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Don't make Mouser angry! You wouldn't like him when he's angry!  :o
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Living Room / Re: Initials That Meant More Than They Realized
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 12, 2012, 11:21 AM »
^ sometimes I really wish there was a thumbs-up option here on dc ;D

This one? 

 :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Write until you pass out!?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 12, 2012, 11:19 AM »
The Abyss and I have been ...uh... (colleagues?) for a long time now. He's fun to talk to, and gives you nice creepy story ideas if you want them, or he'll augment your calculations in whichever esoteric system you are studying at the time - for a price. The price is that once the Abyss gazes into you, you can never go back to being a simple normal guy.
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: SilverNote
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 11, 2012, 07:27 PM »
As a bit of Stream of Review, here goes:

1. Welcome to SilverNote Standard Edition!
Standard Edition notebooks can contain up to 80 notes each. For larger notebooks, consider upgrading to SilverNote Premium.

Why didn't you provide a link to Premium? I'm growing less interested in testing "standard" copies of programs that have Premium versions, because I want to see what features you are Upselling.

2. "Save Notebook" during install doesn't (easily) allow a full system browse. I got stuck in "My Documents/My Notebooks" and that's a disaster for me - I never voluntarily ever go to "My Documents". (Most irritating idea I've ever seen from MS.)

3. Sorry, here's the sinker from me. It's not (easily) a Tree. I bet you put a ton of work into it, but sometimes to quote a chess saying, if you spend 1000 hours but the first move is wrong (for some users?) then the rest is wrong. After a moderately detailed search for me a few months ago, my winning note system was a program that produces trees that could export to web pages. Until you hit that function, I cannot use anything you use as a serious resource.

--Tao

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Living Room / Write until you pass out!?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 11, 2012, 06:14 PM »
One of the areas of judicial theory that has amused me from time to time is the "no cruel and unusual punishment" sections of rights. However, in this initial case specifically for ironclad Murder One with no weasel doubts, what if that requirement were lifted? Criminal "gets to do" all kinds of cruel and unusual things to his victim, and then we need to "see to his rights" afterward? One really fun case consists of "unusual punishments less cruel than the original crime". And since the original crime was something like chopping their legs off and painting diagrams with knives on the victim's chests, it's hard to get much more C&U than that.

So for the "softie" DC version of an experiment, what if the criminal were sentenced to write valid sentences until he simply passes out from fatigue? (Spelling mistakes punished on a sliding scale, no asdf asdf etc allowed, etc.)

In what is commonly called "first world problem", we get to say "nah, I'm tired, I don't want to do that". But what if you simply had to? Has anyone here ever written until they simply passed out near the keyboard?

Edit: Writing code (even with minor syntax errors, if it's still recognizable code) counts!
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Living Room / Re: DonationCoder Poker Tournament is Scheduled!
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 11, 2012, 06:08 PM »
What ever happened to this?
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>:(

...just...

 >:(

P.S. Who owns the copyright to those smileys?

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The Rather Not Safe For (Judges?) reply to that kind of thing would be to post a mean vicious slam against the **AA with a strange license, something like "the following groups are granted access to this piece - the EFF, the ACLU, (etc etc). For everyone else, All Rights Reserved."

Then when they get upset, it's all "Oh, I'm sorry, where did you get your copy? I don't see my check for $375,000 now, do I? Oh, that's right, that's because laws only apply to the big boys, never to the little guy. I'm voting your reps out of Congress. KThxBye"
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Living Room / Re: Perhaps About the Coolest Book EVER~! =D
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 10, 2012, 12:50 PM »
But yeah, it still has a long way to go. And this project is just an early 'proof of concept' piece to whet our appetites and get people thinking about how something like this could be effectively used.


+1

This has massive potential! It's like a new HTML.

Way back, I thought the web was crap. Because it was. I should have paid more attention to the potential.


(Besides, doesn't the Necronomicon already work like that? You trace the diagrams with your index finger and read certain words in the text and...things...happen.)

