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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!
« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2014, 10:27 PM »
Just a reminder: The word 'free' is not part of Microsoft's vocabulary.  ;)
-40hz (October 03, 2014, 09:04 PM)

The word 'free' is not a part of any corporate entity's vocabulary.  People thought it was a part of Google's.  Look at where we are now.
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Living Room / Re: Win10 Navigation Pane scrambled
« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2014, 08:00 PM »
If you're asking for help... and someone asks you for data, well it's at that point a decision has to be made.  Either you give them what they ask for... or accept that they might wash their hands of the situation.  Especially in the case of something as ... benign as a screenshot.
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2014, 12:19 PM »
I think as long as it's not politico-religious based in an overt way, it's fine for silly humor.  The line isn't *that* fine that it's not obvious when something doesn't belong.
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by wraith808 on October 02, 2014, 08:42 PM »
It's an image.  That trick was pulled a few pages back, also.
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Living Room / Re: DoCo...I need your help!
« Last post by wraith808 on October 02, 2014, 04:57 PM »
Sweet! Feels good to help out. Even if money is a bit tight at the moment, I would probably have just spent it on beer anyhow. So at least it's going to something a bit more productive than my inebriation!
-p3lb0x (October 02, 2014, 04:18 PM)

And you saved some brain cells! :)
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by wraith808 on October 02, 2014, 04:56 PM »
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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!
« Last post by wraith808 on October 02, 2014, 02:39 PM »
Aretha Franklin Annihilated Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" on Letterman
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by wraith808 on October 01, 2014, 11:34 PM »
^ Are you bored?  ;D  That was a lot of work for a punchline!  ;D
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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!
« Last post by wraith808 on October 01, 2014, 05:51 PM »
Boy, I've cut down a lot on what news I follow over the years.  i think I may cut out a whole bunch of tech news.  These articles about new devices and new features and stuff are really making me  :-\.

So all this news about windows 10.  ok.  All they've really done is change the start button so it's now even bigger with tiles showing.  One programmer.  One day.  Let's say 10 programmers, one month.

What else?  built-in multiple desktops?  ok.  windows users have had third party tools forever, so who really cares?  I can't criticize it too much, of course, they are just addressing the (quite stupid) complaints of users who say windows has nothing while apple has all these great software built into the OS.

This move away from the windows third-party tools is still troubling to me.  It's making me keep an eye out on Linux. 
-superboyac (October 01, 2014, 05:07 PM)

There's more than that there.  In fact, there's enough more that I can't really summarize in a post.  Read a few of the articles.  And I'm sure there's more than that under the hood.
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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!
« Last post by wraith808 on October 01, 2014, 05:49 PM »
This is hilarious...

http://www.infoworld...s-to-windows-10.html
-wraith808 (October 01, 2014, 11:21 AM)

Please note that that was an April Fool's article from 2013!

They thought they were being silly, but they were prophetic!
-Deozaan (October 01, 2014, 01:44 PM)

That was my point... but less well stated :)
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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]
« Last post by wraith808 on October 01, 2014, 11:53 AM »


Street Fighter - Angry Goat Edition
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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!
« Last post by wraith808 on October 01, 2014, 11:21 AM »
This is hilarious...

http://www.infoworld...s-to-windows-10.html
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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!
« Last post by wraith808 on October 01, 2014, 11:17 AM »
Why not jump to LibreOffice which is much better and doesn't rely on Java and is actively being developed?
-Carol Haynes (October 01, 2014, 10:59 AM)

That was what I tried.  It was still slow, at least in my experience.
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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!
« Last post by wraith808 on September 30, 2014, 07:55 PM »
I still want to know why people actually continue to pay for Office when OpenOffice does the same job and costs nothing.

-SeraphimLabs (September 30, 2014, 04:53 PM)

Because OpenOffice is slow and non-responsive.  Just answering for myself.  When I built my new computer, I'd decided to try to stop using Office.  My experience with OpenOffice was underwhelming enough that I'm looking at getting into Office 365, especially with all that it offers.  It takes a lot longer to open the same documents (even native) on my new, faster computer than my old computer.  And trying to open the same rtf document on both?  It's no comparison.
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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: License Key
« Last post by wraith808 on September 30, 2014, 02:55 PM »
The hard thing about people other than mouser giving help on keys and such is the fact that features have been offered and the process has been streamlined.  I never knew about the link at the top of all forum pages.
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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: License Key
« Last post by wraith808 on September 30, 2014, 01:17 PM »
That page has a link to generate a key, towards the bottom, and a video of how to do it:

To get a free key without donating, visit this page.

