My Lease Is Nearly Up On The Complaint Thread

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  • PetercatPetercat Posts: 2,321
    kyoto kid said:
    Petercat said:

    I heard someone saying something a few minutes ago, and I'm trying hard to remember just who it was and what they said.
    Then it hit me. It was me, talking to myself.
    I still can't remember what I said.
    Getting old sucks.

    ...yeah I agree with that.  Worse is when I set something down (particularly my glasses) and end up in a protracted hunt turning things over only to find it was almost in front of my eyes all the time.

    Part of the reason why vid tutorials aren't much help for me.

    Or when you figure out that you pushed your glasses to the top of your head a couple of hours ago... and they're still there. Or you finally find your keys. Still in the door lock. On the outside. (This is why I replaced my locks with key-on-both-sides. The keys are always right there.)

    My wife asked me once why missing items were always in the last place you looked. "Because when you find them, you stop looking?" may have been the right answer, but it sure as heck wasn't the smartest one...

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847
    edited July 2016

    ...you may also want to look at the Movie Sets series over on Rendo. There are a number of low poly ones that still look pretty good.

     

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  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...copy the link and simply paste it in.

     

    i usually take out the s from https  dunno why, habit i guess

    Bad habit!  The "s" is for secure!  In my opinion, everything should be in https mode.  Actually, that's not just my opinion, either.

    Dana

    Back in the day... (about two decades ago) I was evaluating this new idea called "IPv6" to replace the two decade old IPv4.  At that time, the newer protocol proposed supporting end-to-end encryption through all devices for all communication.  I thought it was a good idea back then but there was a lot of flack from spy people who didn't want to not be able to peek at your conversations.  So here we are two decades later and IPv6 is still the stranger at the door we can't quite bring ourselves to invite it in.  Yeah, yeah, I know big inter-networks use it but it's never worked its way down to the consumer in any big way.

     

    I thought they were starting to implement IPv6.  They were saying that we'd run out of IP addresses if we didn't start using it soon, and by soon, I think they meant last year.

    Encryption used to be frowned upon because of the extra bandwidth that it uses.  But these days that isn't so much an issue anymore.  I have my website in secure mode all the time, from the very first page request.  Whether it was requested as https or not.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    Tjohn said:

    Complaint: Meine E-Mail-Provider starb auf mich! Vorübergehend hoffe ich. Grrrr...

    Good luck with that.  Hope it's temporary.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    MistyMist said:

    Great movie!  So bad it's good!  laugh

    Dana

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:

    Complaint: Meine E-Mail-Provider starb auf mich! Vorübergehend hoffe ich. Grrrr...

    Good luck with that.  Hope it's temporary.

    Dana

    Your email server turned into Colonel Klink ?

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited July 2016
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:

    Great movie!  So bad it's good!  laugh

    Dana

     

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited July 2016

    soft lit version using Phong and fresnel and one overcranked light rolling off distance^2

     

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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,241

    What I found this morning when I checked on my computer

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,082
    edited July 2016
    DanaTA said:
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...copy the link and simply paste it in.

     

    i usually take out the s from https  dunno why, habit i guess

    Bad habit!  The "s" is for secure!  In my opinion, everything should be in https mode.  Actually, that's not just my opinion, either.

    Dana

    Back in the day... (about two decades ago) I was evaluating this new idea called "IPv6" to replace the two decade old IPv4.  At that time, the newer protocol proposed supporting end-to-end encryption through all devices for all communication.  I thought it was a good idea back then but there was a lot of flack from spy people who didn't want to not be able to peek at your conversations.  So here we are two decades later and IPv6 is still the stranger at the door we can't quite bring ourselves to invite it in.  Yeah, yeah, I know big inter-networks use it but it's never worked its way down to the consumer in any big way.

     

    I thought they were starting to implement IPv6.  They were saying that we'd run out of IP addresses if we didn't start using it soon, and by soon, I think they meant last year.

    Encryption used to be frowned upon because of the extra bandwidth that it uses.  But these days that isn't so much an issue anymore.  I have my website in secure mode all the time, from the very first page request.  Whether it was requested as https or not.

