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Superboyac - are on Vista or Win 7 yet? I ask because once I moved to Vista I really didn't feel the need to run a third-party clock app...No, I'm not. i was just thinking about that actually. I plan on moving to Windows 7 in January. I have it on one of my laptops, and it's fine.-Darwin (September 17, 2010, 03:41 PM)
Since i have so much nice code already written for a webcam recording app / media browser, it's very appealing to be able to turn it into a full fledged new application.Oh man, you don't realize what you're doing to me. Ok, next week, I will present a list of features I would like to request.
But i think the main thing i need in that case is some brainstorming about what features would be interesting and novel.. just what would this application do that is special?-mouser (September 17, 2010, 12:19 PM)
I've gotten one like that myself, last year. My sister got some facebook malware on my mom's laptop. i couldn't do anything on the laptop, so i had to use a portable virus program to clean it from my usb. but then, i took that usb drive to work and infected my work computer. I cleaned it eventually, but I was super pissed at my little sis. Then, my older sister got a very similar thing, and it happened right when I was sitting there while she was on facebook. It was pretty clever, so I didn't blame them.I've noticed that PortableApps on a thumb drive doesn't do the autorun in Windows 7. Just FYI.Yes: Windows 7 has disabled auto-run on thumb drives by default (it's not only about PortableApps). This was an excellent decision make by Microsoft, because auto-run was a perfect way to propagate malware. Every XP/Vista machine I installed, I always turned off auto-run before anything else. Minor annoyance for some use cases, but a good decision, I believe.-Deozaan (September 06, 2010, 09:30 PM)-ajp (September 17, 2010, 11:29 AM)
I haz iPad! I've just skimmed the surface but it's without doubt the most impressive gadget I've ever owned.That's good to hear. I've heard great things about it. I was advised to wait until Black Friday before making any purchases, and I thought it was a good idea. I hope we see some more tablet-like gadgets for Windows 7 by then.There's just one thing I have to whine about... Man, this thing's HEAVY!!
-nosh (September 17, 2010, 11:50 AM)
I use Remark Office at my University for course evaluations, exams, surveys, etc. Been using it nearly ten years and I'm pretty happy with the results.Awesome! Thank you. I'm going to look into that. A similar one to that that I've run across recently is ABBYY FormReader. I don't know how much it costs, but I know their OCR software is well respected.
It takes a bit of work getting the initial form designed, but after that scanning and reporting are very straightforward.
You design a form (I usually just use MS Word), scan the form to an image file (jpg, tiff) and then 'train' Remark from the image to recognize response regions on the form. As long as the response areas on the form are unchanged (nothing added or moved) you can make changes to other parts of the form and use the same scanning template.
Scanning can be done with any optical scanner (from a cheap-o desktop type to a mode costly production model). Remark will scan duplexed forms if the scanner supports them.
For example, for course evaluations, the main part of the form is reserved for questions with bullet lists for responses. The headings on the form can be changed (course title, semester, instructor, etc.) without having to re-train Remark to recognize the responses. To allow us to identify different forms, we have a field in the header which contains an ID number encoded as a bar code. Remark interprets the bar code during scanning and includes the ID in the output file.
The reporting utilities are pretty good, but you can also export the raw data if you need to generate something fancy.
Remark is NOT inexpensive (currently it is $995.00), but it is very flexible.-dbrosius (September 17, 2010, 08:41 AM)
what you are asking for is readily available everywhere and we've talked about it in the past plenty of times.Thanks! Actually, the more helpful part is knowing that you've been using this happily. I wasn't sure if there was some thing about it I was missing that would make it frustrating to use.
for example: http://www.newegg.co...d=1&name=5.25%22
just make sure it has an open front for optical drives and it will hold those rack systems fine. i've used one for many of years and like it a lot.-mouser (September 16, 2010, 05:02 PM)
personally i'd much rather pay higher prices and have a waiter who isn't trying to be fake nice hoping to get a good tip, and just being like a normal person on a job. i very much dislike the fake game of trying to kiss the ass of the customers hoping they will give you a good tip.+1
if we follow the logic of tipping to it's natural conclusion, we'd be tipping everyone -- cops, airplane pilots, bus drivers, etc. i don't think that's a good idea.-mouser (September 16, 2010, 12:32 PM)
It's not quite as user friendly as it could be, but CPU benchmark is a useful guide to CPU processing power taken, I believe, from multiple benchmarks of real systems.That's actually pretty good! At least it's a list structured on some kind of quantitative performance. It doesn't help me understand the nomenclature, but it's very useful nonetheless. Thanks!
It will not, however, help much beyond that - ie. no info about compatibility, power usage, CPU features etc.-Ampa (September 16, 2010, 11:42 AM)
I stopped after signing up was a requirement.Seriously. I'll sign up for forums, I'll sign up for reservations, but I HATE signing up just to try a software or something.Dunno. It might be fantastic stuff, but the site looks a bit dodgy and confusing. Not sure what the free 1 Mbps is. Service? Sounds like a proxy.
-Renegade (September 14, 2010, 10:14 PM)
It's confusing indeed, but you can't really make a single universally easy to understand rating scheme... gigahertz doesn't tell you much about performance, and using some performance rating instead would just get the companies to focus on getting the highest performance for a synthetic benchmark. There's also stuff like power efficiency to count in.I understand. But there must be some kind of comparison matrix or something out there. Am I really the first person to ask for something like this? There must be some guide to choosing chips.
I'm sure it could all be done less confusing than it is now, though.-f0dder (September 16, 2010, 11:18 AM)
It's a bit confusing alright, but wikipedia is very helpful.I know how to research and how to use Wikipedia. But isn't there a nice visual explaining all of this somewhere? There must some simple way to makes sense of it all without having to read pages of stuff and figure it out yourself.-Eóin (September 16, 2010, 05:05 AM)
"We could literally hide an entire bicycle inside of a mattress and you would never know."
ok all can pick 2 now.Thanks. i would be so pissed if the board game thing wins!-mouser (September 14, 2010, 06:33 PM)
Board games! really?! how many board games can a user develop? I can honestly say that I have never had even the slightest inkling to create a board game. I must be the only normal one here. 
One reason to love HTML5 if no other: Disney/ABC/ESPN hates it because:I don't get it. Why wouldn't there be room for ads? Couldn't they eventually figure out how to stick ads in html5 sites? I feel like it's like saying a software is crack-proof. What am I missing?
(1) No room for ads. Without the ability to insert ads, Disney-ABC has little interest in moving towards HTML5. By pushing users towards an exclusive Disney or ABC mobile app, Disney can then insert their own ads at and re-direct users towards ABC-only content without fear of losing them to other content providers.
(2) Little to no copyright protection. This is a major gripe most media companies have when displaying their content and could be another reason why others may stay with a dedicated app for each network.
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In the race toward Idiocracy, I could live with fewer ads in what life I have left!-zridling (September 14, 2010, 02:00 AM)
This might be the perfect barebones system for what you want to do.Wow, that's really great. Thanks! I love it. It has everything. It's bare bones, it can run Windows, it has plenty of connectors in the back. very nice.
http://usa.aopen.com...o=3047&mdstl=354
(see attachment in previous post)-app103 (September 13, 2010, 07:07 PM)
wouldn't the simple answer be to get a laptop with a large hard drive and hdmi out?yes, it is the simple answer. But i'd like it to be a box I can open up and mess with. I might want to put more connectors and stuff. basically, I want a regular pc tower, just in the smallest form factor possible.-mouser (September 12, 2010, 05:49 PM)