Yes but why as an artist don't I have to right to control my work? Everyone is quick to claim their rights but the artists are getting trampled. The argument that there are others stupid enough to work for free is a poor one and self centered. Music costs money to make even if it's just instruments and recording equipment it still can get expensive for a hobby with no hope of making money. Bands may be able to make a few bucks off live performances but remember bar bands are largely unpaid these days just the big venues pay. And what about film makers? Only big budget films get theatrical releases so live performances aren't an option and films cost more to make than albums. There's nothing in the Constitution about free entertainment. What's wrong with the free market system? Theaters would love to raise prices but people have been firm about not wanting to pay more than $10 on average so ticket prices hit a ceiling. It's one of the reasons for $5 popcorn.
Actually I wish I would get as chance to see it the event should be beautiful and very long lived. As far as affecting us it's a non event it hits a different arm of the Galaxy. If it does cause super nova there'll be some neutrino events but if there's no civilization left no one will notice. Anything alive will see some pretty lights but I'm guessing other than novas you'd need a telescope to appreciate it.
We need to start building ships and load them full of our most important people. Politicians, Lawyers and phone sanitizers. It would best not to wait until the hydrogen hits these people are far too important and should be saved now! The future of our civilization depends on it!..... We'll start building ships for the rest of us when they are safely on their way.
Real ice cream is made from cream which is expensive. Real Ice Cream maintains it's texture because it's mostly milk fat with very little water. The point is to take milk and cheaper water based products and still get that higher quality texture. This is about saving a buck not producing a higher quality ice cream.
Watermarking would seem to end the fair use argument so what's left? I don't want to pay? In truth is that the real issue? Being able to freely distribute to friends was never a part of copyright law. You do benefit from the act, you give friend a couple of copied albums you bought so they feel warmer towards you but the artist doesn't benefit other than getting their work out there which doesn't pay his/her bills. Is there a middle ground with DRM paid music on one hand and free as beer on the other that would satisfy most users? Some will never be happy paying so they aren't a factor. Forget end cost for now what system would make people happy and still give the company and/or artist some control over the distribution of their work?
The problem I keep running onto are people demanding top level money but are providing entry level work. I have no problem paying good money for some one worth the money but few are worth what they are demanding. Pros should be self starters that make few mistakes and can deal with errors when they happen. You can't expect top pay when you take three months to do two weeks of work and your code is buggy. I wound up having to debug an employees code and I'm not a programmer. When I started out we fought hard to get to the top but so many these days expect an office and top money fresh out of school. School doesn't prepare them for a professional setting and it takes time to get up to speed. Sorry but if you are working half as fast as the next guy/girl you are worth half as much. Ah but your work is better... I never find this to be the case. People generally work fast because of experience and skill so their work tends to be cleaner and needs less revision. Unrealistic expectations is a massive problem. I've had to change how we approach projects because it's so hard to find people with skills to match their salary demands. When I started out entry level was only somewhat better than minimum wage, yes we rode to work on dinosaurs. The point is we had to prove ourselves then you could rise up at a good clip. Within ten years I was making excellent money even by today's standards. The point being I worked my way up to that level by proving myself project after project. You may be a genius but you better be able to back it up. If you're unhappy with your money and you're making 60K and the person working next to you is doing twice the work you are and they are making 80K imagine how your boss feels, he's loosing money on you. Before you quit and look for a better paying job be happy you're working and improve your skills and work ethic and you may just get what you want where you are.
Fundies do come off looking like idiots. It's because of ignorance, and I mean that in the dictionary definition of the word. I have a cousin that's a born again fundimentalist. We had a long talk one night on the subject of evolution. By the end I had him questioning his beliefs on the subject. The problem is most of what they are exposed to is the psuedo science that the preachers are spewing in church. They are taught there is virtually no evidence of evolution and they cherry pick some weaknesses in Darwinian theory as an excuse to disbelieve the entire theory. Essentially if there is one flaw then it's wrong and they are right. That's a pretty radical standard. Darwin did get a couple of things wrong but it was based on his limited information not on any fundimental flaw in the theory. He predicted slow even change over many years. What's been found since is evolution tends to happen in rapid bursts with long periods of minimal change between. One of the biggest change factors is in response to climate change. This machine like gradual improvement that he predicted was wrong. Evolution also doesn't always occur since some species can remain realitively unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. Environmental factors seem to be the primary driving force behind evolution. Ironically humans haven't seen much evolution since the civilization started in part due to relatively stable climate. If we don't wipe out all large species we're likely to see a lot more change over the next ten thousand years than the previous ten thousand. Fundimentalist don't want evolution taught because ignorance is a powerful tool. Informed people are harder to sway and control. It's why the founding fathers were so devoted to a free press. What they in essence want is to prevent free speech from infecting their followers with facts that they don't approve of. All the facts in the world won't convince the church leaders since they have the ultimate trump card, "God Made It That Way". Please park your brains at the door.
