Thank christ, another Michael Crichton reference. I was afraid they were taking an extended break.
The Terminal Man. "He's an elad." An electric addict. Stick wires in the brain to trigger responses from the pleasure centers. Push the button enough times and you're set for life, or at least until you pass out from not eating because you're loving the buzz. What a great world!
I live in the midwest, where in the spring and summer I can feel by the humidity, air pressure and temperature if a tornado is on the way. I certainly don't need the idiots at the local weather station telling me where a funnel cloud might be. And in the event that my senses aren't enough, the mechanical voice of the national weather service over a radio is the only other thing I need.
Weather warnings on tv are annoying time vampires that interrupt the show I'm trying to watch.
This new version of Windows has all the bugs worked out. You should use it, for the good of the country. Do you get my meaning? Am I making myself clear?
As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me sir!
Once again Michael Crichton paves the way for neuroscience. Cf. The Terminal Man, 1972. They planted electrodes in his brain to keep him from having seizures, blacking out, and beating people up. Then he went into a feedback loop, tipped over and started beating people up again. And I'm wondering, why doesn't the army do that? Seems it would help with the killin', pure and simple.
This applies across the board. I've seen many classes that cover a subject where computers are used and they invariably end up being refresher courses in basic computer operation. For example, many of my fellow students in a fourth-year graphic design class had a lot of difficulty using the computers and software that they'd used for the previous two or three years. Many of them failed a quiz on the basics of typography, like the difference between a serif and sans-serif typeface.
I blame lazy students, yes, but I also blame lazy teaching. It's easy to structure a class such that each assignment consists of following a set of directions from a book, where rote memorization leads to an A. But the same A-students who had no trouble following 1-2-3 directions had all kinds of trouble using version 2.1 of the program when they were only trained on version 2.0.
But I look forward to a day when engineering, science, and humanities majors can put aside their differences, come together in a spirit of unity, and make fun of business majors.
Your honor, do you own a computer? Have you ever used that computer to view content on the Internet? The software you used to access the Internet contains encryption software. Criminal intent! Take him away!
Interesting that so many people complain about Gimp's interface compared to Photoshop's. I use Photoshop professionally, and have it set up with two monitors; the toolbox and images go on the primary monitor while the rest of the palettes go on the second monitor (I use this setup on Windows and Mac machines). I use Gimp at home, and have the same setup.
So what's all this about Gimp's interface being inferior to Photoshop's? In both cases, the default interface configuration is about the same, and I do about the same amount of work to get my personalized interface. I also change hotkeys for both applications to my own preferences. It's easy to do on both applications.
Best not complain about something until you try it--really try it, don't just load it once and then bitch about it.
When it comes to working with digital photos, I can go with either program. I've made professional-quality prints with both programs, and for the most part, Gimp's 8-bit limitation isn't really a hindrance if I get my raw settings right with my raw converter. Color management? It's coming along nicely in the development version. No worries here.
For everyone who wants high-bit depth and other color spaces (this includes me): if you know how to code, get in there and submit patches to the various programs that will eventually perform all of this number crunching for Gimp. If anything, I'd like to see an updated roadmap for GEGL and GGGL and all the other programs that are being worked on right now. Hopefully someone will have time to write up such an overview so the rest of us will have a better idea what's going on.
All that aside, Photoshop or Gimp can be used professionally, and both are just about completely interchangeable. Give Gimp some time! Its developers aren't full-time paid programmers. They're volunteers, and they're doing a damn fine job.
This new technology's incredible. A few more years development and we won't even have to dig anymore. Where's the fun in that? Postmortem contraction of the posterior neck ligaments. Velociraptor? Yes, good shape too.
I've written my thoughts and mailed them out. It takes five minutes to write a short but sweet letter, so take five minutes and get your reasoned thoughts out to the right people. Show them what open standards are all about!
Since when was a 2 GHz processor and half a gig of RAM considered slow? Maybe this kid should spend some time away from the computer business before he starts claiming that the system he's using is slow. He spellchecks blogs, that oughtta tell ya which end of the intelligence yardstick he's at.
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Thank christ, another Michael Crichton reference. I was afraid they were taking an extended break.
