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General Software Discussion / Re: How to cleanse a playlist, for dublicates?

« Last post by app103 on February 10, 2011, 11:18 AM »

I know Winamp had this feature, but now days, I am a Trout user, which also has this feature, although I don't think it works for m3u or wpl.

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Living Room / Re: All Hail...!

« Last post by app103 on February 10, 2011, 11:08 AM »

Thanks for giving it a go - you made a nephew of mine very happy!

-timns (February 10, 2011, 09:49 AM)

Your nephew should be very proud of himself. He had me fooled. I thought this was something fun & silly that you did!

_{(yes, I have been known to make silly stuff to practice new skills, too...Mad Libs, Goodbye Canada, etc.)}

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General Software Discussion / Re: Axialis License Key Frustrations

« Last post by app103 on February 10, 2011, 06:09 AM »

Let's see how long it takes to get the link.

-y0himba (February 10, 2011, 05:13 AM)

You don't have to wait for it if you follow my instructions at the end of the first post.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Axialis License Key Frustrations

« Last post by app103 on February 10, 2011, 04:36 AM »

I just got an email from the developer, in which he states:

Congratulation for winning a free license Axialis IconWorkshop at DonationCoder.com!
 
The product key to activate your license has already been sent from DonationCoder.com directly. Let me know if you need a download link to get the installer of the full version (the trial version cannot be activated with the key).

Emphasis, mine.

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Living Room / Re: All Hail...!

« Last post by app103 on February 09, 2011, 11:55 PM »

Ha! Cute! But gender specific and not accommodating women.

Also...It doesnt mention which plugin I actually need.....

-Stephen66515 (February 09, 2011, 11:02 PM)

Java (which I enabled for this without restarting my browser, then disabled again when I was done)

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Living Room / Re: Too much free time apparently :)

« Last post by app103 on February 09, 2011, 05:35 PM »

Don't be in too big a rush. I understand once you hit 5000 they kick you out.

-40hz (February 09, 2011, 04:09 PM)

I think that only happens if you pass mouser.

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Living Room / Re: No, robot: Japan's elderly fail to welcome their robot overlords

« Last post by app103 on February 09, 2011, 05:29 PM »

When you need 200 workers but only have 100, either the workers will have to do twice as much work in the same amount of time, or patient care will suffer.

I do not see a reason why a hospital can't use robots for some of that care.

If one of the tasks that needs to be done is someone going from room to room, collecting up empty water pitchers and replacing them with new full ones, does it matter if a caring human does it or a robot? I say let the robot do it...it's better than leaving patients thirsty while they wait on a worker that doesn't have enough time to get to it between other tasks.

If a worker can be assisted by a robot...the robot lifting a patient while a worker changes the sheets, it could allow them to make many more beds than the currently widely used method of rolling a patient to one side, making half the bed, then rolling the patient to the other side to make the other half, then rolling them back. And with a worker shortage, you need to minimize the risk of injury to your workers, otherwise the shortage problem is worse. Why risk the chance of a worker injuring themselves with pulled or strained muscles from moving patients, if you don't have to?

And how about letting the elderly stay at home longer? There are plenty that wouldn't need to go to hospitals so soon, if there was some way that would allow them to stay where they are. My grandmother would have loved to have a robot to be there when I wasn't, to pick up all the things she dropped on the floor and couldn't safely bend down to reach herself. (her dog was never too good at playing fetch)

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Living Room / Divided Attention Disorder? Log off and read a book

« Last post by app103 on February 09, 2011, 03:58 PM »

If you work in an office it's quite possible that you suffer from a condition called DAD. Now don't panic it's not serious and nothing a good book or a long walk won't cure.
 
 My Internet browser has 24 tabs open. Among them are three separate attempts to reply to the same e-mail. My online banking session has timed out, and in the corner of my screen a Twitter feed is a never-ending scroll of news and links. Which I click. And click.
 
 What's wrong with me?
 
 What's wrong, is that I may have Divided Attention Disorder, or DAD. DAD encapsulates the growing phenomenon whereby the constant stream of online information could actually be changing the way our brains work.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12406677

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Living Room / No, robot: Japan's elderly fail to welcome their robot overlords

« Last post by app103 on February 09, 2011, 03:41 PM »

In Japan robots are friendly helpers not Terminators.

So when they join the workforce, as they do often in factories, they are sometimes welcomed on their first day with Shinto religious ceremonies.

But whether the sick and elderly will be as welcoming to robot-like tech in their homes is a question that now vexes a Japanese care industry that is struggling with a massive manpower shortage.

Automated help in the home and hospitals, believe some, could be the answer. A rapidly ageing first world is also paying close attention to Japan's dalliance with automated care.

It wants to know whether it can construct the nursing-care and medical-care needed in a future with fewer younger people to take care of the elderly. Japan could show us how.

[...]

The country's biggest robot maker Tmsuk created a life-like one-metre tall robot six years ago, but has struggled to find interested clients.

Costing a cool $100,000 (£62,000) a piece, a rental programme was scrapped recently because of "failing to meet demands of consumers" and putting off patients at hospitals.

"We want humans caring for us, not machines," was one response.

http://www.bbc.co.uk...ws/business-12347219

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General Software Discussion / Re: Why is my computer hiccuping every few seconds?

« Last post by app103 on February 08, 2011, 09:12 PM »

Stephen, you are crazy man!!

Seriously, it was funny, but would you mind removing that post?  I only say it because someone may come to this thread looking for the answer to this same question, and now your long post hides the answer at the bottom.  you've turned it into Experts Exchange!

-superboyac (February 08, 2011, 08:59 PM)

No, but I have removed it and also added a serious question in (spluttering) - I only ask cause Windows 7 also judders pure randomly for me, and can only really be reproduced by playing music and opening up resource heavy software while im at it

-Stephen66515 (February 08, 2011, 09:04 PM)

I have an old slow 9x pc that that hiccuping can only be remedied by playing music, constantly.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Movie Mode

« Last post by app103 on February 08, 2011, 07:42 PM »

Thank you! That works. 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Movie Mode

« Last post by app103 on February 08, 2011, 09:42 AM »

The closing of everything works great.

The relaunching has an issue: nothing with command line parameters is being relaunched.

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody arrives in Berlin, Germany

« Last post by app103 on February 08, 2011, 04:44 AM »

That vest is cute...with the medal on it, it makes him look like a little tough guy.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Movie Mode

« Last post by app103 on February 08, 2011, 01:02 AM »

The method it uses to kill programs tends to leave their icons in the SysTray until you wander your mouse over them, is this a problem?

-4wd (February 07, 2011, 06:38 PM)

Sounds good to me so far and the tray icons won't be a problem.

While I'm at it, when running programs from command line do you want the CLI window to be open/closed/optional ?

-4wd (February 07, 2011, 06:38 PM)

There is no extra CLI window when I launch XChat that way.

other than that, is it suitable for intended purpose?

-4wd (February 07, 2011, 06:38 PM)

Can't answer that yet, but I'll configure and test this later, when I am fully awake and not busy. (woke up to a ton of work in my inbox)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Movie Mode

« Last post by app103 on February 07, 2011, 06:19 PM »

Can you send me an example command line for it?

-4wd (February 07, 2011, 04:50 PM)

This is the parameters for launching the particular version of xchat that I run, that sets the settings folder somewhere other than the default location on my system drive:

-d "E:\Programs Installed\xchat-pu70\settings"

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Movie Mode

« Last post by app103 on February 07, 2011, 12:45 PM »

You could check out EndItAll by PC Magazine at pcmag.com

-SleepingWolf (February 07, 2011, 10:54 AM)

Thanks for the suggestion but...

Here are the 2 key points to what I want:

• I do not want to have to select a bunch of things to kill each and every time.
• I need it to be able to restart everything it kills later on.

EndItAll can not do that and neither can its successor, TaskPower 2.

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Living Room / Re: Deceptive Online Advertising

« Last post by app103 on February 07, 2011, 04:50 AM »

Their site pretty much looks just like their ad, but bigger. It's a pay for info site, where you get charged for answers. They say you don't pay until you are satisfied with the answer. They cover just about any topic.

They claim the people answering questions are experts and according to their employment opportunities page, they require verifiable credentials in whatever field you think you are an expert in, before they are willing to turn you loose answering questions.

examples:

Programming:

    * Computer-related educational degree; OR
    * Alternatively, programming related certification (e.g. A+); OR
    * Alternatively, 2+ years of relevant programming-related employment (e.g. engineer, programmer).

Dream interpretation*:

# General dream interpretation license or certification from an association or organization specializing in dream interpretation (i.e. www.asdreams.org.); OR
# Alternatively, Psychiatry or Psychology license/certification in good standing; OR
# Alternatively, 2+ years of relevant psychiatric/dream interpretation-related employment (as relevant to the forum); OR
# Alternatively, 2+ years of relevant dream interpretation-related employment (as relevant to the forum)

_{* glad to see it isn't copy & paste from some 100+ yr old woo woo dream dictionary.}

Parenting:

    * Parenting or child-related license or certification that is active and in good standing (e.g. child psychiatrist, pediatrician, teacher, social worker, coach), OR
    * Alternatively, 2+ years of parenting or child-related employment (e.g. teacher, nanny, parenting-related author), OR
    * Alternatively, parenting or child-related educational degree

From the number of UK related categories they have, I believe they are a UK based business. Without actually going through the process of asking a question and paying for the answer to be sure, just from what I can see on their site, they don't look like they are trying to scam anyone.

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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: Do Visions and Missions work for you?

« Last post by app103 on February 06, 2011, 04:08 PM »

I kind of see the idea of a personal mission statement as being what do you see as your purpose in life? Like Paul said, it has nothing to do with your current tasks on your todo list, your occupation, job, or what your goals are.

