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Living Room / Re: Lift: Short Film on Everyday People

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 03, 2011, 09:32 AM »

Now that's depressing.

-IainB (March 03, 2011, 07:54 AM)

Not wholly uplifting.

1802

Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 03, 2011, 09:28 AM »

Vitalis, jgpaiva?

When I was a kid, Vitalis was a very popular men's hair tonic (my grandfather used it).

-AndyM (March 03, 2011, 06:57 AM)

Ah Ah Ah... That's a jug of portuguese water

-jgpaiva (March 03, 2011, 08:01 AM)

A somewhat eccentric grandfather, AndyM? Portugal's a long way to go in order to fix one's hair…

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 02, 2011, 10:06 PM »

Thread undead!

A couple of these would be nice on the desktop. Just saw them favourably reviewed.

NEC MultiSync PA301W

30-inch LCD @ 2560×1600.
Holds and switches between multiple profiles; web, print, photo, video etc.
Onboard KVM and USB hub.

> US$2k
> US$2.5k with a calibration system included.


And, while we're here, any recent members want to post images of their desktops?  Feel free, the more the merrier!

1804

Living Room / Re: A Point About Grammar

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 02, 2011, 09:29 PM »

It's not a word at all

-timns (March 02, 2011, 09:18 PM)

You're right, it draws a poor reception — salotto rubbish.

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Living Room / Re: A Point About Grammar

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 02, 2011, 09:22 PM »

Just a few minutes I joined

-eikelein (March 02, 2011, 09:11 PM)

Welcome aboard, I think I'm going to like you 

1806

Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 02, 2011, 08:13 PM »

mouser,

Still trying to help, so I'll keep an eye out for you…

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Living Room / Re: A Point About Grammar

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 02, 2011, 08:12 PM »

Their language buffers in their brains are too small, and they can't double buffer, so you get choppy playback.

-Renegade (March 02, 2011, 07:24 PM)

More likely they're air heads so you get bubble duffer.

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 02, 2011, 07:22 PM »

someone blind him!

-mouser (March 02, 2011, 06:51 PM)

Blimey!

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Living Room / Re: A Point About Grammar

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 02, 2011, 07:04 PM »

Either way I have heard the news folk screw it up.

-Stoic Joker (March 02, 2011, 05:52 PM)

And just why is it <pause> that news folk feel <pause> the need to inject <pause> inappropriate pauses <pause> into almost every sentence spoken??? 

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 02, 2011, 06:47 PM »

You should write more posts then, so the donations keep coming

-housetier (March 02, 2011, 06:13 PM)

Every time I look away that thermometer rises. I hope you all appreciate the effort I'm putting into looking away!

1811

Site/Forum Features / Re: Fundraiser ONE-A-DAY Planning Calendar, Please Volunteer

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 02, 2011, 02:00 PM »

"How to work with simple regular expressions"

-timns (March 02, 2011, 01:33 PM)

  "How to work with simple regular expressions"

even better for me if "How simpletons work with regular expressions"

1812

Living Room / Re: In Western societies, how can a man have a hyphenated name? (and why!)

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 02, 2011, 01:58 PM »

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-timns (March 02, 2011, 01:09 PM)

You might have made a hash of that 

1813

General Software Discussion / Re: Browser startup times

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 02, 2011, 01:03 PM »

launch each of my browsers 5 times in a row

-timns (March 02, 2011, 12:16 PM)

Clearly, you have too much time on your hands.

Guess I'm sticking with FireFox for now.

On what are you running it, Watson?

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Living Room / Re: A Point About Grammar

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 02, 2011, 08:05 AM »

It is disconcerting. I believe that part of the problem stems from misguided experiments in education, of which the pupils were more victims than beneficiaries. Then there's the decline in reading, and then the merging of multiple cultures (which has many, many benefits but...) and then…  Oh dear!

There is also the mildly amazing prevalence, among many who grumble, to point out that someone failed to use a spell checker. While some writing can be magical, the verification of spelling is unlikely to be so.

Having said all that, often we do seem able to decode what is meant by poorly framed expressions.

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Living Room / Re: In Western societies, how can a man have a hyphenated name? (and why!)

