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Good luck to those applying.

I'm against creating a subforum specifically for homework help & advice even more than I am against creating a help and advice subforum, which would be the logical solution was this a real problem. But I'm against both ideas.

A whole new board is overkill, and I think that we should avoid dividing the discussions up any further. If we were to implement anything like this, it would probably have to be a whole off-topic help & advice forum, not just homework help. Personally, though, I'm against both.

Not a joke, but now that you point it out I'm not really sure about it either.

It depends on which language I'm speaking. If I'm speaking English, I use almost no slang at all. What you see me type here is pretty much my English speaking style. When I speak Swedish, however, I mix in large amounts of Finnish and English, drop letters, use slang words and incorrect grammar. :) When I write it it's correct. When I speak Finnish (Incredibly rare) I speak like a book and it sounds silly because nobody doesn't use slang in Finnish.

To not have to pause to take a breath would be amazing. :P

Wrong. Santa Claus was originally green. And, as it happens, was turned red by an advertisement campaign for Coca-Cola made by a person from Åland, Finland. (An island in between Finland and Sweden) Namely, Haddon Sundblom. Now who knew that? Huh?

Rice is like mashed potatoes, you should never have it alone. It doesn't have a lot of flavor, but that's why you put stuff on it. Can't imagine just dropping rice like that, was it weird to taste it again?

Circular breathing is very difficult but entirely possible. It involves storing oxygen in your cheeks, then pushing it out while inhaling. It is a required skill for playing the didgeridoo, and is also applicable to the flute and other instruments, but with the flute anyway it ruins your sound. No, it doesn't work in the way you described, but circular breathing is very similar. (And pretty interesting.) I've attempted it but haven't succeeded.

Forgot one little thing on my math test which screwed the whole thing up. Bad. Lowest grade I've ever gotten on a math test. :angry:

I didn't know like anything about image manips back then. :P

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.