NEW! Watch a video demonstration showing how to get a license key and put it into the program.
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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!
« Last post by wraith808 on September 30, 2014, 01:08 PM »
Given fair warning, perhaps ... But life seldom happens on schedule.
-Stoic Joker (September 30, 2014, 12:07 PM)

Considering you pay for the month at a minimum, the chance of you hitting that date at the exact time that you can't pay $10 would seem to be a manageable risk.

Of course, there are considerations when going down this road.  As always let the buyer beware and do his own due diligence.  But after doing my own due diligence on the subject, I know where the possible failures are located, and have taken such mitigation into account- as all should do before doing so.
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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!
« Last post by wraith808 on September 30, 2014, 11:58 AM »
Sure it sounds like a great deal, but when the subscription runs out because hard times have hit, and the software shuts down. What do you open the files with? And what happens to all your stuff that is stored in the cloud?
-Stoic Joker (September 30, 2014, 11:37 AM)

Well, I'd think that you'd manage that ahead of time, and get your stuff out of the cloud.  And it's standard office format, so OpenOffice still opens it.  And you can still open the documents from the cloud office for free- no payment required.
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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!
« Last post by wraith808 on September 30, 2014, 07:55 AM »
As goes the Ala Carte scourge ... It's only a dollar..!

This is a dollar, that is a dollar...the other thing(s) are only a dollar. And then all of a suddenly your stuck with close to a car payment - For :)ing Life - hoping that you don't get into a bind because then all your stuff is (gone) being held hostage by a faceless corporation that wants it monthly feeding - plus late fee$...

Windows OS goes monthly ...(today's letters become F and O)... Stoic Joker Goes Linux.
-Stoic Joker (September 30, 2014, 07:46 AM)

That's the worse case scenario.  The thing that is making me think about office is the fact that you get a locally installed version, you can save your files locally, and they're the standard office format.  You have to read the fine print of course, but even looking at the fine print, I don't see any gotchas.
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Living Room / Re: Win9 will be FREE!
« Last post by wraith808 on September 30, 2014, 07:24 AM »
Monthly for an OS?  More chance of me winning a dance contest than that succeeding
-rgdot (September 29, 2014, 06:20 PM)

I thought the same thing about office... but have you looked at the offering?  I'm actually thinking of subscribing for office 365.  For $7 a month you get it on one machine, one tablet, as many mobile devices as you want, online, you can save offline documents, and you get 1TB of data.  For $10 a month- you multiply all of those by 5(!).  In comparison, most services are that much or more just for less storage...!

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: License Key
« Last post by wraith808 on September 29, 2014, 06:24 PM »
https://www.donation...er.com/Help/entry/1/
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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!
« Last post by wraith808 on September 29, 2014, 02:50 PM »
slash
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Steam is Changing...
« Last post by wraith808 on September 29, 2014, 02:49 PM »
Well, if your group *is* your friends, and you follow them, then you'll get good recommendations.

I've found more than a few of the games that I've bought recently from seeing what friends have been buying and playing.  This seems an extension of this.
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DC Gamer Club / Steam is Changing...
« Last post by wraith808 on September 29, 2014, 01:26 PM »
Valve has decided to make an overhaul to the way gamers interact with Steam and how it works.  There's a great breakdown on Kotaku about these changes. 

But to summarize:
1. A new Steam Discovery Queue
2. An expanded recommendations system with a new "endless" recommendation feed
3. A curator system, where people can recommend a collection of games, and you can follow different feeds

It looks like a great update, and I'd like to flesh out the DC curator page.  Unfortunately, they're a bit swamped so I couldn't get it started, but will once the servers stabilize.

What do people here think about these changes?
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Living Room / Re: The One Word Game!
« Last post by wraith808 on September 29, 2014, 10:20 AM »
dead
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