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Nor about SourceForge, which is also a great user-created content website, although it's left to the geeky "elite"

I hope they ban Dig Dug. That game can be so violent. I mean, just look at this! http://www.deviantart.com/view/29947566/

New Corp might be kicking ass in that market on TV, but there's new and up and coming sites that allow for different kinds of social networking that allow people to interact in different ways than myspace...deviantarthttp://www.deviantart.com/ is good for artists (lots are in this demo), askothers http://www.askothers.com/ i just found out about but seems to be trying to get people to network based on their knowledge and the knowledge of their friends, sites like blackplanet http://www.blackplanet.com/ allow for social networking based on ethnicity. there's lots of splinters that could add up to a 2x4 for myspace...

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

It's true. MySpace.com is owned by the News Corp. http://sirkowski.deviantart.com/journal/7668171/

Personally I would like to see photo contests have two separate categories. One for film cameras and one for digital with the understanding that the digital photo may have been manipulated...

That's actually a really bad way of distinguishing whether a photo has been manipulated. Digital photographs can be presented 'as is' (as much as digital can be), and film photos can still be manipulated. A lot of things can be done in the darkroom. And then there's people like myself, who have 'gone back' to film but scan the negatives or slides and manipulate them digitally. Where do I fit in?

I personally like the way DeviantART does things. Manipulated photos have their own sub-category under 'digital art', seperate from the photography category. There's certainly skill and creativity in doing proper photo manipulation and I think it deserves recognition alongside traditional photography. Some manips I've seen are more like paintings - they've been changed so much. For example, looking at recent submissions, see "Dryad" by radioactive.

Personally I would like to see photo contests have two separate categories. One for film cameras and one for digital with the understanding that the digital photo may have been manipulated...

That's actually a really bad way of distinguishing whether a photo has been manipulated. Digital photographs can be presented 'as is' (as much as digital can be), and film photos can still be manipulated. A lot of things can be done in the darkroom. And then there's people like myself, who have 'gone back' to film but scan the negatives or slides and manipulate them digitally. Where do I fit in?

I personally like the way DeviantART does things. Manipulated photos have their own sub-category under 'digital art', seperate from the photography category. There's certainly skill and creativity in doing proper photo manipulation and I think it deserves recognition alongside traditional photography. Some manips I've seen are more like paintings - they've been changed so much. For example, looking at recent submissions, see "Dryad" by radioactive.

Personally I would like to see photo contests have two separate categories. One for film cameras and one for digital with the understanding that the digital photo may have been manipulated...

That's actually a really bad way of distinguishing whether a photo has been manipulated. Digital photographs can be presented 'as is' (as much as digital can be), and film photos can still be manipulated. A lot of things can be done in the darkroom. And then there's people like myself, who have 'gone back' to film but scan the negatives or slides and manipulate them digitally. Where do I fit in?

I personally like the way DeviantART does things. Manipulated photos have their own sub-category under 'digital art', seperate from the photography category. There's certainly skill and creativity in doing proper photo manipulation and I think it deserves recognition alongside traditional photography. Some manips I've seen are more like paintings - they've been changed so much. For example, looking at recent submissions, see "Dryad" by radioactive.

Personally I would like to see photo contests have two separate categories. One for film cameras and one for digital with the understanding that the digital photo may have been manipulated...

That's actually a really bad way of distinguishing whether a photo has been manipulated. Digital photographs can be presented 'as is' (as much as digital can be), and film photos can still be manipulated. A lot of things can be done in the darkroom. And then there's people like myself, who have 'gone back' to film but scan the negatives or slides and manipulate them digitally. Where do I fit in?

I personally like the way DeviantART does things. Manipulated photos have their own sub-category under 'digital art', seperate from the photography category. There's certainly skill and creativity in doing proper photo manipulation and I think it deserves recognition alongside traditional photography. Some manips I've seen are more like paintings - they've been changed so much. For example, looking at recent submissions, see "Dryad" by radioactive.

Sorry folks but I couldn't resist. Here is a picture of George Takei that hasn't been seen by anyone but my family for over 30 years

It would not suprise me. I was a Pentax fanboy for years, and it was always disapointing how they seemed to struggle to keep up with Canon and Nikon. Now, I have swiched to the Rebel EX 8mp) and am not looking back. Stuff is looking good as well, check it out: http://photozz.deviantart.com/gallery/

To be fair, there are zero items in the project feature requests or bug reports about this, so it's not likely that the devs know that it's broken. I have (hopefully) brought it to someone's attention.

