Yes, the DDR4 is expensive!
I wonder when it will come down?
I looked at a 5930 last night at my local Central Computer ( they are out of 4930s):
With motherboard, would be about $900.
To max out the ram.....$1000.

Misty Whisky said:

ps1borg said:

Morning. City towers and tree and rooftops heatburned and saggy looking under a hot thunderstormy overcast, rubbish blowing everywhere after an all night light festival in central city last night :)

light festival sounds nice.

It would be real nice along the coast somewhere else :lol:

DanaTA said:

ps1borg said:

Morning. City towers and tree and rooftops heatburned and saggy looking under a hot thunderstormy overcast, rubbish blowing everywhere after an all night light festival in central city last night :)

They sure party a lot in your city! :)

Dana

All night party, there is hungover people and stuff everywhere :lol: There has been something big happening near us every weekend since last November, think we're over it right now.

ps1borg said:

Morning. City towers and tree and rooftops heatburned and saggy looking under a hot thunderstormy overcast, rubbish blowing everywhere after an all night light festival in central city last night :)

light festival sounds nice.

ps1borg said:

Morning. City towers and tree and rooftops heatburned and saggy looking under a hot thunderstormy overcast, rubbish blowing everywhere after an all night light festival in central city last night :)

They sure party a lot in your city! :)

Dana

Morning. City towers and tree and rooftops heatburned and saggy looking under a hot thunderstormy overcast, rubbish blowing everywhere after an all night light festival in central city last night :)

evilproducer said:

Tim_A said:

Here's another little track render. I'm sure you're all getting quite bored by now!

Gonna play some more with the fake GI dome - more lights at lower intensity, as per the discussion here. Be interesting to see what that does (and how long it takes - with full GI, this render took about 4 ½ hours at AA-OA-SA settings of Good-0.5-1, gamma 1.8)

I think that looks great Tim. Makes me want to take a stroll down it as well, but like MDO2010 it is very cold here, although I think I have him beat as mine is in the negative and not positive. ;-)

-2ºF (approximately -19ºC) here in north central Wisconsin. I can't wait for spring.

It's going to be getting pretty freakin cold here on Monday night too!

Tim_A said:

Here's another little track render. I'm sure you're all getting quite bored by now!

Gonna play some more with the fake GI dome - more lights at lower intensity, as per the discussion here. Be interesting to see what that does (and how long it takes - with full GI, this render took about 4 ½ hours at AA-OA-SA settings of Good-0.5-1, gamma 1.8)

I think that looks great Tim. Makes me want to take a stroll down it as well, but like MDO2010 it is very cold here, although I think I have him beat as mine is in the negative and not positive. ;-)

-2ºF (approximately -19ºC) here in north central Wisconsin. I can't wait for spring.

Richard Haseltine said:

Well, the CHF is a special case as the central bank has just radically changed policy. $100,000 is not an uncommon level - Allegorithmic just adopted it, having previously used $10,000.

Well, the CHF is a special case as the central bank has just radically changed policy. $100,000 is not an uncommon level - Allegorithmic just adopted it, having previously used $10,000.

Toyen said:

Here is my final version!

The only thing I don´t like is that strange highlight on one of the heels but it has the same material as the rest of the shoe so somehow the lights created that one strong highlight on one of the heels and that makes it look as if it was made of much brighter material than the rest of the black shoes but it isn´t.

But that doesn´t matter now, I will not be rendering it again since this render took 8+ hours!

HOWEVER, I have decided to go ahead and do a male version of Waiting for my Valentine (thats what I´m gonna call the image) with just the basic G2M since I don´t have any other males and here´s a quick IPR preview.

Let me know what you think!

Stories I made up for the renders are:

Girl: came into the room, saw the wine and a rose for her with a note from the guy saying he´ll be there shortly but he wasn´t coming so she finished the wine herself, forgot about the rose and dropped it on the floor and now she´s tired about to fall asleep.

Guy: patiently waiting for his valentine to come.

I was thinkin about two follow up renders where in the guy´s story, the girl finally comes and they drink and chat and in the girl´s story, the guy arrives but finds her sleeping.

But I don´t know whether I´m gonna do them or not and I also guess it doesn´t really matter with which one I enter the contest since the lighting is the same in all renders.

AtticAnne said:

DanaTA said:

ps1borg said:

starionwolf said:

ps1borg said:

Morning. Puffy little clouds like white driftweed in a luminous turquoise sky offering no rain, only more heat on the parched and cracked earth in Melbourne's yellowing edge where we are right now :)

Weather forecast says it might rain though. I'm still thinking of going to Australia in the summer (January).

