Laptop update: Machine arrived today and it's a beauty. My laptop at home is from 1997 and I forgot how much they've improved since then. One complaint. The laptop is advertised as 128 MB RAM, but when I checked the system properties screen it only shows up as 96 MB. So I called tech support who informed me that the video card uses 32 MB so it's not going to be available as RAM. Huh? Well the website says it's user-adjustable shared memory 16/32/64 so I'm going to play with that in the BIOS. Also I have 512 MB RAM coming in tomorrow so overall it shouldn't make a difference. It's just super-annoying.
She just... she just did the math.
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Wolfram - Nov 30, 2004 11:26:29 am PST #263 of 10003
Visilurking
Jessica - Nov 30, 2004 11:49:27 am PST #264 of 10003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Quick, someone tell me why I shouldn't buy this. Other than having to pay for an additional Tivo license, which would be a PITA.
Rob - Nov 30, 2004 11:56:31 am PST #265 of 10003
Quick, someone tell me why I shouldn't buy this.
No help here. I've been so tempted by it.
Theodosia - Nov 30, 2004 12:24:34 pm PST #266 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'm joining the temptation train. Is it possible that you could sell your old TiVo and recoup some of the $$ spent on your existing lifetime subscription and put it towards the new one?
Betsy HP - Nov 30, 2004 12:26:00 pm PST #267 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
The baby Jesus would giggle and clap his hands if you did. And you could tape it!
Betsy HP - Nov 30, 2004 5:20:48 pm PST #268 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
Buffista artists, I'm thinking of buying a first graphic tablet for a preteenager. (He's 11, old enough not to break things, and he does a lot of drawing on paper and gets frustrated.) I've heard good things about the Wacom Graphire3. How's this? [link] What would you suggest as a first tool?
I know that, as a writer, I was never really happy until I could edit endlessly; I couldn't write without a wordprocessor. It occurs to me that the right digital tools might do the same thing for an artist.
P.M. Marc - Nov 30, 2004 5:26:26 pm PST #269 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I know that, as a writer, I was never really happy until I could edit endlessly; I couldn't write without a wordprocessor. It occurs to me that the right digital tools might do the same thing for an artist.
Hell no. It's not at all the same thing.
Much as I love my tablet, I wouldn't recommend one for someone who is still in the learning to draw process, as they're endlessly more frustrating (to me) than pencil and paper if I'm trying to do something from scratch.
If I'm doing something with the tablet, I usually start with a hand-done sketch, and use the tablet for fine-tuning/trying out different colors, but it's an enhancer, not a replacement, for traditional tools.
§ ita § - Nov 30, 2004 5:28:08 pm PST #270 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do you use applications like Painter, PMM? I wonder if it might be a place to start with a tablet, especially for someone who doesn't have all our reflexes...
Me, I can't draw jack with a mouse. Or colour. But I can outline and colour (yet not draw) with my tablet.
P.M. Marc - Nov 30, 2004 5:34:31 pm PST #271 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Do you use applications like Painter, PMM? I wonder if it might be a place to start with a tablet, especially for someone who doesn't have all our reflexes...
Yep. I'm exceedingly fond of Painter, and prefer it if I'm doing something on the tablet alone (which I occasionally do as a result of being stubborn). Well, or did before my USB hub broke. Occurs to me I should replace that.
Liese S. - Nov 30, 2004 7:17:14 pm PST #272 of 10003
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oh, you so need to buy that. I bought a non-tivo hard drive recorder / dvd recorder, and it's fucking great. It would be so much better if it were my tivo instead. As it is, I spend a good bit of time dumping data at achingly slow real-time speeds from one hard drive to the other. Even so? Fan-freaking-tastic.
You should buy it.
(the non-tivo hdr/dvdr turned out to be only region-free hackable, and not currently macrovision hackable. Which bites.)