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I thought that having one life to live at a time was enough. It seem that many want to also have a virtual life.
The hunter that follows 2 preys, catches none.

Anyway, how many of Facebook friends are really friends? How many will take time to visit you or call you if you are sick in the hospital? How many will visit you, if you are in jail? The ones that care about you enough to move their but, those are your friends. All others are just acquaintances.

That's a pretty limited definition of friend IMO.  I have true friends that live in foreign countries or across the country that could not do what you say, but have helped me in ways that are more important to me personally than visiting me if I'm in the hospital or in jail.  Friendship IMO is a matter of connection rather than trivialities such as physical presence.

I used OD2 Plus for a while, but a better one IMO if you're willing to pay is WinStep.  It includes 3 different ways of setting up your apps.

1. NextStart - It can either be a bar to replace the start menu and task bar, or a right click menu (or both)
http://www.winstep.net/im...nshot_thumb_nextstart.jpg
2. Workshelf - This is a dock that has shelves (which are the folders that you ask for)
http://www.winstep.net/im...nshot_thumb_workshelf.jpg
3. Nexus - A separate dock that's more like the NeXT type of dock that can have fly out folders.
http://www.winstep.net/im...nshot_thumb_nextstart.jpg

All of them allow you to display either the content of folders, manually generated content, or even special folders.

I'd say give it a look.  It's not cheap ($29.95), but it does everything that you asked for, and I like it.  I'll post a screenshot of my desktop when I get home.

This thing helps considerably:

Regex Buddy

^ That's what *I* swear by... great app!

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Some good titles for sale in this offer.

TOAD is the one I always used for Oracle.  They have a free version (the one I linked) and a non-free one.

I'm confused, if you're using FF 99% of the time, what "important" stuff are you doing in IE?

There are some things that *just don't work quite right* in browsers other than IE.  And those things happen to be important.  So if his situation is like mine, that might apply.

[All Hail His Royalness wraith808 the Unbearable: Toeless Pope of the Arcane Wilderness]

I was tempted to try again.. I shouldn't have been

All Hail His Royalness wraith808 the Unbearable: Toeless Pope of the Arcane Wilderness

How do you manage to stand up without falling over, your Holiness?

Stand ... up?    And it's Royalness!  Get it right!

The ineffable Stoic Joker the Categorical: Capricious Bitch-Queen of the Archane Wilderness

All Hail His Royalness wraith808 the Unbearable: Toeless Pope of the Arcane Wilderness

Hay man, looks like we're neighbors...

 

There goes the neighborhood...  

[All Hail His Royalness wraith808 the Unbearable: Toeless Pope of the Arcane Wilderness]

I was tempted to try again.. I shouldn't have been

All Hail His Royalness wraith808 the Unbearable: Toeless Pope of the Arcane Wilderness

Some dangerous ideas:

• Could we pull together enough DC coders to do a Coding-Snack-A-Day throughout all of march?

Could we get pledges per the NANY event (coding snacks, whatever) ... and people pledge support to the ideas?

i.e. you have pledge 1...n ... and if someone likes pledge 1, they pledge a certain amount towards its completion to go to DoCo.

A sort of code-a-thon.

Just an idea...

-- The model publishers are following with DRM and pricing is RIAA in the 1990s all over again

Agreed.  Totally.

-- Stop confusing the iPad as an e-reader. It can't do what the Kindle/Nook does and doesn't have the Ink clarity.

Agreed only in part.  Can it use e-ink or have the advantages that e-ink provides.  No.  But can it do what the kindle/nook does?  Of course it can!  What the readers to is allow you to read ebooks.  And iPads (and a variety of other devices) allow you to do that also.

^ They can justify the price to more people as a mobile browser than a desktop browser, so I'm not surprised.

^ Yeah... it took a while, but I'm pretty much using Chrome full time now (other than the internal sites that have to use IE... sigh).  Though they almost made me switch back to FF... Flash was crashing for a while pretty regularly.  But other than that hiccup, Chrome is a lot more responsive, and the fact that extension updates don't make you restart the whole browser is a definite plus.

[A sweet deal for Valentine's Day]

Just got this deal from Manning.

A sweet deal for Valentine's Day
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dotnet50	iphone50
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ruby50	spring50

Any of these codes will give you half off all books at manning.com, so pick the one that makes your inner developer glow. We'll see which code gets used the most and let you know next week who got the love this Valentine's Day.

Professor wraith808 Pointless: Obscene Knave of Tinkling-on-the-Water

Pretty cool that he's into programming.   He's already into Java, so this recommendation is probably Pointless () but there's a really good book I purchased for my son to get started (and his uncle used it too!)

Hello World!
Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners

They have pretty good sales on Manning from time to time; I believe I purchased the book and the pdf for $15.00 around Christmas.

Good one - I'll grab that thing. There's a big element of running before walking when it comes to computering these days IMHO. Would be a great idea to cover some more basics.

Use coupon code python50 to get 50% off that book.

My brain just can't quite wrap around open source as a cut throat business model.

