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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: [EXPIRED] Silent Hunter 5 & Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
« Last post by wraith808 on November 07, 2013, 03:07 PM »
The one that's being offered doesn't have any of that in it- it's teen because of the violence, but I guess I didn't play the middle 'edgy' ones; this was supposed to be a change back to that one that you finished, as it's in the interim between that and the second one, but with a more modern engine.  I think that they did get feedback with the way that the series was going, and decided to go back to that era after the first reboot.

The one thing that they seem to have done away with that made me originally get it on the 360 was that it was one of the first to use that ubisoft drm that required you to be online.  But that seems to be gone now, thankfully.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Suggestion: The ability to float screenshots on your workspace
« Last post by wraith808 on November 07, 2013, 02:46 PM »
The only problem with that is that I would have to make it a non-resident executable, which would slow down the processing of the file.  I'd like to either have an assembly that SSC could load and call a method that sends the filename to the assembly (sort of like FARR does with plugins) or have it communicate with an already extant instance of an application if I have to go the out of process way- perhaps across windows messaging or some other mechanism.

I'll try the out of process bit... but I'd still like to know if there is a way to create plugins like with FARR.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: [EXPIRED] Silent Hunter 5 & Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
« Last post by wraith808 on November 07, 2013, 02:44 PM »
It's pretty good... the only PoP I ever finished, and I chronically don't finish any games.  It kept my attention, and while it could be difficult, it was never frustrating.
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Suggestion: The ability to float screenshots on your workspace
« Last post by wraith808 on November 07, 2013, 02:13 PM »
My first question... is there an API for SSC?  What I was figuring so that I wouldn't reinvent the wheel is to intercept the saving part of SSC with a plugin that would take the screenshot and float it...  didn't know if that was possible, but it seems like that would be a good plugin.

Thoughts? (And let me know if I should PM these or make a different thread or how you would best like to handle the questions)
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: [EXPIRED] Silent Hunter 5 & Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
« Last post by wraith808 on November 07, 2013, 01:34 PM »
so... unexpire it 4wd? :)

Maybe get Deo to check...
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Living Room / Re: Lavabit & Silent Circle Bring You ==> DARKMAIL
« Last post by wraith808 on November 07, 2013, 12:51 PM »
Thanks for posting that.  A lot of what was said was in the comments, but it was good of Levinson to comment.  It should also shut up the trolls who said that he should be sued for false advertising.
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General Software Discussion / Re: new Site for my Software
« Last post by wraith808 on November 07, 2013, 10:29 AM »
Great to see you getting back on your feet again, kudo's :Thmbsup:
-Ath (November 07, 2013, 10:19 AM)

+1 :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Lavabit & Silent Circle Bring You ==> DARKMAIL
« Last post by wraith808 on November 07, 2013, 08:14 AM »
I was just asking if anyone had ever used it.  That's a big part of why I don't get how it was related to the service or the comment- but just seemed like random commentary.  :-\
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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.
« Last post by wraith808 on November 06, 2013, 09:43 PM »
A US Rep actually had the gall to post this on facebook:

MikeRogersStatement.png

How bad is it when they actually say what we've been saying all along that they meant- and expect to get away with it?
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Living Room / Re: Lavabit & Silent Circle Bring You ==> DARKMAIL
« Last post by wraith808 on November 06, 2013, 09:35 PM »
I don't get where the comment is related to the service?  :huh:
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Living Room / Re: Arduino Leonardo Touchboard
« Last post by wraith808 on November 06, 2013, 09:34 PM »
That would be cool... would you get the same level of control, however?  It seems that depending on a hand is a bit sketchier than depending on a hardware device.
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Living Room / Re: Lavabit & Silent Circle Bring You ==> DARKMAIL
« Last post by wraith808 on November 06, 2013, 06:31 PM »
Also, one thing I found while reading the comments was ThreadThat.  Has anyone used/heard of this service?
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Living Room / Re: Lavabit & Silent Circle Bring You ==> DARKMAIL
« Last post by wraith808 on November 06, 2013, 06:29 PM »
It's also relevant to read the comments that poke holes in the premise of the article, i.e.

http://arstechnica.c...=1&post=25630755
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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.
« Last post by wraith808 on November 06, 2013, 12:00 PM »
So, one valid question would seem to be: Is he intending continuing that history, or doing something about correcting it?
-IainB (November 06, 2013, 07:22 AM)

Yes ... Great pains are being taken to hide the facts better.
-Stoic Joker (November 06, 2013, 11:55 AM)

I'd say that the strings are showing more than anything else.  The President of the United States is a position of great power at the behest of great powers it seems to me.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Visual Studio Add-Ins Succinctly
« Last post by wraith808 on November 06, 2013, 11:45 AM »
A new one in the succinctly series from SyncFusion:

