wow, i read through the list of the laws and followed the link to the awesome put down about evolution, and then followed the link to the wiki-article for "E pur si muove!", and then followed the link at the bottom of that page to discworld by terry pratchet (because he titled a chapter "E pur si muove!")

then i spent 15 minutes looking at discworld stuff befor returning to the list...and then the last law on the list referenced discworld.

nuts.

YES

& I AM NOW A FISHERMAN

I'M NOT FISHING GIVE ME $$$

do you ever feel bad profiting from the mere collection of other people's writing?

mang, this article should be about HDRI rather than natural beauty

you could take a picture of dog poop in HDRI and it would look like the face of god.

i can't help but add one more comment. i don't have any passionate brand loyalty. i use macs a lot and windows computers pretty often. my main priority is hot keys...and once i figured out that windows computers have the same hot keys it became a pretty irrelevant point as to which os i was using.

all the windows fanboys in this thread are way more annoying than the mac fanboys. i don't think anybody in this discussion has actually said anything disparaging about windows users and the windows users have often berated mac users as bad or stupid or lame people. that's kind of pathetic guys. see poneyup's post for an example of really unnecessary mocking.

that's what apple does, yes. it's a strategy. lets be frank, i don't even own a computer. i just use macs in my design schools lab. i'm not a fanboy, just a user. did i mention i'm in design school? macs are well designed. (the shell n packaging n icons n stuff)

mac commercials are enchanting, i'm gonna stick by that, of course this doesn't apply to everybody...almost nothing does. (does not apply to you apparently) lots of people are enchanted though, young kids, lots of moms, people who don't know anything about computers. once you know something about computers there are different issues to be weighed...but for the large number of people who have no clue what goes into computers they see mac ads and buy the marketing ploy.

do you realize that you literally took my message personally? literally.

i use a mac cause i'm a designer.

i feel that all of the zealous behaviour boils down to advertising and design. i'm suprised nobody ever realizes this.

they are computers and nothing more. it's the image that is projected that effects the way people feel about them.

windows has a lot going for them, but i am constantly amazed at how moronic their advertising and branding department is. they need to literally all be fired.

probably their design department too, but bringing in better designers and advertising would cost more money and then they wouldn't be so cheap.

anyways, mac commercials are enchanting (i'm not being subjective here, it's a witnessed fact, people believe what they say) mac design is impeccable. the designers behind the look of mac products have effected web design, film aethetics, and of course the design of other high tech gadgets.

windows computers look bad. people have eyes and cannot help but develop a bias based on appearence.

those windows ads are the pits though, the whole "windows mohave" campaign was patronizing and convoluted. the people they talked to were offputting and the music they played was lame.

windows needs a makeover like the one mac got when the first gen imacs came out. it would be simple and smart. all matte black computers and a hard business slogan like "you're an adult now, buy a pc" or "you have work to do, do it on a pc" or "go pro, go pc"

windows mohave?? a non-existant bait and switch ad campaign centered around the idea that people think their os is terrible? this is amateur advertising. people say the product is bad? say it's the best thing ever. people say it's hard to use? say it's meant for smart people.

geeeze i'm a 21 year old kid and these things are obvious to me.

just as long as they put it in a layer underneath the background. it's a win win situation.

i plan on imposing this system upon my brood. each child of considerable age (12 or something) shall be given an amount of money above and beyond the national average...lets say 25.00 a week. (high i know)

the following pay period they shall be required to return 10.00 of those dollars. or they shall receive no money at all that week. essentially they shall be getting 15.00 a week but with an extra ten that they must hold onto and not spend or suffer the penalty of 5.00 lost.

this plan does not however forbid the child from spending all of the money in some sort of investment as long as that investment can earn them back enough money to fund their next allowance.

i feel as a child i was never taught how to hold money. every adult knows you can't spend your entire paycheck.

twitter is where i stopped being a kid and realized that i'm not going to do that crud.

i go to the university of kansas, smoke, and support smoking bans

"abstract" game genre. why do girls play those games? BEJEWELED?? what the heck? anyways, yeah, no big deal. asian and white men make video games and primarily asian and white men play them.

i used to play smash bros competitively though and i have to say that black men are surprisingly engaged in the video game community as well. this alludes to what is probably the biggest injustice.

yes, i do hope these researchers are taking the rag doll effect into account. I.E. the tendency for drunk drivers to physically endure crashes better. I.E. "rolling" with the flow.

i love HS crabs with an embarrassingly uncommon passion reserved by most for immediate family members and franchise restaurant cuisine.

i'll probably get one inked onto my torso one of these days.

WHAAAAAAAAAAT