[Glastonbury] rattle & roll /Flash & SQL & PHP

Fri Jul 25 13:29:00 2003

Hi steve & Martin

Thanx for backing me up there steve - u sussed it. I was reflecting the general 
attitude i've met in some small part of the design world regarding GIMP - that 
Photoshop, being an industry standard at the moment (though not necessarily in 
the film world etc) is the be all and end all; and that GIMP receives a certain 
amount of disdain. Currently looking into GIMP has shown me that it is very 
powerful, and offers a great great  amount and many alternatives to Pshop, and 
that there is a huge amount available in it, currently and yet to come. Its 
only limitation which is acknowledged is the lack of pre-press facilities (i.e. 
CMYK) but i'm sure that there's a few geniuses out there who will resolve this 
and create a plugin / code which will make this available. That'll be the 
day...Let it rest now... 

Also because its open & free means that a poor man like me can use it freely 
without the mock shadow of licenses & cost lurking behind me...

Anyway, i too like to play devil's advocate with words and was conscious of 
what i was writing... and the advancement of LINUX & applications wouldn't get 
anywhere without the emotive and intellectual drive behind it, so cheers 
martin...peace.

Theres a site people may be interested to look at - 
www.balloonsender.co.uk. 
This uses Flash in dialogue with SQL and PHP, which is another option. But I 
guess, unless Flash is used in LINUX (via Crossover or something), it must have 
been done in Windows so that defeats the object a bit!

Duncan

Quoting Martin WHEELER <mwheeler@startext.co.uk>:

> On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, s~TV wrote:
> 
> > duncan was quoting the mindset you wish to flame martin ~ not giving his
> > personal opinion.
>  . . .
> > you really need to accept that he was commending GIMP and wants to learn
> > more.
> 
> Of course I do -- you really need to get used to my (very) heavy-handed
> sense of humour / verbal style.  I'm actually a very placid Buddhist
> type physically -- I just have a wicked way with words, which I exercise
> outrageously, and without restraint.  [As some may already have
> noticed in other fora.]  It comes from a professional lifetime of
> winding up students to near nervous breakdown in tutorials -- testing
> to destruction their awareness of the implications of the words they're
> using.  Read it, and totally ignore it if it hurts -- but if it makes
> you think, so much the better.
> There isn't really an ounce of malice in me -- just a great deal of
> verbal acuity, working overtime.
> (And I hope Duncan was aware of this.  I'm not a very difficult person
> to suss.)
> 
> 
> > i see no reason why you should be rattled by his comments.
> 
> <grin>  I'm an absolute stickler for jumping on anything that could
> possibly be construed as a "thoughtless comment".  [see above]
> It's now second nature.
> 
> 
> > what with martin? violence never solved anything.
> 
> Who's proposing violence?  My (extreme, at times) 'violence' of verbal
> style is intended to stimulate *thought* -- NOT physical reaction.
> I'm just too thoroughly lazy for anything like that.
> 
> 
> > that is why i need your (the public's) help to write to the press and
> > tell them what is so unique about St Dunstan's using Free Software.
> 
> Well, I did make an offer to Christian, but I guess my writing style put
> him off!
> 
> With tongue well in cheek,
> 
> Thoroughly Unrepentant Arrogant Git, of Glastonbury
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