I'm glad that wasn't the first thing I ever tried to do with inkscape, or I probably would never have bothered learning to use it. This guy *really* knows how to use it.

At least I can prove that I do, for the most part. :-P

Im the only girl in an office of twenty something guys. Some of them treat me like of of the guys, some constatly look at my boobs and ask me out, and the others treat my like im an air head with no brain.

I love the guys that encourage me and help me with my assignments, i can deal with them staring at my boobs so long as its not completley obvious.. but im really sick of trying to prove myself to the guys that think my love of girly things has somehow reatrded my brain.

Im stay in IT becuase i love pulling shit apart and playing with networks, but sometimes those guys really do get me down.

oh and this is me :P http://tn3-1.deviantart.com/fs8/300W/i/2005/325/e/ 8/Yes_Master_by_tracie76.jpg i guess i dont really look like a nerd lol, but i love my job none the less.

More accurately,

"Living in a country where everyone can own a gun, but most good people choose not to for some reason, so the bad guys who do have guns (And break the law to do so) essentially own the streets because everyone else is too passive and dreamy to think that "self preservation" is someone else's job."

Self preservation is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.

I can sit and doodle all day in my notepad instead of taking notes if I wish to. Does that mean notepads are suddenly bad for studying?
To me, that's somewhat funny because it's true...

DONT CLICK THIS LINK!!
Please God No!!

I got hit with the lameness filter! How appropriate.

In 12 easy steps http://www.deviantart.com/view/16278832/

Once themeing is supported, you can start with a static theme, like:

XP Bluecurve
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/4279121/

or
XP Plastik
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/8066296/

I'm sure GTK and QT engines will come. Question is, if they build a GTK engine, will it work with the QT->GTK theme? :)

Once themeing is supported, you can start with a static theme, like:

XP Bluecurve
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/4279121/

or
XP Plastik
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/8066296/

I'm sure GTK and QT engines will come. Question is, if they build a GTK engine, will it work with the QT->GTK theme? :)

"Also, I can't imagine why anybody would *want* to claim they're one of us if they aren't."

You'd be surprised.

While it may not be present (or at least prevalent) in your circles, it's rather "popular" for teens to claim to have some kind of disorder. Whether it's Aspergers, dyslexia, bipolar, depression, schizophrenia, OCD. I've seen threads on sites like deviantART dedicated to things like "What kind of mental problem do you have?" and the post numbers are in the thousands, with people claiming to have all sorts of problems but offering no information when asked about diagnosis. Some even claim to have combinations of disorders that would be impossible to have in reality. I'm guessing it makes them feel "special" or "different." Like this one.

My picture is cooler, I think, and not even Photoshopped. And what's up with those artifacts in the picture? You're killing me.

Finding more advanced ways of killing people was about 16 billion dollars more important according to this graph showing how the US Government divided its finances for 2004. Military spending (not including Iraq) was 399 billion. Non-military spending (NASA, education, EPA, energy, health, etc.) was 383 billion. The numbers on the graph are from the Office of Management and Budget

Check http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/18591720/

So you say what you're looking for is Katamari Damacy plus Odama, then.

Don't you mean Katamari Odamacy? Or breaking the words in a different spot, what about Katamario Damacy?

On a different note (or arrow or gem or bar or whatever), what about Katamari Frequency? Or Katamarket Damasweep?

Try five monitors on one engeneering class machine, three laptops and 8 workstations for testing. Seriously, make all the "Swordfish" jokes you want, but this rocked. I was able to have e-mail, Music, a text editor, a VMware session and Visual Studio open, and see it all at once. Plus, the setup cost me nearly nothing as I was able to scavenge almost all of it from the scrap pile at work. I found that no mater what setup I have been using, peace and quiet alowed me to get the most done. the best equipment in the world won't help unless you are not interupted every two minutes.

I'm with you--or at least I was. I turned off the XP UI and opted for the "Classic" theme for a couple of years, until I looked at some of the different themes that are out there. My current theme is Blue Mesa, but there are hundreds to choose from.

I certainly can't stand the standard theme, but this one is as compact as the standard Windows 2000 theme, and I like the smaller start button, amongst other things.

Just be sure to turn it off if you're accessing the computer over RDP. Shading takes up a lot more bandwidth.

I'm with you--or at least I was. I turned off the XP UI and opted for the "Classic" theme for a couple of years, until I looked at some of the different themes that are out there. My current theme is Blue Mesa, but there are hundreds to choose from.

