you may not be able to, but every since my webhost got it I've been enjoying the wonders of IMAP. with 250 megs webspace, and only 1/3 of that used, i have plenty of space for mail.
Firstly, AOL is on its way out. As broadband becomes more pervasive AOL is being cut out. Why pay for AOL on broadband (an extra cost) when broadband by itself is almost as easy to use now?
The remaining customer base of AOL is probably technically inept enough to not even know what an OS is, much less have any desire to install it. AOL is not a target group at the moment, that doesn't mean it won't ever be, but right now, it is not.
FF's visuals may have been engaging, but some beauty is timeless. 40 years from now people will say, oh yes, very real, for its time, but it won't get accolades as far as cinematography composition, or compelling story telling goes. What you found beautiful was the experience of watching it, which is not timeless, to enjoy it FF had to be the cutting edge of tech. So apparently, we're discussing two different kinds of beauty, the experiential beauty which cannot exist without the context of FF being a CG breakthrough, and beauty from the standpoint of composition, compelling characters, story, etc.. So I agree, I too was interested by the advanced rendering tech, but I'll say that its a one off, its a gimmick, an enjoyable one, but a gimmick which I think doesn't deserve beauty, an overused term.
FF had good quality visuals as far as realism went, but as far beauty went, it was not beautiful really. Aki Ross may have been hot, but that aside, the imagery was just standard sci-fi fare, albeit rendered in CG. Beauty and accuracy are two different things.
other posters to this thread have suggested using deviant art, but you might do well to observe that deviant art by default licenses all those images free for non-commercial use. I'm not sure if this has changed at all though
Most distros of linux come with IM as part of their main / stable distros. I've used it with Gentoo and debian via apt and emerge respectively, no problems. Redhat and Mandrake have it too! The windows version comes precompiled / statically linked, so that's no big deal. What were you using?
From what I can gather, from speaking with my parents, American Board games used to be social things. Social events are better where there is a level playing field, luck does this. The fun for my friends and I as far as board games go also comes mostly from the social interaction, and almost not at all from the game.
Adobe has no problems releasing windows / mac versions of PS on time. Additionally, they ported to OSX quite quickly too. It'd be a safe wager that the UI is cross platform, or at least easy enough to port.
Edit photos in the GIMP, which in a head-to-head test several years ago (a very early GIMP for Windows) produced finished photos that were not distinguishable from the same photos edited in PhotoShop. Then bring them into Scribus and export the color separations.
So you mean things like adjust colors, hue contrast etc are the same? Big surprise, the Image Magick library can probably do that. Photoshop belies its name, its image creation tools are exceedingly powerful. The combination of its multiplicity of tools combined with its dead simple interface make photoshop the market leader for a reason. I'm not one for monopolies, but there are simply no competitors who place anywhere near photoshop at the moment.
The RIAA is like a big loan company. They load you money in order record your music, promote it, and in the meantime let you live like a rockstar. You don't get back all you've earned because the RIAA loses a lot of money on bands they've done this with who go nowhere. Its very much like any type of loan, except the artist doesn't have to pay anything back if they tank.
It sounds like a great deal, but it really is a catch 22 as even if you get prettys successful you still make shit. The only way to make money is to become a megastar.
I know html very well and you need to know more than that to do a blog from scratch, unless you like tons of typing. A program like moveable type is really necessary. Anyone blogging with just HTML files is an idiot.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding was originally a play. Tom Hank's wife saw the play, liked it, and had it funded. It was several million in production costs.
Oh, the blair witch had a few hundred thousand (maybe even $700,000) in post production applied to the raw footage before it was released to theaters. Of course that example doesn't work as well as "Wedding" but still, the tech isn't there yet to do it on your own unless you are willing to really learn your equipment.
I was really rallying against the press in my reply. Obviously bi-partisan supported initiatives will go through faster. My real beef is with the constant press on the topic, its not necessary. I simply feel that it could be better spent. Of course I do realize that my position has been said over and over, that the people never hear the 'real issues'. So its not like I expect anything.
yes yes, I understand this, but seriuosly, this legislation is being pushed LIGHTNING FAST, not PATRIOT act fast, but fast. The way I view it your analogy doesn't work. Why? Because all these little chickenshit problems get more public mindshare than the important ones. Spam articles abound, articles on say, congolese massacres never make the headlines. Hell, liberia's pres resigned today and it only got to the bottom of the front page in the LA Times. I dont' know if this reflects something bad about the public or the publishers, but its still fscked up.
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you may not be able to, but every since my webhost got it I've been enjoying the wonders of IMAP. with 250 megs webspace, and only 1/3 of that used, i have plenty of space for mail.
Firstly, AOL is on its way out. As broadband becomes more pervasive AOL is being cut out. Why pay for AOL on broadband (an extra cost) when broadband by itself is almost as easy to use now?
The remaining customer base of AOL is probably technically inept enough to not even know what an OS is, much less have any desire to install it. AOL is not a target group at the moment, that doesn't mean it won't ever be, but right now, it is not.
