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"Most tech youtubers"? What does this claim even mean? If I'm going to go by what the professionals use I'm going to be looking at real video production studios and visual effects firms. They're mainly using workstation level stuff and Quadro based boards, not consumer cards tuned for playing...

I personally haven't had any serious problems with Dell systems. That's what we usually but not always buy at my workplace. I've bought multiple Dell systems at home. But it deserves a bold asterisk that I buy much more on the expensive end than anything "mainstream" and "affordable." The first...

Not necessarily. Look back at my example of the Razer Blade Pro 17. Their 17" system with 16GB of RAM and a UHD screen (along with the nVidia MaxQ video card) weighs over the $3500 barrier. The Dell 7740 Precision Workstation with double the RAM, a 100% Adobe RGB UHD screen and a 6GB Quadro card...

I'm not really all that fond of Microsoft's Surface notebooks for two reasons. The first is they're pretty expensive compared to similarly equipped models from other companies. The second is the stylus could be better. It doesn't work as well as the pen with Wacom tablets or Cintiq screens. The...

A long time ago I was an avowed desktop user; I thought notebooks were a ripoff for what they cost versus desktop machines with similar CPU, RAM and video card capabilities. But then I developed a hatred for having to sit at a computer desk at home. After 8-plus hours sitting at a computer desk...

It hasn't happened in a long time, but I've been burned a few times. Anyone who works in the sign business long enough will have to deal with others who try to steal/plagiarize their work. As I said in my last post you have to do what you can protect yourself. But that doesn't mean following the...

A bunch of comments in this thread sound like a whole lot of half-baked rationales and justifications to steal and plagiarize the work of competitors. Any sign maker who is into trying to make theft seem OK should just find something else to do for a living. And that's me being nice. I have far...

I haven't used CS2 since the mid 2000's. In the newer (and current) versions Photoshop brings up a target reticle when the standard rectangular selection tool is selected and used. The scale function brings up a 9 point bounding box and a variety of different pointers or cursors depending upon...

Technically the Pantone spot color books are supposed to be replaced each year. The inks on each strip can fade as well as wear down with frequent use. Another big reason for them to be replaced occasionally: Pantone adds new spot colors from time to time. For example, our shop had to replace...

I need some help identifying a couple fonts in the attached sample image. The fonts look similar to Serpentine, but have a decent number of odd changes to them. Thanks in advance.

Over the last couple or so days our company has seen a "pop" in business for making various types of clear acrylic sneeze guards. Lawton has increased restrictions on businesses and the movement of citizens. One of the new restrictions is that all essential businesses still in operation that...

That's Serpentine. The lettering has simply been thickened, with rounded corners. Plus the lettering is really distorted (horizontally stretched out of normal proportion).

The price of E-10 87 octane gasoline has dropped just under $1.00 per gallon at a few places here in Oklahoma. According to the Gas Buddy map some stations in Shawnee, Oklahoma City, Edmond and Chickasha have prices of 99¢ or 98¢ per gallon.

My company was deemed an essential business by Lawton's Mayor and City Council. Nevertheless, we're operating under a seriously reduced capacity. We've cut the numbers of staff in the office and shop in half, alternating one day on and one day off for the next 2 weeks. And as this crisis drags...

It's funny that you wrote this response to my post about the full potential of SARS-CoV-2, but you clearly didn't understand any of the points in that post. Really, that statement makes it look like you don't understand math concepts like ratio and proportion. You must have pulled that 30%...

We're keeping our crane trucks ready and available for a variety of other non-sign related services. The initial rush for coronavirus related signs has slowed. Our office started a limited schedule this week to reduce the number of office staff around each other. We'll be working one day at the...

News flash: not all the COVID-19 deaths are being counted. People are dying without ever being tested, even bodies in American morgues. So NO ONE really knows that true number either. All the people who keep insisting this pandemic is an overblown news story are overlooking that bit of...

The United States got into the really bad habit of lowering interest rates, particularly the Federal Reserve lowering the overnight borrowing rate, as an any-means-necessary measure to avoid a recession. That's what Alan Greenspan did back in the early 2000's. We had the dot-com bubble burst at...

It's currently the most popular program on Netflix. I watched the series too. It was fascinating in the way watching a collision between one bus carrying circus side show freaks and another bus carrying mental patients would be fascinating. Several friends and co-workers keep asking, "why did...

Yeah, the Canadians are looking at it. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-28/sky-s-the-limit-for-stimulus-in-canada-s-bid-to-salvage-economy Quantitative easing is a little more complex than merely printing money. It's really about making it easier for businesses to borrow money...