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General Software Discussion / Gobby: A Collaborative Text Editor
« Last post by KenR on September 07, 2006, 01:24 PM »
What is Gobby?
Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.

It uses GTK+ 2.6 as its windowing toolkit and thus integrates nicely into the GNOME desktop environment.

Check out the Gobby's list of features, take a look around in our screenshots section and download it right now.

Features
    * Realtime Collaboration through encrypted channels (version 0.4.0 and up)
    * Each user has its own changeable colour to be identified by others
    * IRC-like chat for communicating with your partners while coding
    * Syntax highlighting for most programming languages
    * Session password protection
    * Multiple documents in one session
    * Drag'n'drop of documents into Gobby
    * Document synchronisation on request
    * Zeroconf support
    * Unicode support
    * Cross-platform: runs on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X (albeit not natively) and other flavours of UN*X
    * Gobby is free software and licenced under the GPL 2


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Developer's Corner / Computer Programming Algorithms Directory
« Last post by KenR on September 07, 2006, 01:05 PM »
Here's a website that lists a few algorithms for specific tasks, categorized by subject. While the author hopes to "provide a comprehensive directory of web sites", the amount of information it contains is currently rather limited. If significant additional information is added, it might become a good resource. See what you think and perhaps can contribute.

Welcome to my computer programming algorithms directory. I am hoping to provide a comprehensive directory of web sites that detail algorithms for computer programming problems. If you know of any web sites that describe an algorithm (or multiple algorithms), please send me an e-mail: [email protected]


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Living Room / Flash Game: Fulltime Killer
« Last post by KenR on September 07, 2006, 10:30 AM »
You've heard of "Where's Waldo", well this is like "Assasinate Waldo"


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Living Room / Cool ASCII Banner Site
« Last post by KenR on September 06, 2006, 02:53 PM »
Here's a cool site that will enable you to create ASCII text banners online


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Living Room / N-Game
« Last post by KenR on September 06, 2006, 02:45 PM »
Beautifully smooth minimalisting platform game with a distinct and elegant aesthetic.


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Living Room / Learn how to park with the fun flash game
« Last post by KenR on September 05, 2006, 09:08 PM »
In our neverending quest to entertain you, here is another fun flash game to take up your precious time...


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General Software Discussion / Fantastic WiFi monitor (and other freeware)
« Last post by KenR on September 05, 2006, 03:25 PM »
This is a WiFi signal strength meter I have been using for a while, love, and wanted to share with everybody. Also, please note that the developer's site has other very nice freeware as well, such as a video player and website monitor. I highly recommend it.

A small tool to keep your Wi-Fi signal strength always visible

Main Features:
- Multi-Language (Except EULA and User-defined theme window)
- Easy to use and understand
- Small display customizable (Including themes)
- Windowless
- Magnets "like" behaviour
- Settings by right-click on the main display
- Move by left button drag-n-drop

Important Note:
- By creating WiFi SiStr we didn't want a complex application displaying tons of information.
- Our goal was a simple and details free software displaying only the Wi-Fi signal strength usable by anyone.
- Our second goal was to do it as nice and user-friendly as possible.


from KenR
708
Living Room / Very cool story about an elaborate "virtual heist" in a multiplayer online game
« Last post by KenR on September 05, 2006, 03:10 PM »
This is an extremely cool story about an elaborate "virtual heist" in an online multiplayer game that illustrates how elaborate the social structures in these massively multiplayer onling roleplaying games can be.

Thank god for color scanners. MMODIG refers us to this simply amazing PC Gamer article by Tom Francis about a simply amazing PvP coup/heist pulled off in Eve Online (which is a game I find simply amazing anyway).

Through a months-long ruse, one player corporation infiltrated another top to bottom, assassinated its CEO (who had a bounty on her head) and made off with about $16,500 worth of virtual goods. Francis's story chronicles the heist and provides great insight into what makes Eve such a rich galaxy.

The thing that's so great about the piece (besides its being written in a serious narrative style that completely works) is that it illustrates the best thing about MMORPGS: the complex social interactions that can spring up within them. Despite a couple of people who will cry that this constitutes some kind of real-world theft, everything that happened was well within both the letter of Eve law (i.e., the Terms of Service) and the stated aims of the game. It was a despicable act by a known criminal organization, but this is exactly the kind of sophisticated PvP conflict Eve is meant to generate. The fact that things like this are happening in the game is testament to the success of its design.....