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 02, 2011, 07:47 AM »

Someone explain this to me. I'm seeing more and more professional athletes artificially hyphenating their mother and father's surnames…

-zridling (March 01, 2011, 11:04 PM)

Dashed if I know 

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 01, 2011, 09:26 PM »

I love this place. Will donate the second week of March. Just finished putting LibreOffice over the top. My nips are tingly! Oh wait, that's TMI.

 

-zridling (March 01, 2011, 08:41 PM)

Thanks for keeping us abreast...

-timns (March 01, 2011, 08:42 PM)

Look, this is a family site and remarks like that make it pretty clear that you're in your cups! 

-cranioscopical (March 01, 2011, 09:05 PM)

next you'll be telling us you're brazillian...

-Target (March 01, 2011, 09:14 PM)

It's no use your trying to wax lyrical.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Centerbase CRM - Mini-Review

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 01, 2011, 09:13 PM »

Nicely done!  Easy to read and informative. Just what I like in a review — someone intelligent who's done a lot of the heavy lifting for me.

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Living Room / Re: The March 2011 6th Anniversary Fundraiser Has Begun! Cheer for Victory Thread

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 01, 2011, 09:05 PM »

I love this place. Will donate the second week of March. Just finished putting LibreOffice over the top. My nips are tingly! Oh wait, that's TMI.

 

-zridling (March 01, 2011, 08:41 PM)

Thanks for keeping us abreast...

-timns (March 01, 2011, 08:42 PM)

Look, this is a family site and remarks like that make it pretty clear that you're in your cups! 

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Finished Programs / Re: Load an INI file in ListView GUI control in AutoHotkey

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 01, 2011, 07:36 PM »

I was able to complete it.

-gauravgs (March 01, 2011, 12:46 AM)

Looking forward to it 

1820

Living Room / Re: Donation Coder Fever

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 01, 2011, 07:05 PM »

So you like Masefield, eh?

Witty British coder with a salt-caked quick snack,
Biting through the pizza in the long March nights,
Has a program with awe specs,
Can't fail, (big head?)
Such good, donationware, that all delights.

1821

General Software Discussion / Re: Opinions on System Utilties Suites

« Last post by cranioscopical on March 01, 2011, 06:44 PM »

Don't like 'em.
More pain than gain.

They're likely to 'fix' your machine but not always in the sense that you had in mind 

1822

General Software Discussion / Re: Using a digital tablet with OneNote

« Last post by cranioscopical on February 28, 2011, 09:19 PM »

Thanks for the walk through 

1823

N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY MUGs

« Last post by cranioscopical on February 28, 2011, 05:54 PM »

Great mug! That beaker thing's pretty nifty too…

1824

Living Room / Re: Should I add ads to my website?

« Last post by cranioscopical on February 28, 2011, 05:43 PM »

I have a slightly negative reaction, always, to ads on a site (which is quite irrational, for a particular reason).
I am not, however, averse to making money when the opportunity arises.
Trying it as an experiment seems a perfectly rational step, unless the advertiser is likely to perform any unpopular action(s) that might redound negatively on your site.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« Last post by cranioscopical on February 27, 2011, 11:33 PM »

So in the end, it's a mouser site, nothing to do with donationcoders or donationware.

-lotusrootstarch (February 27, 2011, 10:54 PM)

That's getting awfully close to offensive and I am sure that, because of your obvious concern for the site, it cannot be your intention.
To a very large extent it is a mouser site as nobody else puts as much effort into it as he, so thank goodness for that.
The comment, however, seriously undervalues the stellar contributions of many selfless contributors.

Has it occurred to you that anyone is able to voice the same concerns and complaints as you but that you seem to be a voice crying in the wilderness? There might be a conclusion to derive from that.  Perhaps the outcome of the fast-approaching fund raiser will give some indication as to whether or not people feel it worth donating to the site. Personally, I feel that will be a good measure of perceived worth.

There is always room for improvement in any endeavour and your posts have provoked some thought. Repeating the same points over and over again might now prompt little more in the way of feverish self examination. Pointing out what you feel is lacking is a good start. Explaining to us what you are prepared to contribute to improving things would be a good next step.