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Reply to Mac user obnoxiousness in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

get a rope... lol. Mac users are a underappreciated minority. They go to the store and they have a teeeeny software section. They want a computer, they buy it at retail, while the geeks they know are off buying affordable parts at the shows. Like any underappreciated minority, they have huge egos pinned to their sleeve and have lots to prove to anyone that will listen. I don't. I have been around mac bigots since I worked for a small local newspaper in ~1990. They are the "design

Reply to Bad copies, forgeries, and photograph reproductions. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

According to the US Copyright office: "Under the fair use doctrine of the U.S. copyright statute, it is permissible to use limited portions of a work including quotes, for purposes such as commentary, criticism, news reporting, and scholarly reports." So references in a 'news' type article would be fine. Also, if someone is reporting news, and there is a tradmarked/copywritten logo or whatnot in the background, it is considered incedental and is legal as well.

Reply to Bad copies, forgeries, and photograph reproductions. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Lecrayon: read motion's post and then read yours. She wasn't talking to you. I said pretty much the same thing she did about motion's situation: "My conclusion would be that the above is technically stealing, but only in such a esoteric way that it would be impossible to prove... " Your question was: "If I would make a collage of photographs I have collected from glossy magazines or newspapers, would I have to ask each photographer the permission to make th

Reply to Bad copies, forgeries, and photograph reproductions. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Lecrayon: "...would I have to ask each photographer the permission to make the collage?" yes, or you are breaking the law. The law does not care if you make money off what you steal, it just says not to steal. If I steal a painting just to look at it, is it stealing? If I take the only commodity an artist has, and then give it away en masse, am I being fair to the artist? The magazine you scanned it from paid for the right to display that image, did you?

Reply to blog in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You know when you are standing in line at the post office, and that guynext to you keeps talking and talking; telling you about his kids, something he saw on tv, on and on and on...? That's a blog, only online, with lots of scrolling java and iframes...

Reply to 1/2 Empty or 1/2 Full in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Jafo: is the petrol tank near the boot? do you park it near your flat as you run to the loo? Crikey, just don't be potty and smoke your fags near the petrol tank of your motor!! You'll be a mightily cheesed off bloke on his way to the chemist for sure!! (the preceeding was a sad, sad attempt at a cross-cultural dialogue, and even worse, a British dialogue with a Australian. I sadly omitted all approriate cultural references to "putting a shrimp on the barby", wrestling crocodiles, etc

Reply to What is a..... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Sally: If I had a dime for every time I woke up on Saturday morning, hung-over, wondering the same thing...

Reply to 1/2 Empty or 1/2 Full in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

actually, partitioning is more than a folder, it is a hardware definition. You can reformat, install another OS, whatever you like. Partitioning can be a life saver when you need to reformat/reinstall the OS a machine with ~100gigs of stored media . Many an optimistic person has sat for 10 hours restoring ~100 gig a single partition from CD-ROMs. Me, I opt for a second physical drive, but that isn't always

Reply to Gone for 3 weeks. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

have fun

Reply to An experiment in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

...the suspense is killing me...

Reply to An experiment in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

just remember all us little folks when it comes together for ya... ( i refuse to ask... )

Reply to Bad copies, forgeries, and photograph reproductions. in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

you can't copy an idea, or a subject, in terms of art. If there was a really fine line held to, anyone who took pictures at Yellowstone would be ripping off Ansel Adams, or Mapplethorpe would be the only one that could take a self-portait with a whip up his butt... I had a wood and stainless steel skin (221b-era stuff: http://saix.freethemes.com/skins/icq/preview/23578.html ) ages ago, and this site has a stainless and wood theme. Quite similar, but in no way a rip, IMHO, (oak maybe?

Reply to BeOS Theme anyone? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Most people that I have worked with spend the majority of on-the-clock hours trolling for hardcore porn, so in those circumstances I find a good Barry Manilow mp3 goes a lot further to shock and dismay... (Copa Cabana will cause a room full of geeks to claw out their eyes and drink lye)

Reply to BeOS Theme anyone? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

OS ports are difficult mainly because artists hesitate to spend a lot of time on other people's graphics. I'm not sure I could stomach spending days cutting and pasting together a skin or theme to imitate a piece of boxed software, no matter how different or aesthetically pleasing that software may be. The few times I have used OS ports, I've felt kinda goofy when people have said "Wow, you're running(insert OS)?!?!". They always look at you like you were trying to look l33t. Just my

Reply to Saving Bitmaps out of Photoshop! in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

A difficulty I think you may be having is that when the image is shifted to Indexed Color from RGB, the color info will drift a bit. SO, if you specified 255,0,255 in PSD or JPG format, when you convert to Indexed color it will be different enough to fark up the transparency. (I had a lot of trouble with this in PS5) I most always have to go back and re-touch the areas of transparency with the PENCIL tool to make certain it is all the specified transparency color. (The brush tool ten

Reply to Drawings in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

If I recall you had at least two or three responses. I know that I answered your post, anyway.

Reply to ummmmmm..... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Sadly, the more you actually use your computer, the less of your desktop you see. I think that is why I've always been so iffy about wallpaper... I see it so rarely...

Reply to Yo...all you Message Board trolls.... in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

'Troll' is such a 'done thing'... I think I would rather be a Messageboard Gargoyle, or maybe even a messageboard Leprechaun, so I can be really mean and annoying and maybe recite a Limerick or two. In the past when I have been most annoyed I have resorted to Haiku, but maybe something a little more lyrically structured and funny...

Reply to IS THIS SITE ONLY FOR WINDOWS XP?? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

XP has features that make it attractive to skinners. Unless something is marked XP or stated to be specifically for it, though, I think you can assume it will work on 98. Are XP windowblinds themes backwards-compatable? I was kinda wondering that myself.

Reply to shooting stars maybe??? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

pixels are pixels. layers and effects just make it easier.

Reply to Forced Registration to Stardock in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You know, after a while all the posts like this start looking like the same person... Like there is some slack-jawed, cave-fish-pale automaton, just downloading software and flaming... downloading and flaming... maybe that's where tech support people go when they die; to a little, dark room in hell to be 'flame zombies', harassing their living peers...

Reply to shooting stars maybe??? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The Gimp is free. and lots of skins get made with windows paint.

Reply to Kazaa v2 in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

The last time I used it Kazaa was nothing but leeches. I had to go through dozens of users before I could find one that I was able to download from. I can't equate 2-3 hours of my time putting together an album from Kazzaa with 10 minutes in the car and 12 bucks at Best Buy. Between the push for the U.S. justice department to crack down on it, the fake files from the entertainment industry, and ISPs being forced to cut people off who share, I don't think it is gonna be popular in any

Reply to jk in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

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Reply to Are you an information god? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

MarkL. In agroup of 20 or so people, each vying as we all do for our share of wealth and power, what sort of edge would you consider a solid command of the internet to be at this point? Granted, God is a stretch, but the kind of sublimated command of information that some have would make them immediately superior in a lot of functions. At the moment it is pretty static in that I need a box, keyboard and monitor. In 20 years, though, when my box is the size of a walkman, my moniter i