I know, I know, it's years old, it's practically as old as what the egyptians built. I know, I know, I get my a** kicked by pre-teens when I go online for just about any FPS (including Solitaire. Oh, wait...) -- I'm just sooooo old and lousy.

But still, Carmack is (a) god! It's a kick-ass game, written by kick-ass, performance-aware (fanatic, even) professionals. It sure as h*ck has value, also today!

Amen to that! I do a good deal of amateur photo shooting + editing, and although I *really* want to get rid of Windows and go pure OSS, I find that sometimes Photoshop has some more advanced features that I need. Yes, adjustment layers, for one... ;-) (On a side note: I need Nikon Capture as well. Still haven't found anything OSS that will convert RAWs well enough, including dcraw.)

But still, The GIMP is sufficient for perhaps 80% of the work I do on photos, so it is by no means a poor piece of software; far from it.