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I agree with pyost, creative commons is something to look into, if a photo you like is unique and beyond your creative abilities and you don't have funds to purchase commercial work. Then again if you have a decent camera and some photo editing experience you can always try to reproduce the shot yourself. Or have a photographer/photography student take a shot and them or some else do the post work - photoshop/photoediting for you. The new work would then be a collaboration of artists - including you, if added your creative input. So you would have rights to the work.Other things pyost mentions about not posting the original is true. Rename it something else. Cropping the photo to general aspect ratios, stripping the EXIF Camera information and adding your own VIA your photo editings software. Some things I do when presenting before and after shots of my photography to clients are... post at a variety of smaller resolutions, or add compression so people wont have the full quality image, and an annoying water mark, or my company logo, adding artifacts into the image or inducing noise.Other efforts to use javascript to not right-click a Save an image can all be circumvented by going in the cache or temp files. Maybe if you can embed you images in a flash program - like a portfoliio and or have a SSL certificate to the you photo gallery is encrypted. Or run some form of web application that make use of various plugins which require other plugins to query, retrieve, and display you images. That might also work. Then again that might be too much, but it is possible.Well those are my tips for safeguarding your media.

Well it depends how you intend to use them. If it is for profit purposes inwhich the original copyrights holder is not due credit or represents the original message in the wrong way, probably not. As anyone and put up an image on a web site. Xisto, and other web hosting companies have policies which are vary when it comes to copyrights. Aghhh. this is pretty big subject and can be answered from many prospectives. As a photographer, some times I am commissioned to take pictures for a certain project, or I am taking pictures from other angles for a pro wedding photgrapher, or school pictures for a national portrait company. Then even though I was physically holding the camera, own the equipement, have the photo knowledge, and pressed the shutter button, I still do not own the copyrights. The owner of such copyrights are usually negociate up front and is drafted up on paper as during the contracts.Even if you read the fine print on some web or socializing sights, or photo contests, they usually say you have own the picture even though people hardly do and say you are giving up the right to use such photo to the company to dispay on there sites, servers, archived, etc. That one is kinda weird. That's like losing rights or equity through contribution for utilizing such web/socializing services.

I like the Effin Science they have now. Mananswers is also cool and has science discussion. Anybody remember Beakman's World?

I'm not currently monitoring any temperaure at the moment. From what I recall and know of. I purchased a license Everest Ultimate Edition (since we're all being legit here ) which hase temperature readouts, with output options. Usually most motherboards, depending if you model is not to low or a Value one, oems have software in addition to the drivers which offer some insight into the motherboards temperature operation - like view, loggings, and alarm thresholds. Power supplies, video cards again depending upon how recent and quality (usually higher priced) have similar monitoring viewing software. If you are pro open source or if you are a kid who is learning there are other free ones like Speccy from Piriform. AIDA32 is still floating around on the net (Everest nowdays), CPUTemp, and others computers analysis/report generation softwares have similar plugins. Also take note not all software is compatible with every version of Windows or processor architecture (multi-cores, intel, amd, hyper threading). So you just have to look around and see if it meets your requirements and if there is a cost amount to it. Are you willing to pay it or just test out the trial. Hope this helps

No, but what I do see, are a lot of over stocked or limited quantity of newly released High Quality Gaming components up for sale at various local on online vendors up for the grabbing while supplies last. True story... my friend's friend was in a store of such a mechant and saw a Tom Tom GPS on a clearance table at 50% off. A floor manger walked by saying what's the price. When he replying the manager gotta message on his two way radio... and said bring it to the register and I'll mark 50% off. So the guy after telling the manger what the 50% off price was, went to register to check out. As a clerk scanned the bar code, which read the 50% off price. The manager came by and asked the clerk... 'what's the price? Good. Mark 50% off for this gentleman.' By the time the clerk realized what he did. Cause he knew the price was discounted. And the manager already made a verbal agreement. My friend's friend was already browsing some other items on his way out the door. Sure the manager or clerk could have stopped him but he just let him go. So he go a new Tom Tom for 25% of the original price! How's that for a Sale?