Written by Mark Wallace

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Living Room / Re: Is 'No' a complete sentence?
« Last post by KenR on September 03, 2006, 05:41 PM »
By that argument almost any exclamation can form a sentence - including non-words such as ARGHHHH !
-Carol Haynes (September 03, 2006, 03:52 PM)

Here are my final thoughts on the matter:

App103s original question is "No!" a sentence is probably best answered by it can be. As I understand the English lanuage, as I stated earlier, this is the command form of the language. The subject (you) is implied by the individual speaking to whom the speaker is talking or to whom the speaker is commanding. If "no" means desist as in the example I gave, then it is a verb and then sentence, if in written form could be taken as "You stop" where there is a clear subject and verb.

When there is no subject and the verb is a non-word, it is a very different case. I already indicated, through referencing Webster's dictionary that No can be a verb, whether common or not. I also find this example very similar to the example of a one word sentence from Webster's dictionary "Stop!"

If my first example wasn't clear enough. Here's another. A would-be mugger/rapist moves toward a woman. She screams at him. No! The thug moves off concerned that her scream will bring unwanted attention. Here the implied subject is the thug. No, as in my previous example is used as desist, stop (like Webster uses), or quit. Hence, as in all the other examples I have given, we have a subject and a verb, the minimum requirement for a sentence, even though the subject is implied.

While this might be an unusual and perhaps an infrequent sentence in prose, that does not make it agrammatical or not a sentence since it meets the minimum requirements for a sentence (at least according to my and Webster's understanding of the language).

Ken
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Living Room / Re: Is 'No' a complete sentence?
« Last post by KenR on September 03, 2006, 03:07 PM »
Actually, no can be a transitive verb as well as an intransitive verb.
-KenR (September 03, 2006, 12:15 PM)

True - but I don't think in the context of a one word sentence. As a verb it is used to describe actions.
-Carol Haynes (September 03, 2006, 02:55 PM)

No is, or a least can be describing an action. It is an action to desist as in the following text: "The baby crawled toward the edge of the table. Her mother, saw this and became quite alarmed. No! The baby stopped and oriented toward the mother who rushed to get her infant."

Ken
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Living Room / Style, Identity, Free Association, and the Brain
« Last post by KenR on September 03, 2006, 01:17 PM »
Artists and readers demonstrate persistent styles. Previously, I have explained this phenomenon by a general model of humans' functioning. A theme-and-variations identity unique to an individual sets standards for physiological and cultural feedback loops common to many or all biologically normal humans. Identity governing feedbacks would explain how an organism maintains its unchanging inner nature while negotiating a constantly changing world. Recent brain research suggests a brain basis for such an identity in "task-induced deactivation." Some midline regions of the brain become less active when subjects perform tasks. Researchers explain the decrease as the interruption of a central, continually active brain system. To perform tasks, its energy goes to peripheral systems for particular actions. Such a central brain system fits the model of a persistent identity theme. The diversion of energy fits the activation of lower-level feedback loops directed by an identity theme.


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Living Room / Re: Is 'No' a complete sentence?
« Last post by KenR on September 03, 2006, 12:15 PM »
Actually, no can be a transitive verb as well as an intransitive verb.
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Living Room / Re: Is 'No' a complete sentence?
« Last post by KenR on September 03, 2006, 11:44 AM »
Well, if we are getting out our dictionaries, here's what Webster has to say about it:

Gram. a grammatical unit of one or more words, bearing minimal syntactic relation to the words that precede or follow it, often preceded and followed in speech by pauses, having one of a small number of characteristic intonation patterns, and typically expressing an independent statement, question, request, command, etc., as Summer is here. or Who is it? or Stop!

I would paricularly point out the intial part (one or more words) and the very  last example of a sentence they use "Stop!" which seems fairly consonant with "No!" to me.

Ken
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Living Room / Re: Is 'No' a complete sentence?
« Last post by KenR on September 03, 2006, 11:18 AM »
Interesting discussion on whether or not 'No' is a complete sentence.
-app103 (September 03, 2006, 11:04 AM)

I would say both No! and Go! are exclamations which only have meaning in context.
-Carol Haynes (September 03, 2006, 11:14 AM)

As Carol Haynes indicated, these would be exclamations. That being the case, however, I fail to see how that preclude them from being sentences and I was certainly taught that these ARE examples of one word sentences. Not that it matters, but in all likelihood, there would be a context in print for them.

Oh yes, and one more thing: a sentence requires a subject and a verb. The subject here would be implied as the receiver of the command. The verb, no, is a modification of "do not". As there is a subject and a verb, this IS a complete sentence.

Ken
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Living Room / Re: Custom Messages from Einstein
« Last post by KenR on September 03, 2006, 10:55 AM »
Wonderful post app. Here's one I came up with...

