefer to use the GIMP over Photoshop. I took a graphic design class hoping for an easy "A". The instructor required that we all use Photoshop. I couldn't afford the outrageous price for software that I would end up setting aside after the semester. I ended up struggling to use Photoshop in the college computer lab for a few hours a day. Nothing I created in Photoshop looked quite like I wanted it to be. The filters were not as intuitive for me, and the layout was confusing. In exasperation I did all my work on the GIMP, saved each layer as a PNG and used Photoshop to reconstitute each image. For me Photoshop was not user friendly when I last used it. Mac fanboys can flame me, but I have never thought like a Mac user, and even when I used Windows primarily, I had an appriciation for the clean style of GTK.
Photoshop ( two years ago anyway ) had a cluttered interface. I had all the various tools thrown in my face upon startup. After I closed a few of the tool windows ( layers, paths, etc...) I had trouble finding them again. This was not a result of Photoshop's design, but a symptom of the fact that I had been using the GIMP for a few years previously. The trouble with any new interface is not necessarily that it is inferior or poorly designed, but results from the learning curve.
The reviewer seemed to think that the GIMP is a Photoshop clone. Any time that OSS software is compared with its proprietary cousins, it has an uphill battle. For example, my grandparents refuse to use Thunderbird, Firefox, or OpenOffice, on the grounds that it isn't exactly the same as the software they prefer. By the same token, I cannot stand to use clumsy Microsoft products.
We all need to realize that Photoshop professionals aren't going to rave over the GIMP because it ISN'T Photoshop, wasn't intended to be, and never will be. Perhaps I should do a review of Photoshop from the opposite viewpoint.
I'm just glad that I have options and am not locked into a an Adobe monopoly.
When I need to remember serial numbers, phone numbers or similar, I usually think of 3-5 numbers as the sound of those numbers being said and 3-5 numbers as the shape of those numbers written out. Thinking of the same ideas in different ways seems to open up more memory. It makes me wonder if the sensory centers of the brain have their own caches independent of one another. Better memory may simply be a stronger ability to tie those caches together.
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For those of you wondering how Orin Hatch can continue to collect votes, remember that tech savvy people are still a minority. Most voters don't understand what problems can arise from not understanding the society they live in. Our society is becoming more tech-centric as time goes on, but those issues do not matter to the average Joe or Jane. Check his stance on "more important" matters
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http://www.vote-smart.org/npat.php?can_id=S088010
Project Vote Smart has more detailed information on him as well as our other corporate appointed representatives.
Whether I vote Democrat or Republican I will feel as though I have handed my freedom to a fascist. I do not feel that either of the mainstream choices in the next presidential election are fit to serve. I will be voting for a person I respect and share interests with. I have a lot of research to do, but if anybody can offer suggestions for candidates ( write-in or otherwise ) who truly love freedom more than money, I will be happy to consider them.
~DF
Mod me redundant for agreeing with previous posters, but most of the problems the reviewer lists are due to his expectations and not the GIMP design.
I prefer to use the GIMP over Photoshop. I took a graphic design class hoping for an easy "A". The instructor required that we all use Photoshop. I couldn't afford the outrageous price for software that I would end up setting aside after the semester. I ended up struggling to use Photoshop in the college computer lab for a few hours a day. Nothing I created in Photoshop looked quite like I wanted it to be. The filters were not as intuitive for me, and the layout was confusing. In exasperation I did all my work on the GIMP, saved each layer as a PNG and used Photoshop to reconstitute each image. For me Photoshop was not user friendly when I last used it. Mac fanboys can flame me, but I have never thought like a Mac user, and even when I used Windows primarily, I had an appriciation for the clean style of GTK.
Photoshop ( two years ago anyway ) had a cluttered interface. I had all the various tools thrown in my face upon startup. After I closed a few of the tool windows ( layers, paths, etc...) I had trouble finding them again. This was not a result of Photoshop's design, but a symptom of the fact that I had been using the GIMP for a few years previously. The trouble with any new interface is not necessarily that it is inferior or poorly designed, but results from the learning curve.
The reviewer seemed to think that the GIMP is a Photoshop clone. Any time that OSS software is compared with its proprietary cousins, it has an uphill battle. For example, my grandparents refuse to use Thunderbird, Firefox, or OpenOffice, on the grounds that it isn't exactly the same as the software they prefer. By the same token, I cannot stand to use clumsy Microsoft products.
We all need to realize that Photoshop professionals aren't going to rave over the GIMP because it ISN'T Photoshop, wasn't intended to be, and never will be. Perhaps I should do a review of Photoshop from the opposite viewpoint.
I'm just glad that I have options and am not locked into a an Adobe monopoly.
~DF
When I need to remember serial numbers, phone numbers or similar, I usually think of 3-5 numbers as the sound of those numbers being said and 3-5 numbers as the shape of those numbers written out. Thinking of the same ideas in different ways seems to open up more memory. It makes me wonder if the sensory centers of the brain have their own caches independent of one another. Better memory may simply be a stronger ability to tie those caches together.
Right now, everything but the fundamentalism seems very possible, and even almost likely.
I'll sleep tonight with heavy dreams.
~DF