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

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 09, 2012, 10:46 AM »

Wait Iain, is that part of a Lost episode? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: yet another file manager thread...

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 09, 2012, 10:27 AM »

I'll second Classic Shell. Like it or not, many of us mid-level users "learned computing on XP". So when Win7 (and maybe Vista before that) just decided to move things for the sake of moving things, I was among the many annoyed users. Classic Shell fixed a lot of it (though a few minor things slipped by, no biggie there.)

While not really a tool, I just also turned off most of the visual bling and brought it back more to a classic icon handling.

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 09, 2012, 10:21 AM »

Yep, quite a boost in the donations by now!

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Living Room / Re: Hello everyone!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 07, 2012, 12:23 PM »

P.s. I like your handling of the shareware theme, "use it as long as you like, there are reminder screens, the shareware fee removes the screens.

I think it's important not to have doomsday clocks on shareware.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 07, 2012, 10:24 AM »

Well, at least by 1983 they were using the word!

Here we go! Cue the original EPCOT center computer song!

http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=KXICSA0cLw8

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 07, 2012, 10:19 AM »

I'll try a more classical approach.

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Living Room / Re: Hello everyone!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 07, 2012, 10:07 AM »

Hallo!

I'm not sure I understood your home page. Where are the shareware utilities?

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Living Room / Re: Free Speech Online Suspended in Arizona

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 07, 2012, 10:01 AM »

They turned Arizona into Pleasantville!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120789/

Plus, I posted it elsewhere but I'll repeat it in this thread.
1. Post nude picture of myself looking scary
2. Get arrested for posting nude picture
3. Strip searched nude for looking scary.

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Living Room / Re: It's Official - Anonymous are Terrorists

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 07, 2012, 09:56 AM »

Heh Iain, count on you to find a second cynical point!

However, let's separate out the money angle just a little for the moment.

I was going to the point that if you have $Enemy, they kicked in the Big Brother mentality To Protect Us From $Enemy, Because The World Will Never Be The Same After Enemy beat us. So naive little pawns ... er, sorry, citizens, hunker down and put up with the intrusions, in the name of being patriotic to Help Beat Enemy.

So even if it spins out into this absurd "Almost Got Him, But He Got Away, Tune In Next Episode!" kind of melodrama, we can almost live with it if we are Making Progress. Oops. Turns out we were not even in the right country for the entire decade.

Then, wrapping back hoping to make my original point clearer, so a TRILLION DOLLARZ and a Pinky couldn't find Bin Laden, but sky help us if Anonymous defaces a web site! International coalition, get them Terrorists!

So what I'm grumpy about is not only did we waste a lot of money doing absolutely nothing, but we wasted parts of it destroying our freedoms in a colossal lie.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: My experience with board games.

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 06, 2012, 06:20 PM »

Tao, when you get ready to make your cards, you might want to check out my open source Python scripts for card prototyping:
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=26052.0

-mouser (April 06, 2012, 06:08 PM)

Awesome, but I have odd glaring gaps in my skillset, so I'd hand that off to the "tech development guy". If I had one. At heart I'm a Humanities fella that has aquired enough one-off skills to fake Level 1 Helpdesk at work but I know who has Da Skillz and that I don't.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: My experience with board games.

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 06, 2012, 05:39 PM »

Not sure if I'm off topic, but re: games, I'll remark that in a different "board" genre, I have increasingly wanted to turn the Censorship News into a Collectible Card Game.

Assuming that A, I don't get "Dissappeared" by angering powers that be and B, I don't annoy Wizards of the Coast who managed to get a patent on the form, I can't help but read news stories now in Combos like MTG.

http://www.azleg.gov...m&Session_ID=107
"Arizona's Gov. Jan Brewer has a bill on her desk that would ... (prohibit) any obscene, lewd or profane language or suggest any lewd or lascivious act".

http://www.nytimes.c...ny-offense.html?_r=1
"Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip Searches for Any Arrest"

There's a lot of gamers here. (Figuratively) Does no one else see the Super Combo?
1. Post nude picture of yourself looking threatening
2. Get arrested for nude photo
3. Get strip searched for looking threatening.

With imaginary help, I could make an entire 340 card set out of this stuff.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Park Cursor Aside

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 06, 2012, 05:30 PM »

I am trying this out now!

It looks cute!
Go Anand! : )

Fun tip: Set the settings to push the mouse closest to the button you need to press like "Save" or "Post".

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Living Room / Re: It's Official - Anonymous are Terrorists

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 06, 2012, 05:11 PM »

I'll make it worse.

