Laptops are pretty bad for artwork. My friends younger brother is going through art college now and he loves his laptop. It's runnin 3dsmax, photoshop and he does a lot of flash and web design work.
Hes just learning 3d. From my point of view, his 17 inch laptop is no better than my 15 inch when it comes to performance.
First off. Laptops have very flakey video card driver support. Which usually means lack of opengl features, or buggy 3d acceleration.
In his case... 3dsmax performed like crap on it, and did some very odd things. On my laptop... Softimage XSI doesnt fit the wide screen resolution well and it underperforms and lacks some opengl extensions. XSI requires a 1600x1200 resolution to fit the ui. or atleast 1200 tall.
PLUS.. most laptops dont have serial ports.
Which means you better have a USB wacom... AND any dongles you might have for your applications... better be USB also. Or else they aint gunna worky:)
Laptops OVER HEAT. Especially when doing 3d. Often you can crash your laptop playing games or doing 3d work. And you can crash them very easily.
RAM. Filling up a laptop with a good deal of ram is expensive. Actually, buying a laptop that is anywhere near desktop performance is very expensive and costs more tha a comparitive desktop.
Laptop hard drives are SLOW.
For an artist this means... very poor at video editing and copying large files. Lets say you're copying a targa sequence from your laptop to a desktop. You could be sitting there for hours waiting.
lap tops are uncomfortable.
There's a reason why studios dont use laptops as their main workstations.
They're terrible for demanding work.
They're good on the move. They make great office word like computers. Email, web.... Even some photoshop and some 3d and games...
but overall they perform terribly and are quirky. They cost too much, have poor drivers and they break a hell of a lot easier.
You cant put 800 gigs in your laptop. Although you can have an external usb2 drive. Most laptops dont have firewire ports.... The better ones tend to though.
Laptops will never replace desktops in the art world. I'm not sure its a great idea to go with laptops but as you said... the choice has been made.
I have mixed feelings about MySpace... As a father of a little girl, I don't want censorship but I also don't want her to be exposing herself and revealing personal information that could be used against her by predators. Of course, I could block myspace.com at my firewall but this doesn't stop her from accessing it at her friend's houses. Basically my thoughts on the subject have come down to this: there's really no redeeming qualities about myspace and so much to be abused.
First off. You are not your daughter.
Second. Raise her properly.
Third. Tough shit. She's going to experience the world no matter how much you hate the thought of it. Someday, she'll be doing things you probably will never be able to accept fully.
I dont mean to disrespect you or your daughter. Its a matter of perspective. From your perspective, she's your baby. Your blood, the continuation of your life. She is part you. But shes also her. Shes a new person, and she will go on to live life as you have. Often making mistakes and doing things that like all of us do, eventually teach us lessons.
Its not easy to accept the idea of guys hitting on your daughter. We're guys... we know how we think right? Its not quite something you want to even imagine in realation to your own daughter. Beleive me i know.
But lifes going to happen no matter what we do.
The big question is, do we try to throw the raines on life and hold it back as hard as we can. Its wasted effort because no matter how hard you pull, the horse is going to get away from you.
Life is timeless, its something we're swimming in. We're not controlling it in a glass container. We're the ones traveling through it with many others.
So do we change life itself, freedoms... do we clamp down on the enjoyment of others because a murder, a sex offender, a jay walker... may just fullfill their role?
We cant live in a world like that.
Freedom is the best thing we have because ultimately, laws, rules, dictatorships, harsh imprisonments, nazi like militaristic organizations of society... these controlling systems that attempt to fix a problem... ultimately crush freedom. The murders will still take place, the sex offender will still rape, and the jay walker... he'll be beaten to death and tortured under the law as punishment.
Who do we protect? all of us, or the chance that one of us will fall victom.
I think thats what the meaning of sad is. tragic is a word for a reason. We can not create a world were we are not able to socialize like the humans we are.