Vue 6 does an amazing job of creating random trees. The only downside is they aren't really suitable for gaming. You can export most of them and I use them in other 3D apps but they tend to be pretty poly intensive and even slow down the renders in 3D apps. You've got some resolution control but even at the lowest levels they are a bit heavy for creating a forest for games. Still an excellent app for plants. I use it all the time for plates and backdrops. It works well for skyboxes and even a forested, or mountainous, edge of a skybox, I've done that many times.
I used to love their hardware and I've got three setting in front of me now. The last case I bought was a lemon. I happen to have identical parts because I was building two machines at once so I was able to swap out the parts and it was definitely the case, it would reboot halfway through loading Windows. I even had an independent shop check it out and they said there was a problem with the motherboard. I shipped it back expecting a new case. They returned it in a week claiming it worked fine but they had reloaded the bios. I rebuilt the machine, same exact problem. I called them up and they said there was nothing they could do it wasn't their hardware. I explained about the fact I'd built eight of their systems to date and they were about to loose a customer. They weren't impressed. I wound up eating a $400 barebones and turned around and got a top of the line Alienware system which has been working like a champ ever since. I've been building my own systems for ten years now but that soured me on the whole deal. The Alienware wasn't that much more and it was turnkey. I just don't have the time and money anymore to fight with vendors. Few seem inclined to support hardware anymore. I just didn't like their attitude. They're pretty little cases and easy to work on but the quality is uneven from model to model and they don't seem inclined to back their own products. I'm sticking with Boxx and Alienware from here on out.
I don't see the LCD screens getting down to a price making this possible. The other option would be the laser projectors but it's new technology and it'll be years before they are cheap enough. With memory prices dropping I can see it with most of the components but I can't see anyway around the display problem.
One that comes to mind is the Yugo. There have been several others all of which were underpowered and unsafe. There's just so much steel you can buy for that much money and just so much power you're going to get out of an over sized lawn mower engine. It could go a long way to solving India's population problems but there has to be better ways of dealing with that than road attrition.
Shouldn't they have gotten an honorable mention or a life time achievement award? Yes all the ones on the list are worse but the point is even Mac users complain about typing on Mac keyboards. They're okay for software use and basic data entry but have you ever tried typing for hours on one? Tired sore fingers. PC keyboards in general have a nice snap and you can tell when you've hit a key. Mac keyboards are always too small and cramped. I hated the previous one which was stiff, thick feeling and far too small so it was easy to hit two keys at once, I have big hands. Ironically I like the new design better but I still go back to my PCs for real typing and I even hate e-mailing on the Mac. Stunning hardware in general but their keyboards and mice suck. I use an after market mouse on mine but I couldn't find an after market keyboard that worked. They also tend to be frail. The Mighty Mouse I got with my last Mac died in a week that's why I got the after market wireless, works great. Also the previous keyboard design I found died every time I used dust off on one. I killed the first one and thought it had to be a coincidence or a freak piece of dust getting in the wrong place. Nope. Second keyboard I got after a while I tried dust off and it stopped working. I got it working again after a few hours. Needless to say I never used dust off on it again.
Can they start color coding USB cable types? Some of us old timers have been around since 1.0 was popular. I've got a box full and it's always fun trying to find the 2.0 cable hiding among the 1.0 cables.I hate to toss them but I really haven't any use for 1.0 cables. I'd just love to see some kind of coding system since they all use the same connectors. At least with hard drives every time they change them we get new connectors. It may make them backwardly compatible but it does cause confusion.
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I don't know I use Blockbutser.
Yes but why as an artist don't I have to right to control my work? Everyone is quick to claim their rights but the artists are getting trampled. The argument that there are others stupid enough to work for free is a poor one and self centered. Music costs money to make even if it's just instruments and recording equipment it still can get expensive for a hobby with no hope of making money. Bands may be able to make a few bucks off live performances but remember bar bands are largely unpaid these days just the big venues pay. And what about film makers? Only big budget films get theatrical releases so live performances aren't an option and films cost more to make than albums. There's nothing in the Constitution about free entertainment. What's wrong with the free market system? Theaters would love to raise prices but people have been firm about not wanting to pay more than $10 on average so ticket prices hit a ceiling. It's one of the reasons for $5 popcorn.
