Rich_Winsor

Let's see you build one of these with base cabinets.

eAntique Desk

Sounds like a decent upgrade and you probably got the

most bang for your buck. The only thing you said that I

might take exception to is that your 525W power supply

is "robust". In today's environment I would want 750W

minimum and more likely 1000W. If you eventually want

to go to the real performers in the video card market you

will need a bigger power supply (as you noted) and you

will probably need a bigger case to pack all those goodies

into.

I recently went for the brass ring and sprung for the GTX

780ti. The card is a physical monster. It is literally the size

of a foot long 2 x 6 and weighs in at 30 ounces! Imagine

that in your laptop. I could have fit it into my 8 year old

Antec case but I would have had to take the tin snips to

the drive bay frame to make it fit.

I  am not sure how many users know this, but the available catalog / 3D Library for Mac users is significantly less than Windows users. I use both Mac and Windows and found that some of the libraries on my Windows computer is not available on my Mac. Is there a reason they are not for both?

The contents of the library catalogs are pro-rated depending

on the market share of the respective operating systems.

You could just be creepy : )

LOL!  Hey, I resemble that remark.

I hope your joking, everyone else was.

Sure I'm joking. Isn't that what the "wink" and "grin"

are all about?

Rich,  for a very large fee,  I can smooth out some of the rough edges.

I will do it for slightly less!

I won't do it at all

This price seems a little low to me for a such a huge amount of work. 

 

For an extremely large consultation fee and a moderately high markup I think I could find an exorbitantly high priced architect to get them finished up to the point you could hire Scott at a relatively low rate to clean the plans up and add a few crappy ray traces to sweeten the deal.

Wow! Now I see what everybody is talking about

when they point out how helpful everyone on this

forum is.

And Perry, thanks for your generous offer.

When I purchased my spread here the main house was

in the middle of a major (non-permitted) remodel. I asked

the owner (a sweet old lady) if there were some plans of

the project so I could see what she had envisioned for

the project. She assured me she had some plans and

that she would dig them up for me. Well, here's the plan. 

Floor Plan Drawing.pdf

Whatever you buy just get one with the best video card and CPU you can afford. Those are the 2 things that mean the most.

Those and a SSD.

Waasup D. Scott? No update? Are you going to leave us all hanging?

How did the call to the cable company go? Is Dawn sleeping with the

fishes? Let me guess, to make up for it they gave you a dedicated

fiber optic line run on a six inch diameter cable. Now when you hit the 

download button all of Southern California temporarily drops off the grid.

Just wondering....

....don't blame me,  it was  Dawn "the internet lady's" fault,  I was relatively happy too....  

So.... what you are saying is that it finally "Dawned"

on you that you have a crappy internet hook-up?

I just upgraded my HughesNet service to Gen4 and am doing many times better than previously.  Here's my before and after upgrade results:

 

Thanks for posting those results Curt. That's just the info

I was looking for when we visited this topic a while back. 

If I have to go satellite (for the dwellings too far from the

road for cable) I could live with 6 Mbps but definitely not

less than 1 Mbps. I'm still bickering with the powers that 

be at Charter to get them to run a couple of hundred feet 

of hardwire to an existing telephone pole on the property

so I can get the same cable modem service which I receive

at the house near the main road. Up front there I am paying

for 30Mbps service so I guess I should be happy pulling

66+ Mbps.

Intel motherboards have a setting you can access in the BIOS

to select the "primary video adapter". You can select "internal

graphics" and you will be using the onboard graphics from the

motherboard, or you can select "external PCIe graphics" and

you will be using whatever video card you have plugged into

your motherboard.

LOL! I think David just set a Guinness World Record for

duplicate posts.

 

 

......The shades cover up my green alien eyes, must keep that a secret. good thing you can't see the rest of the body, alien for sure

Whoa! Hold it right there buster....

You aren't one of those shape-shifting insectoid praying mantis aliens

who came down to earth from a star in Orion's belt to infiltrate our society

and enslave all of mankind.... are you? .... I'm onto you guys. You won't

get away with it on my watch.

I'm PRETTIER

Oh yeah, well I'm SILVERIER.

What do ya think? I put my shades on too.

Kind of like two peas in a pod, huh?

You know what's missing?

 

Some people and a few cars in the parking spaces.  Something to "Liven Up" the Mortuary. 

Too true, what is it that they say, people are "dying" to get in there every day.

Sorry, I got carried away there.

Not to change the subject (again) but have you noticed how

hauntingly similar my image and your (Mr. P's) image are?

"You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair
Ruby, are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The shadows on the wall tell me the sun is going down
Oh, Ruby don't take your love to town"

Dang Jon, either there is some serious foreshortening going on

or that is one tall flag pole. If that is a 10' basketball stanchion in

the distance I make the flagpole out to be 50 to 60 feet tall.

