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Finished Programs / Re: The Mouser Utility - Requested by App103

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 15, 2010, 08:29 PM »

I may expand on this project and have it do something interesting in the future...

-Stephen66515 (December 15, 2010, 06:18 PM)

How about something like Esheep, but with a cat that roams around the desktop totally ignoring the user?

-Stoic Joker (December 15, 2010, 06:55 PM)

Maybe randomly closing windows that dont require the data to be saved...cause cats can be evil like that haha

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Finished Programs / Re: The Mouser Utility - Requested by App103

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 15, 2010, 06:18 PM »

Updated...

now it does exit, per Mousers request so the new guys dont get confused how to quit it haha.

(I may expand on this project and have it do something interesting in the future...install it now to see its current state so you know what you will be dealing with) 

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Finished Programs / DONE: The Mouser Utility - Requested by App103

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 15, 2010, 05:17 PM »

This is possibly the most pointless thing I have ever made in my entire life...but App requested I make it...and if you frequent the IRC channel, this software (if you can call it that) will make perfect sence...otherwise...you might be confused

I attach no screenshots...those of you who download and run it will understand why  


Description:

Ever wondered what it would be like to have software that runs exactly the same as Mouser?

How about one that ignores you completely?

If you answered yes...this is for you!

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Living Room / (MMORPG) King of Kings 3, taking gaming to a new level!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 10, 2010, 07:30 PM »

Guys, this game is seriously awesome and I highly suggest you check it out...especially if you like games like WoW

Guild System:  http://www.mmocrunch.com/2010/06/10/king-of-kings-3-offers-unique-guild-system/
Official Site: http://en.start.gami...om/kingofkings3/001/

Ive seriously fallen for this game after about 4 hours of playing.

If you decide to download and play, come join me on "Britannica" realm.  My name on there is 'Kynlo'  

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com New Server Migration Coming in a Few Days

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 10, 2010, 11:18 AM »

Mouser should have added:

If you have any problems getting to the forums over the weekend, please visit the IRC chat room

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Living Room / Re: how many posts would one have if ...

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 10, 2010, 11:06 AM »

lol id probs be on about 180,000 posts if not more by now

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Developer's Corner / Re: Facebook Programming Puzzles (Solve and Get Hired)

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 10, 2010, 09:31 AM »

Glad to help 

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Request for help: graphic designer/writer to make an old-timey 2-page wackyness

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 07, 2010, 04:18 PM »

any takers?

-mouser (December 07, 2010, 04:14 PM)

Any examples for those of us who dont have a clue about the type of thing you want?

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Living Room / Re: Xbox 360 Live (Gold) - 1 Month Trial Code Giveaway (1st come first served)

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 04, 2010, 09:01 PM »

cool, post in its forum section what u think about it 

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Living Room / Re: Xbox 360 Live (Gold) - 1 Month Trial Code Giveaway (1st come first served)

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 04, 2010, 08:50 PM »

Lol sorry about that, im very weary about new members as we get a LOT of spam and stuff on here

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Living Room / Re: Xbox 360 Live (Gold) - 1 Month Trial Code Giveaway (1st come first served)

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 04, 2010, 08:46 PM »

cumon dude i look at these forums all the time i just never comment and i needed to this time so i joined

-Okay88 (December 04, 2010, 08:45 PM)

Never mind - Ill send it to you...your wil have to give me about 15 mins






CODE HAS NOW BEEN TAKEN

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Living Room / Re: Xbox 360 Live (Gold) - 1 Month Trial Code Giveaway (1st come first served)

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 04, 2010, 08:41 PM »

OK, seeing as you are a brand new member I am afraid I am going to have to decline you the code as I cannot be sure you have come to DC for any reason other than this.

Rules have been added accordingly.

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Living Room / Xbox 360 Live (Gold) - 1 Month Trial Code Giveaway (1st come first served)

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 04, 2010, 03:26 PM »

First to want it/need it, gets the code!

**edited: you must be a supporting member to qualify for this code...people who have signed up recently will not be concidered for the code.**

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Living Room / Re: "Check mail every ??? minutes"

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 04, 2010, 11:21 AM »

I check if I know that i'm waiting for an e-mail, other than that, I dont bother with them.

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Living Room / Re: How to waste 2 hours on a stupid error

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 01, 2010, 07:57 PM »

Incidentially, in the interest of (my version of) fairness, I did not bill the client for the 2 hours of our collective time that this little nightmare wasted.

-Stoic Joker (December 01, 2010, 07:42 PM)

Bill the company who made the software for being total tards?

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Living Room / Re: December has arrived...Are YOU Prepared for Christmas?!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 01, 2010, 06:13 PM »

I think we DC'ers need to invent our own holiday tradition and that revolves around Cody.

-mouser (December 01, 2010, 01:02 PM)

Funny you should say that!
 (see attachment in previous post)

-cranioscopical (December 01, 2010, 03:02 PM)

HA!   

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Living Room / Being bad to your customers is bad for business

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 01, 2010, 03:38 PM »

A recent article by the New York Times related a disturbing story. By treating your customers badly, one merchant told the paper, you can generate complaints and negative reviews that translate to more links to your site; which, in turn, make it more prominent in search engines. The main premise of the article was that being bad on the web can be good for business.

