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May I enter this mildly entertaining chunk of bilge in an upcoming tortured reasoning competition, perhaps in the cart before the horse division? A craftsman can use most anything at hand to good effect, from bloated over-hyped and overpriced software to a finger dipped in gorilla snot...

Depends on the resolution of the bitmap. Converting vector objects into a 300ppi bitmap yields an image visually indistinguishable from the vector original. The human eye has a hard time distinguishing one part in 100 with one part in 130 generally considered the upper limit, mutants excepted...

Regardless of whatever they use for a logo, the concept of this organization truly is bizarre. "Here little Johnny, the big nasty storm has carried off your home, your family, and perhaps your goat, so take this fishing pole and it will all be better." Bizarre...

True, sort of. While there will be some physical loss, it isn't statistically significant and certainly not visually detectable. If you keep a jpg with no accessory compression or smoothing it takes a whole bunch of un-packing and re-packing before it even starts to deteriorate in any...

I've probably hauled more horses more miles that most people ever travel in a lifetime. In every sort of rig imaginable. They all got us there in the same time and with the same comfort for both man and beast. None of these rigs had any foibles such that you'd want to pull off to the side of the...

True, so let me give you a couple of data points. I once, by invitation, shot 4 racks of straight pool with Willie Moscone in an exhibition [he won] and once played a bit of short rack nine ball with the fraud that styled itself 'Minnesota Fats'. The latter was no contest, in fact after a bit he...

I've probably told this story before but let me tell it again. Many many years ago I had a small shop in the back of a pool hall. Needless to say I shot a lot of pool. One day the scion of the local mafioso came in with a fine new cue. A wonder to behold, finely balanced, hand carved butt, real...

Twaddle, they'll both get you and your cargo there. You might favor this or that feature over another but they will still get you where you're going even if not equipped to your exact specifications..

Long ago I gave up sending printers EPS, Ai, or PDF files. What they get from me is a 300ppi jpg with no compression and no smoothing. At first, all of the printers complained. I told them that's what they were going to get and that's what it damn well better look like or I take my business...

I would imagine that he'd take them with him.

Interesting...I've had a 1204 for three years now and the original pads in the tray are still mostly white. I can only wonder if it has anything to do with the fact the I always turn it off when I'm not actually using it. Moreover, I never seem to have any of the myriad problems that others seem...

Yet Another Ford vs. Chevy thread. Whatever you use, only an amateur gives undo reverence to its tools. A skilled hand can use whatever. You know what you want to do, the only issue is how you do it in whichever platform you might find yourself using.

Bzzzzt...wrong. What if the Thompsons are renting? Unless you're dealing with a squad of megalomaniacs, signs of this nature are meant to identify the occupants of the house, not the owners of the house. Try it this way. Drop the article 'the'. Then a proper sign would merely say "Thompson"...

This domain name is a conjunction of three words. Two of these three words have nothing whatsoever to do with signs. Thus 66% of the words in your domain name, which wants to be a thumbnail description of your business, have no functional connection to what you do. There are 17 characters in...

The shortest is the best. The hypen can be ambiguous, easily confused with an underscore, especially with old computer hands.

Except that at first glance it looks very much like 'Wet Ink Signs'. Regardless, "you/we/everyone/someone/no one/etc ThinkSigns.whatever" has to be a low energy name. Completely forgettable. You might think signs but it's doubtful that anyone does. With domain names, the shortest is the...

The hurdle, the one and only hurdle, is insurmountable. Weight. Trying to feed and move massive weights of media in a mechanism designed to handle relatively weightless vinyl and other lightweight media. The magnetic characteristics don't really effect anything since the field is minute and...

I do believe you can make all the whiskey/beer/wine/whatever you want, the crime is if you sell it, and possibly give it away, without paying the apparatus whatever it figures is its due. You can by legal tax paid moonshine under a number of labels. One is called 'Platte Valley Corn Liquor'...

Not kittens, dwarves. You don't punch them, you set them on fire.

Puts me in mind of the time someone gave me a bench grinder. Both grinding wheels were drilled off center and totally out of balance. The label on both of them said "Finest Qualipy". True story.