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@Wraith : what version of Windows are you on ?-Armando (July 15, 2013, 02:16 PM)
Everything on Kickstarter must be a project.
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Kickstarter cannot be used to raise money for causes, whether it's the Red Cross or a scholarship, or for "fund my life" projects, like tuition or bills.
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The name of the employee at the NTSB that confirmed these names, has now been identified as: Wi Fuk Dup.-app103 (July 15, 2013, 12:53 PM)
This would only work as a temporary measure, if I'm not mistaken. Isn't the priority reset each time the task manager is closed? The problem isn't so much the slowness once it's loaded, but the (long) time it takes for it to just appear.
Just now, it took 25s to show its face. Feels like I'm booting an OS or something.-Armando (July 15, 2013, 12:02 AM)
Despite all efforts to the contrary ... It was indeed still drivable (if not a tad worse for ware). It also stalwartly survived much other abuse in the interest of science/curiosity/psychosis... Which is why Pontiac got my truth in advertising award for that year.-Stoic Joker (July 14, 2013, 03:05 PM)
Mine takes a while when the processor is under load. I haven't tried yet b/c I don't really use it that much (I use process explorer), but have you tried to increase the priority of task manager?-wraith808 (July 14, 2013, 01:54 PM)
By using e.g. "start /high" ? Or by using the Prio utilitty (just found it by googling) ?-Armando (July 14, 2013, 02:48 PM)
While the transmission did hold together, the engine slammed against the firewall as the car rather violently spun around to change vehicle attitude to match the drivelines new directional intent. We spent the better part of an hour verifying our findings, before the sound of sirens in the distance caused prudence to end the proceedings.
...This is quite likely one of the fondest memories I have.-Stoic Joker (July 14, 2013, 12:59 PM)
There are many such potentially incredibly helpful threads there that then are (often very quickly) closed by some blockwart - from its potential, it could be the best site there is, but this invariable closing down of questions there is almost unbearable. Next step would be to even delete the answers there are when they close down the thread.
Here, the closing down is particularly "amusing" since"Rodolfo", to justify this hangman behavior, specifically ask for a "another" question that in this particular instance HAS been asked, so total idiocy here is coupled with their recurrent ordinary fascism. Excuse my very open words, but that could be the finest site in the web for programmers, but it is constantly crippled by admins that are the worst a**ho*** in the web - and no, I never published a question or an answer there or tried to do so, but it's just too revolting, just by reading there.-evamaria (July 14, 2013, 06:16 AM)
)^Microsoft's main goal is to eventually go over to a walled garden app store model for software installations. So once they start demanding (and getting) 30% of every single dollar spent for every single program that gets installed on Windows, it will all become largely moot.
Any breaks in dev tool pricing you see are mainly to get more "for Windows 8" titles out there ASAP. Especially since neither the consumers or dev shops have exhibited too much interest in this largely needless upgrade. It's starting to look a little embarrassing for Microsoft that so few people seem interested in attending their latest shindig.
-40hz (July 12, 2013, 08:25 AM)
Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 are on a path toward convergence. In the meantime, developers interested in building for both platforms must understand the major similarities and differences between the two. Learning where the Windows 8 and Windows Phone Runtime APIs currently intersect gives you the best opportunity to deliver applications for both, leveraging much of the same knowledge, tools, code and assets. In this article I’ll explore these differences and commonalties to help you understand what is and is not possible before you start building a solution that targets both platforms.
The consistency in the UX—the use of tiles, the rich touch interface, the app bar and navigation—simplifies application design and implementation for both platforms. And the adoption of a common API surface area facilitates code sharing for a lot of scenarios. You can choose the right technologies for your apps: C#, Visual Basic or C++, or a hybrid for both platforms. The resources found at aka.ms/sharecode contain great info about creating applications that run on Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8, and present code-sharing techniques to maximize code reuse when building for both.
It would be nice to hear about online activities people use to interact with long distance friends or partners. Anyone know of any good activities?-mouser (July 11, 2013, 04:27 PM)
I think I'd rather have a higher powered desktop-cpu class machine that I could maybe also use as a NAS..-mouser (July 11, 2013, 12:41 PM)
I guess I'm missing something. I see no reference to 1080p in mouser's requirements. I do realize BluRay is 1080p, and I acknowledge that the Pi isn't going to handle that. But that looks like a "nice to have" feature, not a "must have" (based on mouser's initial post).
Since it's a one time payment, it might not be a huge deal to pay out an extra $250 for a machine that can handle BluRay, but if you can settle for plain ole DVD...hard to beat the price of a Pi.-AJay (July 11, 2013, 10:47 AM)
I haven't tried it with 1080, but I haven't heard of others complaining. Not saying it's not an issue...just that I've never heard that as a complaint before. And as for mouser's requirements, it looks like THE dominant use of the device will be as a simple music player. 1080p is not an issue.
Without that, the only thing that I see as a possible issue is the YouTube piece. I would expect there's an add on though. (And for me, at least, while I occasionally found myself streaming YouTube under my old media center setup, I'd say YouTube streaming was about 1% of my use.)-AJay (July 11, 2013, 08:34 AM)
If you're not dealing with a TV tuner, why not just use XBMC or OpenELEC on a Raspberry Pi?-AJay (July 10, 2013, 03:43 PM)
I would like to be able to watch youtube/live streaming.-mouser (July 09, 2013, 06:33 AM)