You have never checked out a book from the library? Never stood at a magazine rack and read an article or column while standing there? These are all classified under intellectual property. Music is the same and how many of us has listened to our friends records or borrowed an album to play at home or at a dance of some kind?

 

Most of us Baby Boomers grew up in this kind of world so the idea of sharing similar property is a learned habit. The software industry in it's prime was selling a large number of titles at book stores such as Barnes and Noble. It's no wonder software is viewed in the same way as books. I don't see Random House placing security locks on it's volumes in order to prevent piracy! :-)

 

I don't really care either way as I pay my money just as most of us do. The only issue I have is the security costs a lot of money and people like myself must pay the cost without any benefit. We have accepted buying software with bugs as "nothing is perfect" but I have to wonder what would happen if the buying public demanded more focus on bugs and not security.

What I am espousing is a sea change in marketing strategy.

Why not try a strategy like the Grateful Dead used? When

they found out that their fans were "illegally" taping their shows

they didn't spend a fortune trying to prosecute the offenders

and cracking down on them. They embraced the concept.

Then when the taping started to become a nuisance to other 

concert goers they didn't cut the practice out, they made a

special section for the concert tapers. They established a

social network long before the Twitter and Facebook geeks

ever thought of the idea and facilitated the distribution of the

"bootleg" recordings. Did this cut into album sales? Maybe, but

the trade off was a fiercely loyal fan base that would follow them

anywhere and they became one of the highest grossing touring

acts in history not to mention a merchandising cash cow.

The point being that any user is a good user. Some may never

"go legit" and buy a full license but that doesn't matter. They are 

all building the user base and market share and getting the software

name out there in the marketplace. Maybe they buy a tee-shirt or

ball cap to show their allegiance, or pop for some manuals or some

instruction. There are many ways to extract some value besides

strong-arming your user base for license fees and SSA's. There

will always be the users who see the advantage of having a fully

backed license with all the tech support and content that entails.

There will also be those, like I did, that come late to the table but

end up in the fold. Not allocating all the time and money trying to

police the product would free up many resources which are sucked

up in the ironfisted security approach and these resources could be

plowed back into making the software an even more desirable 

program to use and own which in turn would increase the user base

and market share and so on and so on.

Will such a thing ever occur, probably not, but a guy can dream 

can't he?

Personally, I think that is a big load of hooey.  All you are doing is trying to rationalize your illegal and unethical behavior.  The bottom line is it's stealing, plain and simple.  Stealing software is no different then stealing anything else.  It hurts the software company and the legitimate users of the software.  You can try and rationalize it all you want so that you can sleep better at night but it won't change the fact that it is wrong.

 

I hate having security on software but as long as people are willing to steal it software companies are going to try and prevent that.

Actually it wasn't "stealing, plain and simple". What it was

was a bona fide e-Bay transaction. I was in the market for

a product, did a search for said product, and found that

product up for auction. I bid on the item and was the winning

bidder. Did the price seem suspiciously reasonable, sure, but

it's not my nor any other e-Bay participant's job to research

the legitimacy of a product up for sale on their site. I wouldn't

be shopping there if I didn't think I could find an occasional

good deal. And in hind sight how much did it hurt the software

company? They ended up getting full market value for their

product which they would never have received if not for the

original e-Bay transaction, which was my whole point to start

with.

This is analogous to an argument I have made in defense of bootleg

software. Back in 2005 I bought a bootleg copy of SolidWorks on e-Bay

from a guy in England for 40 British pounds (they have since tightened

their security for these types of transactions). After using the software for

about five years I decided I had become proficient enough to justify shelling

out the big bucks for a legitimate license with all the support and content.

When I told the guy who handled the transaction that he would never be

writing up the sale if I hadn't bought the bootleg version and had a play with

it he could not comprehend the concept that having the bootleg copy led to

getting a legitimate copy. I suspect that if the time spent on policing the 

software was spent on developing a truly superior product the sales would 

take care of themselves.

 

I did a web search and found an old Chief Symbols site .... viola! He had exactly what I was looking for ...

 

Hey O.T., what does a four stringed musical instrument have to do with the price of beans in Boston?

I'm just funin' you because recently I spent the better part of a half hour on Dictionary.com trying to find

out how to spell the word that I would pronounce as "wah-lah". All that French stuff is Greek to me, but

the word you were looking for is voila.

Nick, isn't that what the little green up arrow is for?

Dang Bill, there you go again. So we need some contour lines, fine.

What tool shall we use? Of course, skinny sidewalks, how could we

be so thick headed?

In a similar vein I like to change the color of the framing

with the Adjust Material Definition tool so that the walls

show with a little more "pop" when viewing a floor plan

in a 3D Doll House view.