We were horrified to read about Ms. Rodriguez’s dreadful experience. Even though our initial analysis pointed to this being an edge case and not a widespread problem in our search results, we immediately convened a team that looked carefully at the issue. That team developed an initial algorithmic solution, implemented it, and the solution is already live. I am here to tell you that being bad is, and hopefully will always be, bad for business in Google’s search results.

As always, we learned a lot from this experience, and we wanted to share some of that with you. Consider the obvious responses we could have tried to fix the problem:

Block the particular offender. That would be easy and might solve the immediate problem for that specific business, but it wouldn’t solve the larger issue in a general way. Our first reaction in search quality is to look for ways to solve problems algorithmically.

Use sentiment analysis to identify negative remarks and turn negative comments into negative votes. While this proposal initially sounds promising, it turns out to be based on a misconception. First off, the terrible merchant in the story wasn’t really ranking because of links from customer complaint websites. In fact, many consumer community sites such as Get Satisfaction added a simple attribute called rel=nofollow to their links. The rel=nofollow attribute is a general mechanism that allows websites to tell search engines not to give weight to specific links, and it’s perfect for the situation when you want to link to a site without endorsing it. Ironically, some of the most reputable links to Decor My Eyes came from mainstream news websites such as the New York Times and Bloomberg. The Bloomberg article was about someone suing the company behind Decor My Eyes, but the language of the article was neutral, so sentiment analysis wouldn’t have helped here either.

As it turns out, Google has a world-class sentiment analysis system (Large-Scale Sentiment Analysis for News and Blogs). But if we demoted web pages that have negative comments against them, you might not be able to find information about many elected officials, not to mention a lot of important but controversial concepts. So far we have not found an effective way to significantly improve search using sentiment analysis. Of course, we will continue trying.

Yet another option is to expose user reviews and ratings for various merchants alongside their results. Though still on the table, this would not demote poor quality merchants in our results and could still lead users to their websites.
Instead, in the last few days we developed an algorithmic solution which detects the merchant from the Times article along with hundreds of other merchants that, in our opinion, provide an extremely poor user experience. The algorithm we incorporated into our search rankings represents an initial solution to this issue, and Google users are now getting a better experience as a result.

We can't say for sure that no one will ever find a loophole in our ranking algorithms in the future. We know that people will keep trying: attempts to game Google’s ranking, like the ones mentioned in the article, go on 24 hours a day, every single day. That’s why we cannot reveal the details of our solution—the underlying signals, data sources, and how we combined them to improve our rankings—beyond what we’ve already said. We can say with reasonable confidence that being bad to customers is bad for business on Google. And we will continue to work hard towards a better search.

Source: http://googleblog.bl...mers-is-bad-for.html

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Living Room / Re: What's a great dvd/bluray/everything player?

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 01, 2010, 06:44 AM »

Playstation 3

Blueray
DVD
Internet Access
Awesome Games

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Living Room / Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on December 01, 2010, 06:41 AM »

Childrens view of a halo? Its good! - Needs santa tho!

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Living Room / Re: Google Earth 6.0 Offers a Full Walking Tour Experience

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on November 30, 2010, 09:06 PM »

Maybe we can see them getting sick? (https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=24675.0) lol

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Living Room / Re: December has arrived...Are YOU Prepared for Christmas?!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on November 30, 2010, 09:05 PM »

No, snow blocking

-Yohana (November 30, 2010, 09:00 PM)

Lucky SOB, it stopped here...more due tomorrow at 12pm with heavy snow forecast for 15:00, calming down to light snow showers around 18:00

No, I'm afraid not. Effing holidays.

- Oshyan

-JavaJones (November 30, 2010, 09:02 PM)

Yay, another person who doesnt care much for christmas.  I hate people askin me what I want, cause they don't like my "I dont really care about presents" reply - I prefar to give, than receive xD

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Living Room / Google Earth 6.0 Offers a Full Walking Tour Experience

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on November 30, 2010, 09:01 PM »

A virtual walking tour with a mouse scroll wheel is one of the new features in Google Earth 6.0. The streets available to tour on Google Earth are in selected city locations and highlighted in blue. Google Earth 6.0 also makes it significantly easier to access historical images. Backgrounds in Google Earth are now filled with 3-D constructs.

Source: http://www.toptechne...tory_id=13200EZDKOGO

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Living Room / December has arrived...Are YOU Prepared for Christmas?!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on November 30, 2010, 08:59 PM »

I know Im not   

Are You?!

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Living Room / Re: Robot Comes Back To Life After 45 Years!

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on November 28, 2010, 01:29 PM »

Thats awersome, it even looks like how robots SHOULD look! (Like the ones from the original Dr Who Series and such!)

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Living Room / Re: I have a problem buying software abroad

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on November 28, 2010, 01:28 PM »

I wonder if its possible to setup a post office box in the USA, and have all your mail forwarded to Holland (or any other country) - Might be the safest route, and possibly the simplest.