Once you've put a little effort into learning Blender's interface you realize that it is actually very good. Far from perfect, but still very good. Tools are (mostly) in logical, consistent places, it's very customisable and, in my opinion, quite attractive. I suspect that the problem most people have with the interface is that it looks and behaves differently to other programs, but why should a 3d modelling and animation package's interface be similar to a word processors?
There. I've said something good about Blender's UI.
I don't understand the distinction. We can replace the word "begs" with "raises" in your example and it still makes sense: ""So now that you stopped beating your wife, how is your marriage?" That RAISES the question of if you ever beat your wife at all." Why is "begs the question" acceptable in your sentence, but not in element-o-p's?
If you're going to be using AutoCAD quite regularly, then I would strongly recommend learning the CLI. If you already know the name of the command you want in menus / toolbars / ribbon, it will probably take less than a day to learn the command line equivalents. You probably only use about a dozen commands on a regular basis and you can use command aliases for these. Each alias is usually only one or two characters - Line = L, PolyLine = PL, Circle = C, Move = M, Rotate = RO, Copy = CO (I think these are the defaults; I customised my aliases years ago and can't quite remember the defaults now). Once you've entered the command, the CLI shows you all available options - just enter the capitalised letter and you're away!
Programs that I use constantly are pinned because when they are open they appear as a large icon in the taskbar anyway. Programs that I use occasionally are in Quickstart, with small icons. Everything else is in the start menu.
Surely all systems of measurement are standard? They wouldn't be much use if they weren't standardized!
By law, Britain is a metric country, though I think that the pint and the mile are also legal. In practice, we are a hodge-podge of metric and Imperial. In my job I use metric exclusively, but I'll tell people that I'm 5'9" and weigh 11 stone (Brits weigh themselves in stones, rather than pounds). We buy petrol (gasoline) in litres, but measure fuel consumption in miles per gallon. We buy cola in litres, but beer in pints.
40/40 vision is the same as 20/20 vision. 20/20 vision is considered to be "normal"; 20/40 is half as good as 20/20, while 20/10 is twice as good. The numerator refers to the distance of the observer from the chart in feet. The denominator is more complicated, but essentially refers to the distance between lines on the chart (according to Wikipedia this is measured in mm, which I find odd given that the numerator is measured in feet).
I think I may be the complete opposite of you. I don't / won't / can't sing. The only time I've tried since my music teacher told me to stop at age 13 was in my car, in the dark, on an empty road; I started to feel physically nauseous after a minute or two. Because I don't sing, I generally don't even notice the words. I do enjoy listening to music, but I know next to nothing about music* and so I don't feel compelled to listen closely - to me, music is just pleasant sounds
* I'm actually uncertain what a melody is! I've been trying to figure out how to explain what I think it is, but just don't really understand the terminology to be able to do so: is the melody not the beat, not the singing, but rather the "catchy" musical part of the song?
The Queen does have the right to vote, she just chooses not to.
"Although the law relating to elections does not specifically prohibit the Sovereign from voting in a general election or local election, it is considered unconstitutional for the Sovereign and his or her heir to do so." http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/QueenandGovernment/Queenandvoting.aspx (The Official Website of the British Monarchy)
I'm British. The terms "entered administration" and "made redundant" are in normal everyday use in Britain. I think it is reasonable to assume that the writer is British and that it would never have occurred to him that these phrases would be misunderstood by an American. I'm sure it wasn't done just to wind you up*.
* I'm not sure if the phrase "wind you up" is used in the US. It means to say something with the intent to provoke.
You did not have the flu and I suspect that you have never had flu. No matter how healthy you are, the influenza virus will completely wipe you out and you will be barely able to stand, never mind go to the gym. You had a bout of the common cold.
Hear, hear! I couldn't agree more. I find it impossible to take notes and listen to somebody speak at the same time. That said, the OP's wife is a woman(!) and apparently they can multi-task!
I'm so glad to see your comment "not every human is equally adept in recognizing images". I thought it might just be me: for years I've been inadvertently clicking on the print icon instead of the save icon. To my mind, they are generally rectangular and similar colours; unless I stop and think about it for a second there's a 50% chance I'll hit the wrong one. Recently, I made the mistake of putting bookmark icons for Gmail and BBC iPlayer next to each other and removing the text. Both icons are reddish and have triangular bits.
