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Living Room / Re: 500 Internal Server Error

« Last post by wraith808 on September 18, 2012, 09:10 AM »

Have you tried to decode it?  It looks like encoded data... could be an Easter egg...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Google says goobye to Internet Explorer 8

« Last post by wraith808 on September 18, 2012, 09:09 AM »

So that means no google apps on XP unless you use something other than IE.

Hmmm... that's going to go over well, I'm sure.  I only have Chrome/FF at work because I'm a developer and have admin privileges.  A lot of our internal apps don't support anything but IE.  But we use Google apps.

I see a definite conflict there...

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Request for Help from Skyrim Players

« Last post by wraith808 on September 17, 2012, 09:51 AM »

If I ever actually get through.  I have the publication paralysis problem with my coding.  I keep tweaking and testing and tweaking, and never actually release.  NANY has helped somewhat in that regard... but I hate releasing applications with defects/problems or always see something to tweak so never release.

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Living Room / Re: Help me Improve my Culinary Card Game for Kickstarter: Cooking Party Cards

« Last post by wraith808 on September 16, 2012, 07:10 PM »

First - to reduce costs and to set the bar lower for production, set the minimal costs at B&W artwork.  Then have a stretch goal for color.  Maybe the baseline could also use clip art type art- and a stretch goal for original art.  You could also have stretch goals for a better stock of cards.  I guess what I'm saying is to take your goal for the cards, and reduce it to the bare minimum to give it a better chance of getting funded.  Then the stretch goals make it better.  There's also expansions as stretch goals.

As far as perks - something special to denote the judge could work.  One level for the basic game with no cards- just the rules and templates.  One for the full game, and one for the full game with overproduction type stuff, i.e. tokens included (which could instead be a stretch goal).  Perhaps by default the tokens could be a punch-out sheet, then as a donation level the tokens become chits instead.  Or that could be a stretch goal.

There's also the non game perks, i.e. artwork, t-shirts, mugs, etc.

What I find is that there seem to be a couple of schools of thought:
1. Make different perk levels to get people to get involved at a higher level, or
2. Make more stretch goals to get more people involved

It's just a matter of finding a balance between the two, though I think the second is better.  A low level to get in (with an underproduced game), then stretch goals to make it as extravagant as the player base wants it will get you two things: (1) a larger player base and (2) the production costs on the extras will be less.

(Also, I like writing this stuff down... I'm still working through my kickstarter idea, and bandying these sorts of decisions around... so this helps me vocalize stuff also. )

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Living Room / Re: Help me Improve my Culinary Card Game for Kickstarter: Cooking Party Cards

« Last post by wraith808 on September 16, 2012, 04:22 PM »

I'd put in some extra leeway into your figures seeing how its gone with others who have done first games on kickstarter.  Going with about 10% would set your goal at $25,000.

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Living Room / Re: Write until you pass out!?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 16, 2012, 01:36 PM »

For that matter, I don´t see how any one wood.

-Shades (September 16, 2012, 11:43 AM)

Enough of the caddy remarks! 

-cranioscopical (September 16, 2012, 12:27 PM)

I'm sure you two will be able to iron it out eventually.

-40hz (September 16, 2012, 01:15 PM)

I don't know... both of them seem to have a chip on their shoulders.

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Living Room / Re: NAS Recommendations?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 16, 2012, 11:40 AM »

Mine is working well also.  I'm pretty impressed with Synology.

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Living Room / Re: Windows 8 Pro will now include option to downgrade to Windows 7

« Last post by wraith808 on September 16, 2012, 09:22 AM »

@wraith -

Actually, it's not really a creative reinterpretation of the license at all. Microsoft did specifically take "small shop" and "custom builders" into consideration when they did the "builder OEM" license. That question came up in the partner channel when it was first announced. And yeah, you won't find the OEM version in stores AFAIK. You need to order it from someone like Tiger, Newegg, or one of those places.

-40hz (September 16, 2012, 07:30 AM)

And this is also why when I bought my mac at Bestbuy (since they're the same price anyway, their markups don't matter, and its one of the times when having a rewardzone membership pays off) and when he offered me a $200 copy of windows 7 and I said that I'd buy my copy of windows from Newegg he looked at me with a dirty look. 

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Living Room / Re: Tram-mļöi  hhâsmařpţuktôx

« Last post by wraith808 on September 16, 2012, 06:57 AM »

^ Not really sure why you couldn't... worked fine for me.  Perhaps its regional?  Or something was wrong at the time...

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Living Room / Re: Windows 8 Pro will now include option to downgrade to Windows 7

« Last post by wraith808 on September 16, 2012, 06:57 AM »

^Nope. If you're a 'builder' you can get them in single quantities as long as you buy them at the same time you buy 'qualifying hardware' such as a mobo. Maybe the price isn't anywhere near as good as what Dell or HP get. (Rumors put it between $35 and $50 for the big quantity buyers.) But it's still substantially below retail. At Newegg, Win 7 Pro-64 is $139 for OEM, but $274 for the 'full' retail version.

-40hz (September 16, 2012, 06:27 AM)

That's just from third-parties who have purchased OEM versions in bulk that you re-purchase them from (that have creatively interpreted the license), isn't that correct?

