I'm a total sucker for crunchy basslines, bleepy synths and vocodered-to-death vocals. This category gets contributed to equally by friends of mine on independent labels, various club, electro and psytrance acts (anyone from Sander K to Atari Teenage Riot to TV Rock to Infected Mushroom), and occasionally by whomever happens to be composing for Justin Timberlake this week.
I (and I hope many others) really don't give a toss where it comes from or how it's been marketed as long as it sounds awesome. If anything, I prefer it to be obscure so that I can score points for introducing my friends to it =)
Google Adwords is an advertising model that should have shown up years before it did. Small, non-flashy, to the point, not always 100% relevant to the surrounding content but generally pretty close. That, I can deal with.
Knight Visions, Snow Crash-style. Something that can block out specific wavelengths/frequencies, or just switch over to millimetre-wave radar when necessary.
(Smackdowns welcome if I'm wrong about any of the following; just my personal experience.)
I've got GIMP as part of my default Ubuntu install, and it's never impressed me much. I agree with the general gist of previous comments which is that the UI doesn't need to be like Photoshop, it just needs to be decent.
The dealbreaker for me at the moment is the piss-poor Text tool. A few days ago I wanted to make some text with a border around each letter. Tried to find a border colour setting, no go. Looked up a few tutorials, and it's a frigging ten-step process using multiple layers and tools, wtf? I tried Krita, and that was even worse as far as I could tell, and I'm not sure where to go from here as far as Linux apps are concerned.
All the previous comparison comments here are in reference to Photoshop and PSP, but I recently got given a copy of Adobe Fireworks to use at work for a variety of daily tasks, (mostly straightforward stuff - cropping, resizing, adding text to diagrams, basic compositing) and I love it! Whilst everyone grimaces at the mention of its name, it does what I want easily, intuitively and well. Despite minimal graphics experience and no claim to expertise with any particular software package, I have never had to go hunting for a special tool or look up a tutorial in order to create white text with a 2px black frigging border. It doesn't seem like too much to ask, I don't see why it should be such a challenge in other apps.
My old buddies at Philips tech support must be thrilled. Whilst their newer players all use MTP to copy tracks via Windows Media Player, the older models (apart from one or two drag 'n' droppers) are, IIRC, dependent on MusicMatch + drivers.
Great place to work, but I'm hella glad I won't have to deal with this =)
That's silly, everyone knows 'gravity' is actually Intelligent Falling. Maybe we can create anti-gravity by getting enough stupid people in one place; we might have to strap buttered toast to their backs for it to work, though.
They could possibly be if they didn't use such high frequencies. Likewise, sticking your head in the microwave to cure brain cancer won't achieve much apart from securing you a Darwin Award nomination.
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I'm a total sucker for crunchy basslines, bleepy synths and vocodered-to-death vocals. This category gets contributed to equally by friends of mine on independent labels, various club, electro and psytrance acts (anyone from Sander K to Atari Teenage Riot to TV Rock to Infected Mushroom), and occasionally by whomever happens to be composing for Justin Timberlake this week.
I (and I hope many others) really don't give a toss where it comes from or how it's been marketed as long as it sounds awesome. If anything, I prefer it to be obscure so that I can score points for introducing my friends to it =)
Garbage's Subhuman and #1 Crush, two of my favourite songs ever, and both b-sides on the Vow single.
Google Adwords is an advertising model that should have shown up years before it did. Small, non-flashy, to the point, not always 100% relevant to the surrounding content but generally pretty close. That, I can deal with.
That depends, how recently have you watched The Secret?
Think of the (itchy) children!
Knight Visions, Snow Crash-style. Something that can block out specific wavelengths/frequencies, or just switch over to millimetre-wave radar when necessary.
Even funnier given that I actually know a dude who changed his name to Puke by deed poll.
Documentation isn't meant to be literary, it's meant to be efficient and informative.
That said, someone should totally tag this with youngladysillustratedprimer.
*facestab*
I may have to, that's where I spend a fair chunk of my workday. Now what am I meant to do? play with Facebook?
(First person to say "work" gets stabbed in the face over the internet.)
Yeah, you never know when you're going to need to fly non-stop to Neptune and pepper-spray some bitch in the spaceport parking lot. No time for toilet breaks!
(Smackdowns welcome if I'm wrong about any of the following; just my personal experience.)
I've got GIMP as part of my default Ubuntu install, and it's never impressed me much. I agree with the general gist of previous comments which is that the UI doesn't need to be like Photoshop, it just needs to be decent.
The dealbreaker for me at the moment is the piss-poor Text tool. A few days ago I wanted to make some text with a border around each letter. Tried to find a border colour setting, no go. Looked up a few tutorials, and it's a frigging ten-step process using multiple layers and tools, wtf? I tried Krita, and that was even worse as far as I could tell, and I'm not sure where to go from here as far as Linux apps are concerned.
All the previous comparison comments here are in reference to Photoshop and PSP, but I recently got given a copy of Adobe Fireworks to use at work for a variety of daily tasks, (mostly straightforward stuff - cropping, resizing, adding text to diagrams, basic compositing) and I love it! Whilst everyone grimaces at the mention of its name, it does what I want easily, intuitively and well. Despite minimal graphics experience and no claim to expertise with any particular software package, I have never had to go hunting for a special tool or look up a tutorial in order to create white text with a 2px black frigging border. It doesn't seem like too much to ask, I don't see why it should be such a challenge in other apps.
My old buddies at Philips tech support must be thrilled. Whilst their newer players all use MTP to copy tracks via Windows Media Player, the older models (apart from one or two drag 'n' droppers) are, IIRC, dependent on MusicMatch + drivers.
Great place to work, but I'm hella glad I won't have to deal with this =)
Where we're going, you won't need lube...
That's silly, everyone knows 'gravity' is actually Intelligent Falling. Maybe we can create anti-gravity by getting enough stupid people in one place; we might have to strap buttered toast to their backs for it to work, though.
Careful, someone's going to accuse you of conspiracy theories in a second...
The safest computer is one that isn't connected to the Internet. That's why I use Telstra Bigpond ADSL.
Black tits aren't porn, they're documentary.
That's probably why the Irish highway-patrol-equivalent force responsible for 'sniffing out' biofuel offenders was nicknamed The Frying Squad.
Feisty apparently requires 256MB of RAM, try Xubuntu 7.04, should be fine with 128MB.
That's what he gets for trying to sniff out the truth...
Fail! Sylar was Molly's boogeyman, the one who could watch her when she watched him was someone else.
n _Heroes#Molly_Walker
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_characters_i
Yeah, but 15-year-old boys do. Trickle-down economy in action =)
The Transparent Society by David Brin.
They could possibly be if they didn't use such high frequencies. Likewise, sticking your head in the microwave to cure brain cancer won't achieve much apart from securing you a Darwin Award nomination.