Although I much prefer text based interfaces, I appreciate that some people have problems distinguishing words. A good UI needs to give people the choice.
Huh?! I've been with Virgin broadband for years, currently on the 20Mb service - I stream music and surf the web all day long, watch hours of BBC iPlayer in the evening, plus can download gigabytes of software. I have never been throttled. The last time I checked, I can download 10.5Gb per day (and it's completely unlimited at night). I suggest you have a word with whoever is sending you such big emails!
I put a 32MB hard card in my Amstrad PC1512. It was the first hard disk of any type that I ever owned; I guess this was around 1988. Before that the machine just had twin 5.25" floppies.
Actually I do pretty much always try to figure out how to do things myself. When I needed some wiring doing in my house I researched what needed to be done and realised that it would probably take more time to get a quote from an electrician than to actually do the work myself. The same thing applied to plumbing; I was astonished at how easy basic plumbing is - I re-plumbed my entire bathroom in about an hour.
On the other hand, when my car needed work doing, I found out that the equipment required would cost more than getting the work done professionally, even if I was being over charged. Also, I don't like getting my hands dirty!
If I needed my appendix removing I would trust a doctor, rather than try the operation myself. Probably.
Have you noticed that, in the UK, newspapers report cold weather in Celsius - 0C sounds colder than 32F, but hot weather is reported with Fahrenheit - 100F sounds much hotter than 37C.
About a decade ago I saw a ruler (rule for the pedants) which had been issued when the UK converted from imperial to metric back in the 70s. It had a guide to metric units - it included definitions of micrometer, millimeter, centimeter, decimeter, meter, decameter, hectometer, kilometer and megameter. No wonder people were scared by it all!
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Once you've put a little effort into learning Blender's interface you realize that it is actually very good. Far from perfect, but still very good. Tools are (mostly) in logical, consistent places, it's very customisable and, in my opinion, quite attractive. I suspect that the problem most people have with the interface is that it looks and behaves differently to other programs, but why should a 3d modelling and animation package's interface be similar to a word processors?
There. I've said something good about Blender's UI.
I don't understand the distinction. We can replace the word "begs" with "raises" in your example and it still makes sense: ""So now that you stopped beating your wife, how is your marriage?" That RAISES the question of if you ever beat your wife at all." Why is "begs the question" acceptable in your sentence, but not in element-o-p's?
Is "very first" more first (firster?) than plain old "first"?
If somebody beats me to first post, could I trump them with a very first post?
If you're going to be using AutoCAD quite regularly, then I would strongly recommend learning the CLI. If you already know the name of the command you want in menus / toolbars / ribbon, it will probably take less than a day to learn the command line equivalents. You probably only use about a dozen commands on a regular basis and you can use command aliases for these. Each alias is usually only one or two characters - Line = L, PolyLine = PL, Circle = C, Move = M, Rotate = RO, Copy = CO (I think these are the defaults; I customised my aliases years ago and can't quite remember the defaults now). Once you've entered the command, the CLI shows you all available options - just enter the capitalised letter and you're away!
Programs that I use constantly are pinned because when they are open they appear as a large icon in the taskbar anyway. Programs that I use occasionally are in Quickstart, with small icons. Everything else is in the start menu.
Surely all systems of measurement are standard? They wouldn't be much use if they weren't standardized!
By law, Britain is a metric country, though I think that the pint and the mile are also legal. In practice, we are a hodge-podge of metric and Imperial. In my job I use metric exclusively, but I'll tell people that I'm 5'9" and weigh 11 stone (Brits weigh themselves in stones, rather than pounds). We buy petrol (gasoline) in litres, but measure fuel consumption in miles per gallon. We buy cola in litres, but beer in pints.
40/40 vision is the same as 20/20 vision. 20/20 vision is considered to be "normal"; 20/40 is half as good as 20/20, while 20/10 is twice as good. The numerator refers to the distance of the observer from the chart in feet. The denominator is more complicated, but essentially refers to the distance between lines on the chart (according to Wikipedia this is measured in mm, which I find odd given that the numerator is measured in feet).
