The Hasty ProForma Complaint Thread
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Yeah, Daz has no control - just like with my Google Drive, if Google messes up, there's not an thing I can do but cry. :down: At least with local storage/backup, if it goes down I can fix it with a run to Best Buy or Frys. :-S
When the cloud works, it rocks. When it fails, it rots. :blank:
Well, the control that DAZ3D had was choosing whether or not to use it.
I don't like the idea of my data being somewhere else. And I hate even more the idea of my software being somewhere else, which is a direction that Microsoft seems to be going with things like their Office product. If a hub somewhere, or a server or even cable owned by Comcast goes down, I can't write or read a Word document? No thanks, I'll just stick with the Office 2007 product I have, right here on my hard drive, with a CD ready to reinstall it if I need to.
Dana
I can get plans off the Web for a wideband jammer, I was thinking of building one, getting a cheap bike, and pedaling around with the thing in my backpack all over the area! :vampire: :vampire:
Cells, wireless access points, all would be blasted out! :snake:
Such a thing is highly illegal, but it'd be fun to hear the screams as I nuked everyone's wireless! :vampire:
I hated the internet in Texas when we were there. No such thing as high speed
still raining ...
It can't rain all of the time.
some parts of the world rain for months at a time
*dings Frank for missing the reference* :lol:
Yeah, Daz has no control - just like with my Google Drive, if Google messes up, there's not an thing I can do but cry. :down: At least with local storage/backup, if it goes down I can fix it with a run to Best Buy or Frys. :-S
When the cloud works, it rocks. When it fails, it rots. :blank:
Well, the control that DAZ3D had was choosing whether or not to use it.
I don't like the idea of my data being somewhere else. And I hate even more the idea of my software being somewhere else, which is a direction that Microsoft seems to be going with things like their Office product. If a hub somewhere, or a server or even cable owned by Comcast goes down, I can't write or read a Word document? No thanks, I'll just stick with the Office 2007 product I have, right here on my hard drive, with a CD ready to reinstall it if I need to.
Dana
The whole "software as a service" thing grates on me. Look at what Adobe has with the Cloud versions of their creative stuff, yikes! :bug: Some days I'm really tempted to throw my hat into the Open Source ring and start spending some time working on Gimp and Blender, to improve them to the point where they can better compete with for-pay software (and free folks from the tyranny of RENTED software).
If I buy something I bloody well BUY it. I expect it to work like it says on the tin because I forked money up for it. Grrr!
Sorry, rant over.. :red: :red:
I just discovered my Hulu Plus subscription gives me access to the entire Criterion Collection! :bug: :bug:
I now have 18 movies in my queue, including a couple of Godzilla flicks, some fancy Japanese samurai movies, and a pile of art-house films I've always wanted to see... :cheese: :cheese:
Plenty to keep me entertained for the weekend! :coolsmile: Will buy microwave popcorn out of the machine downstairs. :)
Still drizzling here, but it's slowing down - should be able to go out without getting drenched in an hour or so. :)
*dings Frank for missing the reference* :lol:
Opps sorry in my own little word today
It can't rain all of the time.
lol, haven't watched that movie since halloween
omgeee this looks awesome http://www.amazon.com/Sims-Medieval-Mac/dp/B002I0KOLA
dang 5g d/l
oh no, internet authentication.
well, i can't play it on my 11" netbook screen
amazon doesn't have a PS/2 filter anymore.
I'm all for people earning an honest wage selling reasonable products, but I'm not about infinite corporate greed to drain the coffers of the common man to feed the fat-cat corporate pigs! I know, that sounded like an anarchist rant, but the more I see of this kind of thing the more it makes me hissy! :snake: :snake:
I think if I throw the switch on this, I'm going to get the current Gimp codebase and turn it into a more capable program for painting. It's handing of Photoshop brushes is pretty awful, the UI needs some rethinking by someone with actual human factors experience,, but the underlying code appears to be pretty stable. I'd just branch it and call my version LoachPaint (heh)!
On the Blender side, I'd finish learning Python and finally write a Poser importer. If I could cleanly import 90% of my Poser content into Blender, I'd go ahead and learn the UI. :gulp: It'd be a multi-year project as I'd want it to work with conforming clothes, hair, and smart props.. one heck of a development effort! :ahhh: But I'd end up famous (lol)!