For me, that would be:

My purpose in life is to help people because helping people makes me happy.

Now, see, that has nothing to do with any specific occupation or job, but defining it can help me set goals, seek an occupation in line with it, and fulfill in my heart what I feel is my destiny. Knowing this, I won't seek a job or spouse that isolates me and prevents me from interacting with people I can help and makes it easier to ensure I stay away from and don't do things contrary to it.

And Paul is right, you can't define this unless you really look deep inside yourself and discover who you are.


I tend to avoid Vision Statements or long term life goals, and I definitely won't put them in writing. I have learned the hard way that doing so leads me down the path to serious depression, because my life rarely ever goes in the direction that I have planned, and looking back and seeing where I had hoped to be by now and where I actually am, makes me feel like a worthless failure. I'd rather not do that because it tends to spiral out of control and can be quite dangerous to my mental health. (this was a big contributor to my GTD related breakdown a few years ago) I can't look forward without looking back, and looking back makes me revisit things I'd rather forget and plans I made that never came to be.

It has taken me quite awhile to come to terms with the idea that it is ok to live life without a master plan, long term goals, or a big picture view of things. Some people are best going with the flow and enjoying the adventure. Some of us are a different type of traveler, better suited to just going wherever the road takes us, rather than having a destination in mind, using maps, planning routes, and having a travel itinerary.

I'll wonder about it, maybe dream a little, but I'll always deliberately leave it very fuzzy. I am better off that way. It helps me get through today with my sanity intact.

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General Software Discussion / Re: New (Feb 1 2011) "Starter" Editions of Delphi and C++ Builder

« Last post by app103 on February 05, 2011, 03:35 PM »

^ This +1.  It's all in the licensing.  You don't sell anything (hobbyist or Open Source projects), you don't pay anything.  If you sell anything, you upgrade to the personal edition.

-wraith808 (February 05, 2011, 12:00 PM)

The personal editions that Borland used to release were free but the licensing stated it could not be used to produce commercial software. Anything released that was built with them had to be freeware. (they also had some limitations, like no database related components were included).

The community editions were intended for producing open source software, only. (C++ Builder X comes to mind)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Free Social Media Icons with Vector Art

« Last post by app103 on February 05, 2011, 08:32 AM »

Iconshock has a nice free set too, with vectors, and PSD's:



http://www.iconshock.com/social-icons/

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General Software Discussion / Re: New (Feb 1 2011) "Starter" Editions of Delphi and C++ Builder

« Last post by app103 on February 05, 2011, 08:17 AM »

I had originally found out about this "deal" from Zarko Gajic's post on Facebook (he's the author behind delphi.about.com)

I'll paste here what I had to say there:

While this is nice, it's not enough.

The only reason why I was ever able to code anything in Delphi was because there was a free personal edition available when I started learning how to code.

I started out with D6 Personal in one window and delphi.about.com in another. I am very grateful for both of them. Delphi is a marvelous starter language that one won't necessarily ever outgrow. It's a language that can last you a lifetime.

You are not going to get beginners to take a chance on Delphi unless they can do it without risk. They can do that with Visual Studio, but they can't with Delphi.

I feel this is important to the ultimate survival of Delphi. Where are the Delphi coders of tomorrow going to come from when Embarcadero isn't making it easy for them to get started, like Borland did? No teenager in his right mind would ever think of paying that kind of money to get started on a hobby that could lead to a career or could end up abandoned next year.

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Official Announcements / Re: January 2011 Giveaway - Winners Posted

« Last post by app103 on February 05, 2011, 08:11 AM »

Usually the giveaway is in the name

-Ath (February 05, 2011, 08:07 AM)

Not always true. I live in an area with a lot of immigrants, and their kids are born here, are native speakers of English and plenty have foreign sounding names.

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Official Announcements / Re: January 2011 Giveaway - Winners Posted

« Last post by app103 on February 05, 2011, 08:04 AM »

God is in the details.

Well, English not being my native language, I use whatever seems right at the moment. I often wonder how do native speakers perceive my "creative" use of English.

-vlastimil (February 05, 2011, 04:43 AM)

Wait, what? You are not a native English speaker? You fooled me! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Axialis License Key Frustrations

« Last post by app103 on February 04, 2011, 11:46 PM »

No, I don't think I read it wrong...



There are multiple versions of the setup file and one or more of them do not allow you to enter your license key anywhere in the application. This was why I had to download and install another setup.

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Living Room / Re: Wow!! Are Any of You THIS limber?

« Last post by app103 on February 04, 2011, 05:58 AM »

http://www.jokeroo.com/bin/player.swf?5f9f_f369

-kyrathaba (February 03, 2011, 06:25 PM)

It was amazing enough when the first one got in the box, but when the 2nd one got in there with her, my jaw dropped. I was not expecting that.