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General Software Discussion / Re: What went wrong with Linux on the Desktop

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 06, 2012, 07:20 AM »

Those who are using Visual studio knows Why I am saying this, because microsoft's own programs make the system unusable.

-mahesh2k (September 05, 2012, 04:58 AM)

I've been running every single version (not every edition, of course!) and service pack of Visual Studio from 6 to 2010 SP1, and will soon be installing 2012. I've even been using VS on Win9x. While the first VS.NET version was pretty crappy and unstable, I've never had VS affect my system stability, and never heard of stories like that from friends or co-workers.

-f0dder (September 06, 2012, 06:54 AM)

Same here all the way back to 9x. Hell we've even got one guy that (does legacy stuff) is still doing VB code with VS6, on Windows 8.

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Living Room / Re: Help me Improve my Culinary Card Game for Kickstarter: Cooking Party Cards

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 06, 2012, 07:12 AM »

Good point Ren!

Mine is a bit more targeted at culinary fans, theirs is more targeted at quick family fun.

-mouser (September 05, 2012, 03:35 PM)

If it really is too close to risk marketing it yourself ... Any chance they'd buy it from you as a spin-off?

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Living Room / Re: Nokia's new Lumia 920 phone doesn't impress. But why? (no reason)

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 06, 2012, 07:08 AM »

Maybe they're just mad because the screen is to small ... ...I kinda like it myself, and I'm looking to switch to a Win8 phone in the next month or so (whenever they come out).

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Living Room / Re: Bitcoin theft causes Bitfloor exchange to go offline

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 06, 2012, 06:53 AM »

I've often wondered about the whole selling time in the CPU distributed computing thing. How (if at all) profitable is/could Bitcoin Mining be?

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Living Room / Re: Most BitTorrent users being monitored by copyright agencies, study finds

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 06, 2012, 06:46 AM »

Go to ScanEye and click Check IP - see what it says you've torrented, (copyrighted stuff via public trackers only, AFAICT).

-4wd (September 06, 2012, 05:07 AM)

Okay, that's a bit more than just a little spooky.

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Living Room / Re: Help me Improve my Culinary Card Game for Kickstarter: Cooking Party Cards

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 05, 2012, 03:21 PM »

Something unique with the word "Chef" in the title might be good..

-mouser (September 03, 2012, 02:32 PM)

Shuffling Chef Poker?

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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 05, 2012, 07:39 AM »

Maybe he's never heard of the loose lips sink ships rule.

-Stoic Joker (September 05, 2012, 06:52 AM)

What would be really hysterical is if Korea pulls a Judo Throw with the increasing emerging info on the trial flaws and gets it overturned. Bets on whether that will happen? Hmm.

-TaoPhoenix (September 05, 2012, 07:13 AM)

  I'll make popcorn

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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 05, 2012, 06:52 AM »

Groklaw - Apple v Samsung Foreman Gets More Things Wrong ~pj

This is in the believe it or not category, but the foreman in the Apple v Samsung trial is *still* talking about the verdict and why the jurors did what they did. And the more he talks, the worse it gets for that verdict.

I would quote, but the article is very small so it's probably better to just give a quick look.

-Mark0 (September 05, 2012, 06:23 AM)

Maybe he's never heard of the loose lips sink ships rule.

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Living Room / Re: Apple Patents Shutting Down Phones and Functions

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 05, 2012, 06:50 AM »

But too bad it's now the first to file instead of the first to invent under the new US Patent law

-40hz (September 04, 2012, 05:04 PM)

Great, now all they need is a disgruntled employee to smuggle out a few drawings and file for a patent on a cutting edge project. Bet they'll be grooving on that new system then.

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Living Room / Re: Apple Patents Shutting Down Phones and Functions

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 04, 2012, 04:55 PM »

Now ^that^ is funny 

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Living Room / Re: Apple Patents Shutting Down Phones and Functions

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 04, 2012, 11:57 AM »

Gives me a great idea for a Dead Spider virus. Take one infected device broadcasting control codes and walk through a mall, it then completely shuts down any device in range causing it to shrivel up like a dead spider, and only able to broadcast the shutdown control codes it was given. Now you get an exponentially growing circle of Dead Spiders.

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Living Room / Re: Buy Your Uranium Ore Here~! Today Only $49.95~! =D

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 04, 2012, 11:35 AM »

Great Product, Poor Packaging
I purchased this product 4.47 Billion Years ago and when I opened it today, it was half empty.
Published on May 14, 2009 by Patrick J. McGovern

 

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Living Room / Re: SEC uses JOBS Act to set up new roadblocks to crowdfunding

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 04, 2012, 11:29 AM »

Well Gee Wiz the official decision when the criminal banking types totally boned the economy was a dazzling array of golden showers parachutes to rescue the greedy billionaires from "poverty" while the (pathetic remnants of a) middle class got completely shit on. How many people did the SEC see about locking up???

Now the little guy comes up with a way of cutting through the endless miles of red tape...and guess who is all bent outta shape.

The SEC needs to just admit to being completely useless, disband, dry up, and blow away.

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General Software Discussion / Re: IE change

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 02, 2012, 08:56 PM »

I like IE and have no intention of switching.

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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in

« Last post by Stoic Joker on September 02, 2012, 10:31 AM »

Maybe the idea is to let Apple clear the field first? Once Apple establishes everybody infringed on Apple all LG needs to do is show Apple infringed on LG and they'd have a clean sweep with minimal legal effort since if A=B and B=C then A=C.

-40hz (September 02, 2012, 08:25 AM)

It's a sound strategy ... Low exposure/high gain, and everybody loses ... Especially us.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Modify the windows registry

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 31, 2012, 03:42 PM »

Use Load Hive, browse to the other OS's registry files (X:\Windows\System32\config (IIRC)) and select the one you want. After it's mounted just browse it as normal.

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Living Room / Re: modular, borderless monitors suggestions please?

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 31, 2012, 03:33 PM »

I don't think, other than Apple's retina display, anyone has any pc displays that can go higher than 1080p.

-superboyac (August 31, 2012, 03:09 PM)

Don't be too sure about that...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Modify the windows registry

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 31, 2012, 03:21 PM »

Not sure exactly what you mean by parallel, but basically yes.

Regedit's file menu contains several options for accessing another machines registry:
Import/Export is for any .reg files
Load/Unload Hive is for local access to another copy of Windows' registry files (or another user's NTUser.dat file).
Connect/Disconnect Network Registry is for connecting to another machine's registry across the network (remote registry service must be running on target machine)

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General Software Discussion / Re: What went wrong with Linux on the Desktop

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 31, 2012, 02:01 PM »

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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 31, 2012, 08:45 AM »

So the Samsung Galaxy S3 is like an iPhone with a good antenna?

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Living Room / Re: President Obama randomly dropped by Reddit today for an AMA session.

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 31, 2012, 08:41 AM »

Is that a mac??

-nosh (August 31, 2012, 08:20 AM)

It does rather appear to be one doesn't it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: data recovery tool, [i]on a network drive[/i]

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 30, 2012, 09:09 PM »

What OSs are being used? Could Previous versions be an option?

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 30, 2012, 11:33 AM »

-IainB (August 30, 2012, 08:21 AM)

Okay... So who wants to call a data recovery company and ask them to get the (extremely important...) "data" off their battery?? Be firm, persistent, and verry stressed out...and above all...Please do record the discussion. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Scott Hanselman's Posts on Getting the Most from Windows 8

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 30, 2012, 07:27 AM »

Nice HotKey list he's got there. I'm always looking for new keyboard shortcuts.

Haven't jumped to 8 on a primary machine yet ... But I'm thinking about it. Just can't decide which one to sacrifice (home or work) to the cause first.

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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in

« Last post by Stoic Joker on August 29, 2012, 07:56 PM »

Interesting that he repeatedly says "...and I said to the jury", Instead of saying I said to my fellow jurors. He sort of puts himself above the rest in a position of authority...and you can bet your ass he (and his pontificating to a bunch of sheeple) is the sole reason apple won.