Re: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-28 Thread John Sessoms
From: Igor Roshchin No comments are needed: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10317763-56.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-20 or http://tinyurl.com/ms-poor-ps Tempest in a teapot. Tell me this ... WHICH HEAD was actually comped in? The black guy in the U.S. ad or the white guy in the

Re: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-28 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 8/28/2009 10:31:26 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, jsessoms...@nc.rr.com writes: Tempest in a teapot. Tell me this ... WHICH HEAD was actually comped in? The black guy in the U.S. ad or the white guy in the East European ad? = US ads have as many races as

Re: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-28 Thread Mark Roberts
John Sessoms wrote: From: Igor Roshchin No comments are needed: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10317763-56.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-20 or http://tinyurl.com/ms-poor-ps Tempest in a teapot. That's kind of what I thought. Would anyone have complained if Microsoft had simply

Re: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-27 Thread AlunFoto
Or they'll have someone else do their ads next time. 2009/8/27 Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org: No comments are needed: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10317763-56.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-20 or http://tinyurl.com/ms-poor-ps -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-27 Thread Tim Øsleby
Hm. The face swap had nothing to do with race. It was because the guy was leaning his head towards right. Right is sooo 2008. -- MaritimTim 2009/8/27 Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org: No comments are needed: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10317763-56.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-20

RE: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-27 Thread Desjardins, Steve
:01 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop Hm. The face swap had nothing to do with race. It was because the guy was leaning his head towards right. Right is sooo 2008. -- MaritimTim 2009/8/27 Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org: No comments are needed: http

RE: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-27 Thread Bob W
I think you're missing the point. It's not the photoshopping that people are upset about, it's the racism. Bob You'd think a company that big could just take another shot. These days things like that get picked up with too high a probability to mess with them. [...] No comments are

Re: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-27 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 8/27/2009 4:12:15 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, alunf...@gmail.com writes: Or they'll have someone else do their ads next time. 2009/8/27 Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org: No comments are needed: http://

Re: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-27 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 8/27/2009 11:23:37 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, p...@web-options.com writes: I think you're missing the point. It's not the photoshopping that people are upset about, it's the racism. Bob = I think we all get that Bob. It's pretty obvious. It's just not a good

Re: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-27 Thread P. J. Alling
I don't know perhaps it's both, since combined the make the Racism even more evident. Bob W wrote: I think you're missing the point. It's not the photoshopping that people are upset about, it's the racism. Bob You'd think a company that big could just take another shot. These days

Re: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-27 Thread Igor Roshchin
Thu Aug 27 13:33:14 CDT 2009 Eactivist wrote: In a message dated 8/27/2009 11:23:37 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, pdml at web-options.com writes: I think you're missing the point. It's not the photoshopping that people are upset about, it's the racism. Bob = I think we all

Re: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-27 Thread Adam Maas
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Igor Roshchins...@komkon.org wrote: What she said. On another hand, after thinking about it further, I am not sure if it can be classified as racism. I am not even talking about distinction of racism and xenophobia (or prejudice), although one can argue that

Re: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-26 Thread Eactivist
In a message dated 8/26/2009 5:34:50 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, s...@komkon.org writes: No comments are needed: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10317763-56.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=25 47-1_3-0-20 or http://tinyurl.com/ms-poor-ps What an odd thing to do. Marnie

Re: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-26 Thread P. J. Alling
I really don't see how any comment I would make would be appropriate, but MS isn't the first nor will they be the last to do this kind of thing. Igor Roshchin wrote: No comments are needed: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10317763-56.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-20 or

Re: OT - Microsoft cannot Photoshop

2009-08-26 Thread Ken Waller
Not a very good cut paste at all. Notice the lighting direction on the middle face vs the face on the RH side. Kenneth Waller http://www.tinyurl.com/272u2f - Original Message - From: Igor Roshchin s...@komkon.org To: PDML@pdml.net Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:34 PM Subject: OT