You can do it - get creative about the process
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Art Tips For Programmers?
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Rather than try to gain years of art training and practice in technique to get a creative result, get creative about your method. Decide what you need some art of... This is the hardest part, but you're logical. You can figure it out. The most important part is to decide on your subject and anyone can do that. Let's say a figure on a hill. The only tools you need are Photoshop and a digital camera. Here's a creative method:
Go to the thrift store and buy an action figure you like. Something posable helps to have options.
Find a hill you like. Nuff said.
Point your camera at the hill on a tripod. If you have some way to take a picture without touching it, great.
Place the figure about 18 to 25 inches away from the camera so that it appears on top of the hill in a natural way.
Take a shot with the figure in place and another shot without. Keep the camera as still as possible.
Go home and open the two images in Photoshop.
Select the image with the figure and press CTRL-A to select all. Now CTRL-C to copy (just being thorough). Select the other image and paste (CTRL-C).
Now play. You should have the images in layers one on top of the other. Try fiddling with the opacity, or add a filter or cutout the figure and re-position it. Don't be afrait to try anything - especially blurs! Let people fill in their own detail. Worry about what the image is instead of how detailed it is.
(Yes, I know this is a classic special effects method. It works well for an example.)
Some great Photoshop tutorials (and Maya and others too) can be found in Computer Arts Magazine. The tutorials are step by step with great examples to learn from. It's a little pricey here in the US, but worth it for a beginer.
As to how to make an icon rather than an animated GIF or a JPEG or something else, just look up the spec. Google for "Photoshop icon tutorial" or or "Photoshop animated GIF tutorial". Think of the different file specs as... well, specs. Photoshop can edit pretty much any image type you'll need.
I tend to do a lot of self contained work (Art, Music, Programming) so I can attest: Anyone can do it themselves.
Oh, I just got a warm fuzzy at imagining Microsoft having to submit to a BSA audit. After all, if they think it's good for us, isn't it good for them?
I hope you enjoyed that fuzzy moment. I bet the audit would go something like this:
(office phone rings) Microsoft Legal Wank: Microsoft Legal. BSA Wank: Hi I'm Mr. Wank of the BSA and I'm conducting an audit of your software licensing. Do you have any known violations? MLW: Hold on a sec (hold music) BSAW:... MLW: Bill says no. BSAW: Fine. I'll write it all up in a report. Thanks for your compliance.
BTW, Re: the statute behind him in the picture, I thought they had covered that statue up already?
Nipple(s) are OK if you are and two of these:
Made of Stone
Made of Bronze
Made of Plaster
Standing behind a Bush Cabinet Member
The verdict is still pending for made of Silicone
Being made of flesh and showing nipple(s) is strictly forbidden! Think of the children! No! Don't think of their nipples you perv! Think of their small impressionable minds! Without taboo they would be heathens.
I bet it's set aside for things like filing fees, court costs, contempt fines, brib... er, inversigations. Don't forget that The State always gets it's share.
To a Western European, that's one disturbing fact, along with the police, firefigthers and non-elected public officials endorsing a candidate and the public voting for judges (isn't the law supposed to be non-partisan?) and police chiefs.
It's actually the,a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozcli ent&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=firefighters+union">unions of these professions that do the endorsing. The system in the US is a wild and tangled one.
I don't see how IDs will help. 'Hmm... according to your ID, you're a known terrorist criminal. I'll have to search your car.' No, far more likely a potential terrorist will either be a clean slate (new recruit) or have a faked ID.
More likely the information will be used as much of our "intelligence" has: Explanaing the events after the fact and finding who to blame or point a finger at domestically. I bet the information gets used for domestic law enforcement more than for combatting terrorism. "These government records place you within 1 mile of where the drug deal went down at a Linksys personal router. How can you deny you were there?" Of course, the prossecution will neglect to mention that 10,000 other people were within that square mile on Market Street in San Francisco.
By the way, the "Internet Hub" thing would make for a great comedy sketch. Imagine the cost of putting up a checkpoint at a $60 piece of hardware... "That $76,253.00 bill is for the network hub in Accounting sir, but Homeland Security won't sign off on the checkpoint so Accounting still can't get email."
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Wouldn't the windows search provide the exact same ability if it was enabled? I agree, google has just indexed the data and made it more easily searchable
Windows search ignores lots of data types and directories at Microsoft's discression. Here's an example... example...
