MattBlackLamb Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 I think we're supposed to get some tonight. Dunno about anywhere else in the UK though... Quote dA Son, someday you will make a girl happy for a short period of time. Then she'll leave you & be with men that are ten times better than you can imagine. These men are called musicians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vista? Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Although we all know it won't be proper snow, I do wonder how much there will be. Can you believe that a month ago, there was a prediction that there was a 40% of a "white Christmas"?!! Now that would be cool . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 In theory, we were supposed to be getting some snow today...didn't happen, though. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Snow? California don't get no snow. Well, there was a small sprinkle of it in San Fransisco a few years ago, but really, that's been it. Yesterday it was about 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Quote Create A Professional-Looking Product Advertisment Mockup flickr | Deviant Art Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Wow... someone definitely just breathed new life into my favorite quote of Mark Twain's: Those who think they know everything annoy those of us who do. If you've been paying attention to the plugin forum lately, you might know what I'm talking about. We had snow a couple days ago. 2 of our ski resorts are already open. Loveland and Arapahoe Basin, I believe. Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eraser18 Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Just as I was about to post saying that we are expected to get major amounts of snow tonight, my power went out because of the rain and hail we're experiencing right now. So...our storm has already begun. Some schools in the area used a snow day today, and our district was sent home at 10:30. Quote |Eraser18's Gallery| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vista? Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Moving on from snow, if you haven't already read this article on Gizmodo about a Windows 7 walkthrough, read it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew D Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Wow... someone definitely just breathed new life into my favorite quote of Mark Twain's: Those who think they know everything annoy those of us who do.If you've been paying attention to the plugin forum lately, you might know what I'm talking about. I had a quick scan, and I found the example: viewtopic.php?f=16&p=225975#p225975 This is certainly neat to try, but the performance is ridiculous. You have to sit and wait each time you click for it to show up. GIMP seems to do this effortlessly and instantaneously.Is there any way to make future versions perform more appropriately? I'm installing GIMP right now for testing, but in my experience the render quality is not as good in GIMP, and Photoshop is ridiculously slow. Also, make sure your brush size settings are comparable. Keep in mind the difference between diameter and radius. LATER: Yep, I just tested in GIMP. You can clearly see banding in the smudge once you start using brush sizes above like 8. It's not dual core, unfortunately. It's 1.6GHz processor. Is it a Pentium 4? My Smudge algorithm is especially slow on P4s compared to AMD or other single-core processors with similar performance. The next version will reduce this p4-penalty, but it will still be like swimming in molasses when compared to any multi-core processor. However, GIMP somehow performs smudge with more detail and more options quite effortlessly which is strange for it being ported to win32 on GTK. You would think that GIMP would be slower for this. GTK is an interface toolkit - it's responsible for handling the differences between buttons and windows on Linux versus buttons and windows on Windows. It has nothing to do with the data-processing, which will be compiled to native code on each platform it is compiled on.Paint.NET being native win32, I would assume it would make use of DirectX for these things. Paint.NET is not native - it's .NET. It runs in a virtual machine. DirectX has nothing to do with graphics processing in the sense of image editors. Its job is to interface with the graphics card as fast as possible so that the card may do what it's designed for - rendering 2D and 3D images to the screen as fast as possible, with it being perfectly acceptable to sacrifice accuracy for speed. 2D-Graphics editing programs such as Photoshop, GIMP, and Paint.NET are designed for something completely different and use the CPU, not the GPU for all of their work. Although it would be technically possible to use DirectX for it, it would be extremely painful for the programmer, and probably quite a bit slower. This would be akin to using a hammer to drive screws. I highly recommend upgrading to a dual-or-more-core processor. Not only will Smudge and most other graphics-editing tasks be orders of magnitude faster, but anything else you do on your computer will be faster too. You'll be able to run more programs at once without any of them slowing down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 my favorite quote of Mark Twain's: Those who think they know everything annoy those of us who do. And just over 2 months for someone new to appear and win that award. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 Wow... someone definitely just breathed new life into my favorite quote of Mark Twain's: Those who think they know everything annoy those of us who do.If you've been paying attention to the plugin forum lately, you might know what I'm talking about. I had a quick scan, and I found the example: viewtopic.php?f=16&p=225975#p225975 THE WHOLE THING... I was going for the "subtle" angle, but that works too, I guess. Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew D Posted October 28, 2008 Share Posted October 28, 2008 I was going for the "subtle" angle, but that works too, I guess. (Would just posting the smiley count as spam? Better safe than sorry I guess) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sozo Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 People like this will always exist, and they will always criticize your hard work. Quote Placeholder, new signature under construction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 And they will always annoy me. Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blooper Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Roofs here in Canada are covered in snow already. Most of it melted though. Skateboarding days are over :x Quote http://synthastic.deviantart.com http://soundcloud.com/siderealenterprise Lockerz invites are available, PM me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dalton Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 [...]Skateboarding says are over :x O RLY? They said people by the great lakes were supposed to get some snow, but mostly by new york.. I love snow.. Quote MyBB Tutorials, check out my site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blooper Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 I don't take criticism from people who love snow, Dalton. Quote http://synthastic.deviantart.com http://soundcloud.com/siderealenterprise Lockerz invites are available, PM me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFC4EVER Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Is anyone here in the UK lucky enough to have even had the slightest drop of snow yet? None here - . Yep, in Harrow we experienced a lot of snow on the 28th, but it didn't settle well. Still, there was enough to have a small snowball fight. I can't believe its snowed in Britain in October already. I think people in the UK are in for a very chilly winter... Quote ☆★☆★Merry Christmas★☆★☆ .::.My Gallery.::.Make Gold Text!.::. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobofthedead Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Yeah, we had about two inches of snow in Hertfordshire (near Watford)! I'll post some pictures of it tomorrow, it looked idyllic walking the dog in the fields near my house today. Quote "I am the anarchist, I am the antichrist, I am the walrus, G'JOO G'GOO G'JOOB!" I dig a pygmy, by Charles Hawtree and the Deaf Aids. Phase One, in which Doris gets her oats. ~John Lennon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vista? Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 You two were certainly very lucky. Down here in Bexley, it's all sunshine but with very cold air yet no snow - as I expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew D Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 You two were certainly very lucky. Down here in Bexley, it's all sunshine but with very cold air yet no snow - as I expected. And up here in the North, I'm pretty sure Summer and Winter have mixed the weather up. It's been great recently, weather wise, but it was terrible in the Summer. Should be the other way around >_> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vista? Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Personally I like rain but my perfect summer would be one which includes a bit of rain and sun. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Does anyone know of a good command prompt alternatiative: one that at least supports the clipboard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew D Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Does anyone know of a good command prompt alternatiative: one that at least supports the clipboard. Unless your copying and pasting an essay into the cmd, why would you need to have clipboard support? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Brown Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Paths, mainly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Does anyone know of a good command prompt alternatiative: one that at least supports the clipboard. PowerShell. I don't think it supports the clipboard in the Ctrl+V/C/X sense, but it probably has cmdlets that can use the clipboard, and if not it would take all of 3 minutes to write your own clipboard cmdlet. Wow... someone definitely just breathed new life into my favorite quote of Mark Twain's: Those who think they know everything annoy those of us who do.If you've been paying attention to the plugin forum lately, you might know what I'm talking about. First impressions can be misleading. This person actually turned out to be completely rational and a pleasure to talk to. Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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