I don't really agree with that solution. It seems more like an excuse to keep things as they are rather than considering the industry as a whole. Again, I don't think GIMP needs to be GPL Photoshop, but it should bring itself more in line with professional suites as a whole if it wants to be considered a good free alternative by the masses at large. There are legitimate reasons to go from Photoshop to GIMP or to another package.
Starting out with GIMP could be a mild mistake for those aspiring to actually get into the industry. It presents such a drastically different workflow and unnecessarily different terminology that it will make it that much more difficult to use other software out there.
As for blender, obviously those who are used to it will be efficient with it. You can take the most cumbersome software and there will be people who wield it like a pro after enough time. The problem is it does not lend itself well to those who want to learn it, or to those who attempt to use it instead of a suite they're used to. The problem is it's unnecessarily different. When you have a big enough market for specific software, the various software tends to do more or less the same thing in a similar fashion. Making the UI distinct in name and functionality from these other solutions adds unnecessary complexity to learning. They're not "stealing" photoshop's interface if they name or do things in a similar fashion to photoshop because the way photoshop names things is pretty much industry standard terminology.
But I digress; this is an argument that will likely go on until the end of time. It's good to know when to get out. I shall do just that.
The problem with NDA's in this sort of situation is they might prevent a developer from perusing his own preexisting ideas merely because the idea discussed in the NDA is too broad and overlaps with his own interests. Once that happens you're screwed.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that NDA's are entirely worthless. They have their place, but over discussing potentially vague ideas in the highest level of discussion? No thanks.
There is more than just Photoshop and Gimp, you know. It's equally annoying when people try to claim everyone just wants GIMP to be a GPL'd Photoshop (I won't lie, many do, but not everyone). There are a number of image editing suites that are used professionally and they all follow very similar designs. Yes, it's true that at their heart a lot of them do in fact take their inspiration from Photoshop because they want a piece of the industry pie, but when you have the GIMP being an outsider from this general design shared between basically all professional image editing suites, you can't complain when people don't like how different it is.
I think the GIMP has been making some good strides towards becoming more in line with what we all expect, but it still has a ways to go.
His journal is certainly an interesting read as well as the source. Shame it costs money for the whole thing, but I'm interested enough that I think I'll pick it up.
Wait, so you're telling me your first trade math teacher marked correct answers as wrong, and had to check the answer key to determine if you were marked incorrectly, when all first grade math tends to involve is 2 digit addition and subtraction?
Honestly, I've heard of bad teachers but your personal anecdote is setting off my bullshit detector.
Man, thinking back... I remember when Geocities offered a whopping 2 megs of storage, and then Angelfire came around, boasting an amazing 5 megs. When Geocities matched the 5 meg space, Angelfire upgraded to 10 megs. Good times.
I'm no slow adopter of new versions of Windows, but even I'm a bit weary of upgrading to Windows 8. I think Microsoft is taking too much focus away from what desktops are for and putting too much focus on tablets. I want my desktop to behave like a desktop, not a tablet, and even if I disable the whole Metro thing, there's certain changes that were made that I'm not comfortable with.
The reason they give so much extra space for gmail is because most people won't even use a tenth of that space. Hell, I've had a gmail account since the service came out and I think of my like 9 gigs of space they offer, I'm still only like 1% full. I'm a heavy emailer, I just don't often need to send or receive large attachments.
Google banks on the fact that very few people put lots of data into their emails, even if some people do crazy things like use gmail as a file store, it's still worth it to advertise that amount of space to the masses. It's basically just a marketing ploy. A successful (and useful to end users) ploy, but a marketing ploy none the less.
However with a file storage service, people are far more inclined to actually utilize the space they are given. For example, I've got 5 gigs of space on Dropbox, and I'm already using 35% of it. Google will be less inclined to provide much more space for free than 5GB because more people are more inclined to actually use that space.
Does anyone really think Dropbox considers its individual users important enough to attempt to break their truecrypt volumes? I mean there's wearing a tinfoil hat and there's wearing a full tinfoil body suit.
The price for a 2TB hard drive should only be $50, not $51.20 (sorry, don't have the euro symbol), since the size of drives have never been listed in base 2.
As for the topic at hand, that seems really crazy. That's about half the price of the hard drive in taxes alone.
How does this stop someone from buying a TV for "the big game" and returning it after they're done? So they can only do this once every 90 days? Wouldn't a store get wise to this early on if the same guy was buying a TV every week and returning it the next day and simply deny doing business with him? Couldn't they just have a friend buy it anyway?
This policy doesn't seem to solve the problems it's publicly stating it will solve. I wonder if there's an alternative motive here that Best Buy isn't letting on.
The mass market hasn't rejected 3D either. Many of us did, sure, but if there wasn't lots of profit to be had in it then they would not still be making them.
To be perfectly honest, I never understood the hatred over this. What did people really expect? Was BioWare supposed to hire some well known supermodel to be Tali or something?
I've been pretty upset with ME3 with the rest of them but this particular instance just feels like people are now just looking for any way they can to rag on Bioware for the game.
