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<0> hey folks
<1> howdy
<0> hi far2 hows everything
<1> bleh
<1> same as always, i'm afraid
<0> i just read your entry about the cleft palate guy
<0> authors seem pretty dim from your experiences
<1> yeah >:(
<1> it must be the mindset
<1> "oh, i know a bunch of **** that nobody's interested in, i'm gonna write it down and share it with the whole country"
<1> that kinda mentality = ****tard
<0> who pays for these books, is that book, for instance, paid for by the author?
<1> depends
<1> they'll usually send a copy of the manuscript round to a load of publishers
<1> they're read by a senior editor, and if he/she thinks it's good, or would sell well, then they'll offer a contract
<1> in that case, the author doesn't have to pay, the publisher pays for everything, and the author gets a percentage of the profits
<0> thats what happened to my aunt, she wrote this ****ty kids book about kids and for some reason got all wound up over it, crying into her pillow at night about how the world and publishers didn't appreciate her work of art
<1> if a load of publishers are interested, there can be quite the bidding war to sign the author
<0> so eventually she paid for it to be published i think it sold three copies to freinds and died a natural death
<1> if nobody accepts it, then the author can, if they choose, pay for the entire cost of prepress/printing/marketing, etc
<1> can be very, very expensive
<1> but, the author then gets to keep 100% of the profit
<1> we call those kind of books "vanity books", since they've been told it's not gonna sell well, but they go ahead and pay to have it published anyway
<0> yah if they sell any but mostly those are vanity projects and as a result sell not much and the author ends up with dozens of boxes of books taking up space
<1> exactly
<1> that's not to say they don't do well
<1> j.r.r. tolkien had a nightmare of a time trying to find a publisher for the hobbit, for example
<2> yea, but now look.
<1> there can be surprise hits among them
<0> yes tolkien did
<1> but as a rule, they usually flop, and the author is down a ton of money
<3> does anyone use IE 7 yet?
<1> Jstr - www.ie7.com
<0> not me no ie for me from here on in
<3> far2: yea yea, My client uses IE, and Beta ie7 @ that.
<1> ouch
<0> rubbah
<4> rubbiq
<0> what time is it?
<4> 8am
<0> so your still up or you just got up
<4> pretty much it's when the sparrows stop singing and the magpies start annoying
<4> nah. i woke up at 5 today
<0> thats too early
<4> such is the necessity of my poor life
<4> i've to pedal my unicycle to deliver newspapers early in the morning
<0> and i bet the tread on that tire is thin as a hairless cats skin
<4> speaking of which, it would be very nice if i can have a car wheel for my unicycle
<4> it would be the envy of village
<5> what village?
<4> my village of course
<0> you could spin out with your phat tire
<4> that's the idea
<4> oh! and you can even add the hamster-style energy generator on the wheel rotation for powering the ever increasing amount of usb gadgets
<0> yah of course you need your usb global positioning and your usb cigarette lighter and your usb biorhythms detectors
<4> nah.. not those
<4> i don't smoke and i don't believe and health crap thingies like vitamins and those 'health' machine
<0> well if you don't smoke then youd be considered a health nut here
<4> nah.. i don't hate smokers etc
<4> it's pretty much the same philosophy as my mac-hating stance. i don't like it because i don't, not because trying to fit in majority
<0> umm did i say you hated smokers i don't recall saying that
<4> well i'm just implying about smoking in general
<0> well im saying in canada non smokers are regarded as health nuts
<0> and the us for that matter
<4> rubik, in one of my previous workplace, there's this only one guy who smokes. and he's the only one who eats vitamin pills
<0> well hes a madman
<4> i remembered he was advocating the use of opera.. that's all. i didn't work within his team
<0> opera is what my cousin uses and hes all up with that
<4> 50% chance that he/she is smoking and eats vitamin pills :)
<4> excellent.. i'm making one grammatical error per sentance.
<4> i better shut up and do some food hunting. later
<0> ok laters on
<5> rubik was heavy smoker; it shattered his basketball career
<6> heya
<4> rubik, you still have that bryce link?
<0> umm hang on
<0> ey nurb that zappa vid was terrific thanks
<0> http://www.daz3d.com/program/bryce/bryce5free.php?trid=446713850
<4> which zappa vid ?
<0> rubber frank zappa appeared on the steve allen variety show in the early sixties and played the bicycle
<4> oo
<4> hm. bryce is only 24 mb?
<0> yes but then you need to dl some extras which is another 2o or so megs on top
<0> both files are free
<4> oho! works straight out of zip
<0> yes thats a wonderful thing
<0> why can't more software do taht
<4> most of them are traumatic bastards. they want secrecy and they don't want their programs to be 'easily' moved around
<4> oo. you've to register with daz
<4> We never divulge your name or address to anyone. haha. yea right
<0> well reg with a fake name thats what i always do
<0> online im randall flagg at hundreds of sites
<4> that's what hotmail accounts are for i sppose
<4> heh. double letters at the end of both your surname and firstname. that sounds abit artificial
<0> rubber its a character from a stephen king novel
<0> bbiab
<7> can someone please please please
<7> help me?
<8> how about providing us with a problem and then asking for help on solving it.
<8> i guess she really wanted some help there aye.
<7> hi
<9> lol
<8> back again eh
<9> maybe youll wait longer then 10 seconds this time
<7> I'm sorry I apologize.
<7> how can i add test to a gif?
<7> i'm having problems.
<7> text
<8> the text tool?
<7> okay
<7> i'm sorry i've never used it before
<8> is it an animated gif?
<7> yes
<8> you could try opening it in image ready.
<7> ok
<8> and then editing each frame if it's available. not sure though. you may have to extract the frames somehow. been a while since i messed with animated gif's.
<7> okay thank you
<7> thanks a lot
<7> have a good night
<10> Laaa
<0> heya
<8> jamie
<8> rube
<0> hi ansim
<0> what up
<0> my roomies are watching incredibly gory horror movies so im staying out of the living room
<8> not much here. messing with some ruby. yourself?
<8> what is it?
<0> going through photographs
<0> i don't know seems to be some kind of exploding zombie thing
<8> interesting
<8> i dunno if this would be useful in here or not but eh, i wrote a css/html/xhtml reference for wigga
<0> how would it work?
<8> !ref float
<11> float
<11> This property influences the horizontal alignment of an element, making it "float" toward the left or right margin of its containing element. Possible values are left, right, and none. Floated regions act much like <img> tags that have been aligned left or right with respect to text.
<11> www.htmlref.com/reference/appb/css_float.htm
<0> well it would be better if it would reply privately to the person who queried
<8> hrm
<8> i could do that for certain channels i guess. like this one.
<0> could you make a movie database with php/mysql?
<8> i have already
<8> but you'd have to add them individually.
<8> hold up, lemme see if my local db still has them.
<0> thers a really nice software for the mac that allows you scan your dvds in using a webcam to read the bar codes
<8> nice
<8> yay, i still have the local db setup. let me see if i can dump it.
<8> http://movies.ansimation.net/
<0> thanks im checking it
<8> sure
<0> looks good
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