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A further evidence that burqa is incompatible with modernity:
 (see attachment in previous post)
(though this is more a serious social matter than silly humor)

she was walking down the street, then whoosh! her dress blew up
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Living Room / Re: My Gadget Idea: "Timestamper Disc"
« Last post by Target on August 19, 2013, 08:57 PM »
think about digital watch type displays instead of more 'regular' displays, and most round displays are probably 'square' displays mounted in a round holder

no idea about price, though given the limited display options these might be cheaper

industrial machinery is often a managed out of a software solution so they can get the most out of their plant (both in production and down time).  Could be useful for small operators, but I'm guessing that in a lot of cases their service intervals might be longer than is practical for a device like this
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Pet Peeves in Language in Games?
« Last post by Target on August 19, 2013, 05:38 PM »
unrelated, but I was most amused to note the schoolkid in front of me on the bus this morning working on a page titled 'English Assingment'...
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Living Room / Re: Licensing Developers?
« Last post by Target on August 13, 2013, 01:09 AM »
We've already have proposed legislation on the floor to block the monopolistic behaviour of the ruling party from hiring any ballot-box stuffers. It is expected to pass. (Thankfully it expires before the next election though as we fully plan on seizing power so that we can properly regulate the out-of-control software industry.)

at which time a name change will be announced from Australia to Wadiya?
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Living Room / Re: Licensing Developers?
« Last post by Target on August 13, 2013, 12:48 AM »
If anyone wants to volunteer for my campaign, we still need more ballot-box stuffers. At the moment the other guys have more than we do, which is obviously not fair!

clearly they need to be better 'regulated' :huh:

and i'm behind you all the way... (and you know what that means in politics these days...)
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Living Room / Re: Licensing Developers?
« Last post by Target on August 13, 2013, 12:07 AM »
for those that don't know there's an election looming in Australia and I'm pretty sure Renegade is testing his platform on you guys

please, don't encourage him :'(
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Developer's Corner / Re: Nerdy Data - source code search engine
« Last post by Target on August 04, 2013, 09:10 PM »
so, clearly run by marketers, for marketers, or in other words, it's an ad!! (the misleading title should have been a clue ;D ;D)

apologies for posting such dreck :-[
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Developer's Corner / Re: Nerdy Data - source code search engine
« Last post by Target on August 04, 2013, 08:19 PM »
nor me  :o :o :o

with those prices it looks like they're going after the marketing/advertising sector rather than coders :mad:
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Developer's Corner / Nerdy Data - source code search engine
« Last post by Target on August 04, 2013, 06:27 PM »
found this on I love free software this morning

http://www.ilovefree...oad-source-code.html

claims to be a search engine specifically for source code, though it's limited to HTML, CSS, and javascript at the moment (no clue on the likelihood of the choices expanding)

Webpage says 'try it for free' but I couldn't see anything about pricing (then again, I didn't look very hard...)
585
I'm surprised no one cross referenced this from doghouse diaries
2013-07-29-d71c867.png
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Living Room / Re: Hold off on buying your 3D printer if you can...
« Last post by Target on July 26, 2013, 02:02 AM »
pffft, they're probably printing scads of lawyers as we speak :huh:
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Living Room / Re: Hold off on buying your 3D printer if you can...
« Last post by Target on July 26, 2013, 01:28 AM »
and there's no way the patent trolls would be camping on these :o
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http://newsthump.com...olutely-killing-him/

hehe, how about this from the same site - http://newsthump.com...ack-of-bono-killing/

FWIW, I'd have been upset too...
589
Jerk! That was the receiving end. You were blocking other people from coming in! ;)

for future reference, this is what the sending unit looks like
Sending unit.jpg
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Non-Notepad(MS) Thread!
« Last post by Target on July 17, 2013, 06:02 PM »
another one I found this morning Jovial Notepad is less than 60kb and does RTF

seems fairly lite on features, but it's tiny and it does RTF
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Living Room / Re: digitising slides
« Last post by Target on July 15, 2013, 05:59 PM »
@target please read my post above regarding infrared dust cleaning, this cannot be done with a digital camera