I totally agree with you. I don't think it's acceptable for employers to act this way, and there are a lot of good ones out there. The problem is when you're stuck at a job with one who is, with limited prospects of employment elsewhere either due to the economy or what have you.
It happens, yes. I am not being delusional. Many employers practically expect you to request exemption from jury duty, unofficially, of course. They won't just up and fire you for going, but your willingness to leave when you're needed when it's so incredibly easy to get out of jury duty gives them added reason not to keep you when reviews come around.
It's not particularly hard to find cases of this on the internet.
Many people cannot afford jury duty. The $40 a day does not cut it for many people. Of course I would "weasel" out of jury duty if it put my finances or employment in danger, especially if it was a trial between Google and Oracle, both with more money than they can throw away wrestled in lengthy trials. Employers may be forced to give you time off for jury duty, but when shit is hitting the fan at work, and even when it's not, taking that time off does not look good for you and your prospects of keeping your job. You try telling your employer that you're sorry the company is in one of the biggest crunch time periods in its history and you're one of the pivotal cogs in the machine, but you're going to be gone for a few weeks and see how long you stay employed there. It doesn't even need to be that hectic to attract the ire of your boss.
Jury duty as it exists right now is a load of crap. Jurors should be properly reimbursed for their time if jury duty is compulsory.
You sure you don't still work at Gamestop? "Gently used" and "lightly used" are not words I would use to describe the games they have tried to sell me used. I've seen even new titles (few weeks old) $5 less than new have a huge gash in it.
Which bring sup my next question: Does Gamestop even attempt to test their used games to make sure they even boot? Because the game in question I just mentioned wouldn't even boot.
As an American, this is exactly how I feel. We're a moderately new entity in the world. We don't really have the kind of history to use ourselves in a fantasy setting, except for the Wild West. The Wild West is great and all, but that's more about gun slinging and cowboys. When we want fantasy (castles, dragons, etc), we have to look where it would be appropriate. Medieval Europe is the place. As for language, well, it's true that British English is a tad foreign to us and otherworldly, I think it has more to do with just being realistic to the setting, while still being in a language we can understand. We can't have some medieval castle with dragons and everyone speaking with a Brooklyn accent, as humorous as that would be. Even if we're not going for true to life (dragons, etc), it helps to have at least some realistic consistency.
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I don't really agree with that solution. It seems more like an excuse to keep things as they are rather than considering the industry as a whole. Again, I don't think GIMP needs to be GPL Photoshop, but it should bring itself more in line with professional suites as a whole if it wants to be considered a good free alternative by the masses at large. There are legitimate reasons to go from Photoshop to GIMP or to another package.
Starting out with GIMP could be a mild mistake for those aspiring to actually get into the industry. It presents such a drastically different workflow and unnecessarily different terminology that it will make it that much more difficult to use other software out there.
As for blender, obviously those who are used to it will be efficient with it. You can take the most cumbersome software and there will be people who wield it like a pro after enough time. The problem is it does not lend itself well to those who want to learn it, or to those who attempt to use it instead of a suite they're used to. The problem is it's unnecessarily different. When you have a big enough market for specific software, the various software tends to do more or less the same thing in a similar fashion. Making the UI distinct in name and functionality from these other solutions adds unnecessary complexity to learning. They're not "stealing" photoshop's interface if they name or do things in a similar fashion to photoshop because the way photoshop names things is pretty much industry standard terminology.
But I digress; this is an argument that will likely go on until the end of time. It's good to know when to get out. I shall do just that.
The problem with NDA's in this sort of situation is they might prevent a developer from perusing his own preexisting ideas merely because the idea discussed in the NDA is too broad and overlaps with his own interests. Once that happens you're screwed.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that NDA's are entirely worthless. They have their place, but over discussing potentially vague ideas in the highest level of discussion? No thanks.
There is more than just Photoshop and Gimp, you know. It's equally annoying when people try to claim everyone just wants GIMP to be a GPL'd Photoshop (I won't lie, many do, but not everyone). There are a number of image editing suites that are used professionally and they all follow very similar designs. Yes, it's true that at their heart a lot of them do in fact take their inspiration from Photoshop because they want a piece of the industry pie, but when you have the GIMP being an outsider from this general design shared between basically all professional image editing suites, you can't complain when people don't like how different it is.
I think the GIMP has been making some good strides towards becoming more in line with what we all expect, but it still has a ways to go.
His journal is certainly an interesting read as well as the source. Shame it costs money for the whole thing, but I'm interested enough that I think I'll pick it up.
Wait, so you're telling me your first trade math teacher marked correct answers as wrong, and had to check the answer key to determine if you were marked incorrectly, when all first grade math tends to involve is 2 digit addition and subtraction?
Honestly, I've heard of bad teachers but your personal anecdote is setting off my bullshit detector.
Man, thinking back... I remember when Geocities offered a whopping 2 megs of storage, and then Angelfire came around, boasting an amazing 5 megs. When Geocities matched the 5 meg space, Angelfire upgraded to 10 megs. Good times.
Edit: I suppose I was misinformed about SkyDrive's availability. Appears it doesn't require Windows 8.