There is just as much of a chance as a kidnapper being otuside your daughters school, as there is on myspace.
think about it.
Both are gathering places for children.
Shall we put armed soldiers outside of schools? Shall a child only be picked up by their parent or someone with proper security credentials?
What extent to we go to?
We're computer guys and i think we as humans realize that the universal truth is that there is no security in life. There's only risk.
This is what happens when a corporations buys a popular service created with the idea of free speech, free expression, networking of communities and people.
They deem it pornographic, disgusting, filthy, unsafe for children, wrong and bad for all of us who PARTICIPATE and make the community what it is.
Welcome to a microcosim of life and our civilization... Myspace.
Yes the world is full of people who loves to say things freely, speak their mind, show their tits, fuck each other and wipe their own asses. We are a wide ranging species, and these things tend to be bad for us.
Sex is bad for you. Stop doing it. Do not think it. Do not promote it. How dare you. A child might see. Yet a child is created from sex...
Freedom is controlled by those with the biggest wallet. They own you, and they fear what you may do to hurt their wealthy lives.
Why is it, that we are so ashamed of our own actions when publically held up to some bullshit standard of ideals?
There are millions of people on myspace, expressing themselves through blogs, pictures, email, chat, get togethers... AKA socializing.
Are we to let a corporation dictate how we socialize.
FOX and Rupart Murdock beleive you should not socialize in an adult manner. Perhaps we should all show up in uniforms, solute the fox corporation then sit down in unison, and finally, socialize on command.
Its absurd.
Get your crayons, pencils are to dangerous. We should not have knives in our homes because a child may use one. We could kill each other with knives by accident... or god forbid on purpose.
We could choke to death on pretzels... our idiotic president almost did so why should be allowed to enjoy a pretzel.
Every american should take a picture of themselves jerking off or fucking someone, something, anything... and post it to myspace as a public protest on one weekend.
As a group of people, when we stand in shame before ourselves, seem to be embarrassed by the idea that we wipe our own asses, and lick suck and penatrate things.......
Oh god the children may read this...
What will we ever do. They might grow up to have sex?!
Are you suggesting that people overseas are more free than us Americans? How the fuck can that be? Oh my world is fucking shattered.
Welcome to the America... we tell your country what to do, we own your nations workforce, we run the planet... we talk about freedom but we really just want to control all of you and our own people.
I'm glad they're so quick to rush products out:) I'm going to spend another 300 on this new IPOD before my brand new IPOD 5g has had a chance to break.
Dam they're fast.
I predicted this actaully. A real video Ipod would have a better screen than the 5G. The screen should cover the entire face of the Ipod and be touch sensitive. Looks like they're goign to do just that.
Pretty cool design if they do.
I just want one for free... cause i just bought a 5g!:)
"Work with" means Liscense in the corperate world.
They're full of shit. They're a money making organization under the guise of health care.
Do you see how much money they bring in from things like 9/11 and Hurrican Katrina? All they do is send a bunch of bags of rice to some poor country...
Most of the 9/11 folks havent gotten anything from the red cross that even compares to the amount of money they profited from 9/11
Same thing with Katrina...
The red cross takes, but it doesnt give nearly a third of what it takes.
You hacky sperm wagons cant think of an original french joke?
Come on... Brainstorm guys... for the children!
We need new french jokes like... Did you hear the French sold arms to Saddam? They worked perfectly... When America invaded... they dug a hole into the ground for him to hide.
Weeeeeeooooowooowoowow I'm FUNNY... Look at me Daddy... No not that way.. you dirty old man... wooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
In Nazi Germany, the French invade you!
I'd shoot myself, if i werent half french.
I'll be at Chuckle Cunts on the 8th headlining with Jimmy Norton. It's his birthday you know.
I'll beleive it when i see it. Until then i'll just chalk it up as another attempt to raise the value of a medical research firm.
There has been an aids cure anounced every month for the past 5 years... none have surfaced.