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Developer's Corner / Re: SkyIDE Alpha 5 - Public Download is available
« Last post by KenR on September 01, 2006, 03:22 PM »
Good luck. It looks wonderful, but I am not doing a lot in C right now. Fantastic work!
Ken
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Found Deals and Discounts / 20% off EverNote Plus until Labor Day
« Last post by KenR on August 30, 2006, 09:20 PM »
Special "Back to School" limited time offer - ends on Labor Day! 20% discount for EverNote Plus 1.1. With this offer, you will also receive free upgrade to EverNote Plus 1.5 when it becomes available.

EverNote Plus 1.1 is our fully-featured note-taking application intended for users of pen-enabled devices, which includes Handwriting Recognition, Shape Correction, Advanced Note Recognition (ANR) and Ink-Note Search.


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Living Room / Free Novel Downloads
« Last post by KenR on August 30, 2006, 03:52 PM »
Google is planning to offer Google Book Search users the ability to download and print selected classic out of copyright novels as PDF files for free. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt says he believes that this project will introduce many people to books that they would never have normally discovered.

The free novel program started life as Google's giant initiative to put books online in a searchable format. Through an outside project known as Gutenberg, volunteers have been scanning public domain books for many years to text files that can in turn be used for printing or reading. Google is acquiring this information, and will allow users to access these books in a print ready format.

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Living Room / Having trouble playing a file?
« Last post by KenR on August 30, 2006, 03:43 PM »
Have a file your dying to play but can't because you don't have the codec?
Need to play a quicktime or realmedia file, but don't want to install the players?

Codec Guide can help with all of these problems. Codec stands for coder/decoder and these are required by audio and video media players, such as Windows Media Player, to play movie and song files. Since media files are created using many formats, numerous formats are also necessary to play these files.

Codec guide has a wide variety of these codecs. They distribute them in 4 packages: the K-Lite Codec Pack Full/Standard/Basic and the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack, which were recently updated. Additionally, they have alternative codecs that can be used to play quicktime files and realmedia files.


from KenR
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Living Room / See a map of number and location of earthquakes in the last week
« Last post by KenR on August 27, 2006, 06:41 PM »
Earthquakes around the world in the past 7 days. Click on the menu bar to choose a new map view or create your own view by clicking to re-center the map and then zooming in to get a closer look. Click 'Link To This Page' and then bookmark the new url so you can return to your new custom view.


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Developer's Corner / Positions are available to write software for StumbleUpon.com
« Last post by KenR on August 27, 2006, 06:19 PM »
StumbleUpon is a web discovery service which integrates peer-to-peer and social networking technologies with one-click blogging. The StumbleUpon toolbar coordinates the collection, distribution and review of high-quality web content within an intuitive social framework, providing users with a browsing experience which resembles "channel-surfing" the web.


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Developer's Corner / An example of how social networks can be used to assist in decision-making
« Last post by KenR on August 26, 2006, 06:19 PM »
This site highlights how social networks can be used to assist in the decision-making process because it puts information in the hands of many who can then assist in myriad ways.


Another great site from alex3f
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Developer's Corner / Examples of Collaborative Development and "Open Source Intelligence"
« Last post by KenR on August 26, 2006, 06:07 PM »
The Open Source movement has established over the last decade a new collaborative approach, uniquely adapted to the Internet, to developing high-quality informational products. Initially, its exclusive application was the development of software (GNU/Linux and Apache are among the most prominent projects), but increasingly we can observe this collaborative approach being applied to areas beyond the coding of software. One such area is the collaborative gathering and analysis of information, a practice we term "Open Source Intelligence". In this article, we use three case studies - the nettime mailing list, the Wikipedia project and the NoLogo Web site - to show some the breadth of contexts and analyze the variety of socio-technical approaches that make up this emerging phenomenon.


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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Re: Trandesk Multiple Desktops
« Last post by KenR on August 24, 2006, 08:07 PM »
Slightly off topic, but I really like the PowerToy calculator. It should come standard with Windows.

I got it a few years ago but I can't remember how to get to the PowerToys. Can someone provide a link?
-Deozaan (August 24, 2006, 06:44 PM)

Here's the link if you are using XP: http://www.microsoft...oys/xppowertoys.mspx
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Screenshot Captor / Re: i cant see any thumbnails in the left hand side
« Last post by KenR on August 24, 2006, 08:03 PM »
hi
in early version I could see thumbnails in the left hand side - now I cant see them the whole frame is blank
this has been the case for the last 2 or 3 versions
is this normal?
-danw (August 24, 2006, 07:20 PM)

Hi DanW. I'm not quite sure what you are talking about. Can you provide more information? Alternatively, if you are set up for IRC, you could join the #DonationCoder on Efnet and ask the question there.

Ken
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