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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 02:43 PM »
Okay, so I tried posting those values in, except 1, the triggers seem to have completely disappeared and 2, I wouldn't know how to move the right trigger over the left one. I kinda like it where it is  - can I get a microscopic dot to tell me where to click?
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Fusion 11: $100 off!
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 01:55 PM »
Is it kinda sleazy to offer "half off X product" like a month before the next version is out?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 12:44 PM »
I appreciate your response! I am nearly satisfied with the mockup, all I want is one more feature where other triggers do not activate unless the correct first one does. So for here, it is the left one first, then that unlocks the right one. Then if that second right trigger goes to a folder, that is all I need.

But you mentioned an errand, I can wait for a couple hours if you need to do that.

And the first splinter should do nothing but enable the second. Do you see? Instead of the "reward" of having a woman icon rising up, for the security side the first icon should do nothing, and only the second trigger opens a folder.

Re: my hanging arm, you could just put a dependency on it, so that Z trigger doesn't open until it logs X then Y triggers first, otherwise it does nothing.
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Living Room / Re: Employers asking job seekers for Facebook passwords
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 12:26 PM »

This? I would honestly refuse to provide it, and if they refused the application on that basis I would contact a lawyer to represent me in a legal suit of cyberdiscrimination against them for it. They have no right to intervene in my personal affairs, and the management that thinks they do should be fired.

-SeraphimLabs (May 05, 2012, 11:16 AM)

Nah, see that's already too much work. If you have to sue to get hired, they're already going to hate you and if they ever do hire you, they'll sabotage you anyway.

I know the economy sux, but a company that wants your facebook password (!!) is going to trash you anyway.

By that point I wouldn't want to work for them anyway. I'd make the case against their policies, but then not accept the job offer because of the risks attached. Besides, if the case is won it would have enough of a payout to not need a job for a while. I'd have time to find somewhere else to work.
-SeraphimLabs (May 05, 2012, 12:15 PM)

I dunno about the use of hiring suits to create cash, that feels dubious. I'd just ditch it early on and move to the next company.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 12:22 PM »

So far so good, but what I meant is that the right trigger should not be available at all until the left trigger is clicked. Even with your "kill", the right trigger still creates a Phantom Arm, and from that Security Discussion, an extra point of "what does this do".
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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 12:05 PM »
But how do you disable the right side when it is not "chained" to the left part?
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: FastUnzip Snack
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 12:00 PM »
+1 Pest! :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 11:53 AM »
Getting closer! But do you mean "transparency" at 99%, not "opacity"? It's like you have them backwards!

Meanwhile, how do you set any of that to opening a folder?

And I also found a bug. Let's say that the correct order is Left Trigger then Right Trigger, after I have clicked the right trigger and then the left one a second time to "put here away", I am left with an arm in mid air, and if I click the right one first (should do nothing) then an arm appears out of mid air.

Edit: I put the new settings in, I do think it looks better.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 11:39 AM »
Okay, time to put my Pest Hat on.

I added that wallpaper.

No amount of hovering or clicking anywhere near the "Nuclear Orbs" does anything.
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Living Room / Re: Employers asking job seekers for Facebook passwords
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 11:33 AM »

This? I would honestly refuse to provide it, and if they refused the application on that basis I would contact a lawyer to represent me in a legal suit of cyberdiscrimination against them for it. They have no right to intervene in my personal affairs, and the management that thinks they do should be fired.

-SeraphimLabs (May 05, 2012, 11:16 AM)

Nah, see that's already too much work. If you have to sue to get hired, they're already going to hate you and if they ever do hire you, they'll sabotage you anyway.

I know the economy sux, but a company that wants your facebook password (!!) is going to trash you anyway.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 11:28 AM »
Splinterface zip attached....extract anywhere, load from tasktray icon

MUST LOAD THIS IN 1366X768 SCREEN RES.....I AM ON LAPTOP RIGHT NOW AND THAT IS HIGHEST REZ I HAVE (dont "have" to, but if you don't it will be off centered)

Okay, now just click, roughly, the bottom left corner(when you hover, you will see the ID). Then when "she" is "up", click on the right side (same hover will tell)


Splanime not great, did too quick. But you should get the gist, I think.