There's been cures for skin cancer anounced... even with amazing pictures to prove it... but it never made it to market.
These press releases/stories are the medical version of "killer bee" stories on the news. They use them all the time, but they never amount to anything.
If it were a real cure... it would be out in the field right now, doing its job... just like the aids coctail was.
I'm sure the security team did not buy it. Instead this Press release was given out, using the NFL and Superbowl as some sort of legitimizing example of in the field use.
I'm almost certain that it is sitting there, turned off... with 3 beers sitting on it.
Here's to hopeing i evolve soon. It would make getting laid so much easier. "Excuse me... is that your car on fire" Then she turns around... I inject my toxin into her brain... take her home...
Slashdot Mirror
and glowing...
Its nice to see nuclear facilities becoming more and more common place.
Anyone got the going odds on which nation will meltdown first?
I should also add... any hardware addons that are video editing related, 3d related etc... are all for desktop pc/macs
Laptops are a very poor choice for an artist.
Laptops are pretty bad for artwork. My friends younger brother is going through art college now and he loves his laptop. It's runnin 3dsmax, photoshop and he does a lot of flash and web design work.
:)
Hes just learning 3d. From my point of view, his 17 inch laptop is no better than my 15 inch when it comes to performance.
First off. Laptops have very flakey video card driver support. Which usually means lack of opengl features, or buggy 3d acceleration.
In his case... 3dsmax performed like crap on it, and did some very odd things. On my laptop... Softimage XSI doesnt fit the wide screen resolution well and it underperforms and lacks some opengl extensions. XSI requires a 1600x1200 resolution to fit the ui. or atleast 1200 tall.
PLUS.. most laptops dont have serial ports.
Which means you better have a USB wacom... AND any dongles you might have for your applications... better be USB also. Or else they aint gunna worky
Laptops OVER HEAT. Especially when doing 3d. Often you can crash your laptop playing games or doing 3d work. And you can crash them very easily.
RAM. Filling up a laptop with a good deal of ram is expensive. Actually, buying a laptop that is anywhere near desktop performance is very expensive and costs more tha a comparitive desktop.
Laptop hard drives are SLOW.
For an artist this means... very poor at video editing and copying large files. Lets say you're copying a targa sequence from your laptop to a desktop. You could be sitting there for hours waiting.
lap tops are uncomfortable.
There's a reason why studios dont use laptops as their main workstations.
They're terrible for demanding work.
They're good on the move. They make great office word like computers. Email, web.... Even some photoshop and some 3d and games...
but overall they perform terribly and are quirky. They cost too much, have poor drivers and they break a hell of a lot easier.
You cant put 800 gigs in your laptop. Although you can have an external usb2 drive. Most laptops dont have firewire ports.... The better ones tend to though.
Laptops will never replace desktops in the art world. I'm not sure its a great idea to go with laptops but as you said... the choice has been made.
Sit on my face, and tell me that you love me...
yeah i've never heard of this guy. Its odd that he feels he has to start charging folks.
Sounds like LiL Jimmys younger brother with super aids
OK TERRIFIC!
I'm talking about jr high/highscool. Day care is a little different. I'm not sure thats the myspace audience, and it should never be.
13 year old girl acting like a whore...
and you call the guy whos attracted to them a predator?
Take the notion of age out of it.
She could be sucking cock after school more than you could imagine....
Whos wrong?
The guy shes flirting with?
Is it the guys fault for being tempted by a sexually active girl?
(again take age out of it)
Now put age into it.
I'm not sure we'll ever figure this out, but lets not act as if our teens are so innocent.
They are having sex, drinking, smoking, flirting, you name it.
Chances are they're enjoying themselves too.
I dont think they're as innocent as we make them out to be when we talk publically aobut them on tv.
We're too ashamed to recognize that we were once children and did similar things.
I think the issues are more complex than we tend to admit.