I wish I had some money for upgrading... Well see what happens on Black Thursday or Friday, I forget which one. *Yawn* :|

I take back the $500 dollar statement. Just go to your 2nd hand thrift store, goodwill, or even ebay. Look up 1) Linksys Routers - WRT### (# different model numbers) and make a purchase on two identical sets, while your at it see if you can find a 2) wireless antenna cable which is compatible with you Linksys router and and 3) wireless directional antenna thats uses your cable.Setup both devices at each location, remove existing antennas, connect antenna cables and your directional antennas. Point the antennas at each other (toward each house). Login to the ipaddress of your access linksys point/router. Find the firmare upload page. Then Google "Linksys Tomatoe firmware" download and follow instructions to install it.You will eventually replace the firmware, log back into the linksys device and setup the access points as multipoint/bridge functionality and modify the IP addresses to something like 192.168.64.x (x = any number 1-254, but seperate for each device.) You should then be able to see the other access point. Your ISP can do the DHCP settings for both computers. You should be able to chat, video, message, play games, transfer files, remote desktop, vnc or what you want to do online or offline cause you essentially have a wireless LAN. So don't forget to setup some security. The tomato or linksys documentation should explain some options.The materials could be acquired all for under $100.00. I'm thinking the cables and antennas might be higher than the actual device themselves.Hope this helps some more,levimage

Hey... i can't spell your name. I post earlier. It looks better. I am really digging the blue grill and blue paint. I might make a gutter grill of my own.About the other guys post. There should be software that does similar tests within windows and other software that can do temperture logging for you. So you won't have that human error to worry about. On the extra power or amperage drain, if they are wired seperately, you can turn on your light before your PC then wait till the light output is stable (Note: CFLs and any light bulb use the most energy during startup, like a spike in electricity). Another thing you can do in your bios is have a hard drive delay when the pc is turned on maybe 2-3 seconds should help buffer the power before the hard drive arms wake up and wanna spin.Another safety option you can do while you are exploring your pc's current power configuration requirements is have your bios test the ram during post. Just to make sure everthing is okay and there are no memory addressing errors to to inadequate power, more important so you wont fry your memory. I once went a couple days before one of my 1GB sticks went out. I started noticing artifacts on my jpegs after copying them from partition to partition and some zip/rars had errors. I almost cried when I lost a few ISOs, some music, and okay games too. good luck, levimage

visual software enhancement or visually enhanced software... or however your country interprets English. Vhortex picked up the nouns and verbs. So yeah, like general themes and such. Software that can add transparencies, animation, support PNG or transparent icons, the whole BLUR thing (aero like), some useful gadgets/widgets, toolbars, OSD (On Screen Displays), shadows, in focus/out-of-focus, mouse interfaces, Nvidia or ATI GPU specific software enhancements (can't think of better term... visual code?), CLI modifications, 3D screensavers, crazy wallpaper, and other miscellanous utilities that might have been linux or mac inspired.Okay hope that helps.

I'm looking for all kinds of recent links to visual software enhance for XP that can make your experience more like Windows 7. Let me know if you have any. I post a list of what I'm using later on. Thanks in advance.levimage

What might also work is if you Google, download, and install a program that recognizes mouse gestures. This might allow you to play Halo and other Frames Per Second/First Person Shooters (FPS... not sure which one is correct) more like a PC game that the console conterpart.I was going to test an open source mouse gesture software that usings Microsoft .NET technology. Just don't tell Jagex that... RS users.levimage

