Anyone know how to install SU 7.0 over SU 7.1, i.e. a reverse update? I want to avoid actually uninstalling SU 7.1 first as it may screw up links and paths in the V-Ray for SU plugin. Is the only way to uninstall SU 7.1. and the reinstall SU 7.0?
I ask as SU 7.1.4871 doesn't work properly with V-Ray for SU- it's very buggy.
That sign would've made more sense if they'd bothered with some punctuation or upper and lower case. At first glance I thought it said:
CHURCH
PARKING
ONLY
VIOLATORS
WILL
BE
"BAPTIZED"
Damn Jim, I feel your pain. I had a 4 month old primary HDD crash and burn on me a few years back and I lost a sh*tload- fortunately most of my work files were backed-up, but I lost a lot of photos and God knows how many hours putting my messily backed-up folders back into some sort of order on the new HDD.
I've become increasingly paranoid about losing my files, especially my skp and V-Ray files and massive texture bitmap collection- it'd take me 5 years (and probably a nervous breakdown) to build that up again. As a result I recently burned all my work files onto DVDs which are at a friend's place and my backup HDD is stored in a secure area in our apartment building well away from my flat as I was worried that if my flat burned down I could lose my laptop and backup HDD (how ridiculous that I worry more abut losing files than I do about my safety in the event of a house fire!). I should really buy another backup HDD to keep at my friend's place- the burned DVDs are just a stop-gap measure.
R-Studio sounds useful.
Aaaah, I thought it wasn't like you to miss something like that! 
Great work Thom, really nice texturing on both the exterior and interiors. Nice to see all the components of this project come together.
As a reknowned perfectionist I'm surprised you didn't clone stamp out that piece of trash in the foreground in the photomatch though!
I love that you had to pay only $495 extra for the installation kit!
And to think that you could fit the entire contents of that HDD on a single rewriteable CD.....
49 times over. 
@kwistenbiebel said:
Sure. Who's this?
I don't know, but it looks like a great party! 
Actually, is it Dali? It reminds me of his nudes/skull picture.
Sounds like most thinking Brazilians feel the same way as most thinking Britons do about the 2012 London event. The Olympic Games are a nice idea in principle, but the reality is they're an horrendous waste of resources, an environmental catastrophe and yet another excuse to use public money to generate millions/billions for private investors/enterprise.
It's a shame the human race doesn't feel the need to celebrate cerebral achievements as much as it does physical.
I really hope the 2016 event can genuinely benefit Brazil in the long term and the corruption can be minimised.
It could simply be the result of a common self-timer fault: standing/crouching right in front of the camera while pressing the shutter button to activate the self-timer, which of course results in the camera autofocusing on the "close" you rather than the "far" you once you've run back to your pose position. Besides, the fur looks a little too well masked to be Photoshopped.
Wyatt Earp!
Dammit, I even went down the O.K. Corral route before, but came up with nothing.
It's not Oskar Kokoschka.
Gee, if this was a competition for suggestions who it isn't I'd be winning by miles! LOL
Going by your clue I was going to say Samuel Morse, but it's definitely not him. It looks a little like Robert Baden-Powell.
Totally depends on my mood, today it's a feel-good Swedish band Billie the Vision and the Dancers, yesterday it was crazy rockers Bob Hund. The day before it was loads of sweeeet soul. I guess vintage soul, jazz (especially T. Monk) and ambient electronica are my most frequent genres to listen to while working.
Jon- good call on Fleet Foxes- I was totally hooked on their album a couple of months back, couldn't stop listening to it back to back like a teenager . Incredible songwriters and fantastic production on that album. Of course I made myself a bit tired of it now. 
They're reminiscent of one of my favourite bands: psychedelic Edinburgh folksters The Incredible String Band.
LOL - I actually made deep fried Mars Bars for an international food buffet party a few years ago. I had no idea how to make batter back then, so I went to my local (Swedish) supermarket, bought a handful of Mars Bars and a packet of tempura batter, sliced the Mars Bars up, coated them in the batter and fried them. I only made them as a novelty anyway so on tasting the horrendous results I thought I may as well put them out for anyone daft/brave enough to try them- bizarrely the plate was empty in no time, one French-Canadian guy came back for seconds saying he had been skeptical, but he really liked it. Here's the thing- I suspect "real" deep fried Mars Bars are made with plain batter- water and flour. The just-add-water Japanese tempura batter I'd bought was flavoured with, among other things.... garlic. They tasted absolutely disgusting. BTW, the whole deep fried Mars Bars thing is virtually an urban legend, stemming from one chip shop making them at the request of some school kids. I have seen them listed on the "menus" of a couple of chip shops, but I don't think I know a single person who ever tried one. It's more of an in-joke than something anyone actually orders.
@linea said:
LOL! When was the last time you were in an English pub or restaurant? The mid 70's?! Food in England is so diverse now. Microwave Lasagne anybody?
Haha, my point is an Englishman would find it no harder to find great food in Scotland than a Scotman would in England, especially if you take into account that England's population is 10 times that of Scotland. There are few meals anywhere which can beat the satisfaction of tucking into a proper Yorkshire Sunday roast beef dinner with all the trimmings. I just got back from Berlin and, while German traditional cuisine is hardly world-renowned, modern Germans' tastes are so well developed that I haven't eaten so well in a long long time. In fact the only country I've been to where I couldn't find a single decent restaurant was the Czech Republic (and service with smile seemed to be an alien concept), but that was over 10 years ago.
