The OMG It is 2017 This thread's end is Nigh Complaint Thread.

Mistara

makin me thirsty

dunno what ise seein, 2 overlayed?

Mistara

interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", whose melody is identical to "God Save the Queen",

 

In a version hand-written by Francis Scott Key in 1840, the third line reads "Whose bright stars and broad stripes, through the clouds of the fight"

Lyrics

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Mistara

omg like after 25 hours of rendering, it stops again with the grains

it was up to 53%

 

max time (secs) 0 = % - ----- is not true

TangoAlpha

MistyMist said:

what if they never update carrara?

whats the next logical progression?

lightwave?

I'm getting to be quite a fan of Modo . . .  (and there's an Indie version on Steam)

McGyver

MistyMist said:

what if they never update carrara?

whats the next logical progression?

lightwave?

Blender?... it just keeps getting more awesome every day.  And it's 10% less scary then it used to be!

Sfariah D

McGyver said:

MistyMist said:

what if they never update carrara?

whats the next logical progression?

lightwave?

Blender?... it just keeps getting more awesome every day.  And it's 10% less scary then it used to be!

Are they going to keep the same price or increase it by four percent of reduce it by four percent?

 

Edit they should decrease the price by thirteen percent before I buy it.

McGyver

MistyMist said:

interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", whose melody is identical to "God Save the Queen",

 

In a version hand-written by Francis Scott Key in 1840, the third line reads "Whose bright stars and broad stripes, through the clouds of the fight"

Lyrics

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Little known fact, that I probably just made up... Francis Scott Key's original melody was intended for the electric guitar, which back then was know as the "Electroharpismatron" and was powered by lightning, as it was originally invented by Benjamin Franklin while he was experimenting with reanimating dead horses. Few people know that the version Jimmy Hendrix preformed was far closer to the original, than any other versions in between.

Yeah... I probably made that up... Sounds like something I'd say.

Sfariah D

I started a render when I left for work to come home to find that the computer restarted by itself.

Mistara

McGyver said:

MistyMist said:

interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", whose melody is identical to "God Save the Queen",

 

In a version hand-written by Francis Scott Key in 1840, the third line reads "Whose bright stars and broad stripes, through the clouds of the fight"

Lyrics

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Little known fact, that I probably just made up... Francis Scott Key's original melody was intended for the electric guitar, which back then was know as the "Electroharpismatron" and was powered by lightning, as it was originally invented by Benjamin Franklin while he was experimenting with reanimating dead horses. Few people know that the version Jimmy Hendrix preformed was far closer to the original, than any other versions in between.

Yeah... I probably made that up... Sounds like something I'd say.

 

Jimmy!  the song he played with hid teeth?

Star Spangle Banner is public domain!

 

according to  publicdomain4u  Annette Hanshaw – “Ain’t He Sweet”  is public domain,

i start singin it, when i sing it  'Ain’t He Sweet' comes out okay,
then lyrics morph -  'sweet walks merrily down the street, brim pulled way down low',  then he bites the dust.  
started out a happy song

Mistara

54%

 

 

 

McGyver

MistyMist said:

McGyver said:

MistyMist said:

interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", whose melody is identical to "God Save the Queen",

 

In a version hand-written by Francis Scott Key in 1840, the third line reads "Whose bright stars and broad stripes, through the clouds of the fight"

Lyrics

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Little known fact, that I probably just made up... Francis Scott Key's original melody was intended for the electric guitar, which back then was know as the "Electroharpismatron" and was powered by lightning, as it was originally invented by Benjamin Franklin while he was experimenting with reanimating dead horses. Few people know that the version Jimmy Hendrix preformed was far closer to the original, than any other versions in between.

 

i start singin it, when i sing it  'Ain’t He Sweet' comes out okay,
then lyrics morph -  'sweet walks merrily down the street, brim pulled way down low',  then he bites the dust.  
started out a happy song

Ah yes... That was actually how Franklin used to sing it while he was playing it on his Electroharpismatron with his teeth... Actually it was Washington's old wooden teeth, which he was using as pick.

