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To be honest those options are really stupid. Especially "King geek" and "What's a PC?". :| Refine the options a bit (Or a lot) and PM a mod to get a proper poll if they decide it's in order.

I probably could have guessed that anyway. And lrn2english. :D E: Oh, and happy birthday and everything. Didn't notice that until I was going to leave the thread. :P

That analogy was really corny and didn't even make sense. How can you be happy if you don't have a job to not pay for the food you eat? Maybe Lenin's low-quality cup analogy applies there.

Wtf? I know it's just some image to be funny, but I was just telling you that to get you out of the confusion :???: Yeah I know. I just had to post the related xkcd.

I suggest you just download a late build and mess around with it for like 10 minutes. :P

It doesn't really sound to me like you've used Blender, not the alpha version anyway. (They've completely redone the interface)

Stupid capitalization confusion.

Small correction; Your parents are paying for 8mbits/s, not 8mb/s. 8 bits in a byte, so 8mbits/8 = 1mb/s is what you should be getting. So really you're seeing better performance than what you're paying for. Or at least that's what it looks like; I often find Speedtest.net results to be very inconsistent with reality. And also I'm no expert on the matter. I would like to emphasize this; We pay for a 24mbit connection but due to our ISP's wiring in our area we only can get speeds up to ~8mbits. Really annoying. No, it's not me that's paying, otherwise I would downgrade to 8mbits.

Yup, 8 mega pixels. And I beg to differ :P You've seen my brick of a camera. I agree with the others, the Starfish is the best. What kind of camera do you have? I have a Canon Powershot A720 IS http://reviews.cnet.com/digital-cameras/canon-powershot-a720-is/4505-6501_7-32471270.html It's irritating because people see my camera and just automaticallly think it's bad (even myself sometimes) because it's not one of those big black fancy cameras. Honestly, it's pretty good for what I got it for. I think around.. $100NZD in Hong Kong. Or maybe it was $300, I forget. The problem is that I'm more interested in shooting long exposure pictures, but I don't have a tripod and longest shutter speed on my camera is 15" My sister has the exact same camera, I can safely tell you it's junk. :) But it was the best compact camera I could find for her in that price range, so it's not too bad. See, the quality difference between compact cameras and DSLRs is always substantial. Most settings are automatic, and the manual settings (If any) are buried deep within the interface.

You using Photoshop? Make a text layer, type in the text/Change the font. CTRL+Click on the layer in the layers palette. GIMP: Make a text layer, type in text/change font, right click on the layer in the layers palette and select "Text to selection". Both should have exactly the same effect. Oh wait, didn't see it was answered already. Oh well, it's another way to do it.

I'm not really sure I like it. The links at the top look like a broken navbar, and it seems to waste a lot of space. Try putting the links on one line- That multiple line setup just doesn't do it for me, it looks sloppy. Also the layout of where I assume images from your gallery will be: Try making it 3x2 instead of 4x3. (You'll want to make your main width slightly bigger, to 960, to make a 3x2 layout possible. 820 doesn't divide by 3.) You're stuffing too much information onto one page, let the user focus on a few images that define your style. Lightbox works fine but I'm not a fan of modal layouts like that at all. It may seem to put the user's attention to the picture they clicked on, but even if it does, it pulls the user there and then there's distracting stuff around the image. I would go for a gallery, possibly written using Jquery, that displays the thumbnails on the same page that it displays the focused image. Then the user knows what image will be displayed next, instead of going back and forth trying to find the image they want. I wrote the beginning of something like that (It doesn't display any thumbnails on the page but it shouldn't be too difficult to do) and a preview of it is here. It's GPL licensed, if you want to use it I should probably rewrite the comments in English. :P

What do you mean?

You should try out Blender. I would recommend using the unstable version if you're just playing around and not using it for serious work. You can find the latest builds of the unstable version here.

That's kind of disturbing but yeah the result looks pretty good. Isn't Zbrush more for sculpting though?

I can probably try after I've finished my current project... IE in a week or two.

I agree with this, but I'm not sure if it can be done.