Actually I wish I would get as chance to see it the event should be beautiful and very long lived. As far as affecting us it's a non event it hits a different arm of the Galaxy. If it does cause super nova there'll be some neutrino events but if there's no civilization left no one will notice. Anything alive will see some pretty lights but I'm guessing other than novas you'd need a telescope to appreciate it.
We need to start building ships and load them full of our most important people. Politicians, Lawyers and phone sanitizers. It would best not to wait until the hydrogen hits these people are far too important and should be saved now! The future of our civilization depends on it!..... We'll start building ships for the rest of us when they are safely on their way.
I'd like to second you. I'm quite sure having some jackass head on you was disturbing enough for the train.
It does bring to mind the disturbing image of some one doing a keg stand that way at a frat party.
So the blindness wasn't caused by too much mastrabation?
Real ice cream is made from cream which is expensive. Real Ice Cream maintains it's texture because it's mostly milk fat with very little water. The point is to take milk and cheaper water based products and still get that higher quality texture. This is about saving a buck not producing a higher quality ice cream.
Bikini'ed Space Babes!
Watermarking would seem to end the fair use argument so what's left? I don't want to pay? In truth is that the real issue? Being able to freely distribute to friends was never a part of copyright law. You do benefit from the act, you give friend a couple of copied albums you bought so they feel warmer towards you but the artist doesn't benefit other than getting their work out there which doesn't pay his/her bills. Is there a middle ground with DRM paid music on one hand and free as beer on the other that would satisfy most users? Some will never be happy paying so they aren't a factor. Forget end cost for now what system would make people happy and still give the company and/or artist some control over the distribution of their work?
The problem I keep running onto are people demanding top level money but are providing entry level work. I have no problem paying good money for some one worth the money but few are worth what they are demanding. Pros should be self starters that make few mistakes and can deal with errors when they happen. You can't expect top pay when you take three months to do two weeks of work and your code is buggy. I wound up having to debug an employees code and I'm not a programmer. When I started out we fought hard to get to the top but so many these days expect an office and top money fresh out of school. School doesn't prepare them for a professional setting and it takes time to get up to speed. Sorry but if you are working half as fast as the next guy/girl you are worth half as much. Ah but your work is better... I never find this to be the case. People generally work fast because of experience and skill so their work tends to be cleaner and needs less revision. Unrealistic expectations is a massive problem. I've had to change how we approach projects because it's so hard to find people with skills to match their salary demands. When I started out entry level was only somewhat better than minimum wage, yes we rode to work on dinosaurs. The point is we had to prove ourselves then you could rise up at a good clip. Within ten years I was making excellent money even by today's standards. The point being I worked my way up to that level by proving myself project after project. You may be a genius but you better be able to back it up. If you're unhappy with your money and you're making 60K and the person working next to you is doing twice the work you are and they are making 80K imagine how your boss feels, he's loosing money on you. Before you quit and look for a better paying job be happy you're working and improve your skills and work ethic and you may just get what you want where you are.
Microsoft's response, "How do you know it'll hurt until you've tried it"?
Fundies do come off looking like idiots. It's because of ignorance, and I mean that in the dictionary definition of the word. I have a cousin that's a born again fundimentalist. We had a long talk one night on the subject of evolution. By the end I had him questioning his beliefs on the subject. The problem is most of what they are exposed to is the psuedo science that the preachers are spewing in church. They are taught there is virtually no evidence of evolution and they cherry pick some weaknesses in Darwinian theory as an excuse to disbelieve the entire theory. Essentially if there is one flaw then it's wrong and they are right. That's a pretty radical standard. Darwin did get a couple of things wrong but it was based on his limited information not on any fundimental flaw in the theory. He predicted slow even change over many years. What's been found since is evolution tends to happen in rapid bursts with long periods of minimal change between. One of the biggest change factors is in response to climate change. This machine like gradual improvement that he predicted was wrong. Evolution also doesn't always occur since some species can remain realitively unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. Environmental factors seem to be the primary driving force behind evolution. Ironically humans haven't seen much evolution since the civilization started in part due to relatively stable climate. If we don't wipe out all large species we're likely to see a lot more change over the next ten thousand years than the previous ten thousand. Fundimentalist don't want evolution taught because ignorance is a powerful tool. Informed people are harder to sway and control. It's why the founding fathers were so devoted to a free press. What they in essence want is to prevent free speech from infecting their followers with facts that they don't approve of. All the facts in the world won't convince the church leaders since they have the ultimate trump card, "God Made It That Way". Please park your brains at the door.
