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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: FileHamster discount link

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2010, 06:37 AM »

thanks for the links 

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Living Room / Re: Flattr: New Micropayment System - Gets the Model Right

« Last post by mouser on March 21, 2010, 12:11 AM »

That's not very different from the paypal model is it?

What i find appealing about the Flattr model (and appealing about a model i proposed long ago), is the idea of not having to worry about the actual amounts -- worrying about having enough, etc.


A hybrid approach actually could be VERY cool, and i'm not sure anyone has thought of this yet. Imagine:

Any time you are at a website you want to support or you like, or you think you MIGHT POSSIBLY want to support, you click a button and you type in a text little hint to yourself.  For example if you were on DC, you would click the button in your browser (not even on the website), and type "cool looking software, expecially FARR".

Ok now at end of the month, you get a report on HybridDonator.com, and it would be a report about all the sites that you indicated you might be interested in supporting, your notes, and maybe some extra info like how much time you spent on the website that month.

So you might see a report like:

DonationCoder.com | "cool looking software, expecially FARR" | 70 minutes during March 2010
Edith Frost's Music Homepage | "great music" | 10 minutes during March 2010

Next to each link you could type how much you want to donate, or click a link to visit, or a link to twitter/digg/recommend, or you could specify an amount percentage, like 10%, which would be based on the total amount you want to giveaway this month.

By default it could be set to divide up your monthly amount proportionately based on time, based on your ranking, or to give $1 per site, etc.

You could also uncheck sites you changed your mind about, etc.


What's so nice about this idea:

• Absolutely painless and risk free to decide on impulse to donate to a site (it's just a note to yourself not a commitment)
• Ability to change your mind later
• Ability to decide how much to donate in total at the end of the month, and simple ways of either spending fixed amount per month, or per site, or customizing.
• Provides additional functionality like helping you bookmark sites you want to visit (this could even be done automatically by adding sites that support "tipjars" to your report list automatically when you visit a page (but remember you dont have to donate to them at the end of the month).
• Streamlines the process since you would only log in once per month to actually process the financial donation in batch.

Thoughts?

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2010, 10:23 PM »

ha! now that was unexpected.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2010, 07:52 PM »

One of my recurring dreams I have is that my teeth become loose or fall out.

everyone has those -- i have no idea why.

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T-Clock / Re: T-Clock 2010 (alpha - download)

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2010, 09:37 AM »

Feature request: right-click menu option to do internet time sync
(i'm not suggesting you code the time sync, merely find a way to trigger the built-in windows internet time sync that can be seen in the "Adjust Date and Time" dialog).

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Save Window's cmd.exe line events to a text file- recorder

« Last post by mouser on March 20, 2010, 03:33 AM »

i think what kitty really is looking for is something that many people would find useful, which is a lightweight command prompt replacement with just a few extra useful features, like better management of history.  I think something like JP Software's tools, but maybe a LOT simpler to use? 

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Living Room / Re: How the big boys win the race for most popular website and rake in the dough

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2010, 07:32 PM »

Betanews has more: http://www.betanews....b-forever/1269029872

What makes me particularly ill about this stuff, is how much of the worst case scenario it confirms:

...
they operated YouTube with the unlawful objective of profiting from (to use their phrase) 'truckloads' of infringing videos that flooded the site," reads the opening passage of YouTube's founders single-mindedly focused on geometrically increasing the number of YouTube users to maximize its commercial value.
...
In a talking points document released today (PDF available here), Viacom cites various e-mails from various YouTube and Google executives, including YouTube founders Chad Hurley (CEO) and Steve Chen (CTO). Assuming these excerpts were not taken out of context, which is possible, they indicate that YouTube's founders were clearly building up a high-audience business with illicit files at their core, with the intention of selling out to somebody as soon as possible.

It seems to me that the current state of the internet is increasingly looking more and more like this:

• A new idea catches on, whether it's ability for people to upload and share videos, or or whatever.
• Huge amounts of money and venture capital pour into the on or two sites that have a chance of "winning" the battle to capture the most users, and becoming dominant in this niche.
• Companies whose goal is to build a sustainable, self-funding site can be seen as laughable naive fools -- the people who win this game are not people trying to build a sustainable company -- the people who are going to win are the people who can grow at a rapid pace and have access to enough money to give everything away for free until the rest of the competition is financially exhausted.
• These sites offer everything they have for free, with absolutely no intention of building a sustainable business model -- everything is free and wonderful in a mad dash to grab as many users and eyeballs and visits as conceivably possible, as rapidly as possible.
• This frantic breathless drive to get huge numbers of visitors and publicity will be pursued at any cost, and it only has to be financed for a short period.
• Then comes the payday.  The winning company, which has succeeded at grabbing the most users, will be bought out by one of the big companies.
• After the buy out, the big company will either just use the purchased userbase to strengthen their marketshare on other projects, or will turn around and start charging for the services the site once offered for free once they have locked in users and locked in their position as the dominant market force.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Portability of Clipboard Help+Spell

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2010, 07:12 PM »

I think i understand now and it seems i need to correct the ConfigDir.ini comments -- as you are right, it doesnt always create the DonationCoder\ subdirectory. Thanks for the report, and glad it's working for you.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Use FARR as Run Command?

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2010, 06:38 AM »

let me look into it.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Faster boots combining hibernate and restart (Boot Snooze)

« Last post by mouser on March 19, 2010, 04:43 AM »

worked on winxp

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Google Translation Plugin

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2010, 09:55 PM »

CZB pack download is here:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=17153.0

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Living Room / Re: How the big boys win the race for most popular website and rake in the dough

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2010, 09:01 PM »

You ever get the feeling that laws are for little people.. for corporations they are just suggestions.

