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If I had money and found a good deal on a graphics tablet I'd buy one. :| Would be really useful for me.

That's for still photography.

You probably want to start the defrag now. And when you start up, you have to press F12 or F2 or maybe F11 (Depends on your computer, I would guess it's F12 on most though) and it will go into a "boot menu". There you should be able to select different devices to boot from, select the DVD/CD drive. CD-R is fine.

Nah, I think we need a scene where there's lots of room to do stuff, like our previous one.

1/10 :P Yeah they're good but not on par with your abstract ones. I don't like "renders".

I was going to install Ubuntu on my sister's laptop. She had never defragmented. I went to partition it, but it was so fragmented that it wouldn't even let me make a partition 1 mb wide. :lol: My point though is that it gave me a warning, that was in Windows 7 but I'm pretty sure that it does the same thing in Vista and XP too. So yeah defrag first.

First off, it would be nice to have tags for embedding videos from Vimeo. It has increased in popularity lately and I've been wanting to be able to embed them here. I found the code to do it, although I'm sure that the admins around here know how to use Google too. There, I saved you about 30 seconds. :P The other thing is the B) emoticon. Unfortunately, if you are listing things with letters and parenthesis, you may find that your second point is changed into this emoticon, its code is b) or B). Why not just change it to B-)? Thanks.

I'd personally much rather program for UNIX or UNIX-like OSes than Windows. To continue what I said in my previous post, Ubuntu is made to be user-friendly, just as Windows or OS X are. While it is entirely possible to do just about everything that does not need graphics from the command line, it is by no means necessary and if you choose not to learn how to do it I doubt that you will have any problems. The command line is there to make it possible to administrate and control your system in a very efficient way. That article you read gives the impression that compiling source code is necessary; Unless you have very unusual hardware I doubt that would be the case. (I had to compile a driver for my 12-year old laptop) So unless you have a 8+ year old computer laying around that you want Ubuntu on, (And yes! It runs.) the risk is pretty low. One thing about Ubuntu I think anyone would like is the startup time. My computer, a two and a half year old midrange Dell, starts up in ~25 seconds and shuts down in 5. One issue you may have is finding alternatives to programs you use on Windows. All of the software that 90% of computer users use on a daily basis works on Ubuntu or is already installed; A web browser (Firefox), an office suite, instant messaging, a music player, an image editor, a CD burner, all of the normal accessories and all of the normal games. That kind of stuff. If you use some Adobe software though, you probably want to keep it installed on Windows and boot into Windows whenever you need it. Alternatively, you could install it through WINE, but you'll probably get less stability. There are good open-source competitors to Adobe's flagship products though, like GIMP for image editing or Ardour for audio editing. Something I really like about Ubuntu is the way you install software. This is something you should take note of, otherwise you'll probably go searching on the internet looking for software to install on Linux. You'll find it, but there's an easier way. In the Ubuntu software Center (Applications -> Ubuntu software center) you can just search for a program and download and install it. When you uninstall it, it uninstalls cleanly. But what's really good about it is the HUGE selection of software. There are literally 20,000+ programs (Called packages, actually, which can contain things other than programs). I would suggest that you check out other similar projects like Fedora, but if your friend uses Ubuntu it's probably best to use that to get started with (As he can help you if you get stuck). Then if you like it, maybe you can move on to other distributions of Linux later.

Personally if I was in your situation I would try Ubuntu as a new operating system and not as a potential replacement. Your friend isn't entirely right about how that you "Have to use" the command line but it is incredibly useful, far more useful than cmd on Windows and it can be used to do things a lot faster than with a graphical tool. Can't say more right now other than that Ubuntu is my main OS (Has been that way for like 9 months). I have to go, I'll get back to you on this.

If you knew how hard it is to make eyes that look anywhere near lifelike within the freedom of CGI, you wouldn't be saying that. DYK: If you breathe through a tube that goes up to the surface to get air while standing more than something like 2-3m underwater your lungs would collapse pretty much immediately. I saw it in this physics book that I have in my room.

6/10

I see there's a question mark by my name :P Like Yaff I'll wait to see the image chosen for the manip.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "Black line". The halves are not out of proportion, just as this is not out of proportion. It's just how it looks from that angle with the lighting in the place where it is. If you rotated the camera about 12 degrees on the global Z axis and moved it a bit to the right, it would look "In proportion", if that's what you want to call it.

