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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

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    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Henry the sick goldfish passed away sometimes during the night. Private funeral will be held tonight or tomorrow depending on weather.

    awwww

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    LeatherGryphon said:

    'Nother complaint:  For at least two years I've been noticing that my eyesight is getting worse.  Gradually getting dimmer, and more blurry.  I got a new prescription and glasses last year which helped the blurriness for a while but not the poor night vision.  Now in the last 6 months the deterioration has accelerated.  I see rings around bright lights, the world looks like I'm viewing it through cheesecloth and I can barely read road signs anymore even by looking through the very top of my progressive lens glasses. 

    Of course I went to the eye doctors (a couple of them) and it's confirmed to be cataracts.  Yellowing of the lens, developing of semi-opaque spots in the lens and now development of little bubbles on or around the lens.  I've known this for a couple of months and the surgery is planned for the 11th (left eye) and 18th (right eye) of October.  I'm hoping this works out OK and everybody says it will, but I'm probably not as relaxed as I should be.  I worry that my insurance company will screw me.  I worry that my doctor could be incompetent, I worry that the problems of a fixed focus lens will be a major setback in my life, especially for close work on the computer or reading.

    But everybody says my far focus seeing will be great and the world will seem much brighter again.  If so, I'm really looking forward to being able to see the stars again.  I haven't seen them clearly for many years.

     

    stars are pretty  {{hugs}}

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    MistyMist said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    'Nother complaint:  For at least two years I've been noticing that my eyesight is getting worse.  Gradually getting dimmer, and more blurry.  I got a new prescription and glasses last year which helped the blurriness for a while but not the poor night vision.  Now in the last 6 months the deterioration has accelerated.  I see rings around bright lights, the world looks like I'm viewing it through cheesecloth and I can barely read road signs anymore even by looking through the very top of my progressive lens glasses. 

    Of course I went to the eye doctors (a couple of them) and it's confirmed to be cataracts.  Yellowing of the lens, developing of semi-opaque spots in the lens and now development of little bubbles on or around the lens.  I've known this for a couple of months and the surgery is planned for the 11th (left eye) and 18th (right eye) of October.  I'm hoping this works out OK and everybody says it will, but I'm probably not as relaxed as I should be.  I worry that my insurance company will screw me.  I worry that my doctor could be incompetent, I worry that the problems of a fixed focus lens will be a major setback in my life, especially for close work on the computer or reading.

    But everybody says my far focus seeing will be great and the world will seem much brighter again.  If so, I'm really looking forward to being able to see the stars again.  I haven't seen them clearly for many years.

     

    stars are pretty  {{hugs}}

    ...+1 on both.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    installed my new 2gb nvidia.  was a lil nerve racking.

    discovered the 2 usb3 ports are in the back, the 2 easy to access usb ports on the front are usb 2.

     

    and iggy came by to visit, barking at my window for some attention, ... and a milkbone.

    i should wash my windows >.<

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,528

    I went to Starbucks for a cheese stick and a refill this afternoon.  They did not ask for my name but they still put my name on the cup.  Maybe I took a drink from another customer who liked their coffee the way I do and have my name. Wait what are the odds of someone else with my first name to get an ice coffee the way I like it?  Granted I do not have a common first name.

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,528
    ps1borg said:

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    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Henry the sick goldfish passed away sometimes during the night. Private funeral will be held tonight or tomorrow depending on weather.

    awwww

    Thanks I will miss him.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Red-bottomed purply-grey storm clouds rolling in with the new day and the wind is picking up enough to stir treetops a while after dawn :)

    Read that as "Red-bottomed puppy" Tired old eyes. blush

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,601
    Tjohn said:
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Red-bottomed purply-grey storm clouds rolling in with the new day and the wind is picking up enough to stir treetops a while after dawn :)

    Read that as "Red-bottomed puppy" Tired old eyes. blush

    I was picturing a mandrill

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    what goes in a PCIe 2.0 slot?

    is my m/b

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I went to Starbucks for a cheese stick and a refill this afternoon.  They did not ask for my name but they still put my name on the cup.  Maybe I took a drink from another customer who liked their coffee the way I do and have my name. Wait what are the odds of someone else with my first name to get an ice coffee the way I like it?  Granted I do not have a common first name.

     

    is like Cheers, where they know your name smiley

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066
    Fixmypcmike said:

    Complaint:  why does Apple insist on screwing around with color schemes every time they update iOS?  My daughter upgraded my phone to iOS 10 and now the clock app is all white on black, the icons at the bottom have a distracting light background.  It's hard enough for someone with visual issues to modify this stuff, why do you have to mess it up?

    I agree with that...

    First off, it's Apple, so they know Far more than you what is good for you, so you better agree or you're not cool.