Just crack a can of Red Bull and wave it around. If he starts sniffing the air and looks more awake you've probably got a good one.
Actually with minors they spray them with a super soaker and hand them over to Catholic priests. The threat alone usually does the trick.
So eating a pair of syrup soaked muffin shaped pancakes with a wedge of sausage crammed between doesn't make you fat but consumer electronics will?
Vue 6 does an amazing job of creating random trees. The only downside is they aren't really suitable for gaming. You can export most of them and I use them in other 3D apps but they tend to be pretty poly intensive and even slow down the renders in 3D apps. You've got some resolution control but even at the lowest levels they are a bit heavy for creating a forest for games. Still an excellent app for plants. I use it all the time for plates and backdrops. It works well for skyboxes and even a forested, or mountainous, edge of a skybox, I've done that many times.
My first thought was they filmed intergalactic wrestling with the Hubble.
I used to love their hardware and I've got three setting in front of me now. The last case I bought was a lemon. I happen to have identical parts because I was building two machines at once so I was able to swap out the parts and it was definitely the case, it would reboot halfway through loading Windows. I even had an independent shop check it out and they said there was a problem with the motherboard. I shipped it back expecting a new case. They returned it in a week claiming it worked fine but they had reloaded the bios. I rebuilt the machine, same exact problem. I called them up and they said there was nothing they could do it wasn't their hardware. I explained about the fact I'd built eight of their systems to date and they were about to loose a customer. They weren't impressed. I wound up eating a $400 barebones and turned around and got a top of the line Alienware system which has been working like a champ ever since. I've been building my own systems for ten years now but that soured me on the whole deal. The Alienware wasn't that much more and it was turnkey. I just don't have the time and money anymore to fight with vendors. Few seem inclined to support hardware anymore. I just didn't like their attitude. They're pretty little cases and easy to work on but the quality is uneven from model to model and they don't seem inclined to back their own products. I'm sticking with Boxx and Alienware from here on out.
I don't see the LCD screens getting down to a price making this possible. The other option would be the laser projectors but it's new technology and it'll be years before they are cheap enough. With memory prices dropping I can see it with most of the components but I can't see anyway around the display problem.
One that comes to mind is the Yugo. There have been several others all of which were underpowered and unsafe. There's just so much steel you can buy for that much money and just so much power you're going to get out of an over sized lawn mower engine. It could go a long way to solving India's population problems but there has to be better ways of dealing with that than road attrition.
Shouldn't they have gotten an honorable mention or a life time achievement award? Yes all the ones on the list are worse but the point is even Mac users complain about typing on Mac keyboards. They're okay for software use and basic data entry but have you ever tried typing for hours on one? Tired sore fingers. PC keyboards in general have a nice snap and you can tell when you've hit a key. Mac keyboards are always too small and cramped. I hated the previous one which was stiff, thick feeling and far too small so it was easy to hit two keys at once, I have big hands. Ironically I like the new design better but I still go back to my PCs for real typing and I even hate e-mailing on the Mac. Stunning hardware in general but their keyboards and mice suck. I use an after market mouse on mine but I couldn't find an after market keyboard that worked. They also tend to be frail. The Mighty Mouse I got with my last Mac died in a week that's why I got the after market wireless, works great. Also the previous keyboard design I found died every time I used dust off on one. I killed the first one and thought it had to be a coincidence or a freak piece of dust getting in the wrong place. Nope. Second keyboard I got after a while I tried dust off and it stopped working. I got it working again after a few hours. Needless to say I never used dust off on it again.
Just imagine a Hawaiian shirt that not only looks loud but is loud.
Can they start color coding USB cable types? Some of us old timers have been around since 1.0 was popular. I've got a box full and it's always fun trying to find the 2.0 cable hiding among the 1.0 cables.I hate to toss them but I really haven't any use for 1.0 cables. I'd just love to see some kind of coding system since they all use the same connectors. At least with hard drives every time they change them we get new connectors. It may make them backwardly compatible but it does cause confusion.