As for GDesktop finding things in the web browser's cache - ANY kiosk web browser (library, coffee shop, etc.) should have the cache turned off or set at the absolute minimum. I set it to a token "100" on Firefox and IE. If the files aren't there, GDesktop can't index them. Funny that.
I just realized that not only is "Hot Blooded" now stuck in my head - It's also stuck in all of yours. Sorry about that. For those too young to remember this song: Enjoy what you don't know! It will haunt you forever!
The Site's Slash-dotted, click it and see Net Timeout Errors and 503s
C'mon server, Do the packets do more than bounce?
It's slashdotted, it's slashdotted
I don't get to read their site
Like some other users might
Honey you oughta know
Before it served so fine
There were pages online
I wanna know when this page will finally load
Now it's up to you, make it static
strip the images too
Let the packets through
I wanna read something I never knew
But now it's Slash-dotted, click it and see Net Timeout Errors and 503s
C'mon server, Do the packets do more than bounce?
It's slashdotted, it's slashdotted
If the host is right, it can serve pages all night
But now i'm just slapping keys
Server, you've got to give me a sign come on Google, a cached sign
Tell me, are melting server?
You sure look that way to me
Are you holding up?
Will you be ready if I remember this stuff?
Is my timing right?
Did you save bandwidth for me tonight?
Yeah, it's Slash-dotted, click it and see Net Timeout Errors and 503s
C'mon server, Do the packets do more than bounce?
It's slashdotted, it's slashdotted
Now it's up to you, make it static
strip the images too
Oh, before we do,
you'll have to get rid of a user or two
Well, it's Slash-dotted, click it and see Net Timeout Errors and 503s
C'mon server, Do the packets do more than bounce?
It's slashdotted, it's slashdotted
Slashdotted, at least for tonight
Slashdotted, you were looking so right
Slashdotted, this clicking's gotten me riled
Slashdotted, I have to wait a while
Slashdotted, traffic a little bit high?
Slashdotted, your poor server died
Slashdotted, I hope your doing something
Slashdotted, cause here's your chance for publicity
Which democratic candidate is talking to their protestors? The ones who put them in a cage in Boston during the DNC?
The third party cantidates are. The DNC was locked down and I expect that in conventions after what happened to the DNC in the 60s. Kerry at least will acknowledge the protestors though (example, example, example, example)
After all, he was once a protester himself.
Thanks for the response. I missed the "back" part of your statement. Sorry about that. An account by NPR of other Bush events stated that the tickets didn't have disclaimers, but there was an agreement with the RNC of loyalty given at purchase (can't find the link to the broadcast). So, you are correct: They did have to agree to gladhand.
I do stand by the idea that the "Hitler" remark was somewhat inflamatory on your part and others seem to agree. This is a subjective argument about an example though, so let's just pretend your shirts just said something the organizers of the conceptual party disagreed with. Sure, they have a right to kick someone out of their private party, but the rules change somewhat when a public official enters the equation. Not many private parties can get the Secret Service to shake you down and kick you out. This blurs the line further since the Secret Service is a taxpayer paid institution. Even if it's okay for all of this, it's also okay for the rest of us to think that the party organizers are narrow minded assholes.
This has nothing to do with Rights or the Constitution. Any private establishment has the right to toss you out, so long as they don't base it on race, religion, etc. You do not have any "right" to be there.
Um, the ideas about rights started with your original post. To refresh memory:
Third, what about the rights of other 99.9% to gather peacefully and have a feel-good, rah-rah session without having to deal with Captain Bringdown and the Buzzkills?
I agree that private parties have rules, but this is a pseudo-private party. I wouldn't invite you to my party, but I also wouldn't invite the press while I made a speech providing them with sound bites. (My friends wouldn't care what you wore or did by the way - they would only be entertained. We're a really tolerant bunch.)
Second, I guarantee you that the back of the ticket says, "This is a pro-Bush, pro-Republican rally. You presence is contingent upon not pissing in our Cheerios" or, something to that effect.
They say nothing of the sort. Funny that. I think you're pushing it with your Hitler example as well. "Hitler was right" is far more offensive than what these teachers wore - I don't even thik the shirts the teachers wore could be really considered anti-Bush. The shirts were a simple statement that I'd gladly make to ANY public official regardless of party affiliation. As to your third point, I don't think feeling good and getting rah-rah is a constitutional right. They can pursue it, but it's not a given. Finally, public protestors were arrested en masse in New York during the RNC. Consider these recent arrests follow-ups.
