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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2014 Release: Text Inspection & Manipulation Utility

« Last post by wraith808 on January 14, 2014, 01:25 PM »

I went to the download page, using FireFox 32 on a Win 7 64 bit system, and the file didn't download. I tried it in an IE tab and nothing at all happened.

Is the download broken?

-HankFriedman (January 14, 2014, 11:53 AM)

Just downloaded it fine.  Can you get to Mega at all?

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Community Giveaways / Re: Scrivener at 50% off

« Last post by wraith808 on January 14, 2014, 08:57 AM »

Sorry but I am new to this and thought that active just meant registering.  Thanks for the reply and I understand.  At least it's help me find this site.

-p_culhane (January 13, 2014, 06:41 PM)

Sorry if the answer was a bit short... I was short on time and didn't want to not answer.

Glad to have you onboard, and hope to see you around in the future!  Take a look at the intro thread, and introduce yourself over there.

I considered asking about this myself but not actively writing and dont see it happening in the near future...

-tomos (January 14, 2014, 04:44 AM)

There's a couple of you in that boat  If you feel like you'll have need, at this point, I'd say quit being shy  Having the tool might inspire the next great novel!

...and it's taken!

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

« Last post by wraith808 on January 14, 2014, 08:51 AM »

The Simpsons apologize to Judas Priest via Bart's Blackboard (via the Guardian)

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Found Deals and Discounts / DisplayFusion 65% off today (2014-01-13) Only (BDJ)

« Last post by wraith808 on January 13, 2014, 07:06 PM »

Someone asked me about this when I purchased during the steam sale, and I forget who. 

Figured I'd post this notification in case that someone (or anyone else) was interested.

http://www.bitsdujou...tware/displayfusion/

It's $8.21 instead of $23.45 (don't ask me why the strange prices  )

Don't ask me how it is... I still haven't tried it 

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Community Giveaways / Re: Scrivener at 50% off

« Last post by wraith808 on January 13, 2014, 06:26 PM »

Sorry, this giveaway is for active members of DC as stated in my post above.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 9 plan to repair the damage done by Windows 8

« Last post by wraith808 on January 13, 2014, 04:49 PM »

There's a very simple explanation.  There's a switch in the market (look at the number of PC's shipped thread) and Microsoft is trying to hold off assaults on all sides while having no concrete battle plan, but just throwing things at the wall to see what works.

As far as the no hope and the setting back windows for good mantra- I still have my same reply that I did in that thread; until there's a contender to the throne, that's just FUD in some cases, and hopeful thinking in others.

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Living Room / Re: email provider for multiple accounts

« Last post by wraith808 on January 13, 2014, 12:25 PM »

you can also try sneakemail.com

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013: Carbon - website / blogging framework [alpha]

« Last post by wraith808 on January 13, 2014, 11:12 AM »

You might want to look at Jekyll also.  It seems to do a lot of what you were intending with this, so you might be able to get some ideas from that.  It requires ruby so you have a one-up in that fashion.

To see a simple example page, you can look at my github site.

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Living Room / I Wore the New Oculus Rift and I Never Want to Look at Real Life Again

« Last post by wraith808 on January 13, 2014, 11:03 AM »

I Wore the New Oculus Rift and I Never Want to Look at Real Life Again (via Gizmodo)



Looks pretty freaking cool.

And a win from the comments:

"It's the Rift. The Crystal Cove Oculus Rift that we added to the personal computers. It was supposed to entertain the population, weed out boredom. Well, it works. The people here stopped watching TV. And then they stopped everything else. They stopped going to work, they stopped breeding, talking, eating. There's 30 million people here, and they all just let themselves die."

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Living Room / Re: Interesting funding discussion regarding JayIsGames.com

« Last post by wraith808 on January 12, 2014, 10:44 PM »

I'm just shocked at the idea that so many of the visitors to any site are using adblockers.

-mouser (January 12, 2014, 04:31 PM)

Seriously?

Whenever I install Firefox on a client machine, AdBlock Plus and NoScript are the only extensions I include by default. And my clients are glad to have them.

-40hz (January 12, 2014, 08:03 PM)

Exactly.  And I only turn it off if I consciously think of it.  Ads have gotten a bad name, and as such, are on the losing side on most installations.

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Living Room / Re: Best note-taking setup with tablet and keyboard?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 12, 2014, 08:20 PM »

For this purpose, I'd discount Windows unless you specifically require access to Windows programs. Too expensive, too heavy, unnecessary.

-Dormouse (January 12, 2014, 07:07 PM)

Actually, the tablets are not the same as what you might be accustomed to.

I purchased a Dell Venue Pro 8, and it was $329 for a 64GB tablet with full windows 8.1 and office, is comparable in weight to the iPad Mini, and if I wasn't already tied into the iOS infrastructure, I'd be really happy with it.

So, that's going to be more of a judgement call rather than the absolute that it may have been even a year ago.

