Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: RonB Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 07:57:41 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <08d05lx8s4.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <92i0ojhcdssnti21k4k6k4jj62c4l2kvdu@4ax.com> <5062oj93c5n419bd1e8a2bkurjn9vv4akc@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 08:57:41 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a2b8297784047db880545fdd0523f05c"; logging-data="1135106"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/34yve6iRbxdJ2wa4T+ZXO" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ITGahYgxCA/aVao5Yov5fxnu9O8= Bytes: 4145 On 2025-01-11, CrudeSausage wrote: > On 2025-01-11 04:15, RonB wrote: >> On 2025-01-10, CrudeSausage wrote: >>> On 2025-01-10 10:37, DFS wrote: >>>> On 1/10/2025 9:35 AM, CrudeSausage wrote: >>>>> On 2025-01-10 07:55, chrisv wrote: >>>>>> -hh wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> (snip stuff from the same guy who defended censorship because it was >>>>>>> by "private companies" who were being told to do it by the Biden >>>>>>> administration) >>>>>> >>>>>> Some of us value freedom more than others, obviously. >>>>> >>>>> I had a reminder of that yesterday actually. I have a chunk of movies >>>>> ripped from DVDs and Blu-Rays on a portable SSD, and others are >>>>> purchased from the Microsoft Store. If I show a movie to a class from >>>>> the former and a few students were absent, I can upload the movie to >>>>> Teams and they can catch up at their leisure. With the latter, they're >>>>> completely fucked. I am actually mad that I allowed myself to believe >>>>> that it made sense to buy DRM-enabled movies. >>>> >>>> DRM is necessary so the production companies can recoup the $24M ($12M >>>> each) paid to Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie for a few months work on >>>> Barbie, which, apart from the Ahlstrom-like whining about "the >>>> patriarchy", was a good time. >>> >>> I wouldn't know, I don't watch recent movies that much. I like to buy >>> movies I liked back in the day on DVD though. I just got Old School and >>> The Bourne Supremacy. >> >> I didn't like the one Bourne movie I partially watched. That "shaky-camera" >> crap gets on my nerves. (I think it was a Bourne movie with the >> "shaky-camera" disease — if not, my apologies.) >> >> I've been watching the Jesse Stone movies. More my speed these days. > > Well, I was a fan of the Bourne Identity, the Bourne Supremacy and the > Bourne Ultimatum. I even bought Jason Bourne on the Windows movie store > but have yet to watch it. I just like the action. The worst shake-camera > movies I've seen were Transformers and Man of Steel. There, the camera > shakes so much that you have no way of knowing what the heck is going > on. I loved Henry Cavill as Superman but I hated the movie he was in > because of that. Maybe I just saw the part of the Bourne movie (whichever one it was) where they were doing the camera shaking. Wherever I see it, I don't like it. -- “Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien