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Living Room / Re: World's first 'sky-worthy' car (And It Works!)

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 09, 2012, 06:35 PM »

I was hoping they'd show video of it being driven down the street. I remember years back there was a street legal auto you could fly. But you pulled a trailer with the wings in it.  You had to take the wings from the trailer and latch them on. Also there was the problem of storing the trailer while airborne.  If you landed in a different city and wanted to drive it, then I guess you either paid to store your wings at that airport or rented a trailer?

The nose on the thing looked similar to a Piper Cub single engine job.

-MilesAhead (April 09, 2012, 06:19 PM)

http://www.terrafugia.com/video_D2.html <--- Video driving down the street, filling up with fuel, then going to the airport for a flight

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Living Room / Re: Hack a Mac, or 500,000

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 09, 2012, 05:44 PM »

Ignorance is no defense...

People who own macs think they own the world, and they think (in most cases anyway) that they are better than everybody else, and (until now) they thought they where invulnerable to everything...


So Yes, I laugh, and I laugh LOUD!  

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Living Room / Re: World's first 'sky-worthy' car (And It Works!)

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 09, 2012, 05:24 PM »

I thought I saw on TV years ago a little car that could fly AND be driven into water as a boat. . .

And I'm not talking about on a fiction show. Anyone else have an idea of what I'm talking about?

-Deozaan (April 09, 2012, 05:16 PM)

There is an Aircraft that is called the Icon A5 - Its only recently gone into development though, so unsure its the same thing...also with the fact the A5 has to be LANDED on water, not driven, I am starting to wonder why I bothered starting to write this reply, knowing it will be of no use to you at all 

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Living Room / Re: World's first 'sky-worthy' car (And It Works!)

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 09, 2012, 04:39 PM »

http://www.terrafugia.com/ | www.driventofly.com

The companies actual websites

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Living Room / World's first 'sky-worthy' car (And It Works!)

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 09, 2012, 04:38 PM »

http://www.bbc.co.uk.../technology-17626818

US company Terrafugia has put on display a prototype car that is licensed to fly as well as drive, at the New York International Auto Show.

It is the first vehicle in the world to have met both the standards of the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) and the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), according to Cliff Allen, Vice President of Sales at Terrafugia.

This makes it the first "street legal aeroplane", he said.

Known as the Transition, the versatile vehicle has two seats, four wheels and retractable wings.
Continue reading the main story
“
Start Quote

We were curious to see how it would take off”
Dr Samuel Schwegart
Engineer, Terrafugia

It is expected to be available next year, with a price tag in the region of $279,000 (£176,300).

Very VERY Reasonable price for what it is...It puts it in the price range of many more people than I had expected...


Cant wait to see them in showrooms!

(Video of it on the link)

http://www.bbc.co.uk.../technology-17626818

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Release: Embed A Video

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 09, 2012, 09:14 AM »

Next Update will possibly be something like this:



Trying to decide what features I want/need to add before committing though,...could do with some feedback

Oh yeah, It will be called what you see in the title bar, when I release it - I kinda prefer that name, and it doesn't limit me to only video.

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Living Room / Re: Gizmo & DC's fundraiser

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 09, 2012, 07:27 AM »

Already posted: https://www.donation...opic=30595.msg284677

Just as nice the 2nd time though 

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Living Room / Re: Gizmo Richards promotes DC!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 09, 2012, 06:04 AM »

Awesome!

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Living Room / Re: Cool Video: News report from 1981 about the Internet.

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 08, 2012, 10:12 PM »

If that much.  Its also difficult to think that people would want to tie up their phone lines for an hour or two just to read the paper.   

-techidave (April 08, 2012, 09:11 PM)

I guess back then, much like now, people did it just so they could say "I did that!"

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Living Room / Re: Hack a Mac, or 500,000

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 08, 2012, 08:10 PM »

What makes this especially bad is the fact that most Mac users do not have an antivirus installed to catch it. They don't think Macs can get malware so they don't bother with it.

