It's pretty zippy, but the textures take an age to load. MS Virtual Earth is starting to look pretty cool. It's got much better 3D trees and.....flyovers. http://ve3d.spaces.live.com/blog/ And Everyscape has it's own pretty neat version of Street View. Here's one for you, Lewis. http://www.everyscape.com/boston-ma.us.aspx

@johnsenior1973 said: So what exactly did you mean when you said, "Harsh as it may sound, I reserve my appreciation for those, be it architects, artists, composers or writers, who succeed. If I wouldn't, what would my appreciation be worth?" To me that seems to be very clear that you are making out that your appreciation is worth something. Oh, but it is worth something. But I wasn't talking about absolute value. I was referring to the relative value of my appreciation as opposed to my derision. Hope this makes sense. @johnsenior1973 said: But as you reserve your appreciation for those who succeed, surely if Mr. Bon Jovi gets all the success he desires you will then appreciate him? I was referring to artistic merit, not worldly succes (though there's nothing wrong with the latter). Thought that one was clear. @ Kwist: you are gonna need some aspirin in the morning.

Oh, and I should add, that everyone that I know that works there, or has worked there are the nicest and most humble people I know. Hands down. It makes me proud to know them. In contrast to that, I know plenty of people at other similar places (CG shops) and I can't say they same for them (on average).

That was funny.

I used Squirlz Morph too for what I needed it and it worked great, so thanks guys.

I've heard a "saying" a long time ago that went something like this: "However good you become there will always be a twelve year old chinese that will be a lot better." We will just need to realise that some people have a incredible talent that make the rest of us look like newbies.

@ely862me said: so far i hate one program because i want to know it but i couldn t do anything in it it s the 3ds max I've use it professionally for an award-winning render house, own my own license, and I still hate it. And I hate Autodesk's damned extortion ("subscription") scheme. I'll take Blender any day for rendering/animation, and Rhino and SketchUp for modeling.

Google Maps API? http://code.google.com/apis/maps/

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Hi Guys, bianhai's post has now been reinstated and all is well. I am talking directly to bianhai by PM and we are managing to understand each other well. I will try to use an online Chinese translation service in the future and double check what I am trying to say with it. I now think that we should remove this thread because everything is in place again. This thread is now causing confusion to members and this is bad. bianhai's invitation post and instructions can be posted in a new thread. Please do not add to this thread. We can start a new one and discuss how better we can communicate. Mike

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@alan fraser said: (...) when it comes to guerrilla street art it doesn't get much better than Banksy. Guerilla ... Suuuuuuuuuuure. I negotiated with a representative of his 2 years ago. Above all, Mr. Banksy's an entrepreneur.

Good advice Daniel, and you might even double check by using bitdefender.com 's online free scanner.

ahh, its all clear to me now. nice bug btw

I too didn´t see the post untill now, but sure as hell would like to go and meet and learn and have a good time. Would be nice to see some realtime avatares.

I won't be digging in Blender until after 3DBC. Neat article on John. Cool!

Here's a couple mouse utilities I found: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=10200

i just realized! thats also extremely racist!!!!!! OMFG! they think that it looks like a muslim head dress and there for supports terrorism?!?!?! that is by far the most racist thing i have ever heard!!!!! right now i just want to shoot all the lawers that made this happen. i know violence isnt the answer, but waht was the question?

haha...thanks everyone! I'm just leaving work now. I'm taking the afternoon off and, no, it's not so I can work on more SketchUp plugins! Thanks for the support!

Uninstal the scanner, disconnect it then get new drivers and instal them and reconnect scanner. Thank goodness you have a HP scanner and NOT a Visioneer usb one Like me (pain in the arse) that requires 'one page' software junk to work.