Tragic, but heartwarming to see people come together to help those affected. God bless America!

I think he should have said "adverbs"; I only see one example up there of an adjective: "gnarled". "Swiftly" and "slowly" modify verbs, not nouns.

Look up color temperature. Depending on the look you want, any bulb can be used. The higher the wattage, though, the better.

"The YouTube description says that the player had his friend direct the enemy jet toward him for the chance of taking the shot."

Expert or not, these look phenomenal. I love the one from Kanazawa (excepting the people... people don't look as good surreal'd).

THIS. What most people think of as HDR is the super-baked stuff with halos around everything. What InveterateFiend is likely referring to. HDR done "right" means you don't even notice it.

Disagree. When something takes money to create (and anything created well takes money), its price is NOT zero. Issues with distribution and pricing aside, if the content creators aren't reimbursed for their efforts via purchases, eventually they're going to stop because they still need to put food on the table. No…

This. The super over-baked stuff is out (both good and bad, IMO... super-baked could still look good if done right), but using HDR to pull a blown-out white sky back down into the pleasing blues with clouds is always good.

I guess I'm still confused... I thought he said x86 architecture, not x64. But there's 8GB of addressable GDDR5 RAM... is x64 just a subset of x86 expanded to 64-bit processing?

Yup. And the reason why is that if you did it for real in a real camera, there would be motion blur there, too. It's about getting as close to reality as you can, and hiding your effects' imperfections in the imperfections of reality (like motion blur).

Wrong Reply button. Dang it.

"Strange" is what I got when I was over there.

You, sir, genuinely made me chuckle. Have an internet on me.

Hasn't shown much love in the past? They were the first to make it happen. Yeah, it didn't happen from PS2-PS3, true. If it's really important to them, though, they can make it happen.

I almost agree with this. No one requires you to use Instagram or Facebook, and seeing as how the two of them are free services, no one really has any weight to throw around saying "you can't do this to me". They're in it to make money. Your identity is the way to make money. Deny them their money, and they'll deny…

I disagree, only because there's a LOT going on on that site. There's more than CSS and HTML, I'm certain.

This. As a web guy, coding up a website that looks as good as this does proves he's got the chops. It's akin to a video reel for a VFX job here.

Lucky son of a gun.

The fact remains that they've also signed an NDA, with clearly spelled out consequences for violating said NDA. It is a legally binding contract, entered into without coercion at the beginning of their employment, and it is their fault for breaching that contract. Extreme consequence? Sure. But they agreed to the…