Thread "Rant or Vent here" in forum "Comic Talk and General Discussion *"

Posted at 6:10AM, Oct. 29, 2008

I love the fact that the price of gas has gone down.

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 29, 2008

All the hardware stores around here close at 6p. That's what time I get off work. I just want some needlenose pliers! *whine*

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 29, 2008

It snowed in London last night, but the ground was already soaked and nothing settled. We never get a decent British snow-in any more. I suppose that's what we get for inventing the industrial revolution and ruining the climate.

Posted at 7:10AM, Oct. 29, 2008

All the hardware stores around here close at 6p. That's what time I get off work. I just want some needlenose pliers! *whine*

have you tried Kmart or Wal-mart?

Posted at 9:10AM, Oct. 29, 2008

with Sarah Palin as VP.
No way. I have a better choice: Kyupol. :)

Then he could join the Bilderbergers and CFR and become part of the grand conspiracy!

Sadly he's disqualified by age, he's in his 20's. (and birth? was he born in the USA?) :(

Unless we can fake a birth certificate like the Right-wingers insist Obama has.

My last day working Dan's shift and having to answer thousands of "where's Dan?" questions.

I only have one uniform shirt and have laundered it six times. I've ordered more. Yippee.

Now my washing machine is broken and they have to order the part. I have enough clothes, with three baskets full of clean clothes I haven't put away yet. Gotta plan ahead. I always have enough clean underwear to last at least a week. The Army taught me something because you never know. :)

Rampant jealousy because I'm still using Photoshop 7.

To quote Dr. McCoy "why do engineers always have to 'improve' things?"

Posted at 9:10AM, Oct. 29, 2008

when i "deploy", laundry is a three day turnaround, so you need at least six pair, i take ten.

no work. no wife, cause she's at work. fable's almost done, and spore is impossible without cheats. i'm bored.

Posted at 10:10AM, Oct. 29, 2008

for spore's space stage, have you tried making at least 2 allies, do nothing but spice trade, pimp out your weapons, conquer your enemies, and then back stab 1 of your allies?

Posted at 12:10PM, Oct. 29, 2008

Finally: Happy Almost B-Day, Ryu!

Thank you! =D

Posted at 1:10PM, Oct. 29, 2008

Photoshop CS4 is lame…
The brushes are slightly slower than CS2 or CS3 (but much faster than CS1). The button for changing the screen type has now moved from the tools menu entirely and resides at the top of the screen.

And that's most of the irritating stuff so far. Worst being the brush speed.

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The good stuff so far is you can rotate your document view any angle. The fact it uses video acceleration so you no longer get the pixely effect on zoom levels that don't go in the 12% 25%, 50%, levels. It's now smooth at any level.
And not much more than that really.

Pretty much. :/ I really appreciate the ability to flip my canvas around since it reduces the number of weird hand positions I end up making to get a stroke right, but the slower stroke speed is really noticeable on a computer with a relatively small amount of RAM like my laptop. Illustrator takes forever to do a live trace now too. I don't use it often, but I thought my computer had some sort of fit with how long it took.

I can't seem to find the paint-in selection tool ( I don't know the real name for it. ) that put a red light filter over your work that you could draw in your selection with either, and I really used that a lot.

I'm hoping that some of these goofy new features might reveal the logic behind them with some more playing around in the programs.

Posted at 1:10PM, Oct. 29, 2008

Rampant jealousy because I'm still using Photoshop 7.

To quote Dr. McCoy "why do engineers always have to 'improve' things?"

PS 7 is What I use at work… It's pretty much just as good, the downside for me is that you can never move the image outside the canvas/screen border… So that's pretty much the same as what you're stuck with now in the CS4 navigation tool.

I can't seem to find the paint-in selection tool ( I don't know the real name for it. ) that put a red light filter over your work that you could draw in your selection with either, and I really used that a lot.