Windless and clear around 40K West of the city, looks the same Eastwards altho a storm can blow in from the bay (south) real quick it doesn't look likely right now. Just wrapped here and on way home, TGIF yay ! Central and West Australia is the place to be in January if you like it that hot, everyone who can gets away from the East coast after Christmas the storms can be massive that time of year :)

Hot? Well, here it's 9 F right now, and feels like -5 F! And............Blizzard Warning for the coastal areas, and Winter Storm watch for the rest of the state. My area is expected to get another 6 to 12 inches...Boston is expecting another 12 to 18 inches. I've been watching the news, and I don't know where they'll put it. They still can't get around very well up in Boston. Some streets are too narrow after being plowed. And the T (transit system) is having all kinds of troubles. People have waited for 1.5 to 2.5 hours for the T to arrive, only to give up because it just wasn't coming. Even the buses are at a reduced schedule and are packed to capacity. If the storm tracks a little more to the west, my area will change to the 12 to 18 inch forecast. My fantasy is that it tracks so far Eastward that it goes out into the middle of the Atlantic and misses up entirely. But, as I said...fantasy.

Dana

Boston snow problems even hit the news in East Texas . :lol:
Boston Snow

Yeah, I saw that on the news last night. I think it was last night. It's beginning to all be a blur.

Dana

DanaTA said:

ps1borg said:

starionwolf said:

ps1borg said:

Morning. Puffy little clouds like white driftweed in a luminous turquoise sky offering no rain, only more heat on the parched and cracked earth in Melbourne's yellowing edge where we are right now :)

Weather forecast says it might rain though. I'm still thinking of going to Australia in the summer (January).

Windless and clear around 40K West of the city, looks the same Eastwards altho a storm can blow in from the bay (south) real quick it doesn't look likely right now. Just wrapped here and on way home, TGIF yay ! Central and West Australia is the place to be in January if you like it that hot, everyone who can gets away from the East coast after Christmas the storms can be massive that time of year :)

Hot? Well, here it's 9 F right now, and feels like -5 F! And............Blizzard Warning for the coastal areas, and Winter Storm watch for the rest of the state. My area is expected to get another 6 to 12 inches...Boston is expecting another 12 to 18 inches. I've been watching the news, and I don't know where they'll put it. They still can't get around very well up in Boston. Some streets are too narrow after being plowed. And the T (transit system) is having all kinds of troubles. People have waited for 1.5 to 2.5 hours for the T to arrive, only to give up because it just wasn't coming. Even the buses are at a reduced schedule and are packed to capacity. If the storm tracks a little more to the west, my area will change to the 12 to 18 inch forecast. My fantasy is that it tracks so far Eastward that it goes out into the middle of the Atlantic and misses up entirely. But, as I said...fantasy.

Dana

Boston snow problems even hit the news in East Texas . :lol:
Boston Snow

ps1borg said:

starionwolf said:

ps1borg said:

Morning. Puffy little clouds like white driftweed in a luminous turquoise sky offering no rain, only more heat on the parched and cracked earth in Melbourne's yellowing edge where we are right now :)

Weather forecast says it might rain though. I'm still thinking of going to Australia in the summer (January).

Windless and clear around 40K West of the city, looks the same Eastwards altho a storm can blow in from the bay (south) real quick it doesn't look likely right now. Just wrapped here and on way home, TGIF yay ! Central and West Australia is the place to be in January if you like it that hot, everyone who can gets away from the East coast after Christmas the storms can be massive that time of year :)

Hot? Well, here it's 9 F right now, and feels like -5 F! And............Blizzard Warning for the coastal areas, and Winter Storm watch for the rest of the state. My area is expected to get another 6 to 12 inches...Boston is expecting another 12 to 18 inches. I've been watching the news, and I don't know where they'll put it. They still can't get around very well up in Boston. Some streets are too narrow after being plowed. And the T (transit system) is having all kinds of troubles. People have waited for 1.5 to 2.5 hours for the T to arrive, only to give up because it just wasn't coming. Even the buses are at a reduced schedule and are packed to capacity. If the storm tracks a little more to the west, my area will change to the 12 to 18 inch forecast. My fantasy is that it tracks so far Eastward that it goes out into the middle of the Atlantic and misses up entirely. But, as I said...fantasy.

Dana

starionwolf said:

ps1borg said:

Central and West Australia is the place to be in January if you like it that hot, everyone who can gets away from the East coast after Christmas the storms can be massive that time of year :)

It is hot in Adelaide. Shouldn't the ocean breeze cool of the coast? Its not like Adelaide is near the equator like Darwin. Hot and dry weather reminds me of southwest U.S.A. (deserts) in the summer. Thanks for the info about the storms. I'll go read about the storms. At least you don't see cold temperatures like poor Misty. Brrr. The wind is blowing at 20 MPH. ok.. going to bed. later

It rained at Ayers Rock during January this year, the waterfalls afterward are one of the great wonders of the desert, along with all the wildflowers that come after a flood. But if you want to keep out of the northern tropics Kakadu is basically a river trip and I guess can be cooler at night during summer. January/February are the hottest months here, you choose whether you want dry or damp and go southwest or northeast accordingly.

Shouldn't the ocean breeze cool of the coast?

