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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 04, 2009, 06:11:45 PM »

I need some help if anyone wouldn't mind...I downloaded the Sony Vegas 9 trial. When I start it, I get the splash as normal. It gets all the way to "Initializing UI" and then it freezes.

I have 2 GB of RAM, with 1.2 GB free running Kodak EasyShare, Minefield, and Paint.NET running. Why is this happening?

I am not hugely technologically savy, but I think the answer to your problem lies in your question. How can you use your PC with only 1.2 GB of space? I used to have a PC a couple years back with a 10 GB hard drive and found it impossible to live with that. 1.2 GB is worth about a 20 minute TV tuner recording for me.

I think he meant he had 1.2GB of RAM free. Anywhoo, open Vegas, let it freeze, then check your event manager and see if it is logging any application errors.

No errors to be seen.

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General Discussion / Re: Post your desktops

« on: June 04, 2009, 06:09:24 PM »

A guy can dream, can't he?

Of course you can... my dream though looks like this....

Yeah. That too. Maybe I shall put them in together.

Or every product from Apple except the new iPod shuffle.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 04, 2009, 12:36:44 PM »

so tonight is graduation, definitely bitter sweet. i'm really looking forward to walking the stage tonight...it'll be a long night.

adios high school

Congrats!

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General Discussion / Re: Post your desktops

« on: June 04, 2009, 12:30:50 PM »

A guy can dream, can't he?

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 04, 2009, 11:20:52 AM »

I need some help if anyone wouldn't mind...I downloaded the Sony Vegas 9 trial. When I start it, I get the splash as normal. It gets all the way to "Initializing UI" and then it freezes.

I have 2 GB of RAM, with 1.2 GB free running Kodak EasyShare, Minefield, and Paint.NET running. Why is this happening?

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General Discussion / Re: Traffic lights

« on: June 04, 2009, 11:09:29 AM »

Here's the font they use now on the street signs. This is the highest quality I could find. It's not the same as the one in my first post; those are older. I pretty sure the signs on the second pic on my first post is Interstate.

That font in that sign is most definitely Clearview. Missouri has NO Clearview AFAIK. At least from my place (West Plains) to Poplar Bluff (~2 1/2 hrs), to St. Louis (~4 hrs), and to Branson (~2 1/2 hrs). That's a pretty big area of Missouri.

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The Game Room / Re: The NWS Game

« on: June 04, 2009, 10:59:11 AM »

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WICHITA KS
837 PM CDT WED JUN 11 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SPRINGFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* SUNSHINE WARNING FOR...
  ALL VIDEO GAMERS IN THE COVERAGE AREA OF THE NWS IN SPRINGFIELD.

* UNTIL MONDAY.

* AT 835 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS WERE
  TRACKING A LARGE AREA OF CLEARING THAT MAY TEMPORARILY BLIND VIDEO
  GAMERS WHO SIT PLAYING VIDEO GAMES FOR UPWARDS OF
  10 HOURS A DAY.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION.

A LIGHT BREEZE AND NO RAIN IS EXPECTED WITH THIS SYSTEM.

SUNSHINE COMING FROM THIS SYSTEM MAY COVER THE ROAD. IN THIS EVENT, A SUNSHINE FLOOD WARNING WILL BE ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA.

$$

CRAMER

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The Game Room / Re: Stupid Questions

« on: June 04, 2009, 10:51:30 AM »

There is such thing.

Can water towers catch on fire?

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 03, 2009, 01:26:56 PM »

God, YT needs to stop doing site maintenance every day. Or else Imma explode. 

Calm down.

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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch

« on: June 02, 2009, 01:32:23 PM »

I have begun to start reading the Twilight series and I have to say, It's better than I thought it would be. I'm less than 100 pages into "Twilight" and Stephenie Meyer's very descriptive words seem to bring the book to life.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Don't get sucked into the Twilight saga! NO!

* 7oa cries

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General Discussion / Re: Traffic lights

« on: June 01, 2009, 03:13:29 PM »

Those are actually older signs from when the lights were installed in 1997, the newer ones use a font that looks a lot like the font in TWC's logo. There are also signs that use Interstate.

The font in TWC's logo is Meta Medium...or it's dangerously close to that. So the font in your signs is probably Meta Medium or Meta Bold (which is more likely to be on a road signs for readability reasons).

Can you get a picture, in that case? I might know of one more font it might be...but I need a picture to confirm it.

EDIT: I see the second picture in the first post has a picture of that sign. Would you by chance have a higher-res version? If yes, PLEASE e-mail it to me! I see it is NOT Meta on those signs. I'm getting closer to deciding on that font I said it might be. It probably is.

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Programming and Graphics / Re: Wake Up With Al

« on: June 01, 2009, 03:03:47 PM »

In the link Max posted you can change the title of the video if you really really don't like Al. Just change "Wake Up With Al" at the end of the URL to whatever you wish.

Change it to "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!" or something. Whatever you like!

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The Game Room / Re: Which would you prefer?

« on: June 01, 2009, 01:40:26 PM »

Truck.

Leather office chair or fabric office chair? (I have the former, used to have the latter. Ugh.)

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General Discussion / Re: Traffic lights

« on: June 01, 2009, 12:18:58 PM »

Kind of a silly question, but since traffic lights are different from state-to-state and city-to-city, I figured I'd post a topic to see how they are installed on your area.

Ours (in Lower Bucks) are mounted vertically, on mast-arm poles. Most of them were installed no earlier than the mid-late 90's, though there are still a few older ones hanging around here. Since 2000, newly installed signals have had LEDs on the red and green lights and eventually yellow, and in 2005 most of the existing signals had LEDs installed on them.

Here are a few examples:

Ours here is SoMO are just like that...but we use a different typeface (Interstate Regular Condensed) on the green street signs. Attached is a sample of how they write things on those signs...the street name itself is all caps and the street type is sentence case.

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General Discussion / Re: The Era Of "Bing" Coming Soon?

« on: June 01, 2009, 11:51:58 AM »

It's official. The beta (they call it "preview", ugh) is officially open.

EDIT: I'm trying it out, and it's DEFINITELY supposed to be called "Because It's Not Google" in a bad way. Eww.