I've been tempted in the last few elections to just vote for the cantidate who actually talks to his/her protestors or the cantidate with the least protestors. How you treat someone who doesn't agree with you is a good measure of leadership skills in my opinion. This quieting of dissent by force really scares me as an american. I watched as my city turned into a police state during a WTO protest that happened here. None - I repeat: NONE - of the protestors were violent, but many of them and many bystanders were arrested anyway for edicts passed the night before by our city council which were breaching the constitutional right to assemble (They've been taken off the books now, but their intent was carried out). The Republican party has been way overreaching this year. I'm not voting for a single republican.
So Republican slashdotters: go and tell your party that an independant voter won't even consider your cantidates because of this. Change this from within because they certainly aren't listening to us external voices.
As a level designer and player - not a gaming coder, I vote for textured polygons as well for a few reasons:
You can avoid changing between 2D and 3D and the resolution pop/time delay for some configurations.
The same artists that create your entities and environments can create your GUI widgets giving the game a consistant look and feel. A good example of this can be found in Primal Software's I of the Dragon tech demo (read their news for the demo download).
You can probably leverage some of your existing code instead of building something from complete scratch
An idea... Work a menu editor into your level editor
how about modding an (automotive) fm modulator to increase the power output, hooking up an antenna to it, and using your mp3 player as your source? share some interesting radio with the cars parked around you in traffic. bonus points if you attach an led display to your rear window showing "now playing".
Smoothwall firewall installed on an old AMD 333 sysem, DHCP running on an internal box (also running other services), internal DNS and some network trickery. AVG, Sygate Personal Firewall and strict Active Directory/Group Policy (or at least as much as possible using non-M$ methodology) control on every Win32 box. Various brands, but the same ingredients for the two Linux boxen. SSH and VNC on everything. Lots of dirty looks, nagging and ever increasing restrictions for more... mischevious users.
I don't have a chance to dig up links for these, but diagnostic tools are a must if you really want to lock stuff down. First, generate and read logfiles whenever possible. Check things out with nmap, tcpdump, ActivePorts, Look@Lan, Kiwi syslog Daemon, Portlistener XP, Bazooka Spyware Utility, Spybot Search and Destroy, Socketlock... the list goes on. Generally try any tool you can and you'll get a feel for what is actually to your tastes and useful.
So will they add a burning server icon to the ones for fires and other disasters? From the looks of the site (first two pages then loading..........) they have one server to pinpoint already.
It also comes with ATI's suite of multimedia applications and utilities
As an existing ATI user, I'd like to say... "Boy you had me interested there for a second". The ATI software is buggy and has some design problems (won't do PVR unless someone is logged in under Win2K, for example). The hardware still seems interesting, but they can keep the bundled software.
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- Go to the thrift store and buy an action figure you like. Something posable helps to have options.
- Find a hill you like. Nuff said.
- Point your camera at the hill on a tripod. If you have some way to take a picture without touching it, great.
- Place the figure about 18 to 25 inches away from the camera so that it appears on top of the hill in a natural way.
- Take a shot with the figure in place and another shot without. Keep the camera as still as possible.
- Go home and open the two images in Photoshop.
- Select the image with the figure and press CTRL-A to select all. Now CTRL-C to copy (just being thorough). Select the other image and paste (CTRL-C).
- Now play. You should have the images in layers one on top of the other. Try fiddling with the opacity, or add a filter or cutout the figure and re-position it. Don't be afrait to try anything - especially blurs! Let people fill in their own detail. Worry about what the image is instead of how detailed it is.
(Yes, I know this is a classic special effects method. It works well for an example.)Some great Photoshop tutorials (and Maya and others too) can be found in Computer Arts Magazine. The tutorials are step by step with great examples to learn from. It's a little pricey here in the US, but worth it for a beginer.
As to how to make an icon rather than an animated GIF or a JPEG or something else, just look up the spec. Google for "Photoshop icon tutorial" or or "Photoshop animated GIF tutorial". Think of the different file specs as... well, specs. Photoshop can edit pretty much any image type you'll need.
I tend to do a lot of self contained work (Art, Music, Programming) so I can attest: Anyone can do it themselves.
