Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1 Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 13:12:16 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <366b4ad1-4849-d7a9-cade-67d1eba035c3@example.net> <35a09fa5-08b1-8121-51c7-28d3aac1cd0f@example.net> <3002e7b9-095e-c292-1202-b151f7776587@example.net> <8b262a1f-507f-ef10-e4d3-a981dca5b7d1@example.net> <21409652-159c-6d4f-8ddc-b42bae2236cb@example.net> <7c4f2445-8243-09d3-0611-545163bd2549@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2124406"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63852 On Sun, 5 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 12:28:09 +0100, D wrote: > >> Stephenson used to be great in his youth (Snowcrash, Diamond age, >> Cryptonomicon) but has gotten worse as he has gotten older. His books >> have expanded needlessly and he has gotten more woke as well. >> >> I think it is due to financial incentives. > > I liked 'Reamde' and 'Termination Shock' wasn't too bad. 'Polostan' didn't > capture me, certainly not as the start of a series of relatively expensive > offerings to complete the story line. I don't mind series. Mackey > Chandler's 'April' series was 14 books. Of course it helps that they were > all kindleunlimited so I wasn't paying $5 a pop. Franklin Horton's > 'Borrowed World' is up to 11 now. I try to avoid series, and if I read one, ideally no more than 3 parts. I simply don't have the time. =( > I'd asked Fran Porretto about kindleunlimited and how that works compared > to outright purchases. He went off to find out but I never heard more. He > doesn't do series per se so I wondered if buying the books put a few more > bucks in his piggybank. I spoke with a science fiction author on a mailinglist I'm a member of, and he said, for the love of god, never write a book because you expect to earn money on it. Apparently it is not the royal road to riches. ;) I read an interview with Stephenson, it must have been more than 10 years ago, where he said that his books are enough to finance a good middle class living for him. I imagine that over the past 10 years, since royalties are accumulating, it must have surely increased a bit from there.