Couple of things about medieval armor.

No, mail (maille) was not exclusively for the wealthy.  Depending on period and location, it was considered standard issue for a professional soldier.  It wasn't cheap though.

On names - "chain mail" is redundant.  It's "mail" or "maille".  "Scale mail" is a misnomer - it's just scale or scale armor. There were MANY variations on the basic scale theme, like coat-of-plates, lamellar, etc.  Styles varied widely with period and region.  And no, mail wasn't useless against armor-piercing arrows or bolts, just less useful.

Pick up a few of Osprey Publishing's excellent series of illustrated books for plenty of info on medieval armor.

Leather armor was often (usually?) what the French called "cuir bolli," hardened via some kind of boiling process.

Odd factoid, the Mongols used a form of silk "armor" bundled thickly about themselves - when pierced with an arrow it would (hopefully) sink into the wound around the arrowhead and facilitate removal and minimize the damage.

I can't get the folder back.  What font does poser use by default?  Better yet, how do I reinstall default W2K fonts?

Wait, I think I figured it out.  There was a folder in My Documents named Uninstalled Fonts that appeared empty, so I deleted it.  Now I've got borked Firefox fonts too.

Unfortunately I emptied the recycle bin.

I don't want to sound condescending, but if you just open up the script files and play around with them for a while you should be able to figure out the syntax. HTML is probably harder.

Thanks Petunia, I'll check. I seem to remember something peculiar about the Alice hair so I might've already fixed it. I just have to download the rest of Koz's files, the stuff I don't use, repackage that, and I'll be done.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%27s_paradox Wow there's really some interesting reading there, most of it not even strictly about Fermi's Paradox. :) The stuff about the Rare Earth hypothesis is fascinating. Personally I think, given the age of the universe (new data not withstanding since I'm waiting for the big brains to talk about it for a while) and evolutionary time, that many people are overzealous in predicting intelligent alien life.

Fermi's thing was that the universe should be loaded with life, but since no one's talking it can't be, or something like that right?

Thanks Ghost those look cool.

Randym, thanks. That name strikes a bell, I think I agree that it's cool...btw I should've specified that commercial is fine. So, you're telling me this Sidhe character actually looks good using that method (the color thing)? That's great if so.

Kuro, hijack away. I can't recall Fermi's Paradox but if memory serves it struck me as a loada crapola.

I love SETI arguments. :D

My personal theory on intelligent life in the galaxy needs revising given they've just found a supergalaxy that belies the current thinking on the age of the universe.

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I left Ashampoo on overnight on my second computer last night. I just checked and it reported "all done." I analyzed both drives with O&O Defrag and it reported 11% fragmentation on one drive and 8% on the other.

Yeah I just installed Ashampoo and I love the concept, but it doesn't seem to be working well. As Swamp suggested it does NOT stop when other programs are working, which is a big no-no for me. It only seems to stop when I give input.

Okay, thanks for all the help everyone. =)

"'callipers' is the standard British spelling. I keep mine with my spanner." :D I love that one, "spanner." Isn't it funny/stupid how scifi uses "spanner" to be exotic? :D LOL. ~~~ Thanks Dr. G!

Thanks Qualien - I didn't know it could be spelled with two "L"s.

A kind soul messaged me with the link I was looking for: http://maleposer.com/freestuff.shtml