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Living Room / Re: 9 Signs Self-Publishing Is out of Control

« Last post by Deozaan on May 15, 2012, 05:08 PM »

I don't get what the big deal is about having lots of crappy e-books out there?

There are a lot of things available for me to buy when I visit the dollar store, or the mall, or the grocery store. I don't insist that these places stop stocking things I'm not interested in.

Or perhaps a better analogy: There's a lot of crappy, "self-published" software on the internet. There is also a lot of really good, yet fairly obscure/unknown "self-published" software on the internet. What do you care if it sucks? If you don't want it, don't download it.

Same thing with e-books or digital music albums or digital movies/videos, etc. Ensuring quality for every single option isn't as important when there are plenty of alternatives to choose from.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Recruiting for a Lovecraftian Adventure Horror Game.

« Last post by Deozaan on May 15, 2012, 04:55 PM »

I think you might have better luck finding a modeler/texturer on another forum, such as http://polycount.com/ or maybe even the Unity3D forums.

Good luck!

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DC Gamer Club / Torchlight 2

« Last post by Deozaan on May 15, 2012, 04:01 PM »

Torchlight 1 seemed to be quite a hit with the DC crowd last time around, and Torchlight 2 is scheduled to be released sometime this July.

Torchlight 2 is available for pre-order right now, and they're offering 4-packs (buy 3 get 1 free). This might be a good place to organize group-buys of 4-packs.

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Living Room / Re: Tesla for Dummies [The Oatmeal]

« Last post by Deozaan on May 15, 2012, 02:04 AM »

So not that I don't think Tesla was amazing or anything (because he totally was!), but The Oatmeal lies about Edison in this "infographic."

About 75% through the thing he says he won't complain about Edison any more and then at the end he goes on to call Edison a "douche" in a variety of ways.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare 23 - 1,000 new games and counting

« Last post by Deozaan on May 14, 2012, 05:13 AM »

Voting on the games has now ended. Take a look at the results here:

http://www.ludumdare...dum-dare-23-results/

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Living Room / Dropbox Dropquest 2012

« Last post by Deozaan on May 12, 2012, 02:50 PM »

Dropbox has started another Dropquest with more chances to get more free cloud storage.

What is Dropquest?

Dropquest is a multi-step scavenger hunt that has you solve a series of puzzles (inspired by the likes of MIT's mystery hunt or notpron [though not nearly as time/effort-consuming]). Everyone who completes Dropquest will get at least 1 GB of space (even if you participated last year). Also, everyone starts at the same time, but the questers who finish the soonest get amazing prizes!

-https://www.dropbox.com/dropquest2012

Here's a link to last year's Dropquest thread.

Click here for Dropquest 2012

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General Software Discussion / Re: owncloud - alternative to big brand backups

« Last post by Deozaan on May 11, 2012, 01:46 PM »

What's the difference between OwnCloud.com and OwnCloud.org?

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General Software Discussion / Re: owncloud - alternative to big brand backups

« Last post by Deozaan on May 10, 2012, 11:19 PM »

You told us about two sites and then gave us a link to a separate, third site.

owncloud.org doesn't work for me, btw.

http://isitup.org/owncloud.org

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Portal 2 gets a new level maker! Woohoo - thousands of new levels

« Last post by Deozaan on May 09, 2012, 07:46 PM »

Thanks for pointing this out. I've subscribed to your test chamber and the other one you mentioned.

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Living Room / Re: SuperMoon Pictures - Post Them Here :)

« Last post by Deozaan on May 09, 2012, 06:53 AM »

To get back to the topic, here's a gallery of SuperMoon photos/videos:

http://www.theblaze....-from-blaze-readers/

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Developer's Corner / Re: Random Question (About Hash Keys)

« Last post by Deozaan on May 08, 2012, 08:02 PM »

If you require a hash to be secure before you call it a digest, then why do you call MD5 a digest when there are known collisions? Doesn't that make MD5 an insecure hash?

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Living Room / Re: Facebook: Dark Edition

« Last post by Deozaan on May 08, 2012, 12:33 AM »

I thought this topic was going to be about this recent news article:

Kids Raped, Sodomized on Facebook Pages.

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Living Room / Re: SuperMoon Pictures - Post Them Here :)

« Last post by Deozaan on May 07, 2012, 09:39 PM »

However, the moon is at the perigee of its orbit about once a month^*. This would affect the tide in the same way, whether it appears to be a "full moon" (SuperMoon) or not.

-Deozaan (May 05, 2012, 06:09 PM)

Not quite correct deozaan : "The scientific term for the phenomenon is "perigee moon." Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. The Moon follows an elliptical path around Earth with one side ("perigee") about 50,000 km closer than the other ("apogee").  Full Moons that occur on the perigee side of the Moon's orbit seem extra big and bright."

So it happens about once a year.

-joiwind (May 06, 2012, 05:22 AM)

Huh? I know that a Super Moon happens about once a year. What I was saying is that the moon is at its perigee about once a month. My point was that the tidal forces created by the moon's gravity at its perigee shouldn't be any different whether the moon appeared to be "full" or not.

However, I failed to take into consideration whether or not the sun affects tides. I'd never heard of such a thing but it appears that SeraphimLabs is suggesting that it does.