Yeah, them photo kiosks do have their limitations. When I got my first point and shoot I tried Ritz Camera, Walmart, and Walgreens. Sam's club was also an option but I'm not a member. Well they all had the same machines, expect walmarts kodak machine I never used. They all used the Fuji film and the back of the photos say Fuji film crystal archive. Since the machinery is the same what is the difference.Well that depends on the user. Which method did you use to print the photos? Were they done using the kiosk, did you hand the staff your memory card, or were they submitted online? If done online or via software cd's you may have some options to alter the brightness, color, gamma, etc. What you want to be concern about are the auto adjustment or color enhancements. This is especially true if you are taking pictures for a proft for someone else or making prints for display. The auto adjustments can make skin tones to rich in color even yellow teeth and eyes. They also try to enhance the contrast by making images too dark on the ends and blowing out the whites in an effort to make pictures vibrant.Another thing is each picture taken has the EXIF data which is information of the camera and light conditions the picture was taken. Some editing program have the option of saving EXIF info or removing it after editing. The Fuji printer usually interpret this information depending if the the auto settings are automatically applied - usually are. So even though you make the corrections again to reprint, the Fuji's auto enhancement settings will overide them.So what do you do? Well that depends on what you are trying to accomplish and the knowledge of the printer operator that using the machine at the time. When I do real dark flyers, low key photos, and dark saturated business cards. I ask them to hold off on my que. When I am adding them to the machine. Once I submitt the print job I ask them to pull it up on their machine and tell them (staff) they need to be printing right, so turn off the auto image, auto contrast, and auto color enhancements. We then do some color test prints - cause I am only paying for what comes out right. After making sure the output is correct, I then make sure all images are have the proper crops because their printer server console and much more refined cropping options. Depending upon who's working they let me go to town on my pictures.No the last and very important fact when it comes to the quality of photo output is the Fuji photo printer maintenance. Who does it? And are their proper color and alignment pages printed? How often? If the operators are not this smart or were revealed such knowledge you can always create you own test pages for color charts, moire, various gradients, etc., which I recommend if you are serious about the cost and quality of your photo outputs.Well this photo bug is stepping off his soapbox,Levimage

There are devices like USB microphones or usb to microphone in adapters, for the laptops there are the pc audio cards that slide in the laptop or USB audio card dongles with the required inputs. You might have to install software or check the microphone gain. They very from vendor to vendor when it comes to specs. I seen laptops which run karaoke systems, with external amps which have standard mic and wireless mic inputs.

Are you serious... that's huge, it's like a vending machine. Where do you put the quarters. The top opening for the Power Supply looks bigger than my power supply.You should mount a two axis Flat screen arm; add a keyboard/mouse arm/tray; add some wheels; add wireless speakers, wireless card, wireless game controller, wireless keyboard/mouse, infared remote, and mod a long power cord so you can roll it anywhere in your house like a vaccum. And if you get something like a 1080p wireless box over each of your TV's in your house.You could go with black paint, metallic paint, add some gloss, or stickers. If you have access to clear/colored plexi glass and an a drill, that can make your interior color/led lights shine. Me I took a metal grinder with a buff disc to remove paint and buff the metal to chrome finish. You can also try to make a brush steel look if you remove the paint. Or add primer and repaint the whole case and peripherals if you have time.I'll probably post some case mod pics when i get some extra fans, lights, better power supply, and new cabling.

One time I was experimenting with RPG XP Maker and audio effects I did the following. I created a grave yard and did some fog and wind bg music, I also added some rain like music to. When you bump into a ghost, you get the fight encounter. In the forest I make use of the fade-in from black with white screen flashes which were synced to lightening sounds and rain as bg music. I made alot of use of timing cause I could didn't know how to script the music and flash as one with random timing. It was kind of repetitious after awhile so I think I either increased the time or changed the volume. In the end I ended up dropping it cause it consumed to much processing for a PIII computer. But yeah I liked having just a simple sound effect when you touch a bad guy, enemy, or random animals like a dog (barking).

