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Living Room / TOP 10 DonationCoder Threads in the year 2017
« on: December 19, 2007, 11:37 PM »
10. "GemX: Missing in Action"

9. "Church of Cody Meeting: Date changed from MouserDay to CodyDay."

8. "BUG: FARR has hijacked my checking account again."

7. "Since Apple merged with Microsoft, which company is it okay to hate now?"

6. "NANY Challenge 2017: Code an Antiviral to Extraterrestrial DNA Infection"

5. "Process Tamer explodes when installed on my 4,096 core Pentium-7"

4. "Poll: Should Artificially Intelligent SpamBots be allowed to post?"

3. "IDEA: Need an app to keep my robot lawn mower out of the house."

2. "Has anyone else noticed Google is now indexing your thoughts?"

1. "Anyone know when Vista SP3 is coming out?"

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Living Room / Jurassic Park: For Real
« on: December 19, 2007, 08:39 PM »
Well, sort of.  If you like robots.

http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/12/18/cool-stuff-dubai-building-1-billion-jurassic-park/

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Scheduled to open in 2008 for a cost of $1.1 billion, the Restless Planet theme park in Dubai will feature 500,000 square feet of recreated prehistoric landscape, inhabited by 109 robotic dinosaurs representing more than 40 species.

And it's not silly Rainforest Cafe stuff: these machines are designed by Kokoro Company of Japan, makers of museum-quality animatronics such as those found in the Natural History Museum of London.  One T-Rex is programmed to track people in the crowd wearing red -- as prey.

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To insure accuracy -- because what could be more accurate than mixing together 40 different species representing 500 million years of evolution -- Palaeontologist Jack Horner has been consulting on the project, as well as the production team from the BBS's Walking with Dinosaurs series.

And if dinosaurs aren't your thing, it has a monorail too.

The only thing it's missing: an audioanimatronic Michael Chrichton being eaten by a T-Rex.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Display on-screen frames for various form sizes
« on: December 19, 2007, 02:10 PM »
I need a small utility that, once activated, displays a frame I can drag around on the screen to visually compare its size to other objects on-screen.  The idea is that while I'm developing forms for an app, I want to stay within a customer's known max screen resolution, e.g. 800x600, 1024x738, etc.

I have various rulers and other tools, but they only work in one x/y axis at a time and are cumbersome.

My forms are all dynamically resizable (they can be resized to be bigger/smaller) but by default I try to shoot for a form that's no bigger than their available screen real-estate.

So, I imagine a tiny thing that sits in the tray and responds to a double-click.  Once activated it shows a 3-pixel wide black frame with a transparent center preset to 1024x768 pixels.  I can click on the black part of the frame and drag it around, placing it over my forms for testing.  The frame itself is fixed in size and cannot be changed.  Double-clicking the tray icon again dismisses the frame.

Nice to have: Right-clicking the tray icon displays a context menu allowing selection of preset frame sizes... 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, and 1280x1024.

Playing of MP3 files is not a requirement.

Any takers?  There's a few DonationCredits in it for you if so.

Thanks,
Ralf

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Living Room / Top 10 Signs Recursion May Be a Problem In Your Life
« on: December 19, 2007, 02:40 AM »
10. You bump into yourself at the Time Traveller's convention.

9. Stack overflows when you try to brush your teeth.

8. Overwhelming feeling that you've felt Deja Vu before.

7. Freeway cloverleafs take you six hours to negotiate.

6. TOP 10 Signs Recursion May Be a Problem in Your Life

5. Past-life Hitler keeps picking on past-life Jesus.

4. Your klein bottle explodes.

3. All mirrors show your reflection times infinity.

2. You program in Lisp.

1. See Item #1

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Living Room / The Beatles Cover Stairway to Heaven
« on: December 19, 2007, 02:10 AM »
It's true.  Really.  And possibly the coolest video I've ever seen.

http://scalzi.com/whatever/?p=216


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