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General Software Discussion / Awesome unconventional uses of tech thread
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 09, 2015, 08:38 AM »

A thread with a special slant where more or less ordinary tech just takes on whole new levels of awesomeness inspiring the icon
:Thmbsup:


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Living Room / Re: New Virus or ??
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 09, 2015, 08:18 AM »
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Developer's Corner / Re: Ludum Dare 32: April 17th-20th, 2015
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 09, 2015, 04:23 AM »

Heh.

These compos are basically a wonder to behold. But because I careen into over-focusing, I will just make a list of the candidate games I found tonight and save them for later when I am fresh and have gotten some other stuff done.

How about I just keep that list here!

http://ludumdare.com...review&uid=51895
DEITY
-- especially because I am working on a young adult myth project, this is at the top of the list.

http://ludumdare.com...review&uid=34675
Town is Mine
Something using card-game type mechanics.

http://ludumdare.com...review&uid=44370
Stain
A strategy game.

http://ludumdare.com...review&uid=27523
SSZB
An old lady wants to take back her town. (Strategy)

http://ludumdare.com...review&uid=50227
Kitten Cleaner
A modified Tower Defense game.

http://ludumdare.com...review&uid=45848
Potion Quest
Another strategy game of some kind.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ludum Dare 32: April 17th-20th, 2015
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 08, 2015, 11:42 PM »
Here's an amazing game. It has incredible graphics, music, and the gameplay concept was pretty cool, too!

(see attachment in previous post)Fathom by Joe Williamson

Content disagreements aside, the Button Masher Bros agreed this was a killer entry.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Ludum Dare 32: April 17th-20th, 2015
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 08, 2015, 11:38 PM »
I don’t know why, but somehow the very act of giving up altogether on LD32 filled me with inspiration. I had moved on physically, but my mind couldn’t think of anything else. I was excited about this new idea! I could hardly wait to finish showering so I could get back to my computer and see if it worked as well in practice as it did in my mind.
Interesting how often you hear of things working out -
or, as in this case, you getting the good idea, after one has given up.
It's been explored in the business schools. Various words describe the exact cases, but somewhere it often links to "reducing the pressure to deal with dead baggage". One of the accounting terms we learned was "sunk costs" and the example of the "inefficient machine" - that let's say you buy a Widget Maker and it is what it is, but over time it both ages in ability, and has a bad upkeep curve. So you just finally say you refuse to be bound by it anymore.

So you ditch it, and start looking at next generation Other-Widgets that do something completely different but the returns on both investment and maybe "satisfaction" are way higher.



(ps bleh I messed up the quotes)
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Developer's Corner / Re: Ludum Dare 32: April 17th-20th, 2015
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 08, 2015, 11:32 PM »
I found the controls awkward, and it cramped up my hand/wrist while I was trying to play.
Very broadly, I've fiddled with unusual hand placements to deal with this, especially variants on cross-over-hand stuff.


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10 Things Banned in Other Countries, but Legal in the U.S.[/url]
-Arizona Hot (May 08, 2015, 05:13 PM)

I luv the phrase "up to" in law language.

"1. BABY WALKERS
Babies in Canada have to learn to walk the old-fashioned way. The country banned once-popular baby walkers in 2004, after they were found to endanger babies and delay motor and mental development. Possession or selling of a baby walker can result in fines of ..."

So far so good. I can see a $1000 fine as a nice "this is a law we meant, so wake up!"

But then we get ...

"... fines of up to $100,000 or six months in jail."

What causes *that*?! National Conspiracy to sabotage baby growth to fudge childhood development because you bet on futures of outsourcing companies or something?!

 :tellme:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 08, 2015, 07:29 PM »
I just heard that Windows 10 would be the last version of the OS.  But not like it's not going to be updated anymore, it will still get regular updates.  It's just not going to have regular OS updated versions anymore.  What does this mean??

It sounds like just a nomenclature thing, right?  Instead of Windows 10, Windows 11...etc.
It will be Windows 10 v1, Windows 10 v2, Windows 10 v3, etc.  Or some kind of service pack, or just KB updates, I don't know.

And how does this relate to their cloud desires?  Just wondering...