- Made of Stone
- Made of Bronze
- Made of Plaster
- Standing behind a Bush Cabinet Member
- The verdict is still pending for made of Silicone
Being made of flesh and showing nipple(s) is strictly forbidden! Think of the children! No! Don't think of their nipples you perv! Think of their small impressionable minds! Without taboo they would be heathens.Say it with me... Preview. Preview. Preview.
Wow! We Slashdotted Dremel! I'll be damned.
By the way, the "Internet Hub" thing would make for a great comedy sketch. Imagine the cost of putting up a checkpoint at a $60 piece of hardware... "That $76,253.00 bill is for the network hub in Accounting sir, but Homeland Security won't sign off on the checkpoint so Accounting still can't get email."
As for GDesktop finding things in the web browser's cache - ANY kiosk web browser (library, coffee shop, etc.) should have the cache turned off or set at the absolute minimum. I set it to a token "100" on Firefox and IE. If the files aren't there, GDesktop can't index them. Funny that.
I just realized that not only is "Hot Blooded" now stuck in my head - It's also stuck in all of yours. Sorry about that. For those too young to remember this song: Enjoy what you don't know! It will haunt you forever!
The Site's Slash-dotted, click it and see
Net Timeout Errors and 503s
C'mon server, Do the packets do more than bounce?
It's slashdotted, it's slashdotted
I don't get to read their site
Like some other users might
Honey you oughta know
Before it served so fine
There were pages online
I wanna know when this page will finally load
Now it's up to you, make it static
strip the images too
Let the packets through
I wanna read something I never knew
But now it's Slash-dotted, click it and see
Net Timeout Errors and 503s
C'mon server, Do the packets do more than bounce?
It's slashdotted, it's slashdotted
If the host is right, it can serve pages all night
But now i'm just slapping keys
Server, you've got to give me a sign
come on Google, a cached sign
Tell me, are melting server?
You sure look that way to me
Are you holding up?
Will you be ready if I remember this stuff?
Is my timing right?
Did you save bandwidth for me tonight?
Yeah, it's Slash-dotted, click it and see
Net Timeout Errors and 503s
C'mon server, Do the packets do more than bounce?
It's slashdotted, it's slashdotted
Now it's up to you, make it static
strip the images too
Oh, before we do,
you'll have to get rid of a user or two
Well, it's Slash-dotted, click it and see
Net Timeout Errors and 503s
C'mon server, Do the packets do more than bounce?
It's slashdotted, it's slashdotted
Slashdotted, at least for tonight
Slashdotted, you were looking so right
Slashdotted, this clicking's gotten me riled
Slashdotted, I have to wait a while
Slashdotted, traffic a little bit high?
Slashdotted, your poor server died
Slashdotted, I hope your doing something
Slashdotted, cause here's your chance for publicity
I do stand by the idea that the "Hitler" remark was somewhat inflamatory on your part and others seem to agree. This is a subjective argument about an example though, so let's just pretend your shirts just said something the organizers of the conceptual party disagreed with. Sure, they have a right to kick someone out of their private party, but the rules change somewhat when a public official enters the equation. Not many private parties can get the Secret Service to shake you down and kick you out. This blurs the line further since the Secret Service is a taxpayer paid institution. Even if it's okay for all of this, it's also okay for the rest of us to think that the party organizers are narrow minded assholes.
Um, the ideas about rights started with your original post. To refresh memory:I agree that private parties have rules, but this is a pseudo-private party. I wouldn't invite you to my party, but I also wouldn't invite the press while I made a speech providing them with sound bites. (My friends wouldn't care what you wore or did by the way - they would only be entertained. We're a really tolerant bunch.)So Republican slashdotters: go and tell your party that an independant voter won't even consider your cantidates because of this. Change this from within because they certainly aren't listening to us external voices.
Hurts business. Check.
Hurts people. Check.
Has terrorist excuse. Check.
Must be the US of A
(Sadly, my own country's record)
I don't have a chance to dig up links for these, but diagnostic tools are a must if you really want to lock stuff down. First, generate and read logfiles whenever possible. Check things out with nmap, tcpdump, ActivePorts, Look@Lan, Kiwi syslog Daemon, Portlistener XP, Bazooka Spyware Utility, Spybot Search and Destroy, Socketlock ... the list goes on. Generally try any tool you can and you'll get a feel for what is actually to your tastes and useful.
So will they add a burning server icon to the ones for fires and other disasters? From the looks of the site (first two pages then loading..........) they have one server to pinpoint already.