Me neither, but then maybe it's not opensource which is the business model, it's probably the business men in the background, not the programmers.

When people talk about just wanting to make free software, its inevitably someone that hasn't been faced with the reality of justifying ROI to investors.  When any project that is not absolutely open reaches a certain point, someone is or perceives that they are that investor.  And that's when it gets ugly.  Information may want to be free, but money also wants to be made.

I have yet to see Archos hit a homerun with their devices.  They always seem so promising, yet they never quite cross that line of truly awesome.

The first archos devices were ahead of their time.  But because they were ahead, people didn't fully grasp what the potential was at the time, and they cut deals with the industries to cripple them.  Since then, they've sort of squandered the advantages they did have in devices that never quite reached the levels of those first devices.  I still have one of the first/second gen devices, and it's pretty amazing considering how old it is that it is still quite useful.

Professor wraith808 Pointless: Obscene Knave of Tinkling-on-the-Water

Pretty cool that he's into programming.   He's already into Java, so this recommendation is probably Pointless () but there's a really good book I purchased for my son to get started (and his uncle used it too!)

Hello World!
Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners

They have pretty good sales on Manning from time to time; I believe I purchased the book and the pdf for $15.00 around Christmas.

that's not quite the same kind of tablet, i.e. it doesn't have an LCD (or whatever) screen built into it. instead it's a bit like the standard type of drawing tablets that Wacom does.

Actually, I have one of those.  It can be used as a wacom type tablet, but what it's primarily used for is to keep a legal pad on it and write on the legal pad- what you write is stored into memory.  It works pretty well as long as you have somewhat decent handwriting.  Otherwise, when you have to lift from the paper to cross t's or dot i's (or go from word to word) it might get a bit confused.

The acid test will be the day some major best-selling author does a book, and they announce it will only be available on Kindle. That will be the first warning that hardball is about to commence.

How the public reacts and (more importantly) buys will determine future publishing directions.

Just my two anyway.

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However, if I felt the Nook was going to get the last of a popular book, the completionist in me would prefer the Nook over any exclusive titles the Kindle may offer because I feel I must have at least invested in that series of books and willing to support the author to really get that final book barring things like Twilights and Harry Potters. On the other hand, if something was exclusive to the Kindle alone, I get the perception that the author must not be putting as much effort in that book and if it did eventually become popular - it will have a non-Kindle version.

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It's worth noting that the other outlets now have that book- it just took a few months.  I don't know what was behind that shift, as it wasn't as well publicized as the exclusivity.

(And on an unrelated note, I saw the series first, and absolutely loved it, so I can say that while the books are undisputedly better - I think most books are- that's not to say that the TV show wasn't good, just different.)

I wonder is this sale the part of some bigger plan for resurrecting whole IDE or just last effort before sinking. Embarcadero has been sleeping for a long time and some developers moved on to VS or Lazarus. How is it supposed to get them back?

Well, even Christian Ghisler is rewriting Total Commander for Lazarus.

I don't think they're anywhere near sinking.  There are still quite a few entrenched areas that just I know of with huge contracts, that are in government agencies, which aren't known for change.  It's just hard for individual developers to make a living off of it, since the places that I know that are entrenched are the types of places where people stay forever.

And it's not really a "sale" so much as another SKU in a different vertical- it would seem that they are trying to reach out to the developers they eschewed with the destruction of the turbo editions.

I'm pretty sure Embarcadero has no ties to MS.  They're just a company that made an investment in purchasing the compilers from Borland/Inprise.  And their marketing sucks just as much as before, from what I've seen.

^ This +1.  It's all in the licensing.  You don't sell anything (hobbyist or Open Source projects), you don't pay anything.  If you sell anything, you upgrade to the personal edition.

The personal editions that Borland used to release were free but the licensing stated it could not be used to produce commercial software. Anything released that was built with them had to be freeware. (they also had some limitations, like no database related components were included).

The community editions were intended for producing open source software, only. (C++ Builder X comes to mind)

That's what I meant... I mixed up personal with their new 'starter' in my statement.

No, my phrasing was just ambiguous. My intended definition was: the less you accept government intervention, the more "right-wing" you are.

Hmm... sounds like Libertarianism to me. 

Yes.  I think the poles are Libertarians are no govt influence, conservatives are no govt influence is business, govt influence in social, and libs are the reverse of conservatives.

^ That's the strange thing... it's the first thing I tried, and it's not there.  I might try again... if they process it, it will just be more that I get   It will be helpful to get my daughter's nook

^ Did you get an e-mail immediately?  I purchased, and thought I was creating an account at the same time, but when I went to look for the purchase, the account wasn't there, and I received no notification.

I like "community editions". Free for non-commercial use or single developers, minimal fees for small developers ($50~$1000 depending on the product), etc.

Well, we'll see.

^ This +1.  It's all in the licensing.  You don't sell anything (hobbyist or Open Source projects), you don't pay anything.  If you sell anything, you upgrade to the personal edition.