Quick mask :)
It's still at the bottom of the tools menu… But on mine it doesn't show up more than a little line when the tools menu is set to two rows instead of a single vertical one. Maybe that's your issue too?
Looks like a display bug…

Upping the number of cache levels to 8 improved the brush speed issue a lot. Still not as good as CS2 and 3 though. Man… Having a fast Quad core with plenty of ram and a high-end video card still doesn't matter… :(
Looks like I'll have to get the 64 bit version of Vista and yet more ram… :(

Posted at 1:10PM, Oct. 29, 2008

Yep. Quick mask was hidden. I'll have to try finding the cache levels later when I have time to mess with it. I still need more ram anyway. My tiny little 2 gigs just doesn't keep up with the rest of my computer.

Posted at 2:10PM, Oct. 29, 2008

The nightclub i'm going to is having their Halloween party- unfortunately none of my friends except the one that's taking me there can go…what's a party without friends? D'=

Posted at 2:10PM, Oct. 29, 2008

The nightclub i'm going to is having their Halloween party- unfortunately none of my friends except the one that's taking me there can go…what's a party without friends? D'=

If it's just the two of you…a Shania Twain song?

Posted at 2:10PM, Oct. 29, 2008

I'll have to try finding the cache levels later when I have time to mess with it.

In Preferences, under "performance".
32 bit machines can't do much more anyway… the limit is only just over 3 gig that they can really use. And 32 bit Cs4 can't use more than 1.7 gig. :(
The best option then is to get a small solid state hard drive and use that as your scratch disk.

The nightclub i'm going to is having their Halloween party- unfortunately none of my friends except the one that's taking me there can go…what's a party without friends? D'=

Oh pshaw! Meet new ones. That's what parties are best for anyway )

Posted at 6:10PM, Oct. 29, 2008

i just got a loan that will let me not worry about the finances. so bam. i get not screwed in either direction.

except for the part where you didn't worry about paying the loan back until you actually had to do it and then had no money to do so :D

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I really don't want to work today. My vacation was actually pretty tiring and I caught something on the way back that has been making me feel weak and sleepy, I hardly have the energy to walk the dog. But there is so much work I have to do… :[

actually, the problem was short term. i'll have the money at the end of next month. but i'll be gone, so i wouldnt be able to move until march…i'll have the loan paid off by christmas.

spore is a vassssssssst game. once you get to space. some of the planets are pre-positioned, the rest is all other peoples characters. you dont intrude on their game, and they dont intrude on yours…..but you meet their characters and their empires at the time you run into them….

it will take forEVER….to finish this…

Posted at 9:10PM, Oct. 29, 2008

PS 7 is What I use at work… It's pretty much just as good, the downside for me is that you can never move the image outside the canvas/screen border… So that's pretty much the same as what you're stuck with now in the CS4 navigation tool.

Upping the number of cache levels to 8 improved the brush speed issue a lot. Still not as good as CS2 and 3 though. Man… Having a fast Quad core with plenty of ram and a high-end video card still doesn't matter… :(
Looks like I'll have to get the 64 bit version of Vista and yet more ram… :(

I never used anything newer than 7. Would be insane to try having only 512mb memory, haha.

Posted at 9:10PM, Oct. 29, 2008

And that's a wise choice. :)
Most of the things the newer version add are only incremental little things really, along with gimmicks. And after CS2 Adobe Imageready disappears (because they bought Macromedia and went with Fireworks instead), which means CS3 and CS4 lose a whole layer of workflow so Adobe can make more money by shipping Fireworks as a separate product. (or classing it as a separate product in the Creative Suite bundle).

I only got CS4 because it's the latest one out and it works better with the Cintiq I've just bought than CS1 did… And I'll probably go to 64 bit Windows anyway because I would like more ram for my system and CS4 is the only version of PS that runs natively as a 64 bit program in a 64 bit environment and so can actually use most of the ram you can buy for it now that ram is so cheap :)
-And it can't do that on a Mac yet either :)

Posted at 9:10PM, Oct. 29, 2008

I only have one cat left now.

Two of my cats have died in the last month, one of them today. Life is so fragile.

Posted at 9:10PM, Oct. 29, 2008

I only have one cat left now.

Two of my cats have died in the last month, one of them today. Life is so fragile.

I'm so sorry :( I know what it feels like to lose a cat unfortunately

Posted at 10:10PM, Oct. 29, 2008

I only have one cat left now.

