xkcd

by **william** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 2:48 am UTC

The tradeoff is that POV-Ray is much slower to produce images. Gmax has bad lighting and texturing because it was created to produce game models which have much more stringent rendering time requirements. I'm pretty sure that not even on the fastest game computers can POV-Ray render any but the simplest images in realtime, although with dual-core we're getting closer.

by **Toeofdoom** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:00 am UTC

Yeah, i guess. I dont suppose you know anything about the gmax texturing stuff? :/ it's really pissing me off, and i cant find anything about it.

by **Peshmerga** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:00 am UTC

william wrote:The tradeoff is that POV-Ray is much slower to produce images. Gmax has bad lighting and texturing because it was created to produce game models which have much more stringent rendering time requirements. I'm pretty sure that not even on the fastest game computers can POV-Ray render any but the simplest images in realtime, although with dual-core we're getting closer.

Ray tracing rendering won't be possible for a LONG TIME... unless we get into quantum computing or some shit

by **hermaj** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:20 am UTC

ThePlague wrote:
hermaj wrote:ThePlague, are you by any chance affiliated with UWS? Just because I have WebCT too, but I don't know if more than one place calls it that, which is probably the case.

Hey-

Nah, I'm not affiliated with UWS. The college I go to uses it though. (over in the states). I thought WebCT was only uses here in the states but I guess I was wrong. How do you like the new version?

I'll get back to you on that after my remaining three weeks of freedom are over

by **beinsane** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:01 am UTC

To prove to you all how perverse I am:

Before.

After.

by **aldimond** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:12 am UTC

twm! Finally someone with an older-looking desktop than me

!

(I like twm, actually... if it weren't for its lack of multiple desktops and the fact that it's practically more difficult to customize than fvwm (because so many people on the web have customization tips for fvwm) I might well be using it myself. It seems to me to have the sanest defaults of any window manager I've tried.)

(Furthermore, I don't know why it never occurred to me to use convert to convert my xwds... I always used xv for some dumb reason)

(That background pattern reminds me how much my monitor sucks at high res... aliasing artifacts like crazy!)

EDIT: What does the command "open" do? I'm sure it's real obvious... like it opens stuff, right

?

EDIT2: I just did an "emerge --search open". That's going to return a lot of unrelated results... d'oh!

EDIT3: The -frame argument to xwd is totally unnecessary for taking screencaps (dumps of the root window) because the root window has no frame... on my system, actually, the -screen argument does nothing, but your fancy Mac might be different. What you really want is -root argument; that way you don't have to click or anything, your screen can be totally covered in terminals and you'll still get a cap.

by **aldimond** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:19 am UTC

I was talking to my shrink and he said that my feelings for this thread weren't love, but rather an unhealthy obsession. So I capped him.

Then I capped my screen.

This is an xwd of a drawterm window; I'm drawtermed into my Plan 9 box. In this session I'm playing some sudoku, editing the source code of the web browser abaco, browsing this thread with abaco, reading a paper by Rob Pike and P.J. Weinberger, and, in the interest of having at least a little bit of eye-candy on the screen, checking out beinsane's OS X screencap

EDIT: I'm also manning emacs, because it's funny. Manning vi is also funny in Plan 9, but for a different reason: vi is not an editor (neither is it a viitor).

by **fjafjan** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:29 pm UTC

Because BG I and II rules

by **no-genius** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 4:30 pm UTC

Arturion wrote:
Gordon wrote:I thought my ass-hattedness was pretty obvious ya, I'm done trying to 'discuss' OS's. I wish I had a link to that "winning an arguement on the internet is like... " whatever the other half of that is I don't remember, picture.

Something to do with special olympics or something something... something

"Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics... Even if you win, you're still retarded."

That one?

Yeah, i find that joke a little fucking retarded.

German Sausage wrote:@no-genius---are you involved in terror island productionwise or is it simply something you're into? because it seems that every third person here is really creative. i feel almost out of place.

No, but i did join the timefan forums. I've been reading it since posiduck posted in the art forum.

by **TheTankengine** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:55 pm UTC

It pains me to put his desktop up here because it is a windoze desktop. Booh!! But my p965 chipset has severely limited my linux capabilities. I'm working on it.

I guess it needs an explanation or something...
I totally have a man crush on Bear Grylls. I love asian chicks. Could there be anything better?

Also scrunched it to 800*600 for your pleasure. My monitor is a 22" widescreen at 1680*1050.

by **niko7865** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 8:24 pm UTC

Bear Grylls, 99% of all manliness in the world all crammed into one guy.

by **no-genius** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:15 pm UTC

You have been my guide to the world of facts

by **Rat** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:11 pm UTC

fjafjan wrote:Because BG I and II rules

when i first saw that picture i pictured the guy in the chair getting a blowjob from the head in the jar... and maybe from the phantom heads too..

>_>

<_<

amirite?

edit: i mean cmon, theyre all staring at his crotch and look so eager..

edit2: looks like he's got a bit of a bulge too

edit3: i bet those phantom heads can go pretty deep

edit4: he must be disappointed because he cant take his pants off

by **zvezdogled** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:55 pm UTC

who is Bear Grylls???

by **Peshmerga** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:22 am UTC

Whoever he is, he's sucking in his gut.

by **umbrae** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:48 am UTC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Grylls

Yay wikipedia

by **fjafjan** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 10:05 am UTC

Rat wrote:
fjafjan wrote:Because BG I and II rules

when i first saw that picture i pictured the guy in the chair getting a blowjob from the head in the jar... and maybe from the phantom heads too..