Well it is the Indian Ocean, the roaring forties aren't exactly a cool zephyr :lol:

Birdsville Track is a good trip if you rent an off road something and it hasn't rained much and you want to sample a bit. The Flinders Ranges are astounding, I've climbed St Mary's Peak, iz awesome. And it looks like the deserts in the old black and white westerns around there :lol:

Where we live is called The Shipwreck Coast, between about Eden one way and I dunno maybe Port McDonnel the other, weather from the Southern Ocean is ferocious sometimes.

ps1borg said:

Central and West Australia is the place to be in January if you like it that hot, everyone who can gets away from the East coast after Christmas the storms can be massive that time of year :)

It is hot in Adelaide. Shouldn't the ocean breeze cool of the coast? Its not like Adelaide is near the equator like Darwin. Hot and dry weather reminds me of southwest U.S.A. (deserts) in the summer. Thanks for the info about the storms. I'll go read about the storms. At least you don't see cold temperatures like poor Misty. Brrr. The wind is blowing at 20 MPH. ok.. going to bed. later

starionwolf said:

ps1borg said:

Morning. Puffy little clouds like white driftweed in a luminous turquoise sky offering no rain, only more heat on the parched and cracked earth in Melbourne's yellowing edge where we are right now :)

Weather forecast says it might rain though. I'm still thinking of going to Australia in the summer (January).

Windless and clear around 40K West of the city, looks the same Eastwards altho a storm can blow in from the bay (south) real quick it doesn't look likely right now. Just wrapped here and on way home, TGIF yay ! Central and West Australia is the place to be in January if you like it that hot, everyone who can gets away from the East coast after Christmas the storms can be massive that time of year :)

Whether the jewel is/was an n-gon in the modeling program it is badly modeled tris now so still needs to be cleaned up. The following image is from Blender, on the left is the jewel face as it is currently modeled, notice the edges all radiate to a single central vertex and many are outside the outline of the jewel face. On the right is just one way of cleaning up mesh so there are no edges outside the outline. If you switch to wire shaded in DAZ Studio you will see those same edges so while DS may initially so the jewel okay there is no guarantee that some advance shader, lighting or camera might no have a problem with it.

When I was in college (about 1968) one of the guys in the dorm had a core memory module from some computer sitting on his bookshelf. It was 1Kb (Kilobit) of core memory and about the size of four volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica (for those of you who remember what an encyclopedia was). The individual cores were about the size of baby aspirin, huge in comparison to the final generation of core memories which had nearly microscopic cores.

We've drifted completely off topic but it's always fun for geezers to relive the glory days. Getting back to magnetic storage, the first 1GB hard drive I ever worked with (mid 80s) was about the size of a baby casket (and that's what we called it), 19"x24"x10", weighed about 100 pounds and cost $10,000. We had two of them! Made by Seagate.

About 1970 I worked for the college (Florida Institute of Technology) and we had an (XDS) Xerox Data Systems; Sigma 5 computer. Actually it was an SDS design but the SDS company had been recently bought by Xerox. Their hard drive was called a RAD (Random Access Disk). It had a huge heavy platter arranged vertically with a thick central hub. If I remember correctly, it didn't have a moving arm with a read/record head, it had a read/record head for every track on the platter. It could only hold a few megabytes of data. The heavy platter took quite a while to start up and you could tell by the whine when it was about ready to blink green. When you pressed the stop button to turn it off, brake shoes clamped down on the central hub and the platter stopped in 1/4 rotation. THUNK!!! and the top of the 5 foot equipment rack jolted to the side noticeably. You learned not to set fragile objects on top of that rack. See picture below.

When working for the college I used to talk to one of the women in the department who worked on the old IBM 2nd generation machines and how they used to have to program using patch boards.

Ah, the good old days, when computers were solid and touchable and massive. There's a reason they were called "big iron".

Oh, damn this is fun. I remember hearing my first digitally recorded music on that old Xerox Sigma 5. One of the guys in the computer room discovered that there was some analog to digital conversion facility in the computer. He rigged up something that permitted him to play a record (you know flat vinyl platter with wiggly grooves) into the converter and digitize it. Storing it was a problem. Not enough core memory and we couldn't use the RAD because it was nearly full of system programming. But we did have 9-track magnetic tape. He configured the tape drive to not write in discrete finite length records but to record digital data on the tape continuously in one immensly long record. At that speed the entire 2400 foot reel only lasted for a couple minutes. But when he read the digital data back and piped it to the tiny 2 inch beep speaker on the console panel by pulsing the beep speaker in step with the digital data values, we could hear crude music. That was about 1971. I think we were about as pleased with ourselves as Edison was when he got the wiggly grooves on a cylinder thing to work.

...there have been a number of people receiving broken figures. I think USPS is not the best choice myself (no tracking) but then I used to work in the warehouse/shipping business where I witnessed both UPS and FedEx drivers treating packages rather carelessly at times when they were in hurry to get to the airport processing centre across town.

Filing a damage/insurance claim with any shipper can be a real pain in the bum to get the full value of what was damaged.

I personally have little issue with items I order from Newegg, but then, I insure my shipment and I'm right up the coast from them instead of across the continent (or overseas). So via ground service it usually arrives in about two to three business days from when I placed the order and it comes pretty much direct, instead of being flown halfway across the country to a central processing hub and back again.

For paid for figures, hopefully Daz offers shipping options other than just USPS, and packs them more securely. Not about to plop down say 60 - 75$ for a custom figure of my namesake KK or Leela only to open the box and find it broken.