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Nope, I have more respect for people who don't inteject naked women where they don't belong, like in the second pic. Not that you don't draw well, but you're too restricted in your view.

JMO tho, and I doubt the "red blooded males"(read horny) on any forum will agree. Draw to your audience if you like, but a true artist can make a gorgeous drawing or painting without sticking in suggestive women. That's pretty harsh I guess, but I see the same thing all over the place, so I shall continue being a cynic about this. ._.

Rather a pointless thread. Shall I go start a thread on the 3 million things I hate so other people can post saying they hate them too?

Yakspit, the reader only costs about 20 bucks.

Unhh this is an old topic, and I SO don't get what you mean.

Hee hee, I like the way it thinks. ._.

I'm with trap. Variety is good. Girls riding things do nothing for me, but then I'm female and that whole sexual-tension-leading-to-positive-response-to-naked-chicks-that-is-way-too-common-on-most-art-forums thing can't be counted on with me.

You have a really good style, I'd just like to see some variety.  

I think Unilin spoke for a lot of us with that post.

I'm one of those they, btw. I didn't think it was a joke, and if it was, it was in exceedingly bad taste.

Hmm....well there's several things needing fixing there.

Mostly size related. The window is too big compared to the door. Which is too small compared to the desk. The chair also needs to be bigger to go with that desk. The perspective on the desk is a little strange since we are looking at it from the front.

Also, it looks kind of strange that the light is falling on the wall in that pattern, it should only fall that way on the floor, since the wall has no light falling on it.

And overall, its a bit flat, unless thats the look you're going for.

Its a neural net implementation, so yeah pretty complex.

And if you want more accurate responses, go to sign up for an account, dont actually sign up. Go back to the home page by typing the URL(dont click back ) and click Play anonymously next time. This gives you more options.

I get:
Yes ,  No , Unknown, Irrelevant, Sometimes, Maybe,
Probably, Doubtful, Usually, Depends, Rarely, Partly
 
I'm trying to figure out the minimum number of guesses it needs to guess a really simple object. I like also that once it can't guess and you tell it what you were thinking of, if you click the name, it tells you what answers it was expecting.

Oh yeah I forgot to say, if you're anonymous it only shows G Rated objects. If you wanna play with teh dirty words, sign up and change the censor level.

Oh and for those people complaining its stupid, thats just what the players have programmed into it, since it relies on your answers to form its database. So really its the people playing who've said that, not the AI. And as it says, the best way to fix that is to play the game again and teach it.

I guess that you are debra from everybody loves raymond! Am I right?


Yes !
No !


Yay! That was fun, too bad I dont know many tv chars...

Anyway, 20 questions isnt confusing. Just pick something, anything like a window, apple, basically any object and answer the questions as if it were asking them about it.  

And is it just me or are the forums crawling slower than a snail crawling on treacle?

[You winIs it one of these . . .]

Play: http://www.20q.net
I've tried one other before this, but this is WAYYY BETTER. If it can guess my 'cheese' then I'm thinking it can guess anything. Can you beat it?

I am guessing that it is cheese?
Yes ,  No , Close

19.    Is it usually sliced or carved? Yes.  
18.    Would you find it in an office? No.  
17.    Is it brown? No.  
16.    Is it smooth? Yes.  
15.    Does a hockey player use it? No.  
14.    Do you make something with it? Yes.  
13.    Is it soft? Yes.  
12.    Is it used during meals? Yes.  
11.    Is it round? Yes.  
10.    Can you smell it? Yes.  
9.    Can you play games with it? No.  
8.    Is it flat? Yes.  
7.    Is it hard? Yes.  
6.    Would you give it as a gift? Yes.  
5.    Does it come in a pack? Yes.  
4.    Is it considered valuable? Doubtful.  
3.    Does it bring joy to people? Yes.  
2.    Can it be washed? No.  
1.    It is classified as Other.  


Hm, by beat I mean you should get this message:
You win
Is it one of these . . .

where it just totally gives up. If you say no or close and then it goes on to guess it then it won't count.

Its actually that they can identify you from your clothes so if someone stuck a reader in an apartment doorway they could tell who was coming and going.

Of course its connected to you, its got a unique number that can be traced as being bought by your credit card.

* OneThinkingGal refrains from saying I told you so

Sorry to hear really Richie. I'm a total pessimist with regard to relationships, mostly from experience. Experience also says you get over it. It'll hurt, it'll confuse but you will get over it. Hang in there.  

