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Today, I give you... A sphere with a diffuse shader! I know, boring, so I'll upload a sculpt I've been doing in Blender recently. Got kind of delayed by a bug report.

It doesn't always work that well for me.

So I've had my tablet sitting on my desk for a long time, and I've been kind of afraid to use it. Yesterday I realized that I should probably do something about that, so I decided that I would make one simple digipaint every day. Today it struck me that I could also make a thread where I could embarrass myself. So here's the first one (Actually yesterday's was the first one, but it's not worth posting here. I didn't really have any clue what to draw, which isn't to say that much has changed). I decided that I would practice making a glossy reflective/refractive material. My signature will sort itself out sooner or later. :oops:

:| Me too. I get up at 06:00 to get to school at 08:00, and I'm so slow in the mornings that I just can't be bothered. I would probably fall asleep in the shower anyway.

I can't respond to the first part without sounding very condescending indeed. The second part, however, I can confirm is nothing more than a myth. A couple of reasons: Google Chrome is Google's distribution of the open source Chromium browser, meaning that any such privacy invasion would be discovered in the code and widely reported. Google has made it very clear in Chrome's EULA that no information outside of Google's own pages, say Gmail, is sent to Google and they claim no right to it. It would be nice to see your sources. I'm not disputing your first claim very much- I remember seeing speed tests in which IE9 beat Firefox by a small margin- but your second claim doesn't seem to have much ground to stand on. However, there's something I would like to note. Even if IE9 starts to outperform Firefox/Chrome/Opera/Safari, there's a good reason. IE9 was one of the first browsers to introduce GPU-accelerated web browsing. What this means is that the existing Trident engine isn't actually optimized, it's just being run on really fast hardware. So when Chrome, Firefox, etc. get around to finishing their GPU acceleration, their cleanly implemented, modern engines will blow IE off the face of the Earth.

Yeah Kubuntu is really under-developed. The idea that person had behind suggesting the Ubuntu and Mageia merge was that Linux is too much "Divide and conquer".

Anyone who thinks that IE is even in the browser wars anymore is delusional. Microsoft has singlehandedly done terrible damage to web standards and design. I wouldn't even consider using IE seriously unless it went open source (In other words never). This is true to an extent. There are really two kinds of browsers: Internet Explorer and Everything Else. The difference is that Everything Else works. What competition?

Linux Mint is cool too, I've done some installs of that. I think Mageia (Formerly known as Mandriva) will be successful, good luck to them anyway. Some people suggested that instead of forking Mandriva that they team up with Ubuntu.

Once hackers start taking out nuclear power stations (Or worse, making them malfunction) I think that you would change your opinion with haste.

In addition to that, you're in more danger using Internet Explorer. Compared to that, tracking cookies are nothing.

^Hey, six months isn't bad- After all, lots of open source projects are on six-month release cycles. I wouldn't mind Ubuntu going to a full year if they just had one update to the major packages (Firefox, OpenOffice, whatever) inbetween. Yeah like I said I use Ubuntu. I am a power user, quite fluent in the command line and I do a fair amount of programming now and then, but I just can't be bothered to go through customizing my desktop system (My laptop is a different story). It works well, if I want it to do something it will do it. It's also got great support and boot speed. New version comes out on the tenth of next month, can't wait :-D. That said, Ubuntu is really the only distro I have used seriously other than Debian (But it didn't actually work well on my machine so I reinstalled Ubuntu). I might try out some other distros like Slackware, but I think I would miss all the packages build for Ubuntu. What I'd like is a distro based on Ubuntu without the bloat, and awesomewm as the window manager.

Funkay things with dual screens. Also, I have the Bamboo Fun medium, which has touch input, which the drivers don't really know what to do with.

I thought I saw one on display in Verkkokauppa Ruoholahti. I know I saw one without anything on the keys, anyway. Anyway: 1. I use a Dell keyboard that I got with my computer. It's big, clunky, noisy, black and has no extra keys (Other than a numpad which is for some reason considered "Extra" these days. n00by Mac-using Whippersnappers). I love it. 2. Other than normal typing I use it for switching workspaces and windows with CTRL+ALT+(Arrow key) and ALT+TAB respectively, I also make good use of the numpad with programs like Blender. This actually means that almost only use my keyboard for window management once I've gotten my workspaces set up. 3. I'm also around 70. 4. I also have a Wacom which I never use, :oops: partly because the Linux drivers kind of suck though.

Same here. And all I can think about is how much it cost...

We immigrants are here to steal your jobs- And then take your unemployment benefits.

I woke up at 09:11 today. :o Just thought I'd share that.

^He's a freak! :razz: Details?

I think the reason there's a topic about it every year is because it happened within our lifetimes, making it much more significant to us.

Yep, lots has changed. #1, #3 and #4 are my favorites, love the "Caught in action" feeling that #4 gives.

But did you take this particular one which you put the watercolor effect on? You know what, screw it. It's not yours. It's included with Windows Vista.

Are you sure you took that picture?

Wow do I ever want a k1000 now. Those colors... :shock:

I have a pretty good memory, it used to be even better, especially about four years ago. I would hear a date or a fact or something, and boom it would be in my head. It seems to not be as good anymore though. It really annoyed my brother though, I'm not sure why, and I sort of denied it. To prove his point, in early-mid 2006 he asked me what happened on Thursday the 23rd of December 2005, and I automatically corrected him (The 22nd was a Thursday). :razz: I don't have that anymore however.