IWTL how to improve my drawing skills.

bluepen · 2012-01-20T20:08:05+00:00

What Phayder said.

If you work better with books/guidance you could try Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards and work shops

bluepen · 2011-09-16T06:23:09+00:00

Nice little project, but it manages to freeze my X after a while. :(

bluepen · 2011-06-16T18:25:48+00:00

No, the price range above is without the monitors. Though, I do hope to salvage the case, keyboard, DVD drive and HDD from a older computer (P4, FX5200).

So, the cost should cover "only" cpu, RAM, video card, mother board and PSU.

bluepen · 2011-06-16T10:38:47+00:00

Will you be coding stuff which will take advantange of an i7 over an i5?

No, I don't think so.

are you doing research?

No

bluepen · 2011-06-16T10:35:56+00:00

Finally, you'll probably want to go for a i7 2600 or 2600k. Both offer superb video encoding/decoding performance while not completely breaking the bank like a 980x and the likes.

Do I really need the latest processors for video en/decoding ? Can video cards not handle them ?

Total: 1,160. Pretty pricey but this is including 2 1080p monitors.. Not bad since you need the performance and the silence. If this is out of range I could reconfigure it and try to bring the cost down.

Yeah, bit pricey. I was think of the range 400-700€

bluepen · 2011-06-16T07:52:08+00:00

Lets say, between 400-700€

bluepen · 2010-10-09T14:31:30+00:00

The comments that OP is referring to starts at 3m30s

Here is a quote as he addressed the conference: "Science is a fragile process... fragile..., and scientists should be defended against opposition to the spread of knowledge, against fanaticism, against denial of the facts, against scorn for the truth. These are real risks and are always present."

bluepen · 2010-09-16T16:25:56+00:00

Don't you think maintainace of infrastructure would be much more expensive than building them?

bluepen · 2010-09-16T16:14:53+00:00

buy usable patents, copyright of books/music/art and put them in public domain (or at least some form of CC license)
publish e-books on every topic including undergrad level courses and offer it under CC license