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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 05, 2015, 09:23 PM »
http://www.kitguru.n...u-will-get-for-free/
-Stephen66515 (June 05, 2015, 04:20 PM)

Thanks for that. It's good to see Windows 7 starter edition is also included. I never quite liked it on my Acer netbook, so this might be a way of getting rid of it and trying out Win 10 at the same time.

I've only just got used to the Metro crap in 8.1...but won't be sad to see it go lol
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Living Room / Desura have gone bankrupt!
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 05, 2015, 05:16 PM »
From: http://www.kitguru.n...a-has-gone-bankrupt/

The online game marketplace, Desura, has filed for bankruptcy shortly after reports that developers had not been paid for their sales on the platform. The lack of payment for small indie developers has apparently been going on for months, similarly to when Crytek UK were having issues and could not pay their employees.
Desura is owned by Bad Juju Games, the acquisition was only just made in November last year. The original creator of Desura was Linden Lab.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 05, 2015, 04:20 PM »
http://www.kitguru.n...u-will-get-for-free/

So Windows 10 is on the way and those of you who own a genuine license for either Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 will be getting the free upgrade on the 29th of July. However, Microsoft had not fully detailed exactly which version of the operating system you would be upgrading to until now.

On a new Windows 10 question and answer page, Microsoft tried to answer quite a few common questions about the upcoming upgrade, including details on exactly which version of Windows 10 users will be receiving, as there are quite a few, which we have reported on previously.

(Q&A Page from M$): https://www.microsof...ndows/windows-10-faq
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 05, 2015, 01:27 AM »
IainB: Do you write for a magazine, newspaper, website, or blog?  I ask because you ALWAYS post huge walls of text (I'm not bitching here) that contain huge amounts of information...and I feel like you should be writing for $$$ lol
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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 04, 2015, 06:52 PM »
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 04, 2015, 06:50 PM »
Just been reading (and now can't find the link) something about Minecraft coming free with Windows 10 - Anybody else heard this?
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Hi, i have been a long time lurker/user, and joined the nice folks over on the DC IRC channel, but only recently registered a forum account.

i am a network engineer, and enjoy tweaking and screwing around with pcs and networks

cheers and hope to chat with u all on the IRC/forums.


Nice to see you finally post :D
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Steam Introduces Refunds.
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 04, 2015, 03:18 AM »
Yeah, I see this as a positive move for Steam. I've never known a company worse at customer service/support than Steam. Well, except for Google.

Ever tried finding a contact for Facebook...and getting them to answer?  That is a feat still undefeated.
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DC Gamer Club / Steam Introduces Refunds.
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 03, 2015, 03:42 PM »
http://games.slashdo...vance-of-summer-sale

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Deathspawner writes:
Despite all of its competition, Valve's Steam service remains the most popular digital PC game store around. While Steam does do a lot of things right, it can sometimes stumble in the worst of ways. Look no further than April's Skyrim mod debacle as a good example. Well, just as Valve fixed up that issue, it's gone ahead and fixed another: it's making refunds dead simple. While refunds have been possible in the past, it's required gamers to jump through hoops to get them. Now, Valve has set certain criteria for granting a refund, no questions asked: if you've bought the game within the past two weeks and played it for two hours or less, your refund is guaranteed.
The changes are being welcomed by most, but not all: some developers of smaller games that take less time to play through are worried that this will lead to abuse, and the system may enable more risk-free review-bombing as well.
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Https:// here

Just started happening to me o.O

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 03, 2015, 01:51 PM »
By the way, I am sure PC/hardware manufacturers are thrilled MS is giving people reason to keep their current systems  :P

I'm sure most companies will simply upgrade all their old stock to Windows 10 and try sell it as something new and fantastic to people who don't have a clue :p
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Living Room / Re: DSLR Camera Simulator
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 03, 2015, 01:31 PM »
I think the "exposure compensation" sim is pretty cool
where's that one? (do you mean the -2 to +2 scale?)

There's no possible way to expose correctly if the ambient light is reduced to, say, bright indoors, and it's got out-of-date profiles for high-ISO noise. A modern DSLR would do much better at high ISO. It'd be nice to have multiple example images, and if I paid for it I'd want different lenses and flashes.

It doesnt seem to show noise at all as a factor in the result (?)
I think it's just meant as a basic learn about how ISO, shutter, & aperature interact with each other - and as such is quite good I find.

For a PC though, as you say, you'd definitely want more for your 10 dollars.

Lol, shows how much attention I paid to it...I didn't even realize it costs anything!  ;D
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Living Room / DSLR Camera Simulator
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 03, 2015, 06:06 AM »
I was going through my "Looking Back - Memories" thing on Facebook which shows you what you posted "On this day in previous years" and I came across this link from 2011.

http://camerasim.com...ps/camera-simulator/

Evidently, the site is still active and it still looks pretty cool!

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I would embed the actual thing here but since I can't use HTML tags, I can't :P

Certainly worth a look if you want to know more about what sort of functions each option does :) - They give you some snippets of info on each control:

DSLR sim controls:
Lighting

Lighting is the single biggest determinant of how your camera needs to be set. With only a few exceptions, you can never have too much light. Use this slider to experiment with different indoor and outdoor lighting conditions.

Distance

Use this slider to simulate how close or far you are in relation to the subject.

