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Living Room / Re: What will be your next computer?

« Last post by Arizona Hot on July 18, 2012, 03:43 PM »

Why not shop the United Federation of Planets in 2373 and get something that you may have problems providing power to but won't need to be replaced for a loooooong time. Any reputable dealer(i.e. not Ferengi) will be able to supply you with something that won't start World War III. If you can't do that, get an app that allows you to update your software to your choice of a future version so you don't have to do an update so often. Avoid programs that do this using the Skynet network.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: WhyReboot?

« Last post by Arizona Hot on July 18, 2012, 02:14 PM »

I have always wanted to know exactly what Windows Update needed to change.
Thank you for relieving that craving.

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Living Room / Re: Truely awesome 404 page!

« Last post by Arizona Hot on July 13, 2012, 11:21 PM »

This is about the Rolling Stones 404 page.  The video can be found on Youtube.

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Living Room / First photo on the Web

« Last post by Arizona Hot on July 13, 2012, 11:13 PM »

This is an article about the first photo on the Web.

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Living Room / Re: This Is Your Brain On Sugar:Study in Rats Shows...

« Last post by Arizona Hot on June 24, 2012, 11:15 PM »

Live a day in your own shoes...they are far comfier than the other persons!

If they are a woman and wear high heels, I would doubt that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos

« Last post by Arizona Hot on June 24, 2012, 09:31 PM »

Photupz is good at removing foreground images from a background. Don't try and remove backgrounds with it. It does that monstrously. I tried to do that with one of the original subject pictures(below). Only the original test picture is shown  below, 5 minutes effort will show you that the background can be removed only with Frankenstein results.

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Living Room / Re: This Is Your Brain On Sugar:Study in Rats Shows...

« Last post by Arizona Hot on June 24, 2012, 07:15 PM »

I believe the reply to this argument can be found here:  Evolving Health: Fate of fructose Interview with Dr. John Sievenpiper

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

« Last post by Arizona Hot on June 24, 2012, 12:44 AM »

Has anyone here tried one of the new digital drills? They have drill bytes, not bits and those are programmable for just about any use.

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Living Room / Raspberry Pi's $35 Linux PC

« Last post by Arizona Hot on June 14, 2012, 12:32 PM »

Will the nostalgia of playing with now antediluvian technology (see Things your kids will never know - old school tech! ) make the Raspberry Pi a sucess?
Another nostalgia article?
  

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

« Last post by Arizona Hot on May 28, 2012, 10:16 PM »

4 questions:

1) What do you do if you come to a spork in the road?

     You go both ways. It's a quantum thing.

2) Who is the most likely person to use a spork?

     One born with a plastic spork in their mouth.

3) What kind of food do you eat with a spork?

     Spork chops

4) Does anyone here own a descendant of Schrödinger's cat? You can tell if you have one if you can see it but not in a mirror.

    No, but one tried to bite my neck once.

-Arizona Hot (May 27, 2012, 06:55 PM)

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

« Last post by Arizona Hot on May 27, 2012, 06:55 PM »

4 questions:

1) What do you do if you come to a spork in the road?

2) Who is the most likely person to use a spork?

3) What kind of food do you eat with a spork?

4) Does anyone here own a descendant of Schrödinger's cat? You can tell if you have one if you can see it but not in a mirror.

My answers will be given later in order to see what other people answer.

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General Software Discussion / Do you like CAPTCHAs?

« Last post by Arizona Hot on May 26, 2012, 10:56 PM »

While reading an article on another subject, I saw a link to an article about this. More research produced this article.



Are You a Human replaces annoying CAPTCHAs with games

Do you think this system will succeed, now that CAPTCHAs are being hacked?

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Living Room / Re: Gluttony free

« Last post by Arizona Hot on January 15, 2012, 05:25 PM »

Postscript to this information: If you don't think that anything in vegetables can affect you in this way, read this article.

