I think that Photoshop is inherently easier to use and easier to figure out than Gimp. I have tried both, and I haven't taken any courses to learn either. For example, Gimp has so many different windows. Every time I switch to Gimp from another program, I have to bring each one of those windows to the foreground, one at a time. Photoshop has everything in just one window, so it only takes one click in the taskbar, or an alt-tab keypress to focus it. The context menus in Photoshop give me options that are relevant to the tool or selection I have selected. In Gimp, they give me commands for every possible operation, making it useless as a context menu. In Photoshop, the help feature is actually somewhat helpful. In Gimp, it must be installed separately. It is kind of tricky to install, and I'm sure a lot of newbies have trouble installing it, if they can even find it. These are just a few examples of annoyances and quirks. It is not about complexity, it is about interface design and usability. FOSS programmers sometimes seem unable to perceive things the way average people do. If people would rather spend a few hundred $ on proprietary software that they can figure out and use easily, than download FOSS that is confusing and hard to figure out, then FOSS will forever remain a niche product for geeks and programmers.
Is this person implying that nuclear fusion, superconductors, nanotechnology, quantum computers, and manned space travel would not be the "next big thing" if perfected and done on a large scale? I think there are a lot more things that can be invented.
I've never done any scripting stuff in Windows so this may seem like a silly question. Here goes:
Is using AutoIT any better than the Windows scripting host? Is it easier or more powerful? Is the Windows scripting host any good? Does a newbie like me have a chance at learning the Windows scripting host?
I may be unwilling to follow the dress codes, in cases where it doesn't have a significant negative effect on my job performance. That doesn't mean I'm unwilling to do a task that's more important.
Have you EVER seen a sheep dump gas on its face and light it? I never have.
There are no frequency dependencies? If you run two long wires right next to each other, wouldn't they have capacitance, which would increase their impedance to higher frequencies? Still, I doubt that this would matter in most cases for audio frequencies.
One thing that sucks about Quicktime... there is no full-screen mode, unless you pay for it, at least it is that way with Windows. However, if you don't want to pay for it, you can try Quicktime Alternative
To me, it seems like the car companies don't care that much about gas mileage. I read somewhere (I think it was in Adbusters) that the weight of the average new car has gone over 4000 lbs for the first time since the 1970s. To me this seems ridiculous, considering the increases in technology: aluminum alloys and plastic are replacing cast iron and steel, unibodies are replacing full frames, and rack-and-pinion steering systems are replacing recirculating-ball systems. Cars today are generally not much more fuel-efficient than they used to be; here is an example. Again, there have been many drastic improvements in technology: lighter materials, improved aerodynamics, computer-controlled fuel injection instead of carburetors. But somehow, regardless of how much technology they introduce, cars in the US still seem to mostly get between around 20 and 30 mpg. The Japanese companies are making some improvement, but most American cars don't seem much better than they were 50 years ago. I am really not that excited about the new hybrid cars; what good would new technology do if the car companies clearly aren't making good use of the technology they already have? I think that most of the early hybrid cars will be more efficient, then the later ones will only get about 30 mpg for some reason, and they will keep making them that way until we have a serious oil crisis.
I don't think this equation enables my cell phone to work. Maybe it makes it a little easier to design it, but we could represent all of our signal values and other quantities without using this formula, or all complex exponents.
Why would I ever use Windows on Apple hardware? Apple's hardware isn't that much better than Wintel, it's their OS and software that I really like. If I'm going to get a PPC, I would like to do without the 18 billion security holes, the installation hassles, the blue screen of death, and all the other problems with Windows.
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I think that Photoshop is inherently easier to use and easier to figure out than Gimp. I have tried both, and I haven't taken any courses to learn either. For example, Gimp has so many different windows. Every time I switch to Gimp from another program, I have to bring each one of those windows to the foreground, one at a time. Photoshop has everything in just one window, so it only takes one click in the taskbar, or an alt-tab keypress to focus it. The context menus in Photoshop give me options that are relevant to the tool or selection I have selected. In Gimp, they give me commands for every possible operation, making it useless as a context menu. In Photoshop, the help feature is actually somewhat helpful. In Gimp, it must be installed separately. It is kind of tricky to install, and I'm sure a lot of newbies have trouble installing it, if they can even find it. These are just a few examples of annoyances and quirks. It is not about complexity, it is about interface design and usability. FOSS programmers sometimes seem unable to perceive things the way average people do. If people would rather spend a few hundred $ on proprietary software that they can figure out and use easily, than download FOSS that is confusing and hard to figure out, then FOSS will forever remain a niche product for geeks and programmers.
Is this person implying that nuclear fusion, superconductors, nanotechnology, quantum computers, and manned space travel would not be the "next big thing" if perfected and done on a large scale? I think there are a lot more things that can be invented.
I say it's getting incapacitating.
I've never done any scripting stuff in Windows so this may seem like a silly question. Here goes: Is using AutoIT any better than the Windows scripting host? Is it easier or more powerful? Is the Windows scripting host any good? Does a newbie like me have a chance at learning the Windows scripting host?
Get rid of MTV? How about get rid of Channel One?
There are no frequency dependencies? If you run two long wires right next to each other, wouldn't they have capacitance, which would increase their impedance to higher frequencies? Still, I doubt that this would matter in most cases for audio frequencies.
One thing that sucks about Quicktime... there is no full-screen mode, unless you pay for it, at least it is that way with Windows. However, if you don't want to pay for it, you can try Quicktime Alternative
To me, it seems like the car companies don't care that much about gas mileage. I read somewhere (I think it was in Adbusters) that the weight of the average new car has gone over 4000 lbs for the first time since the 1970s. To me this seems ridiculous, considering the increases in technology: aluminum alloys and plastic are replacing cast iron and steel, unibodies are replacing full frames, and rack-and-pinion steering systems are replacing recirculating-ball systems. Cars today are generally not much more fuel-efficient than they used to be; here is an example. Again, there have been many drastic improvements in technology: lighter materials, improved aerodynamics, computer-controlled fuel injection instead of carburetors. But somehow, regardless of how much technology they introduce, cars in the US still seem to mostly get between around 20 and 30 mpg. The Japanese companies are making some improvement, but most American cars don't seem much better than they were 50 years ago. I am really not that excited about the new hybrid cars; what good would new technology do if the car companies clearly aren't making good use of the technology they already have? I think that most of the early hybrid cars will be more efficient, then the later ones will only get about 30 mpg for some reason, and they will keep making them that way until we have a serious oil crisis.
I don't think this equation enables my cell phone to work. Maybe it makes it a little easier to design it, but we could represent all of our signal values and other quantities without using this formula, or all complex exponents.
Why would I ever use Windows on Apple hardware? Apple's hardware isn't that much better than Wintel, it's their OS and software that I really like. If I'm going to get a PPC, I would like to do without the 18 billion security holes, the installation hassles, the blue screen of death, and all the other problems with Windows.