A recent thread had a discusion about newbies. In my opinion we are all to some extent newbies. Even if you have been using Poser for four million years, at some or other stage you are going to come across a feature you haven't used before, and then you will find yourself posting a question here saying "How does this work?", and someone else who has only been using Poser for a month will think "What a newbie". Can anyone here say that they have truly used and understood every feature of Poser? And that they will never have to ask a "newbie" question again?

I've used Poser for two years, and I still consider myself a newbie. There's no shame in it, and I am sorry when people get impatient with a valid question from someone new to the site. No one I know was born with the manual memorized, and the manual is very user unfriendly in many areas. For every self-proclaimed Poser expert, there are a hundred or more people still trying to figure things out. I think intelligent creatures are always in a process of learning...when the learning stops, so does life and creativity. So I tend to agree with you.

On the other hand...perhaps we are just avoiding calling ourseleves "Oldies".

I like to think of myself as an oldie but goodie, but it has nothing to do with Poser. :)

someone who starts a post with 'this is gonna sound stupid'..;) we were all nu-be's once..;) (some of us still are, just posted my first Poser gallery pic about a month ago..;)

Eh, what's up doc? ya mean this little thing here? http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12356&Form.ShowMessage=1697750 . . . According to my 'funk and bikermouse' compendium of how to misspell commonly used words, a newbee is someone who don't know "godzilla" yet. (see referenced link above.) So L.D. - not to change the subject or anything but who was Robbin Masters anyway?

I just thought it was the new renderosibee...

X2000 is moding at another forum now I hear. I miss the renderosibee(sp?) sniff I think it was about the time I decided to do a render of MIB with him that the "bee" character was derenderosified. sniff

To me a newbie is anyone new. If you are not new, then I don't think the person can be called a newbie.

Ok lets see what some other sites have to say: http://www.sharpened.net/glossary/definition.php?newbie http://searchvb.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0%2C%2Csid8_gci212649%2C00.html http://www.wordspy.com/words/newbie.asp http://www.halflifesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=320 http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/n/newbie.html http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0%2C289893%2Csid9_gci212649%2C00.html They mostly seem to agree that it's someone new irregardless of skill level except the HalfLifeSource site which seems to have an interesting if somewhat skewed take on things. when you go to the HLS site don't forget to duck! bullets were flying everywhere last time I was there; perhaps my reputation preceeded me.)

If everyone is called a newbie then you would have to have another word for beginner which is a bit pointless.

I consider myself a newbie in many ways...even though I think I got a pretty good rep as a texture artist. Poser was kind of overwhelming when I first opened it, so i decided to focus on learning one part at a time....I learned the textures and somehow never moved on. So there is still alot I do not understand about the program. But sometimes if you can do one thing good enough, it can get you by LOL Rawn

bikermouse, if I interpret your comment right..actually my original handle was nu-be..you know how I can't resist a good pun..;)

Monty Python :o) :] Fish

I wonder how long the term has been around- Back in the 70's in the unit I was in ( a very technical one) the term was in common use. anyone able to trace it back? I wouldn't be suprised at all if there are referances to it all the way to the american civil war. So much of what we use now was in use then.

I don't recall anyone using it back then, although admittedly I wasn't around during the American Civil War.

lol- anyone who has been in at least in the US Military knows about singing cadence about Jody Saw on the history channel that they were singing cadence about Jody way back then. Funny as hell. :) And a real butt load of other things we still do. LOL Newbie sounds like it could easily have an equally long history. (yeah, I'm weird) lol

I remember Anthony Newbie, oh wow does that date me lol. Anyways i've had p4 for 2yrs but now have p5 so now I'm a newbie again. Turning 50 on monday so being a newbie is good.lol

georgress, I spent a LOT of time in the military and, well, during MY time, we call them "nugs". Stood for "New Guy"...or slanged out to, "Nu G(uy). And, no matter how long you had done your job, everytime you arrived at a new (nu?) duty station, you were a nug.

The renderosibee is free now and available at rendervisions.

chuckles - lol- ya- I remember nugs too