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Living Room / Re: Dropbox and Evernote problem

« on: August 22, 2010, 10:03 AM »

It still would be helpful for troubleshooting, especially as you say *either*.  It could also be the installation of one or the other that's causing the problem, and this would uncover that also.  I run both, on my tablet and my laptop, and have no problem with either.

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Living Room / Re: Private Servers, MMO Piracy, and the Future of DRM

« on: August 22, 2010, 07:34 AM »

Ah...   Yeah, most EULAs on software purchase from large corporations are pretty obscure, but I don't think that software for online services covers using a different online service other than theirs with it.

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Living Room / Re: Private Servers, MMO Piracy, and the Future of DRM

« on: August 20, 2010, 05:57 PM »

Is the privilege of using the server separate from the cost of the game?  I don't think the license actually allows for that...

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Living Room / Re: OhLife - A new way to journal

« on: August 20, 2010, 10:40 AM »

I guess 'dirty little secret' is subjective anyway. If I'd keep a diary I think I'd want everything in there to be secret, also the non-dirty stuff.

-phitsc (August 20, 2010, 09:51 AM)

The difference between journal and diary, IMO- which is why I refer to it as a journal.

I view a journal as more of a retrospective on the day.  What happened, my responses, what worked, what didn't, and what I'd want to take away from it.  A place to articulate my thoughts... "Those who don't learn from history", on a more micro scale.  I find myself too caught up in the day to day that I don't take the time to integrate it into the wider view of things, which is probably why I have problems doing it to begin with.

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Living Room / Private Servers, MMO Piracy, and the Future of DRM

« on: August 20, 2010, 09:02 AM »

I've heard of private servers (and even searched for one for Tabula Rasa when it was shut down- I really miss that game), but I've never really delved into the scene.  So I was pretty surprised at the numbers that were being thrown around in the recent private server prosecution.  She made $3 million?  Off of micro-transactions?  From 420,000 users?  That's pretty major, though I found out to take it with a generous amount of skepticism after I read that she didn't appear to defend herself.  But if it's anywhere near that, it's a pretty big deal, and I always thought MMOs were pretty pirate-proof.

Zam has an article about this issue, and the future of DRM.  A pretty good read, and well-researched to boot.

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Circle Dock / Re: Circle dock doesn't find disk D:

« on: August 20, 2010, 08:27 AM »

The versions after the one which is available from there are no longer available.  There will at some point be an upgrade with some bug fixes (which is what sarge alluded to), but after that, it will depend on if anyone picks up the project.

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Living Room / Re: OhLife - A new way to journal

« on: August 20, 2010, 08:26 AM »

I never really looked at a journal as a place for dirty little secrets- just my perspective, I suppose.

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Living Room / Re: How difficult/feasible to do a desktop virtualization of my home PC?

« on: August 19, 2010, 04:14 PM »

You can also use VNC... there's a client for mac from what I understand, though I haven't used VNC since MSRDP started being a viable product.

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Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 19, 2010, 07:45 AM »

I don't see how you can separate the general legal issues surrounding software from a specific case and still have anything amounting to a reasonable discussion about it. These things do not occur or exist in isolation. And to my mind, these larger issues go right to the heart of what went down with CD as well as helping to understand the varied and occasionally conflicting reactions from the members that followed. 

Nevertheless, it's not for me to say how a discussion should be conducted here.

(With a nod of acquiesence, 40hz tips his hat to Mouser and scrams the long post he was just about to send. )

 

-40hz (August 13, 2010, 12:01 PM)

Personally, I also see this as a point of contention, though I can understand the reason for it, as forums have self-destructed over such conversations.  But when we have differences of opinions, it seems that it can be constructive (as long as the discourse is moderated) to talk those things out over the point in question.  Abstract conversations are all well and good, but having a concrete incident to base a discourse around tends to gel the issues and make it more useful in general.

