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It looks like a WIP VRay render in real time. Not bad...quite impressive, but certainly not even close to photorealism. If you know the physics of light, you still seen instances where it's fucking up, even in the Enlighten demo, which in itself was pretty noisy; replication of light to any significant degree of accuracy is expensive as fuck. That won't change.

Use my Lenovo Idea pad 2012-era mobile i5 for Python,QT, MEL, C++ development for Maya and Houdini for about 2 years now. Still prefer my desktop due to the amount of screenspace I have (Ultrabook has trouble getting 4K res), but it works wonders for doing some couch-deving.

Don't use Photoshop for logos. Use Illustrator. Pixelation and compression artificats suck in logos; vector that shit.

Christopher Nolan DID NOT direct Man of Steel. That was Zach Snyder. Nolan did have a producer credit and was a part of the story team. He's basically a non-factor in how the movie was made/finalizaed, just that it got made in the first place. The film was far more in line and was tailored to Snyder's directing style. That said, there's no such thing as 'best director', as the director is subservient to the style of film being made. Nolan wouldn't be able to direct a dark comedy like Wes Anderson, or have that edginess of a Tarintino. Each director's particular flair has a niche....even if that niche is 'mother-fuckin money' (Michael Bay).

Which is totally why you didn't care enough to find out the information available since last summer? You can be pissed all you want, but unless you want people to take 'ethics in games journalism' seriously, then I'd strongly suggest you make an effort to dig into EVERY SINGLE writer. Otherwise, it will continue to be a bully pulpit for those that somehow piss off the legions of keyboard warriors with stories that we should encourage them to be writing.

Although 'ethics in games journalism' may have started on noble grounds, but it's been predominately used as a bully pulpit to publicly shame writers who for some reason or another rub the Internet community the wrong way. Like the PC Gamer writer, who wrote an opinion piece about how the PC Master race isn't such a great title. Before that piece, no one gave a crap that he'd been dating a Ubsoft customer service/pr person since the SUMMER OF LAST YEAR. Once the piece dropped and riled up the pissed off slueths, his relationship, only then, became a big deal. That said, it's really quite hypocritcal to want reviews, and want them to be free of biases, when a review is infact about the interpretation of a game through one's biases. Total Biscuit isn't apart of games journalism; he's a personality, and acts accordingly. All you need to do to get TB into a mouth-foaming 5 minute rant is to present a clunky options menu; no legitimate journalist would do such a thing.

http://www.imdb.com/chart/top (Top 250 from IMDB). Other films I'd recommend that aren't on the list: Mr. Nobody The Zero Theorem Moon Holy Motors Drive (2011) Breakfast Club Moonrise Kingdom Grand Budapest Hotel Fury Being John Malkovich Lost in Translation Girl w the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish) Mean Streets The Book of Life

15 with a sportscar. Yep, I'd hate to be your parents to pay your insurance premiums. Don't be an idiot. Don't get a sportscar for your first car.

Something like git, CVS, subversion. Although things like git are meant for text-based files, you shouldn't have an issue using other files. It takes a little extra HDD space to store the metadata for the files that you want to track and version.

Invest it. Buy some stock. Put it in a Roth IRA. Save it for college. Whatever you do, don't spend it unless you find a reason to. Having money but not knowing what to spend it on is wholly the wrong way to look at it. Keep it. Invest it. Store it until you have a goal in mind.

Speak for yourself. Some of us actually use our hardware in production apps. Faster hardware=faster turnaround time=more artist iterations=better looking CG for less=more money

A least you didn't do that with a dick pic.

