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besson3c
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Aug 18, 2007, 02:40 PM
 
( Last edited by besson3c; Aug 21, 2007 at 04:31 PM. )
     
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Aug 18, 2007, 03:00 PM
 
Everyone with a signature is stupid.
     
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Aug 18, 2007, 03:18 PM
 
I think you can be considered special if besson has tealeafed your sig.
     
Laminar
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Aug 18, 2007, 03:21 PM
 
I'm confused.
     
besson3c  (op)
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Aug 18, 2007, 03:28 PM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
I'm confused.
I hope this clarifies:

( Last edited by besson3c; Aug 21, 2007 at 04:32 PM. )
     
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Aug 18, 2007, 04:19 PM
 
Ok....
     
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Aug 18, 2007, 04:30 PM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
I hope this clarifies:
rofl.
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15" Powerbook G4 ~ 1.5GHz ~ 1.5G ram ~ 160G ~ Combo
     
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Aug 18, 2007, 04:56 PM
 
How many times do I have to reload before it's my turn?
     
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Aug 18, 2007, 05:04 PM
 
You screwed my sig up!





























Signature depreciated.
     
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Aug 18, 2007, 06:03 PM
 
Seems like it's the same few sigs over and over. Mindfad did a better version of this thread, back in the day.
     
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Aug 18, 2007, 07:00 PM
 
i'm going to have to say this thread sucks without my sig, plain and simple
     
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Aug 18, 2007, 07:27 PM
 
Awww you didn't forget about me,

I'm touched


At least that's what my friends keep telling me

I can't tell is this just a mere observation, or a complaint?
     
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Aug 18, 2007, 07:45 PM
 
Originally Posted by seanc View Post
I think you can be considered special if besson has tealeafed your sig.
Yeah, I'm special! Wooohoo!
     
besson3c  (op)
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Aug 18, 2007, 09:38 PM
 
I was thinking of adding more sigs to my script, I was just too lazy. It is basically a script that creates collages out of signatures, and orders them randomly. We can make these collages as big as we want, like even bigger than this entire forum!

I do accept donations for this worthwhile cause.
     
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Aug 18, 2007, 09:52 PM
 
Did you do it in Linux? How cool would that be if you did them in Linux. Did you use the terminal and hand type it all in. That would be sweet if you used the terminal and hand typed it in. There better have been an acronym involved.
     
Laminar
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Aug 19, 2007, 12:10 AM
 
Using a GUI to do that would have taken thousands of years. Instead, a simple terminal command made it easy to set up that script!!
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 12:19 AM
 
I don't understand why anyone uses a GuI when a command could be manually typed into terminal. I surf MacNN with the terminal and all of my posts are entered that way. I even loathe having to type the acronym GUI into the terminal. So much so that I will start phonetically spelling it. Goowee.
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 12:21 AM
 
OOH, what an original idea

Home - Twitter - Sig Wall-Retired - Flickr
     
besson3c  (op)
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Aug 19, 2007, 12:22 AM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
Using a GUI to do that would have taken thousands of years. Instead, a simple terminal command made it easy to set up that script!!
There are 40 sigs in my collage now, so how many combinations would there be? How does the Finite work again? Does 40 to the power of 40 give you the combinations including repetitions or without repetitions? Anyway, multiply this by the amount of time it would take to make one of these collages, and you will see how incredibly productive I was
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 12:25 AM
 
Originally Posted by starman View Post
OOH, what an original idea
Sorry man, I didn't know about your sig wall...

Can I rip off the signatures on your wall? This collage is going to be freaking massive... heheh. So much fun!

All I have to do is keep on saving images into my sig directory and this collage image will grow and grow and grow and grow... until.... I don't know! Until it is so big it EXPLODES! And then we all die!! Hehheheh..
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 12:04 PM
 
Originally Posted by starman View Post
OOH, what an original idea

and you're just gonna keep the link to your sigwall in your sig until there's nothing but yours left? Lots of question marks.
ice
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 01:31 PM
 
Originally Posted by starman View Post
OOH, what an original idea
I don't think he's planning to create a sigwall with a bunch of outdated links.

Slick shoes?! Are you crazy?!
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 02:01 PM
 
besson, why are you using Rickeys sig?
we don't have time to stop for gas
     
besson3c  (op)
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Aug 19, 2007, 02:21 PM
 
Originally Posted by Peter View Post
besson, why are you using Rickeys sig?
I'm not
     
KeriVit
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Aug 19, 2007, 03:10 PM
 
It takes a minute or 2 to sink in.
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 03:57 PM
 
Besson - have you asked permission to use everyones sigs?
we don't have time to stop for gas
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 04:04 PM
 
Looks like we need to add a new rule.
     
