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Living Room / Re: DC's "EVIL DEAD" Get Together

« Last post by JavaJones on October 22, 2006, 03:50 PM »

Yes, make a Cody UT character! Mouser can play him with the Hide & Seek mod and he can always be the seeker.

Either that or we make whoever is the seeker use the model. I like the idea of staying simple - making a full on DC mod/mutator would be cool, but is probably overkill for now. If we can even get a good amount of people into a UT game then we'll see if there's enough interest to keep going.

- Oshyan

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Living Room / Re: Self-Contained Helmet Videocam Gadget For You Extreme Sports Freaks

« Last post by JavaJones on October 22, 2006, 03:46 PM »

Nice! I don't do anything that would make this useful, but I do dig *watching* those vids. So if this will help make more, I'm all for it.

2GB SD cards are quite cheap these days too - $30 starting: http://tinyurl.com/yzw265

- Oshyan

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Living Room / Re: MIT Smartboard video — MUST-SEE

« Last post by JavaJones on October 22, 2006, 03:39 PM »

Pretty cool. I wonder how flexible and powerful it is though. That was all pretty simple stuff and unless you're designing the next child's marble toy I'm not sure it's genuinely useful. It's frankly not surprising to me that they could make a computer figure out interactions of simple shapes, especially in 2D. It'd be something a bit more interesting if they could actually show a genuinely practical design example, even if it was also simple.

Still, kudos to the design team of course!

- Oshyan

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Living Room / Re: Comparison of online music services Pandroa, Last.fm, and Yahoo Music

« Last post by JavaJones on October 22, 2006, 03:23 PM »

Just goes to show that a check-list of features doesn't tell the whole story by far.

The comments about Pandora are interesting though. I'm fairly sure you *can* use multiple artists/songs to refine a station. I also find it suggests music extremely well, for the most part. I haven't tested the other services much, but Pandora at least earns high marks from me for music suggestion and general refinement. Especially after training, which makes a "length of evaluation" notice in reviews like this an important thing.

It does sound like Yahoo's more extensive ratings - particularly in terms of rating whole artists or albums (and being able to ban whole artists/albums) - are a good enhancement. I think a 100 point rating system is pretty silly though, and I highly doubt Yahoo actually does much with that. It probably just averages it to the 4 point system and works off that. So I would guess the 100 point ratings would only be useful to the listener, if at all, and thus probably a waste of time.

- Oshyan

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Living Room / Re: Starship dimensions

« Last post by JavaJones on October 22, 2006, 02:37 PM »

Nudone, -10x page. See above.

Edit: Also the -2x page (closer detail, more direct comparatives).

- Oshyan

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Living Room / Re: Starship dimensions

« Last post by JavaJones on October 22, 2006, 02:19 PM »

I enjoyed Halo fairly well on PC, but it was obvious it had suffered due to the move to console as the primary platform.

But what a damn cool page. I'm a pretty serious sci-fi geek, so this goes right to my core.

Edit: Oh yes, the Nostromo and the Sulaco from Aliens are on there - on the -10x page.

- Oshyan

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Living Room / Re: Roller Coaster of Death -- Machinima Video

« Last post by JavaJones on October 22, 2006, 02:08 PM »

HAHAHAH! That's stupendous.

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Multi-Document AND Multi-View Text Editor?

« Last post by JavaJones on October 21, 2006, 07:24 PM »

That first screenshot has 2 sets of tabs - 1 for each document window. The UE screenshot just looks like standard window tiling, which is pretty common. Tim can you explain more precisely what you mean by "multi-view"?

- Oshyan

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Living Room / Re: DC's "EVIL DEAD" Get Together

« Last post by JavaJones on October 21, 2006, 03:53 PM »

Unreal Tournament! Unreal Tournament! If we do it in the original - still my favorite - it should be easy/cheap for anyone who doesn't have it to get in. It's old and very inexpensive now, plus it will run on a wide variety of systems - maybe even App's old WinME box.

We don't even have to kill each other if we don't want to. If we all download some cool, big maps, we can just run around and explore, and comment, etc. And anyone who wants to can edit the levels in-between sessions and put fun stuff in. Come to think of it, maybe there's A: a hide and seek mod or B: a treasure hunt mod for UT that would work for everyone. That could be really fun!

Of interest to anyone?

