POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Back to the future : Re: Back to the future [~200KBbu] Server Time
10 Oct 2024 23:20:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Back to the future [~200KBbu]  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 30 Jul 2008 16:54:44
Message: <4890d514$1@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:54:09 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> I don't know about you, but every time *I* look at either the GIMP or
>>> PhotoShop, I can never figure out what magical trick I'm missing that
>>> lets you do the impressive stuff everybody else does. To me, it just
>>> seems to be a small set of pretty simple tools that don't appear to
>>> give you much power to do anything.
>> 
>> ie, they allow you to do the "impossible". ;-)
>> 
>> (which is my point - don't let the limits of what you know - or what
>> humankind collectively knows - define what is possible and what is not)
> 
> And my point - which you seem hell-bent on ignoring - is that there is a
> difference between "we don't know if/how to do this" and "we know for a
> fact that this is impossible". :-P

Well, what fun would it be if I just agreed with you? ;-)

Jim


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