1) You should go to your manufacturer/oem/computer guy's web site and see if there is a patch specific driver for your optical drive.2) Also check if there is patch or more recent software for your Roxio, Sonic, DVD software suite.3) Check if your operating system has compatiblity bugs with the specific model or the software in #2 (above)4) Maybe you've installed or upgraded something recently... hope it wasn't one of those 'play any video format under the sun' downloadable codec collection packs. If you installed one chances are you'll lose multimedia functionality when you uninstall.5) If it was related to Microsoft updates, DirectX, or some form of Microsoft media technology... try searching there support site at microsoft/knowledge base.6) If it seems it's hardware related. Lightly compress air the drive when it's open *puff* *puff* and use a BD, DVD, CD cleaner specfic for the type of lense in your drive.7) check your power cables, ide/ata cables, sata cables, jumpers if need be, and make sure your power supply is not overloaded.8) If all else fails you can try to see if your PC can boot to a CD via BIOS setting. Download and burn a live cd from another pc (don't matter what kind), then boot with it in your PC. If it runs fine, then you have a problem with your OS.9) Only thing you can try is reinstall your optical software suite, if that don't work - try a system restore, if that don't work then you can always back up you data and resort to a factory system restore if your setup has one.10) If that don't work buy a new optical drive. Or you could just swap out your drive with a spare to rule out going through the 10 above steps.

I downloaded the 'Halo Trial' cause my son wanted to see what it was about on the PC. He has the other Xbox and Xbox 360 versions of Halo, along with the green/gold trim 360 console.After installing the software, I did a defrag on the installation directory. And fired it up. The controls were awkward at first. If you're use to other 1st person games it shouldn't be a problem - with the simultaneous keyboard and mouse setup. We also tried to use an 10 Button Logitech gamepad with no analog, didn't work as great as the key/mouse combo. After explaining to my son I was not really a FPS gamer, he just had to learn the pc setup. 15 minutes later he was having fun.Every once in awhile I would check on him. We also looked into the customization settings. We increased the resolution and experimented with the CRT Monitor refresh rate. We notice high refresh rates also make the mouse speed to appear more sensitive. We also messed around with the PC's sound card speaker/surround settings. We couldn't complain with the installed budget video card an ASUS EAH4350 (PCI Express 2.0 x16, 1GB, Core 600MHz/Memory 400MHz) which cost under $50 USD.Well from the other previous posts - 2005ish. If you were not a dedicated PC gamer, super spoil, or rich you probably had a mainstream or budget setup which at that time is nothing compared to 2008-2010ish stuff. My motherboard is 2007ish with the video card in the late 2008.I kind of think the video graphics technology for a 2004-2006 PC is like an XBOX or PS2, and 2007-2008 is a XBOX360/PS3, 2009/2010 Crossfire/SLi setups will comparible/betterish than next generation consoles.

I'm running an intel E6600 - 2.4GHz Core2 Duo @ 4MB cache (it was about $300 when it came out, but I think it is cheaper now, or more cost effective to go with a new technology processor) The new technology will allow for more future customization, low power usage (lower bills), and low temperature (which means cooler system and better gaming) Also it would help on that last recommendation about temperature to go with a 3rd party cooler. This should allow for a cooler CPU. I just recently changed my case and power supply, it made a world of difference with it's 3 fans and the PSU not using the air from the case.

Well this question could be true for a lot of people. It depends how far you house (your parents) and your gf's house is geographically separated. If you are within 10 miles of each other and there are not that many obstructions within the line of site of say your roof's (top of house, apts, etc.) then it could be possible.Just setup a building to building wireless system. Part's are getting cheaper now days. You could look into a system with - an 802.11a/g setup with some external powered directional antennas 3-5db should be fine.Setup the two routers as multi-point access points (ap), setup ip/network address, security credentials, then setup your ap to route traffic to your ISP default gateway. Then setup any 802.11b/n network at her place.She should connect to the 802.11b/n network using wireless or ethernet copper and should be connected to your network via the wireless bridge to access your ISP's Internet connection. You can even instant message, and web cam, etc. both houses.She can then drop her 5GB/month service to save some money. The building to building wireless system should cost under $500 USD, depending on what kind of antennas you use.hope this helps

