Comments on: At SxSW http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2006/03/11/at-sxsw scratched tallies on the prison wall Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:57:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: as days pass by » Blog Archive » Ahhhhhh http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2006/03/11/at-sxsw/comment-page-1#comment-70703 as days pass by » Blog Archive » Ahhhhhh Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:15:31 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/?p=1147#comment-70703 [...] Steve and the gang are at South by Southwest and I’m not. However, they bought a beer and kept my place free anyway. What a bunch of heroes. Nice one. Sorry I can’t be there with you. [...] [...] Steve and the gang are at South by Southwest and I’m not. However, they bought a beer and kept my place free anyway. What a bunch of heroes. Nice one. Sorry I can’t be there with you. [...]

]]> By: sil http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2006/03/11/at-sxsw/comment-page-1#comment-6453 sil Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:29:41 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/?p=1147#comment-6453 And I quote, "I’m not convinced that this argument is any good, but it may help to illustrate the point." The point I was illustrating is that if you want Photoshop on an Intel Mac, and you don't want to run in emulation mode, you are shit out of luck because Adobe don't want to compile it and you don't have the source. With the Gimp, you do. Whether the two things are identical is irrelevant to this discussion. In practice, it probably means that if you're an artist you shouldn't buy a MacBook Pro at all yet. Go buy Fluendo's MP3 licence and Linux stuff will work with MP3s too, just as happily. DVDs: hassle Fluendo to come up with a licence. Then again, how many people will pay for it? And I quote, “I’m not convinced that this argument is any good, but it may help to illustrate the point.” The point I was illustrating is that if you want Photoshop on an Intel Mac, and you don’t want to run in emulation mode, you are shit out of luck because Adobe don’t want to compile it and you don’t have the source. With the Gimp, you do. Whether the two things are identical is irrelevant to this discussion. In practice, it probably means that if you’re an artist you shouldn’t buy a MacBook Pro at all yet.

Go buy Fluendo’s MP3 licence and Linux stuff will work with MP3s too, just as happily. DVDs: hassle Fluendo to come up with a licence. Then again, how many people will pay for it?

]]> By: Aquarion http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2006/03/11/at-sxsw/comment-page-1#comment-6446 Aquarion Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:09:54 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/?p=1147#comment-6446 Okay, so the argument in favour of using the Gimp relies upon something demonstratably not true, which is that the Gimp is actually a valid replacement for Photoshop. It isn't. And this isn't just me, whose design skills aren't wonderful. We tried an experiment. We hired three new developers. We put all of them on Ubuntu. One is doing pure code, and is happy on Ubuntu, one is doing flash type things, and is moving to windows. The third moved to Mac after two weeks of trying to learn the Gimp enough to do what he needed to do in Photoshop. Him (And me, I'm support contact one in this) tried to get Gimp to do what he could do in Photoshop in a couple of minutes and it took *hours*. Plus, getting Photoshop to save to GIF? iTunes to encode to MP3? Playing DVDs? Out of the box. I realise this is mostly *because* OS X has a large company behind it, but still. I look forward to ripping your recent discussion on LR about OS X's percieved evilness to tiny little pieces as well. Have fun at SXSW. Git. Okay, so the argument in favour of using the Gimp relies upon something demonstratably not true, which is that the Gimp is actually a valid replacement for Photoshop.

It isn’t. And this isn’t just me, whose design skills aren’t wonderful. We tried an experiment.

We hired three new developers. We put all of them on Ubuntu. One is doing pure code, and is happy on Ubuntu, one is doing flash type things, and is moving to windows. The third moved to Mac after two weeks of trying to learn the Gimp enough to do what he needed to do in Photoshop. Him (And me, I’m support contact one in this) tried to get Gimp to do what he could do in Photoshop in a couple of minutes and it took *hours*.

Plus, getting Photoshop to save to GIF? iTunes to encode to MP3? Playing DVDs? Out of the box. I realise this is mostly *because* OS X has a large company behind it, but still.

I look forward to ripping your recent discussion on LR about OS X’s percieved evilness to tiny little pieces as well. Have fun at SXSW. Git.

]]> By: Rob http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2006/03/11/at-sxsw/comment-page-1#comment-6114 Rob Mon, 13 Mar 2006 16:03:28 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/?p=1147#comment-6114 If you see someone called Matt Web, tell him Rob says hello. Think he's going, not sure. If you see someone called Matt Web, tell him Rob says hello. Think he’s going, not sure.

]]> By: Steel http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2006/03/11/at-sxsw/comment-page-1#comment-6077 Steel Sun, 12 Mar 2006 04:04:20 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/days/?p=1147#comment-6077 one question - are these blogs crawled by google well. I have a similar blog designed by beccary of wordpress. Thanks one question - are these blogs crawled by google well. I have a similar blog designed by beccary of wordpress.

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