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The files aren't blocked. The service is blocking it.-wraith808 (December 01, 2012, 01:31 PM)
For an easy example, some videos on Youtube are blocked to mobile browsers. I'm sure my betters have ideas around that. (Browser header changing and all that jazz?)-TaoPhoenix (December 01, 2012, 09:35 AM)
Not sure what you mean there in that context.-Renegade (December 01, 2012, 09:52 AM)
And, in some instances, Ctrl+Z can return/undo a deleted file or directory.
-tomos (November 30, 2012, 07:55 PM)
What I'd like to see: a simple map-creating program. Map as in real map, roads and bridges. Why: paper maps can sometimes be inaccurate, so I need to make corrections, or I may need to annotate, such as add buildings, with notes about them. (The notes should be hideable, so they don't cover everything up, or insertable at odd angles so they fit between roads.)
Method: scan an existing map to create a picture file. Set it as a background. Draw features on top of it, adding/correcting as you go. The background of course would have copyright issues, but your hand-copy should not, especially since the entire purpose is to create something different. Obviously it would take too long to hand-make an entire city, but that is not my need. Typically all I need is a neighborhood. Print the custom part, leaving the scanned part behind.
Drawing features: It is important that the "pen" be able to draw with standard map symbols. For instance, an unpaved road should be two lines running parallel, not a single black line. A paved road, two lines, with black bars between them, spaced. You know, you've seen maps. (Freebie maps lately are useless, as roads and rivers are all single lines, the only way to tell them apart is the roads are completely covered over in numbers, which hides any other possible useful detail. This is a big reason I'd like to make my own local maps.) Building symbols built-in (resizable squares, rectangles, etc.) And of course thin-line drawing, and new symbol creation.
You may say, just use GPS. OK, but I want something I can keep for later, complete with notes, and go back and add to it later. And print out to give to others, say with driving directions on it. How do you do that on a GPS?
Don't recommend SmartDraw, as that is not the KIND of maps I mean, and it is huge.
Creating/editing a road should be simple and intuitive, for example: connect two endpoints using the "unpaved road" pen, then using a "pusher" or "bulldozer" cursor, nudge the road into curves. Sort of like putting a bead chain down on a table-top and pushing it around with your finger. Not infinitely segmented, but finely enough that the end result is reasonable. (Alternately, click along the road to create hinges, then select each in turn and pull it to the place needed. Probably easier to code. In fact this is what the circuit-board program ExpressPCB does. If that program permitted picture background and road-line drawing, plus more simultaneous color choices, it would already do what I need.)
Since no one on planet earth is offering this kind of map-specific drawing program (and even if a massive graphics program could do this, I'd prefer something easier to learn and use and compact; but I don't think they can do this) this is an opportunity for some enterprising coder.-lifespurpose (November 29, 2012, 05:13 PM)
When I buy a lot of pdfs, ...-wraith808 (November 29, 2012, 04:25 PM)
maybe it would be worth considering separating FARR's options into basic vs. advanced?-phitsc (November 29, 2012, 09:02 AM)
Google has decided to file our newsletters into spam folder, so if you have a gmail address and haven't received our newsletter that's probably why. Official google policy seems to be that they do what they want and don't have to explain themselves to anyone so not really anything we can do about it. Thank you google!-mouser (November 28, 2012, 10:02 PM)
And then there's people like me that gets caught in Okinawa with a clip of high powered rifle rounds with tracers in my duffle-bag because my dumb-ass ex-wife put them in there. They didn't get discovered in the states in the 3 airports I went through to get there.....-Tinman57 (November 28, 2012, 07:59 PM)
Hmm. My printer is Samsung, but last I knew it wasn't live connected to the net. So how would an attacker get to the back door? Is it only some models?-TaoPhoenix (November 28, 2012, 07:13 PM)
That chip in the ink cartridges that they tell you is to monitor levels actually monitors all connected computers, (including USB).
Then when you throw out or recycle the old cartridge, the government collects the information stored on that chip.-4wd (November 28, 2012, 07:25 PM)
Hmm..,Basically that's how I read that. : )
Fix Vista and remove most of the unnecessary annoyances = Windows 7
Fix Windows 8 and remove most of the unnecessary annoyances = Windows ???
-40hz (November 28, 2012, 07:10 PM)
But but but but... it's for you safety!
I wonder in what universe is that a good idea?-Renegade (November 28, 2012, 06:59 PM)
China.-40hz (November 28, 2012, 07:01 PM)