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Living Room / Re: Magnetic Bacteria for Storage

« Last post by Deozaan on May 07, 2012, 09:31 PM »

Just hope your hard drive doesn't get a virus!

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Living Room / Re: Anybody In Favour of the blocking of PirateBay, Please Read

« Last post by Deozaan on May 05, 2012, 06:13 PM »

Then again, maybe I shouldn'tjavascript:void(0); have even poked my head in here in the first place since I am not in favor of blocking TPB.

-Deozaan (May 04, 2012, 01:37 PM)

maybe he's going to become a monk*

-tomos (May 04, 2012, 03:30 PM)

* Deozaan wonders how tomos got a "javascript:void(0)" in his quote.

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Living Room / Re: SuperMoon Pictures - Post Them Here :)

« Last post by Deozaan on May 05, 2012, 06:09 PM »

I think it's silly that they talk about the effect that SuperMoons have on the tide. From that video, I understand a SuperMoon to be a full moon when the moon is at the perigee of its orbit. That only happens about once a year.

However, the moon is at the perigee of its orbit about once a month^*. This would affect the tide in the same way, whether it appears to be a "full moon" (SuperMoon) or not.



*The word "month" is based on "moon," because the moon orbits the Earth approximately once per month.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare 23 - 1,000 new games and counting

« Last post by Deozaan on May 04, 2012, 07:28 PM »

I just spent the past couple of days porting my LD23 entry, "Be Tiny, World!" to Android devices. It's now available on Google Play.


Google Play store page


Standalone APK File (now available on Itch.io)

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Living Room / Re: Short Cody Story

« Last post by Deozaan on May 04, 2012, 01:43 PM »

Wow. Rules 34 and 61 fulfilled.

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Living Room / Re: Anybody In Favour of the blocking of PirateBay, Please Read

« Last post by Deozaan on May 04, 2012, 01:37 PM »

Let me get this straight: Some companies/lobby groups/whatever got the UK government to require ISPs to block TPB and your response is to stop paying anybody for any^* software?

I'm not sure that's an appropriate response.

Then again, maybe I shouldn't have even poked my head in here in the first place since I am not in favor of blocking TPB.

* With the exception of DonationCoder software.

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Living Room / Re: Firefall developer: "Consoles, I believe, are dead"

« Last post by Deozaan on May 04, 2012, 01:25 PM »

Incidentally, the "Android Marketplace" app on 1 of my Android devices got automatically removed and "upgraded" to "Google Play". Ahem... You mean you f**ked with MY device? You deleted s**t without asking me? Yeah... F*** you too. Not happy about that.

-Renegade (May 03, 2012, 05:49 PM)

Huh?

How do you expect to keep using the Android Market if it doesn't take you to Google Play? It's the same thing. It's just been renamed and got a new icon. You don't complain when the DNS entry for "donationcoder.com" updates to a new IP address, do you?

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Living Room / Re: Pirate My Film... Dot Com.

« Last post by Deozaan on May 04, 2012, 01:15 PM »

Er. . . If it's legal then it's not pirating. . .

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Living Room / Re: Blog comments - On of off?

« Last post by Deozaan on May 03, 2012, 11:36 AM »

I agree - some popular blogs have better content in their comments than they have in the original blog post.  Lifehacker was a great example of this.  They had some of the best commenters around (now not so much).

-jaden (May 03, 2012, 11:25 AM)

Interesting. I recently saw an article on LifeHacker where the author said "F-You" to the commenters, making multiple ad-hominems to the readership at large, all while extolling the virtues of a comment-less system.

It may not have been LifeHacker, but it was definitely one of the Gawker sites.

EDIT: Found it. It was on Gizmodo: You Write 'Bias Journalism' and I Read 'Derp'

EDIT2: This is actually the article, written by the same person, extolling the virtues of no comments: Comments Are Bad Business for Online Media

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Sniper Elite v2 out now!

« Last post by Deozaan on May 02, 2012, 02:55 PM »

Here's the discussion we had before on Sniper Elite v1:

https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=22150.0

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Living Room / Re: Android Tablets

« Last post by Deozaan on May 01, 2012, 06:50 PM »

The diff is in the display. The TF300 has 1280x800, like the TF101, and the Infinity/TF700 has a resolution of 1920x1200. That's the main reason for me to want the Infinity/TF700. This page might help you make a choice.

-Ath (May 01, 2012, 05:28 PM)

I want the Infinity, but in the TF300's Royal Blue color. I don't really like the Purple/Gold colors of the Prime/Infinity.

I love that dark blue color!



I've also noticed that the TF300 still has the unibody design. So it makes me wonder if it, too, will have the wireless/GPS connectivity issues that plague the TF201.

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Living Room / Re: Android Tablets

« Last post by Deozaan on May 01, 2012, 05:19 PM »

It's called the Infinity: http://eee.asus.com/...r-infinity/features/

-Ath (May 01, 2012, 04:46 PM)

Weird. I went looking for the information on ASUS's website and all I got was a link to a blank page.

Looks like there's also going to be one just called the Transformer Pad (TF300).

I like the Royal Blue color of the Transformer Pad, but the WiFi version of the Tranformer Pad Infinity has better specs.