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DC Gamer Club / Re: GOG Connect - DRM-free access to your Steam library
« Last post by wraith808 on June 04, 2018, 10:26 PM »Thanks!
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My definition of monopoly is a large company (which GitHub undoubtedly is) which has a large enough market share in its specific niche (which GitHub undoubtedly has) that using a different product has a severe impact on your own success.-Tuxman (June 04, 2018, 06:57 PM)
What is your definition of monopolies?
What would happen if GitHub would close in thirty minutes and why?-Tuxman (June 04, 2018, 02:46 PM)
exclusive control of a particular market that is marked by the power to control prices and exclude competition and that especially is developed willfully rather than as the result of superior products or skill
I mean I just don't understand how their are profits to be made with these deals and acquisitions and businesses. Github is a fantastic service/site it just makes my head hurt to try to think how the valuations and business models work. And I must admit, it makes me a little queasy to even think about such matters, so I try not to.-mouser (June 04, 2018, 01:07 PM)
I don't understand how business works-mouser (June 04, 2018, 11:51 AM)
You have no option to prevent WU from installing updates in the Home version.
Windows Update MiniTool still works, you can use it to choose, (un)hide, and install updates.
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Install via Chocolatey or download from a software repo, eg. MajorGeeks-4wd (June 03, 2018, 02:22 AM)
That is, recommending therapy - rather than a book - might be more likely to produce a positive/beneficial result for the individual concerned.-IainB (June 03, 2018, 05:53 AM)
Took me a while to realize what you were saying..I get that from my wife quite a bit...-mouser (June 01, 2018, 10:13 PM)-cranioscopical (June 02, 2018, 02:52 PM)
I think visual as in you can visualize the organization better in that horizontal format. At least, I've found that I do.That ties in with designs using tabs. Most people work better with a grid system rather than everything being on a single tree (vertical or horizontal - though which is vertical and which horizontal has an impact); we interpret the organisation differently according to how it is presented even when it is structurally identical. I don't think that is actually visual, more the way this particular presentation makes it easier or harder to correlate with the organisation we have in our minds. It's one of the issues I was going to address in my conclusions.-wraith808 (June 01, 2018, 11:41 AM)-Dormouse (June 01, 2018, 01:05 PM)
That makes complete sense. I'd always regarded Gingko as a keyboard oriented, text based card system with some organisation, but was concerned I was missing something when I saw references to it being a visual system.-Dormouse (June 01, 2018, 09:49 AM)
Another idea for something to cover that I've found myself using enough to pay for a subscription is Gingko. I'll cover that in my eventual article as I've used it a lot, but didn't know if you would be interested.So that's the web version? I was having a quick play, before going on to review RightNote.-wraith808 (May 26, 2018, 11:41 AM)
AFAICS (long time since I have used it), it is still a convoluted process getting cards coloured or images in. And I can't even see a way of doing that in the desktop version.
And without being able to do that what makes it visual? (I always thought that the emphasis on MarkDown and LaTex was a profoundly non-visual way of thinking about things, and enforced a text/keyboard emphasis). And typing MarkDown instructions does NOT make it easier to concentrate on writing the words you want. What makes it different to typewritten sheets laid out on the floor in columns?
The comments I have seen from some users suggest a profound writers block where they were intimidated by the size and structure of what they were doing and just found it much easier to do all their writing on apparently unconnected cards.
So unless I'm missing something important (not unlikely), I think it will do very poorly in all the categories of the review. OK for writing (though good for pantsers) and some organisational capability. So I'd like to know what advantages you have found for it in use as I fear I may have missed them.
When I do a review of it, I think I will within a group of card approaches and do it jointly with NoteZilla.-Dormouse (June 01, 2018, 05:19 AM)
The other I'm looking for is software that switches the Desktop wallpaper among images in a folder (in sequence or randomly) at user-selectable intervals. I think someone coded this for one of the N.A.N.Y.s, but I can't recall the user or name of the program.-kyrathaba (May 29, 2018, 07:34 PM)
I have a ClipMate_7526_136.exe installer here from 2013, and I had a license for that. If I recall, I dropped it because Win8 didn't seem to like it (at leat on my machines)
-cranioscopical (May 29, 2018, 09:59 AM)
Downloading WriteItNow.
First thing I notice is the emaciated demo - it doesn't save!
Obviously limits any possible review. Half a mind not to bother.-Dormouse (May 29, 2018, 08:40 AM)
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Welcome, gorens.
Your post reminded me to post.
I have recently been reading a ton of "relationship" books lately.. At least a half dozen of them. These are self-help type books with different theories of, and advice about, relationships with your significant other.
Growing up I never gave much thought to such things, and never spent significant time "working" on having a relationship. I just figured it would all come naturally. And I am mostly a loner, and happy that way, so I have never been overly concerned with making a relationship "last". Now almost 50 years old I find myself shocked that these kinds of relationship and self-help subjects aren't taught in school. Some really useful life lessons and advice...
As to why I've been reading so much about making a relationship work lately.. Well that will have to wait for another day and another post. But in the next few days I will try to post some mini-reviews about the books I have been reading. I encourage everyone, whether currently in a relationship or not, to read some books on making a relationship work -- the earlier in your life the better.-mouser (May 27, 2018, 12:13 PM)