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Living Room / Gluttony free

« Last post by Arizona Hot on January 15, 2012, 03:53 PM »

You see food products listed as "Gluten free", but have you ever seen the typo "Gluttony free"? If so, tell us where(I, at least, would like to see such a thing). I suppose if you wanted to diet and couldn't overcome the munchies, you could gorge on celery. If you did that, it would probably end in your skin turning green and you turning into a vegetable. You've seen the cartoon "On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Dog". I suppose that on the internet, nobody would know that you are a vegetable.  But I doubt there are any vegetables on the net other that the characters in "VeggieTales" or VeggieTales(I mean videos, not just pictures or videos about vegetables).

 

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General Software Discussion / Learn to program with Code Year

« Last post by Arizona Hot on January 05, 2012, 12:03 AM »

I didn't look at all the topics here, so must guess that this is a new topic.  Saw this new article in Slate about something that might be an alternative to the programming instruction here. It links to this site. A screenshot from that site is below.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Freeware Genius: Comparison of 10 free OCR tools

« Last post by Arizona Hot on December 28, 2011, 10:52 AM »

Got this info from the ABBYY website.  Key Facts

Founded
1989 in Moscow and was named BIT Software before 1997.
ABBYY Headquarters
are located in Moscow and provide research and product development as well as global coordination of sales, marketing and promotion.
Locations
ABBYY group consists of 14 global offices located in Russia (5 offices), the USA, Germany, the UK, Japan, Ukraine, Australia, Canada, Cyprus and Taiwan.
Team
Over 1000 people work for ABBYY, with the main part of them engaged in research and development as programmers, engineers and linguists.
Average age of ABBYY employees is 27 years.
Customers
More than 30 million people* from more than 150 countries* use ABBYY products.
More than 20 million people* all over the world use ABBYY FineReader.
ABBYY Lingvo electronic dictionaries are regularly used by 7 million people*.
Thousands of companies process more than 9.3 billion pages* of documents and forms annually by using ABBYY technologies.
ABBYY customers save about 5 billion dollars* each year using ABBYY products.
ABBYY technologies save people around 970 million hours annually* when converting paper and PDF documents.
ABBYY products have received more than 240 awards worldwide from leading industry magazines and testing labs for accuracy, innovation, ease of use and value.
Leading document capture vendors use ABBYY technologies in their products: BancTec, BenQ, Captiva, C Technologies, Cardiff Software, Cobra Technologies, DELL, EPSON, EMC2/Documentum, Fujitsu, Freedom Scientific, HP, IKON, IXOS, Kurzweil, Kofax Image Products, Legato Systems, Microtek, Mustek, NewSoft, Neurascript, Notable Solutions, Optika, Panasonic, ReadSoft, Siemens Nixdorf, Stellent, SWT, SER Solutions, Samsung Electronics, Sumitomo Electric Systems, Toshiba, Umax, Verity and others.
Leading scanner and MFP manufacturers use ABBYY technologies in their products: BenQ, Canon, Epson, Fujitsu, Konica Minolta, Mustek, Panasonic Communications, PlanOn, Primax, Plustek, Toshiba and Xerox.
Leading mobile manufacturers have ABBYY technologies inside their devices: Nokia, Samsung, LG, HTC, Pantech and Voxtel.
In 2006 ABBYY established the Department of Image Recognition and Text Processing at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Each year over 30 students of the department are supported with scholarships from the company.
ABBYY is a member of the Translation Automation User Society.
* According to ABBYY’s internal data

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General Software Discussion / Re: Freeware Genius: Comparison of 10 free OCR tools

« Last post by Arizona Hot on December 27, 2011, 11:22 PM »

How many people read to the end of the Freeware Genius and saw the free Abbyy Screenshot Reader download. If you like Christmasware, get this and like it, let us know.

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DesktopCoral / Re: Onomatopoeia

« Last post by Arizona Hot on December 25, 2011, 05:02 PM »

Oops, it got into the wrong place accidentally. Move it if it belongs somewhere else.

