Posted by Onideus Mad Hatter on 03/29/06 19:53

On 31 Mar 2006 07:59:48 -0800, "B" <b00010001@gmail.com> wrote:

>Fred, I completely agree. In formal education, you realize that what
>you know is only a small drop in the sea of knowledge on a subject.

I wouldn't even call it a small drop, I'd call it pointless stupidity.
I'm sure with all the money you wasted you don't like to even attempt
to grasp that fact. I've been to several colleges and taken many
classes...and they don't come anywhere even remotely close to DREAMING
of scratching the surface of my personal knowledge and understanding.

>As I progressed through all three of my post-secondary degrees, I
>realized that my immature understanding of what 'I know' is a pittance
>to the body of knowledge in a given subject area.

Unfortunately for you, you never figured out that you could learn at
an unfathomably faster rate ON YOUR OWN.

>One thing you do learn, however, is critical thinking skills.

....that's not really something you learn. Critical thinking is
another way of saying common sense. Either you've got your head out
of your ass or you don't. The are levels though of critical thinking.
One of the things I love doing is going beyond normal critical
thinking and then having people like you (who think they have critical
thinking) look at what I'm doing and start thinking, "Oh that's
wrong"...not realizing that even though they did calculate the
situation they DID NOT factor in ALL of the variables and sometimes a
way that may LOOK inefficient or incorrect is in fact the CORRECT way
of doing it.

>You learn that sometimes the 'best' way to do it is not the best in terms
>of usability, efficiency, scalability, extensibility, etc.

This coming from the guy whose pushing XML like it's the end all
solution to everything.

>There are
>instances where inferior technological or artistic choice is simply
>better. Mies van de Rohe was quoted as saying, "Less is more."
>(although, I'm not sure if that was *his* verbal concoction). You
>learn to examine an idea and look ahead at the impact and possible
>paths and weights to an outcome (excuse the comp. sci. background
>metaphors).

Again, this coming from the guy whose pushing the XML fad...yeah, it's
EASIER and FASTER...but only for the undereducated. And those
deficiencies come at a price that most of them are too ignorant to
even understand.

>The truth is, when you purport to have all intelligence in
>a subject area, you are really showing your immaturity and lack of
>knowledge.

WRONG!

In a lot of situations, those who strive for perfection, for GOD LEVEL
abilities and understanding are the MOST knowledgeable...yes, they
don't actually know EVERYTHING...and to an extent you can't, BUT, the
ATTITUDE is FIRE and you can use it to push yourself to levels that NO
ONE has ever even touched on. It's called SELF ESTEEM, Sunshine...get
some.

>There is always someone smarter and faster, and there are
>always things you simply do not know.

That doesn't matter. There is only ONE factor of importance...what
you produce. Because the bottom line is that you could be a walking
encyclopedia of all knowledge and understanding in existence...but all
that is MEANINGLESS unless it's put into creating something. And
that's the difference between people like you and I. You run at the
mouth...*I* produce:
http://www.backwater-productions.net/_test_platform/hatter-blog/
Version 3, 75% Complete, total site size is 153 Kilobytes,
functional/loading size is 100 Kilobytes.

The nav menu has been completely rewritten and is 50% smaller than the
original version (with smoother animation and additional sound
effects). It uses the base code engine from my Wedding Blog site for
the calendar except this one is graphic based rather than text based.
I'm experimenting with a method of creating a text backdrop using
multiple instances of text fields that have the same variable assigned
to them with offset x and y coordinates and different colors. You can
see the effect on the text that's retrieved via the database. It uses
an 8 replicate effect, the temporary test text fields (for the mouse
coordinates) use a 4 replicate effect with solid black.

I'm still debating whether or not I want to code in functionality to
allow people to respond to my blog entries and whether or not I want
to include some type of RSS feed so other sites can feed off my stuff
(I'm sure Bumbles is itching his pants over that). The only major
problem is with the frame rate, for some reason in FF its especially
slow, so the nav drop downs don't align just right with the sound
effects. In IE it's pretty close. Using the Flash 8 Player is the
best for the animation. I think I'll try exporting as Flash 7 if I
can to see if that improves the performance. Unfortunately due to the
graphical construction its impossible to use anything before Flash 7,
because earlier forms of Flash did not have absolute pixel alignment
in that all image objects were smoothed on import. Granted I could
loose the split form image encoding methodology, but that would result
in a 5 fold increase in overall file size.

Currently the entire blog is constructed of little more than these
basic image constructs:
http://www.backwater-productions.net/_images/_Scraps/Split_Form_Blog.png

Now THAT is near GOD LEVEL image encoding methodology...there are a
few spots where it could technically be broken down further, but there
would only be a few bytes worth of total overall savings...which
wouldn't necesarily be worth taking the effort to break them down as
such.

--

Onideus Mad Hatter
mhm ¹ x ¹
http://www.backwater-productions.net
http://www.backwater-productions.net/hatter-blog


Hatter Quotes
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"I'm not a professional, I'm an artist."

"The more I learn the more I'm killing my idols."

"Is it wrong to incur and then use the hate ridden, vengeful stupidity
of complete strangers in random Usenet froups to further my art?"

"Freedom is only a concept, like race it's merely a social construct
that doesn't really exist outside of your ability to convince others
of its relevancy."

"Next time slow up a lil, then maybe you won't jump the gun and start
creamin yer panties before it's time to pop the champagne proper."

"Reality is directly proportionate to how creative you are."

"People are pretty fucking high on themselves if they think that
they're just born with a soul. *snicker*...yeah, like they're just
givin em out for free."

"Quible, quible said the Hare. Quite a lot of quibling...everywhere.
So the Hare took a long stare and decided at best, to leave the rest,
to their merry little mess."

"There's a difference between 'bad' and 'so earth shatteringly
horrible it makes the angels scream in terror as they violently rip
their heads off, their blood spraying into the faces of a thousand
sweet innocent horrified children, who will forever have the terrible
images burned into their tiny little minds'."

"How sad that you're such a poor judge of style that you can't even
properly gauge the artistic worth of your own efforts."

"Those who record history are those who control history."

"Is my .sig delimiter broken? Really? You're sure? Awww,
gee...that's too bad...for YOU!" `, )

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