-app103 (April 08, 2012, 07:49 PM)

You say bad, I say funny as hell...

Tom-A-to, Tom-ah-to

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General Software Discussion / Re: html alternative

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 07, 2012, 05:58 PM »

I already use an WYSIWYG HTML editor

but I cant convert text to bold or red, easily, like in MS Word, I cant change the position of text blocks and graphics, easily, by draggind them, etc

-kalos (April 07, 2012, 05:56 PM)

* Stephen66515 hates WYSIWYG when it comes to website design so he shall bow out of this conversation

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General Software Discussion / Re: html alternative

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 07, 2012, 05:56 PM »

...

php/ASP.NET ...  Both very nice to use...

 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Release: Embed A Video

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 07, 2012, 05:50 PM »

Crap, sorry, just noticed a problem in the last build that forced all videos to 800x600 regardless of your selection. 

Fixed it now, rebuilt, and re-uploaded

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Release: Embed A Video

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 07, 2012, 02:39 PM »

Embed A Video makes it simple to create your own streaming video in HTML - Simply enter the details of the video, select your size and background colour, and hit generate! - Its really that easy!

I am planning (May never do it unless people want it) to add more functions to this, mainly things like different types of stream types (WMP/Audio etc).  But like I said, not too sure.

I only made this for my own use but figured I would polish the UI and release it as a small utility

No install needed, just unrar and run

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Living Room / Re: Ashton Kutcher to play Apple founder in Steve Jobs biopic

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 03, 2012, 04:35 PM »

Kelsey Grammar would have made a good match, hes a great actor

I'm not a fan of Apple at all, but I do respect how good at Marketing Steve Jobs was.

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Living Room / Re: What's Your Internet Speed/Reliability SATISFACTION?

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 02, 2012, 08:40 PM »

Fiber is great.
 (see attachment in previous post)

-jaden (April 02, 2012, 06:28 PM)

Wtf, looks backwards lol

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General Software Discussion / Re: The start of the Start Button Menu things for Win8

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 02, 2012, 06:49 PM »

A realistic question should be...

Why the hell do we even HAVE to resort to visual hacks just to do something as simple as get the start menu back?

For me, Windows 8 is a huge no-go.  It will fail as a Desktop OS, and it will fail as a Tablet OS.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 7 Days of Free Downloads from VideoBlocks.com

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 02, 2012, 05:19 PM »

due to my recent Vista crash, I lost all the videos from VideoBlocks. But now VideoBlocks is repeating the offer! This time the campaign is aimed at church leaders etcetera, (via eStudySource), but the content is the same. Also, they have written what I failed to notice from the beginning, that they will give you back your money if you forget to cancel in time. Again, you cannot download more than 20 files per day; it is not "50.000", but "max 140 of 50.000"

https://www.videoblo...dySourceReligion0312

Just create a username and password*, and you get download access to everything on VideoBlocks.com for 7 days. You can download 20 clips per day.

*To ensure one login per customer, we require a credit card to sign up for an account on VideoBlocks.com. However, you will not be charged anything for your 7 days of complimentary access. After 7 days you will automatically be charged if you do not cancel your account, but we will happily refund you if you forget.

VideoBlocks.com is only giving this complimentary access to a limited number of users, so start downloading now:

Get Your 7 Days of Complimentary Downloads

-VideoBlocks

-Curt (April 02, 2012, 04:26 PM)

It may well be that they have added that extra bit due to this thread, if so, well done VideoBlocks, Well done! - That is how its done! - Maybe other sites who run offers like that will take this on board! (One can only hope )

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for April 2, 2012 - Codename Fundraiser Feather Duster

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 02, 2012, 05:03 PM »

 

Awesome as-per usual!