I certainly can't stand the standard theme, but this one is as compact as the standard Windows 2000 theme, and I like the smaller start button, amongst other things.

Just be sure to turn it off if you're accessing the computer over RDP. Shading takes up a lot more bandwidth.

Those intangible tasks that are difficult to quantify, they just take some people longer and require greater effort from them.

In my office I am a little bit L3et. I am magnitudes faster on a computer at nearly all tasks because I know the shortcuts and rarely come across a problem I can't fix or avoid in the first place.

Garry, a middle aged ex-boxer types with the first two fingers on his right hand. I can process mabey ten documents to his one.

Now I can't sell for toffee. I can engage customers, have good interpersonal skills, good communicator, yadda, yadda, but I can't make somone want to buy into the service like Garry can. The man realy captivates and controls his audience. We are paid to do the same job but have different skill sets. We work in concert at the same task towards the same outcomes and with a lot of redundancy between our roles but we effectivly do different work.

How do you judge productivity in an information age? It's a nonsense.

INterestingly.... spends his two hours downtime networking........oh...and in a different sort of way, so do I.

--Parental guidence

Still, something of note:

Deviantart is a shit-site that you might not care about, but I noticed something really strange about the Google "indexing"...

Any kind of communication on the site is saved in the "comment" subdomain. (If you delete a pic/journal the comments on them are still stored)

So to find something easily, you just do site:deviantart.com inurl:comments

This gives us: "Results 1 - 10 of about 951,000"

Over 900k man, that's a lot!

Now the hit that includes that part of the site is the third anyway, this one:

comments.deviantart.com/5/6169392/159452388

You know what we do next? We take the first 10 words from that text, and we search for them.

I tried this a week ago, and now I was thinking Google might of noticed that and indexed it, or something.

Has it?

No.

THE FIRST HIT OF NEAR A MILLION.

Something else of note is the last number in the address, 159452388

159,452,388

160 million.

There has only been 160 million comments, and Google somehow has indexed 6x the amount.

(Trust me, ok, the other numbers are just for sorting)

That's easy to explain though: because of the tree structure ("nested" on slashdot) of comments.

But what should that mean? THAT I'D GET MULTIPLE RESULTS.

So what does this whole anti-indexing mean?

Now, a link to the ugliest site in the universe (The author seemingly surfs with 640x480 4/8-bit in win3.1... and uses the evil empire's toolbar)

Google cares about bloggers, why, you might ask? Bloggers make links a lot, Google likes this, it "improves" their PageRank.

That is, if there weren't such a thing as "commercial interests". Which is the whole reason the retarded "splogs" word exists, because Google is so damn good at indexing their own blogging service. I've also seen some spam which didn't contain links at all, just "mind control". Searching on part of the message (crazy huge 2k words) returned 7k hits.

Another thing I just figured out (wow that's great mr smartypants) is any link is counted as positive. I would think a truly honest writer (journal-ist, blog-er, diary-ist) presents just as much positive as negative thoughts (and thus, links) on subjects.

Righto, so back to mr ugly: "One reason why Google is stinkin' rich is because webmasters have never been organized. Even today there are no associations of webmasters that can represent them in court. [...] A copyright decision that addresses search engines in terms of opt-in as opposed to opt-out, would make the web a better place. It may also help solve some of the privacy issues and identity-theft problems that occur when crawlers grab files that they should not be allowed to have"

I think he at least mentions something I haven't thought about, as opposed to mr F-google who just repeats the same shitty drivel over and over, and is of course, a fucking blog. That also brings to light something else - as opposed to websites, the only thing that matters is "speed", you won't notice revisions or any formatting beyond linebreaks (and those stupid ass pictures he must spend half of the site-updating-time to) or any sorting beyond "by date".

I posted this elsewhere, but I think it's fitting here too. I just got home from PAX 05, which I have to say was incredible. First, let me give you a run down on what all happened there. (SPOILER: Nintendo stole the fuck out of the show).

