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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by tomos on November 04, 2013, 02:09 PM »

I have no investment in Bitcoin in any way (literally or beliefs-wise), but I'm happy to see it, and to see what happens with it. I believe it will change things, even if it eventually collapses or 'is collapsed' or just corralled. It has changed things already. People are thinking about possibilities and looking at how it's working - and if it doesnt, someone else will come along with a new improved version. Or maybe something completely different.

Re PayPal/Ebay, they'll actually go in there if they think it will be profitable, or worthwhile (= profitable indirectly). One scenario is: if it does start to become more popular - or if they even just suspect that - it will be in their interest to support it. Otherwise people will be using bitcoin with no fees - and why should they then revert to PayPal, who want their pound of flesh from you for the privilege of using it? Another scenario is, if they think the advertising will be worth any possible hassles (I'd reckon it's no big hassle to them -any hassles, they just stop supporting it).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Configuring Directory Opus for Fun and Profit

« Last post by tomos on November 04, 2013, 01:37 PM »

I'd forgotten this one - cause I never really used it ;-)

I want to keep two panes showing the same location - as I navigate in one -
e.g.
Documents | Documents
on the left pane, I move down to Documents/Expenses - the other panel updates to show the same:
Expenses | Expenses

How to:
under the icon 'Folder Options' => Navigation Lock



currently using it with thumbnails on one side, details on the other. While being able to look at the images, it makes locating files by name much easier. Cant think of other uses off-hand but I'm sure they're there.


Note:
I cant find it in the menu; just checked my laptop, which install is closer to the default version: it's not in the menu there either.
I think everything should be available in the menu - it's easy to edit a toolbar, remove a 'button' and forget it even exists as a capability. I know, I've done it
For things more rarely used, I find it much easier to look through a menu. Because of that, the version 10 update hid a lot of the power of dopus for me - I do find I use the range of that power less than before.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clever screenshot - automatical selection

« Last post by tomos on November 04, 2013, 09:07 AM »

Running to try. By the way . From yesterday I don't see correctly the web DC ....

-Contro (November 04, 2013, 05:19 AM)

that used happen me before - clear your cache and it will be okay

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General Software Discussion / Re: Clever screenshot - automatical selection

« Last post by tomos on November 03, 2013, 02:51 PM »

Is this correct? -

You do an image search on google.
You click on an image, an image preview is shown - you want a screenshot of the image preview.

Different images show different sized previews - you want the screenshot to show just the image preview with no (black) background.

Query - if that above is correct, why not just try to save the images?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: how to enter text into a text box

« Last post by tomos on November 01, 2013, 11:41 AM »

@beethoven
IIUC, you click on the text icon (tooltip say "Text Object");
you click and drag to create a textbox - at this stage all you have to do is start typing - the text will automatically go in the box, i.e. it has focus. If the focus is elsewhere, a double-click in the textbox will give do the job.

I'm on windows 8 here (for a change). I notice, when I created the textbox, there was a blinking cursor in it - but it was so small it would be easy to miss. Funny I just drew another textbox and I see a full-size blinking cursor... Do you see a blinking cursor?

Hope that helps!

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Living Room / Re: Facebook Requiring Government ID?

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2013, 03:50 PM »

Where I come from, you dont actually need to have any form of photographic/government ID - dont know how unusual that is (?).
Sorry dude, no FB account for you !


I'll follow rgdot's example and give this a Like

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Living Room / Re: Musician Lou Reed has died

« Last post by tomos on October 30, 2013, 03:59 AM »

edit// there's actually a couple of really nice tracks (imo) on ^that album "Another View"

-tomos (October 29, 2013, 03:34 PM)

Yes, but also a lot of boring stuff ("Andy's Chest", "Coney Island Steeplechase", ...).

-Tuxman (October 29, 2013, 05:58 PM)

yes, "a couple" leaves out, by definition, most of the tracks
But obviously - seeing as I posted it - I didnt and dont find Coney Island Steeplechase boring. It is a minor track, but for me it was an ohrworm and a pleasure to find again. YMOV ('O' for obviously).

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Living Room / Re: Confessions of a drone warrior

« Last post by tomos on October 29, 2013, 04:00 PM »

Guess you could call that a form of progress, right?

-40hz (October 29, 2013, 01:37 PM)

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that was a powerful post.


Re my earlier, eh, reproachful post: sorry folks, I missed the sub-text to the whole medal talk (maybe it was more obvious than a 'sub-text' - but I missed it anyways). Which gave me a skewed perspective of the medal debate...

