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Living Room / Re: Happy 12-12-12~!

« on: December 12, 2012, 05:35 AM »

Any bets on pole shift, aliens returning, or Nibiru?

-Renegade

My bet: "No more Christmas. Joseph will confess to premarital sex."

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Living Room / Re: Happy 12-12-12~!

« on: December 12, 2012, 05:04 AM »

Fact is, the universe holds some numbers and sets in high esteem. Pi, Tau, Phi, e, 153, Fibonacci numbers, etc. etc.

-Renegade (December 12, 2012, 04:57 AM)

Let's wait and see if someone celebrates March 14, 2015

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Living Room / Re: Happy 12-12-12~!

« on: December 12, 2012, 04:49 AM »

Thx. Nice words are always good, no matter the reason.

sarcasm mode

First of all: I don't recall similar mood for last occasions like 11.11.11 or 5.5.5.

Second: It is year 2012 not 12. I understand that some shops here (Poland) make promotions and people behave on these like those additional 2 millennia have never happened but it is still 2012.

I saw words like "similar thing will happen in next 1000 years" somewhere which is mathematically wrong:
- if you allow to cut thousands off - it will happen in about next 900 years,
- if you cut hundreds too (and get 12) - it will be in about next 90 years?

Or we can cut even more and leave only last digits. It would give us so many occasions to be better people

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DC Gamer Club / Free METRO 2033 giveaway

« on: December 11, 2012, 02:53 PM »

After Humble Budle, THQ has free copy of METRO 2033 to offer:
http://www.thq.com/us/

For Facebook people only:
http://freemetrogame.com/

It redirects to Facebook page which you are supposed to like.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Stealth-focused Computer Games

« on: December 11, 2012, 01:20 PM »

BTW Velvet Assassin is 75% off today on Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/16720/

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Living Room / Re: Why did it never occur to me.. You can wash a keyboard in water.

« on: December 10, 2012, 05:45 PM »

Shame that every keyboard I had had, had always some issues after cleaning, mostly: long keys (Shift, Space) not functioning properly.
No matter how I bend metal parts below keys, it always ends up with new keyboard.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Saints Row 3rd - Titan Quest ... first come first served

« on: December 10, 2012, 05:31 PM »

@Deo

How did you get Titan Quest but not Saints Row? They're both "beat the average" to get.

-Deozaan

Maybe were not at beginning?

@Stephen66515

Donated 10$ and got keys list split into:

• Darksiders, Red Faction: Armageddon, Metro 2033, Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, and Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor
• Saints Row: The Third
• Titan Quest
• Red Faction: Armageddon Path to War DLC
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War

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Living Room / Re: Facebook seems to be erased from existence?

« on: December 10, 2012, 05:23 PM »

Damn Mayans, it was supposed to happen on 21st.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Saints Row 3rd - Titan Quest ... first come first served

« on: December 10, 2012, 05:13 PM »

Just wondering (since I have few dupes from this bundle) about keys sharing…

Their FAQ states:

If I already have a game(s) in the bundle do I have the ability to gift the extra copy in the bundle?

Unfortunately, if you already have a game in the bundle you will not be able to gift the extra games to a friend.
Please consider your bundle a "unit", and not to share copies of the games or Steam keys from it.
If you'd like to give a copy of the games away, we have a system in place that allows you to buy a gift key from www.humblebundle.com so your friends can have access to direct downloads as well as any Steam or other keys we have included.

So what is considered as "bundle" here?
Whole Humble THQ Bundle or just the part with Darksiders, Red Faction: Armageddon, Metro 2033, Company of Heroes, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, and Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Stealth-focused Computer Games

« on: December 10, 2012, 05:00 PM »

Velvet Assasin is a very nice hide&seek game.

screens

…and come to think, Commandos series were sneaky ones too.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Tips for Windows 8 (got any?)

« on: November 22, 2012, 11:39 AM »

Little spam for ya…

Free ebook: Introducing Windows 8: An Overview for IT Professionals (Final Edition)
http://blogs.msdn.co...s-final-edition.aspx

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Living Room / Re: Disney acquires Lucasfilm for 4.05 billion dollars. Star Wars Ep VII due in 2015

« on: November 01, 2012, 05:55 AM »

I wonder how long will it take for Lucas to say that he always wanted 10 SW episodes?

Not so long ago I had discussion with my friends about criticising something I've never saw and SW was in such topic too because I had yet to fully see 1-3.
For me the only 1,2,3 parts were original ones from seventies/eighties (now called 4-6).

I just simply don't believe that Lucas always wanted 3 (4?) more. Even if he said it by himself. For me this is money based lie.
And now 7th is coming. Really?

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General Software Discussion / Re: html code that will display a pdf or a doc file in a file viewer inside a webpag

« on: October 23, 2012, 06:38 PM »

@kalos
It is not possible with HTML only: you need to find some Javascript library for that (i.e. pdf.js) or use:
https://docs.google.com/viewer

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« on: October 20, 2012, 03:28 PM »

@tomos
http://en.wikipedia..../Religious_symbolism

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Living Room / Re: Faster Than Light Math

« on: October 20, 2012, 03:21 PM »

Question: is it possible to read described paper fully without creating strange accounts and/or paying?

-fenixproductions (October 19, 2012, 04:20 AM)

I just followed the link and read the full paper: "Einstein's special relativity beyond the speed of light". Proceedings of the Royal Society A has been open online for for some years. Older material is available as well, but only as PDFs.

-rssapphire (October 19, 2012, 05:02 PM)

Strange,  it didn't work for me previously.

