So if you want professional grade graphics tools but don't want to go the Adobe route, then seriously consider their only real competitor, Corel.
Funny, I was gonna say almost the exact same thing about Paint Shop Pro. But then, I'm biased, having used it since version 3. If anyone wants some samples of what ANY paint program can do in the hands of an artist, just email me.
werewolf1031 at yah00 dot n-e-t
If I get enough inquiries, I'll just upload the stuff instead of email-responding.
To anyone who disagrees with me, grow a brain and learn something.
Nice job. Way to make us Trekkers look like a bunch of closed-minded jackasses -- just automatically assume that anyone who disagrees with you is brainless and dismiss their views without even hearing them first.
It already sucked when it was used in the most well known fiction of all: the Christian Bible.
FYI, not all Trekkers are atheists. If anything, the Prime Directive which permeates all of Trek espouses not only tolerance of, but respect for, other cultures -- including their religions. Um, you have watched TNG, haven't you?
I hate hilljumpers or anyone from the south pretty much.
Geez, so much for peace and tolerance! I'm a Yank myself, but I have friends in the south who are obviously a lot more enlightened than you are.
So um, the OS is the car, the radio is Media Player (or viable substitute thereof, eg. Pioneer), the gas is the file format (but it's common to all cars??), the road is the Internet...
No wait, the GPS anti-theft is the Internet...
I mean... wait, Microsoft has a proprietary gasoline format that won't run in other stereos?!
Ok, so if I buy a car from Microsoft and replace the stereo with a Mac, I can't run Linux on it? And I have to pay Ford to drive it on their roads?? And I have to be digitally signed to be the car's driver?!
Funny, all the wealthy people I know, at least in my local area, are the hardest-working people around... that's why they're wealthy. They don't sit on their asses, they work hard, start small businesses, save instead of waste, etc. Mind you, not all are "nice", some are ass-hats, but some are quite decent and honest too, pretty much the same spectrum you'd get across any slice of the population.
(Translation: economics!=character)
And no, I am not one of the rich; I work in a gas station, which is almost like being a bartender -- after a few years, you get to know the entire town quite well.
You think if we ended welfare everyone would run out and get a job?
Um, yeah? I also know/have known a lot of people on welfare, and all I can say is some stereotypes are (sometimes) true.
G'head, Troll me, I don't care. I just don't buy into the simplistic, Disneyified "poor=good, rich=evil" mindset; people across economic borders aren't as black-and-white as you'd like to believe. Good and evil know no tax bracket.
...anthalogy series?
In spite of the bastardization that Berman has made out of the Trek universe in recent years, I've always thought that the vast number of races and cultures touched upon during the TNG and DS9 years was enough "canon" fodder to last a lifetime of story-telling. So...
Why not an anthology series, where the characters are never the same twice. (Think Twilight Zone or Outer Limits, only in Trek-space.) Each episode would tell a small story set somewhere -- hell, ANYwhere -- in the Trek universe, even at different time periods. The four-years war with the Romulans; the humanoid-possessing insectoids from the "Conspiracy" TNG episode (unfinished story!); what *really* happened to Guinen's race when the Borg attacked, and how'd she escape death/assimilation; hell, the potential war stories that could be told about the Cardassian occupation of Bajor are in themselves limitless -- think WWII mini-epics (Bajoran Dirty Dozen??:)
I've always believed that there are far too many rich ideas in Trek to focus on just one ship or crew. Time to let the idea floodgates open...
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Sounds like watching an episode of Battlestar Galactica. The camera work can make a viewer nausious at times, but DAMN I love that show.
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Funny, I was gonna say almost the exact same thing about Paint Shop Pro. But then, I'm biased, having used it since version 3. If anyone wants some samples of what ANY paint program can do in the hands of an artist, just email me.
werewolf1031 at yah00 dot n-e-t
If I get enough inquiries, I'll just upload the stuff instead of email-responding.
To anyone who disagrees with me, grow a brain and learn something.
Nice job. Way to make us Trekkers look like a bunch of closed-minded jackasses -- just automatically assume that anyone who disagrees with you is brainless and dismiss their views without even hearing them first.
It already sucked when it was used in the most well known fiction of all: the Christian Bible.
FYI, not all Trekkers are atheists. If anything, the Prime Directive which permeates all of Trek espouses not only tolerance of, but respect for, other cultures -- including their religions. Um, you have watched TNG, haven't you?
I hate hilljumpers or anyone from the south pretty much.
Geez, so much for peace and tolerance! I'm a Yank myself, but I have friends in the south who are obviously a lot more enlightened than you are.
Who buys a boxed copy of Windows anyway?
Um, people who build their own gaming rigs?
So um, the OS is the car, the radio is Media Player (or viable substitute thereof, eg. Pioneer), the gas is the file format (but it's common to all cars??), the road is the Internet...
No wait, the GPS anti-theft is the Internet...
I mean... wait, Microsoft has a proprietary gasoline format that won't run in other stereos?!
Ok, so if I buy a car from Microsoft and replace the stereo with a Mac, I can't run Linux on it? And I have to pay Ford to drive it on their roads?? And I have to be digitally signed to be the car's driver?!
I'm lost...
Daaamn.... You should be writing EULAs.
:)
Or encryption software.
The lazy folks are on the top not the bottom.
Funny, all the wealthy people I know, at least in my local area, are the hardest-working people around... that's why they're wealthy. They don't sit on their asses, they work hard, start small businesses, save instead of waste, etc. Mind you, not all are "nice", some are ass-hats, but some are quite decent and honest too, pretty much the same spectrum you'd get across any slice of the population.
(Translation: economics!=character)
And no, I am not one of the rich; I work in a gas station, which is almost like being a bartender -- after a few years, you get to know the entire town quite well.
You think if we ended welfare everyone would run out and get a job?
Um, yeah? I also know/have known a lot of people on welfare, and all I can say is some stereotypes are (sometimes) true.
G'head, Troll me, I don't care. I just don't buy into the simplistic, Disneyified "poor=good, rich=evil" mindset; people across economic borders aren't as black-and-white as you'd like to believe. Good and evil know no tax bracket.
In an episode of TOS, the one where the characters are aging, an artificially wrinkled Kirk declares "I'm 34 years old!"
Best reference I can come up with.
...anthalogy series? In spite of the bastardization that Berman has made out of the Trek universe in recent years, I've always thought that the vast number of races and cultures touched upon during the TNG and DS9 years was enough "canon" fodder to last a lifetime of story-telling. So... Why not an anthology series, where the characters are never the same twice. (Think Twilight Zone or Outer Limits, only in Trek-space.) Each episode would tell a small story set somewhere -- hell, ANYwhere -- in the Trek universe, even at different time periods. The four-years war with the Romulans; the humanoid-possessing insectoids from the "Conspiracy" TNG episode (unfinished story!); what *really* happened to Guinen's race when the Borg attacked, and how'd she escape death/assimilation; hell, the potential war stories that could be told about the Cardassian occupation of Bajor are in themselves limitless -- think WWII mini-epics (Bajoran Dirty Dozen?? :)
I've always believed that there are far too many rich ideas in Trek to focus on just one ship or crew. Time to let the idea floodgates open...