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Living Room / Re: How the big boys win the race for most popular website and rake in the dough

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2010, 08:59 PM »

Not to be out scumbagged by YouTube, Viacom, the other party in the lawsuit, did their own share of dirty tricks:

For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately "roughed up" the videos to make them look stolen or leaked. It opened YouTube accounts using phony email addresses. It even sent employees to Kinko's to upload clips from computers that couldn't be traced to Viacom.

http://youtube-globa...adcast-yourself.html

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Living Room / How the big boys win the race for most popular website and rake in the dough

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2010, 08:53 PM »

For you paranoid delusional peasants out there who think the big rich websites play by different rules that the little people, here's some more fodder for your anger.

Recent documents from a lawsuit between YouTube and Viacom show how the companies vying to become the dominant video uploading websites (a battle which YouTube seemed to have won), knew quite well that to win the race to become the dominant video website would require focusing on illegally hosting copyrighted material.

So they weren't just content to simply turn a blind eye when people uploaded such copyrighted videos -- they were in a race to win the market, so naturally they did what any one would do, the founders of the site were busily uploading the illegal copyrighted videos themselves, in an attempt to boost the traffic on the site, and therefore win the popularity competition and make the big money.

Welcome to the web 2.0, where if you want to get bought out by google and make the big money, sometimes you have to do what it takes to inflate your traffic.  The law is for people in 2nd place.

"Chen twice wrote that 80 percent of user traffic depended on pirated videos. He opposed removing infringing videos on the ground that 'if you remove the potential copyright infringements... site traffic and virality will drop to maybe 20 percent of what it is.' Karim proposed they 'just remove the obviously copyright infringing stuff.' But Chen again insisted that even if they removed only such obviously infringing clips, site traffic would drop at least 80 percent. ('if [we] remove all that content[,] we go from 100,000 views a day down to about 20,000 views or maybe even lower')."

http://arstechnica.c...e-viacom-filings.ars

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Use FARR as Run Command?

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2010, 08:22 PM »

there is an alias called "run" that is there by default to do what you want. try just typing:
 run YOUR LINE TO EXECUTE HERE

there should already be an entry in the search directory list called %PATH% i think, just check the checkbox if it isn't.
Farr knows how to handle semicolon separated directory lists from environmental variables in the search folders entry, so it will properly parse the list of directories there.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2010, 03:28 PM »

This brought a huge smile to my face (direct youtube link):

Have you ever had a dream that you can play the guitar effortlessly and produce beautiful music and it happens in your dreams like it just flows out of you without requiring any concentration or planning.. this video made me think of such dreams.

From http://www.boingboing.net/

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Multi Photo Quotes / Re: Feature Request: Quickly set desired slide

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2010, 01:15 PM »

it wouldn't be very hard to this; even easier might be to have a shortcut that would launch the program and ask you for your away message, and let you choose from your preset and recent list, and then launch it with that text.  an additional benefit of this vs. tray would be no memory use when not running.

however, i know from your previous thread that you are really more interested in just plain text screensaver, and i'm sure you will find one like that.

so i think it's only worth me adding if you and/or others really also want the photo/multimonitor features of MPQ.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Sniper Elite for $2 on Steam

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2010, 12:03 PM »

it's really not that hard core at all -- at least on certain difficulty levels.
i wouldn't say you have to do much different from any sniping in fps games except aim a little higher, at least on easy difficulty levels.
it is more of a stealth game though, and much of the enjoyment comes from watching your bullet fly in slow motion.

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Portability of Clipboard Help+Spell

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2010, 11:43 AM »

you say it "worked perfect", but then say it didnt create the DonationCoder\Appname..
but did it create the data directory and put your data files in it.. in other words.. are you sure its using the folder you told it to store its data?

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Finished Programs / Re: ReplaceAbsolutePaths (RAP)

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2010, 12:41 AM »

For future reference, what's the difference between posting in Coding Snacks or the "Other programs" section?

We really need to establish some clear guidelines, since right now we really just have some informal things we do.

But here is now i tend to think about it:

The "Other Software" section has no "catch-all" area where people post software they've written -- in other words, it's currently only used to hold child forums for specific applications that need their own forum.  Now in reality there are programs that have child boards that really don't need them now, and their are "coding snacks" that are active enough that they deserve their own section in the "Other Software" area.  Over time we will clean up the "Other Software" area to remove child sections that are inactive.

But as a rule of thumb -- if a program gains enough of a following that it deserves its own sub-forum, and the author wants that subforum to be part of DonationCoder, and we feel comfortable enough "vouching" for the integrity and safety of the program, then we can create a subforum for it in the "Other Software" section.

All other programs should be posted in the Coding Snacks section, or Announce Your Software section.

Does that make some sense?

Note that we are always happy to create web space for authors that want to host their software on a web pge.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Sniper Elite for $2 on Steam

« Last post by mouser on March 18, 2010, 12:33 AM »

that's an easy yes.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Sniper Elite for $2 on Steam

« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2010, 10:28 PM »

great game.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / MOVED: ReplaceAbsolutePaths (RAP)

« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2010, 03:51 PM »

This topic has been moved to Finished Programs.

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=22126.0

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Finished Programs / Re: ReplaceAbsolutePaths (RAP)

« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2010, 03:50 PM »

neat -- thanks for sharing this -- i can see how it would come in handy.
i'm going to move this to coding snacks section where it may get some more attention.

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UrlSnooper / Re: how to get the direct link for the video on this website?

« Last post by mouser on March 17, 2010, 03:49 PM »

video doesnt load for me.