    Screw what your eyes say. 

    Despite that, yeah, I hate white background with black text... It hurts my eyes and I don't care what "studies" say, because I can't find one article that quotes a source for their studies (overwhelming pro white background) that is either: not done in the late 80s/early 90s, isn't about printed text, or quotes a actual scientific study or university finding... Lots of articles saying "studies" show blah,blah, blah, blah... But nothing actually mentioning modern LCD monitors or tablets...  Lots of people complaining about white/backgrounds, but I suppose if "studies" say my eyes are not hurting, them my eyes must be up to something and trying to trick me into believing them for some dark nefarious reason.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,601
    McGyver said:
    Fixmypcmike said:

    Complaint:  why does Apple insist on screwing around with color schemes every time they update iOS?  My daughter upgraded my phone to iOS 10 and now the clock app is all white on black, the icons at the bottom have a distracting light background.  It's hard enough for someone with visual issues to modify this stuff, why do you have to mess it up?

    I agree with that...

    First off, it's Apple, so they know Far more than you what is good for you, so you better agree or you're not cool.

    Screw what your eyes say. 

    Despite that, yeah, I hate white background with black text... It hurts my eyes and I don't care what "studies" say, because I can't find one article that quotes a source for their studies (overwhelming pro white background) that is either: not done in the late 80s/early 90s, isn't about printed text, or quotes a actual scientific study or university finding... Lots of articles saying "studies" show blah,blah, blah, blah... But nothing actually mentioning modern LCD monitors or tablets...  Lots of people complaining about white/backgrounds, but I suppose if "studies" say my eyes are not hurting, them my eyes must be up to something and trying to trick me into believing them for some dark nefarious reason.

    Admittedly, not paying attention to anything my eyes say might be a good idea, considering how they've been screwing me over for over half a century.  I mean, 20/5000?  That one's not even trying.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066

    My eyes and my brain don't get along well... They argue about what is real a lot... Usually the hands have to get involved and they whack the head or poke the eyes to break it up... It's a mess... Don't even get me started on the pancreas and the big toe.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,066
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I went to Starbucks for a cheese stick and a refill this afternoon.  They did not ask for my name but they still put my name on the cup.  Maybe I took a drink from another customer who liked their coffee the way I do and have my name. Wait what are the odds of someone else with my first name to get an ice coffee the way I like it?  Granted I do not have a common first name.

    Now I'm wondering what your real name is... I'm picturing something mythical or diabolical... 

    "Ereshkigal"... "Double Frappamachiato latte for Ereshkigal...? No ancient Sumerian goddesses of the underworld order one?... Ereshkigal?"

    Thats probably not your name... But it sounded cool at the moment.

    That moment passed.

    Did you stick around to see if you came around to pick it up... What if there are two of you? You could be part of a secret cloning project... It was very common in the 80s... You might be the last two left... Then the other you would be really lonely...  Or she could be deranged and trying to track down the last of her clones... 

    Hmmm... Proceed with caution.

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    McGyver said:
    Fixmypcmike said:

    Complaint:  why does Apple insist on screwing around with color schemes every time they update iOS?  My daughter upgraded my phone to iOS 10 and now the clock app is all white on black, the icons at the bottom have a distracting light background.  It's hard enough for someone with visual issues to modify this stuff, why do you have to mess it up?

    I agree with that...

    First off, it's Apple, so they know Far more than you what is good for you, so you better agree or you're not cool.

    ...MS seems to have taken the same page from Apple's playbook with W10. 

    "Only we know what's best for you so we decided it's best for us to take full control of your system now."

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,443
    MistyMist said:

    what goes in a PCIe 2.0 slot?

    is my m/b

    PCIe currently, as far as I know, has three versions. They get faster as the number increases, but they are backward/forward compatible - if you put a PCIe x card in a PCIe y slot it will act as if both are the lower of x and y. (So PCIe 3 card in a PCIe 2 slot will run at PCIe 2, PCIe 2 card in PCIe 3 slot will run as PCIe 2 as well.)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213

    ..so then I could put a 1070 or 1080 (once everything was ready for rendering in Iray) in my current system.  How much of a performance hit would that cause?

    Still would need to upgrade the physical memory to 24 GB because of how Iray mirrors VRAM, but that would b far less expense than having to build an entirely new system right now.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,443

    Subject to space and  PSU yes. For Iray I'm not sure it would make an enormous amount of diffrence - it would slow the initial transfer of the scene to the GPU, but on complex scenes that's a minor part of the total time taken.

  • AnotherUserNameAnotherUserName Posts: 2,727
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Henry the sick goldfish passed away sometimes during the night. Private funeral will be held tonight or tomorrow depending on weather.