Visual Studio Add-Ins Succinctly

Available in PDF and Kindle

As usual with the succinctly series, you have to give a bit of info, and I know from experience that they use it.  So let the downloader beware.
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Living Room / Re: Arduino Leonardo Touchboard
« Last post by wraith808 on November 06, 2013, 11:31 AM »
Looks like a bit of advance on the MakeyMakey concept.  Based on the same chip too.  Very nice.
-Edvard (November 06, 2013, 01:48 AM)

I was just getting ready to post that. :)  That project was pretty good... wish I had gotten in on it; there's some really cool stuff that people have made for inputs with the MakeyMakey.  Have to look at this one...
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DC Gamer Club / Re: A Large Database Of Free Games
« Last post by wraith808 on November 06, 2013, 10:22 AM »
Add:

Blizzard's 16-bit platformer Blackthorne is now available as free download:
https://us.battle.net/account/download/
-panzer (November 06, 2013, 03:56 AM)

Thanks!  I really loved this game (still play it in dosbox)... good to see it available again.
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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by wraith808 on November 06, 2013, 08:14 AM »
but how does this thread promote the principles of donationcoder.com?
-barney (November 06, 2013, 02:18 AM)

A good question.  What are the principles of donationcoder.com?  It seems to shift a bit- especially as different people chime in on it.

It always seemed to me that the focus was on software and software-based technology discussions, and to have a home for coders of all stripes and people that appreciate the software they make.

Bitcoin seems to fall into that.  As does the Snowden revelations.  As do a lot of things that formerly software enthusiasts had no real interest in on a software front.  But as that front changes, it seems in many cases many on DC don't want it to evolve to touch those things.  Which is sad, as all things evolve, and I think that more than anything else is the reason for stagnancy of visitors and stagnancy of the discussions.  Should those things be clearly labeled/tagged so that those that don't want to discuss such things might avoid them?  Sure.  There are some threads that I avoid, just because I'm not interested in the content from the title.  That might be judging a book by the cover, but it's true that people want to discuss different things as a part of the community, and that's ok.  And I think it needs to be ok.  At least in my opinion.  :two: :beerchug:
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Silent Hunter 5 & Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands [FREE via UPlay]
« Last post by wraith808 on November 06, 2013, 08:03 AM »
Worked for me yesterday too.  And thanks for the heads up!
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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?
« Last post by wraith808 on November 05, 2013, 11:52 PM »
Bitcoin is a technological advance.  Just because it has something to do with financials doesn't make it any less so.  Just my .02.  And looking back through the thread, most of it is of a technological slant- even the last article posted.  First we wanted to have one thread to contain it... and now no threads at all?  Just ignore anything to do with it?

Seems a bit off...
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Screenshot Captor / Re: Suggestion: The ability to float screenshots on your workspace
« Last post by wraith808 on November 05, 2013, 06:25 PM »
I could take a look at it... I might have to ping you for help mouser :)  I'd thought about it... but figured that you'd be the perfect person to do it.
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Screenshot Captor / Suggestion: The ability to float screenshots on your workspace
« Last post by wraith808 on November 05, 2013, 05:35 PM »
I just purchased Screenfloat for my Mac.  It's lacking some things that SSC has, but it has one killer feature that I think would be great in SSC.

When you take a screenshot, instead of popping up a dialog like SSC, it opens a floating borderless window with the image.  That window has controls on the edges to save and such, and also to set the transparency.  This is useful when doing comparisons, or referencing something as you're writing- or all sorts of things.

If you need some screenshots to visualize what I'm talking about more than at the site, let me know.  But their site explains it pretty good also.  I can't believe how cool it is to have this function- I'm really going to miss it on my main computer, which is why I figured I'd suggest it. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Any Screenshot Captor's Contemporary at MAC Platform?
« Last post by wraith808 on November 05, 2013, 05:31 PM »
An old thread, but I just wanted to update.  I just (2013-11-05) purchased Screenfloat on Two Dollar Tues for $1.99 (it's $6.99 normally) (App Store Link).  It doesn't have all of the features of SSC.  But it does have one feature that is really killer- the ability to float your screenshot over other windows for comparisons, etc.  It's also compares pretty favorably with SSC for doing screenshots.
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DC Gamer Club / Humble WB Bundle
« Last post by wraith808 on November 05, 2013, 05:24 PM »
The Humble WB Bundle includes a lot of goodness for a low price.

Right now (2013-11-05 18:19EST) the price is less than $5.00 to get all of the games, including:

Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
F.E.A.R. 3
Lord of the Rings: War in the North
Scribblenauts Unlimited
Batman: Arkham City GOTY

For the first four, pay $1 or more- to get the last two in addition, pay more than the average.  And all include steam keys.

HumbleWBBundle.png

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Living Room / Re: Knight to queen's bishop 3 - Snowden charged with espionage.
« Last post by wraith808 on November 04, 2013, 07:02 PM »
The outrage is momentary until the chance for gain outweighs it.  Snowden's better sticking it out where he is IMO.
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