Seems pretty vague. What are you trying to accomplish? If you are talking about setting up a home LAN on copper ethernet versus wireless, then copper is the way to go if you want a faster connection (bandwidth). For say sharing music, movies, local gaming, etc. If you are talking about two (2) ethernet outlets to say... the Internet. That will depend on your internet service providers (ISPs) capabilities. There might be some overhead when it comes to latency when running wireless at home versus copper ethernet. But if we are talking about bandwidth and you just happen to have like some kind of ridiculous broadband +10MB connection then copper ethernet is the way to go. But two separate Internet accounts from the same ISP will not really benefit you as much as having them via different providers. A good analogy here would be like a VSAT - satellite system. Both dishes are pointed to the same satellite which is serving all the VSAT dishes customers in that hemisphere. Sometimes the clients could be as much as 10,000 dishes, 3,000 of which might be on at that moment, and 300 might be clicking pages or downloading content online. So it is a matter of how the bandwidth is used at that moment, and at what service level (Upload/Download package) you have. Some times the ISPs are customers of larger ISPs who are customers of backbone ISPs. Some ISPs oversell the bandwidth - more customers than it can actually support at a given moment - for profit or other gains. Then there are other which maintain a certain quality of service so this wont happen.

Well I remember reading that when people get caught, Virus some virus companies help get them out of jail. Seen as an asset, the person usually gets hired by the companies in addition to some sort of community service. If it is government related, I sure there is some plea bargain which they owe some services in the future. 5 years doesn't seem that long compared to other white collar crimes, such as accounting, stealing funs, patents, copyrights, and or secrets. Then again 5 years of down time to be unplugged from the Internet (computer)! You would really miss out on a lot of things. On the other hand 5 years spent white boarding and manually working out some pseudo code in on pen-n-paper could really be something when it's programmed in some sort of binary language. With 5 years you could devote that to creating a new operating system, encryption system, video game, movie, novel, or solving some problem at a world level. It too much time if you ask me. Bummer Levimage

5 years from now it would not be impossible but then again there will probably be 25 times the data out there. Interesting huh?

I thought Coby was a cheap brand. I don't know, you can usually find these types at gas stations or curios of truck stops along the interstate. What do you think? Well it may be true the company is using modern technology but I'm not so sure about quality of music output and maybe headphones. I'd try it but my preference for portables are like this:Performance (speed, responsiveness, on/off boot time, may music/video codecs)Upgradeable (software enhancementsBattery life (must be at least +25 hrs for music or +10hours for video)Size (at least 8 or 16 GB)Music (good music quality, EQ, ability to reproduce bass and highs, and have a high SNR)Headphones (really doesn't matter, might use something else; 3rd party)Physical (scratch resistant glass, can take a little moisture, Sealed, does not have condensation problems, preferably metal or hard plastic.Screen (bigger is better when it comes to videos, and OLED please)So maybe a new Zune HD, or Sony's OLED portables, no iPods please (software really bogs down the PCs and I'm not into protected content.Yup that's me,levimage

I've personally had a laptop go down from my gf. If she is tired and there is a laptop bag on a bed and it's in the way of her feet (especially while stretching in sleep)... there is a chance it will fall on the floor.And if the laptop is no the floor. An little kids come tromping in the room. There is a good change they want to step on a closed laptop if it is on the floor or even closed on the bed. I don't know why. My closed laptop (2002) can take the weight of 28 lb kid. There is just minor marks on the screen. Good thing the screen was not glossy and could give a little.Laptop bags/carriers and such are a big culprit when i comes to screens get cracked. We usually by the cheap discounted bags or anything that is on sale. Little do we know it is actually our insurance were purchasing. Not from ourselves but from others, strangers, kids, storage, and the elements (rain, humidity, dust, etc.).I also know someone who had a screen cracked cause her travel luggage crushed the neoprene-like zip-able laptop sleeve. Screen looked like a spiderweb! ;)Levimage :PKids also like poking the screen just to see that ripple effect... me to

Then again, macbook pro run a different OS entirely and initialize hardware differently than PC'sThe 20's mac claim is nothing. Throw a live boot cd into a windows and you can get equal if not better times.Mac claims it is totally 64x OS but it is not. When i loads it load 32bit code, then loads the 64bit stuff. This is to account for it old client base and other Mac Book(s) which use older processors. Just like Vista and 7, MacBook(s) run both in 32bit/64bit code for their software.The system which will make true boot time gains will either need a the fastest components as well as the software that best makes use of the installed components or an optimized system.I can put together a 15 sec loaded Windows 95 gaming PC.