After you see, just right click instead of left, on the triggers, go to properties, then "appearance" tab and set opacity to 0

In fact that was higher than my other setting! The best I have is 1360 x 768, but rolling my mouse over the lower left corner I don't see anything "appearing". Am I doing something wrong?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 11:22 AM »
Is there no file extension? It's coming through as a "file".
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Living Room / Re: Firefall developer: "Consoles, I believe, are dead"
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 11:15 AM »


The result is a somewhat obscure internet joke where when someone is talking about PS3 stuff somebody else will point out that the PS3 is a waste of money because it has no games. Usually it is attached to some type of reaction image.
-SeraphimLabs (May 05, 2012, 11:06 AM)

 :o  :tellme:
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: FastUnzip Snack
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 11:02 AM »
Chris,

Your new version seems to be missing the refresh - the folder is not appearing again when I extract - to subfolder.
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Living Room / Re: Firefall developer: "Consoles, I believe, are dead"
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 10:58 AM »
Surely you all heard the meme from the current generation console release:

The PS3 has no games!
-SeraphimLabs (May 05, 2012, 10:24 AM)

Sorry, I missed the Meme-o. What is this about the PS3 having no games?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 09:51 AM »
How hard is it to have you make a very simple Splinterface (Oh gawd, sorry, I've got Lady Gaga stuck in my head now! :P   ) to do a simple two-button Hidden-Click minimal overlay for my current machine?

I don't have need for anything much fancier than that, but I'm interested in testing that out right now.

P.S. I was only half joking about the NSFW stuff, but it feels like it applies on the Big Brother front if you layer it on top of other stuff to make a TRIPLE encrypted system, with a boring layer on top, a somewhat hidden layer underneath, then this is "left field".
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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 07:45 AM »
Another new approach I was mulling over was as light steganography for ... uh ... "NSFW" items! What if you had an otherwise boring looking desktop with nice 85 items on it, but clicking a blanked out area in the corner unlocked the "spicy folder!" (Breasts be here!)  :D  

Related versions include on a wallpaper, like a sort of Indiana Jones thing, if you had to click *multiple* places for the Spicy folder to open, no ordinary computer user will EVER figure that out, because nowhere else in all of Windows/? do you need to click *multiple places in a specific order* to authorize opening a folder.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 07:31 AM »
Sure, progress is happening here.

I meant that once someone codes (a splinterface) it would be neat if that were efficiently exportable as editable code, so that if you for example didn't like all the positions you could maybe in a text editor / other edit them all to be 20 pixels to the left. (Vista/7 Widgets, I'm looking at you taking up the right hand 40 pixels of a screen.)

But even more, my chess idea is a broader theme of converters and plugins that can read a systematic *style* of information and then automatically create a splinterface by *rules* rather than for example hand-coding one chess game. That's just from my amateur chess background, I'm sure the concept applies elsewhere. So to over-elaborate, once you have the basic structural "splinter-game-viewer", you just click "load" and then internal logic (plugin?) can then play any chess game on the planet.
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Living Room / Re: Keeping track of what you want to know about
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 07:27 AM »
That's quite a resume you posted there!

Hmm, lots of neat stuff in that post. I seem to do better with a bit more of a cross between a few "lo-hi tech" tricks and total old school. Up until laziness overtook everything, I was doing well with spreadsheets for family info.

As for DC posts, that blip on the bottom shows the last post of 10 threads, so that tells you if the thread you have been watching has had activity. Then if I am too late and miss it, "recent posts" retrieves it.

As for news, I use a couple of News Aggregators, which in my case are Slashdot and Fark. Then I just check new posts on about 10 other sites.

That's about all the info I can handle!

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Living Room / Re: Blog comments - On of off?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 07:17 AM »
Forum topics tend to be more loosely created.
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I'd guess we haven't been reading the same blogs  ;D.  Or forae for that matter  :P.

BTW, comments are comments, whether or no forae are involved.  But, in my experience, forum posts tend to stick more to the point than blog comments.  And attenuation is common to a great number of blog posts' comments.  That, after all, is one (1) of the reasons the blog comment/no comment question arises.


Sure - maybe excepting this topic, forum topics are "show me some music videos, NSFW humor, $%^%$^%$^%$ Copyright crap, and (for us) software app questions. In contrast, blogs are "articles" and the comments are supposed to mostly pertain to that article and stay in the same time zone as the topic. A funny example is Slashdot, where in one sense the articles are so bad that the comments are better! But even on a humble little blog, like Explainxkcd, the comments are really good, but they're *to the article*.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2012, 06:24 AM »
I get the impression from the above that one possible use of Splinter would be to have a rapid ability to switch between desktop environments. So instead of having everything you frequently use in one place, all the time, you could define a desktop for, I dunno, gaming, another for work, another for surfing... allow for all the crossover that happens between those things too. If I'm reading this stuff right, then an important marker of difference between the standard Windows desktop and Splinter could be that a "Splinter Desktop" isn't just a wallpaper, it's a wallpaper with embedded functionality. So if you can switch to a new desktop by choosing it off a pane of available desktops you can also be changing your working environment entirely, not just the way it looks.