I could actually keep writing and still have time to engage in some open-source development. I'd have to put music composition on the back burner, but I find myself 100% uninspired to compose the past month. :down:
Argh, just.. argh. :-S
I can get plans off the Web for a wideband jammer, I was thinking of building one, getting a cheap bike, and pedaling around with the thing in my backpack all over the area! :vampire: :vampire:
Cells, wireless access points, all would be blasted out! :snake:
Such a thing is highly illegal, but it'd be fun to hear the screams as I nuked everyone's wireless! :vampire:
Stay away from my house, my street, my neighborhood, Woolyloach. I have camera surveillance at all times and you will be caught and tortured.
Hey, that actually looks pretty cool! :coolsmile: Will wishlist for next time I have money. :)
Stay away from my house, my street, my neighborhood, Woolyloach. I have camera surveillance at all times and you will be caught and tortured.
I'll blame the paper boy. ;)
...reminds me of the fireworks I saw last night.
...for some reason heart shaped sunny side up eggs seems like such an anachronism.
BTW did you ever get the flutterby hotcake shapes?
I hated the internet in Texas when we were there. No such thing as high speed
Just like here in Tennessee. Everything has a drawl, even the internet. :)
I don't have one anymore. It's funny cause every time my wife talk to my mother from Georgia she has to have me playing interpreter.
:lol: Well, there's a strip mall next door - the Whataburger, a sub shop, urgent medical care place, massage parlor :red: and a Valero that sells groceries and beer, then across the street is the bbq truck, a Subway, liquor store, and a Jack in the Box, 2 blocks to another corner grocery, a Pizza Hut, and a Mexican restaurant.
It's kind of nice on days like this, no long distance run to get basics. :)
When Woolyloach says there's a "strip mall" next door, I'm not exactly sure what he means. ;-) :lol:
Rented software?
I only know of [currently] two companies that do that. "The Foundry" with Nuke, Mari, and the rest of their (Pricey) stuff...
And Eyeon's Fusion (At least the last time I checked. Damn... Last time I was there - back when v5 was new - I was so confused about the purchasing options I just left. All these fancy words and stuff, and from what I could tell you had to pay annually just to keep using it - that was the extent to which it confused me!!)
At least MAXON had a nice way of selling C4D. Pay for it once at normal price, or pay a very small amount (Studio is like $700 then) once a year and every update and/or new release is free - which is typically every year or so, usually in the same month every time ^^
Can cancel out of it at any time too and that doesn't affect the editions you bought during that time. Never locks you out just because you couldn't pay or canceled out. Pretty interesting o3o
Also an amusing screenshot I took while playing AoEIII with some friends (We REALLY wanted to play Age of Mythology instead, but nuuuu. Kept insisting we needed to update the game to go onto the servers, and clicking "Update Game" said our game was up to date! *holds the disc in my hand* And reinstalling it didn't do anything either e3e)
*edit* Checked Fusion's website again. Don't see anything about "renting" anymore. Guess they either changed that or I was remembering wrong.
Still don't understand what the two purchasing options are or how they're different :B
The Foundry stuff isn't necessarily rented, but you do need to be part of their maintenance programme to get upgrades as far as I am aware. However dropping that doesn't kill the application in its current state.
Seriously thinking of starting a "I can't find my damn content" support thread.
i got nothing done today. absolutely nothing. watched about 7 hours of Hercules season3 episodes.
thanks!
collar bones aren't considered a rib, pretty sure.The normal human rib cage contains 24 ribs or 12 pairs. And that is just the rib cage itself. Many medical sites can confirm that for you if you check.
i can kinda feel my collar bone over my neck ribble. can't really feel rib sections from touching my back, on my side can feel the ridges.
i can kinda feel my collar bone over my neck ribble. can't really feel rib sections from touching my back, on my side can feel the ridges.
Get that girl a sandwich and an ice cream sundae, stat!
Morning. Whoa sleepy after an early start and working bee today :)
...for some reason heart shaped sunny side up eggs seems like such an anachronism.
BTW did you ever get the flutterby hotcake shapes?
iz still sitting in my amazon w/l.
i bought the heart shapers, the long bistro spoons, and irish coffee mug set. and a rubbery gripper thing to open jar lids.
Well that's progress -- now you've only got another half a season to go, and you'll be done (^_^)d.