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Developer's Corner / Re: web-based logo design companies
« on: June 01, 2006, 05:30 AM »
There are a number of very talented artists that are willing to do freelance work if approached and asked over at Renderosity.

You'd have to get a free account and wade through the gazillion artists and view a lot of their work, but once someone catches your eye just send them a private message and see how they respond.

I have also seen people post logo design jobs over at rent-a-coder. So that might be a good place to find people to do a logo at a good price, too.

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Living Room / Re: Structured Procrastination - hahaha
« on: May 31, 2006, 04:41 AM »

 >:( You just supported even more my reasons not to study!  :(
-jgpaiva (May 31, 2006, 04:12 AM)

I wasn't referring to studying...I was referring to projects.

The best studying is daily.

If on day 1 you read over what was covered on day 1, and on day 2 read over what was covered on day 1 and day 2, and so on...by the time you take that test you know it by heart. And if not you can close your eyes and practically read it from the images burned into your memory, knowing where the info you need is, what 'page', and even down to the color of the text. (good note takers use multiple colors).

Cramming for a test at last minute is an ineffective way to study. Procrastination works against you in this case.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is so much software cracked?
« on: May 31, 2006, 01:11 AM »
My suggestion is for schools to use open source/freeware alternatives to help students avoid the lure of pirated software. If "industry standard" software is needed for a vocational course, so be it, else don't use it and students would then have compatabilty as an incentive to use open source / freeware at home, as well as having their consciousness raised on this issue.
-tsaint (May 29, 2006, 09:30 PM)

Maybe it might raise the cost of their schooling a bit, but why not make it a policy to give every student a legal copy of the software they will be learning how to use? If this was done, schools would most likely move to open source & freeware when they can to avoid the cost of giving out expensive software.

But it's corporate use of software that dictates what they will learn to use in school. Why give students Open Office and then turn them loose in a world where they will be expected to use MS Office and know all the details of how that software works?

And imagine if schools made students learn by using Paintshop Pro rather than Photoshop? Paintshop Pro can do just about everything Photoshop can. But once you graduate, you will be expected to use Photoshop.

And why is this? Because that is what the businesses will purchase. Why do they purchase something more expensive when they can save tons by using something else? Because schools keep churning out people that only know how to use the expensive crap. It has become a vicious cycle that there seems to be no way out.

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Living Room / Re: Structured Procrastination - hahaha
« on: May 31, 2006, 12:50 AM »
Site designed by the author's granddaughter, who did the work while avoiding the far more weighty assignment of her literature test

I see it runs in the family  ;D

It all comes down to things you have to do vs things you want to do. Even if the things you have to do are things you want to do, if they are work you are not going to want to do them. You will put them off till the last minute.

The best procrastinators can do in 6 hours what it would take a normal person 6 months to do. And it will look as if they took 12 months to do it rather than 6 hours. And they know this. And they work better under pressure...so they put it off and do other things in order to create that pressure on themselves that brings out the best in them.

But there is a need for a firm deadline for this to work. If something is due "sometime" it will never get done. If it's due tomorrow, it will get done tonight.

The greatest procrastinators are efficiency experts. They know just how & where to cut corners without compromising quality..and often times they increase quality with their corner cutting.

And my comment about it running in the family...it's true. Effective procrastination is a learned behavior, passed down from generation to generation...or it could be a genetic trait...I am not sure...but I do know it runs in families. I come from a long line of them myself....and my daughter is even better at it than I am.  :D

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Living Room / Re: World's worst pop-up dialogs
« on: May 29, 2006, 07:32 PM »

And finally, the new and all-improved Paint Shop Pro X as a new Corel product:
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/7668/taskaboutthisanymoreportion9ao.png

I really appreciate the option to not have them asking this anymore!  :huh:

/IrmaIsfot


-IrmaIsfot (May 20, 2006, 05:31 PM)

eww...that's what Corel did to my beloved PSP? I guess PSP 7 will be the last version I ever use.  :(

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