is there such a thing as too much content?

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  • nobody1954nobody1954 Posts: 933
    edited December 1969

    I feel so.........inadequate.

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,278
    edited December 1969

    Hmm. I wonder if everyone is calculating numbers the same way.?

    For example, I see 100 pages in the Product Library tab of the My Account section of the website. That breaks down to 99 full pages of 40 items per page, plus one page of 36 items, for a total of 3996 items. However, someone else might not be seeing 40 items per page as the default standard and might see that exact same number of items installed as less or more pages. And looking at it on DIM, I see it as 5981 installed files.

    And for what it’s worth, there are currently 14799 separate items on the DAZ ebsite, although a number of those will actually be bundles that incorporate other items, so at 40 items a page, the most pages you can have would be in the neighborhood of 369.

    Over at Rendo I’ve purchased 1914 items with an additional 7 gifts and around 200 BOGOs. And don't even get me started on freebies... there are thousands of those.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,857
    edited December 1969

    Fisty said:
    49 pages here (40 per page so almost 2000 items) , 269 items from Rendo, a few random things from elsewhere.. LOL

    ...just a couple pages behind you. Were I not unemployed for the last fifteen months I'd be up about or slightly ahead of where Misty is.

    Kulay, 209 pages???? Crikey, thats like over 8,000 items.

  • caravellecaravelle Posts: 2,653
    edited December 1969

    40 pages. App. 1.600 items. Think I am the collector type. But different from ususal art collectors, I can use my pieces to make my own art, play with them, change their surfaces, and so on. That's better than to sit and stare at a Rembrandt or Modigliani. AND you don't have to pay so much, including security and insurances. :cheese:

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,261
    edited December 1969

    Hmm. I wonder if everyone is calculating numbers the same way.?

    For example, I see 100 pages in the Product Library tab of the My Account section of the website. That breaks down to 99 full pages of 40 items per page, plus one page of 36 items, for a total of 3996 items. However, someone else might not be seeing 40 items per page as the default standard and might see that exact same number of items installed as less or more pages. And looking at it on DIM, I see it as 5981 installed files.

    And for what it’s worth, there are currently 14799 separate items on the DAZ ebsite, although a number of those will actually be bundles that incorporate other items, so at 40 items a page, the most pages you can have would be in the neighborhood of 369.

    Over at Rendo I’ve purchased 1914 items with an additional 7 gifts and around 200 BOGOs. And don't even get me started on freebies... there are thousands of those.

    Good question. I go to the product library tab and look at that.

  • cecilia.robinsoncecilia.robinson Posts: 2,208
    edited December 1969

    I only have six pages of content in my DAZ Product Library. However, the vast majority of my content is freebies, mainly from ShareCG.com, so that's to be expected. I couldn't even tell you how much i got from there.

    I also hoard freebies and estimate the lion's share of my runtime is comprised of them.

    I have 44 pages of content from Daz, and I don't know how many items from Rendo and RDNA. I have at least triple the amount of my paid items in freebies, though. And I have many self-made content items as well, that have never been publically shared for one reason or another.

    I do not think there is such a thing as too much content. As long as the content you have is largely in use and useful to you, there is no such thing as too much content. This is a hobby where each person's libraries are completely individual. My program will look ery different from yours, based on what I have installed, just as yours will be very different from someone else's. We install what we find usefuln according to what we use and what sort of art we practice. That is all.

    I have not yet even come close to filling up a 1TB drive with content, but I do have many burned cds and dvds with very old legacy content going as far back as the Poser 4 people, so who knows. =) I do keep a second 1TB hd specifically for backing up my runtime libraries though... just in case the unthinkable ever happens again (hard drive failure), and have not yet even come close to filling that, either.

    Too much content? What's this foreign concept you refer to? Surely it's not from this world! LOL

    "There's no such thing like too much content"... The sage has spoken!

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,261
    edited December 1969

    I feel so.........inadequate.

    So do I

    if I spent the money I spent on virtual shoes on real shoes I would have more shoes for myself. True virtual shoes are cheaper than real shoes, but why is it that my virtual girls have more shoes and clothes than me?

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,261
    edited December 1969

    I remember I went crazy at one certain site that is now gone and I lost everything that I got from there.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 108,066
    edited December 1969

    Hmm. I wonder if everyone is calculating numbers the same way.?

    For example, I see 100 pages in the Product Library tab of the My Account section of the website. That breaks down to 99 full pages of 40 items per page, plus one page of 36 items, for a total of 3996 items. However, someone else might not be seeing 40 items per page as the default standard and might see that exact same number of items installed as less or more pages. And looking at it on DIM, I see it as 5981 installed files.