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Living Room / Re: Faster Than Light Math

« on: October 19, 2012, 04:20 AM »

Question: is it possible to read described paper fully without creating strange accounts and/or paying?

It's bugging me: the form of science it is today

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Torchlight 2

« on: October 06, 2012, 08:38 AM »

new patch has gone live!

-lanux128 (October 04, 2012, 08:00 PM)

I've lost fun after this
I had no problems with this game and it was running perfectly well previously but now I have desync issues all the time on LAN (didn't try online after update).
It is so bad that I can see my bro running around with me clearing the level, while he sees me standing at one place all time. And each level loads few f****n minutes (were just seconds before).

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Torchlight 2

« on: September 25, 2012, 04:09 AM »

Been 1.5 through the game so far

I have no Internet at home to fully try multiplayer but LAN with one more player is pretty awesome. Although it has few small bugs*, game runs very smoothly and I am surprised about that.

It is decent game but it is missing *something* (my screenshots folder is pretty small for this title).

*) Bugs:
- dunno for full story - chapter movies are choking for me,
- no camera rotation (understandable optimization) and strange zoom (not acceptable),
- broken stats - same characters level and I have about 400 enemies killed BUT my bro have 12k (how is it even possible if we never separate).

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General Software Discussion / Re: yet another file manager thread...

« on: September 13, 2012, 12:55 PM »

@DonL
I will not install MSE just to disable XY in it

@Jibz
I also think this may be multi-threading issue.
Even my own applications were freezing single-threaded (BBCeditor has parsing engine runnig in separate thread and Comparer is getting thumbnails from explorer/plugins same way).

BTW TC was behaving in the same way for folders with a lot of icons/thumbnails. It stopped with one update, after Ghisler had made some functions to work in background.

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Living Room / Re: Write until you pass out!?

« on: September 11, 2012, 07:58 PM »

@TaoPhoenix
You can count me in.

As I mostly have the best ideas late at night, I sometimes go to sleep with my keyboard. Heck, it even happened with BBCeditor when I was writing second parsing engine for it: coding until you don't even know what you are typing in… But the best moments were not coding-related.

As soon as I get known about Allen Ginsberg works I became a fan of "stream of consciousness" term. Getting yourself into the specific way of thinking, specific rhythm of thoughts and writing while on it. In case of Beat Generation in was often induced through drugs but I didn't want to go this way so… knowing about Saint Vitus Dance I used to get into similar states when being tired. And it was great for creativity.

Except strange poetry, the first thing I wrote was a short story - typing machine FTW - about something similar to concentration camps. Writing process was amazing, so much stuff coming to mind, but some of the results were "little bit of" so I had to skip them for the sake of staying sake. Result: best thing I ever wrote.

Second amazing story - same whole day writing until unconscious scenario - was more Lynch-like. Again, it gave very nice output but whole procedure was more scary than ever. I had to stop few times because I was scared what my mind is capable of. Sleep-like state was indeed helpful for Lynchizm but… scary the demons are. Weird thing is: I have a novel which can be started at any page, read till whole circle is set and it will still be consistent within itself.

Those were scary, tiresome but not punishment in any way. Or you may call it masochism if you like.

In terms of law, we may wonder how would it work. I am not sure forcing people to do things could bring suffering but not allowing them do do some - definitely (as one of interrogation methods is preventing sleep).

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General Software Discussion / Re: yet another file manager thread...

« on: September 11, 2012, 07:09 PM »

I had bought recently with BitsDuJour help and been trying to use only this for couple of days and I must say: it takes me back to Total Commander more and more each day.

One of the reason, obviously, is the fact of being long time TC user (10 years?), second is - lack of features I need like:

• custom columns - XY has 12, Windows Explorer 41, TC hundreds; I can switch between saved list view configurations any way I like,
• previews and thumbnails for lot more filetypes than standard explorer can handle; I admit TC has WLX plugins (MultiLister is the best here) but it can also call XnView or IrfanView via WM messages to get data from them,
• no freezes on large directories - if directory contains dozen of executables XY freezes (I have antivirus exclusions for it already), if there are non-standard (i.e. PDFs) thumbs… freezes again; can't it load thumbs/icons in background and cache them?
• TC can browse inside archives while XY calls WinRAR; couldn't it support ZIP and RAR at least?
• and if I click on thumbnail it would be nice to have it selected, not only the file name which gets unseen between dozen of thumbs.

OK, enough complaining for today

Something in plus: mini tree view is just awesome and it would be even better to have it implemented with list properties like these:
http://www.codeproje...reeView-with-Columns
http://www.codeproje...ced-TreeView-for-NET
http://www.codeproje...3/A-TreeList-Control

Another idea: more Excel-like features for files list and you have a winner.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone playing Mass Effect 2 game yet?

« on: August 29, 2012, 08:59 AM »

@mouser
Did you finish it? Thoughts?

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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in

« on: August 29, 2012, 06:22 AM »

@Renegade
Mostly hoax but I am curious does required amount of such coins really exist.

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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in

« on: August 29, 2012, 06:11 AM »

Wonder if that's true:
http://en.paperblog....-cents-coins-294795/

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Developer's Corner / Re: Adding controls smoothly...

« on: August 28, 2012, 09:30 AM »

I had investigated such issue long ago and there was no solution for multi-control forms. SuspedLayout is the most popular/answered one but it does not help too much.
There is also double buffering solution which also has some troubles.

The only thing which helped (from user perspective) was to "make screen busy"  - according to an advice from MS site I read very long ago.
So… build eveything in background and show waiting animation during that.