Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 14, 2006 03:38 AM
I don't know when Posada tried to install GIMP but it was a breeze when I did so around 3/31/2006. I scratched my head at the DL choices, DL'd and installed the GIMP windows installer, ran it... It said I needed to install gtk.. I said "Ah hah" DL'ed that installer and I was done. This really wasn't a big deal at all.
I don't think Posada is being dissed by the author although now that *you* bring it up, my honest reaction was "Wow, Posada's a dork if installing GIMP was a big stretch."
But I think Byfield hits the nail on the head... if you read the article.. I love the fact that I can so readily stand on the shoulders of giants and play with all their cool toys (like GIMP) that it never occurs to me to be offended that I have to invest 180 extra seconds installing a second package. Probably Posada is less a dork than just has really, really different values.
And, in fact, sitting back I guess I'm not really surprised that a bunch of professional English majors are nearly computer illiterate.
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Re:don't diss people
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 14, 2006 03:38 AMI don't think Posada is being dissed by the author although now that *you* bring it up, my honest reaction was "Wow, Posada's a dork if installing GIMP was a big stretch."
But I think Byfield hits the nail on the head... if you read the article.. I love the fact that I can so readily stand on the shoulders of giants and play with all their cool toys (like GIMP) that it never occurs to me to be offended that I have to invest 180 extra seconds installing a second package. Probably Posada is less a dork than just has really, really different values.
And, in fact, sitting back I guess I'm not really surprised that a bunch of professional English majors are nearly computer illiterate.
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