LadyCrimson

Oh, ayuh...US attitude with figures of law enforcement authority could be a whole topic itself. On a related note, you may be able to sneak portraits of strangers w/out them knowing - but I feel you need permission to display them publically. Crowd shots are usually different, of course, but I'd still feel odd. I'd make a lousy news-photojournalist - I'd always feel like I was invading someone's privacy and never get the winning shot.

Ok...here's my list: Will do: Trees Abdanded/condemned buildings. Street signs w/nifty background landscapes Bottles of mineral water Nature overcoming humanity theme Possibles if I have time: Pictures w/fingers covering part of the lens - having a hard time envisioning this tho Cant's shotglass concept - not sure if I want to buy lots of booze/visit a bar to recreate the shot Landfills theslug's suggestions made me realize that if I do this again, I should probably ask for a theme rather than a specific subject.

While I'll agree there's certainly a lot of hypporisy in politics - also not in politics - including Mr. Gore, I'll go with Pop's post on this one: Gore could travel the world in a horse and buggy and live out of a tent, but I doubt he'd get his message across to very many people, or educate many people about the issue. Music and film stars often thought of as 'so humanitarian' play fundraisers for starving children etc while they live in huge mansions and eat more meat in a day than many see in months while worrying about their interest rates. I see no difference. This reminds me of of John Denver and the hoopla over his big 'emergency' storage tank of gas in his backyard, or whatever it was.

Still Spore. The Wright Stuff - The entire 8-page interview w/Will Wright from Popular Science (Feb). "In this extended interview, see what one of the gaming industry's luminaries has to say about the Wii, Second Life, and much more."

Usually the graphic card software itself has some options that deal with that. Edit: then again, they may only use what the monitor supplies. I just tried on mine and I don't think it altered anything.

That might make a funny YouTube "where is matt' style video. :D

I didn't say they weren't. My cousin's kinda hot. But she's a lawyer and would probably sue me ...

omg...that is so funny. Whoever made that picked the perfect head cutouts for it.

I'd guess not being able to get as much stuff would make it...harder? Probably the mechanics/formula of the way the game becomes 'harder' makes certain things impossible purely because of numbers.

Bound for Glory, 1976 bio-film of Woody Guthrie. Probably David Carradine's best role - did his own singing too. I liked it. Randy Quaid has a small role.

Re-reading the First Americans series - William Sarabande :bunny:

Bumac Vitas - Opera2 and several others. I admit it, I saw the YT video. Not normally a fan of opera or this kind of pop music but I like this stuff.

In terms of the phone - one of my biggest beefs is how it's become harder and harder to even get a real person on the other end of the phoneline. "Press 1, press 2, press3" *I press 2* "Press 1, press2, press 3" *I press 1* "recorded message" then "press 1, press 2..." Most of the time it's a minor annoyance, but on those days where you have to make a lot of calls for some reason....DRIVES ME INSANE. By the time you get to a real person, you're so irritated it's hard to be nice.

:D I wouldn't disagree. I like many still life photos for technical reasons, but they're not usually exciting to look at on visual alone, if that makes sense. On the other hand, I also personally find broad landscapes generally boring visually, as well. It's all what we've been exposed to too often, I suppose. Main reason for asking for still life's first is they're the easiest to do on short notice, imo. I'm not likely, for example, to spend 3-5 hours in traffic to go to San Francisco or Santa Cruz just to take a few cultural/landscape pics. San Fran has some great buildings and angle perspectives...I used to like taking pictures up there a lot when I went there regularly for lessons and such. But it's a lot of hassle if you don't actually live there. Haven't been to downtown SJ too much since moving here...it's never looked all that interesting. Maybe I'll give that a shot. Still-life doesn't have to be an inanmiate object on table, btw...'trees' and the street sign idea work as well. Capturing images of random people is a bit different.

I think my concept of still-life doesn't match some of yours.

That seems to be a growing problem for all interactive net ventures, whether myspace, youtube, or SL. The balance between profit and user desires causing malcontent, I mean. Does sound sad, tho, to organize it and wage some kind of agenda-war like that. It's a virtual world - sheesh. Don't like changes to environment, time to move on. Either that or just accept changes come to any world. <_<

Yeah, I'm sure like w/any on-line game, finding a group of like-minded people to hang out/play with is important to fun-factor. I may try installing it just to walk around a bit...I'm getting more and more curious to see what the 'fuss' is about.

I need to practice my photography more. The problem is sometimes (ok, most of the time) I'm...lazy...so I thought it might be fun now and then to ask for "assignments." So if you're willing, suggest something for me to take a picture of - silly or serious, doesn't matter. In a couple days I'll make a list of some or all of the ones I think are feasible, and then post what I come up with next Monday. For now, suggest a still-life subject - y'know, vase and flowers, food item, hands, that sort of thing. Suggestions should be within the realm of reality for a suburbian housewife to aquire during daily living. No guarantee the results will be wonderfully artistic, but hopefully seeing what my interpretation of your suggestion turns out to be might be fun?

Really? So you'd log in and listen to the teacher avatar and such? Interesting!

I know nothing about Vista so unfortunately can't really help, but I suspect there will be times when Kotor - or any games made before Vista - may sometimes have trouble on some systems. It's a little hard to say since it's still 'new.' Perhaps trying a different graphics driver version might help - ie, not neccesarily the latest, but something inbetween, if there is one? Edit: Briefly googling - is there an XP compatability mode? Did you try running the swkotor.exe using it? Could be a Vista conflict with the copy protection methods somewhere?

I disagree. He's responsible for the product and original marketing. The customer demand is the reason there's jobs and money for more than himself - ie, you, or me.

@ samm - I kinda of agree. I wouldn't have the time or energy it sounds like it would take to get really 'serious' about the game. The toolsets and making stuff, setting up shops, all that, could be fun maybe, but too much work. At most it'd be a fun kind of virtual chat engine for me, I think. There's a video on YT showing the S. Vega bit - it's kind of weird watching a frozen-faced Sim-like avatar sing and talk in a 'stars' voice. @ Tale - ah...well, that's to be expected in a virtual world where people can build their own things. The game's been a few years, but it sounds like for a while there weren't many regular users until they changed some things around. And imo, a virtual reality type of environment can take years to really develop fully.

I'm not sure what's meant by grief potential... It's in it's early stages - whether it turns into something with bigger possibilities for the masses or slumps down into a nothing more than Sim titilation remains to be seen. Kinda depends how the company handles things I guess?

Generally I'd have to agree w/the position that the customer is the reason for the job. I know where volo is coming from; he's not looking at the entire chain, just the short result. But the entire chain goes something like: a person has an idea for a product. They make it. Customers like it and start buying. Business grows. The guy needs/wants to hire workers because there's a customer demand and more workers are needed to supply them. At a certain point, it can seem a bit like the chicken and egg thing, but the customer demand originally dictated whether or not there's any need for more workers in the given business. No original demand, no jobs created.

Has anyone here tried this? I've been reading articles like this one, watching YT videos about it, and listening to people who have joined up, and it's kind of intriguing. I'm not sure I'd want to get into it myself, since it sounds like a serious time-sink, but the concept is interesting; the ultimate on-line Sims w/some real life business/creativity potential, perhaps? I'll be curious to see where it goes - if it goes anywhere. Perhaps Obsidian could open up a virtual booth? The actual game site is here. Rueters has a video about it and their own involvement here.