migellito

migellito

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Reply to DeviantArt Going Down the Toilet? (Opinion) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

it's not about money lecrayon. copyright is about someone else taking credit for my work. or your work. or davinci's work. it's been around a long time. copying art used to be called forgery. it was illegal then, hundreds of years ago, and it's illegal now. people have forged picassos and rembrandts and been put in jail for it. jim morrison took parts of a kinks song and made another hit - and ray davies sued him and won. man, even in high school art classes copying some

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Reply to DeviantArt Going Down the Toilet? (Opinion) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

i don't know.. it's hard to judge whether something is art or not based on the content of the piece. it should be based on how it's presented. i mean.. take your statement about a 'picture of a woman on a couch' not being art. i think reubens might have had a comment or two in response to that the main thing, really, after it's all boiled down, which determines whether something is art or

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Reply to DeviantArt Going Down the Toilet? (Opinion) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

interesting.. my two cents for now: just because somebody made it doesn't mean it's art. it would take me a while to go into the qualities something needs to posess to actually be art, so i'll come back to this later... for now though, there's art, there's good art, there's [yes..] bad art, and there's stuff that isn't even art. it's popular among some people, as a way of showing their vast intellect and broad-minded sensibilities, to say 'everything' is good.. or 'everything

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Reply to Graphic Design Standards in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

just about the last comments.. man, if i had enough time to get a portfolio together and somehow start selling some art - wow! that would be awesome.. i would -love- to make money doing something i loved. the last time i thought money was not an important concern, and that selling my art was prostitution, i wasn't paying my rent or buying my food. the funny thing is, people who complain that money is bad and art shouldn't be done for money just don't understand what money is.

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Reply to Why my skin not in here????????? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

sometimes it takes a while.. the time-to-posting varies widely. on the short end of the spectrum, an admin may be going through submissions right when somebody posts, and the decision may be obvious, so it only takes a couple minutes before you either see it online or get a moderation email. at the other end of the spectrum, some pieces are discussed between the admins at length before a decision is made on them. <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/smile.gif" border=0

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Reply to Classmates.com - the nightmare scenario of the future? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

subscriptions used to be mainly for pron sites, and they did very well, even at very high rates. they've traditionally been the most lucrative sites.. i wonder if places like reunion and classmates are using that as their model? if so, the prices will climb instead of going down. the key is what people are willing to pay for specific kinds of content.. and yeah, i agree, an overall impression that subs are high could kill the form for the mainstream. <A HREF="https://www.wincu

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Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

just some more random thoughts.. more often than not, napster was a pain. it was often hard for me to find what i wanted. if i did, the idiot who encoded it left off part of the song, or it had static or something in it. the behavior of the major record labels is horrible, agreed. cd's are way overpriced. it's sad they can get away with controlling legislation simply by saying "we didn't make as much money as we wanted to." what -really- dismays me now is this notion that it's

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Reply to Bye bye Napster in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

this mimics a lot technological advances. edison stole a lot of ideas and had few moral qualms about how he used them, becoming famous in the process. napster is biting it now, but has spawned legal [and good] things like emusic. too bad more people don't realize fanning's not some 'techno-genius' though.

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Reply to Update in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

if you mean it's not changing the 'overall' rating, that's quite likely. it will change the rating you've given it yourself, but your rating is averaged in with all the others the piece has received. also, please don't rate 'high' to try to 'fix' the overall rating. this kind of ballot-stuffing makes it difficult for the ratings to work like they should. just give it what you honestly think it deserves <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smiles/smile.gif" border=0 ALIGN="absmidd

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logon section in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

hi just to let everyone know, we'll be starting to moderate the logon section much like the wallpaper section. the results probably won't be quite as stringent, but will be somewhere in the same neighborhood. just as an example, the majority of 'straight-off' photos won't make posting, though some exceptional ones still would. as always, submissions must be the original work of the submitter, un

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Reply to Is Apple at a dead end? in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

well, i don't want to get into a debate about the facts involved because i'm not an electrical engineer. i do know something engineers have told me before though. it's too easy to just hold up megahz for both x86 and power pc chips. it's like comparing rpms in cars.. car a maxes out at 5000 rpms, car b maxes out at 6000 rpms - therefore b must be faster.. well, not necessarily. for example, what if a has 5 gears, and b has only 4? to find out which is really faster, you need to measure mph

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Reply to Is innovation on the rise in skinning? in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

heh.. techno-amish. excellent phrase, and i know exactly what you mean yes, the apps are definitely powerhouses now. very mature. i think that quantifies the current period better than golden age - mature. i guess i see a 'golden-age' as more an early period of limited public knowledge and participation.. i probably get that from comics references though.. hehe.

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