Isn't history great?... 

Nobody cares about it or learns from it, so you pretty much can make anything up and some idiot will believe it... Just turn on the TV, you'll see... Go ahead... I dare you.

Its awesome.

Mistara

McGyver said:

MistyMist said:

McGyver said:

MistyMist said:

interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", whose melody is identical to "God Save the Queen",

 

In a version hand-written by Francis Scott Key in 1840, the third line reads "Whose bright stars and broad stripes, through the clouds of the fight"

Lyrics

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Little known fact, that I probably just made up... Francis Scott Key's original melody was intended for the electric guitar, which back then was know as the "Electroharpismatron" and was powered by lightning, as it was originally invented by Benjamin Franklin while he was experimenting with reanimating dead horses. Few people know that the version Jimmy Hendrix preformed was far closer to the original, than any other versions in between.

 

i start singin it, when i sing it  'Ain’t He Sweet' comes out okay,
then lyrics morph -  'sweet walks merrily down the street, brim pulled way down low',  then he bites the dust.  
started out a happy song

Ah yes... That was actually how Franklin used to sing it while he was playing it on his Electroharpismatron with his teeth... Actually it was Washington's old wooden teeth, which he was using as pick.

Isn't history great?... 

Nobody cares about it or learns from it, so you pretty much can make anything up and some idiot will believe it... Just turn on the TV, you'll see... Go ahead... I dare you.

Its awesome.

 

ise havent had tv since they turned off the analog.  was best diet ever, less snacking lol

vaccuum tubes, landfill fodder

McGyver

MistyMist said:

McGyver said:

MistyMist said:

McGyver said:

MistyMist said:

interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", whose melody is identical to "God Save the Queen",

 

In a version hand-written by Francis Scott Key in 1840, the third line reads "Whose bright stars and broad stripes, through the clouds of the fight"

Lyrics

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Little known fact, that I probably just made up... Francis Scott Key's original melody was intended for the electric guitar, which back then was know as the "Electroharpismatron" and was powered by lightning, as it was originally invented by Benjamin Franklin while he was experimenting with reanimating dead horses. Few people know that the version Jimmy Hendrix preformed was far closer to the original, than any other versions in between.

 

i start singin it, when i sing it  'Ain’t He Sweet' comes out okay,
then lyrics morph -  'sweet walks merrily down the street, brim pulled way down low',  then he bites the dust.  
started out a happy song

Ah yes... That was actually how Franklin used to sing it while he was playing it on his Electroharpismatron with his teeth... Actually it was Washington's old wooden teeth, which he was using as pick.

Isn't history great?... 

Nobody cares about it or learns from it, so you pretty much can make anything up and some idiot will believe it... Just turn on the TV, you'll see... Go ahead... I dare you.

Its awesome.

 

ise havent had tv since they turned off the analog.  was best diet ever, less snacking lol

vaccuum tubes, landfill fodder

A wise decision indeed.

Mistara

one of these pictures is a vaccuum tube 

        

Mistara

TangoAlpha said:

MistyMist said:

what if they never update carrara?

whats the next logical progression?

lightwave?

I'm getting to be quite a fan of Modo . . .  (and there's an Indie version on Steam)

 

found a houdini demo reel.  think is spensive thouh

 

there's a vray for modo 

 

Mistara

JUSTICE LEEEEEEEEAGUE   omg  yess yess
 

like a couple trailers in

 

Underworld 5  kate is back

 

RE6

DanaTA

MistyMist said:

McGyver said:

MistyMist said:

McGyver said:

MistyMist said:

interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", whose melody is identical to "God Save the Queen",

 

In a version hand-written by Francis Scott Key in 1840, the third line reads "Whose bright stars and broad stripes, through the clouds of the fight"

Lyrics

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Little known fact, that I probably just made up... Francis Scott Key's original melody was intended for the electric guitar, which back then was know as the "Electroharpismatron" and was powered by lightning, as it was originally invented by Benjamin Franklin while he was experimenting with reanimating dead horses. Few people know that the version Jimmy Hendrix preformed was far closer to the original, than any other versions in between.

