Gimp

[Azadre]

I use Photoshop 5 at work and they are mirrors of each other... that being said, I still love using CS but I don't own a license so I don't bother to use it.

 

[Ankka]

I downloaded GIMP and am trying to learn to use it.

The first difficulty came up:

GIMP doesn't seem to knowledge .gifs!

Is this always, or only me?

 

[Dell19]

I'm pretty sure it works with .gifs as I'm sure someone used it to make an animated picture at another site.

 

[Azadre]

Actually, I wouldn't think it works with GIFs using stable. The patch, however, is in because the GIF format is now open.

 

[anarchywrksbest]

I thought the gif plug-in came with newer versions of the GIMP. I can't remember where I got it myself, since that was 2 years ago.

 

[Ankka]

Hmm... wonder where I could get the newer version, then.

I'm not sure mine is...

 

[Ankka]

Found the newest version, I think.

Let's hope this works... it's a bit weird you need to install separately the GTK package and the GIMP itself, but I guess it works fine.

 

[anarchywrksbest]

Well GTK allows it to work in windows since it's origially for linux.

 

[Neomega]

Altavista is bad. People can pay to have their website appear first in the search resaults. Google is far better

Well coming from a company who payed Google to come up first on a search....

I would dare say Google has the same business model. And Google is becoming a monopoly... we are battling them right now.

 

[MarineCorps]

What comapny do you work for?

 

[FireBall]

Well coming from a company who payed Google to come up first on a search....

I would dare say Google has the same business model. And Google is becoming a monopoly... we are battling them right now.

So far, there is nothing wrong with Google's monopoly.

Also, as far as I know, Google's PigeonRank Technology keeps people from stayying on top unless they are referenced by a lot of sites... and not by paying Google....

and who are 'We', anyway?

 

[nonconformist]

I couldn't even dowload and install Gimp

 

[Neomega]

So far, there is nothing wrong with Google's monopoly.

Also, as far as I know, Google's PigeonRank Technology keeps people from stayying on top unless they are referenced by a lot of sites... and not by paying Google....

and who are 'We', anyway?

I am not at liberty to say. But believe me, we payed Google alot of money to come up #1...(six digits a year) even if people were looking for competitors. We got pulled because our competitors are getting scared of us, and started a campaign against us, as there are two big companies, and we are eating up their pie. I suppose it also helped to have a man chairing Google, who once was a director at one of the two big companies.

We are a computer security company.

How do you think Google makes money if companies can not pay them to come out top in searches?

 

[MarineCorps]

Washington State. Deals with computers. minus the security part adn I'd say you work for Microsoft

 

[Neomega]

Washington State. Deals with computers. minus the security part adn I'd say you work for Microsoft

We are a small company of only about 150 employees.

 

[MarineCorps]

We are a small company of only about 150 employees.

Yet you were able to pay Google six figures a year...

 

[Neomega]

Yet you were able to pay Google six figures a year...

They were our main advertising campaign, but now we have started a huge television campaign.

Sorry Google, you didn't want our money, there are other people who did.

 

[MarineCorps]

They were our main advertising campaign, but now we have started a huge television campaign.

Sorry Google, you didn't want our money, there are other people who did.

Still for a small company thats an awful lot of money.

 

[Neomega]

Still for a small company thats an awful lot of money.

Not really, if you consider 150 employess is a payroll around 3 million, 100 computers probably around 1 million, rent for office space around 250,000.....

We do all right. We were a dot-com company during the dot-com bubble, but we survived... and our sales this year has gone through the roof. We are pacing for well above $10 million in revenue this year.

But alas. I digress. All I can say about Gimp is it's OK and I use it at work.

All I can say about Google is buying their stock would be a mistake. They are trying to Disneyfy themselves when they got to where they are by being a completely open system. Now they are making restrictions, and even more mistakenly, monopolitic moves... which could spell lot's of money for lawyers down the road.

 

[MarineCorps]

Not really, if you consider 150 employess is a payroll around 3 million, 100 computers probably around 1 million, rent for office space around 250,000.....

We do all right. We were a dot-com company during the dot-com bubble, but we survived... and our sales this year has gone through the roof. We are pacing for well above $10 million in revenue this year.

But alas. I digress. All I can say about Gimp is it's OK and I use it at work.

Economics has never been my strong point,