I would love to work on that technology, but killing babies isn't one of my strong points. :P

The Necronomicon is Technology? Oh, so THAT explains Apple!  :P
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Living Room / Re: What's the name of your car?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 10, 2012, 12:47 PM »
I have a generic minivan, but I went the other way and last started calling it the Haunted Van, after taking it to several car shops with a problem, they do stuff, and then the problem is still there.

maybe it's the car shops that are haunted :D

Heh no, the car shops are incompetent. It's become a scripted comedy skit by this point.
Customer-Me goes in, says at start of visit: "Look Mr. Manager, all you have to do is fix the clunking sound when you make turns. But I warn you, other shops have tried and failed against the dreaded Haunted Van."
Sales-Happy Manager: "Oh, WE'LL get it. We're _____ Shop. We'll fix the toe joints blah blah..."
(7 hours later)
Customer-Me: "See, Mr. Manager? THIS is how it happens. EVERY SINGLE TIME! Now I am an Angry Customer. Pray you do not anger me further."
Manager: "Ulp!"

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Note: This one has GOT to be a complete put-on. At least I hope it is.
Seems fairly elaborate for a troll post - but I guess it's a modest time investment compared to the expected hilarity... I'd wager that people on the kernel mailing list are able to see through it, though :)

Well, suppose we call "Troll" a Genus, then there can be lots of Species of Troll! Sure, it's not a GNAA troll, but it's definitely a Troll, and the clues come from the ad hominem language thrown in. "Ethernet is bloat for old geezers"? And "remove support for multiple users" clearly misses the "single person" use case of having a user profile not tied straight to root etc, and also the option of a guest account.

So if she thinks she believes all that stuff, which makes her a Troll Deludicus, she also clearly has an agenda outside of Linux that she's working an angle on.
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How about "I am Sick and ****ing tired of a Tablet OS on my **********ing Desktop PC!"

(Samuel J. Jackson dramatization of seeing Windows 8 for the first time.)

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Living Room / Re: What's the name of your car?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 10, 2012, 09:20 AM »
I've seen some of those lists before.

I have a generic minivan, but I went the other way and last started calling it the Haunted Van, after taking it to several car shops with a problem, they do stuff, and then the problem is still there.
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Living Room / Re: Perhaps About the Coolest Book EVER~! =D
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 10, 2012, 09:15 AM »
(If you've not tried using a phone for forum entries I'd strongly recommend against it  :()

However, at 4AM on a road trip away from your computer, when DC withdrawal hits, you have no choice!  :o
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Republic > Democracy > Dictatorship > Tyranny

Here's one of the creepiest songs I've ever heard. Stabilizers - Tyranny

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=WfgKy6B-1R8

The lyrics are just vicious in describing how a manipulator thinks. Then the music is so smooth for the music.

(Simulation of mood)
Here, little Renegade. Ssh, thinking is too hard for you. Here, come lie down on this nice bed in this comfy little padded cage. Here's a nice hat for you to wear. After I plug it in, you'll feel a lot better. (Neurocranial stimulation of endorphins.)

 :o
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Living Room / Re: Perhaps About the Coolest Book EVER~! =D
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 09, 2012, 10:09 AM »
I think I'm just slack-jawed ... I don't even fully understand what just happened - it looked like some sort of putting a touch interface onto the book that then affected the scanned copy.
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Living Room / Re: Fake User Reviews...The unwinding scandal
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 08, 2012, 11:32 PM »
We're surprised because the other half of Web 2.0 is Your Friends Sharing. So people faking "friendly stuff" is kinda irritating.
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^Umm...did you actually read the referenced article? :)

Yes, what parts of it I could before becoming nauseated. Still no mentions of Creative Commons Free Licensing. My points still stand.
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Sorry, I believe that "article" is of the purest cotton candy fluff - about as insubstantial and then sickening when you consume any of it.

It's purely the snark meme saying "go ahead, MS wants underground adoption blah blah." Sorry. Not if it means copyright infringement on that scale. *This* crowd should hopefully see through it. (Remember the SOPA PIPA ETC thread?)

It's that same stunt I ranted about a couple days ago on another thread. If you want it to be adopted, *make it something like Creative Commons truly free-as-in-beer at least*, even if not open source. Make a special "Community Edition". Then people can "share it" to their hearts content.