Laminar
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Aug 19, 2007, 06:27 PM
 
Originally Posted by Peter View Post
Besson - have you asked permission to use everyones sigs?
Well that's the funny thing...how many of those sigs include materials copyrighted by someone else? I know mine does.
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 07:36 PM
 
Originally Posted by Peter View Post
Besson - have you asked permission to use everyones sigs?
hahahha funny question - we all know the answer to that

Anyways as Laminar mentioned, I too fall into that category that I'm using Apple's copyrighted image and the last time I checked my email, apple has not sent their approval

Personally I don't care, I think its Besson's attempt to mess with the people on the forum. Like I said it matters little if he wants to use mine.
     
besson3c  (op)
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Aug 19, 2007, 08:55 PM
 
Originally Posted by Peter View Post
Besson - have you asked permission to use everyones sigs?
Do you mean for the collage, or for my post signature, or both? I'm happy to remove any signatures that people don't want me using, but so far I haven't been asked.
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 09:36 PM
 
I once found a MacNN sig of mine being used by someone on a cell phone forum. The strange part was that it wasn't really a very nice sig.
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 09:40 PM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
Do you mean for the collage, or for my post signature, or both? I'm happy to remove any signatures that people don't want me using, but so far I haven't been asked.
Personally I think both and to be honest the onus should be on you asking not the other way around.

Like I said before I don't care if you use mine, but others have put a lot of work into their sigs and I think the decent move would have been to ask them and not just use it till they complain.
     
imitchellg5
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Aug 19, 2007, 09:53 PM
 
Originally Posted by MacosNerd View Post
Personally I think both and to be honest the onus should be on you asking not the other way around.

Like I said before I don't care if you use mine, but others have put a lot of work into their sigs and I think the decent move would have been to ask them and not just use it till they complain.
Yeah, mines my best Photoshop job ever, sadly
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 09:55 PM
 
Originally Posted by MacosNerd View Post
Personally I think both and to be honest the onus should be on you asking not the other way around.

Like I said before I don't care if you use mine, but others have put a lot of work into their sigs and I think the decent move would have been to ask them and not just use it till they complain.

I'm not using their content as a means to enhance or supplement any of my own though, and certainly none of this is connected to my making a profit. What I'm doing is very similar to somebody making a Dashboard widget that takes clips of a web page and provides convenient easy access to this content. IOW, I'm not stealing this content to use among my own property, just providing a new view of the existing content.

Is this a breach of intellectual property?

Honestly, I have no plans at all for this script... None whatsoever. It was just a little experiment - something to get my feet wet with GD. I have no desire to expand upon it or use it outside of this site whatsoever. Even if I did have such a desire, I have no clue what I could do with this
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 09:57 PM
 
Originally Posted by besson3c View Post
I'm not using their content as a means to enhance or supplement any of my own though, and certainly none of this is connected to my making a profit. What I'm doing is very similar to somebody making a Dashboard widget that takes clips of a web page and provides convenient easy access to this content. IOW, I'm not stealing this content to use among my own property, just providing a new view of the existing content.

Is this a breach of intellectual property?

Honestly, I have no plans at all for this script... None whatsoever. It was just a little experiment - something to get my feet wet with GD. I have no desire to expand upon it or use it outside of this site whatsoever. Even if I did have such a desire, I have no clue what I could do with this
Just don't forget to mention us in your memoirs so that we can be noted as the proving grounds of your world famous ideas before you became rich and famous
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 10:29 PM
 
Originally Posted by Peter View Post
besson, why are you using Rickeys sig?
What was this about? I know it's sexy and all.......
     
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Aug 19, 2007, 11:37 PM
 
I had to beg for a signature. Then when I switched my ISP, I lost my donated sig. So now I just created a fun sig to a site I maintain. I'm using this as a learning experience.
     
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Aug 20, 2007, 12:34 AM
 
Originally Posted by alligator View Post
I had to beg for a signature. Then when I switched my ISP, I lost my donated sig. So now I just created a fun sig to a site I maintain. I'm using this as a learning experience.
You don't like this one?



FYI, here is your original thread asking for a signature...
http://forums.macnn.com/89/macnn-lou...shop-impaired/
     
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Aug 20, 2007, 01:22 AM
 
Originally Posted by imitchellg5 View Post
Just don't forget to mention us in your memoirs so that we can be noted as the proving grounds of your world famous ideas before you became rich and famous
I will be sure to give personal mention to you, dear sir!
     
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Aug 20, 2007, 02:05 AM
 
You may use mine if you'd like.

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Aug 20, 2007, 07:06 AM
 
These orgies are boring until someone makes a CoreAnimation screensaver with the sigs.
     
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Originally Posted by The Godfather View Post
These orgies are boring until someone makes a CoreAnimation screensaver with the sigs.
With or without lens flare?
     
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Aug 20, 2007, 09:57 AM
 
Besson, you get the "most creative copycat" award.

-t
     
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Aug 20, 2007, 10:10 AM
 
We should all change our sig files to the same thing.
     
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Originally Posted by rickey939 View Post
With or without lens flare?
With, of course
     
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Aug 20, 2007, 11:16 AM
 
The wall is growing... Pretty soon it will be out of control. Hehehh....
     
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"One bad apple..."
     
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Aug 20, 2007, 12:30 PM
 
alright...multiple shots of my crappy sig. ive been itching to make a new one, but a part of me doesn't want to forget what i thought was cool 3 years ago or so.
NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
     
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Camo and hot pink?
     
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oh yeah...
NOW YOU SEE ME! 2.4 MBP and 2.0 MBP (running ubuntu)
     
 
 
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