I was gonna bring this up too.

It will be like service packs on experimental steroids, and what little I've skimmed of the tech community def has concerns about it!

I generally don't care about security updates - they just do their thing and go sit there.

But these proposed "quarter-OS turbo updates" do bother me because I can absolutely forsee at least one of them being done wrong and then it will be hell to pay to clean up and I don't have the skillz for that!

:o
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Living Room / Re: New Virus or ??
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 06, 2015, 05:44 PM »

Good luck questorfla!
This is the weirdest virus case I have ever heard of!!

:o
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General Software Discussion / Re: MS Project questions
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 06, 2015, 01:52 PM »
Sorry. I thought this thread was about helping Kalos with MS Project. :down:

Yeah, our tone is wavering a little, but it's getting into a broader theme of "answering the question" and "next steps".

I posted my remarks because in my old job we'd never needed MS Project for anything, then one day, *exactly once*, it drifted up through management "Hey, we need a chart." And never used it again.

So it happens. I've been in Kalos' position a lot, so a big "take months to learn MS Project" kind of reply would really have upset me! By now y'all see he's dealing with a lot of stuff. So to keep getting multi month homework assignments would start to get discouraging!

So on *these kinds of questions* I was trying to suggest we need a double-barreled answer - something to get past the week, and then what could be done later now that the meeting-fire is put out?

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Epic line from a Spam that just appeared here (which will be gone soon but the line deserves to be laughed at!)

(Solemn visage and voice, like a C rate wise man.)

"After washing that person precisely before you go to sleep, night products should be applied just."

:tellme:  ;D
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General Software Discussion / Re: MS Project questions
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 06, 2015, 01:53 AM »
@DerekHal:
Good answer, but now you've gawn an' done it.
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Chinese proverb.

Ya gotta do both, Iain!

Police: "Why is this man dead, with a book next to him?"
Witness: "He starved while trying to learn how to fish. No one would give him dinner."

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General Software Discussion / Re: MS Project questions
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 05, 2015, 05:44 AM »

Somewhere in the middle ground, is something like what I ran into once.

"Oh look! Some client wanted a MS Project chart. Well, bang that out for me as soon as you can."

"Forced", sure. But not as part of the basic job description, but something that showed up on a one-time basis. Someone wanted something simple like a quick chart, and then that complexity gets rough.

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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2015, 09:43 PM »

I think phones are more than an amplifier.

Except for minor "we forgot how to watch for people", they are changing our lives in many ways for the good because people can get "minor" things done in ten minutes that used to take three hours. (Without being rabid) a few texts, check the web for something, a map, sometimes the gps, I like my timer-stopwatch, and more.

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Yeah, that's really good!

And that's another reason I promote Pale Moon!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite Windows Desktop Virtualizers?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2015, 07:36 AM »

Well I don't think it's worth digging for a while. Dexpot is doing just grandly for me.

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It's just neat for me to hear the prosaic opener of "I was going to Singapore for work and that's close enough for me to fly to Malaysia".

I spent the last 30 years of my life in the NH/MA/NYC triangle.   *

(    * The footnote - one year the cabin fever unnerved me enough that I took a whim trip out to Michigan just to see stuff west of NY for once! But then I came back.)

So it's grand that your life details allowed you to do that.



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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a very flexible timer
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 04, 2015, 03:28 AM »

I like version 2 for layout, though I wonder if it was a typo that the task-begin-end-total bar was left out?

It just seems we're so close to everything, because if there is a "stopwatch mode", then it can start with a timer of 0, start-stop works as normal, and "lap" creates its own "pseudo-tasks" aka the laps breaking down the segments of each task, below the main header of it.

It feels to me like this should be easy ... but famous last words?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Favorite Windows Desktop Virtualizers?
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 03, 2015, 08:00 PM »
I cannot speak to how effective or usable it is, but I seem to recall that if you own an AMD Radeon video card you might want to try out their HydraVision software. I seem to recall it having virtual desktop functionality.

I have an Nvidia GeForce (unless Display Adapter is not what I am supposed to be looking at).