Two of my cats have died in the last month, one of them today. Life is so fragile.
I'm so sorry :( I know what it feels like to lose a cat unfortunately

I came home and found him dead on the counter with his tongue hanging out, as dopily as he always was in his short life. I almost laughed, which is so very wrong in a way but that cat did always make me laugh. I'll miss the little bugger.

Unfortunately, life does carry this little inevitability.

Posted at 10:10PM, Oct. 29, 2008

2 years ago I had 3. But then one died… At the start of this year, another one, her daughter, died. Mum was 19, baby was 17, would have been 18 in August. Cancer took them both. :(

Now I only have one left. No relation to the other two and only 7 years old… So hopefully he has a few years ahead of him yet. :)

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I have a real rant though about something that bothers me:
The growth of the idiot phrase "Law maker" in the media.

Once we all used "legislator". This was the standard term. But now the media has to make politics understandable to the common dolt, words like legislator are too complicated…

Now, that wouldn't be so bad, normally, but the word "legislator" seems to have been dropped completely by almost ALL English language news services world wide in favour of this simplified term. That's not so good… We can count that alongside the new-found meaning of "terror" as a synonym of "terrorism" as another low point in modern political speech.

Posted at 3:10AM, Oct. 30, 2008

CS4 issues

I had a look around at some Photoshop forums links from the Adobe website. The slowness of the rendering is caused by some bad programming by Adobe to do with the way CS4 handles the video crad crap. They're expecting all the video card manufacturers to release fixes to get around their little issue. So it looks like we'll have to wait for a fix there.
Apparently if you have a really old crappy card that doesn't support the video card features at all, it works perfectly…. So the problem isn't caused by the cards, just the way Adobe 's programmed CS4 to use them- when it thinks it sees one it's compatible with.

Who'd a'thought… their gimmick is responsible for poor performance… sheer genius.

Posted at 4:10AM, Oct. 30, 2008

Who'd a'thought… their gimmick is responsible for poor performance… sheer genius.

I so glad my budget only stretches to Gimp.

I only have one cat left now.

Two of my cats have died in the last month, one of them today. Life is so fragile.

I had this great siamese cat when I was a kid: I thought I'd get another when I was older. Turns out my wife is allergic to cats. Now I have to spend the rest of my days pining for my lost little kitty.

*Sniff*

Posted at 8:10AM, Oct. 30, 2008

i found a cute kitten at an adoption center, the place payed for all her shots, her spaying (most omaha pet places require your pet be spayed or nuetered, they've tried to take away our dogs, because we havent, but since i'm an indiana resident, they really can't do much)
there was a place where you could bring in your pets, and see if they'd get along, and so we did, and they got along perfectly. so we paid like 5 bucks for her, brought her home, named her kitten, and then my little dog tried to assert dominance, and there was a big fight…the husky joined in for sport. they couldnt get along, so i took her back….

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all this computer talk has made me wonder…i had an xp 64 bit system…and then the OS crashed, (another story all together), so while i was deployed my wife went and bought a new harddrive, and windows vista. but i dont think she got the 64 system. i dont even know if she knows what OS she got….

also, i'm off to work…

Posted at 10:10AM, Oct. 30, 2008

CS4 issues

I had a look around at some Photoshop forums links from the Adobe website. The slowness of the rendering is caused by some bad programming by Adobe to do with the way CS4 handles the video crad crap. They're expecting all the video card manufacturers to release fixes to get around their little issue. So it looks like we'll have to wait for a fix there.
Apparently if you have a really old crappy card that doesn't support the video card features at all, it works perfectly…. So the problem isn't caused by the cards, just the way Adobe 's programmed CS4 to use them- when it thinks it sees one it's compatible with.

Who'd a'thought… their gimmick is responsible for poor performance… sheer genius.

There's no way in hell every video card manufacturer on earth is going to put out fixes for one program. Not when it would be easier and smarter to fix the problem with the program.

I wonder if there's a way to make CS4 think it's incompatible with the video card without screwing up my computer or the way PS works? I'm not exactly a computer tech here though so I have no clue.