My real complaint with the GIMP is the obscure nature of the entire program. Thats hard to put into words, and its NOT JUST that its an MDI program(curse the gods!) its more about the actual execution of the interface. My biggest complaint was when I was making pixel graphics for a game I was doing, the color picker ALWAYS pops up a window with the RGB information of the color you've just picked. I looked around online for a way around this as when you pixel, you change your colors a lot. The manual and many various webpages were no help. I ended up having to join the mailing list and filing a bug to get a snotty reply from a GIMP dev(or someone involved with the project) that if you hold CTRL when picking colors, the popup is bypassed. Anyone else see a problem with this?
Don't get me wrong, there are things I love about the GIMP, such as the dynamic keyboard shortcuts. The problem though is with GIMP's default behavior being so left-of-center. The dynamic keyboard shortcuts are turned off by default!!
I think that if there were some fresh air in the development process of the GIMP that a few small changes could help GIMP grab a much bigger segment of the marketshare for imaging apps. I occasionally will use crappy paint programs that use an SDI just to avoid using GIMP. Hopefully the GIMP dev's will start to listen(although why would they start now if they never did?) Best of luck!
iRiver?
I've had this little jem for abouth a month and its absolutely indispensible. I ripped all the cds I have onto it(I'm on the road and don't carry that many cds) and it still has something like 15 gigs free.
So I use that space for files and other miscellanea. It works out really well as a USB 2.0 HD(20 gigs) and is pretty sweet as a music player. If I recall correctly, it supports the most formats of any mp3 style player available, not to mention, it has a better interface than the iPods(thats in my opinion too of course.)
At $320, you can't go wrong, especially since it connects to your comp as a USB mass storage device, which means its cross platform as all getout.
Happy hunting.
...and I have to say that this is just hell. Our tuition has gone up every year since I started school(now in my 5th year) with no signs of showing up.
Our school had a surplus of money this year due to the fact that they cancelled their contract with Microsoft and stopped handing out free MS software. Should they have lowered tuition or perhaps gave out free textbooks or bought students free BWMs? Maybe...but I think the money definitely should have not been wasted on something as stupid as Napster.
I simply had to boot into windows and check out what the fuss was about. Napster, the new Napster at least, is crap. The UI is crap, it takes over your system, and is plain clunky. Its "always on top" and has few options to change its behavior. And on top of this, Penn State has only paid for streaming music. What this means is that at a max of 96kbps, you can listen to *select* songs by streaming them to your computer at inferior quality. I listen to music that is mostly not mainstream, so finding any songs I like is difficult at best.
What this does is cost Penn State students money by paying tution for a useless service, and gain Napster money by coercing students into buying songs at better quality. I'm just glad I'm graduating this semester. The situation at Penn State has gotten worse every year I've been here.
Good day all.
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My real complaint with the GIMP is the obscure nature of the entire program. Thats hard to put into words, and its NOT JUST that its an MDI program(curse the gods!) its more about the actual execution of the interface. My biggest complaint was when I was making pixel graphics for a game I was doing, the color picker ALWAYS pops up a window with the RGB information of the color you've just picked. I looked around online for a way around this as when you pixel, you change your colors a lot. The manual and many various webpages were no help. I ended up having to join the mailing list and filing a bug to get a snotty reply from a GIMP dev(or someone involved with the project) that if you hold CTRL when picking colors, the popup is bypassed. Anyone else see a problem with this?
Don't get me wrong, there are things I love about the GIMP, such as the dynamic keyboard shortcuts. The problem though is with GIMP's default behavior being so left-of-center. The dynamic keyboard shortcuts are turned off by default!!
I think that if there were some fresh air in the development process of the GIMP that a few small changes could help GIMP grab a much bigger segment of the marketshare for imaging apps. I occasionally will use crappy paint programs that use an SDI just to avoid using GIMP. Hopefully the GIMP dev's will start to listen(although why would they start now if they never did?) Best of luck!
iRiver? I've had this little jem for abouth a month and its absolutely indispensible. I ripped all the cds I have onto it(I'm on the road and don't carry that many cds) and it still has something like 15 gigs free. So I use that space for files and other miscellanea. It works out really well as a USB 2.0 HD(20 gigs) and is pretty sweet as a music player. If I recall correctly, it supports the most formats of any mp3 style player available, not to mention, it has a better interface than the iPods(thats in my opinion too of course.) At $320, you can't go wrong, especially since it connects to your comp as a USB mass storage device, which means its cross platform as all getout. Happy hunting.
...and I have to say that this is just hell. Our tuition has gone up every year since I started school(now in my 5th year) with no signs of showing up. Our school had a surplus of money this year due to the fact that they cancelled their contract with Microsoft and stopped handing out free MS software. Should they have lowered tuition or perhaps gave out free textbooks or bought students free BWMs? Maybe...but I think the money definitely should have not been wasted on something as stupid as Napster. I simply had to boot into windows and check out what the fuss was about. Napster, the new Napster at least, is crap. The UI is crap, it takes over your system, and is plain clunky. Its "always on top" and has few options to change its behavior. And on top of this, Penn State has only paid for streaming music. What this means is that at a max of 96kbps, you can listen to *select* songs by streaming them to your computer at inferior quality. I listen to music that is mostly not mainstream, so finding any songs I like is difficult at best. What this does is cost Penn State students money by paying tution for a useless service, and gain Napster money by coercing students into buying songs at better quality. I'm just glad I'm graduating this semester. The situation at Penn State has gotten worse every year I've been here. Good day all.