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Comment Re:Photoshop (Score 1) 242

"I am not in one of the niche areas that Photoshop serves and serves well so i dont give a damn. If I don't need it no-one does",

No, actually some of us do use some special features.

Like Spot colors for specialized metallic ink or packaging that saves load of money by using one pre-mixed ink plate.

Or bizarro file formats (If you think GIMP is going to open a file from an Ultrasound machine you think wrong)

Or very precise integration with the color profiles and mapping between your screens RGB and Indesign CMYK based printing workflow for accurate printing results. Hint: Printing, as in serious Printing, uses way different processes to render those nice colors than the RGB phosphors in you screen. they don't match. At all. Photoshop makes it work.

There ARE serious applications for photo software outside viewing and editing your porn in RGB out there.

Is PhotoShop a program for the average Joe? No.
Is a 25 Ton Semi-Truck a car for the average Joe? Neither.

But for some reason the Average Joe knows he does not need that truck but he only heard of Photoshop and then gets upset by the fact that he uses a hard-core high-end professional tool for professionals.

That does not make the tool garbage. That makes it an industry standard tool that needs all the bells and whistles used in real industry outside of you computer basement. I am pretty sure Adobe also thinks the thing is overloaded but they have a wide spectrum of clients.

Just like there are cars that suit your needs there are photo editing apps that suit your needs. Photoshop is almost surely not that tool.

Get out of your moms basement

Comment Re:Who? (Score 0) 85

He a typical nerd left loonie who thinks that dissing anyone who uses or makes money makes him great for "sticking it to the man". Same sort of guy who think his users are nuts, laughs at people who do not use leet command line UIs and jacks of to ASCII Art Porn in his mother basement because he cannot interact with real humans. And only Open Source ASCII Art Porn Written by other nerds in Vi. AI is definitely not on, and if it is closed source... wel it involves money so it is not leeeeet enough.

Comment Re:hostility (Score 1) 70

The whole Cold War was about the Soviets/Russians being able to just completely change your precious country into radioactive glass with people living in the Stone Age. Ok, glass age.

“Take over” is. It the point. “Eliminate rivals” is the point. And I can ensure you the Russians have threatened, have tried and and will again. The US, believe it or not, is not a hermetically sealed block. It depends on external inputs and very definitely depends on other countries to buy your exports. And the Russians are most assuredly threaten your customers. They threatened to nuke the Chinese outright in the late 60s.

And then there is the election interference and Russian money in politics. The Russian mob bailed Trump out after he bankrupted a casino. Twice. Buying politicians is not the same as boots in the ground, no. But it most assuredly comes asymptotically close to “take over”

They also distract your attention and resources. The whole mess in the Middle East was made much much worse when the Soviets invaded Irans weak neighbor, Afghanistan, in 1979. The plan was to exploit the Iranian revolution and move their forces closer to the oil fields. Before that the US was not all that interested in the Persian Gulf. After that they had the entire 5th fleet based there. That war ultimately ended in 9/11 because the US was sort of forced to give money to the Jihadis to fight the Russians.

Comment Re: Exactly what every IT dept needs (Score -1, Troll) 69

Red. Frakking. Mine?

Sitting your moms basement looking at ASCII Art Porn and whining that the boobs are not open-source, written with Vi by other nerds does not qualify you as a UI engineer. And yet... these people wrote RedMine claiming that it is good because "ITS FREE!!!". Do you know what else is free? Syphilis. I don't want that either.

Seriously, Redmine is the ultimate expression of the concept of "Hack Job by Linux Nerds who think UI Design is for La-Di-Da College Types"

Redmine sucks donkeyballs.

Comment Re:Anyone and everyone mentioning AI (Score 1) 61

This. Hint for them: probabilistic Monte Carlo algorithms are not AI and they have been around forever.

In fact, the Metropolis algorithm was develops by Nicolas Metropolis in the 50s to model neutron flux in thermonuclear explosions. It is now widely used to model photon flux in you favorite movie CGI so in a way nuclear weapons and you beloved Netflix shows have AI inside of them if you go by that lame definition

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