1) Exhibitions. Same sort of shit you see at E3, but on a smaller scale. Nintendo was present with just about all of their games that I have been wanting to play for a while (including the new Zelda). Microsoft was present with a chance to enter into a beta testing program, and a free copy of their new MS Office product. (I passed on both of those, as I have no desire for either). Sony was present in a small fashion with playable demos for about 5 or 6 of their new games. (Exact games elude me... I didn't play them, but I did pick up the discs that they were giving out). Ubisoft also had most of their lineup present. That included a bunch of Xbox games I could give a rat's ass about (but they had an airplane game that looked fun), and a trailer for Prince of Persia 3. The Army was present with a table full of shuttle PCs LANed together playing AA, and a hummer and a full set of soldier gear (including kevlar) that people could try on (I tried on the armor, and picked up a pressed AA CD, and a lanyard). There was also a sort of cool VR thing where you were walking around in a sphere (It proved to me once and for all that VR is an absolutely horrible idea.) Other things present included FEAR, Torque, Tabletop RPG things, and the usual assortment of merchandise for sale at such things (I picked up a T-shirt or two, a PAX 04 DVD (good memories), and the Penny Arcade book.)

2) Panels. One of the really great things about PAX is the panels that are going on pretty much all the time. Basically, they get members of the industry to get up in front of a few thousand people and answer questions. There were also other things, such as a chance to beat the pros at their own games (I beat a Soul Calibur II Pro and won a $50 gift certificate at EB) and of course... the classic screening of "The Wizard".

3) Music. The closest thing to a hippie music festival for gamers. Well, maybe not. They had a couple of people play way too much Final Fantasy on the piano, and a few very very horrible rappers. But NESkimos and the Minibosses simply kicked ass.

4) Community. PAX 05 might have been pretty boring if you were a PSP owner (and you probably would have had a hard time getting multiplayer going... there were a good 10 DSs for every PSP). But believe me when I tell you that PictoChat was DESIGNED for events like that. For 3 days, there was a continuously running pictochat conversation. This was especially handy during things such as panels or the music concerts, as it was our way of providing running commentary on things. (and drawing penii). You also meet many interesting people such as Eyes5, who can make PictoChat do absolutely insane things. I wish I could have saved some of her drawings. She was also quite the gamer... I was simply shocked to see 4:30 spent on Nintendogs when it was only out a few days beforehand... The dog knew about 20 tricks, and had won like every competition.

If any of you were at PAX, and owned a DS, you might remember me as PAX_Dave, who was serving E3 demos from his laptop at odd times during the convention. Late on the first day, I had grown very very proud of all the DS owners around (PSP owners were a VERY small minority), and I wanted to do something special, so I began hosting demos such as Jump Superstars, Submarine Tech Demo, Zelda trailer, and Trauma Center, as well as some homebrew. It became a common event for me to set up my laptop during a panel, or in the speakeasy booth and let my fellow DS fans have at her.

5) Nintendo. Let me list a few items. Zelda: Twilight Princess, Metroid: Hunters, Mario Kart DS, Viewtiful Joe DS, Castlevania DS, Met

(I hope you werent trolling because that's actually an awesome idea -- its just not very common for an American to feel that way.)

But you shouldn't cut their budget by 90% as there is a much more poetic measure you could take: Take the total spending on education in America (53 billion). Add it to NASA's budget (15.4 billion). Ready? Now swap that figure with the combined military spending in America (399 billion).

If you're American, you may get a kick out of printing this out on A1 and putting it on your wall: Death And Taxes

I totally disagree. Deviantart is full of cool stuff -- for example, the abstract art wallpapers by cityhuntr are awesome.

Don't judge an entire community by an (apparently) loud minority (in this case, "depressed self-pitying asshole kids...", although I really had no idea deviantart had those, so they can't be that loud).

I think the main problem for the wannabe hacker is the getting paid bit. How the heck do they remain anonymous and get paid?

It's all very well to do that to a company, but you aren't exactly going to hand out your own bank details to the company in order to get paid.. heh.

- paul

http://pmp.deviantart.com/

This may be cause for a tiny bit of concern, considering what has been happening over at devianART, with the ousting of jark (one of the two original founders) by the corporate entity.

The lesson of deviantART is that once the corporation starts pursuing profits, and this becomes more important than the community, the origins of the foundation and the original purpose and driving force of the community may become lost.

I had taken a few years of graphic design classes and with that comes the mentality that Adobe is the best. Last year I found Inkscape and have used it and been contributing ever since. A few "artistic" examples of Inkscape that I've done (be sure not to miss the last link though):

My first piece done in Inkscape

Pure calligraphy tool

Clone tiler in action

Made much easier by the enhancements to node editing since .41

Simple

Detailed

And everything was 100% pure inkscape.

