What person has been ultra-intelligent and socially "cool"?
In order to socialize in modern society, you almost have to be up to date on the latest entertainment. Otherwise, you would have to talk about something serious or important like whether or not public education is even useful.
Besides, how many of us are are socially retarded ourselves?
The typical printed opinions of the GIMP make it seem like it'll just let you rotate a picture 90 degrees and adjust brightness and contrast. (Check out the Computer Arts Magazine June 2004 article about the GIMP. It almost says only that.)
But the GIMP is so much more powerful.
I was trained on several Adobe products; I spent years of my Life using their software. Immediately after getting a working knowledge of the GIMP, I dropped every single Adobe product I had ever used - without a tear! And the transition wasn't difficult at all.
(Illustrator's duties have been switched to Sodipodi/Inkscape.)
But something to think about:
What has Adobe done for anyone in the graphic art community, the open-source community or any community?
The cost of their programs has continued to increase, not decrease, while their annual profits are in the billions - BILLIONS(!).
Adobe could afford to give away their programs to colleges and other institutions. They could even afford to pay to develop an open-source image manipulation program.
To my knowledge, they don't do any of this.
Adobe products are "industry standards" simply because there hasn't been another real (likeable) alternative with equal or greater useability.
But the GIMP is changing that. It can really be used in a professional setting that involves printed media - I use it every day.
More importantly, I can't, with a clear conscience, recommend that someone spend $600+ dollars for a single product of a billion-dollar corporation when the bulk of mankind is dirt poor and needy.
Can you?
Use part of the money you would have spent on an Adobe product and donate it to GIMP developers or other open-source projects. That's money better spent, in my opinion.
Anyways, the GIMP is much better than just a low-budget alternative. I hope that it'll grow into the standard in a type of digital revolution.
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"It is a search for the best explanation for the evidence."
Except when the evidence is missing and needs to be manufactured, as with the theory of evolution.
By the way, you cannot prove anything about the past scientifically.
Can evolution be reproduced in a lab?
Has it ever been observed to occur? (Examples?)
Does it fit with what can been observed (information only comes from intelligence; order decreases over time...)?
No.
No.
No.
What person has been ultra-intelligent and socially "cool"?
In order to socialize in modern society, you almost have to be up to date on the latest entertainment. Otherwise, you would have to talk about something serious or important like whether or not public education is even useful.
Besides, how many of us are are socially retarded ourselves?
The typical printed opinions of the GIMP make it seem like it'll just let you rotate a picture 90 degrees and adjust brightness and contrast. (Check out the Computer Arts Magazine June 2004 article about the GIMP. It almost says only that.)
But the GIMP is so much more powerful.
I was trained on several Adobe products; I spent years of my Life using their software. Immediately after getting a working knowledge of the GIMP, I dropped every single Adobe product I had ever used - without a tear! And the transition wasn't difficult at all.
(Illustrator's duties have been switched to Sodipodi/Inkscape.)
But something to think about:
What has Adobe done for anyone in the graphic art community, the open-source community or any community?
The cost of their programs has continued to increase, not decrease, while their annual profits are in the billions - BILLIONS(!).
Adobe could afford to give away their programs to colleges and other institutions. They could even afford to pay to develop an open-source image manipulation program.
To my knowledge, they don't do any of this.
Adobe products are "industry standards" simply because there hasn't been another real (likeable) alternative with equal or greater useability.
But the GIMP is changing that. It can really be used in a professional setting that involves printed media - I use it every day.
More importantly, I can't, with a clear conscience, recommend that someone spend $600+ dollars for a single product of a billion-dollar corporation when the bulk of mankind is dirt poor and needy.
Can you?
Use part of the money you would have spent on an Adobe product and donate it to GIMP developers or other open-source projects. That's money better spent, in my opinion.
Anyways, the GIMP is much better than just a low-budget alternative. I hope that it'll grow into the standard in a type of digital revolution.