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I haven't used any Google products since they became public back in 2004, when their bread and butter was spying and selling your information to marketers and the government....What do you use instead, then? And do you delude yourself that <whoever> aren't doing even more nefarious things?-Tinman57 (January 29, 2013, 04:12 PM)
Emoticons........'ASSICONS?'It's been a while since I've seen asscii fart!-Tinman57 (January 29, 2013, 03:47 PM)
).Firstly, goto anything, or more specifically, the way it uses lazy matching to let you go to anything -- it is literally like having the power of FARR inside your editor. You can switch between projects, between files in a project, and jump around symbols in a file using lazy match lookup.Those were big features for me as well.
Secondly, multiple selections, which is a bit like search and replace on steroids. You can do most of what it does with regexp search and replace, but having the visual feedback from live editing is so nice, plus you don't have to go to a separate dialog and start thinking about regexp.-Jibz (January 29, 2013, 08:59 AM)
) animation and small touches like that... for instance, the cursor not just being on/off blinking, but doing a bit of fading.Regarding pricing, to me he is passing the point of reasonable for something that is "just an editor", no matter how efficient it may be. But if you read the forums, it feels like there is a bunch of devs standing in line to throw money at him, so it will probably work.It's a shame, really. If he had instead lowered the pricepoint to, say, $50, I probably wouldn't have minded a paid upgrade per year. But $70 combined with his release/version handling? Hmmmmmmmmmm.-Jibz (January 29, 2013, 08:59 AM)
ST2 has been around since Summer 2008, at least the first versions. This is quite a life span. But the pricing is weird.Non-beta only since Jun26, though, unless dates on the blog are wrong? I count product lifetime from 'release' version and onwards - perhaps that's wrong of me?-Tuxman (January 29, 2013, 06:16 AM)
Sublime Text 3?I second that.
Dafuq.-Tuxman (January 29, 2013, 03:08 AM)
Apologies for not replying sooner. I was pushing out the major website redesign.No problem - I've been slow/distracted myself. Nice and simple web design - I personally find it slightly annoying that the 'features' text fades in after waiting for the features-text-are has expanded, but that's a minor quibble-apankrat (January 28, 2013, 04:13 AM)
. Also, the outline and bgcolor-change (I think?) effect on your buttons is very subtle - having the browser on my secondary TFT, at first I wasn't sure if my eyes were playing tricks on me Well, I'd want something entirely automated - boot, auto-login and perform test, reboot, advance to next test et cetera. I'm not going to do 512 boots unless it's something 100% automated the machine can perform while I'm at workAlso, if I find a way to automate the cold-cache testing (suggestions would be very welcome!)I think the key to unlocking this problem is called shutdown.exe-apankrat (January 28, 2013, 04:13 AM)
(sure, could probably be handed by being pretty creative with batch files, but... ugh.)Another thing was that NOT using FindExLargeFetch in warm-cache scenario results in 20-30% speed up (from 1000 ms to 800 ms). I added a command-line argument to control this in more recent versions of bvckup2-demo2.exeIirc I did the test with the version supporting this switch, but since it wasn't documented I didn't think to include it - what's it do?-apankrat (January 28, 2013, 04:13 AM)
Doesn't matter if the call is routed through the .us or not, all that matters is whether the company doing the service is .us based.So if I use Skype in the UK to communicate with someone in the UK it is subject to the US Patriot Act?Only if the Skype is routed through the U.S., which probably all calls are, but I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find they were doing it internationally.-Carol Haynes (January 25, 2013, 07:00 PM)-Tinman57 (January 26, 2013, 07:12 PM)
. Oh, and you're not stuck with Chrome, you can install firefox (and adblock!) if you want to. FREEDOM!My guess too. If it were an aircraft, it would be "kinda big".SpoilerArtifact from a rather poor joining of multiple images.-4wd (January 25, 2013, 09:22 PM)
Yes, Carol - the owning company is .us based. It's sick... And THE reason .gov stuff should never be in a (public) cloud. Doesn't matter which country servers are in, if the company is .us based.Spot on. The Patriot Act says that all communications will have back doors for government surveillance. It's the New World Order that the U.S. is hell-bent on achieving.-Tinman57 (January 25, 2013, 06:25 PM)
So if I use Skype in the UK to communicate with someone in the UK it is subject to the US Patriot Act?Who on earth would use non-opensource programs for secure communications anyway?-f0dder (January 25, 2013, 12:15 PM)
Anyone who uses a phone (mobile or land line).
There is already concern that Chinese and Korean built mobile phones can potentially be used to collect data for their parent companies. Currently Samsung are working on buying Blackberry - which is causing some consternation in Canada from a security point of view!-Carol Haynes (January 25, 2013, 07:00 PM)
I've met Burak - the fellow who runs WinRar - and he struck me as a smart business fellow.Alexander is no longer in the game?-Renegade (January 24, 2013, 08:08 PM)
Seriously it took me a while to move from XP to 7 but there is no way I would move back now and I'd go to Linux before returning to the misery of Windows 98 !!!Same here - and if MS continue too much down the path they've started with Win8, I might (begrudgingly) jump ship... but until that happens, why consider a second-grade OS?-Carol Haynes (January 25, 2013, 10:56 AM)
We call on Skype to release a regularly updated Transparency Report that includes:They should do that, but really it's a no-brainer - Microsoft has to comply with the patriot act.-Renegade (January 25, 2013, 09:12 AM)
And if a new OS is worth running, it's worth more on new hardware.I mostly agree - however, on most hardware Win7 will probably be a smoother experience than XP SP3 - and Win8, moreso. Heck, I'd even take a (tweaked) version of Vista SP1 over XP SP3... given that there's no driver trouble, of course-app103 (January 25, 2013, 11:24 AM)
Well, sorry.LOL! That was cold!OO!! One of the very few editors with ftp access built in. Very tempting just for that.I see that as a kind of anti-feature, aimed at disorganized PHP developers-superboyac (January 24, 2013, 04:27 PM)-f0dder (January 25, 2013, 01:56 AM)Likely true.
But still cold.
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OO!! One of the very few editors with ftp access built in. Very tempting just for that.I see that as a kind of anti-feature, aimed at disorganized PHP developers-superboyac (January 24, 2013, 04:27 PM)
).I was about to post that as well - but then I realized Carol probably means the Windows boot settings, not the BIOS?PS: Anyone got any idea how to get into advanced startup mode on a laptop with an old fashioned BIOS?F2 or Delete-Carol Haynes (January 23, 2013, 01:07 PM)-Curt (January 24, 2013, 01:22 PM)
I don't know why people have gotten this unhealthy idea that more MP means better images. It seems unlikely they can make a lens for a phone that would give any kind of usefulness to 41 MP. Personally, I would much rather have a phone with a 5 MP camera and a stellar lens and better flash.This!-Jibz (January 24, 2013, 12:38 AM)
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