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_acuity (Wikipedia.com)
I think I may be the complete opposite of you. I don't / won't / can't sing. The only time I've tried since my music teacher told me to stop at age 13 was in my car, in the dark, on an empty road; I started to feel physically nauseous after a minute or two. Because I don't sing, I generally don't even notice the words. I do enjoy listening to music, but I know next to nothing about music* and so I don't feel compelled to listen closely - to me, music is just pleasant sounds
* I'm actually uncertain what a melody is! I've been trying to figure out how to explain what I think it is, but just don't really understand the terminology to be able to do so: is the melody not the beat, not the singing, but rather the "catchy" musical part of the song?
The UK isn't "in the middle of the North Sea", it's next to the North Sea. Heck, the UK isn't in the middle of anything.
The Queen does have the right to vote, she just chooses not to.
"Although the law relating to elections does not specifically prohibit the Sovereign from voting in a general election or local election, it is considered unconstitutional for the Sovereign and his or her heir to do so."
http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/QueenandGovernment/Queenandvoting.aspx (The Official Website of the British Monarchy)
Ah, it might have been funny - if you hadn't explained that you were trying to be funny.
That was comedy genius! Well done that man!
I'm British. The terms "entered administration" and "made redundant" are in normal everyday use in Britain. I think it is reasonable to assume that the writer is British and that it would never have occurred to him that these phrases would be misunderstood by an American. I'm sure it wasn't done just to wind you up*. * I'm not sure if the phrase "wind you up" is used in the US. It means to say something with the intent to provoke.
You have a favourite lawyer?!
The AC may have a point. The OP might just be a Grumpy Old Man who will be grumpy no matter what he does.
You did not have the flu and I suspect that you have never had flu. No matter how healthy you are, the influenza virus will completely wipe you out and you will be barely able to stand, never mind go to the gym. You had a bout of the common cold.
Do you mean "Code: The Hidden Language" by Charles Petzold?
Hear, hear! I couldn't agree more. I find it impossible to take notes and listen to somebody speak at the same time. That said, the OP's wife is a woman(!) and apparently they can multi-task!
I'm so glad to see your comment "not every human is equally adept in recognizing images". I thought it might just be me: for years I've been inadvertently clicking on the print icon instead of the save icon. To my mind, they are generally rectangular and similar colours; unless I stop and think about it for a second there's a 50% chance I'll hit the wrong one. Recently, I made the mistake of putting bookmark icons for Gmail and BBC iPlayer next to each other and removing the text. Both icons are reddish and have triangular bits.
Although I much prefer text based interfaces, I appreciate that some people have problems distinguishing words. A good UI needs to give people the choice.
You mean the same US government that has accumulated a $14.5 trillion debt? Surely no organisation on the planet has ever been so poor!
Joking aside, I think you're probably right; Apple will drop OSX as soon as they possibly can. I don't think they should, though.
Huh?! I've been with Virgin broadband for years, currently on the 20Mb service - I stream music and surf the web all day long, watch hours of BBC iPlayer in the evening, plus can download gigabytes of software. I have never been throttled. The last time I checked, I can download 10.5Gb per day (and it's completely unlimited at night). I suggest you have a word with whoever is sending you such big emails!
I put a 32MB hard card in my Amstrad PC1512. It was the first hard disk of any type that I ever owned; I guess this was around 1988. Before that the machine just had twin 5.25" floppies.
Actually I do pretty much always try to figure out how to do things myself. When I needed some wiring doing in my house I researched what needed to be done and realised that it would probably take more time to get a quote from an electrician than to actually do the work myself. The same thing applied to plumbing; I was astonished at how easy basic plumbing is - I re-plumbed my entire bathroom in about an hour.
On the other hand, when my car needed work doing, I found out that the equipment required would cost more than getting the work done professionally, even if I was being over charged. Also, I don't like getting my hands dirty!
If I needed my appendix removing I would trust a doctor, rather than try the operation myself. Probably.
Have you noticed that, in the UK, newspapers report cold weather in Celsius - 0C sounds colder than 32F, but hot weather is reported with Fahrenheit - 100F sounds much hotter than 37C.
About a decade ago I saw a ruler (rule for the pedants) which had been issued when the UK converted from imperial to metric back in the 70s. It had a guide to metric units - it included definitions of micrometer, millimeter, centimeter, decimeter, meter, decameter, hectometer, kilometer and megameter. No wonder people were scared by it all!