Only if we can see your face well enough to recognize you as you. Numerious folks are already abusing my statement about it being ok to have a picture of yourself, in the sense that their picture "of themself" is really just a picture of some human of some sort that could be anyone on Earth or even a manequin for all we can actually see in the picture.
I presumed it obvious the purpose of that is to get some sense of who we are talking with and to recognize the member when encountered in real life. A tiny photo where your face cannot be seen is worthless really, so if all one can conjure up is a "body" shot, then change it to something machine tool related or don't have an avatar at all.
Insert your picture in a word document and save it as a web page. This will give you a folder with the big picture and a thumbnail. The small picture is almost always small enough for avatars, etc.
Avatar
–noun
1. Hindu Mythology. the descent of a deity to the earth in an incarnate form or some manifest shape; the incarnation of a god.
2. an embodiment or personification, as of a principle, attitude, or view of life.
3. Computers. a graphical image that represents a person, as on the Internet.
Since meanings 2 and 3 seem to apply here, limiting an avatar to a machine or machine related picture would seem in most instances to negate the meaning of the word.
It is as long as there are machines in the backgound
But really the idea of human pictures in avatar is to be able to recognize the face in the avatar and if the face is too small to recognize, what is the point really ?
This is an interesting topic of discussion..... very amusing thanks in part to the main antagonist OX..... who would have guessed that one
I find the avatar guidelines a bit constricting only because really they are so dang small that they make 90% of all interesting pictures a mass glob of nothing. Mine for example is the 1/2 mill of industrial duct work that my crew and I installed in TN. Milacron's I thought was a castle in flames and that always made me wonder about him.....
It's pretty much as machining related as it gets.... the genesis of machine tools.... a painting of the first production iron foundry in the world... where what we discuss here all started.
Most folks that know machine tool history would recognize the famous painting at Ironbridge, UK.... if the uneducated don't, that's their problem, not mine.
John Parsons (American) invented CNC
Pouring liquid metal in sand castings isn't machining.
That goes way back to the bronze age.
I have received word that my avatar was in violation of site rules, it was. For this I have received a “point”. Can some one direct me to a reference section explaining the “point system”? And perhaps a list of other infractions I may commit as time allows??
I left a message for Milacron asking this question but his message file is full and he may not accept any new messages, popular guy.
May i ask if my lightsaber avi is out of place? I am a lightsaber builder (sabersmith) by hobby, and it seems that since I will be turning hilts on my lathe, it would be acceptable.
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