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Living Room / Ashton Kutcher to play Apple founder in Steve Jobs biopic

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 02, 2012, 04:34 PM »

I cant think of a worse possible candidate for such a role...Except maybe Ricky Gervais

Ashton Kutcher has been cast as Steve Jobs in one of two competing biopics about the late founder of Apple, reports Variety.



Kutcher, who bears some resemblance to the young Jobs, has been cast in a version by Swing Vote's Joshua Michael Stern, which will chronicle the entrepreneur's journey from "wayward hippie" to co-founder of the iconic technology firm, "where he became one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of our time".


"I had the idea the day Jobs retired and I notice several IT and art directors at my company all in a buzz," producer Mark Hulme of Five Star Insitute told TheWrap. "I was observing that day how distractive his retirement was to the marketplace and I knew in my heart that his story was the film I wanted to do".

http://www.guardian....biopic?newsfeed=true

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Living Room / Re: Welcome to Big Brother UK

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on April 01, 2012, 04:59 PM »

Would have made a nice April Fool story.

-nudone (April 01, 2012, 04:34 PM)

It certainly reads like one

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator - Free!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on March 31, 2012, 10:12 PM »

I have absolutely no problem running MS FS X.

6-core AMD Phenom II
Sapphire Radeon HD6870
16Gb memory
Windows 7 64-bit

I would be surprised if I did have problems running it as it is supposed to work on much lower spec.

WRT veering - I wonder if it is your joystick config? I had a similar problem with my joystick in FlightGear (went round in circles!).

-Carol Haynes (March 31, 2012, 07:18 PM)

I can run FSX on Ultra - My previous post was about X-Plane  

*edit*

Just re-read my last post, it does look like im talking about FSX lol sorry.

Note to self: Read properly before posting a reply
Note to self 2: Dont post when your rushing around to leave

 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: BBCode In A Box | Preview

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on March 31, 2012, 10:10 PM »

@Stephen66515
Nice to see competition

-fenixproductions (March 31, 2012, 08:10 PM)

Hehe, Don't think its much in the way of 'Competition' - Not even close to the quality of yours IMHO - I honestly didn't even remember about yours until about 10 seconds after I posted the preview haha.

Which language do you use for it?

-fenixproductions (March 31, 2012, 08:10 PM)

C# + Regex (I Bloody HATE Regex!)

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator - Free!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on March 31, 2012, 02:34 PM »

MSFlight vs X-Plane 10? = Gimme X-Plane any day!

-Stephen66515 (March 31, 2012, 01:46 PM)

Tried that too, the trial. Got a god-awful frame rate, even though my system falls well within their specs. No idea why, but it was so bad I uninstalled it after one try.

Will try again some time, when I've had enough of MS Flight, but in my initial impression it was somewhat frustrating to get started with. Does it have tutorials? Aircraft info?

It's probably quite lame of me, but I find it tedious to stay up in the air for hours without anything interesting to look out the window at. Hawaii was a good choice for MS, as is Alaska, since the terrain is varied and beautiful (and provides for many challenges if you want). Don't know about X-Plane, but in FSX Hawaii looks totally bland, and anywhere else is only worse. Add-on scenery is expensive, limited and it would probably make the frame rate unplayable.

But I *am* hooked and I finally have a reason to upgrade my hardware. The only problem is I'm not sure any hardware upgrade will help in FSX, since it really depends on the CPU clock only, and the clocks today are pretty much what they were five years ago.

-tranglos (March 31, 2012, 02:03 PM)

I had the same problem with Frame Rate up until I upgraded my GFX card and full utilized DX11 -I also found that (still cant figure it out) with default aircraft, when you try to take off, your plane will veer dramatically to the left for no reason I can explain, other than the default Cessna loading with the rudder on full and it doesn't help to actually rudder right to account for it.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Microsoft Flight Simulator - Free!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on March 31, 2012, 01:46 PM »

MSFlight vs X-Plane 10? = Gimme X-Plane any day!