A huge amount goes on behind the scenes in the Crew that users do not see. Believe me, I'm sure they know what they're doing. Of course, if you have problems with crewbie locking a thread, you can always PM the crewbie in question.

Like 15 hours in Blender 3D. Textures from NASA visible Earth. This is a WIP, I'm working on larger stars. I've got the small stars done, pretty much. C/C? *dies*

We had a really good one ages ago, I can't find it (Possibly lost in the rollback) but I still have the outcome: It was fun :)

You have just insulted my favorite music, ever. :lol: Listen to the two songs I posted, look me in the proverbial eye and tell me that you don't like any new form of orchestrated music. How is it possible? I just can't take it as a real form of music. Its just so bland and distasteful when it comes to composition and interesting qualities about the music. Yeah, it sounds beautiful to the ear while watching a movie, but why is it beautiful? Its beautiful because you made it something worth remembering as your eyes and ears are synchronizing with what you see on the big screen and registering it with the music. However when I listen to the music by myself with out the outrageous visuals I find the music repetitive with the same type of opening, climaxes, and resolutions. Sorry bro. :/ That's pretty much my opinion on old classical music. (Minus that about the visuals) I find it extremely repetitive.

You mean, THIS http://forum.tip.it/topic/245618-real-life-help-advice/ A BRANCH NOT A TOPIC *pounds table with coffee mug* Like a subforum Oh true!?! You should float the idea in the forum suggestions and idea forum/branch/thing. I think we've been there before. Let's not go back.

To anyone who has strong opinions on global warming. I've said this other places before; whether global warming exists or not we have an energy problem now. If we can move to clean energy, we can stop global warming, again whether it exists or not. So why not instead of wasting time debating over a problem that has an amount of unsureness, try to solve a problem that undoubtedly exists and will fix the other problem? Two birds with one stone. No, three birds. Our energy problem, global warming, and meaningless debate.

You have just insulted my favorite music, ever. :lol: Listen to the two songs I posted, look me in the proverbial eye and tell me that you don't like any new form of orchestrated music. How is it possible?

Yes, I get that. However:

You obviously didn't "get" the analogy.It was never about going jobless or even about going with "stuff". It was about enjoying life (coffee) and not worrying about the much less meaninful things that are in your life (the cup). People in the story chose only the best cups, whereas they all just wanted the coffee so why did the cup matter? You don't seem to get what I mean. How can you enjoy the coffee if you don't have a cup?

Really, I watched the "Sixth sense" thing a while ago, but it's so early in development that it looks like junk. This means that either: a) It is early in development, and the real versions won't be impractical, look stupid, and take forever to load or b ) It will fizzle out and die, because it won't be developed further enough. I'm thinking that option b will happen.

I tried the "Noob to pro" thing back when I didn't know anything about Blender... To be honest I wouldn't recommend it. You end up being so confused about the interface, because the explanation of it there is like 5 pages long. If you can learn how to use the interface and get the basic terminology down (Mesh, polygon, face, edge, vertex, diffuse color, specular color, raytrace, reflection, refraction, UV map, modifier, constraint, compositing/texture/material nodes- Those are good to start with) you're pretty much in business.

I find pretty much all classical music from the 1900s and earlier to be incredibly boring. Modern classical, however- That's a different story entirely. Some of my favorite composers: Thomas Newman - My absolute favorite, this guy's my sonic hero John Powell Joby Talbot Jan Morgenstern James Newton Howard Patrick Doyle Nicholas Hooper Danny Elfman Hans Zimmer George Gershwin Kevin MacLeod Don Davis If you know much about modern classical, you've probably noticed one thing in common- Nearly all of them are soundtrack composers. Thomas Newman composed the soundtrack for WALLE (The soundtrack that got me into classical, which remains my favorite to this day), the Green Mile, Revolutionary road, Finding Nemo etc. James Newton Howard composed the soundtrack to I am Legend, Patrick Doyle the soundtrack of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Jan Morgenstern the soundtrack of Elephants Dream, Big Buck Bunny, and soon Sintel. So yeah. I like classical music. Here are some examples: