Re: Anyone else like the rock group Muse? - 15 years ago

Been a big fan of their big sound for almost a decade now. Get back and checkout the early stuff like Origin of Symmetry, Absolution and Showbiz but the one you want to track down is the '02 single Dead Star/In Your World, would put that in my top five singles every time. The EP also has a killer cover of Can't Take My Eyes Off You.

Re: I need a new DVD player - 15 years ago

Just to put a fine point on the Oppo, it is region free, it takes divx, it takes divx from flash memory, it has HDMI and ships with an HDMI cable. It is well worth the money.

Re: I need a new DVD player - 15 years ago

I second Oppo, best DVD player I ever bought, well until I went Blu-ray, lol. I have the 970. All three are reviewed here:

Re: DeBunking The Top 10 HDTV Myths - 15 years ago

QuoteThe UnDougSo what exactly is the difference between the "i" and the "p" in 1080i and 1080p? Is the "p" for pixel and the "i" for input? And, yes, they were idiots when they chose to use the word "Fact" in front of every response to the myths. It leads to confusion. i = interlaced p = progressive

Re: So long Freehand... - 15 years ago

Pity, been with that app for almost 20 years and AI never came close to it. Hopefully they will sell it on.

Re: Folding @ Home (38910) forces me to spend money - 15 years ago

QuoteHarbourmasterSLM Are the stats your showing in your sig from just 1 PS3 or do you have other machines working as well? Just the one. No other machines running F@H.

Re: Folding @ Home (38910) forces me to spend money - 15 years ago

The numbers are impressive. PS3forums jumped up to 109 in just over 6 weeks and the PS3 accounts for 65% of current TFlops.

Re: Happy 50th Helvetica!!! - 15 years ago

Quote$tevieNow see, I prefer Helvetica's "Q". It's very subjective, of course. I remember thinking that Univers was so "old fashioned". Of course when I started out, Avant Garde and Souvenir were considered Hot, so that's how old I am! Back when I was starting out as a studio junior I happened to secure an account with an idea for a logo for one of their ice hockey arenas

Re: Happy 50th Helvetica!!! - 15 years ago

Quote$tevieNow see, I prefer Helvetica's "Q". It's very subjective, of course. I remember thinking that Univers was so "old fashioned". Of course when I started out, Avant Garde and Souvenir were considered Hot, so that's how old I am! Subjective, yes that is the nature of typography... but Avant Garde, ouch, LOL.

Re: Mac mini and EyeTV hybrid. Wife approved? - 15 years ago

Love my eyeTV hybrid, have it set up on my iMac and shifts between basic digital cable, OTA digital and the old VCR that my kid won't let go of. I also have an EyeHome that allows playback of the basic cable and vcr recording but doesn't handle HDTV unless I convert the file to divx. The one thing that is a bit of a pain is the HD recording, because it is uncompressed the files are huge so you wi

Re: Happy 50th Helvetica!!! - 15 years ago

Quote$tevieI like Helvetica. I like Helvetica Neue even better. What the heck, it's a classic. You have to picture it in an old Lucky Strike or Seagrams VO advertisement, something along those lines, in the Saturday Evening Post in 1963. Nice! I hate it, but thats more to do with its proliferation in Europe during the 60's and 70's, utilitarian but bland and boring. Much prefer the older (by a

Re: Folding - 15 years ago

QuotePatIntel SMP client. Those of us with PPC just have to watch and hang our heads as they and the PS3s go flying by.

Re: PSP users: have you seen this? OS X GUI/portal on PSP! - 15 years ago

Interesting, that could possibly be a stepping stone to porting OSX to the PS3.

Re: HDTV Antenna - 15 years ago

FWIW Antennaweb is sketchy at best, tells me I can only get three stations and recommends a high powered antenna when I can get 10 just by using a $30 set-top antenna I got from Target.

Re: Where is Everyone from? - 15 years ago

Glasgow, Scotland... but posting via southern Oregon.

Re: Prince Charles, Climate Change=WWII - 15 years ago

Seems simple to me, a parable. The struggle to save the environment akin to the struggle to save Europe from Nazi Germany. Granted he's a bit of a loon but how you get People sacrificing at the Battle of the Bulge being compared to Carbon Dioxide from "We can do it, just think what they did in the last war. Things that seemed impossible were achieved almost overnight," is beyond me.

Re: Request help with a font. - 15 years ago

Looks like Caflisch Script.

Re: Macbook Pro Magsafe 85W adapter pricing - 15 years ago

Keep an eye out on UK eBay, I picked up one there for £27 shipped. That's about $54. FWIW the vendor was surplex.co.uk.

Re: MBP: Fan noise and heat - 15 years ago

It does get very hot, by my fan rarely kicks in, only problem I had was with buzzing behind the speakers that Apple was aware of and promptly fixed.

Re: i have a dedicated media server now - 15 years ago

I have my MDD acting as the server but was forever having issues with the EyeHome software being corrupted, I'd install the latest and it wouldn't work right so I'd roll it back to 1.5 and after a few weeks it get corrupted again. Much like yourself I ended up relegating the MDD to server duty, but now I run the EyeHome from the iMac instead and not only is it running the latest upgrades it hasn'

Re: Can someone tell me. - 15 years ago

$149

Re: What is this font? - 15 years ago

jim has a good point but all the L's are sufficiently different to make me think it is hand drawn.

Re: Need help identifying a font - 15 years ago

Quotejdcsome bad designer is going to typography hell =) @#$%&!

Re: Need help identifying a font - 15 years ago

It's Helvetica, most likely Helvetica Neue Extended, then stretched about 200%

Re: Grindhouse soundtrack - Chick Habit (closing song) - 15 years ago

Haven't done the Bad Seeds yet but I got my hands on Orphans a few months back. Loved it, total genius. His cover of Sea of Love is beyond amazing. Interesting nugget... The Return Of Jackie And Judy, should be right up your street. Pop it on the iPod set it on repeat and thats you for the week.

Re: Grindhouse soundtrack - Chick Habit (closing song) - 15 years ago

Talking of Grind, did you check out Grinderman? Arguably Caves best outing since Tender Prey. Podcasts and more @

Re: Last year's winner of the "worst project" award returns - printer spreads in InDesign - 15 years ago

This isn't difficult stuff really. Like I said design in reader spreads, create single page pdfs, create a second document as printer spreads, once the single pages have been approved place the pdfs in the printer spread document and print. Mocking up a 16 pager should take no more than 15 minutes, all you need is a lightbox, scalpel, stapler and a tin of spraymount. It should not take you hou

Re: Last year's winner of the "worst project" award returns - printer spreads in InDesign - 15 years ago

That sounds crazy, if they have bleed requirements it should be a set value, the same with creep, ink density etc etc for any given press. Don't understand why you would need to take a PDF into Photoshop, you basically should have one working document in ID, from that you create PDF that you use for your second imposition document, any changes would be made to the first document, then create a

Re: Last year's winner of the "worst project" award returns - printer spreads in InDesign - 15 years ago

Tiff or Eps... thats a big red flag right there. Anyway, the only workaroundI can think of that would work for you would be to build the document as normal, save each page as an eps, create a second document in printer spreads and place the pages as images. Done this a few times with troublesome PDF's in Quark, quicker than setting up a Preps template.

Re: Modded pic of a girl by some PS artist posted here long ago - anybody remember? - 15 years ago