Edit: Hide and Seek mod listed here: http://www.oldunreal.com/othermods.html

- Oshyan

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: application sensitive pop-up notes

« Last post by JavaJones on October 21, 2006, 03:38 PM »

What have you tried? As I mentioned there's Stumbleupon (which seems more focused on recommendation, not note-taking and arbitrary rating), and then another that I don't remember the name of.

Edit: this seems to do something along these lines, but I'm not sure it's the one I was remembering: http://www.purplebun...y.com/bbs/index5.php

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there any tool to see pdfs full screen in two pages?

« Last post by JavaJones on October 21, 2006, 03:37 PM »

Yes, I would assume so. Which is why I was saying I haven't tried the non-reader Foxit products.

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there any tool to see pdfs full screen in two pages?

« Last post by JavaJones on October 21, 2006, 02:17 PM »

I didn't even know Acrobat did OCR. I don't have any experience with the Foxit tools besides the reader as they're mostly not free and all I really need is the reader usually. So I don't know if there's OCR capability there. I kind of doubt it though.

What is the scrolling that you like in Acrobat?

- Oshyan

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Living Room / Re: do you think this will run vista?

« Last post by JavaJones on October 21, 2006, 02:15 PM »

What? That's ridiculously cool! What does it say on the page?

- Oshyan

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: application sensitive pop-up notes

« Last post by JavaJones on October 21, 2006, 02:13 PM »

Nice idea, I'd definitely like to see something like this as well.

The web browser "sites I've been to and had bad experiences with" example also makes me wonder what browsers, if any, allow you to generically rate or put down comments for sites in a not-necessarily recommending way. I've seen a few that do this, but I'd be more interested in doing it personally than in a shared way, although the latter would ultimately be cool too. I know there's one that lets you just sort of write over the top of any page and other visitors to that page who have the browser/extension can read what you wrote. Not sure if it has ratings or anything. I don't know if Stumbleupon has facility for rating things like merchants either. But I think it'd be super cool to have a browser that was basically like "rate the web", with a really quick, easy interface to rate not just pages you bookmark, but any page, including notes. And then it'd be searchable and sortable, like "top rated sites", etc. Again one of the existing systems like Stumbleopon or the other I mentioned may do this. If so I'll have to give them a try. But it's a cool idea either way.

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Vista "kernel access" controversy - what does DC think?

« Last post by JavaJones on October 21, 2006, 01:53 PM »

More news today - direct word from Sophos "we don't need MS to open up patchguard" and Mcafee "Vista is less secure than XP" respectively. I have to say, even though the Mcafee article sounds like mostly FUD, Sophos also sounds kind of full of it.

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: WinExposé Clone for Windows - Get your windows out of each others way

« Last post by JavaJones on October 21, 2006, 04:38 AM »

lol. Nice, but not useful to you?

- Oshyan

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Living Room / Re: Whitney Music Box - Flash Visualization of Music

« Last post by JavaJones on October 21, 2006, 03:20 AM »

Hmm, that's actually really cool. Did you check out all the varations?

I've always been fascinated by the visualization of audio and the audioization (ok, not a word

) of visuals. I remember a guy named Golan Levin who did some really amazing work at MIT with similar kind of stuff: http://www.flong.com/ The "Audio Visual Environment Suite" and "Scribble Performance" are the things to check out. Not sure if the videos are on there anymore, but he has a lot of other cool projects (like a font synthesis system) that are worth checking out too. I presume YouTube or Google Video have mirrors of his stuff too, if it's not there anymore. Hmm, yep http://youtube.com/r...in&search=Search

- Oshyan

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Living Room / Re: Omgili - Google Like Search But Limited to Forums

« Last post by JavaJones on October 21, 2006, 02:40 AM »

Cool system. Bookmarked!

- Oshyan

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General Software Discussion / Re: Speeding up Windows

« Last post by JavaJones on October 21, 2006, 02:37 AM »

Yeah, it's not hard to find. I just find it annoying that they pulled the tool. They let us still download MS Powertoys for god's sake.

- Oshyan

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Living Room / Re: gliffy - collaborative diagramming on the web

« Last post by JavaJones on October 21, 2006, 02:30 AM »

Very cool. It's amazing how sophisticated these online apps are getting. I'd rate this above Writely for functionality and presentation. I may even make use of it for work.

- Oshyan

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