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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 15, 2015, 05:22 PM »

Currently, I'm re-reading the Demon Cycle by Peter V Brett- preparing for the new book to come out later this month.  If you've not read them, they're very good.

I'm also reading Point of Impact- the movie that Shooter (with Mark Wahlberg) was based on.  Definitely very different a much more engaging than the movie.

I'm also reading Promise of Blood by McClellan- promises to be a very good series.  

As I read very fast, I try to read multiple books at once in order to string each one of them out.

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Living Room / Re: 10th Anniversary - long time member check-in thread

« Last post by wraith808 on March 15, 2015, 05:09 PM »

Great picture SB!  Thanks for posting it!

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Living Room / Re: Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series, dies aged 66

« Last post by wraith808 on March 13, 2015, 09:00 PM »

Petition asks Death to bring Sir Terry Pratchett back

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/31867210

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Developer's Corner / Re: LiveCoding - watch others code

« Last post by wraith808 on March 13, 2015, 02:26 PM »

"LiveCoding" has been a thing for years. Plenty of people stream their development on Twitch.tv while they work on games or other projects. Especially as part of game jams such as Ludum Dare.

-Deozaan (March 13, 2015, 01:28 PM)

Yeah... I knew about those.  But I hadn't seen an organized site for just this.  So the topic was more in relation to the site in question rather than the practice.  The EULA even mentions something about video game streaming, so is probably a spin off from those.  But the difference is the others are not the point of the site- whereas this is the point of the site.  And I think that small difference sets themselves up potentially for an interesting time, legally speaking.

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Developer's Corner / LiveCoding - watch others code

« Last post by wraith808 on March 13, 2015, 09:23 AM »

Coding comes into the streaming era with LiveCoding.tv.  You watch people coding projects in varied languages - live.

It's currently in open beta.  Not really sure of the practical use of this, and there seem to be many implications that they haven't totally thought through.  Especially as their legalese includes this gem "Livecoding.tv allows certain users (" Broadcaster ") to distribute streaming live and pre-recorded videos of video game related activities."

Interesting to some, I suppose...

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Far Cry 4 was amazing

« Last post by wraith808 on March 13, 2015, 09:17 AM »

Looks like it's 40% off on Steam atm, personally I am still going to wait till I can snatch it for €5-10 on a sale like with Far Cry 3.

-Jibz (March 13, 2015, 01:23 AM)

I'm trying to force myself to do the same.  Then I don't have to feel as bad when I don't get a chance to play it.

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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 12, 2015, 03:31 PM »

8 Artists That Could Sue ‘Uptown Funk’ on the Same Grounds as ‘Blurred Lines’

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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 12, 2015, 03:06 PM »

I think the miscalculation by Williams and Thicke's Lawyers was catastrophic.  You can't tell which way a jury is going to rule on something that actually requires expertise.  I don't know what they would have had to do- but they should have done anything they had to in order to avoid that kind of factor.

That said, the "that songs reminds me of another song" threshold would be a new dangerous legal standard IMO.

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Living Room / Re: Do we have any musical people on DC?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 12, 2015, 01:23 PM »

So, I figured this was a good place to ask about opinions on the Blurred Lines Verdict.

http://www.musictime...ed-lines-lawsuit.htm

http://www.musictime...ed-lines-verdict.htm

It seems that musicians fall all over the spectrum on this, which was surprising to me.  I don't like "Blurred Lines"- but listening to it and "Got to Give it Up", they're distinctly different songs.  Other opinions:

http://theconcourse....if-you-ha-1690817200
http://www.refinery2...-pharrell-reputation
http://www.slate.com...not_infringe_on.html
http://www.washingto...urred-lines-verdict/
http://www.cbsnews.c...pact-music-industry/
http://radio.com/201...ds-as-blurred-lines/

Thoughts?

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by wraith808 on March 12, 2015, 01:11 PM »

(see attachment in previous post)
Neil Gaiman's 'The Books of Magic' and Harry Potter's Forgotten Predecessor

-Arizona Hot (March 12, 2015, 11:50 AM)

Good thing its books and not music, apparently.

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Living Room / Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld series, dies aged 66

« Last post by wraith808 on March 12, 2015, 11:20 AM »

Another sci-fi great gone

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

« Last post by wraith808 on March 11, 2015, 09:37 AM »

First shots fired at the Apple watch by ASUS with this tweet...