I had taken a few years of graphic design classes and with that comes the mentality that Adobe is the best. Last year I found Inkscape and have used it and been contributing ever since. A few "artistic" examples of Inkscape that I've done (be sure not to miss the last link though):

My first piece done in Inkscape

Pure calligraphy tool

Clone tiler in action

Made much easier by the enhancements to node editing since .41

Simple

Detailed

And everything was 100% pure inkscape.

I had taken a few years of graphic design classes and with that comes the mentality that Adobe is the best. Last year I found Inkscape and have used it and been contributing ever since. A few "artistic" examples of Inkscape that I've done (be sure not to miss the last link though):

My first piece done in Inkscape

Pure calligraphy tool

Clone tiler in action

Made much easier by the enhancements to node editing since .41

Simple

Detailed

And everything was 100% pure inkscape.

I had taken a few years of graphic design classes and with that comes the mentality that Adobe is the best. Last year I found Inkscape and have used it and been contributing ever since. A few "artistic" examples of Inkscape that I've done (be sure not to miss the last link though):

My first piece done in Inkscape

Pure calligraphy tool

Clone tiler in action

Made much easier by the enhancements to node editing since .41

Simple

Detailed

And everything was 100% pure inkscape.

I had taken a few years of graphic design classes and with that comes the mentality that Adobe is the best. Last year I found Inkscape and have used it and been contributing ever since. A few "artistic" examples of Inkscape that I've done (be sure not to miss the last link though):

My first piece done in Inkscape

Pure calligraphy tool

Clone tiler in action

Made much easier by the enhancements to node editing since .41

Simple

Detailed

And everything was 100% pure inkscape.

I had taken a few years of graphic design classes and with that comes the mentality that Adobe is the best. Last year I found Inkscape and have used it and been contributing ever since. A few "artistic" examples of Inkscape that I've done (be sure not to miss the last link though):

My first piece done in Inkscape

Pure calligraphy tool

Clone tiler in action

Made much easier by the enhancements to node editing since .41

Simple

Detailed

And everything was 100% pure inkscape.

Seriously, Konfabulator or DesktopX or Kapsules or Active Desktop or let's see if I can think of any more... Anyway, all of these I am certain have an audience. You have the skinning scene, the graphic artists, and basically Joe and Jane User who just like a "pretty" computer.

Another difference with Cafepress: Zazzle seems to promote interaction through its community. "Zazzle is home to contributors who are individual artists, photographers, designers and creative consumers worldwide. As a contributor, you can choose to make your creations public through a Zazzle gallery, where anyone can browse, comment or connect with you."

This reminds me of deviantART, which has a huge artist community. The community can interact through the deviantART website (forums, chat, they organise contests,...), and they even have meetups for people to meet in real life. Artists also can sell their works as quality prints in a range of formats, with glossy or matte finish, even framed. They also have stuff like mouse pads, mugs, puzzles,...

Don't laugh too much, MS Paint can be a powerful tool!

Are you sure is not a skinned XP?
No really it looks just like Windows XP with another skin (which is not the best either) and icon set

Its not a skinned Xp, since xp doesn't do perpixel alpha transparency on the windowborders (and neither can 3rd party products like windowblinds/styler/etc. - though probably in the pipe five by five). Maybe one of the shells can do that, but I doubt they can blur the text in overlapped windows.

Its not even a real icon set yet either, as there are still old icons in the mix - they really need to redo the entire icon set from xp, as it's pretty nauseating + the new ones make the old look even worse when they're side by side.

The best lh inspired vs I've seen just got released: http://www.deviantart.com/view/20415408/ . Though not for everyone, the guy could obviously help MS out on uncluttering their f'ing ui.

Themexp is a bad place to get visual styles from, they wrap them in a spyware installer. You can get more and better ones from here. Alternative patcher. I'm glad you didn't suggest stylexp though. Yz shadow gives similar shadow effects, but it's not perfect.

Seriously, I can't be the only one who does this: http://www.deviantart.com/view/18247115/

http://sharpfang.deviantart.com/

It would be helluva easier to make these with such a scanner.

An illustrated version federal budget allocation is here.

It gives the 2004 Discretionary Budget and it reveals some interesting stuff. Military spending was the largest part of the budget and was roughly $399 BN (not including Iraq/Afghanistan); while non military spending (Education, Enviroment, Transportation, NASA, Justice, Labor, etc.) accounted for $383 BN.

I was actually so cynical yesterday that I made this webcomic page to show my confidence in the democratic process http://www.deviantart.com/view/19771461/ good thing for once I was actually proven wrong ...