    Dana

    20 years ago they were preparing for the "running out of IP addresses" problem but it wasn't until just recently (few years) that the last range of 32-bit IPv4 addresses was allocated.  Perhaps not all "used" but "allocated" to an entity responsible for their dispersal.  And yes, like I said, IPv6 is currently in use by many organizations managing major networks but not by many corporations nor most end users.  So, once your data gets out of your house or office and past the local ISP station it probably travels via IPv6 protocols but the last mile to your home still uses address translation.  For many years we've been using address translation schemes to try to accomodate the overload of required IP addresses. This will work for a while.  But the goal of IPv6, with its vastly larger IP address range, was to have every networked device (computer, telephone, TV, radio, toaster, refrigerator, smart electric toothbrush and smart garbage bin using unique-in-the-world IP addresses.  Who knows what secrets that your toothbrush might have and could divulge under torture or hacking by peering eyes without the support of end-to-end encryption?

    Note: this is terrible.  I've tried to write knowlegebly about IPv6 but have failed miserably to recall details.  I was at one time very "up" on this stuff but after the first decade of not encountering IPv6 in the wild I lost interest and in the subsequent decade my knowlege has just rotted away. Getting old sucks! sad

    Same thing happened with my knowlege of DSL I was all excited about it when we were still using "Thick" Ethernet cable. I wrote reports to government and commercial clients about its potential usefulness but my real work had been with large network hubs or in corporations that used Ethernet cables throughout their buildings.  It took a long time to get from great idea to practical reality.  It wasn't until 20 years later that I actually encountered it in the wild after I'd retired and discovered that my phone company offered DSL internet access. surprise I'd thought that the idea of DSL had become obsoleted by optical fiber and out here in the boonies I would have to use satellite or TV cable.   My DSL service has measurably provided me 6Mb/s service and claims now that they can offer me 12 or 15Mb/s but offering and providing don't quite jibe in the real world over old phone lines far from the local hub.

     

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339

    What I found this morning when I checked on my computer

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,082

    What I found this morning when I checked on my computer

    Here, this may help.

     

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  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Tjohn said:

    All the time nowadays.

     

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,082
    edited July 2016

    I have a list on my refrigerator.  It's title is "Things to do tomorrow".  First item on the list is "put some more things on the list".  Never fails me.

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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    frank0314 said:
    Tjohn said:

    Yeah sometimes when you're angry, English just doesn't cut it. smiley

    That's funny cause I do it with my kids all the time. Make up works instead of cussing. If its just me and the wife or other adults then it don't matter to cuss.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:

    Complaint: Meine E-Mail-Provider starb auf mich! Vorübergehend hoffe ich. Grrrr...

    Good luck with that.  Hope it's temporary.

    Dana

    Better naow. smiley

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:

    Complaint: Meine E-Mail-Provider starb auf mich! Vorübergehend hoffe ich. Grrrr...

    Good luck with that.  Hope it's temporary.

    Dana

    Your email server turned into Colonel Klink ?

    Wasn't me...I was just responding.  But maybe Hogan or one of his men did it!

    Dana

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,241

    My humus dip is gone but I still have chips left complaint

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    DanaTA said:
    DanaTA said:
    MistyMist said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...copy the link and simply paste it in.

     

    i usually take out the s from https  dunno why, habit i guess

    Bad habit!  The "s" is for secure!  In my opinion, everything should be in https mode.  Actually, that's not just my opinion, either.

    Dana

    Back in the day... (about two decades ago) I was evaluating this new idea called "IPv6" to replace the two decade old IPv4.  At that time, the newer protocol proposed supporting end-to-end encryption through all devices for all communication.  I thought it was a good idea back then but there was a lot of flack from spy people who didn't want to not be able to peek at your conversations.  So here we are two decades later and IPv6 is still the stranger at the door we can't quite bring ourselves to invite it in.  Yeah, yeah, I know big inter-networks use it but it's never worked its way down to the consumer in any big way.

     

    I thought they were starting to implement IPv6.  They were saying that we'd run out of IP addresses if we didn't start using it soon, and by soon, I think they meant last year.

    Encryption used to be frowned upon because of the extra bandwidth that it uses.  But these days that isn't so much an issue anymore.  I have my website in secure mode all the time, from the very first page request.  Whether it was requested as https or not.

    Dana

    20 years ago they were preparing for the "running out of IP addresses" problem but it wasn't until just recently (few years) that the last range of 32-bit IPv4 addresses was allocated.  Perhaps not all "used" but "allocated" to an entity responsible for their dispersal.  And yes, like I said, IPv6 is currently in use by many organizations managing major networks but not by many corporations nor most end users.  So, once your data gets out of your house or office and past the local ISP station it probably travels via IPv6 protocols but the last mile to your home still uses address translation.  For many years we've been using address translation schemes to try to accomodate the overload of required IP addresses. This will work for a while.  But the goal of IPv6, with its vastly larger IP address range, was to have every networked device (computer, telephone, TV, radio, toaster, refrigerator, smart electric toothbrush and smart garbage bin using unique-in-the-world IP addresses.  Who knows what secrets that your toothbrush might have and could divulge under torture or hacking by peering eyes without the support of end-to-end encryption?