Instead, what this article refers to creates a permanent "Blackmail List" so that the MS execs can snicker and wink-wink-nod at the increased sales, but then when they need a good bat to whack someone with, they pull up your entry in the Terrorist Copyright Infringer list, and do a media slam on you. Sorry, not having any of that. (For context, some guy was saying he wanted to "explore piracy on sales with the same blah blah. I made him a special legit-to-share copy relabeled creative commons, and he magically backed away. Funny huh?)



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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 15 less of a memory hog
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 08, 2012, 03:51 PM »
Lately when I reboot FF 15 takes a REALLY long time for me to load now.
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Developer's Corner / Re: FREE Programming eBooks! (and a C++ book for C# devs)
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 08, 2012, 03:47 PM »
Emails and Phone Calls are different levels of things. I have a sandboxed email for precisely this stuff. But the minute I saw "give us your phone" I just blasted it with a fake one. To me, that crosses a line.

On a related note, one of the "third tier" life insurance companies called me. I'd ignored a lot of their cross-departmental follow up emails for a few weeks now. When they finally caught up with me, I shut their rep down before he could go into his whole "but our company is wonderful" speech. (Red Herring.) I jumped in and said, "Sure, I already know your company is wonderful. But do you offer a salary?" "No, but ..." "Well, there you go then." I hung up after a couple more minutes basically saying I suk at commission sales and not to call me unless he had a salary position to talk about.

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Developer's Corner / Re: FREE Programming eBooks! (and a C++ book for C# devs)
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 08, 2012, 03:38 AM »
When I see those kinds of forms, I put "Name = User, Company = None, my special "Catch email", and 800-555-5555 for an email. Here's the table of contents. It's your guess about actual real quality, but it's 123 pages and not "fake".