 

i start singin it, when i sing it  'Ain’t He Sweet' comes out okay,
then lyrics morph -  'sweet walks merrily down the street, brim pulled way down low',  then he bites the dust.  
started out a happy song

Ah yes... That was actually how Franklin used to sing it while he was playing it on his Electroharpismatron with his teeth... Actually it was Washington's old wooden teeth, which he was using as pick.

Isn't history great?... 

Nobody cares about it or learns from it, so you pretty much can make anything up and some idiot will believe it... Just turn on the TV, you'll see... Go ahead... I dare you.

Its awesome.

 

ise havent had tv since they turned off the analog.  was best diet ever, less snacking lol

vaccuum tubes, landfill fodder

They haven't used vaccuum tubes for TVs in quite a few years!  Long before they switched to all digital broadcasts.

Dana

kyoto kid

MistyMist said:

what if they never update carrara?

whats the next logical progression?

lightwave?

...not for me, I don't have 1,000$ to spare.  If I had that kind of money available it would be the 24 GB upgrade I need to do, a 250 GB SSD (so I can do a dual boot Linux/W7 system) and a GTX 1080.

kyoto kid

McGyver said:

MistyMist said:

what if they never update carrara?

whats the next logical progression?

lightwave?

Blender?... it just keeps getting more awesome every day.  And it's 10% less scary then it used to be!

...which for me means it's still has too much scary at 90%.

kyoto kid

TangoAlpha said:

MistyMist said:

what if they never update carrara?

whats the next logical progression?

lightwave?

I'm getting to be quite a fan of Modo . . .  (and there's an Indie version on Steam)

...yeah but the Steam version is optimised primarily towards modelling for game development.

I still  remember when it was primarily just a modelling programme, then it went multi feature and the price bloated. As I recall many years ago it was something like 880$ and there was this offer through Daz for a limited time where you could get it for half price. Now it's something like 1,800$ (though apparently on sale right now for 1,079$.

kyoto kid

Miss Bad Wolf said:

I started a render when I left for work to come home to find that the computer restarted by itself.

...do you have auto updating turned on?

kyoto kid

MistyMist said:

McGyver said:

MistyMist said:

McGyver said:

MistyMist said:

interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", whose melody is identical to "God Save the Queen",

 

In a version hand-written by Francis Scott Key in 1840, the third line reads "Whose bright stars and broad stripes, through the clouds of the fight"

Lyrics

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Little known fact, that I probably just made up... Francis Scott Key's original melody was intended for the electric guitar, which back then was know as the "Electroharpismatron" and was powered by lightning, as it was originally invented by Benjamin Franklin while he was experimenting with reanimating dead horses. Few people know that the version Jimmy Hendrix preformed was far closer to the original, than any other versions in between.

 

i start singin it, when i sing it  'Ain’t He Sweet' comes out okay,
then lyrics morph -  'sweet walks merrily down the street, brim pulled way down low',  then he bites the dust.  
started out a happy song

Ah yes... That was actually how Franklin used to sing it while he was playing it on his Electroharpismatron with his teeth... Actually it was Washington's old wooden teeth, which he was using as pick.

Isn't history great?... 

Nobody cares about it or learns from it, so you pretty much can make anything up and some idiot will believe it... Just turn on the TV, you'll see... Go ahead... I dare you.

Its awesome.

 

ise havent had tv since they turned off the analog.  was best diet ever, less snacking lol

vaccuum tubes, landfill fodder

..I haven't had one since mine blew up a dozen years ago

kyoto kid

DanaTA said:

MistyMist said:

McGyver said:

MistyMist said:

McGyver said:

MistyMist said:

interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star-Spangled_Banner
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", whose melody is identical to "God Save the Queen",

 

In a version hand-written by Francis Scott Key in 1840, the third line reads "Whose bright stars and broad stripes, through the clouds of the fight"

Lyrics

O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Little known fact, that I probably just made up... Francis Scott Key's original melody was intended for the electric guitar, which back then was know as the "Electroharpismatron" and was powered by lightning, as it was originally invented by Benjamin Franklin while he was experimenting with reanimating dead horses. Few people know that the version Jimmy Hendrix preformed was far closer to the original, than any other versions in between.