Or am I still misunderstanding what this is supposed to be about?


You're definitely on a good track there, I'll reverse it a little and say that it is a "dynamic desktop" so for example while I don't have the energy to do it right now/never, You could program the splinter with my current layout of icons/(Triggers?) and be able to play "Jack in the box" with it all, for days it's too much noise, "put it all away". Wallpaper not even required.

However another new idea occurred to me this morning. Dmd it struck me that a current downside is that it all seems to be coded by hand. What if there were a master-scripting logic that resides in a master file, that the program reads/imports and then it spins out all these linked nodes?

Going on from there, I think it would be fun if it made a desktop chess game viewer. How? Because on one side chess notation is standard, maybe a middleware connector to slightly expand the assumptions behind the notation, that's relative cake for you hotshot dev types, then Splinter starts from a stock layout of pieces and reads in the notation and moves the pieces by using the notation moves as triggers! It's like BattleChess for 2012!   ;D

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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 08:58 PM »
Well there you have it, we have formed a UN pact of non-Aggression, however my one use case isn't yet covered. No intent to "guilt" here, just that I have seen a couple of times now that a super-high-end program sometimes misses the "low level apps". Conceptually, it's not tough. If my background is Black, my text should be White and Yellow. Just type. It makes an object. Maybe Scroll Bar to toggle font size. Then you click out, and click to drag it.

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Living Room / Re: Pirate My Film... Dot Com.
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 08:51 PM »
Which do you feel like engaging in?
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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: FastUnzip Snack
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 08:50 PM »
If we do get space, i dont know how to access it. I cant find anything in my profile settings. I guess i could just keep updating here, but i just need to keep track of what thread i posted on to update that file each time. I should really build in an update function into my software.
-c.gingerich (May 04, 2012, 07:51 PM)

Well, I sent my notes off to my two lead external hosts. You can work it for a couple of days.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Splinter
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2012, 08:01 PM »
Hmm. Thank you for the nice response!

/Quick Ruthlessly Ugly App/Feature: Just Click randomly on your desktop and start typing a memo, your choice of font size and color, but not "encased" in anything, with ability to maybe Hide/Show and move it around so when you move your folders around you move your text memos. Edit: Double Click to Hide - Show.When it "Hides" it becomes one of those little Splotchy things.

NSFW: (Am I the only one that moves my icons to accomodate a nice busty babe as wallpaper!?  8)    )

Well, it COULD be, that Splinter would not be for you. I mean, if you are actually happy with 85 icons, 60 of them folders on the desktop, always looking the same and being completely "separate" and un-integratable into any and all wallpap----wait, that is it. It is the black background. I TOTALLY know what you mean, as I said, I used to be that way. First 15 years of my desktop experience, black background. I just see it differently now. (But I find it hard to believe that you 100% WANT EXACTLY 85 icons on screen at all times. Wouldnt you prefer, to have either more, or less? If less, then some current ones could be hidden as splicons and then opened when you wished. If you wished to have 150 links available, then could have those new ones hidden the same way. )

 Now, about this.----
/Quick Ruthlessly Ugly App/Feature: Just Click randomly on your desktop and start typing a memo, your choice of font size and color, but not "encased" in anything, with ability to maybe Hide/Show and move it around so when you move your folders around you move your text memos. Edit: Double Click to Hide - Show.When it "Hides" it becomes one of those little Splotchy things.

I am sorry, I do not have any idea if this is a question or statement or if it is translated incorrectly, lol. I am sure it is funny though, judging by the sentence following it.

Again thank you for replying!

So let's see here... I like my 85 items, because they do 85 things, into about 40 new things in the cases of the folders. So I wouldn't really want to expand it much over 100, except for a little clarity in a totally overloaded folder.

Less? Not really - I'm not really a fan of the google-Esque "let's mash 7 menu items worth of options under a gear wheel" approach.

And none of it is funny - I do want to be able to just randomly type text objects that are like 1-3 day reminders that I can drag around like any other desktop object. (Amazing how rare that is for a simple concept!) (Well except the NSFW moving icons part.) But none of the rest is funny - it's an app/feature. He Who Builds The Feature Wins. See Mouser for my rant about when the World's Leading Screen Capture Utility failed to (as of X build, later fixed by the generous graciousness of Mouser) cover the single low level use case I actually used.

Whew! A Lot of words!



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