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Living Room / Re: Musician Lou Reed has died

« Last post by tomos on October 29, 2013, 03:34 PM »

I loved some of the 'light' stuff from Velvet Underground - VU Lite

"Sunday Morning"


at one stage (long time ago), I had a cassette of outtakes and unreleased stuff from the VU (buying cassettes, such a bad idea) anyways, this one always stuck in my head:

"Coney Island Steeplechase" (keeping the days-of-the-week theme)
probably havent heard that one in twenty years...

edit// there's actually a couple of really nice tracks (imo) on ^that album "Another View" - preview: http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=ZNgmAiLi0n4

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by tomos on October 29, 2013, 01:25 PM »

Ooops... I forgot to add: Fight fire with fire.

-Renegade (October 29, 2013, 04:46 AM)

I'm not sure what you mean there, but for some reason I had the idea of drinking a lot of liquids, then--if you're a bloke anway--you're prepared in case you meet a fire.
No, I didnt even necessarily mean alcoholic liquids (sober here btw/fwiw).

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Living Room / Re: Confessions of a drone warrior

« Last post by tomos on October 29, 2013, 03:03 AM »

So, the big question here is about medals....


[edit] about my fifth edit here
Maybe I shouldnt even mention morality here, but, just to be clear: I'm not at all saying that we should be discussing the morality of different aspects of the topic here. Just that the medals discussion is so the other end of the scale... I apologise in advance cause I reckon I will have already offended some people with my response. But I just dont know how else to say it at this moment and time - and I dont want to leave it unsaid. Apart from the above, the debate (medals) doesnt seem to me to fit into the (international) dc community/forum. [/edit]

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Living Room / Re: Confessions of a drone warrior

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2013, 04:53 PM »

^ What about the fact that he *was* diagnosed with PTSD?  And the new studies quoted in the article, i.e.

[...]

What if it has less to do with mortality than it does morality?

-wraith808 (October 28, 2013, 04:18 PM)

I agree, but would not use the world 'morality' - morality is, by definition, an intellectual thing. This is not an intellectual response....

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by tomos on October 28, 2013, 03:11 PM »

The ... problem is this:

https://en.wikipedia...i/Gresham's_law

Why spend bitcoins when you can get rid of fiat? (This is a general problem.) What I'm thinking is that constantly funnelling fiat into bitcoins then spending that is a good way to preserve value as you avoid fiat inflation and get the advantage of bitcoin's deflation. This becomes easier and easier as more merchants/etc. start accepting bitcoins.

-Renegade (October 28, 2013, 12:01 AM)

IIUC Gresham's Law would indicate that Bitcoin will be saved and not spent at all - so long as fiat money exists (presuming Bitcoin continues increasing in value). [edit] but yes, your logic is good, so long as bitcoins increase). [/edit]

Interesting to note the couple of paragraphs there about how/why they stopped using silver and other valuable metals to make coins (with silver in the US, a chicken/egg scenario could be argued).

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Sometimes copied matters donot arrive in Clipboard Help and Spell

« Last post by tomos on October 27, 2013, 03:04 PM »

^ in order to say that this is a problem with CHS, you would have to see if the problem occurs without ClipMate running. See mouser's comment:

sometimes clipboard tools misbehave and prevent others from capturing.

-mouser (October 19, 2013, 09:21 AM)

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

« Last post by tomos on October 27, 2013, 02:59 PM »

 

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Living Room / Re: Yay! New Laws for Crowdfunding!

« Last post by tomos on October 27, 2013, 02:53 PM »

^I could say regulate the banks,
but I guess you could come back with bitcoin or silver/gold

-tomos (October 26, 2013, 01:23 PM)

They are already heavily regulated.

-Renegade (October 26, 2013, 09:43 PM)

cant let that part of your response go:
yes, naturally, it's the *type* of regulation that's important!  I meant the type of regulation that I believe started disappearing with Reagan....

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Living Room / Re: Musician Lou Reed has died

« Last post by tomos on October 27, 2013, 02:49 PM »

 

this is fairly untypical Lou Reed but seems appropriate:
Lou Reed - See that my Grave is Kept Clean

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: SoloCrop

« Last post by tomos on October 26, 2013, 04:30 PM »

Thanks tomos. This is meant as a "good at one thing only" tool, so no rotating I think.