 

i start singin it, when i sing it  'Ain’t He Sweet' comes out okay,
then lyrics morph -  'sweet walks merrily down the street, brim pulled way down low',  then he bites the dust.  
started out a happy song

Ah yes... That was actually how Franklin used to sing it while he was playing it on his Electroharpismatron with his teeth... Actually it was Washington's old wooden teeth, which he was using as pick.

Isn't history great?... 

Nobody cares about it or learns from it, so you pretty much can make anything up and some idiot will believe it... Just turn on the TV, you'll see... Go ahead... I dare you.

Its awesome.

 

ise havent had tv since they turned off the analog.  was best diet ever, less snacking lol

vaccuum tubes, landfill fodder

They haven't used vaccuum tubes for TVs in quite a few years!  Long before they switched to all digital broadcasts.

Dana

...the "Archie Bunker" colour Zenith television we had when I was growing up still had vacuum tubes.  So did the big German multiband radio on the stand next to my bed.  Helped keep the room nice and warm on those cold winter nights.

kyoto kid

...breezy and wet out tonight, been raining steadily all day.  Big storm is supposed to hit us on Caturday with lots more rain and high winds, even inland. Yep, summer is but a fond memory now.  Made me a big batch of my signature pasta sauce to weather out the wet and stormy weather. 

kyoto kid

...well as of today, finally in the digital fast lane as we switched from standard cable to fibre optic service.  Definitely a yuuge improvement.  Now if things are slow, I will know it's not on my end. Found out they also use Norton so I don't need my own licence. 

SCAYT spell check is working again though it seems to be having trouble remembering the language preference.

DanaTA

kyoto kid said:

...well as of today, finally in the digital fast lane as we switched from standard cable to fibre optic service.  Definitely a yuuge improvement.  Now if things are slow, I will know it's not on my end. Found out they also use Norton so I don't need my own licence. 

SCAYT spell check is working again though it seems to be having trouble remembering the language preference.

To my knowledge only FiOS claims to be all fiber.  They do not have Norton, they have the other one.  Fact is, the fiber stops at the house.  So, that extra 20 feet from the pole to the house makes that much difference?  I don't know.  I do like that the upstream speed is the same as the downstream speed.  Haven't fully checked that out yet, but it seems pretty fast here.

Dana

Taoz

MistyMist said:

one of these pictures is a vaccuum tube 

        

EXTERMINATE!!

kyoto kid

...

kyoto kid

DanaTA said:

kyoto kid said:

...well as of today, finally in the digital fast lane as we switched from standard cable to fibre optic service.  Definitely a yuuge improvement.  Now if things are slow, I will know it's not on my end. Found out they also use Norton so I don't need my own licence. 

SCAYT spell check is working again though it seems to be having trouble remembering the language preference.

To my knowledge only FiOS claims to be all fiber.  They do not have Norton, they have the other one.  Fact is, the fiber stops at the house.  So, that extra 20 feet from the pole to the house makes that much difference?  I don't know.  I do like that the upstream speed is the same as the downstream speed.  Haven't fully checked that out yet, but it seems pretty fast here.

Dana

...there definitely is a very noticeable imporvement in performance. The one big differnce was the way our former provider had the system set up. Effectively were in a "party line" like situation whereby access in the surrounding local area was shared with others on the same provider kind of like a peer to peer network.  This often resulted in extreme slowdowns at peak use times.

The connection we have now is totally independent of other users with the same service.

OK so is there a "curfew" for the SCAYT spell check (like midnight or something) as it stopped working again?  I hate using the Check Spelling option as it wastes time going through all the quoted text as well.

TangoAlpha

Miss Bad Wolf said:

I started a render when I left for work to come home to find that the computer restarted by itself.

 

Same thing happened to me overnight. I hate windows 10.