The Terminal Man. "He's an elad." An electric addict. Stick wires in the brain to trigger responses from the pleasure centers. Push the button enough times and you're set for life, or at least until you pass out from not eating because you're loving the buzz. What a great world!
I live in the midwest, where in the spring and summer I can feel by the humidity, air pressure and temperature if a tornado is on the way. I certainly don't need the idiots at the local weather station telling me where a funnel cloud might be. And in the event that my senses aren't enough, the mechanical voice of the national weather service over a radio is the only other thing I need.
Weather warnings on tv are annoying time vampires that interrupt the show I'm trying to watch.
Why are you capitalising words like "star," "orbits," and "spherical?" Those aren't proper nouns. Stop pretending they are.
Cheap thalidomide for the brown people of the world!
This new version of Windows has all the bugs worked out. You should use it, for the good of the country. Do you get my meaning? Am I making myself clear?
As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me sir!
Once again Michael Crichton paves the way for neuroscience. Cf. The Terminal Man, 1972. They planted electrodes in his brain to keep him from having seizures, blacking out, and beating people up. Then he went into a feedback loop, tipped over and started beating people up again. And I'm wondering, why doesn't the army do that? Seems it would help with the killin', pure and simple.
This applies across the board. I've seen many classes that cover a subject where computers are used and they invariably end up being refresher courses in basic computer operation. For example, many of my fellow students in a fourth-year graphic design class had a lot of difficulty using the computers and software that they'd used for the previous two or three years. Many of them failed a quiz on the basics of typography, like the difference between a serif and sans-serif typeface.
I blame lazy students, yes, but I also blame lazy teaching. It's easy to structure a class such that each assignment consists of following a set of directions from a book, where rote memorization leads to an A. But the same A-students who had no trouble following 1-2-3 directions had all kinds of trouble using version 2.1 of the program when they were only trained on version 2.0.
Hear, hear!
I would love to see Sketchup ported over. It sure don't run on Wine, least as far as I have tried. My fingers are crossed.
Your honor, do you own a computer? Have you ever used that computer to view content on the Internet? The software you used to access the Internet contains encryption software. Criminal intent! Take him away!
Interesting that so many people complain about Gimp's interface compared to Photoshop's. I use Photoshop professionally, and have it set up with two monitors; the toolbox and images go on the primary monitor while the rest of the palettes go on the second monitor (I use this setup on Windows and Mac machines). I use Gimp at home, and have the same setup.
So what's all this about Gimp's interface being inferior to Photoshop's? In both cases, the default interface configuration is about the same, and I do about the same amount of work to get my personalized interface. I also change hotkeys for both applications to my own preferences. It's easy to do on both applications.
Best not complain about something until you try it--really try it, don't just load it once and then bitch about it.
When it comes to working with digital photos, I can go with either program. I've made professional-quality prints with both programs, and for the most part, Gimp's 8-bit limitation isn't really a hindrance if I get my raw settings right with my raw converter. Color management? It's coming along nicely in the development version. No worries here.
For everyone who wants high-bit depth and other color spaces (this includes me): if you know how to code, get in there and submit patches to the various programs that will eventually perform all of this number crunching for Gimp. If anything, I'd like to see an updated roadmap for GEGL and GGGL and all the other programs that are being worked on right now. Hopefully someone will have time to write up such an overview so the rest of us will have a better idea what's going on.
All that aside, Photoshop or Gimp can be used professionally, and both are just about completely interchangeable. Give Gimp some time! Its developers aren't full-time paid programmers. They're volunteers, and they're doing a damn fine job.
This new technology's incredible. A few more years development and we won't even have to dig anymore.
Where's the fun in that?
Postmortem contraction of the posterior neck ligaments. Velociraptor?
Yes, good shape too.
I've written my thoughts and mailed them out. It takes five minutes to write a short but sweet letter, so take five minutes and get your reasoned thoughts out to the right people.
Show them what open standards are all about!
Since when was a 2 GHz processor and half a gig of RAM considered slow? Maybe this kid should spend some time away from the computer business before he starts claiming that the system he's using is slow. He spellchecks blogs, that oughtta tell ya which end of the intelligence yardstick he's at.
Kids these days...