I'm not complaining, it's a free music video. I wish more bands would do this, as sometimes I just want to kick back and watch music videos. Sure, there is always iTunes, but hell, Pearl Jam just saved me 2 bucks by offering this video for free. Bittorrent is just too unreliable when it comes to people seeding older videos. Plus, I don't want a smattering of MTV2 logos that take up half the screen.
Waaah, publicity stunt. It's free! Enjoy it and don't whine about it.
Drawing by hand is indeed powerful, both for the architect and client. I'm currently a second-year architecture student at Kansas State, and we don't even touch computers until the third year, almost halfway through the course. Rather, we are required to refine our drawing skills in both the design and rendering stages. The ability to express and convey ideas well through hand drawing is extremely valuable when dealing with a client, because you can quickly create a clear and vivid image using only pencil and paper, anywhere. You can't do that with a computer. Plus, it impresses the client, and they know they can trust you.
Using computers to draft final drawings, however, is a huge timesaver. Less time is spent retracing in ink and more time can be spent refining designs. When you are drafting finals drawings by hand that are going to be recopied and primarily read for the design rather than the inking quality, drafting by hand seems to lose it's importance. It's a nice skill to have, but in a fast-paced and time-constraining environment, time can be put to better use.
I'm currently taking an environmental systems class in college, the main point of which is to learn how to better manage energy in building design. One large focus in this class is the impending oil crisis and how to deal with energy production, distribution, and conservation in the event that we can no longer rely on fossil fuels. When asked about the practicality of using nuclear power, my professor stated that the total energy gain from using nuclear power is less than the energy required to build the plant, refine the nuclear materials, and run the plant. Therefore, nuclear power would actually result in a net energy loss.
I've wondered about the validity of this statement and was curious as to whether current technologies are changing this energy loss problem, assuming it is correct. Does anyone with extensive knowledge of nuclear power have insight in this issue?
Other than that, what is the point of running XP on a Mac/Intel box? To be cool?
To run AutoCAD. Next year I will need to buy a Windows system in order to run AutoCAD, as my school requires it. Being able to run Windows at full speed on a mac would be highly preferable to me, having recently switched to a mac. I just like macs better, and if I need to buy a high-end system for several years of use, I'd much rather purchase a mac.
Its a fad until Steve Jobs says it isn't, a lot like portable video devices which he said were impractical for the average user. Until Steve Jobs added video support to the iPod. Now its the cat's meow.
Isn't that a good thing? Think about mp3 players in general. They used to be the type of things that only geeks would buy, a type of geek fad. Then Apple released the iPod, and found a way to successfully market the mp3 player to a much much larger segment of the population. The damn things are everywhere! Does that mean that they are better? Not necessarily, but the success of this "mp3 player fad" is leading to newer, better products from more companies, both in mp3 players and digital multimedia in general. Now tell me how much better off wwe'd be without Jobs. We may have eventually progressed this far, but when I see a frickin' iPod everywhere I turn, the guy's done something right!
And probably French is a better choice to learn at that community college than Arabic.
*gasp* French!? As in France French?!?! Oh my, we're boycotting them, remember!
Next time don't reply unless you can answer the question without acting like a 12 year old that feels the need to fit in, dildo.
You responded to his so-called immaturety by calling him dildo?! Yeah, that's professional.
It was actually an 11 year time span between when he started to tinker with the idea and when he finished it, but he took about an 8 year hiatus within those 11 years.
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I'm not complaining, it's a free music video. I wish more bands would do this, as sometimes I just want to kick back and watch music videos. Sure, there is always iTunes, but hell, Pearl Jam just saved me 2 bucks by offering this video for free. Bittorrent is just too unreliable when it comes to people seeding older videos. Plus, I don't want a smattering of MTV2 logos that take up half the screen.
Waaah, publicity stunt. It's free! Enjoy it and don't whine about it.
Drawing by hand is indeed powerful, both for the architect and client. I'm currently a second-year architecture student at Kansas State, and we don't even touch computers until the third year, almost halfway through the course. Rather, we are required to refine our drawing skills in both the design and rendering stages. The ability to express and convey ideas well through hand drawing is extremely valuable when dealing with a client, because you can quickly create a clear and vivid image using only pencil and paper, anywhere. You can't do that with a computer. Plus, it impresses the client, and they know they can trust you.
Using computers to draft final drawings, however, is a huge timesaver. Less time is spent retracing in ink and more time can be spent refining designs. When you are drafting finals drawings by hand that are going to be recopied and primarily read for the design rather than the inking quality, drafting by hand seems to lose it's importance. It's a nice skill to have, but in a fast-paced and time-constraining environment, time can be put to better use.
(Score:-1, Redundant) Oh, the irony.
DUPE!
Have you got code? For the link?
I'm currently taking an environmental systems class in college, the main point of which is to learn how to better manage energy in building design. One large focus in this class is the impending oil crisis and how to deal with energy production, distribution, and conservation in the event that we can no longer rely on fossil fuels. When asked about the practicality of using nuclear power, my professor stated that the total energy gain from using nuclear power is less than the energy required to build the plant, refine the nuclear materials, and run the plant. Therefore, nuclear power would actually result in a net energy loss.
I've wondered about the validity of this statement and was curious as to whether current technologies are changing this energy loss problem, assuming it is correct. Does anyone with extensive knowledge of nuclear power have insight in this issue?
feature bloat?
Other than that, what is the point of running XP on a Mac/Intel box? To be cool?
To run AutoCAD. Next year I will need to buy a Windows system in order to run AutoCAD, as my school requires it. Being able to run Windows at full speed on a mac would be highly preferable to me, having recently switched to a mac. I just like macs better, and if I need to buy a high-end system for several years of use, I'd much rather purchase a mac.
What?
Its a fad until Steve Jobs says it isn't, a lot like portable video devices which he said were impractical for the average user. Until Steve Jobs added video support to the iPod. Now its the cat's meow.
Isn't that a good thing? Think about mp3 players in general. They used to be the type of things that only geeks would buy, a type of geek fad. Then Apple released the iPod, and found a way to successfully market the mp3 player to a much much larger segment of the population. The damn things are everywhere! Does that mean that they are better? Not necessarily, but the success of this "mp3 player fad" is leading to newer, better products from more companies, both in mp3 players and digital multimedia in general. Now tell me how much better off wwe'd be without Jobs. We may have eventually progressed this far, but when I see a frickin' iPod everywhere I turn, the guy's done something right!
Speaking of particular product, i could use a Kleenex as well!
And probably French is a better choice to learn at that community college than Arabic.
*gasp* French!? As in France French?!?! Oh my, we're boycotting them, remember!
Next time don't reply unless you can answer the question without acting like a 12 year old that feels the need to fit in, dildo. You responded to his so-called immaturety by calling him dildo?! Yeah, that's professional.
A Microsoft Catch-22
It was actually an 11 year time span between when he started to tinker with the idea and when he finished it, but he took about an 8 year hiatus within those 11 years.