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Living Room / Re: President Obama randomly dropped by Reddit today for an AMA session.
« Last post by wraith808 on August 29, 2012, 06:43 PM »
Not too much in the way of content or answering hard questions... so I'm pretty sure it was a staffer that he was dictating to.  But really cool, nonetheless.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Fake Reviews: Amazon's Rotten Core
« Last post by wraith808 on August 29, 2012, 01:01 PM »
If I had my way, SEO fscktards would be publicly tortured, they're ruining the interwebs.
-f0dder (August 29, 2012, 02:28 AM)

+1


-Renegade (August 29, 2012, 02:41 AM)

Only if they crucify the spammers first.

...and the lawyers, and the politicians.  And especially the lawyers turned politicians.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Fake Reviews: Amazon's Rotten Core
« Last post by wraith808 on August 29, 2012, 12:11 AM »
^ Eliza 2.0? :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Fake Reviews: Amazon's Rotten Core
« Last post by wraith808 on August 28, 2012, 11:17 PM »
^ I totally get what you're saying, so you're not alone in that feeling. :(
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Kyrathaba Software / Re: Kyrathasoft Found Money (a NANY 2012 entry; my 1st Coding Snacks fulfillment)
« Last post by wraith808 on August 28, 2012, 11:15 PM »
Congrats... but something strikes me odd... other than your name, there's no credit to you, i.e. link to your page, etc.  Is that just the way the site works?
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by wraith808 on August 28, 2012, 05:40 PM »
I think most people underestimate Samsung right now.
-Renegade (August 28, 2012, 11:39 AM)

Anyone who does is pretty stupid.  I mean, when someone has a whole government totally behind them (look up Chaebols) is a pretty big deal.  As bad as politics are in the US, they aren't *that* overt.
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by wraith808 on August 28, 2012, 11:34 AM »
If Samsung tells Apple where to stick their contract, then
1) Samsung loses a lot more revenue in the long term
2) Samsung's word as a manufacturer becomes mud

It's to their benefit to keep that separation of producer vs. manufacturer in place.

(And that enemy of my enemy is my friend has been shown historically to be hilarious in a black comedy type manner...)
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by wraith808 on August 27, 2012, 07:16 PM »
There is no innocent multi-billion company, none. However there is doing business and then there is abusing the system (be it patents or whatever)
-rgdot (August 27, 2012, 06:59 PM)

That's what that link is about... Samsung is an abuser also.  Especially as even as much as we complain about the separation of corporate interests and politics in America, in South Korea, there is no separation.
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by wraith808 on August 27, 2012, 06:19 PM »
Relevant:

The frenemy companies try to limit fallout.

And though I don't defend the case, nor the outcome, I will say that Samsung isn't the innocent here.
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Living Room / Re: Apple v Samsung Verdict is in
« Last post by wraith808 on August 27, 2012, 01:35 PM »
^ Doesn't that also go towards conflict of interest?  Why wouldn't the Samsung lawyers try to get rid of such a juror?
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Winzip Courrier 3.5 Free to celebrate the 1 billion downloads
« Last post by wraith808 on August 26, 2012, 09:49 PM »
^ No different than any other contest.  If you get a large item, you have to pay gift taxes on it.  That's why many of these contestants on game shows end up in worse condition than when they went on- they have to pay taxes on a tangible item that they might not have the liquid funds to cover.

http://money.msn.com...t-will-cost-you.aspx
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Living Room / Re: Nikola Tesla's Lab Saved by Donations!
« Last post by wraith808 on August 24, 2012, 09:49 PM »
Ahem.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Any DC members thinking of trying Kickstarter?
« Last post by wraith808 on August 24, 2012, 04:34 PM »
Does kickstarter accepts non-us or international gigs? If yes, then maybe I can push few ideas.
-mahesh2k (August 24, 2012, 03:37 PM)

I know at one time they didn't which was the appeal of indiegogo.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Any DC members thinking of trying Kickstarter?
« Last post by wraith808 on August 24, 2012, 03:31 PM »
I'm planning to also... for a couple of RPGs/Supplements.  But I'm taking a long view at successful and unsuccessful projects within that sphere.  If you're looking to do a board/card game, you might want to look at the list of games on Kickstarter and get similar information.