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Living Room / Re: DuckDuckGo over 1 BILLION searches in 2013

« Last post by wraith808 on January 12, 2014, 12:48 PM »

Well, the other side of that is the types of ads they let through.  They get one chance... if an ad is obnoxious, slows down my computer from flash, auto plays sound, or does anything similar... back to the bin they go.

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Living Room / Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant.

« Last post by wraith808 on January 12, 2014, 11:46 AM »

What are you contemplating using it for should be the first question.  Images?  Audio?  Purely text?  Clipping web pages?

And what platforms are you contemplating having the need for it on?

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Living Room / Re: DuckDuckGo over 1 BILLION searches in 2013

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2014, 07:33 PM »

I whitelist it... pretty much like any place I actually use

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Living Room / Re: YouTube finally forces creation of google+ A/C to comment

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2014, 02:51 PM »

And you don't have to have a G+ account to run gmail and such.  They're just adding features as G+ grows in popularity.  Mine was set to circles only already- which was the same setting I had for who could e-mail me from my G+ profile page.  Not sure if it's the same in general.

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Living Room / Re: DuckDuckGo over 1 BILLION searches in 2013

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2014, 02:49 PM »

It's right there on the page... just needed to run search 1 billion and 1 apparently 

https://duck.co/help...ising-and-affiliates

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

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2014, 02:44 PM »

And even funnier...



http://gokicker.com/...oments-polar-vortex/

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Living Room / Re: PC Shipments Drop Precipitously in 2013

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2014, 02:42 PM »

I tend to doubt the doom and gloom on the PC front.  It's just that the computer sales and increases was a bubble based on a premise that has changed...  their extraordinary sales numbers and increases were based on the consumer getting into the platform.  And as such, they revved up production scales, driving many of the mom and pop stores that were the basis of the PC market.  The uninformed consumer has moved on to tablets and smartphones now, so the market isn't flush.  If the Dells and such move on, then the small mom and pops will come back.

I speak from experience as I did that at one point, and it became hard to compete with mass produced dells and hps.  The desktop PC might be changing, but I tend to doubt that it's going anywhere in the near future, no matter what the corporates' bottom numbers might tell you.  Their sky is falling, but the sky isn't.

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Living Room / PSA: Using OAuth on apps and sites

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2014, 02:34 PM »

In my first incidence of this, apparently an application that I authorized for my twitter account was either compromised from the server side, or something similar, as twitter spam started going through my account.

Just like we perform maintenance on our computers, change passwords, and other spring cleaning, on any services where you authorize applications/services to access your account, it's a good idea to check through those, delete any that you don't use, and reassess whether you trust those that do.

Unfortunately, twitter didn't tell me which app was abusing- just that it seemed that some application that I had given access to was abusing that access.

The more you know...

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General Software Discussion / Re: [concept feedback] Workload management software

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2014, 01:51 PM »

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Living Room / Re: Why George Orwell wrote 1984

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2014, 12:15 PM »

When you choose evil without coercion, even if it is a lesser evil, there's something seriously WRONG there.

-Renegade (January 10, 2014, 08:02 AM)

Not.. necessarily.  Take a US election, with two candidates, and other marginalized ones.  You can vote for the one that would do the least harm.  Or you can vote for someone else.  Or you can not vote at all.

Not voting at all is not making a choice.  Similarly, if pragmatically your candidate won't win... that's not really a choice either.  Those kinds of choices for the non-mainstream candidate are made before an election and during the campaign.  Not at the ballots.  Once it becomes obvious that the marginalized candidate won't win, all you do by voting for them is reduce the pool of effective votes.

Voting for the lesser evil in that case, is the pragmatic choice.  You're not actually choosing the lesser evil- you're choosing against the greater one.

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Living Room / Re: Why George Orwell wrote 1984

« Last post by wraith808 on January 09, 2014, 10:22 PM »

Well, for all of my middle of the road stance, I'm nothing if not practical.  A practical man has to have a sense of humor, because being practical is hard.

I think from his writings, Orwell was a practical man.

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General Software Discussion / Re: [concept feedback] Workload management software

« Last post by wraith808 on January 09, 2014, 09:43 PM »

^ Right!  That's the point that I was making, i.e. "the idea of writing software to capture one particular style of working (as opposed to trying to make one organizational tool for everyone)".  It seems that Justice is going for the latter part- at least it seems so with the OP and soliciting feedback on whether his list is a good list.

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General Software Discussion / Re: [concept feedback] Workload management software

« Last post by wraith808 on January 09, 2014, 09:59 AM »

Yes, I'm using Trello right now... great app!  Yet another mini-review I need to do... 

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Living Room / Re: Best note-taking setup with tablet and keyboard?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 09, 2014, 08:19 AM »

I don't know if you've looked into rolling your investment into your new platform, but that's what I've done and its kept the cost of the iPad manageable.  My first one, I purchased new- a 16GB for $500.  My second one, I skipped the iPad 2 and have the 3 right now, I purchased at best buy (64GB) as a return.  That one was a little over $400, but I sold my iPad at the same time to someone at work for $150.

I'm thinking about shortening the time-table of the buy sell, because they maintain their value pretty well as long as you don't sell to a store.