Focal length

Moving this slider is the same as zooming in and out with your lens. A wide, zoomed out setting creates the greatest depth of field (more things are in focus) while zooming in creates a shallower depth-of-field (typically just the subject will be in focus).

Mode

The exposure modes of an SLR let you control one setting while the camera automatically adjusts the others. In Shutter Priority mode, you to set the shutter speed while the camera sets the aperture/f-stop. In Aperture Priority mode, you set the aperture/f-stop while the camera sets the shutter speed. Manual mode is fully manual—you’re on your own! Refer to the camera’s light meter to help get the proper exposure. Although every real SLR camera has a “fully automatic” mode, there is not one here—what’s the fun in that?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 01, 2015, 09:56 PM »

Windows 10 pricing If you’re not upgrading, it’ll cost up to $199  Ars Technica

From the above link:
As previously announced, upgrades from Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 are free for the first year of availability.

Gotta love ambiguous statements...Does that mean if you upgrade within a year of release...it's free.......or does it mean tha a year after upgrading I will be stuck paying them however much?


The whole thing is becoming more confusing lol...although, I am 99% sure it is simply free if you upgrade within a year (With no sudden "pay us $X" at the end of it)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 01, 2015, 08:21 PM »
My everyone jumped on that one immediately! I hope everyone is still so excited when they get it installed.

I wouldn't say "Excited" would be the term to describe myself...Cautiously optimistic maybe.
-Stephen66515 (June 01, 2015, 05:29 PM)

You were certainly interested enough to reply immediately.

It's tech news...I love tech news, so of course I am going to reply to one of the biggest tech news stories of the week.

I have seen the offer on Windows 7 - but not on Windows 8.1, where I would actually consider updating...

Just popped up on my Win 8.1 box during the day. I went ahead and opted in, I have full image backups. :-)

Hm, may need them. The box popped back up and after digging in it says the AMD Radeon HD 7660D video is "not fully compatible - you'll experience problems with your display."

That is not good. That's the on-motherboard junk that is working well enough for my two monitor system, but I already tried to replace it with an add-in R7750 card and the box just squawked at me. I better look into this again...



Had a few friends say they have not got the notification on Windows 7 yet, but it popped up for me and my Mrs at the exact same time (Although, both laptops are same make/model/spec/OS/update version - Only difference is software installed).
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 01, 2015, 05:29 PM »
My everyone jumped on that one immediately! I hope everyone is still so excited when they get it installed.

I wouldn't say "Excited" would be the term to describe myself...Cautiously optimistic maybe.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 01, 2015, 04:30 PM »
Just noticed this (which you can find from the menu on the top right of the popup thing)

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So...I am gonna go ahead and assume it isn't gonna wipe anything.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on June 01, 2015, 04:27 PM »
I was just reading about that here:

Feature deprecation section

  • If you have Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8 Pro with Media Center, or Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center and you install Windows 10, Windows Media Center will be removed.
  • Watching DVDs requires separate playback software
  • Windows 7 desktop gadgets will be removed as part of installing Windows 10.
  • Windows 10 Home users will have updates from Windows Update automatically available. Windows 10 Pro and Windows 10 Enterprise users will have the ability to defer updates.
  • Solitaire, Minesweeper, and Hearts Games that come pre-installed on Windows 7 will be removed as part of installing the Windows 10 upgrade. Microsoft has released our version of Solitaire and Minesweeper called the “Microsoft Solitaire Collection” and “Microsoft Minesweeper.”
  • If you have a USB floppy drive, you will need to download the latest driver from Windows Update or from the manufacturer's website.
  • If you have Windows Live Essentials installed on your system, the OneDrive application is removed and replaced with the inbox version of OneDrive.

The data loss is the one thing that isn't really covered in much detail and is the one thing that is being asked the most.  The things on your list Deo...if they are all that will be wiped, don't really matter all that much :P

As a side question...in terms of coding for Windows 10...has much changed?  Can we still use the same processes as in Windows 7/8?  Will we still be allowed to download software from outside the Windows Store?  Will the OS still bullshit people and tell them because you are not installing from a "Verified Publisher" that it was probably a virus...and then deletes the installer for you? (Seriously...that annoys me more than anything else on Windows recently...Having my OWN software blocked by my own OS then being told I am not trusted and probably trying to release viruses...)
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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on March 31, 2015, 04:35 AM »
The importance of using icons that people can actually understand.
 (see attachment in previous post)

LOL
* Stephen66515 is dying of laughter  ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Ok fair enough --
but do note that the buttons currently do show on every page on the site (including non-forum pages); they are at bottom of sidebar on other pages.  The Like button does link to the main donationcoder facebook page that you and stephen have wonderfully created for us.

Hey, all I did was set it up...App is the one who made it look AWESOME!  I barely actually contributed anything to the design aspect of the Facebook Page, I simply post stuff on it xD

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera now supports DuckDuckGo
« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on March 29, 2015, 02:24 PM »
<troll>

Opera is still a thing?

</troll>

As the person who always used to promote Opera on DC............No idea  ;D
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I certainly didn't want to come across as trolling or baiting (Although I don't see how I did?  :huh:)

Reading back on what I wrote, I can see I may have been a little more blunt than I would normally be...however, this is kind of going off-topic now so, I shall hold my hands up and admit I could have probably worded it a lot better than I did (Those who know me know I have been guilty of wording things rather badly several times in the past!!). 

 :beerchug:
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