And hey, you still have me, right?

Hey! Now you have ruined it!

I won't accept that! It looks like she has a wide chest but with no boobs which is just horrible.

Jimi: She is around 19 but I like big breasts so what? Who said that young slim woman don't have big breasts? It's the same with fat women, some don't have big boobs. And before any of you guys ask, no they're not siliconed, they're real (if you would call it real since she's not for real).

Well, that was rather rude. Actually no, it was very rude. You asked for help, she tried to help and you yelled at her.

If you didn't like the changes she made to it, you could have thanked her and told her that that wasn't the look you were going for.

She took time out to edit the pic to show you what she meant and got this in return. I don't think you'll find many people helping you if you keep this attitude.

Yes they're planning to leave them active or were rather.

Oh yeah, and also if you read the articles, there is no way for us to turn these things off.  

Trap, they're more like a radio transmitter that tells anyone with a relevant scanner what you bought and where you bought it from without your consent.

I don't know if you guys read this link, but it seems the most succint to me:
http://newswithviews.com/Mary/starrett4.htm

To quote from that:
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Benetton is not alone in implementing this frighteningly invasive technology. Gillette has already purchased 500 million of these tracking devices and starting in July will imbed them in shaving cream and razors sold at Wal Mart stores. The chipped items will sit atop "smart" shelves that will work in unison with the chipped products to tell Gillette and Wal Mart all kinds of things; and the info-gathering doesn't end there. As an extra added bonus ,when shoppers take their Big Brother -branded purchases home (and wherever RFID "readers" are located,) their purchase will be tracked. RFID Journal touts the technology as a way to eliminate bar codes, cut down on labor costs and theft and says it will be a boon to inventory control.

The founder and director of a group called C.A.S.P.I.A.N. (Consumers Against Privacy Invasion And Numbering) sees it differently. Katherine Albrecht, a Harvard University doctoral candidate says what Benetton, Gillette and over 90 of the world's biggest corporations are doing, in essence, is "registering" those products to you. Albrecht has been warning us about this for years. She says consumers have no idea that these RFID chips actually track the owner .. " then anytime you (go) near an RFID reader device the (product) would beam out your identity to anyone with access to a database - all without your permission".
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Which I spose most people will say they dont give a hoot about anyway.

I'm an EPIC reader and pretty concerned about my privacy as anyone on IRC can tell you (they'll say paranoid, but ignore that ).

This is one of the newer items posted on EPIC:
http://boycottbenetton.org/index.html (Click News)
Benetton: No Microchips in Clothes (Yet)
Italian-based clothing company Benetton announced that it has not put Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in its clothing, despite some reports to the contrary. The company said it will undertake a study of the tracking technology, "including careful analysis of potential implications relating to individual privacy." Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering had organized an anti-RFID boycott of the international clothes manufacturer and vendor. For more information, see Junkbusters' page on RFID. (Apr. 7)


Apparently, they've backed out of it for now but still might use them for 'industrial purposes'.

Doesnt it seem like you're always being watched no matter what you do? I know loads of people will say well you know what, if you're not doing anything wrong, why are you worried? But I think we should be worried. We should be worried as to who has access to this information and what they do with it and how long it exists for. I'm not specifically talking about just this, but the whole tracking infrastructure that is being put in place around us. Keep in mind most of this is not really opt-in. They're not really giving you a choice.

On the one hand the govts seem to be putting in place broad sweeping measures for spying on its own people, which one can at least excuse as security related; on the other hand the corporations continue to track you to find out which neat little bracket they can put you into so they can sell you what you 'need', all while convincing you its for your own good.

While its all in the name of capitalism, and I'm generally pro-capitalism, where does capitalism end and intrusion begin?

Here's a coupla more related links(off the news page there):
http://newswithviews.com/Mary/starrett4.htm
http://www.alientechnology.com/news/The_Internet_of_Things.htm
http://www.itnews.com.au/storycontent.cfm?ID=9&Art_ID=11844

And my general privacy reading links:
http://www.epic.org
http://www.privacy.org/

I'd like to hear people's thoughts on this, is it pointless to be this concerned or does it matter or any other ideas you may have.

The avatar was in flash, which is more of a vector tool than a pixeller.

As for how to get them rounder, well shading helps, you don't have to draw round lines.

You're right, it should be. I only messed around with the front view.

Hmmm was thinking of something like this: