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General Software Discussion / Re: The Outlook is disappointing
« Last post by wraith808 on August 31, 2016, 08:02 AM »progress bar? What are you referring to? I've never seen such.
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He seems to have a hell of a group of cats to herd.Let me add a piece that I think is missing from this picture of introversion. Speaking for myself I have found that "unstructured" socialization can be extremely painful -- things like just sitting around at a dinner party talking to one another about random things. Whereas structured social activities (board games) are quite fun. I don't know if that's true for all introverts, so your mileage may vary.-mouser (August 20, 2016, 12:28 PM)
That works for me. If there is a purpose to an interaction, I'm fine ... But trying to engage in casual conversation (e.g. "Small Talk") I completely short circuit.-Stoic Joker (August 22, 2016, 07:00 AM)
RetroFloppy folks responded to an email right away, and will try to read both of my disks and make contents available for me to download for $20. Very fair. I'm sending my disks to them.Make a photocopy of them first, b4 u send them - just in case.
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That's silly, everyone knows the best method is to read them with an electromagnet and then reverse the polarity to write them out on to new blank media.-4wd (August 18, 2016, 06:41 AM)
Understandable, but what's being lost in the optimization process, is both adjustable, and in the default settings virtually imperceivable. But I'm guessing there is a great deal of cruft in the PDF format. Part of which is the boiler plate header trash that froths on about how cool Adobe is, and the rest is duplicitous formatting and object description code.I'd guess that they main problem with your sales brochure was large jpeg image files embedded within it and that most of the size gain came from reducing the resolution of those.
The example that sold me on the program was a 35Mb (in house created) sales brochure that one of the staff was trying to stuff through our mail server. I ran it through NX and it gave me a 3Mb file that looked (and printed) identically to the bloated original.-Stoic Joker (August 18, 2016, 06:35 AM)
PDF editors like Adobe Acrobat and PDFXchange Editor provide optimization tools that give you full control over the size and compatibility of a PDF file. How you handle the many different options depends on what you want to do with the PDF.-xtabber (August 18, 2016, 06:58 AM)
When a show is a repeat or not on how dose epCheck Indicate it by color or something else ?-sportman12 (August 18, 2016, 04:35 AM)
A repeat of what?-skwire (August 18, 2016, 08:32 AM)
ok thanks some other question for you
1. I searched for the show Empire on Fox Network could not find it is it on their it says it is on here which epCheck uses
http://www.thetvdb.com/-sportman12 (August 17, 2016, 02:53 PM)
Interesting "stuff"There’s a new way to make strong passwords, and it’s way easier-Arizona Hot (August 12, 2016, 08:44 PM)
Excellent timing! It's just what I needed to drive a nail through a "discussion" that's been plaguing me for weeks.
Thank you!-Stoic Joker (August 16, 2016, 06:42 AM)
[...] I think he fell victim to two things.That sounds like he needed a good editor to suggest improvements. Perhaps publishers and agents don't bother any more.
1) New author
2) the Genre, as I said, was Gunpowder Fantasy. That first part was pure fantasy.-wraith808 (August 14, 2016, 04:27 PM)
You said you read a lot. How do you pick what books to read next, given the vast number available and limited time to read? Do you frequent favourite review sites, and if so, which?-rjbull (August 15, 2016, 03:38 PM)
I have updated the forum code so signature (and similar linkable fields) will not be displayed until a member has been registered for 3 or more days.
The only downside is that it may make it harder to spot spammers.-mouser (August 15, 2016, 02:26 PM)
I've reported it as spam using the report as spam link. It sure looks odd enough to me to do so.-Ath (August 15, 2016, 12:58 PM)
It starts with A Darkness Forged in Fire, that almost lost me in the beginning. But I'm glad that I stuck it out through that bit of exposition, as the rest of the read firmly grabbed me.A dangerous strategy for an author. I started Gardens of the Moon, first of Steven Erikson's Malazan Empire series, which opens on a protracted scene where two people, neither introduced, pick their way through a scene of World War 1 level carnage - with no explanation whatsoever. I put the book down. I picked it up again a few weeks later and finished it, but it was a close-run thing whether I'd bother.-wraith808 (August 12, 2016, 09:16 AM)-rjbull (August 14, 2016, 03:58 PM)
Too bad he didn't go all the way and made it open-source, not just gratisOf course, with SSD hard disks most of the above has become a moot point, accessing fragmented or defragmented files on a SSD hard disk hardly makes any difference in time and are much faster than on a standard spinning hard disk anyway. Still, the added bonuses from strictly separating files are still valid.Would be interesting to see some benchmarks on this. I guess that if the fragments aren't smaller than the SSDs page size, you won't be able to measure a speed difference.-Shades (August 12, 2016, 10:23 AM)-f0dder (August 13, 2016, 02:45 AM)
