Hi Martin,
On Sun, 01 Sep 2013 11:34:38 -0400 Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote:
Pedantic moan:
On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 08:10 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
unprofessional
The quality of said performance is not indicated by the use of 'unprofessional'[1], there is a use for unprofessional to mean 'not conducting one's behavior with respect needed in business' but that's the administration of the skill, not the skill. Uploading jpegs is unprofessional, get the proportions wrong is unskillful or unrefined. ;-)
Martin,
[1] Professional - Earns money from performing skill Amateur - Performs skill for the respect / love / fun, without being paid.
While I have been aware of that meaning of "amateur" (see http://paulgraham.com/opensource.html ), that's not the meaning I used there. The meaning I used there was:
« 1. Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession.
3. (by extension) Expert. »
(taken from: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/professional#Adjective ).
Naturally, I didn't mean to imply that works done without getting paid are necessarily inferior to works which were done in exchange for payment. By all means, the two meanings of "professional" vs. "amateurs" are not fully correlated.
What I meant was that the quality of the work done and shared by Steve (or is "Mr. Litt" preferred?) was not as high as I came to expect from similar work I've experienced done by (possibly more) skilled and/or talented people.[1]
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
[1] - I hope I don't sound too harsh, and if I do - I apologise. I don't expect people to immediately be able to produce high-quality artworks, and Steve's car artwork shows a lot of potential, and like I said, is well above what I have been able to do so far.