    Sorry to hear that. Feel better.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    Richard Haseltine said:

    Subject to space and  PSU yes. For Iray I'm not sure it would make an enormous amount of difference - it would slow the initial transfer of the scene to the GPU, but on complex scenes that's a minor part of the total time taken.

    ...the Pascal GPUs tend to be a bit more power efficient than the Maxwell Generation at 180 W peak vs the 980 TI at 250W  Basically it would put a about the same load on my PSU as my old Fermi GTX 460 (160 W peak). I already have a 750 W PSU in my system that rarely even gets to a third of it's capacity during CPU rendering. I also have a 450 W auxiliary PSU which I was using to handle the dual Radeon HD 7950s I had installed.

    The 1070 would actually consume 10 W less than my 460 so I could conceivably run two of them for a total of 3800+ Cores.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    used up both pc vouchers. all gone

    used 1 on the kenji bundle.

    sticker on my psu says 350, but is actually 300w

    no owl tnite.  my neighbor said is a great horn owl.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    edited October 2016

    ...easily used both of Septembers' up. Holding onto this month's to see what offerings show up in the PC sale.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited October 2016

    cant even imagine what content left to buy  lol

    trying to learn how to put avi file on a monitor screen in carrara

    well 1st i hafta record dialog. make my voice sound funny in screaming bee,  lipsync g3m in ds, create the animation file. then exort it to import it to show on a monitor in carrara.  a bunch of monitors to do 

    thinking of transformers movie - "send everyone"

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    ahhchooo   *shnitz*  

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213

    ...nazdravlje!

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

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    MistyMist said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    'Nother complaint:  For at least two years I've been noticing that my eyesight is getting worse.  Gradually getting dimmer, and more blurry.  I got a new prescription and glasses last year which helped the blurriness for a while but not the poor night vision.  Now in the last 6 months the deterioration has accelerated.  I see rings around bright lights, the world looks like I'm viewing it through cheesecloth and I can barely read road signs anymore even by looking through the very top of my progressive lens glasses. 

    Of course I went to the eye doctors (a couple of them) and it's confirmed to be cataracts.  Yellowing of the lens, developing of semi-opaque spots in the lens and now development of little bubbles on or around the lens.  I've known this for a couple of months and the surgery is planned for the 11th (left eye) and 18th (right eye) of October.  I'm hoping this works out OK and everybody says it will, but I'm probably not as relaxed as I should be.  I worry that my insurance company will screw me.  I worry that my doctor could be incompetent, I worry that the problems of a fixed focus lens will be a major setback in my life, especially for close work on the computer or reading.

    But everybody says my far focus seeing will be great and the world will seem much brighter again.  If so, I'm really looking forward to being able to see the stars again.  I haven't seen them clearly for many years.

     

    stars are pretty  {{hugs}}

    {{hugs}} +1 and wow, to see stars as if for the first time...

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited October 2016
    MistyMist said:

    cant even imagine what content left to buy  lol

    trying to learn how to put avi file on a monitor screen in carrara

    well 1st i hafta record dialog. make my voice sound funny in screaming bee,  lipsync g3m in ds, create the animation file. then exort it to import it to show on a monitor in carrara.  a bunch of monitors to do 

    thinking of transformers movie - "send everyone"

    You need to structure the movie as if it was a UV texture following the screen's UV's, if you get/make a UV template for each screen you will see what you have to resize/rotate to keep the video aligned to the screen aspect ratio, um, I do that kind of stuff using Motion, maybe Fusion Free would get you there :0

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    Henry the sick goldfish passed away sometimes during the night. Private funeral will be held tonight or tomorrow depending on weather.

    Sorry for your loss.   sad

    Dana

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,528
    McGyver said:
    Miss Bad Wolf said:

    I went to Starbucks for a cheese stick and a refill this afternoon.  They did not ask for my name but they still put my name on the cup.  Maybe I took a drink from another customer who liked their coffee the way I do and have my name. Wait what are the odds of someone else with my first name to get an ice coffee the way I like it?  Granted I do not have a common first name.

    Now I'm wondering what your real name is... I'm picturing something mythical or diabolical... 

    "Ereshkigal"... "Double Frappamachiato latte for Ereshkigal...? No ancient Sumerian goddesses of the underworld order one?... Ereshkigal?"

    Thats probably not your name... But it sounded cool at the moment.

    That moment passed.

    Did you stick around to see if you came around to pick it up... What if there are two of you? You could be part of a secret cloning project... It was very common in the 80s... You might be the last two left... Then the other you would be really lonely...  Or she could be deranged and trying to track down the last of her clones... 

    Hmmm... Proceed with caution.

     

    I am not sure that there are many who order ice coffee with Mango and Raspberry flavoring.  I did not drink it all last night but put it into the freezer for today.

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