Posts made by Allen Weitzman

Beautiful. Well done.

Thanks.

Allen

Juan,

Please don't confuse one man's point of view with that of every man. This fellow, Dovid Krafchow, represents his point of view based on many things from the Torah, to Kabbalah to pseudo-scientific babbling. He is not a recognized authority within the Jewish Community.

I admire and respect your desire to expand your knowledge and read positions and opinions outside your own deeply felt and believed faith. Just don't be misled and feel this guy speaks for the Jewish people. He most certainly does not any more than Madonna does.

Shana tova (Happy New Year),

Allen

Alex,

Great work. Nice to see progress for HCM City. Was a bit different when I was there last. I hope this gets built. Quite beautiful.

All the renders and all the styles were insiring. I'd like to know how you achieved some of these.

Allen

Coen,

To you and your group of stalwart hard workers, thank you.

This thing of yours has become a vital element in the working and relaxing lives of so many people around the globe.

I may not contribute much but I read and learn something all the time not to mention being inspired by the creative work of so many,

Thanks again,

Allen

They're all wonderful. I find the windows in the second one blwn out in comparison to the first one.

Anhy one of then's a winner though.

Good work,

Allen

q,

Not sure what the building is but I like the variety of image styles.

Nice work,

Allen

Tom,

Theyre all good. Personally I find the flying things distracting. Otherwise bellisimo.

Allen

neat! too bad you can only bank left or right. real time waster for sure.

Thanks for sharing Joe. Doesn't look much like San Diego.

Allen

Actually, I kind of like it. It has a nice feel to it. Don't know the purpose but it feels not so much dumbed down as really preconceptual and just getting some ideas down.

Allen

Gianx,

Nice images. Personally, I prefer the first one. Its cooler blues seem to fit with the barren trees. A peaceful late autum or winter scene. The second seems so warm and the trees look dead.

Eye of the beholder.

Nice design by the way,

Allen

I had coffee yesterday with one of the project engineers. Fascinating technologies involved from many countries.

Some interesting tidbits, the floors can rotate independantly either clockwise or counterclockwise from the floor above and below. The building is self-sustaining, making its own energy by tapping into the energy created by the rotation. They are ready to build the first one but it will be in Moscow, not Dubai. There's also one planned for New York.

As fascinating as it will be from inside, imagine what it would do to the skyline?

Amazing stuff,

Allen

Mateo,

I absolutely love the original render the way it is. I think the sky works perfectly in harmonhy with the entire image. Everything feels so right. Its beautiful.The colors and tones are very soothing and soft. Terrific work.

Would appreciate knowing how you put this all together.

Best,

Allen

Thank G-d for Fox News and their vigilant stance protecting me,

We're all able to sleep a little safer tonight knowing that last doughnut we scarfed aint gonna blow our bowels to smithereens.

Whoofah and to think I almost stopped at my local DD this very afternoon.

Allen

(Guess it was an otherwise slow news day)

Eric, I kind of agree with you, sadly so.

Tom, the "decider" role is nice but aint gonna happen in our lifetime. As Eric says, its political. Everybody wears a flag pin (if they want to get elected apparently) but they don't make strategic decisions for the good of the country much less the global community we're supposed to be a vital part of. They make decisions for the good of the party. Ever wonder where the Clintons have come into the millions they currently have?

How can we expect to have a real referendum in Iraq? They have no real basis of choice, they've been schooled in the medrassas to hate everyone and everything we in the west think is good (not that we're the arbiters of what's good), or their leaders have been killed or they sure don't have a positive view of us or our society to say, "hey, I wanna be just like them!"

Allen

Tom,

Interesting question especially given the just completed Memorial Day event which is to honor those who have lost their lives serving their country.

I'm conflicted. I supported the war initially because I believed what my government was telling me - that Sadam had weapons of mass destruction and could use those weapons on those he considered his enemy. Yes, I was thinking that Israel would benefit from American involvement but in the calamity of post 9/11, we had to do something to stop terrorism so I supported our initial mission.

