Super Selection Computer
Bethany Pensis
Hot soup in summer isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I can eat soup or chili any of the 12 months. So dinner at Souper Salad was a welcome idea when my father said he'd never eaten there. Neither had I, so we gave it a go.
There's a lot more to this restaurant than soups and a 40-foot salad bar, I discovered. Offerings also include baked potatoes with all the toppings you could desire, as well as a taco bar. There's no set menu because soups change about every two days, but you can look on the website (www.soupersalad.com) to determine the day's selections.
The salad bar has just about every topping imaginable, including a good number of prepared salads, such as Caesar and mango berry salad, both of which already have the dressing mixed in, which made them a little on the soggy side. The flavor was pretty good, but texture was lacking.
The website posted German potato soup, along with broccoli-cheese, chicken noodle, vegetable and Cherokee Joe's cornbread soup for the day's offering. There was no German potato or chicken noodle. In their place were chicken tetrazzini soup and another pasta soup.
The cornbread soup is more like a vegetable soup with taco seasoning, which adds to the flavor. The chicken tetrazzini was room temperature but had a pretty good flavor. The broccoli-cheese was excellent but so hot that I had to wait a while for my second bite. Souper Salad needs to do something about its heating elements.
The taco bar was a nice addition, complete with the meat mixture, green onions, sour cream, shredded cheese, nacho cheese and salsa. Both crispy taco shells and soft tortillas were offered. Any of the taco toppings can be used on the baked potatoes, and there is also a bowl of bacon bits to top your spud. There were two types of pizza, both with thin, cracker-type crusts, which I like. But they were room temperature, at best.
The young woman assigned to our table was as pleasant as they come. However, there should have been more people tending the salad bar. I don't think it was wiped down the entire time we were there, and it appeared quite messy.
Souper Salad is a large restaurant with ample tables and booths. Even on the 100-degree day we were there, the restaurant had a good, if not overflowing, crowd. The place appeared to need a little updating, as corners of the food bars were scuffed and worn.
It's nice that there's still a place where you can get all you can eat for under $7, drink not included. Souper Salad is good for what it is. Nothing's made from scratch, nor nowhere near gourmet, but everything is tasty, and there's plenty from which to choose. The great selection assures there's pretty much something for all tastes.
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Hello - I don't think this exists, but thought I would ask anyway. I have a few different projects where I link columns. I have had a few times where I have thought that it would be super useful to be able to select the row of one of the linked tables, and then the corresponding rows in the other gets highlighted. I have one 50k row table and another 150k row table, and scrolling through can get tedious, as can trying to grab just those points. Of course there are row selection menus, but this takes a long time when you are switching your selection a few dozen times.
The Event Handler Column Property performs an action when you click on a row in the column, so this solution would be for only very simple selections, one at a time. Are you thinking you'd like to select corresponding rows in the linked table every time you select a row or group of rows in the main table? If so, I'd consider adding a simple table script.
Kinda seems like an obvious and easily implementable feature for linked data tables. At least to have a checkbox to turn the feature on or off, since it might be annoying sometimes. Hmmmm. I might add this to the feature requests.
Wow. I had originally mosied over to the column properties for the Link column and didn't see it, but I'm confused why I never thought to look over at the link reference. Thanks for showing that! This thread now has three completely distinct answers.
Just about to finish my assembly and looking into computer options to feed into the X-Carve. What is everyone using to drive their machines? Any successful tablet options? Any operating system(s) more successful than others? Anybody set up remote access to monitor jobs?
I found that used servers go very cheap and are super reliable. I bought a 1 U server with dual quad core processors and 24 gig of RAM for $150. It is a bit overkill for running the X-Carve but it is reliable. I mounted it just under the table and positively pressured the enclosure it keep away the dust.
I use 3 different computers so it depends on what i am doing but all 3 have been used on the xcarve at some point.
Currently using a alienware laptop with win 7. The other 2 are computers built from salvaged parts one with win 10 and the other running dual boot with 2 different distros of linux. The have all worked fine with the xcarve.
Every time I try to use the Quick selection tool, it takes a REALLY long time to select. I had CS5 and it was super fast, even with large RAW files. Now with CC, it takes at least 20 minutes to select a person out of a photo.
Hey! I had the SAME problem... solved in 30 minutes because I had put CC on my laptop and the Quick Selection tool is fast, but on my Mega-fast desktop (16gb, 4.2Ghz, blah, blah) Photoshop CC was DRAGGING BUTT.
The difference is I loaded the desktop from scratch. The Laptop had CS5 prviously, and PS copied the settings from Edit/Preferences/Performance that existed in CS5... it was all about the History & Cache section. Hit "Big and Flat" for the 1024K cache tile size, and it set the cache states
What operating system? My laptop slowed to a crawl after it updated from Windows 8 to 8.1. When I checked Preferenes > Performance, I found that GPU Acceleration was no longer ticked, but a visit to the nVidea driver site fixed it.
I went ahead and updated my drivers again, but it did not help at all. (Radeon HD 5800) The tool is SO slow that it's pretty much useless. It was one of the reasons I wanted CC. That and Content Aware - which works fine. I'm thinking there's some setting somewhere that makes it slow?
When I hold the mouse button and drag it is as slow as just clicking and letting go. The longer I hold and drag, the longer it has to process once I let go. The smaller the file, the faster it works, but it didn't used to be like that.
I am asking just to try and figure out if its related to GPU acceleration or not. I think that once you release the mouse button the ordinary CPU takes over to fix the selection. So your reply would suggest that it's not related to your GPU, at least I think that's a reasonable assumption. I suppose you could try and play around with the GPU acceleration settings under Edit/Preferences/Performance/
The tool is quite slow. Where I teach, we have PS CS6 running on pretty slow computers and the tool is a pain to use at higher resolutions, so I always make sure to use low-res images when showing how it works.
What are your computer specs? I assume you have disabled "Sample All Layers" and "Auto-Enhance" in the tool settings? Because these will slow it down even further. I suppose you could try and reset the PS preferences (this will also reset your personal preferences!). Hold down Ctrl + Option + Shift while starting up Photoshop. A dialog box will appear asking if you wish to delete the preferences/settings file.
Other than that I can't come up with anything else at the moment. If you are unlucky it might just be that the tool is more demanding in CC on your computer. But let us know if my suggestions made any difference.
Thanks! I am surprised that the username wasn't already taken!
I mentioned working on my laptop without GPU acceleration, and how much it slowed everything down, but Quick Select was still laggy after the driver updated and GPU acceleration restored. This is a reasonable laptop with i7, 16Gb and GTX680. Thankfully, I got my main system back yesterday, and Quick select is pretty much instant.
But there shouldn't be that much difference. The big box has six core running at 4.2Ghz (under load) 32GB and GTX570, so while it is certainly more powerful, the difference in performance in respect to Quick Select is not proportional. I've just tried reducing cache levels on the big box from the '6' it usually runs at right down to 2, but it still responds instantly even with large files. I have GPU set to Advanced, and tile size to 128 on both systems.
Another odd thing is that I only have 1GB vRAM with the GTX570, where the GTX680 has 4Gb of faster vRAM. But maybe Quick select is not a big user of GPU acceleration.
So no real help I am afraid. I have looked through the GPU FAQ, but nothing helpful there. OK, I have just found a more detailed article on GPU acceleration, and it mentions a lot of features, but not Quick Select, so it could be that GPU is irrelevant. The laptop is Windows 8.1 as opposed win 7 for the big box, if that makes a difference. Can you correlate anything between our systems? I hate to post this without any suggestions, but I'm stumped.