Yep, we don't care about ethics in games journalism, UNLESS you piss off the PC Master Race and write something we don't like. If we don't like your opinion, we will dig through months and years of social media posts and find something to smear you with. #gamergate

50 acres is probably going to cost you 40ish k. Land is an investment, yes, but an investment that also requires significant capital...particularly additional capital need to entice or build the facilities to entice those you want to tenant the land. It's a risk in itself. There are countless stories of people that got fucked doing exactly what you're doing especially if the don't do their due diligence (IE: buying land that's all clay and practically worthless for agriculture). The lack of due diligence applies to credit because that's how you get fucked. The problem you have is that you simply refuse to separate simply having a credit card to abusing it (the "FUCK IT, CREDIT CARD BITCH" line). Is debt a massive problem? Yes, absolutely. However, when something is dangerous you simply don't just say 'STAY AWAY! FEAR THIS! FEAR! UNCERTAINTY! DOUBT!' as it perpetuates misunderstanding and abuse (see: drugs, firearms, ect). The proper way is to acknowledge and respect the danger through the safe and effective use so that people don't fall victim. Again, as you even concluded others particularly in high cost of living areas simply won't have the option.

OpenOffice or Libre Office should be more than adequate as they both read MS office extensions.

He has anti-credit bias because his parents fucked up.

Your personal anecdote injects bias and really has no relevancy. Your parents losing their house sucks and all, but being rich has zero to do with how credit can be a tool. Your parents had poor financial discipline that's completely separate from simply having a credit card. Credit is no different than a firearm; it's a tool that when misused can be deadly, but in itself is a tool. Bear in mind, churning is not 'relying' on credit but rather taking advantage of the companies.

Except there are a number of overall investment strategies that make use of credit cards (or, more specifically credit card companies) for benefits/rewards called churning. However, to do that, the user has to be very financially disciplined.

That's not why you shouldn't use a credit card. It's a lesson that you shouldn't have 11 and max them all out. Heck, he even states that he kept one around because many hotels in the US require a credit card to be able to book.

Sadly, we generally need some-sort of credit especially for something like a house purchase. That said, the fact that the OP is only 18 and doesn't really know much about how credit works is not a good sign to get into credit. I generally would wait to try to start establishing credit until a person is well into their 20s where the time comes to get things like a mortgage. Credit is for people that are already established as being able to manage money. I've never known a teenager to manage money well.

8k is premature. It won't be on TV or film anytime soon..or at least won't be native res. Post production houses are ill-equiped to handle the storage increase to use 8k for everything. We also don't have the infrastructure to support 8k streaming/TV feeds.

Neither does it give those who are paid to help excuses to be condensing assholes to other employees who are not paid to know or understand the infrastructure or technology. Because of it's technical/STEM slant, there's a fair number of IT people that have zero empathy. There's a reason why 'grumpy, condescendingly long-winded IT guy' is a trope.

Some things I haven't seen on here. Back up your data. No, a fault-tolerant RAID is not backup. You have no idea how valuable your data is until it's gone and you need it. Put Windows/OS on a separate drive from your data. Drive; NOT partition. For a RAID, avoid buying drives that were made at the exact same time/same batch if possible Get a surge suppressor/battery backup. Even the best PSUs won't be able to handle a power surge well Always press the power after you unplug your PC before working on it, as there is always some 'juice' stored Don't open up a PSU. Don't even try to fix it. PSUs hold a charge for a ...very...long time and you will electrocute yourself if you're not careful Listen for funky noises. Often times noises can give you clues to failures that are about to happen (such as HDD clicking, CPU fans spinning unworldly fast Steam sales make you spend more money than you think you're going to.

4 years at Purdue University. started masters at Texas A&M for a year, and 2 years at Gnomon Institute of VFX in Hollywood (after a 6 month gig that forced me to leave A&M)

I'm not surprised theater owners backed out. You're probably going to get 1 day of hype to get all the people who were curious about what was apparently freaking people out but then would have pretty empty screens after that. By all accounts, it was suppose to be a pretty terrible movie even for Seth Rogan. Why lose screens to a dud, when you can just dedicate more screens to the Hobbit and be done with it when Sony said basically that they were going to let theater owners out of their contracts to show the film. That being said, the theatrical run is the primary source of revenue for a film over it's lifespan. When a movie hits Netflix, how Netflix pays the studio is based on domestic opening weekend numbers. Thanks for calling me spineless, by the way.