FOX corp sure as hell aint going to fix it. And i wouldnt want to live in a world where they fix it for us.
No thank you. We're a free nation, not a corporate run puritan nation.. (oh wait.. sorry we are)
I have mixed feelings about MySpace... As a father of a little girl, I don't want censorship but I also don't want her to be exposing herself and revealing personal information that could be used against her by predators. Of course, I could block myspace.com at my firewall but this doesn't stop her from accessing it at her friend's houses. Basically my thoughts on the subject have come down to this: there's really no redeeming qualities about myspace and so much to be abused.
First off. You are not your daughter.
Second. Raise her properly.
Third. Tough shit. She's going to experience the world no matter how much you hate the thought of it. Someday, she'll be doing things you probably will never be able to accept fully.
I dont mean to disrespect you or your daughter. Its a matter of perspective. From your perspective, she's your baby. Your blood, the continuation of your life. She is part you. But shes also her. Shes a new person, and she will go on to live life as you have. Often making mistakes and doing things that like all of us do, eventually teach us lessons.
Its not easy to accept the idea of guys hitting on your daughter. We're guys... we know how we think right? Its not quite something you want to even imagine in realation to your own daughter. Beleive me i know.
But lifes going to happen no matter what we do.
The big question is, do we try to throw the raines on life and hold it back as hard as we can. Its wasted effort because no matter how hard you pull, the horse is going to get away from you.
Life is timeless, its something we're swimming in. We're not controlling it in a glass container. We're the ones traveling through it with many others.
So do we change life itself, freedoms... do we clamp down on the enjoyment of others because a murder, a sex offender, a jay walker... may just fullfill their role?
We cant live in a world like that.
Freedom is the best thing we have because ultimately, laws, rules, dictatorships, harsh imprisonments, nazi like militaristic organizations of society... these controlling systems that attempt to fix a problem... ultimately crush freedom. The murders will still take place, the sex offender will still rape, and the jay walker... he'll be beaten to death and tortured under the law as punishment.
Who do we protect? all of us, or the chance that one of us will fall victom.
I think thats what the meaning of sad is. tragic is a word for a reason. We can not create a world were we are not able to socialize like the humans we are.
There is just as much of a chance as a kidnapper being otuside your daughters school, as there is on myspace.
think about it.
Both are gathering places for children.
Shall we put armed soldiers outside of schools? Shall a child only be picked up by their parent or someone with proper security credentials?
What extent to we go to?
We're computer guys and i think we as humans realize that the universal truth is that there is no security in life. There's only risk.
This is what happens when a corporations buys a popular service created with the idea of free speech, free expression, networking of communities and people.
They deem it pornographic, disgusting, filthy, unsafe for children, wrong and bad for all of us who PARTICIPATE and make the community what it is.
Welcome to a microcosim of life and our civilization... Myspace.
Yes the world is full of people who loves to say things freely, speak their mind, show their tits, fuck each other and wipe their own asses. We are a wide ranging species, and these things tend to be bad for us.
Sex is bad for you. Stop doing it. Do not think it. Do not promote it. How dare you. A child might see. Yet a child is created from sex...
Freedom is controlled by those with the biggest wallet. They own you, and they fear what you may do to hurt their wealthy lives.
Why is it, that we are so ashamed of our own actions when publically held up to some bullshit standard of ideals?
There are millions of people on myspace, expressing themselves through blogs, pictures, email, chat, get togethers... AKA socializing.
Are we to let a corporation dictate how we socialize.
FOX and Rupart Murdock beleive you should not socialize in an adult manner. Perhaps we should all show up in uniforms, solute the fox corporation then sit down in unison, and finally, socialize on command.
Its absurd.
Get your crayons, pencils are to dangerous. We should not have knives in our homes because a child may use one. We could kill each other with knives by accident... or god forbid on purpose.
We could choke to death on pretzels... our idiotic president almost did so why should be allowed to enjoy a pretzel.