Now I understand we were not told the truth; there were no weapons of mass destruction, the Republican Guard were no threat; Sadam was an empty despot blah blah and sadly Mission Accomplished wasn't.

We're still bogged down in Iraq with no policy and clear mission. We're still bogged down in Afganistan and not any closer to finding the 6'-2" Saudi with kidney failure (maybe we should tell the IRS he owes back taxes) who actually attacked us and we're buddies with Saudi Arabia (who actually funded and approved the plans generated by the wild eyed fundamentalist radicals as long as they blew themselves up outside The Kingdom) and gas/petrol will likely cost $6.00 a gallon before long.

We are living in a country with no government or leadership and I am not proud of who we are and who we've become. I used to be proud to tell people I was an American but now I keep it to myself whenever my wife and I travel abroad. We have no energy policy and what are we coming to as a nation when our women soldiers come home saying that they are being brutalized by their felllow soldiers to such levels that it's as bad as war trauma. What's with that?

Tom, you're a veteran just like me. Are you happy with where we are and is it worth the price paid in blood, limbs and morality? I don't believe the cost benefit analysis works here.

Get out of Iraq immediately? Don't think so. We made the mess and its polite to clean up after ones self and develop a policy that demonstrates we understand what the heck we're doing to ourselves and our friends otherwise we shouldn't be so surprised our friends treat us like the embarassment we've become.

Allen

Fred,

You have quite a lot of patience and a wonderful imagination.

Keep them coming. I sit here and smile.

Thanks,

Allen

Notareal and others,

Supposedly SP3 did backup the registry etc but after working with MS Tech Support for literally hours, they stayed on the phone with me for most of the time while chkdsk ran in both /p and /r modes, tried to restore from the recovery console etc and finally said the best they could do was install a fresh copy of Windows on another partition of my HD and copy the data over to the new partition, delete the corrupted partition and allow me the pleasure of installing all my software and drivers all over again on a 4 year old laptop! I even started to do that but called the computer shop we buy all our computers from and with whom we have a long term relationship. they picked up the laptop this morning and I think I heard that they are in the process of fixing it and keepting everything intact.

Let us pray.....

Allen

Let me add to the tale of woe,

I thought I did yesterday but its gone missing on me on this page.

I installed SP3 Saturday afternoon and have not been able to boot my computer since. I've been on the phone with Microsoft yesterday and for more than three hours today. Bottom line is my computer is fried and all attempts by MS to restore it have failed. Their suggestion is for me to install a parallel copy of Windows XP on my hard drive, copy the data files over to the new partition and then delete the fried partition and reinstall all my software. Ugh.

A computer tech that we buy our computers from said he wanted a crack at restoring it I've agreed to send it to his shop tomorrow.

What I've learned is that SP3 was not supposed to be released to the general public until tomorrow the earlies and the version I downloaded Saturday was for developers only (didn't say so on the MS Download Center site). Apparently with my particular hardware/software configuration, it corrupted the registry and other boot sector files and all attempts to uninstall SP3 (which didn't seem to leave itself in my directory) failed, attempts to restore to a previous version of a working bootable system failed. Basically everything MS could think of failed.

Bottom line, until they've figured it out, stay away from this release.

Allen

Thomaz and others,

I downloaded SP3 from the link provided and like Thomaz encountered the BSD and error notice. Unlike Thomas, I wasn't able to see the note and my laptop get trying to reboot for hours on end until I shut it off so I lost not an hour but Saturday evening and all Sunday.

I was told to call MS Tech Support and request the pay service but since it would be a MS issue, there would be no charge. I think the pay service gets you through quicker though.

Unlike Thomas I'm not able to access anything and I have to wait to get to the office where my original copy of MS XP installation disks are stored.

This is not the way to spend a rainy weekend I can tell you,

Allen

This is really quite off the point now. The question is did they stop the bus or slow down before they chucked you off? Did they open the door or the window and did a crowd of very scarey people start to gather around you thinking you might be food?

If the answers are no, no and yes, you were on the Manhattan crosstown and they dont have ticket inspectors.