OK, I'll get down off my soap box now, but that's got me thinking, it's about time I did a Sunday roast!
Oh come on! Now while I am a big Belgian beer fan, Scotland has it's own share of excellent traditional ales (Ossian, Deuchars, amongst others) although for someone used to >7% Trappiste Ales they'll seem pretty weak at between 3% and 5%. Nevertheless, Harvieston, Traquair, Orkney Brewery and Brewdog are all producing world class strong ales, porters and imperial stouts which shouldn't give a Belgian anything to complain about. I have 4 bottles of Harvieston's 8% Ola Dubh (Gaelic for "Black Oil") sitting in my drinks cabinet right now waiting for a deserving winter evening- wonderful black ale aged in casks previously use for aging Highland Park single malt- 1 x 12 year old and 3 x 18 year olds. I've tried them before- the 12 year old is a little rough, the whisky taste is overpowering and it's too oakey, but the 18 year old is remarkable- very smooth, the whisky, vanilla and oak tones are much more subtle and if the truth be told I'd often rather drink 3cl of this than 3cl of 18 year old Highland Park. They also make 30 and 40 year old variants, but aside from being insanely expensive for beer (16USD+ for 33cl) I've heard they're not that great.
As for the food, well, no Scottish food is not one of the great cuisines if the world (as if!), but haggis is truly delicious. I've served it to many of my foreign friends at traditional Scots "Burns Suppers" and everyone liked it (well, those who survived anyway ).
(Linea, don't get me started on English food and drink- Liver and Onions washed down with a pint of Carling anyone? Only kidding, I'm half-English after all. )
Oh yes...... a burger and a big spoonful of haggis......... on a bun. Very very tasty, I promise!
@mike lucey said:
How can anyone seriously expect any member of the Royal family to be PERFECT 100% of the time. Heck! I don't know how any of them can hold their cool with those newspaper cameramen running around after them 24 hours and day 365 days a year.
I couldn't agree more with your second sentence, I wouldn't switch places with the Royals for all the money in the world and if every party any of us ever attended was documented on film I'm sure we'd all be judged guilty of grand moral turpitude at one time or another.
Nevertheless Harry was not being papped- he was holding the camera, he was narrating the film, technically he was working at the time and he was wearing the uniform of the British Army. If none of those facts were enough to suggest to him that it might not be the best time to use racist terms to refer to his colleagues then the Windsors seriously need to practise their media training.
I looked at the forum you posted a link to, the first poster, a British soldier wrote:
@unknownuser said:
Imagine for instance a group of soldiers airmen or sailors and within the group there are several called John, how would you distinguish them in a time of crisis?
If one is from Ireland he will probably be called Paddy.if one has red hair he will be called Ginge etc.
Well... that argument might have some validity if the guy Harry was referring to had the same name as several of his colleagues, but in what way would it have threatened military efficency to have called him simply Ahmed or Khan? Just out of interest Harry's "little Paki friend" (note the "little" denoting inferiority) won the award for the best overseas cadet at Sandhurst. Maybe Ahmed should be narrating a video describing Harry as "the spoiled little brat who is only playing soldiers because his family make him, who gets more glory in the media for going about his normal duties than colleagues who excel and risk their lives in acts of selfless valour while he flounces around the battlezone, more well protected than any other serviceman or woman".
@jackson said:
I guess it's okay to call a colleague "faggot", "mick", "nigger", "jap" (unfortunately I already know Ron's answer to that one) or "bitch" then? Or do you draw the line somewhere?
@remus said:
I frequently do, as i know it will be taken in jest.
You don't know it will be taken in jest, you assume that it will be taken in jest and one day your assumption will be wrong. Where do you think the expression "children are so cruel" comes from?
@remus said:
Using those rules there would be very little being said.
Huh? Somehow I, my friends and colleagues manage to socialise and work every day without using racist, or sexist or homophobic terms, entire books are written, TV programmes are made, forums buzz along for years without need for these words. What world are you living in where by omitting offensive terms you would find it almost impossible to communicate? It's 15 years ago since I was 17 years old, but even then I probably only heard racist language used in school a handful of times in 6 years at secondary school.
@bellwells said:
Jackson, I don't consider "Jap" to be any more derogatory than "Yank". Political correctness is nothing more than a mechanism to control thought and speech. And as a member of the politically correct crowd, you've been well conditioned.
It's irrelevant what you consider to be offensive to another race. If you told me you didn't want to be called a "yank" as it had negative connotations I'd happily oblige (although it's not a term I use anyway). The fact that "jap" has been used, especially since the Second World War, to insult and intimidate the American descendants of Japanese immigrants should be enough to suggest that it's not a term which should be used in general terms.
I actually hate the term "politically correct"- it's got nothing to do with politics, it's to do with common courtesy, respecting other people and treating them as you expect to be treated. As this thread up to now has been populated by (AFAIK) only well-educated able-bodied caucasian heterosexual males I would suggest that we attempt to put ourselves in someone else's shoes and to realise that we were born into extremely priveleged circumstances, where we would never expect to be publicly abused, assaulted or turned down for a job on the basis of something we can do nothing about. I for one am grateful for that throw of the cosmic/genetic dice, but I'm not going to sit back and think "well, the current setup worked for me, screw everyone else". You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
LOL, brilliant marketing! Dirty Dick's pub is in Edinburgh, it was 3 doors along from my old apartment (their fish & chips and haggis burgers are actually excellent!).
Right opposite we had another pub called "Filthy McNasty's".
I never ate there.
