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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: My tribute to the guys and gals of NANY 2011

« Last post by nudone on December 21, 2010, 09:23 AM »

oh. maybe we can upload for the next transportica update - which should be around December 2011.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: My tribute to the guys and gals of NANY 2011

« Last post by nudone on December 21, 2010, 01:55 AM »

excellent. this should be used in NANY somewhere - maybe on the back of the mug or something.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a photo of your mutt or other creatures..

« Last post by nudone on December 19, 2010, 08:53 AM »

sorry to hear that, timns. (you'd not mentiond your dog in our skype chats.) i'm sure you made a world of difference to Max's life. how wonderful to be able to do such a thing.

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Official Announcements / Re: DonationCoder.com New Server Migration Coming Soon

« Last post by nudone on December 17, 2010, 04:52 AM »

Gothi[c] deserves a very special DC medal for his dedication.

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Living Room / Crime pays - and our governments love it.

« Last post by nudone on December 13, 2010, 04:53 AM »

Really. How can anyone feel bad about ripping off the state (in any country).

9 TRILLION Dollars Missing from Federal Reserve, Fed Inspector General Can't Explain

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Living Room / Re: Need Help Finding a Domain Name

« Last post by nudone on December 11, 2010, 01:24 PM »

tyrantosaurus.com

-cranioscopical (December 11, 2010, 07:31 AM)

heheh. someone should use that. very clever.

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Living Room / Re: Unbelievable 3D Holographs (on 2D surface) from Zebra Imaging

« Last post by nudone on December 09, 2010, 08:03 AM »

hmm, not seen any Nintendo 3DS stuff. sounds interesting if you don't require glasses though.

as for the tv stuff. erm, don't know. 3d tv is always going to be pretty rubbish if you have to sit directly in front, but overlooking that, i would expect they could do something that gave "depth" to the image if not actually being able to look "around" it (by a few degrees). just providing depth would be a great deal easier - so maybe that's the answer to only having a couple of cameras (stereo vision kind of thing).

as you say, it would require way too many cameras to get every possible angle - but, i wouldn't be too surprised if "in the future" a set of four cameras could do it. lots of interpolation would be required - but, hey, it's the future - anything can happen :-)

all i know is that anything is better than the rubbish being touted as the current "pop-up book" cinema 3D (and tv) experience.

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Living Room / Re: Unbelievable 3D Holograph (on 2D surface) from Zebra Imaging

« Last post by nudone on December 09, 2010, 05:10 AM »

looks like it could be the precursor to real 3d tv, i.e. not that crap we have now with the glasses. well, maybe in fifteen years or so.

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Living Room / Re: I figured something out about Apple's device restrictions: file management.

« Last post by nudone on December 09, 2010, 05:00 AM »

after reading all of the above, i can say, once again - i hate Apple even more now. in these cold winters days, this burning hatred is keeping me warm inside. thank you.

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Living Room / Re: Connections problem has me stumped ...

« Last post by nudone on December 07, 2010, 11:42 AM »

it's not using one of those nvidia network drivers is it? if so, i'd blame that.

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Adventures of Baby Cody / Re: Baby Cody arrives in Berlin, Germany

« Last post by nudone on December 03, 2010, 02:30 AM »

good to see BC is still alive (i did wonder). i hope he has a great time with you, housetier... i like the tiny sofa, you made BC feel right at home with that.

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Living Room / Re: It's NOT Vaporware!

« Last post by nudone on December 02, 2010, 04:15 AM »

heheh, yeah, good point about Eastwood and gum. it seems odd to think of him doing that now.

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Living Room / Re: It's NOT Vaporware!

« Last post by nudone on December 01, 2010, 05:23 PM »

Roddy Piper says it on entering the bank in the film "They Live". Perhaps he's quoting Eastwood. I only know of Piper saying the line.

edit:
okay, i admit i've got nothing better to do right now: here's the imdb quotes page for They Live...

http://www.imdb.com/...tle/tt0096256/quotes

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Living Room / Re: It's NOT Vaporware!