    And for what it’s worth, there are currently 14799 separate items on the DAZ ebsite, although a number of those will actually be bundles that incorporate other items, so at 40 items a page, the most pages you can have would be in the neighborhood of 369.

    Over at Rendo I’ve purchased 1914 items with an additional 7 gifts and around 200 BOGOs. And don't even get me started on freebies... there are thousands of those.

    I must admit there's (currently) only one item on the 160th page.

  • alexhcowleyalexhcowley Posts: 2,403
    edited December 1969

    I feel so.........inadequate.

    Don't worry. I have only 22 pages (plus some stuff from Renderosity and RuntimeDNA) so you are not alone.

    Cheers,

    Alex.

  • LeanaLeana Posts: 12,758
    edited December 1969

    Hmmm... 102 pages here, 860 items at Rendo, around 700 at RDNA, 30 or so at HW3D, and a few at other stores... Not counting the crapload of freebies I dowloaded in the past 10 years...
    Not bad ;-)

  • SpitSpit Posts: 2,342
    edited December 1969

    Sigh. I wasn't going to admit it but.....255 pages for DAZ and 6261 items at Rendo.

    Can't get the exact number at RDNA but it was running ahead of Rendo until a couple years ago.

    Plus a couple other sites, though I usually only shop at the 'main' stores. And freebies, of course. But I've been doing this since the nineties though the last two or three years have seen the most activity.

    --too much content to find, would rather browse through my own sorted stuff. I love DIM, think it's brilliant, but it's set me back a couple of years

    --originally used Poser to export objects to import into Bryce. I would have died for all the plants and animals we have today. Now that I have all that stuff, I don't use Bryce anymore, just Studio and I really don't feel as creative.

    But, whatever, I LOVE DOING THIS STUFF.

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  • CypherFOXCypherFOX Posts: 3,401
    edited December 1969

    Greetings,

    Hmm. I wonder if everyone is calculating numbers the same way.?
    [...deletia...]

    However, someone else might not be seeing 40 items per page as the default standard and might see that exact same number of items installed as less or more pages.

    It's REALLY hard to change the number of items per page in the product library. I've done it with some truly gross JavaScript magic, but no...everybody sees 40 items per page right now, so page counts are comparable, with the awareness that it's plus-or-minus 40 for the last page.

    DIM install counts will vary wildly, depending on whether you install the product, the product + PoserCF, +StudioCF, +Carrera/Reality/Bryce/* versions of the same products, etc...

    -- Morgan

  • diogenese19348diogenese19348 Posts: 929
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    You know you have too much content when:

    - You fill up a 2 terabyte hard drive
    - Content Manager displays "Error - brain full - I quit"
    - You only remember the last 10 things you downloaded

    :bug: :ahhh: :gulp:

    That's what they make 4 Terrabyte drives for ;)

    115 Pages of content and still growing...

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,278
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    You know you have too much content when:

    - You fill up a 2 terabyte hard drive
    - Content Manager displays "Error - brain full - I quit"
    - You only remember the last 10 things you downloaded

    :bug: :ahhh: :gulp:

    That's what they make 4 Terrabyte drives for ;)

    115 Pages of content and still growing...

    And thank goodness hard drive storage is so cheap these days. My primary computer has a 3X3TB raid, plus another 5tb of permanent storage, and then there's another 7tb's worth of portable drives that move from computer to computer. I can't even imagine trying to manage all that based off optical drives.

  • JonstarkJonstark Posts: 2,738
    edited December 1969

    My own personal rule is that if I'm not willing to go to the effort of downloading the item right away, and take the time to organize it into my runtime structure so I can find and use it, then I don't buy it, no matter how much of a sale price it is.

    I have a highly organized runtime structure (for example I have poses subdivided all the way down, M4 has a folder with another folder inside it for standing poses, and inside that are subdivided folders for standing poses for 'commanding', 'arms folded', 'conversational', 'leaning against object', etc etc, so for example even if there is a pose set that looks fantastic and is at a tiny cost because of a huge sale, if I'm not willing to go through that pose set *right that very minute after I purchase* and take the time to assign each pose to the relevant folder, then my rule is I don't purchase it.

    I *still* have way too much content I end up hardly ever or never using though...

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    You know you have too much content when:

    - You fill up a 2 terabyte hard drive
    - Content Manager displays "Error - brain full - I quit"
    - You only remember the last 10 things you downloaded

    :bug: :ahhh: :gulp:

    That's what they make 4 Terrabyte drives for ;)

    115 Pages of content and still growing...

    And thank goodness hard drive storage is so cheap these days. My primary computer has a 3X3TB raid, plus another 5tb of permanent storage, and then there's another 7tb's worth of portable drives that move from computer to computer. I can't even imagine trying to manage all that based off optical drives.

