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xiota
wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 09:45
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How does a word have nearly opposite meanings? ("spirit, vigor, or ambition" vs "a limp")
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Graphics, Icons, Mouse, Pointers.
If your friends have dirty minds -- or, more accurately, the sort of dirty minds that think that sex is something to laugh at -- then I hardly think that's Ubuntu's fault, is it?
Keep the GIMP; find some new friends.
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XSP
wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 10:02
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I was just trying to figure out where he was getting his definition from.
GIMP stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Wikipedia quote here:
GIMP originally stood for General Image Manipulation Program. Its creators, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, initially started GIMP as a semester-long project for a class at the University of California, Berkeley in 1995. Both were integral members of the Experimental Computing Facility, a student club at Berkeley. In 1997, after both Kimball and Mattis had graduated from Berkeley, the name was changed to the GNU Image Manipulation Program when it became an official part of the GNU Project.
The more you know...
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glibik
wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 10:13
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leather clad sex slave
Cybercod: You obviously move in very different
social circles from mine. I'm thinking, maybe
I should be thankful for that. :-\
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I do remember Heineken R&D once came up with the brand "Master Beer" which didn't make it in Dutch speaking countries for obvious reasons.
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jespdj
wrote on the 14 Mar 08 at 13:31
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English is not my native language, but GIMP = "leather clad sex slaves"???
I've never heard or read that anywhere before I saw this idea, and I don't think that the majority of users has this association with the name GIMP.
GIMP is a very well-known name, renaming it would mean throwing the value of that away.
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Glad I don't know what a "gimp" is or what it means.
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Huh? native english speaker. Well versed in sexual connotations. never heard of that one. I always think of a limp. you know, one of the actual textbook definitions. granted still not something good to think about a program.
I don't think the majority of people are going to be thinking of "sex slaves". maybe just regional slang?
aha.
(3) A sex slave or submissive, usually male, as popularlized by the movie Pulp Fiction.
never saw or heard of that movie. thats my problem.
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Cybercod
wrote on the 15 Mar 08 at 05:29
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Good movie. Watch it.
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spyyder
wrote on the 16 Mar 08 at 16:20
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Rename to "Photoshack"
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I think it's a damaging trend to obsessively avoid any name that has any sort of negative connotation or slur attached to it. If the connotation is strong enough, changing the name may be healthy for the product named; however, this habit only reinforces the public's perception that any reference to a slur was intentional. While negative connotations and slurs are definitely a social factor in naming products that should be respected, in my mind the greater danger is in letting the walls of acceptability confine what is considered acceptable. An inflexible society is a short-lived society. That is observable from history.
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glotz
wrote on the 4 Apr 08 at 03:24
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Yes, yes I do.
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