Every american should take a picture of themselves jerking off or fucking someone, something, anything... and post it to myspace as a public protest on one weekend.
As a group of people, when we stand in shame before ourselves, seem to be embarrassed by the idea that we wipe our own asses, and lick suck and penatrate things.......
Oh god the children may read this...
What will we ever do. They might grow up to have sex?!
The leafer's are kicking our eagle's ass up and down the constitution.
Is this a blessing for Apple
No... It's a blessing for the rest of us!
Can't wait to check it out!
Can i elect you president of the galaxy?
Shit...
This world is going so ass bent sideways and the hackers are the new revolutionaries.... HOLY FUCK every scifi book has just become a reality.
Welcome to the new world...
Someone wire up the dolphin, we've got a world of curruption to decrypt.
Are you suggesting that people overseas are more free than us Americans? How the fuck can that be? Oh my world is fucking shattered.
Welcome to the America... we tell your country what to do, we own your nations workforce, we run the planet... we talk about freedom but we really just want to control all of you and our own people.
America... the great lie.
We're all slaves.
It couldnt be any uglier. Consider those who cant run it, lucky
:)
Atleast they'll be able to use their monitor still
Nice to see the civility.
Now can we get back to hating each other? GOSH.
I'm glad they're so quick to rush products out :) I'm going to spend another 300 on this new IPOD before my brand new IPOD 5g has had a chance to break.
:)
Dam they're fast.
I predicted this actaully. A real video Ipod would have a better screen than the 5G. The screen should cover the entire face of the Ipod and be touch sensitive. Looks like they're goign to do just that.
Pretty cool design if they do.
I just want one for free... cause i just bought a 5g!
"Work with" means Liscense in the corperate world.
They're full of shit. They're a money making organization under the guise of health care.
Do you see how much money they bring in from things like 9/11 and Hurrican Katrina? All they do is send a bunch of bags of rice to some poor country...
Most of the 9/11 folks havent gotten anything from the red cross that even compares to the amount of money they profited from 9/11
Same thing with Katrina...
The red cross takes, but it doesnt give nearly a third of what it takes.
The Red Cross is a currupt organization that takes in billions of dollars and gives out only a few million.
It eats up the rest as "administrative costs"
Right....
So now they're interested in sueing games to protect their precious red cross logo?
Money money money. The red cross is a shitty organization.
Ain't LiL Jimmy just a sweety.
You hacky sperm wagons cant think of an original french joke?
Come on... Brainstorm guys... for the children!
We need new french jokes like... Did you hear the French sold arms to Saddam? They worked perfectly... When America invaded... they dug a hole into the ground for him to hide.
Weeeeeeooooowooowoowow I'm FUNNY... Look at me Daddy... No not that way.. you dirty old man... wooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
In Nazi Germany, the French invade you!
I'd shoot myself, if i werent half french.
I'll be at Chuckle Cunts on the 8th headlining with Jimmy Norton. It's his birthday you know.
I'll beleive it when i see it. Until then i'll just chalk it up as another attempt to raise the value of a medical research firm.
There has been an aids cure anounced every month for the past 5 years... none have surfaced.
There's been cures for skin cancer anounced... even with amazing pictures to prove it... but it never made it to market.
These press releases/stories are the medical version of "killer bee" stories on the news. They use them all the time, but they never amount to anything.
If it were a real cure... it would be out in the field right now, doing its job... just like the aids coctail was.
I'm sure the security team did not buy it. Instead this Press release was given out, using the NFL and Superbowl as some sort of legitimizing example of in the field use.
I'm almost certain that it is sitting there, turned off... with 3 beers sitting on it.
Here's to hopeing i evolve soon. It would make getting laid so much easier. "Excuse me... is that your car on fire" Then she turns around... I inject my toxin into her brain... take her home...
Zombie baby... Sweet sweet zombie sexy time.