« Last post by nudone on December 01, 2010, 03:52 PM »

"I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of bubblegum."

-Renegade (December 01, 2010, 07:59 AM)

Carpenter's "They Live" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096256/

Worth watching just for the very profound "new sunglasses" scene if nothing else.

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Living Room / Re: Jeans pocket - the square-ish one on the right

« Last post by nudone on November 26, 2010, 03:44 AM »

I was told it was for Condoms. Seems a bit specialised to me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to remove the RSS feed and Bookmark icons from Firefox address bar?

« Last post by nudone on November 21, 2010, 10:38 AM »

one might wonder didn't the thought occurred to any of the engineers at Google?

-lanux128 (November 20, 2010, 09:12 PM)

I thought they must have picked the Chrome title deliberately - as they were taking the stance that their browser was going to provide the "Chrome" gui surround for all the app/sites that ran inside it. You know, like how you can create a Google Chrome shortcut that opens up a site without any typical browser buttons or features - just the chrome surround.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to remove the RSS feed and Bookmark icons from Firefox address bar?

« Last post by nudone on November 21, 2010, 10:34 AM »

there IS a Firefox extension that does it, superboy.

try this: https://addons.mozil.../firefox/addon/7637/

(I think that does it all but there might be other extensions required. I can't check what extensions I've used myself to do it as I'm on a different pc at the moment.)

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Living Room / Re: Why Apple's Distortion Field Works

« Last post by nudone on November 16, 2010, 07:58 AM »

I like it. Maybe, eventually, we could have awards for best Apple hater/critic from around the web.

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Living Room / Re: Xtranormal

« Last post by nudone on November 16, 2010, 02:25 AM »

I guess you'll be asking nudone to create a Steve Jobs character so you can add videos to your new blog (HINT!).

-4wd (November 15, 2010, 11:53 PM)

It looks like character creation/customization isn't available - otherwise i'd have a go at doing Jobs. They've missed a trick not already including him. I suppose he would have sued though.

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Living Room / Re: Why Apple's Distortion Field Works

« Last post by nudone on November 15, 2010, 05:36 PM »

wordpress sounds good. good idea about a more subtle domain name (i was going to suggest that might be the way to go too).

i wouldn't be surprised if timns had a few ideas/rants to contribute about Apple. i'll ask him.

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Living Room / Re: Hold on!! Superboy badge?!

« Last post by nudone on November 15, 2010, 09:30 AM »

that's an excellent badge. (and well deserved.)

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Living Room / Re: Why Apple's Distortion Field Works

« Last post by nudone on November 13, 2010, 06:05 AM »

I think we know there are plenty of people that make an intelligent-user choice and decide to go with Apple. They'll be the ones that don't worship at the alter of Steve Jobs. They'll be the ones that don't try to explain a machine/interface deficiency as a killer must have feature. But they aren't fun people to try and wind up.

People love to argue and bait fanboys. That's why a dedicated Apple hating blog is a good idea - it's fun. The insults that will be thrown back in the blog comments against Apple haters will be fun too. It won't change anyone's opinion. The more irrational and outrageous the ranting the better, I say. If it starts a holy war - great.

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Living Room / Re: Why Apple's Distortion Field Works

« Last post by nudone on November 13, 2010, 03:54 AM »

i'd like to contribute an article about the automatic assumption that you must use a Mac if you are a designer (personally, any time i see a "designer/creative/artist" type using a Mac i instanly loose all respect for them. it instantly signals to me that they aren't very original in their mindset. they are a sheep. of course, i'm jumping to conclusions about someone, but that's part of the fun.)

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Living Room / Re: Why Apple's Distortion Field Works

« Last post by nudone on November 12, 2010, 04:28 AM »

i think we crave a dedicated apple hating specific blog. the more insane and biased the better. c'mon, Renegade, it would be cathartic.

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Living Room / Re: EPIC Amazon Fail: The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure [Kindle Edition]

« Last post by nudone on November 11, 2010, 09:09 AM »

looks like the kindle submission process is very automated - or done by people getting minimum wage and not really caring about when they hit the "aprove" button.