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Hide My IP free for 2 days 17+ hours
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 03, 2015, 05:57 AM »

This could be kinda neat (or others of its class), because "everyone is saying" "we received/tracked your ip" (*Favorite line by the tech portion of 100+ TV episodes!)

And there might be a legal wrinkle with the copyright gangs trying to pin stuff "on your ip".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for a very flexible timer
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 03, 2015, 05:52 AM »

I considered a start/stop button, but I thought using the clock as  button would be economical as far as UI goes; maybe I was wrong...  :o
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As far as tasks, the last task in the list always has focus; at this stage of development, it's the only way I could keep things straight.  When you click on another task to change the name, that's all that's allowed.  Are you wanting to change between tasks to add more time on the selected task?  Great idea, and I'm sure I can figure out how to do that.  Let me know what you are needing exactly.  
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@TaoPhoenix: It's not you, it's me ;)  I was trying to keep the timekeeping as simple as possible because even as it is I had a devil of a time keeping the time set-able but synchronized with real time, and the correct time showing up in the correct places.  That's why I made it so when you make a new task, the old task is "closed out"; that is, the time is finalized.  That can be changed in the final CSV file, but if I'm interpreting Tomos' comments correctly, maybe I should make it so you can switch between tasks to add time to a previous one.


Well, pointing out a "merge" of this program and the iPhone stopwatch, I'd suggest a row of buttons somewhere. Start Stop Lap.  That way you know what a button does, but another reason is more important - the iPhone thing tries to do *three things with two buttons* and if you mis-click them in the wrong order it messes up or wipes out your time log!

And because I like fancy "implicit tricks", for "program-chainers" like me, a set of buttons means you can do things like using one of those automated mouse-movers (or other things) so that it does stuff like:

"start, wait until 50 min, stop (because you know the user is slacking somehow!), Lap to log the fragment, Wait 10 minutes, Start". So then theoretically you can even leave it sitting there in the background for days!

And yeah, I am *totally* a fan of clicking back and forth between tasks. So for me (so far!) it's as simple as Click to make a Task Active (possibly checking if you need to finish processing the old one, to help prevent misclicks!).

And I mentioned in passing but one reason the clock didn't work for me is because on my ... fading ... system, it didn't start anything! So if you imagine, "click the clock ... nothing happens ... okay..." !


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lol oops, fundraiser banner snuck back on.. i've removed it now :)

(Dramatization, a bunch of days later at Mouser's lair)

"Stop it! It's like the Sorcerer's Apprentice! People just keep Donating us money!   :tellme:      "
Ps The smiley icons are Capital D!

:D   ;D 
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A couple of things I thought worth knowing:

- You can't just "download it" ; it seems you have to set up an account and I haven't looked at that.

- I don't see the "upcoming titles" so it seems like if you don't ... diligently ... check every day, you could miss some and then get grumpy that they stopped being free!

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Official Announcements / The Living Dead Fundraiser!
« Last post by TaoPhoenix on May 02, 2015, 11:39 PM »
It ain't over! Let's go $16,000 and beyond!

The main page has it today at $15,804.

https://www.donationcoder.com/

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This might be a new wrinkle in that whole discussion!

Some lawyer had fun working on this!

First, the usual "privacy policy" that looks "sorta bland".

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/

But here is at least one key phrase:
"For us, "personal information" means information which identifies you, like your name or email address. Any information that falls outside of this is "non-personal information."  "

But you tech guys have shown, you can "in reality" identify someone with enough info on their specific comp configurations.

And then buried under something called "Firefox Health Report" and barely mentioned in Options/Advanced, we get *this* much more "truth in legalese"!

https://www.mozilla....refox/#health-report

The whole thing has enough discussion points I'll just let you folks read most of it as is, but just look at the astounding stuff as it combines!

:mad:

I'll highlight this about that "tiles" thing I knew I hated earlier:

"Tiles are a feature of Firefox displayed on new tab pages. In order to provide the tiles feature, Firefox sends to Mozilla data relating to the tiles such as number of clicks, impressions, your IP address, locale information and tile specific data (e.g., position and size of grid). In Firefox Beta, certain short-term Telemetry experiments (see above) for Tiles may collect information about commonly visited domains."

I haven't yet scoured Pale Moon to see how much of this stuff it has.



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