FF's visuals may have been engaging, but some beauty is timeless. 40 years from now people will say, oh yes, very real, for its time, but it won't get accolades as far as cinematography composition, or compelling story telling goes. What you found beautiful was the experience of watching it, which is not timeless, to enjoy it FF had to be the cutting edge of tech. So apparently, we're discussing two different kinds of beauty, the experiential beauty which cannot exist without the context of FF being a CG breakthrough, and beauty from the standpoint of composition, compelling characters, story, etc.. So I agree, I too was interested by the advanced rendering tech, but I'll say that its a one off, its a gimmick, an enjoyable one, but a gimmick which I think doesn't deserve beauty, an overused term.
FF had good quality visuals as far as realism went, but as far beauty went, it was not beautiful really. Aki Ross may have been hot, but that aside, the imagery was just standard sci-fi fare, albeit rendered in CG. Beauty and accuracy are two different things.
the law restricts the general concept of unauthorized storing of user info. Hence, doing that also now seems illegal. Bizarre eh?
High school bullying is good fun, until one of the victims decides to shoot some classmates.
Never mind the extreme personal hell inflcited in the one being bullied. Guns or words, either one can ruin a life.
Can I get one from Project Gutenburg?
Goddamn their ASCII Text Files, what are they going to do to preserve really typseting / formating
weight watchers is a pseudo-science scam.
Havn't they established themselves as being a pseudonews source yet?
check out thye parody at mozillaquestquest.com for a little humour in that direction. I guess most people forget with time.
most foods are largely water, and those count. 8 glasses a day is correct, except you get a large amount from solid foods.
other posters to this thread have suggested using deviant art, but you might do well to observe that deviant art by default licenses all those images free for non-commercial use. I'm not sure if this has changed at all though
If you rip a 4 gig DVD, and it looks as good at 700 megs, then its better.
Most distros of linux come with IM as part of their main / stable distros. I've used it with Gentoo and debian via apt and emerge respectively, no problems. Redhat and Mandrake have it too! The windows version comes precompiled / statically linked, so that's no big deal. What were you using?
From what I can gather, from speaking with my parents, American Board games used to be social things. Social events are better where there is a level playing field, luck does this. The fun for my friends and I as far as board games go also comes mostly from the social interaction, and almost not at all from the game.
Adobe has no problems releasing windows / mac versions of PS on time. Additionally, they ported to OSX quite quickly too. It'd be a safe wager that the UI is cross platform, or at least easy enough to port.
Quark 6 has native PDF export.
Edit photos in the GIMP, which in a head-to-head test several years ago (a very early GIMP for Windows) produced finished photos that were not distinguishable from the same photos edited in PhotoShop. Then bring them into Scribus and export the color separations.
So you mean things like adjust colors, hue contrast etc are the same? Big surprise, the Image Magick library can probably do that. Photoshop belies its name, its image creation tools are exceedingly powerful. The combination of its multiplicity of tools combined with its dead simple interface make photoshop the market leader for a reason. I'm not one for monopolies, but there are simply no competitors who place anywhere near photoshop at the moment.
The RIAA is like a big loan company. They load you money in order record your music, promote it, and in the meantime let you live like a rockstar. You don't get back all you've earned because the RIAA loses a lot of money on bands they've done this with who go nowhere. Its very much like any type of loan, except the artist doesn't have to pay anything back if they tank.
It sounds like a great deal, but it really is a catch 22 as even if you get prettys successful you still make shit. The only way to make money is to become a megastar.
I know html very well and you need to know more than that to do a blog from scratch, unless you like tons of typing. A program like moveable type is really necessary. Anyone blogging with just HTML files is an idiot.
That Los Angeles has an apple store not 30 minutes away in decent traffic.
Combine many at once into a grid computing target system for scud warheads!
what?
JFK wouldn't have continued the war, those followed him escalated vietnam.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding was originally a play. Tom Hank's wife saw the play, liked it, and had it funded. It was several million in production costs.
Oh, the blair witch had a few hundred thousand (maybe even $700,000) in post production applied to the raw footage before it was released to theaters. Of course that example doesn't work as well as "Wedding" but still, the tech isn't there yet to do it on your own unless you are willing to really learn your equipment.
I was really rallying against the press in my reply. Obviously bi-partisan supported initiatives will go through faster. My real beef is with the constant press on the topic, its not necessary. I simply feel that it could be better spent. Of course I do realize that my position has been said over and over, that the people never hear the 'real issues'. So its not like I expect anything.
yes yes, I understand this, but seriuosly, this legislation is being pushed LIGHTNING FAST, not PATRIOT act fast, but fast. The way I view it your analogy doesn't work. Why? Because all these little chickenshit problems get more public mindshare than the important ones. Spam articles abound, articles on say, congolese massacres never make the headlines. Hell, liberia's pres resigned today and it only got to the bottom of the front page in the LA Times. I dont' know if this reflects something bad about the public or the publishers, but its still fscked up.