Living in an islamic regime as a woman may be sometimes difficult: always wearing headscarf, having not many rights in business and marriage, etc...
But now the regime seems to begin to "kill the minds". Until now, almost every bad islamic regulation could have been reverted under a different government. But reverting the lack of education is impossible.
They are now in the mode of killing the mind and freedom of 50% of their population.
Stop this crazy religious shit.
Works fine (though somewhat slow, maybe 15 fps) on Intel graphics under linux for me. I gotta say I'm getting to like this new era where even GPU drivers work better in linux.
I can recommend the book. I've read it the day it came out. Of course, it's some kind of compilation of the stuff you could already read on Leo's homepage. But anyway: it can't be wrong if you read about the same thing twice.
I love Leos work. Along with Tim Ferris, Randy Gage and George Leonard (wrote the great book "Mastery") he has been one of my most important teachers as an adult.
When in school, I wasn't able to speak 2 complete sentences when explaining something, giving presentations was simply a pain. Today, as a lecturer for different business subjects, I am not only used to talk in front of many people, no, I am even applauded for my entertaining kind of talking. And I simply ENJOY it. I never use Powerpoint and most of the time I even don't have any notes with me.
How I got there? I got aware of my problem. And then I took every possibility along the way to give presentations and to get better. This helped a lot!
Btw, the success with the girls was a nice side effect. While labeled as a geek when I was in school, I have had very nice and very attractive girlfriends since I started to work on my social skills.
So GO OUT and TRY! It is the same as always: you have to do the thing you want to be more successful in!
As a semi-professional nude photographer I have encrypted every hard disk I own, including my laptop's. It's part of my promise to the customers to keep their photos really safe. I am using Ubuntu and LuKs on all my machines because I find it very convenient to have a superb encryption mechanism built in.
As a side note, I do all my picture editing in Gimp. While this is not commom among professional photographers, it contributes in some ways to my landmark style.
Is there a significant style difference between using Gimp and Photoshop? I only know Photoshop, but I've always thought of Gimp as just program for doing basically the same work. I wouldn't think there'd be a difference in the final product.
The most common complaints I've seen are that Gimp isn't Photoshop - meaning PS users who move to it dislike it due to the multi-window UI, 'wrong' key combinations.
I actually used Gimp before PS and from my perspective the only things it really misses are layer groups and layer styles. For PS users there is Gimp Shop[1] which attempts to "deweirdify" the UI to something more reminiscent of PS.
Sadly, this is the reality of OSS, layer groups were first proposed (and accepted as a "good idea") as early as 2002, but actually are supposed to come out in Gimp 2.8, which I think is coming out in 2011?
For a programmer, GIMP is fine for an occasional photo editing job. Just wish, it could do a better job of importing Photoshop files. I know it is more of PS fault not GIMP's, but still.
I am too, not sure why you are being downvoted. I'm interested in finding out what a "landmark style" influenced by using gimp instead of photoshop looks like exactly.
He is being down voted because the first comment of this throwaway account is a boorish redditism asked to someone who just said they value client confidentiality.
Didn't realize the account was made only a few hours ago, so I guess that's not a great sign. I was giving him the benefit of the doubt that he was asking for non-confidential examples of the work out of genuine interest, but maybe that's a little naive on my part.