Just my 

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Living Room / Re: OhLife - A new way to journal

« on: August 19, 2010, 07:41 AM »

Yeah, I think the reminder is the unique bit here. Of course you could setup a repeating reminder in Google Calendar or any other such reminder/calendar system with email alerts to do the same, then use Evernote or anything else for the actual journaling, which may be better. The OhLife service ties in to its own platform for "journaling", so unless you like how it handles it, there's not necessarily a need to use it just for the reminders. But I definitely like the reminder concept. Simple and obvious but not something I've done yet, which I should try.

-JavaJones (August 19, 2010, 12:35 AM)

And the fact that you can e-mail back, and it formats them for you.  And it gives random bits from your old journals to give you a look into what you were doing at some point in the past.  And you can export them to use them in other programs.  Not for everyone, I suppose- but it seems worth a look.

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Living Room / Re: OhLife - A new way to journal

« on: August 18, 2010, 09:49 PM »

I use Evernote, but it doesn't prompt you.  I just want a simple way to be prompted, then it's up to me to write it.

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Living Room / OhLife - A new way to journal

« on: August 18, 2010, 03:45 PM »

I've been trying to keep a journal for a while.  Actually longer than I've been trying to keep a blog, though I've been as successful with one as the other.  That is... not.  I saw a tweet from Jesse Meecham about OhLife, and checked it out.  It seems like a good idea- something in my face might help.  Basically, you sign up, and it sends you an e-mail reminder every day at 8PM to write about how your day was.  You reply, and it appears in your area on the site.  A pretty simple idea... I'm hoping it will work.

OhLife

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Living Room / Re: Board Game Review Site Roundup

« on: August 18, 2010, 02:19 PM »

Most of the sites that sell games also have reviews of some extent, and I think (at least in the case of board games) that they know better than to shill their reviews.

Thought Hammer aggregates the reviews from their site, geekdo and, in the case of kid games, Kid Game Ratings.  Kid Game Ratings is a good source of ratings for kid friendly games.  I've been trying to get the family into board games since I've moved and don't have anyone local to play games with, and that's my source for reviews that let me know if they'll possibly like them.

http://www.boardgamedesign.com and http://www.gameparts.net are two resources for budding game designers also.

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Living Room / Re: Should I buy a tablet pc, ipad, netbook, or other?

« on: August 18, 2010, 02:14 PM »

The points that resonate with me are the beauty of the display <snip />  These are two issues that I predict the PC tablets will be worse at. 

<snip />

-superboyac (August 18, 2010, 12:36 PM)

It doesn't *have* to be that way, though.  The tc1100 has a glass display just like the iPad- and while I'm not *sure* that this makes a difference, my wife did notice it the first time she looked at it, and actually commented on it.  And she's a photographer, so she pays more attention to that kind of thing that I do.

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Living Room / Re: Should I buy a tablet pc, ipad, netbook, or other?

« on: August 17, 2010, 10:38 PM »

Oh... my.

http://laptops.toshi...retto/W100/W105-L251

http://www.gottabemo...let-hitting-the-u-s/

And my bonus will be hitting soon... decisions, decisions...

-wraith808 (August 17, 2010, 03:58 PM)

oooo.....drool.

-superboyac (August 17, 2010, 04:46 PM)

Already sold out

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Living Room / Re: Should I buy a tablet pc, ipad, netbook, or other?

« on: August 17, 2010, 03:58 PM »

Oh... my.

http://laptops.toshi...retto/W100/W105-L251

http://www.gottabemo...let-hitting-the-u-s/

And my bonus will be hitting soon... decisions, decisions...

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Living Room / Re: Some initial reflections on using an ebook reader

« on: August 16, 2010, 10:15 AM »

I had been using my iPhone for my book reader using Stanza and eReader (from B&N) - I have the apps from Amazon, Borders, and Apple installed, but hadn't bought any books from them.  Now I'm using my tc1100 for reading, and loving the larger space... on there, I use eReader (from B&N) and the FictionWise reader, though I have Calibre and Stanza loaded.  I can also read PDFs easier now.  I'm still thinking about getting a WiFi nook, but I'm not sure about that.

I advise everyone who has an e-reader to back up the books on their computer and use a good computer catalog to keep track of what will eventually be a lot of books and stories.