>_>

<_<

amirite?

edit: i mean cmon, theyre all staring at his crotch and look so eager..

edit2: looks like he's got a bit of a bulge too

edit3: i bet those phantom heads can go pretty deep

edit4: he must be disappointed because he cant take his pants off

-5 points for disresepcting Jon
You will litterally burn in hell for that if he has his way...
Oh how I love him :love:

by **zvezdogled** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:34 pm UTC

Hey hey i didnt say anything! that was my ego talking!

by **no-genius** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:09 pm UTC

mightbegenius wrote:
Arturion wrote:
Gordon wrote:I thought my ass-hattedness was pretty obvious ya, I'm done trying to 'discuss' OS's. I wish I had a link to that "winning an arguement on the internet is like... " whatever the other half of that is I don't remember, picture.

Something to do with special olympics or something something... something

"Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics... Even if you win, you're still retarded."

That one?

Yeah, i find that joke a little fucking retarded.

I mean, seriously - don't wink. Just let that meme die, like it should have a long, long time ago.

by **Hawknc** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:28 pm UTC

Minus five style points for quoting yourself, plus five for having a valid point. It's a stupid internet saying.

by **no-genius** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:30 pm UTC

I quoted myself cos no-one else had said anything. And it needs to be said

by **Verysillyman** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:52 pm UTC

Not very exciting. It used to have Bowie looking sexy. It'll prolly change again soon.

Also, i have never heard of Bear.

by **ivnja** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:38 am UTC

does anyone have a good picture just looking straight down at the clean top of a desk? (i.e. not a shot where they've got papers scattered everywhere and an old soda bottle and some gum wrappers, but one with a neat desk, maybe a computer and a printer on it?)

by **Rat** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:39 am UTC

ivnja wrote:does anyone have a good picture just looking straight down at the clean top of a desk? (i.e. not a shot where they've got papers scattered everywhere and an old soda bottle and some gum wrappers, but one with a neat desk, maybe a computer and a printer on it?)

this is the biggest piece of clean desk i could find:

now occupied by the cell phone i used to take the picture of it

by **German Sausage** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:33 am UTC

no clean as such, (staples etc), but this is the best i can find on google

by **Gordon** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:55 am UTC

Try going to the business depot website and looking at pictures of desks they sell?

by **hermaj** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:55 am UTC

ivnja wrote:does anyone have a good picture just looking straight down at the clean top of a desk? (i.e. not a shot where they've got papers scattered everywhere and an old soda bottle and some gum wrappers, but one with a neat desk, maybe a computer and a printer on it?)

No, but a friend of a friend apparently had a desktop where he moved the computer back and took a picture of the wall and wires and everything behind the monitor and set that as his desktop picture. I never saw it, but it sounded awesome.

by **Verysillyman** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:43 am UTC

Ah, I've seen pictures of those. very cool.
i'd do it, only since i'm a laptop it changes a bit.

by **Toeofdoom** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:49 pm UTC

I made a new desktop which i like muchly.

Green ribbons and some other cool looking thingies:

^ My favourite picture i have ever made to date. (Photobucket shrunk it

)

by C » Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:06 pm UTC

I used to use two monitors about three months ago.

Now i just use one because the second monitor was taking up too much room on my desk which i needed.

by **Twasbrillig** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:33 pm UTC

I keel you, threadsize!

(Belial will totally cut this down)

Oh yeah, add an XP toolbar (silver! yay), some icons for Firefox, Frozen Throne, WoW, Azureus, Doom 3, etc etc, and a whole bunch of folders full of por... I mean, uh... My Documents.

by **Hawknc** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:41 pm UTC

For the sake of everyone else whose computer has a heart attack upon opening this thread (like my poor laptop which only has 256MB of RAM), I'll give you a thumbnail of my desktop:

I hide my desktop icons and put in a desktop folder in my taskbar instead, which I have set to auto-hide, so when the desktop is visible, that's basically what it looks like.

by **Twasbrillig** » Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:49 pm UTC

HYPERiON wrote:<chainsaw rocket>

STOLEN. That thing rocks my socks off.

by **aldimond** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 5:34 am UTC

Gee Willikers THREAD NECRO!

After I got made fun of for having an ugly desktop and then finding that cool picture of tubes on here I made some minor modifications to my ~/.fvwm/* and came up with this (follow link for full 1600x1200 glory)

EDIT: I should also note that that little picture of Teh Earths in the lower left is generated from the current position of Teh Moons and is shaded based on the current position of Teh Suns. xearth ftw

by **thedesk** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:16 am UTC

My desktop for the past few months has been rotating between nedroid drawings (nedroid.com). Currently,

by **Tractor** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:42 am UTC

no-genius wrote:
Arturion wrote:"Arguing on the internet is like running in the Special Olympics... Even if you win, you're still retarded."
That one?

Yeah, i find that joke a little fucking retarded.

Is it bad that when I see that I think midget mouting someone with Down's syndrome?

by **Gordon** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:16 am UTC

It's only not horribly offensive because Pesh didn't post it. Had Pesh posted it we would have had people threating to leave the fora and Jesus double thinking his second coming in our lifetime.

END OF TEH WORLD ZOMGF!@

by **Owijad** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:52 am UTC

That's right, you Linux snobs. Running OS X and proud.

Honestly, my computer can do everything I've ever wanted from it, up to and including running Windows. What's the big deal?

More interesting than my desktop, I think, is my Dashboard- http://unrendered.org/pics/picture2.png

by **aldimond** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:45 am UTC

And what about us Plan 9 snobs? What do you say to us?

(GNU/Linux gets me through the day, but in the end it's not worthy of my snobbery. That is reserved only for The Worst Operating System Ever Made.)

by **Owijad** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:30 pm UTC

I apologize for my neglect. To all Plan 9 snobs:

xkcd

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