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Living Room / Re: Tram-mļöi  hhâsmařpţuktôx

« Last post by wraith808 on September 16, 2012, 05:25 AM »

^ Both go to the same place... from what I understand, you're correct in most cases.  It's possible to break with that convention, but I haven't seen it done in practice.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Automatically move files around tip (use your synchronizer program)

« Last post by wraith808 on September 15, 2012, 09:31 AM »

Another good choice is Belvedere. (on Github)

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General Software Discussion / Re: The Best Way to Share Kindle Books on Nook, Kobo, iPad

« Last post by wraith808 on September 15, 2012, 07:09 AM »

If you have an iPad, you can use the kindle app.  If you have the Nook, you can root it (I think).  But it's like a lot of other things... platform choice is key.

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Living Room / Re: Windows 8 Pro will now include option to downgrade to Windows 7

« Last post by wraith808 on September 15, 2012, 07:08 AM »

It makes sense from a business perspective.  Not defending it, but without those abilities, they'd slow down the sales of components, computers, and a lot of other associated services every time they released an OS.

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Living Room / Re: Write until you pass out!?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2012, 10:56 PM »

It's fun to make puns. But not forever!

-MilesAhead (September 14, 2012, 05:35 PM)

I did intend to use my last two and then quit… but there's a hole in one.

-cranioscopical (September 14, 2012, 08:10 PM)

I don't know if I should hazard a reply to that one.

-MilesAhead (September 14, 2012, 08:44 PM)

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Living Room / Re: Write until you pass out!?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2012, 03:19 PM »

Cut that out.  I really mean it! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Roboform, crippling the export function and Bits Du Jour censorship

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2012, 09:17 AM »

BdJ just removed a whole slew of comments.

-Josh (September 14, 2012, 08:52 AM)

Did they?  You mean from the RF2G thread?  I didn't notice it any shorter... what were they in regards to?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Roboform, crippling the export function and Bits Du Jour censorship

« Last post by wraith808 on September 14, 2012, 07:59 AM »

Hi,

A backup feature would only be relevant as an export-import option if it came with a restore feature that is available externally.  It would have to lack encryption (which goes against the expected internal encryption) and it would have to have the layout available, although that might be puzzled out, if there was not encryption.  Generally a backup is simply a mirror of the existing data file, which is useless for export-->import.

Sounds like simply another diversion, smoke and mirrors, from the Roboform crew.

Steven

-Steven Avery (September 14, 2012, 06:21 AM)

That's why I didn't even bother posting the results here.  I'd been interested in roboform until this thread came up.  Now... not so much.

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Living Room / Re: Kids E-Book Ideas?

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2012, 01:18 PM »

For the nook, they have a store specifically for kids:

http://www.barnesand...l-animated/379003131

Grouped by age range.  Some of them are retail prices, but there are some bargain (and free) books also.

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Living Room / Re: NSA Whistleblower interesting technical details

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2012, 12:24 PM »

^Likely that's a variation of the Coventry gambit.

But the goal of this sort of thing isn't to prevent crime. It's to protect the security and secrecy of certain entrenched political interests.

Like Hoover said, justice is incidental to enforcing law and order. So is fighting crime since people who are victimized by criminals provide the convenient benefit of demanding more restrictive laws and a larger police presence to enforce them.

To those who pull strings, ongoing violent crime is a win-win. Especially for the proponents of expanded government authority.

-40hz (September 13, 2012, 11:58 AM)

truth...it ain't easy.

-superboyac (September 13, 2012, 12:19 PM)

+1

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DC Gamer Club / Re: US State Department Official Killed In Libya Was A Top Online Gamer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 13, 2012, 07:15 AM »

Sorry... got my links backwards.  The place that I was talking about that went into a bit more detail on how he touched the areas of EVE was linked from that piece... the Mittani's 'eulogy'.  It doesn't go into excruciating detail... I don't think that's totally necessary.  I mean, some might be interested, but I think that would be a smaller audience.  But enough to let you know without going over your head, IMO.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: US State Department Official Killed In Libya Was A Top Online Gamer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2012, 10:40 PM »

Do you ingest anything to keep yourself awake? What's your normal diet?

What I'm really curious about is how top are we talking about? Would have been if the article went into details on this especially for those of us who don't play Eve Online.

Especially as the comments generated some talk about economics and politics.

-Paul Keith (September 12, 2012, 09:11 PM)

The article talks about how top he was, in pretty good detail- being the person that was the mover behind the scenes on a lot of big grabs and the person that everyone came to for diplomacy put him pretty much at the upper echelons of EVE.  As for me, I drink coffee and tea... not necessarily to stay awake... it's just that I like coffee and tea.  And I don't have a particular diet, though when I did keep track, I ate a lot less than the daily caloric intake.  I don't think any of that has any impact... I just don't need a lot of sleep, and never have.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: US State Department Official Killed In Libya Was A Top Online Gamer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2012, 08:08 PM »

No... I just don't sleep much   But as I get older, there's eventually a crash and I sleep late.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: US State Department Official Killed In Libya Was A Top Online Gamer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2012, 06:09 PM »

Gaming... And leading a guild/alliance? How did he manage to do his job? MMOs like that are incredibly time intensive.

-Renegade (September 12, 2012, 05:54 PM)

probably didnt have much time for family?

-tomos (September 12, 2012, 05:58 PM)

Not from looking at what was said about him.  The thing is, I've seen it done.  I know someone that I work with that's incredibly devoted to his family, incredibly good at his job, and is incredibly involved in EVE.  A lot of it is knowing how to manage the time.  And I play MMOs quite a bit, and it doesn't get in the way of my family nor my job.  It's very possible.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: US State Department Official Killed In Libya Was A Top Online Gamer

« Last post by wraith808 on September 12, 2012, 05:20 PM »

The article itself is an interesting read, and an interesting peek inside of the level of interaction and planning that goes on in MMOs and how a few people can have a great impact.