-AndeT1 (August 16, 2010, 08:26 AM)

+1.  I'm thinking about doing a NANY entry for cataloging all sorts of electronic reading material- it's been something I've needed for a while.  There are so many ways to read things that it's hard to keep track of them.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why computer programs should not be patentable -- in easy-to-understand terms

« on: August 12, 2010, 10:36 PM »

We're not saying that software patents are good as is, we're refuting that his argument justifies why they shouldn't exist. There is a difference between the assertions. (And no, having the algorithm isn't grounds for jail time, depending on how you arrived at it)

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Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 12, 2010, 09:59 PM »

And it's not being released anymore... so why the continued harping on that?

-wraith808 (August 12, 2010, 08:19 PM)

Team Circle Dock will take the program forward, as a fully non-GPL semi-commercial product, and likely to be under Microsoft's BizNet umbrella.

-Markham (August 12, 2010, 06:16 AM)

Follow the thread first.

-Tuxman (August 12, 2010, 08:23 PM)

I already did.  They will take the GPL code out of it, and release their version of the product.  It's already been stated there's not a problem with that.  The one with the GPL code has been taken down.  As you said, follow the thread first.

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Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 12, 2010, 08:19 PM »

According to the GPL v1, v2 and v3, even if one single line in an application is licensed under the GPL, the whole application has to be GPL-licensed. Any other use is illegal.

-Tuxman (August 12, 2010, 06:32 PM)

And it's not being released anymore... so why the continued harping on that?  He didn't make any money off of it- what happened was a few people got binaries that they otherwise wouldn't have... why can't it be simply left at that?  Why all of the finger pointing and calling people bad guys?  The way forward from here is not to release CD anymore without source... that's been done.  And if he releases again to remove GPL code.  Check on that also.  So why the continued antagonism?  I'm sure if he could go back and just not release the binaries, that he would rather than deal with this.  But that's not a possibility.  So why the name calling to get someone to do something that he doesn't want to do, and release work that he has done at no cost?  Just so you can feel better about some useless point?

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Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 12, 2010, 01:47 PM »

I was going to quote and respond to a lot of different snippets, but I figured I'd summarize in one thought.

To the people who are crying foul at the lack of source for a downloaded version of CD, would you rather *not* have the downloaded version and him have removed all possibilities of getting CD at the point that he decided not to give source?  He hasn't made any money as far as I can see on the version that has been downloaded since then, so it would seem to be the simplest solution to your quandry is to delete the binaries and pretend that he didn't release them.

Yes, that last part is a bit facetious, but this whole insistence that the people who downloaded CD are the victims is quite the spurious argument, considering the alternative IMO.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Why computer programs should not be patentable -- in easy-to-understand terms

« on: August 12, 2010, 10:53 AM »

And you wouldn't mind me posting the algorithm to generate legitimate credit card numbers?  After all, it's just "one gigantic number".

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Circle Dock / Re: Goodbye all, I'm out of here effective immediately

« on: August 11, 2010, 01:28 PM »

One lesson I've (hopefully) learned: when in an upset state, don't make big decisions, and don't post stuff publicly. Take a few big steps bag and breathe deeply.

-f0dder (August 11, 2010, 12:57 PM)

+1 Big Time!

-40hz (August 11, 2010, 01:17 PM)

+1 from me also.  I find that when I feel compelled to respond, it's best not to, for that usually means it's my emotions driving me, rather than my reason.  Once I get to the point where I could or could not respond, then I'm usually in a better state of mind.  That doesn't always work... but it's been a good rule of thumb.

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Circle Dock / Re: Change of Licensing from Version 2 (Cancelled)

« on: August 11, 2010, 10:13 AM »

The sad thing about this whole mess is that CD took a lot of time and effort to get it from the original source version- so much so that not much was left of it.  But from the closing of the threads, I don't take that as a good sign that it will continue... 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: What hotkey(s) do *you* use to trigger FARR?

« on: August 10, 2010, 01:03 PM »

I use caps lock

-ecaradec (August 10, 2010, 12:38 PM)

Caps Lock?  I never thought about that... does it screw with your typing though?