On 12/10/2009 3:43 AM, Marcello Romani wrote:
> David B Teague ha scritto:
>> Charles Marcus wrote:
>> Shouting the name of a program and its type when the recipient has no
>> knowledge of what that means is a waste of energy typing.

Sometimes its a form of emphasizing something that is intended to nudge
them to do a little research. That is how I meant it, sorry for the
confusion.

>> Please spend a few words saying what this means in a way that
>> explains why that makes deleting a symbol difficult and why that
>> doesn't make the program useless.

I thought that is what my last sentence:

"If I understand correctly (not an expert), vector graphics are
essentially just visual representations of mathematical expressions."

did...

>> Now tell me in a few words what the hell Draw DOES so I can understand
>> why "erase" is so foreign to it.

Draw DOES VECTOR GRAPHICS
<Charles ducks as David throws a brick at his head> ;)
 - and google will do a much better job elaborating on what that means
than I can do.

>>> GIMP is a RASTER GRAPHICS program. Supposedly it does (or did) have some
>>> very limited support for vector graphics, but thats not its purpose.

>> Again, yelling the name of a program doesn't help.

No one here is paid to do your homework for you. The questions you are
asking are general in nature.

I was trying to get you to say to yourself something like "Hmmm, maybe
those words are in all caps because they are important - wonder what
google has to say about them?", then follow through and google them,
like this:

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=vector+vs+raster

>> Please characterize, without shouting, a Raster Graphic program,
>> and why it is so different from a vector graphics program that it
>> allows a graphical element to be removed. And don't yell. I'm
>> ignorant, not stupid. Besides, shouting doesn't help the stupid or
>> the ignorant.

Context is everything. In this case, the caps were NOT used to shout,
they were used for EMPHASIS. Sometimes I emphasize things with caps, and
sometimes I do it with 'quotes', or *asterisks*. Depends on what time of
day it is, how much coffee I've had, and whether or not it is raining
outside.

I'm having fun today - are you?

> I totally agree with you that yelling doesn't help anyone.
> But you should take that capital letters as a hint: you're in fact
> asking someone to do your homework.

See? Someone got it... ;)

-- 

Best regards,

Charles

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