-Nod5 (October 26, 2013, 04:29 PM)

Still sounding very good to me

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Submission: SoloCrop

« Last post by tomos on October 26, 2013, 04:20 PM »

Sounds very nice  

Would 'rotate' be a possibility?

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Living Room / Re: Yay! New Laws for Crowdfunding!

« Last post by tomos on October 26, 2013, 01:23 PM »

^I could say regulate the banks,
but I guess you could come back with bitcoin or silver/gold

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.

« Last post by tomos on October 26, 2013, 12:51 PM »

Yeah, there's a bit of a fuss being kicked up by Merkel due to her mobile telephone bing 'tapped'. It will help, but it could have some more 'omph' to it imo.

I'm been following it on the radio. From a google search:
http://www.huffingto...apped_n_4150812.html

The European government complaints are all a bit wishy-washy, due I suppose to the reality that every government is doing it - it's just they're shocked how much the NSA is doing. But they cant state that so baldly in their official complaints, e.g.:
"Guys, we know you like to peek; we like to peek a little too - but guys, this is going, like, *too* far..."


Yet this sounds potentially very good:

Looks like more cracks are forming:

http://thecable.fore...fort_to_restrain_nsa

An effort in the United Nations by Brazil and Germany to hold back government surveillance is quickly picking up steam, as the uproar over American eavesdropping grows.

The German and Brazilian delegations to the U.N. have opened talks with diplomats from 19 more countries to draft a General Resolution promoting the right of privacy on the Internet. Close American allies like France and Mexico -- as well as rivals like Cuba and Venezuela -- are all part of the effort.

The push marks the first major international effort to curb the National Security Agency's vast surveillance network. Its momentum is building. And it comes as concerns are growing within the U.S. intelligence community that the NSA may be, in effect, freelancing foreign policy by eavesdropping on leaders like Germany's Angela Merkel.

More at the link.

-Renegade (October 25, 2013, 10:01 PM)

so hopefully that's the 'omph' ;-)

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by tomos on October 24, 2013, 11:32 AM »

^an impressively bad article...

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by tomos on October 23, 2013, 01:53 PM »

^ thanks for taking the time to make that response Ren

I do understand better now where you're coming from. I also understand a bit better your focus on inflation (which btw is still way down my list of problems - personal or theoretical unless it is a symptom of something unhelpful, which of course it might well be).

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General Software Discussion / Re: So-called upgrades that ruin good programs

« Last post by tomos on October 23, 2013, 09:02 AM »

hi Mike - wow, I didnt realise it was that problematic....

Heed the cautionary notes to backup your system before updating (what kills me that is that usually I do!)

-Darwin (October 23, 2013, 08:36 AM)

that *is* hard luck. Maybe I'll just skip it completely (not even sure if that's possible).

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by tomos on October 23, 2013, 06:53 AM »

^I'm not arguing about debasing of a currency, and whether that might be a good thing. (1) I dont want to argue it (2) I'm not qualified to do it anyway ;-)

Minimum wage workers in 1964 made about 30% more than minimum wage earners now. *IF* you look at fiat, only.

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I was thinking more in term of a comparision with 1800 or even 1900 (referencing your quote that money had lost so much value in the last 2 to 300 years). It's easy to cherry pick a very short period of time when average people did reasonably well, and say that's what the world would be like if [xyz]. But I dont see much logic there, nor much to convince me of anything really. I could just as easily argue that times were good then because banks were much more regulated (and we might both be right - or wrong, or it might just be the case that there's an awful lot more going on at any time, than any simple idea/concept can explain).

Minimum wage for 1 hour in quarters in 1964 was about 0.82 troy ounces of silver.
[...]
Today that's worth more than $18.50. (@ $22.60 per ozt)

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Why do I feel like I'm being cheated when you compare minimum wage in 1964 and today in terms of silver
We've touched on this before (my post in basement thread about greenback dollars). SeraphimLabs claims a deflationary model is unstable (second post @ the link above). I dont know about his qualifications, but you didnt respond directly. As I say I'm not qualified to talk about it, but off the top of my head, if money was related to, say, silver, and silver was increasing in value all the time, then wages would probably have to be reduced proportionately, otherwise companies would go bust. Not sure that would go down too well...

I know that you know a lot about the flaws in fiat money Ren. But I get the impression that you dont know a whole lot more about economics than I do, yet you seem so very sure about your ideas. That sets off alarm bells for me. No offence intended - it's the ideas I'm on about