Some resources that I've found:

http://www.purplepawn.com/

http://www.kicktraq.com/

http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/ especially the following posts:

http://danielsolisbl...s-5-kickstarter.html
http://danielsolisbl...reelance-market.html
http://danielsolisbl...y-im-postponing.html (and all of the posts tagged utara)
http://danielsolisbl...of-writers-dice.html
http://danielsolisbl...cing-content-as.html
http://danielsolisbl...-momentum-after.html
http://danielsolisbl...-video-for-game.html

I hope those help!
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Developer's Corner / Re: This reads like my life...
« Last post by wraith808 on August 23, 2012, 11:08 PM »
When I was a kid, other than breaking into the teachers files on the network, some typical piracy, and a tiny bit of fun phreaking, I really didn't do anything remotely like hacking. I was a pretty good kid. Not always sober, but good none-the-less. :D :P
-Renegade (August 23, 2012, 10:22 PM)

That's about me... except for the phreaking was for the reason that the guy says in the article- access was sooooo expensive!  He even admits he wasn't really a hacker.  My friends on the other hand...
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Living Room / Re: Hyperrealism in Action
« Last post by wraith808 on August 23, 2012, 11:06 PM »
^ Ah... no.  I just didn't read the FAQ on his page but went from the article, so I didn't know where you were getting that from.
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Living Room / Re: Hyperrealism in Action
« Last post by wraith808 on August 23, 2012, 09:42 PM »
... and only 8 colors!
-wraith808 (August 23, 2012, 11:40 AM)

He only used 6 plus black for this ;)
-4wd (August 23, 2012, 07:33 PM)

Just quoting from the article, i.e.

Silva’s medium of choice is standard Bic ballpoint pens on paper and this particular portrait uses eight different colors, taking some 30 hours to complete.
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Developer's Corner / Re: This reads like my life...
« Last post by wraith808 on August 23, 2012, 03:32 PM »
It depended on what the crime was.  In the circle I was in, one guy was co-opted (he's a fervent white hat today), and another was quite paranoid after that to the extent of wiping fingerprints off of glasses.  He eventually was caught, and did some time for it (though he got a really sweet deal when he came out).  I wondered for a long time if because there wasn't the extent of knowledge on the government side at the time it actually paid more to get caught...
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Developer's Corner / This reads like my life...
« Last post by wraith808 on August 23, 2012, 02:14 PM »
...other than the fact that I never got caught.

http://www.codinghor...-teenage-hacker.html
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Living Room / Re: Amazon.com toastabag
« Last post by wraith808 on August 23, 2012, 11:46 AM »
Oh the pane of bad puns!
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Living Room / Hyperrealism in Action
« Last post by wraith808 on August 23, 2012, 11:40 AM »


The left side is a ball point pen rendering of the image on the right.  Yes, I said ballpoint pen... and only 8 colors!

http://www.thisiscol...pens-by-samuel-silva
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Living Room / Re: XKCD makes online ratings easy to understand
« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2012, 12:29 PM »
F*ck the Children


(sorry if the video doesn't show up... youtube is blocked from work but I'll fix it later if necessary)
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Living Room / Re: XKCD makes online ratings easy to understand
« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2012, 09:47 AM »
In the end, the success or failure of a movie depends on critical mass and the ability to hit a cross-section a combination of things, not the opinion of one particular person.  Even hitting that, it still doesn't allow for individual tastes.  It's sort of like that conversation we had on why people make new software.  I usually try to find a couple of critics that seem to grade and think the way that I do, then follow them.  It's better to me than some random cross section- whether it is critics or the general masses.
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Living Room / Social Networking explained via Groundhog Day
« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2012, 09:03 AM »
This is classic!

PVMiO.jpg
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Living Room / Re: Please (oh please!) let this be a joke...
« Last post by wraith808 on August 22, 2012, 07:28 AM »
But the picture alone is still funny.
-Renegade (August 22, 2012, 03:12 AM)

Not to the woman and her husband.  :(
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