Probably because it requires Windows 8?
I'm no slow adopter of new versions of Windows, but even I'm a bit weary of upgrading to Windows 8. I think Microsoft is taking too much focus away from what desktops are for and putting too much focus on tablets. I want my desktop to behave like a desktop, not a tablet, and even if I disable the whole Metro thing, there's certain changes that were made that I'm not comfortable with.
The reason they give so much extra space for gmail is because most people won't even use a tenth of that space. Hell, I've had a gmail account since the service came out and I think of my like 9 gigs of space they offer, I'm still only like 1% full. I'm a heavy emailer, I just don't often need to send or receive large attachments.
Google banks on the fact that very few people put lots of data into their emails, even if some people do crazy things like use gmail as a file store, it's still worth it to advertise that amount of space to the masses. It's basically just a marketing ploy. A successful (and useful to end users) ploy, but a marketing ploy none the less.
However with a file storage service, people are far more inclined to actually utilize the space they are given. For example, I've got 5 gigs of space on Dropbox, and I'm already using 35% of it. Google will be less inclined to provide much more space for free than 5GB because more people are more inclined to actually use that space.
Why would it be anything but a 404? The service hasn't even been released yet.
Does anyone really think Dropbox considers its individual users important enough to attempt to break their truecrypt volumes? I mean there's wearing a tinfoil hat and there's wearing a full tinfoil body suit.
The price for a 2TB hard drive should only be $50, not $51.20 (sorry, don't have the euro symbol), since the size of drives have never been listed in base 2.
As for the topic at hand, that seems really crazy. That's about half the price of the hard drive in taxes alone.
By not following through with their legal efforts to obtain said injunction?
How does this stop someone from buying a TV for "the big game" and returning it after they're done? So they can only do this once every 90 days? Wouldn't a store get wise to this early on if the same guy was buying a TV every week and returning it the next day and simply deny doing business with him? Couldn't they just have a friend buy it anyway?
This policy doesn't seem to solve the problems it's publicly stating it will solve. I wonder if there's an alternative motive here that Best Buy isn't letting on.
He's just trying to be edgy, which is pretty much the case for almost anyone suggesting something was overrated. Don't pay them any mind.
The mass market hasn't rejected 3D either. Many of us did, sure, but if there wasn't lots of profit to be had in it then they would not still be making them.
So you mean they haven't figured out how to digitize cake over the internet? What a let down.
To be perfectly honest, I never understood the hatred over this. What did people really expect? Was BioWare supposed to hire some well known supermodel to be Tali or something?
I've been pretty upset with ME3 with the rest of them but this particular instance just feels like people are now just looking for any way they can to rag on Bioware for the game.
A new bel-air for a new age?
I totally agree with you. I don't think it's acceptable for employers to act this way, and there are a lot of good ones out there. The problem is when you're stuck at a job with one who is, with limited prospects of employment elsewhere either due to the economy or what have you.
It happens, yes. I am not being delusional. Many employers practically expect you to request exemption from jury duty, unofficially, of course. They won't just up and fire you for going, but your willingness to leave when you're needed when it's so incredibly easy to get out of jury duty gives them added reason not to keep you when reviews come around.
It's not particularly hard to find cases of this on the internet.
Many people cannot afford jury duty. The $40 a day does not cut it for many people. Of course I would "weasel" out of jury duty if it put my finances or employment in danger, especially if it was a trial between Google and Oracle, both with more money than they can throw away wrestled in lengthy trials. Employers may be forced to give you time off for jury duty, but when shit is hitting the fan at work, and even when it's not, taking that time off does not look good for you and your prospects of keeping your job. You try telling your employer that you're sorry the company is in one of the biggest crunch time periods in its history and you're one of the pivotal cogs in the machine, but you're going to be gone for a few weeks and see how long you stay employed there. It doesn't even need to be that hectic to attract the ire of your boss.
Jury duty as it exists right now is a load of crap. Jurors should be properly reimbursed for their time if jury duty is compulsory.
You sure you don't still work at Gamestop? "Gently used" and "lightly used" are not words I would use to describe the games they have tried to sell me used. I've seen even new titles (few weeks old) $5 less than new have a huge gash in it.
Which bring sup my next question: Does Gamestop even attempt to test their used games to make sure they even boot? Because the game in question I just mentioned wouldn't even boot.
As an American, this is exactly how I feel. We're a moderately new entity in the world. We don't really have the kind of history to use ourselves in a fantasy setting, except for the Wild West. The Wild West is great and all, but that's more about gun slinging and cowboys. When we want fantasy (castles, dragons, etc), we have to look where it would be appropriate. Medieval Europe is the place. As for language, well, it's true that British English is a tad foreign to us and otherworldly, I think it has more to do with just being realistic to the setting, while still being in a language we can understand. We can't have some medieval castle with dragons and everyone speaking with a Brooklyn accent, as humorous as that would be. Even if we're not going for true to life (dragons, etc), it helps to have at least some realistic consistency.
There's practically no merit to a post consisting of nothing but the cliché "[citation needed]" response either way.