On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 12:02:24 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 23/12/2013 3:13 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:12:46 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>
>> The thing for Blender is if you use the Cycles rendering engine, you'll
>> want an nVidia higher-end GPU, which will add to the cost.
> 
> I don't I use the internal renderer. Then Export a mesh and render in
> PovRay. So I think that I will get away without worrying about that. I
> hope. :-)

Cycles is a pretty nice renderer, though - definitely worth a look.  But 
yeah, exporting to POVRay is also a good option - there is (or used to 
be) a POVRay export tool, in fact, but I think it was for 3.5.

>> What I currently use as a laptop is what I bought 2 years ago - a Dell
>> N7110 laptop.  8 GB of memory, i7 CPU, integrated Intel graphics.  Gets
>> the job done, and is even better than the newer desktop I have (8 cores
>> rather than 4).  But it does weigh like a laptop, too.
>>
>>
> For Dell read Toshiba and that is me.
> The machine needs a spring clean possibly a re-install of all my
> applications and a clean up of the services and processes I do not use.
> Sigh!

:)

Jim

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On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:08:31 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 23/12/2013 3:14 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 00:24:58 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> On 23/12/2013 12:12 AM, Stephen wrote:
>>>> Other than Pov your right.
>>>
>>> You are right.
>>> Oops!
>>
>> 50 lashes for that oversight. ;)
>>
>>
> <Grumble, grumble.>
> <The crew are looking restless.>
> 
>> SciFi and Math is your punishment.
>>
>>
> OMG He has run them together. Making it one word now. Next it will be a
> verb.
> I SCiFi him.
> You SCiFi him.
> He, she or it SCiFis him.
> 
> You would "un-man" Shakespeare. ;-)

Well, certainly if he criticized other people's use of the language and 
then made basic grammar errors.

I believe that's called "McKean's Law" (though that may just apply to 
spelling corrections).

Jim

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On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 17:47:30 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> Besides that, there has not been a good flame war for ages.

Pah.  I'm still waiting for one. ;)

Jim

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On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:26:35 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 23/12/2013 3:15 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 23:39:04 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> On 22/12/2013 10:56 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>>>> Oddly, I'm appreciating this the second time around. I'm less
>>>>>> stressed and our doctor seems to bow to my (superior?) knowledge.
>>>> LOL - I always worry when I know more about it than the doctor.;)
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You worry because your doctor doesn't know enough or because you know
>>> too much?
>>
>> Maybe a little of both - but I haven't had that experience in a while,
>> myself.  Have a friend, though, who recently was dealing with some type
>> of benign tumors, and he /did/ know more than the doctor about them.
>>
>> Then again, he named them, too.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
> But then GPs can't be expected to be experts in everything. And we have
> the interest and the internet.
> I suppose it all depends on how the doctor takes the advice.

Well, yes.  In my friend's case, it wasn't a GP he was talking to - it 
was a specialist.

Jim

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On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:30:24 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 23/12/2013 3:20 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 23:47:19 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>>
>>> No you didn't. You forgot it was *you're* move or you wouldn't have
>>> told him about the trap.
>>
>> [Emphasis added]
>>
>> Um.  OK.  SciFi.  Math.  ;)
>>
>>
> I heard that! Pardon?

You heard me.  You said so. ;)

>>>> Carnforth (Brief Encounter)
>>>>
>>> Hoist by your own petard. My evil friend.
>>>
>>> Barrow-in-Furness (by the sea, by the way).
>>
>> Wow, and *I* was accused of mean-spirited play?  That was just *nasty*.
>>
>>
> Ah! The Christmas spirit! It has started. :-)

We're into the final stretch.

>> Well then.  Euston Road.  And remember that the game /must/ last until
>> the 25th of December. ;)
>>
>>
> The way you two are playing. It will last forever. ;-)

I don't see the problem there, do you?  Thinking you might feel a bit 
knackered?

> BTW Your (checks, yes your) Christmas Day or ours?

Mine, of course.  Since you asked.

Jim

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On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 17:59:04 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> Getting a bit la-di-da, are we?
> I have a remedy for that. One you'll like, methinks.
> 
> Valhalla.
> The brewery that is. The one in Baltasound, Unst.

Moving out of turn?  That puts you in Huff for a round.

But hey, that's a good move, so I'll make it instead. :)

Jim

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On 23/12/2013 6:13 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> You would "un-man" Shakespeare.;-)
> Well, certainly if he criticized other people's use of the language and
> then made basic grammar errors.
>

That was more Johnson's forte.

I was referring to Cleopatra's love unmanning Anthony.
It is often used as an argument against the criticism of using a noun as 
a verb.

Please Sir! "Shakespeare did it."

> I believe that's called "McKean's Law" (though that may just apply to
> spelling corrections).

Must look that up.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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On 23/12/2013 6:15 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> >I heard that! Pardon?
> You heard me.  You said so.;)
>

Sorry a quote from an 80's (?) TV comedy set in the North (With a 
capital N) called "I did not know you cared".


>> >Ah! The Christmas spirit! It has started.:-)
> We're into the final stretch.
>

Who are you calling a Stretch, Jimmy. ;-)

>>> >>Well then.  Euston Road.  And remember that the game/must/  last until
>>> >>the 25th of December.;)
>>> >>
>>> >>
>> >The way you two are playing. It will last forever.;-)
> I don't see the problem there, do you?  Thinking you might feel a bit
> knackered?
>

OMG! Someone who thinks the journey is better than the arrival.


>> >BTW Your (checks, yes your) Christmas Day or ours?
> Mine, of course.  Since you asked.

I did ask but you don't think that I listen, do you?


-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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On 23/12/2013 6:17 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 17:59:04 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>
>> Getting a bit la-di-da, are we?
>> I have a remedy for that. One you'll like, methinks.
>>
>> Valhalla.
>> The brewery that is. The one in Baltasound, Unst.
>
> Moving out of turn?  That puts you in Huff for a round.
>

It was that Black Night. I've not been myself since.


> But hey, that's a good move, so I'll make it instead. :)
>

Damn! It has got to be Stornoway. (In this weather.)


-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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On Mon, 23 Dec 2013 21:06:53 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 23/12/2013 6:13 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> You would "un-man" Shakespeare.;-)
>> Well, certainly if he criticized other people's use of the language and
>> then made basic grammar errors.
>>
>>
> That was more Johnson's forte.

Certainly.  Pity Baldric burned Johnson's dictionary. ;)

> I was referring to Cleopatra's love unmanning Anthony.
> It is often used as an argument against the criticism of using a noun as
> a verb.
> 
> Please Sir! "Shakespeare did it."

Ah, I must make a note to re-read Shakespeare.  Or in some cases, to read 
it. ;)

>> I believe that's called "McKean's Law" (though that may just apply to
>> spelling corrections).
> 
> Must look that up.

Editor for Oxford University Press, IIRC.  Acquaintenance of Amy's. :)

Jim

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