I don't think so. Racial profiling is essentially picking out people based on statistical likelihood. There is a reason to discriminate so it's not just based on the fact that you're a different race. It's the same thing as saying blacks are more likely to commit a crime in America. Statistically, it's true, and there doesn't have to be any racist undertones to that. Having said that, I'm not surprised that people would look though the logic of that argument and feel (emotionally) that it's racist anyway. And to make myself clear, I'm not saying that racial profiling is an accurate and appropriate method of airport security. It's a very blunt way of doing things, to say the least. I read something about this recently. Specifically, it was a TSA document that was badly redacted and then released due to the freedom of information act, someone downloaded it, replaced the redaction with red outlines, and it was generally pretty embarrassing to the TSA. There was a list of nationalities that they take aside and screen specifically. I'm not sure of the legality of linking directly to the file, so if you want to read the document (A very interesting read) go here and click on the link to the file.

Can't wait to see it colored. :)

Hold your horses. You can't play RS HD if you don't have the right stuff to play it with. :huh: You're jumping to conclusions. I've played RS HD quite a bit on Ubuntu. I used this guide to set it up: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5499744&postcount=8

Booting it from the CD would make it slower, and you wouldn't be able to play RuneScape.

You're looking for trouble. :) Try to keep this specific to Linux, not any OS, and even then it'll turn into a flame war. Linux is not an actual operating system, it is the very core of an operating system. It is unusable without putting software around it to make it useful. There are several communities and companies that do that, the result is an actual operating system and is called a distribution (Or "distro" for short. One example, the most popular in terms of number of users, is Ubuntu, which I would personally recommend, especially if you are thinking of playing RuneScape on it. I just wanted to clear up that about distributions before we started. Yeah, I've used both Windows (XP, Vista, 7) and Linux (A few different distros, mostly Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora) extensively, and personally I come out on the side of Linux. No matter how much slander those "Get a Mac" ads place on Windows, they are right about one thing: Windows can be a real headache. Linux is disposable; If something breaks and you can't fix it, you can reinstall it with no worry. There's also a huge selection of software for Linux, especially Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/OpenSUSE, one command on the command line and you have that program. Linux does not require an antivirus, because few viruses exist for Linux, and it has been built from the ground up with security in mind. On the other hand, not all Windows programs work on Linux, (You can run ~80% of them through a program called WINE) and you will probably find yourself using the command line a lot. I wouldn't think of the command line as a downside, personally, but it's very foreign to a Windows user. Check out these websites of different distros: Ubuntu (Works well for beginners, has a huge selection of software for installation in a few clicks) OpenSUSE (User-friendly, probably good for beginners too I haven't tried it) Linux Mint (Aims for ease of use and little setup after installation, based on Ubuntu) Fedora (Aimed at slightly more advanced users, also has a large software selection) Debian (For more advanced users, but some consider it to be less "bloated" or something than Ubuntu) Mandriva (Also aims for ease of use, I don't know about a lot about it) All of them are of course free.

I know you're using Holland to make a point and mean that not all airports have the same security standards as in America, but I must note that I have found Amsterdam Schiphol to have the highest security of any airport I've been to. (Except maybe for London Heathrow in 2002, when pairs of security guards walked around with guns across their back, if I had to guess what they were I would say M16s but I don't know anything about guns. Then there was someone that patted down people on the airbridge.) I mean, we went through security twice even after going through security at the airport before, then we couldn't exit the lounge connected to the airbridge. Then everyone that was going on the plane was interviewed.

Personally I take the approach of optimization and web standards from the ground up. Surprisingly enough it's very easy to write standards compliant code if you just follow the obvious stuff (Don't make tag soup, end your tags, don't use old tags, encode your special characters). You've got only one error on validator.w3.org, I congratulate you. Just a simple change. Two things about that though: First <!DOCTYPE html> :shame: Replace it with <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> Second you have not defined the character encoding. Put this in your <head> tag. <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=windows-1252"> But otherwise you've done a good job on this and I'm nitpicking.

^ Yeah I thought of that too when I saw this. This is ridiculous. I'm all for security and everything but sooner or later "security" will be a violation of our freedoms at this rate. Rick's post also gets my vote.

I like it. I'm not sure what else to say, it works.