Quote - Wow.  Someone offers actual information, and folks bite his head off.

Grow up.

...you expected differently? I'm surprised it took that long for the petulant sniping to begin from some of the usual suspects. 

Now on the other hand, Khai was fairly adult about it. Addressing that...

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Quote - I know the Cult of daz will now attack me and tell me what I'm saying did'nt happen

Not my biz whether it did or didn't. OTOH, I'm curious as to the whole context of the story. IMHO if it was indeed only as presented, I'd rig an auto-reply saying that official business should only be conducted professionally. 

I'm doubly curious as to why this is aired in public, as opposed to being sorted in private...

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Quote - Heaven forbid that the same censorship rules apply here.

Ah, irony... how do I love thee? Let me count the - pfffth. It's not even worth the effort anymore.

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Quote - Glitterati, this isn't a commerical and Randall did not ask you to come back and shop. I'm totally aware that there are some people here who have some problems with DAZ, and I'm sure they have their reasons, but pretty please - stick to questions or suggestions.

And somewhere in the back of my mind, a voice booms out to the congregation...

"Can I get an A-men, bruthas and sistas! I say, can I get an a-MEN, bruthas and sistas!  Hal-leh-LU-jah! "

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As to the topic...

Personally? I haven't been in or near the DAZ forums in quite a while - and voluntarily so. This is mostly because I don't fit the vibe, and I see well-crafted posts (not mine, mind) quickly drown there. I slip in and out of here on occasion over the years. 

Insofar as the product? It's okay, but the UI could use a bit of tweaking, and we're at a point where more controls could be introduced into the 3Delight renderer - at least so that things like AO and HDRI isn't such a pain in the ass to accomplish. I get better (albeit way the hell slower) results out of LuxRender nowadays. 

Of course, if someone would cough up a native Linux version of D|S that could slip into Ubuntu, I'd use it exclusively, warts and all. It's not like 2005 where we were drowning in distros and the dev team (all four of them) was having enough work just trying to push 1.0 out across two platforms and keeping the plugin folk happy. Things have got to be much calmer nowadays. Hell, I'd do it, but I have enough going on with my present employer as it is (building and maintaining back end software for the banking industry), and burnout sucks.

Anyrate, those are my wishes for the suite. 

As for the company? I have no clue as to what they're up to these days. No worries on that front, though.