"Anonymous" are terrorists, but check out the official smoking gun on THE only terrorist who mattered:

Wife: Bin Laden Hid in Pakistan, Not Caves, for Decade
http://news.yahoo.co...news-topstories.html

"Osama bin Laden's youngest wife has revealed that the al Qaeda leader spent a vast majority of his time after the 9/11 attacks not hiding in caves but living in Pakistani cities, where he moved several times and fathered a handful of children. ...the most wanted man in the world skipped from home to home in Peshawar, Swat and Haripur, Pakistan before settling in Abbottabad for about the last six years of his life."

I'm sorry, we ruined the constitution in the symbolic meme that it was necessary to stop terrorism, and the man was happily living in Pakistan for six years??!

(Pinky) ONE TRILLION DOLLARS couldn't get this guy? Are you telling me that they couldn't have put a 100 million dollar bounty on the guy's head and been done with it? And the guy had *wives and kids* who couldn't be found either?!

That to me is the most Elephant In The Room story I have ever heard. To me and its followup are THE story of the decade. *Nothing else matters* (as much.)

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 06, 2012, 07:55 AM »

I'll submit a humble 325, spent on fighting internet abuse.

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Living Room / Re: CISPA is the New SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/etc. etc. etc.

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 06, 2012, 06:19 AM »

Followed by this counterstrike!   

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Pirate Bay Promotion Attracts Over 5000 Artists
The Pirate Bay introduced a new promotion platform for artists called 'The Promo Bay,' which let independent artists reach tens of millions of people by offering favorable advertising spots on the The Pirate Bay's homepage.
http://www.ibtimes.c...rtists-riaa-mpaa.htm

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Living Room / Re: CISPA is the New SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/etc. etc. etc.

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 06, 2012, 06:19 AM »

More news:   

Ars Technica: Slow learner? MPAA chief hints at talks to revive SOPA
http://arstechnica.c...s-to-revive-sopa.ars

Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywood...stein-ratings-308359
MPAA Chief Christopher Dodd Says SOPA Debate Isn't Over

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UK Bill Again Demands Web Pornography Ban
"A new bill presented to the House of Lords demands both ISPs and device makers filter adult content. The Online Safety Bill, raised in the Lords by Baroness Howe of Ildicote, asks for ISPs and mobile operators to 'provide a service that excludes pornographic images' and for device makers to include ways to filter content at the point of purchase.
http://www.pcpro.co....ce-makers-block-porn

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 05, 2012, 01:53 PM »

Grow little bar, Grow!

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Living Room / Re: CISPA is the New SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/etc. etc. etc.

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 05, 2012, 01:53 PM »

They have "improved their model" too.
Witchcraft & Communism was the 1.X model that proved vulnerable to both the passing of the chief opponent (Soviet Union) and it was always a little brittle because it was "binary", either you were or were not Those Things, and the illusion of legitimacy of it all cracked under the absurdity.

This time they have at least a trifecta of Terrorism, Porn vs Children, and Copyright & Patents with help from DRM and TOS.

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Coding Snack Guidelines / Re: Idea - Paste utility...

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 05, 2012, 12:02 PM »

Excel 2010 (earlier?) has rightclick/"select from dropdown list" which accumulates the info in a column above it into a drop down list that you can just "pick and paste". Not exactly what you're looking for, but it's cute so I decided to mention it.

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Living Room / Re: CISPA is the New SOPA/PIPA/OPEN/ACTA/etc. etc. etc.

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 05, 2012, 05:55 AM »

Looks like you missed HR 1981 PC-FIPA.

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General Software Discussion / Re: OneKey 1.8.0.0

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 04, 2012, 08:43 PM »

Heh I'll cop to being half Pointy Haired Boss without the Boss.
I see code and I go numb!

That's why I commission stuff! : )

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General Software Discussion / Re: OneKey 1.8.0.0

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 04, 2012, 06:26 PM »

What if this were changed to something like "10 key" ? I have trouble thinking of one single item I didn't make a shortcut for on the desktop. But having 10 keys would reduce desktop clutter.

Quick example, In succession I have to open Snippy, Transdesk, then change desktops, then open Tom Revell's stickies. 3 icons already. And I do that every day.

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Living Room / Re: Publishers shoot toes off again

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 04, 2012, 11:46 AM »

Bleh - Fonts!

I'm as much of a detail freak as anyone, but fonts annoy me. Different programs shuffle between defaults. Times New Roman, Geneva, Arial, Calibri, Verdana (which doesn't behave nicely on my work printer! Prob. a driver issue - I hate drivers too!)

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DonationCoder.com Newsletters / Re: --> Newsletter for April 2, 2012 - Codename Fundraiser Feather Duster

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 03, 2012, 08:37 PM »

One more semantically null ego boosting praise of Mouser comment here! : )

(This post was written by an AI.)

(I Wish!)

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Official Announcements / Re: The DonationCoder 2012 Fundraiser Has Begun!

« Last post by TaoPhoenix on April 03, 2012, 08:32 PM »

This is my screenshot of progress.

Who knew that humbly asking could net so much?