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General Software Discussion / Re: my problem with programming

« Last post by wraith808 on March 11, 2015, 08:04 AM »

what language are you trying to learn?  There are these things for many languages- I suppose you haven't found them.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: One Day Logitech Gaming Sale on Amazon (US) - March 10, 2015

« Last post by wraith808 on March 10, 2015, 04:30 PM »

Pretty cool!  For Chrome, the extension is called the Camelizer.

https://chrome.googl...blo/related?hl=en-US

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DC Gamer Club / One Day Logitech Gaming Sale on Amazon (US) - March 10, 2015

« Last post by wraith808 on March 10, 2015, 04:08 PM »

http://www.amazon.com/b?node=10032977011

Pretty deep discounts on some good Logitech Gaming Accessories, including the G930 for $69.99- the lowest I've seen it.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!

« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2015, 06:40 PM »

Elio's engine in action

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Living Room / Re: Sorry, Ebooks. These 9 Studies Show Why Print Is Better

« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2015, 03:28 PM »

Well, the difference in that approach is the fact that when you purchase a DVD and/or a CD, on the physical media, you have the digital media.  It's just a different mode of distribution.

Books don't have that advantage.  And I think that's one of the reasons they started offering physical media with digital- they'd rather give it to you in their format than you ripping it and getting it in a format they can't control.

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Living Room / Re: 10th Anniversary - long time member check-in thread

« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2015, 10:11 AM »

It's good to see the old names again.   

I was full-time carer for my mother from 2007 until she died in July 2013 at the age of 98.  She developed dementia, so I didn't get much sleep in the last year or so. Now I'm stuck with a house far too big for one, and not much chance of selling.

I got my head back together mostly by reviving an interest in long-distance cycling. I worked up to doing a couple of 200+ mile rides last year, and have hosted a few passing international tourists.   I'm still looking for enough employment to stop the savings eroding. 

-JennyB (March 09, 2015, 05:19 AM)

Best wishes for that- it can be a hard thing to recover from.  My sincere condolences.  But the cycling is impressive!

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Living Room / Re: Is anyone else worried about Google "Truth"?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2015, 10:03 AM »

You can freely insert 'Google' in there, in the place of government.

It is neither a technical problem, nor a political problem.  In fact, giving anyone a hearing is not a problem.  The problem is what arises in the wake of the hearing.  

That's how you handle it.  And you trust the people to make the decision.

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General Software Discussion / Firefox drastically bleeding market share

« Last post by wraith808 on March 09, 2015, 10:00 AM »

An incredibly shrinking Firefox faces endangered species status (via Computerworld)

I have Pale Moon on my machine- which I guess wouldn't count.  And FF on another, which would.  But I use Chrome more than either.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on March 08, 2015, 11:34 PM »

Yeah... this isn't hard at all.  At least, that what her expression says.  Her playing says something else!

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft 'Signature' PCs

« Last post by wraith808 on March 08, 2015, 05:22 PM »

I've found the downsides, as reported in another thread.  However, I still consider it a good buy for testing out the waters in app development.  Having a device instead of an emulator to test on is a good thing no matter what else.

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General Software Discussion / Re: uTorrent has gone rogue

« Last post by wraith808 on March 08, 2015, 05:19 PM »

I don't have a problem with a freeware app coming with a built in Bitcoin miner, provided the users are told about it up front and possibly offered a paid version without the miner, as another option.

-app103 (March 08, 2015, 12:15 PM)

Depend on how they do it.  Telling you a miner will be installed- then using up your whole CPU to do so isn't kosher.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Conditional diary

« Last post by wraith808 on March 07, 2015, 01:22 PM »

I just use ActiveInbox.  The fact that it integrates with my e-mail puts it in front of me all day.  And the fact that I can use different aliases to send to my e-mail address to automatically classify things helps also.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Chrome Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by wraith808 on March 07, 2015, 01:17 PM »

Mine have changed significantly:

Save to Pocket
PickPocket
Evernote Web Clipper
XMarks
LastPass
Ghostery
uBlock
ActiveInbox
Humble New Tab Page
Checker Plus for Gmail/Google Calendar

(actually, I don't use pickpocket as much since I started using the ifttt recipe to copy pocket entries to evernote)

And in Apps that I use:

Draft
Marxico
SourceKit
Workflowy
StackEdit
GingkoApp
Gistbox