    Note: this is terrible.  I've tried to write knowlegebly about IPv6 but have failed miserably to recall details.  I was at one time very "up" on this stuff but after the first decade of not encountering IPv6 in the wild I lost interest and in the subsequent decade my knowlege has just rotted away. Getting old sucks! sad

    Same thing happened with my knowlege of DSL I was all excited about it when we were still using "Thick" Ethernet cable. I wrote reports to government and commercial clients about its potential usefulness but my real work had been with large network hubs or in corporations that used Ethernet cables throughout their buildings.  It took a long time to get from great idea to practical reality.  It wasn't until 20 years later that I actually encountered it in the wild after I'd retired and discovered that my phone company offered DSL internet access. surprise I'd thought that the idea of DSL had become obsoleted by optical fiber and out here in the boonies I would have to use satellite or TV cable.   My DSL service has measurably provided me 6Mb/s service and claims now that they can offer me 12 or 15Mb/s but offering and providing don't quite jibe in the real world over old phone lines far from the local hub.

     

    I am purturbed by Comcast still comparing their speed to that of DSL.  It's apples and oranges...or apples and molasses.  laugh  I consider DSL to be enhanced dial-up, not a broadband service.

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,333
    Tjohn said:

    Often, unfortunately.  frown

    Dana

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,339
    DanaTA said:
    ps1borg said:
    DanaTA said:
    Tjohn said:

    Complaint: Meine E-Mail-Provider starb auf mich! Vorübergehend hoffe ich. Grrrr...

    Good luck with that.  Hope it's temporary.

    Dana

    Your email server turned into Colonel Klink ?

    Wasn't me...I was just responding.  But maybe Hogan or one of his men did it!

    Dana

    (clenches fist and shakes it) Hogannnn!!

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,847

    What I found this morning when I checked on my computer

    ...a bug (and a mischievous looking one at that)?  Didn't do any downloads from Microsoft did you?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    My humus dip is gone but I still have chips left complaint

     

    complaintworthy !!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Petercat said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Petercat said:
    MistyMist said:

    dont want my storie's cities to be endless skyscrapers.  want it to be pedestrian friendly,  

    does complicate things

    do love city concepts smiley

    I want a Suburban Sprawl. A convenience store, maybe a strip mall, lots of homes with lawns...

    ...I believe Collective 3Ds store was on sale yesterday Lots of nice neighbourhood houses. 

    Stonemason was working on a suburban sprawl set a couple years ago but I believe he shelved it for now. As I remember trees were the big issue as they would have made the set extremely heavy poly-wise and the only other option would be to use billboards.

    Problem is I own Collective3Ds store! If you use them to build a neighborhood, the poly count is... frightening. Rendering takes longer than building a real neighborhood would. On a government contract.

     

    On a government contract?  can only imagine how slowwwww that is  lol

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited July 2016

    ordered mars bars from the UK  prolly silly ordering chocolate in july, but mars bars better melty?

     

    tee hee saw da cute hair accessory at rmp.  rhymes with kitten phones smiley

     

    omg electric lamps an endangered species, is only for lottery winners  
    plug into socket, 3 clicks - light, lighter, lightest
    built one in shop class fortyyyy +1 years ago. dont remember how
    all morning browsing amazon for a lamp.

     

    tee hee  how did i live without this my whole life

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  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,241

    Did I do something wrong?   or is it just heartburn?

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    are London and Paris on islands?

    theres the Seine and the Thames.  h is silent i think

    lookin up Prague, Vienna, and Budapest, iirc, lotsa waterways in those cities.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    MistyMist said:

    are London and Paris on islands?

    theres the Seine and the Thames.  h is silent i think

    lookin up Prague, Vienna, and Budapest, iirc, lotsa waterways in those cities.

    London is on an Island,  the Island is called Great Britain.

    The Thames is a river.   It flows through London.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    Chohole said:
    MistyMist said:

    are London and Paris on islands?

    theres the Seine and the Thames.  h is silent i think

    lookin up Prague, Vienna, and Budapest, iirc, lotsa waterways in those cities.

    London is on an Island,  the Island is called Great Britain.

    The Thames is a river.   It flows through London.

     

    thanks!!

    power station, seeing a ferris wheel symbol

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