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    • RE: Mon$anto vs. Mother Earth

      Power corrupts. Any organization that gets to a certain size becomes more concerned with serving and protecting itself at the expense of everything and everyone around it. Governments, corporations, unions, all of them and more. It doesn't always have a deleterious effect, or if the organization is small enough, the effect is contained to a small scope and doesn't really affect the lives surrounding it enough to cause concern.

      The problem is serious when we have corporations that get so large they affect the stability of the world. A prime example is the banking/lending crisis of this decade. Given free reign, greed wins, and they seek to absolve themselves of any wrongdoing while simultaneously taking government money that comes from the very people hurt by the actions and greed of the massive corporation.

      Monsanto is no different. They seek to protect themselves and, above all else, profit. Damage to people and the environment is the cost of doing business, it's factored in. The problem with Monsanto is the global span of their bad practices. Pesticide that contaminates the ground and (miraculously!) the only seeds that will grow in that ground are the ones owned by Monsanto. What a racket that is! Nevermind the effects of GMO plants spreading beyond their fields and terrible labor practices. Monsanto will do anything to control the people they need to, the ones that will tell us it's all OK. Go ahead and eat that. You don't need a peer-reviewed study. Just buy that corn-based cereal. Our study says it's just fine.

      posted in Corner Bar
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    • RE: Just for fun!

      "Silent running", almost.

      posted in Gallery
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    • RE: I7-3960x Sketchup experience-Anybody?

      Agreed. I've been using a single GTX 570 up until this point and had no issues. I added a second in SLi a couple of months ago and saw no real gain. You'll be fine with that card.

      posted in Hardware
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    • RE: I7-3960x Sketchup experience-Anybody?

      Have an i7 system and give it a solid thumbs up, especially when coupled with the OS loaded on an SSD. Day-to-day operations don't really show a lot of difference (like opening a browser or something), but where it really shines is multitasking and rendering (video, apps like Thea, photoshop). I rendered video, used Sketchup, ripped a DVD and browsed the web on the side. It consumed 16GB of memory and the i7 didn't even care.

      posted in Hardware
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    • RE: Noob Hardware Question - Re: Cores

      ^^^ What notareal says is correct; you could do it, but I can't see any gain.

      posted in Newbie Forum
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    • RE: Thea car paint mat

      I'm no genius when it comes to making mats/texturing, it's by far my most deficient area. As far as adjusting it, you can increase the roughness, increase the bump, and/or change the size of the noise texture used to create the bump. These will all affect how "smooth" the flake looks and how much flake there is in the .mat. Change the color of the two lower layers to change the color of the paint.

      posted in Extensions & Applications Discussions
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    • Thea car paint mat

      Here:

      Link Preview Image
      Page not found - Thea Render

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      Thea Render (www.thearender.com)

      I've been trying to create on for a while, I don't know how well this one will work on a well lit scene. Critiques on the mat requested, I'm trying to get it just right.

      posted in Extensions & Applications Discussions extensions
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    • RE: Remember

      What's cookin'?

      posted in WIP
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    • SU mention at MAKE

      Plus some other free software. I don't know if anyone's using Tinkercad, but I guess it's going away.

      http://blog.makezine.com/2013/03/28/free-alternatives-to-tinkercad/

      posted in Corner Bar
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    • RE: How in the heck does he do this?

      That video in itself is a great way to see how Artisan can be used. Thanks for sharing, I learned a bit!

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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    • RE: 3D Third Reich's uniforms

      I must echo that sentiment, it's a pity that those uniforms are so closely tied with such dark and fearful events in history. They cut an impressive figure.

      posted in Gallery
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    • RE: Quadro vs GTX

      Astounding costs, IMO, for a graphics card. Not knocking it; if you can afford it, great! But just looking at those numbers I figure a could build a dual-processor PC and set it up as a network render client/NAS for the price.

      posted in Hardware
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    • RE: Time for a change for me...

      Big congrats! πŸ‘ πŸ‘

      We all know they've just hired someone that will be great for the team.

      posted in Corner Bar
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    • RE: Problems with Blender 3ds imports

      Use the triangulate function in Blender before exporting, this sometimes helps.

      posted in Newbie Forum
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    • RE: Amazing Graphic Work

      Does this style have a name?

      posted in Corner Bar
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    • RE: Export Animation to FBX?

      The newer versions are much better. Take the time to customize it a little in the user prefs and you can get it to act in a more familiar way, like SU. Nonetheless, it will still have a learning curve. I much prefer the newer versions, I've been able to accomplish a lot of work in them that would be painfully difficult in SU and then import that work into an SU project. I still consider myself a Blender beginner though. It's difficult to figure things out sometimes, like many free apps there is limited documentation on how to get it to do what you want and much of the information is for older versions. Very frustrating at times.

      posted in Newbie Forum
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    • RE: Pickup

      Nice change of pace. Still nostalgic, still great to see. Great work again!

      posted in Gallery
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    • RE: What do you think about this render?

      +1.

      I was initially confused by the reflection, it took a moment for me to understand the scene. Maybe I'm just getting old... πŸ˜„. But yes, as mentioned, some furnishings and details would push the scene to the next level.

      posted in Gallery
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    • RE: Internet not working

      That's officially the first time I have ever heard of a NIC failure. Congrats on getting it sorted. Maybe eventually you can get an internal PCI slot NIC instead of the USB, your speeds will be much better. I have a stack here, but it would cost more to send you one than it would to buy one locally.

      posted in Hardware
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    • RE: Internet not working

      I understand that is not the first choice, but it's a great move. I have had several people complain about W8 "bricking" their computer or some part of it, then after installing W7 in the same system everything works perfectly.

      Why Microsoft does this is beyond me. Every other OS is junk... 95/SE, great! 2000/ME, junk! XP, great! Vista, pretty, but trouble. Win 7, finest MS OS to date. W8, right into the bin.

      Completely predictable, but why?

      posted in Hardware
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