PREFACE ...11
Trademarks, etc. ...11
Program Entry Point ...11
Arguments and Parameters ...........................................................................................13
Syntax Highlighting ...13
Samples ...13
C++11 ...14
CHAPTER 1 TYPES ...15
Fundamental Types ...15
Enumerations ...16
std::wcout, std::wcerr, std::wcin .....................................................................................19
Classes and Structures .................................................................................................20
Unions ...21
typedef ...23
CHAPTER 2 NAMESPACES ...25
The Global Namespace .................................................................................................25
The Scope Resolution Operator ‘::’ ................................................................................26
Defining Namespaces ...................................................................................................26
The using namespace Directive.....................................................................................27
CHAPTER 3 FUNCTIONS AND CLASSES ..............................................................................28
Declaration vs. Definition ...............................................................................................28
Functions ...30
Simple Class ...31
Member Functions ...35
Inline Member Functions ...............................................................................................35
Protection Levels and Access Specifiers .......................................................................37
Inheritance ...38
Abstract Classes ...46
Precompiled Header Files .............................................................................................48
Forward Declarations ...49
CHAPTER 4 STORAGE DURATION .......................................................................................52
Overview ...52
Static Duration ...52
Automatic Duration ...52
Dynamic Duration ...53
Thread Duration ...53
Choosing the Right Storage Duration ............................................................................54
Storage Duration Sample ..............................................................................................54
CHAPTER 5 CONSTRUCTORS, DESTRUCTORS, AND OPERATORS .................................62
Overview ...62
5
Default Constructor...62
Default Arguments in Function Declarations ..................................................................63
Parameterized Constructors ..........................................................................................63
Conversion Constructors ...............................................................................................63
Initialization of Data and Base Classes ..........................................................................65
Delegating Constructor ..................................................................................................70
Copy Constructor ...71
Copy Assignment Operator ...........................................................................................72
Move Constructor ...72
std::move ...73
Move Assignment Operator ...........................................................................................73
Removing Copy or Move Semantics ..............................................................................73
Destructors and Virtual Destructors ...............................................................................73
Operator Overloading ...73
CHAPTER 6 RESOURCE ACQUISITION IS INITIALIZATION .................................................81
What Is RAII? ...81
How Does RAII Work? ...................................................................................................81
How Do I Use RAII? ...82
std::unique_ptr ...82
std::shared_ptr ...83
std::make_shared ...85
ComPtr in WRL for Metro-Style Apps ............................................................................85
Exceptions in C++ ...86
C++ Standard Library Exceptions ..................................................................................86
CHAPTER 7 POINTERS, REFERENCES, AND CONST-CORRECTNESS .............................93
Pointer Overview ...93
Const Pointer ...93
Pointer to Const ...93
Const Pointer to Const ..................................................................................................94
Const-correctness and Const Member Functions ..........................................................94
The * & and -> Operators ..............................................................................................94
L-values and R-values ...................................................................................................95
References ...95
Pointer and Reference Sample ......................................................................................95
Volatile ...98
CHAPTER 8 CASTING IN C++ .............................................................................................. 100
Overview ... 100
const_cast ... 100
static_cast ... 100
dynamic_cast ... 101
reinterpret_cast ... 101
C-style cast ... 101
Sample ... 101
CHAPTER 9 STRINGS ... 102
6
Introduction ... 102
char* Strings ... 102
wchar_t* Strings ... 102
std::string and std::wstring Strings ............................................................................... 102
std::wstringstream Strings ........................................................................................... 103
CHAPTER 10 C++ LANGUAGE USAGES AND IDIOMS ....................................................... 105
Overview ... 105
Incrementing and Decrementing .................................................................................. 105
Concerning Null – Use nullptr ...................................................................................... 106
Strange-Looking Boolean Equality Checks .................................................................. 107
throw() and noexcept(bool expression) ........................................................................ 107
Pimpl (Pointer to Implementation) ................................................................................ 109
CHAPTER 11 TEMPLATES ................................................................................................... 113
Overview ... 113
Template functions ... 113
Template classes ... 113
CHAPTER 12 LAMBDA EXPRESSIONS ............................................................................... 116
No-Capture Lambdas .................................................................................................. 116
Lambdas with Parameters ........................................................................................... 116
Specifying a Lambda’s Return Type ............................................................................ 116
Capturing Outside Variables ........................................................................................ 116
Lambdas in Class-Member Functions.......................................................................... 118
CHAPTER 13 C++ STANDARD LIBRARY ............................................................................ 119
Introduction ... 119
Iterators ... 119
Range-Based for Loops ............................................................................................... 119
std::vector and other containers................................................................................... 120
The <algorithm> header .............................................................................................. 120
The C Run-Time Library (CRT).................................................................................... 120
CHAPTER 14 VISUAL STUDIO AND C++ ............................................................................. 121
IntelliSense ... 121
Code snippets ... 121
Including libraries ... 121
Generating assembly code files ................................................................................... 121
Terrifying build errors ................................................................................................... 122
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: simple loop machine for wav, mp3, etc. files
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 08, 2012, 03:19 AM »
I am very sad!

I also just discovered that it doesn't seem to be playing Tracker files! I have an Impulse Tracker song (for example) that works fine in XMplay and doesn't load at all in Looper.

So maybe some weird setting in my machine is doing the volume thing, and some standard concept that Swire is pulling for Looper is hitting a corner case on my machine.

I'm becoming a pest!  I might be able to search the web and find more countercase programs, but isn't that Apples and Oranges? I just liked the idea of Looper because I just park an mp3 player on a song. But I don't want to drag Swire into a mystery hunt just for me!

I think I found the answer to this too.

When a program says it "wants to associate files" sometimes it "fights hard not to give them up". So XMplay was my program for playing most music. But "behind that" were several other programs based on using this comp for 7+ years. Deliplayer, WinAmp, and more. So the article below (second half) shows that you need to "unhook" the other programs too, especially the icons. But the last wrinkle is that before the "Advanced" button shows up, it says "Restore" first. So you Restore the icons to the second-to-last program, THEN pick a new icon (say from Looper), THEN do OpenWith-Choose Program.

Whew!

http://www.online-te...ps/change-file-icon/
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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: simple loop machine for wav, mp3, etc. files
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on September 08, 2012, 02:16 AM »
Heh - well okay, then! I'll go back to my back on nonsensical remedies for nonsensical problems!

I'll get it eventually. I had it before.


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That looks better.

It takes a little effort to completely uninstall and reinstall it, but then I think it goes. I'll test it some more.

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