This 2000$ scanner (if it was a Nikon) actually may go for more than 2000$ today, since they were excellent, are not being produced any more, and are still in high demand.

how does dust cleaning in software compare to actual dust cleaning, ie carefully dusting/cleaning the slides with isopropyl alcohol and a microfibre cloth?

granted there are 'high end' scanners that are built specifically for this type of work (eg drum scanners), but they can be deemed out of scope for this exercise due to their 'rarity' and high cost (mostly the cost ;D ;D ;D) - remember I said earlier that this could be a throwaway piece of hardware
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Living Room / Re: digitising slides
« Last post by Target on July 14, 2013, 11:34 PM »
I have seen the results of a scanner that could only scan slides...A guy I knew, who had a pron-site for "special" tastes, bought one for about 2000 euro's, because he could get his hands on a boatload of vintage material (this happened around 2000). After a slide was processed, which took it sweet time I might add, the result was a 2500x1600 picture as crisp as would have been taken yesterday.

The scanner itself was not much wider that the slide itself, not longer than 5 slides laid after each other and its height was about 10 slides stapled on top of each other. The software that came with the scanner did the real "magic", though. You do get what you pay for in scanner land.

hehe, given the time lapse we're probably talking about the same sort of 'scanner' that goes for about $50 these days ;D ;D ;D

gotta be grateful to all those early adopters :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: digitising slides
« Last post by Target on July 14, 2013, 08:32 PM »
lot's of interesting opinions, led me to do a little (!!) bit of research on flatbed scanners...

interesting thing is that for all intents and purposes they are the same as a digital camera!

I'm aware that I'm generalising, but they both use a CCD, the real difference appears to be that scanners are designed to operate under closely controlled circumstances (fixed light source, fixed focal length, etc) whereas a camera is quite the opposite (ambient lighting, variable focal length, etc).  Scanners use a series of mirror's to direct the scan to the CCD, whereas cameras have high quality lenses and sophisticated control mechanisms

Given that, and the fact that a slide is a very small image, I'm wondering why flatbed scanners seemed to be accepted as providing 'better' results.  Granted most 'slide scanners' are relatively low res, but I'd warrant very few flatbed scanners would qualify as high res so substituting a high res 'camera' (ala the 'wolverine' 'branded scanners quoted above) should theoretically provide 'better' results

Of course software could be a big factor in this, but considering that the same software can (most likely) be used in both situations I think it's safe to take that out of the equation.

any thoughts?
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no experience, but I know that at least one manufacturer (panasonic) was 'locking' their camera's so that they would only work with genuine batteries, so maybe this is something else to consider :huh:
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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: 15 minute work log
« Last post by Target on July 08, 2013, 11:30 PM »
and here's one more I prepared earlier...
596
You could trade in your smartphone for the new Galaxy S4 Zoom and replace two stones with one bird.

he's already gotten more birds than he can poke a stick at
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Living Room / Hackaday.com looking for a new owner
« Last post by Target on July 01, 2013, 06:04 PM »
not sure if anyone here might be interested, but it appears Hackaday is looking for a new owner

FWIW I'm not affiliated with the site in any way, nor am I in a position to take it on, but it's a valuable resource I'd hate to see disappear
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Jesus has been known to appear in some pretty unorthodox (religion joke!) places, like in the bark of a tree, a frying pan or delicious Cheeto, and even in a damn blessed grilled cheese sandwich. J-C has been spotted once again… in this dog’s B-U-T-T. Homeboy is wearing his signature robe and everything!
(see attachment in previous post)
http://www.incredibl...d-in-a-dogs-bum-bum/

I'm probably going to get flamed for this (!!) but I can't help thinking they've been assking for it...
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Living Room / Re: You like science fiction, don't you? Of course you do!
« Last post by Target on June 13, 2013, 05:13 PM »
There is one series called otherland on amazon kindle. It has some interesting future-based scifi plot.

If anyones interested, this series is by Tad Williams.  A worthwhile read (one of my faves), albeit long (each book is 800+ pages)
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SuperboyAC, your prayers (at least one of them) may be answered - http://feedproxy.goo...lZGVL0jo/story01.htm
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