    I guess it's time to move my rarely-watched video library off my laptop HD and on to my 1TB USB drive. :blank:

    Weekend order spree at Newegg for a second USB drive... :blank: :blank:

  • Geminii23Geminii23 Posts: 1,328
    edited December 1969

    Dang. I have 3499 items in my DIM. Just need to buy one more item. What to buy?

    I was beginning to worry about being a DAZ-aholic when I saw 55 pages of content in my product page. But after reading this thread I wiped my brow in relief. I'm good. I'm good. No need for counseling here.

  • Tramp GraphicsTramp Graphics Posts: 2,421
    edited December 1969

    Geminii23 said:
    Dang. I have 3499 items in my DIM. Just need to buy one more item. What to buy?

    I was beginning to worry about being a DAZ-aholic when I saw 55 pages of content in my product page. But after reading this thread I wiped my brow in relief. I'm good. I'm good. No need for counseling here.

    Then you've really got to work on it. :-P
  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,258
    edited December 1969

    Novica said:
    For the record I have 160 pages of stuff.

    It's addictive, isn't it? :)
    Makes it REALLY hard when shopping because they don't have a "purchased" button on the gallery page. But I don't think I would trust that to be correct during a really good sale anyway. I'd have a niggling feeling I was losing out if I didn't click on the product and check. BUT..
    is there anything in the works to get something like that? It's a real pain to have to click on each product to see if it's been purchased.

    Yea, I got really tired of that too so I wrote a small browser which will show you which products you already have directly in store, category and search views (does not work on promo pages and other non-standard pages but these are very few). It will reduce the size of the icons for products you already have, as well as list them in a panel.

    Be sure to read the info on the download page as it's not reliable for bundles because of a bug in the DAZ product library, and remember to set Browser Compatibility (Settings menu) before using it.

    http://taosoft.dk/software/freeware/stbr-daz/

    --

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 40,082
    edited December 1969

    I feel so.........inadequate.

    with 49 pages actually now so do i
    but
    now I know I do not have a problem :lol:
  • OdaaOdaa Posts: 1,548
    edited December 1969

    Only 31 pages in my product library, plus maybe 30-40 products bought at Renderosity and a smattering at other places, like Xurge3d. Lot of freebies though.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,857
    edited December 1969

    TroutFace said:
    You know you have too much content when:

    - You fill up a 2 terabyte hard drive
    - Content Manager displays "Error - brain full - I quit"
    - You only remember the last 10 things you downloaded

    :bug: :ahhh: :gulp:

    That's what they make 4 Terrabyte drives for ;)

    115 Pages of content and still growing...

    And thank goodness hard drive storage is so cheap these days. My primary computer has a 3X3TB raid, plus another 5tb of permanent storage, and then there's another 7tb's worth of portable drives that move from computer to computer. I can't even imagine trying to manage all that based off optical drives.
    ...imagine the size of the building you wold need to store all that on the old DEC HDDs (the ones that looked like washing machines) they used on mainframes.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,261
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    TroutFace said:
    You know you have too much content when:

    - You fill up a 2 terabyte hard drive
    - Content Manager displays "Error - brain full - I quit"
    - You only remember the last 10 things you downloaded

    :bug: :ahhh: :gulp:

    That's what they make 4 Terrabyte drives for ;)

    115 Pages of content and still growing...

    And thank goodness hard drive storage is so cheap these days. My primary computer has a 3X3TB raid, plus another 5tb of permanent storage, and then there's another 7tb's worth of portable drives that move from computer to computer. I can't even imagine trying to manage all that based off optical drives.
    ...imagine the size of the building you wold need to store all that on the old DEC HDDs (the ones that looked like washing machines) they used on mainframes.

    They used washing machines for computers?

  • CypherFOXCypherFOX Posts: 3,401
    edited October 2014

    Greetings,

    They used washing machines for computers?Well...Then I looked for disc drives, but it didn't take me long.
    "Function follows form," they say -- or have I got that wrong?
    I found a drive with 5 new modes that blows the rest away ...
    Cottons, linens, wash-n-wear, rinse, and lingerie! Chorus:
    IBM, DEC, and Honeywell, HP, DG, and Wang,
    Amdahl, NEC, and NCR, they don't know anything.
    They make big bucks for systems so they never want it known
    That you can build a mainframe from the things you find at home!