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DesktopCoral / Onomatopoeia

« Last post by Arizona Hot on December 14, 2011, 08:16 PM »

While browsing the 'Net on the subject, I found this list of Animal Sounds that gve me a chance to use ScreenshotCaptor's Autoscroll feature(shown below).  I use only IE8 for my browsing, would any Firefox users here be interested in the Perapera-kun Japanese Popup Translator .  I found this Onomatopoeia article amusing and the Anguish Languish article interesting. If you can't see the full width of the Animal Sounds chart when you expand it, zoom in to 75%.
     

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

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 24, 2011, 09:46 PM »

My addition to 'Do It' Professional Trades Guide
    Satanists do it for the hell of it.

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Living Room / Re: Shoehorning Cody into a QR code.

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 20, 2011, 09:30 PM »

I tried some things today to get a higher-res image of Cody in the QR matrix. I must have done something different, I was able to get something with almost twice the resolution. This one still is a rich text in a QR and I used the save function to export the decoded text, so I don't know if you can view Cody by copying the decoded text into the viewing program. Let us know if you can extract and view this, I know I can using the same programs as before. The text file is attached below as before, QRcode won't load *.rtf files, so I load rich text in a text file.

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Living Room / Re: Shoehorning Cody into a QR code.

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 20, 2011, 01:18 AM »

Yes, you have to save the decoded text to a file and then open that in WordPad or Jarte. Copying the text directly into the program doesn't work. If you are having trouble getting the block to decode properly, it may be a camera problem. The camera may have difficulty capturing the code completely(it's a very big, very complex block). You may have to click on the image to expand it(the small image is a thumbnail), and then right-click on that(if you have a Windows browser, I presume non-IE browsers can do this also) and save the picture(or copy it to a picture-manipulation program, save it from there) and then scan that. I don't know if it can be copied directly into the decoding program and scanned successfully. The whole thing is a kludge because QR wasn't set up to do this as I said at the beginning and this project pushes the boundries of QR. Would anyone like to try encoding the text file in some other system to see if that works better. I doubt any other system could encode Cody directly.

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Living Room / Shoehorning Cody into a QR code.

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 20, 2011, 12:41 AM »

QR codes are designed to store text or URLs, not pictures. So it was in a spirit of adventure that I tried to get a very small lo-res Cody into a very big QR.  I had to reduce the size of an already-small-to-start-with Cody to get him to fit in a 1,852 character space. I copied that into WordPad, then Notepad, ran that through Touch Up Soft's QRcode v2.10 to get the block below. I was able to recover the file using the same program, but not using either of my other QR decoding programs or Google's ZXing. I was able to view the resulting file using WordPad or Jarte, but not with LibreOffice. I have attached the text file I used if anyone wants to try encoding it with a different program. It will be interesting to see if anyone has an interest in this project. I copied the matrix from here and also saved it and was able to extract and view Cody on my computer from what is here.

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Living Room / Re: Moving up to ESET NOD32 v5

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 16, 2011, 10:16 AM »

I got bitten once by a trojan called "Privacy Danger". Took me a couple of days on another computer to get what I needed to get rid of it. Could I really feel safe with a free program like MSE after that?

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Living Room / Moving up to ESET NOD32 v5

« Last post by Arizona Hot on November 14, 2011, 10:20 AM »

My virus signature subscription for my current antivirus NOD32 v4.0.424 expires this week; so I have been researching alternatives because if I am going to change AV, now is the time to do it. What I have seems to be at or near the top of the heap in the contentious AV business. About the only change I expect to make is to move from NOD32 v4 to v5. The PCMag review says it is low on malware blocking, but I use Sandboxie to handle that. Both reviews say NOD32 is good at scanning potential programs. I use MalwareBytes also for that. Does anyone have any better reviews to suggest than the ones below?


ESET NOD32 Antivirus 5 Review & Rating  PCMag.com

ESET Smart Security 5 - CNET