    -- Morgan

    Post edited by CypherFOX on
  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,278
    edited December 1969

    Kyoto Kid said:
    TroutFace said:
    You know you have too much content when:

    - You fill up a 2 terabyte hard drive
    - Content Manager displays "Error - brain full - I quit"
    - You only remember the last 10 things you downloaded

    :bug: :ahhh: :gulp:

    That's what they make 4 Terrabyte drives for ;)

    115 Pages of content and still growing...

    And thank goodness hard drive storage is so cheap these days. My primary computer has a 3X3TB raid, plus another 5tb of permanent storage, and then there's another 7tb's worth of portable drives that move from computer to computer. I can't even imagine trying to manage all that based off optical drives.
    ...imagine the size of the building you wold need to store all that on the old DEC HDDs (the ones that looked like washing machines) they used on mainframes.
    I don't have to imagine it. I used to work in Bldg 3/14 at the Goddard Space Flight Center (mission control for most unmanned flights) and would go over to the storage facility where the old discs and tapes were archived. And yeah, the contents of that entire building could fit in a small closet these days.

  • TSasha SmithTSasha Smith Posts: 27,261
    edited December 1969

    Do I have everything of RawArt?

  • CybersoxCybersox Posts: 9,278
    edited December 1969

    Do I have everything of RawArt?

    Only if you have him locked in a closet. Hey... where'd he go?
  • Ryuu@AMcCFRyuu@AMcCF Posts: 772
    edited October 2014

    Kyoto Kid said:
    TroutFace said:
    You know you have too much content when:

    - You fill up a 2 terabyte hard drive
    - Content Manager displays "Error - brain full - I quit"
    - You only remember the last 10 things you downloaded

    :bug: :ahhh: :gulp:

    That's what they make 4 Terrabyte drives for ;)

    115 Pages of content and still growing...

    And thank goodness hard drive storage is so cheap these days. My primary computer has a 3X3TB raid, plus another 5tb of permanent storage, and then there's another 7tb's worth of portable drives that move from computer to computer. I can't even imagine trying to manage all that based off optical drives.


    ...imagine the size of the building you wold need to store all that on the old DEC HDDs (the ones that looked like washing machines) they used on mainframes.

    They used washing machines for computers?They didn't clean worth a damn, but those things could certainly do a spin-dry!!

    The disks were quite large ~18"dia and stacked up about 5 or six platters high--they were called cake platters for good reason. & they barely held a meg's worth of data. The machine used to run a set was about the size of a washing machine, yet the relative space between disk surface and read head was so small that a single particle of cigarrette smoke was about twice to three times that size! And because the disks were spinning at such a high rate of speed, so small a particle getting in there would litterally "crash" the hard drives!

    There was an incident in the mid '70s where a disgruntled employee got fired one day. For his parting gift to the company before he left, he walked into the clean room, lit up a cigarrette, and went up and down the rows, openning up each machine, took a puff and gently blew the smoke in, and got every one of them. But the crashes didn't happen until after he left the building. Great security back then! :lol:

    Post edited by Ryuu@AMcCF on
  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited October 2014

    Kyoto Kid said:
    TroutFace said:
    You know you have too much content when:

    - You fill up a 2 terabyte hard drive
    - Content Manager displays "Error - brain full - I quit"
    - You only remember the last 10 things you downloaded

    :bug: :ahhh: :gulp:

    That's what they make 4 Terrabyte drives for ;)

    115 Pages of content and still growing...

    And thank goodness hard drive storage is so cheap these days. My primary computer has a 3X3TB raid, plus another 5tb of permanent storage, and then there's another 7tb's worth of portable drives that move from computer to computer. I can't even imagine trying to manage all that based off optical drives.


    ...imagine the size of the building you wold need to store all that on the old DEC HDDs (the ones that looked like washing machines) they used on mainframes.

    They used washing machines for computers?They didn't clean worth a damn, but those things could certainly do a spin-dry!!

    The disks were quite large ~18"dia and stacked up about 5 or six platters high--they were called cake platters for good reason. & they barely held a meg's worth of data. The machine used to run a set was about the size of a washing machine, yet the relative space between disk surface and read head was so small that a single particle of cigarrette smoke was about twice to three times that size! And because the disks were spinning at such a high rate of speed, so small a particle getting in there would litterally "crash" the hard drives!

    There was an incident in the mid '70s where a disgruntled employee got fired one day. For his parting gift to the company before he left, he walked into the clean room, lit up a cigarrette, and went up and down the rows, openning up each machine, took a puff and gently blew the smoke in, and got every one of them. But the crashes didn't happen until after he left the building. Great security back then! :lol:

    I remember taking some punch tapes from the National ledger posting machines up to the Computer centre in Moorgate (IBM I think) and being shown the computer room there. that computer room was huge. (late 60s that was.)

    Post edited by Chohole on
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