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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos
« Last post by Renegade on January 05, 2011, 07:51 PM »
Wow. That's amazing. 4 minutes? Jeez.
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Living Room / Re: Microsoft Announces Support of System on a Chip Architectures
« Last post by Renegade on January 05, 2011, 07:36 PM »
Boom! Shake the room~!

That's going to be impressive if it works well. We'll see.
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SHIT I just spent a freaking hour typing a response and the damn thing just vaporized. Board ate it or something, hell I don't know.

Now I gotta do the whole damn thing over - Where the hell is Ctrl+S when you need it! :(

I know how aggravating that is. When doing long responses, I use Editplus, then just paste and post.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Mono for Android
« Last post by Renegade on January 05, 2011, 12:25 AM »
...I'm going to give it a spin with a "timely" little application that I hope to release today. :)

Nope. Framework is too different to get up to speed on what I want to do. A lot is really more like Java, so... Giving up for now. Other work to do.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Mono for Android
« Last post by Renegade on January 04, 2011, 10:39 PM »
I registered for the preview a few months ago when it first became available.
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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?
« Last post by Renegade on January 04, 2011, 10:37 PM »
I'm in full agreement that it is, at the very least, rude to ask a commercial developer (small or large) to release their hard-fought work for free.

I disagree on general free market principles. In a working free market it is the job of producers to maximize their profits and it's the job of consumers to get the best product for their needs at the lowest possible price. Only when both producers and consumers do their respective jobs well does a free market economy truly work. And since the lowest possible price is free there's really nothing wrong with consumers asking for it -- as asking for free is often a good way to drive prices down. The goal of free can seldom be reached, of course, but consumers should be trying just as hard to push the price toward free as the producers are trying to maximize their profits. Therefore, I don't think it is any more rude for a consumer to ask for free than it is for a producer to raise prices.

Free does not fit into the free market. Since free is zero (0), it isn't a real part of the market because there's no commerce there.

Mathematically it wont work. Start throwing zero into equations and eventually you'll end up with a div by zero error. :P

But seriously -- that's the problem -- you will get a div by zero error, at which place everything falls to pieces. 

Then again, there is a "workaround" or hack for consumers to get things for free... It's called robbery or theft. And you don't get a div by zero error. :)

Asking for software for free is no different than asking for a free meal at a restaurant, or free groceries at the supermarket, or free gas at the pump.

The number system does not include zero. Zero causes errors. ;)
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Developer's Corner / Re: Mono for Android
« Last post by Renegade on January 04, 2011, 07:51 PM »
Joined the preview myself. Looking forward to giving it a spin!!!

I've got a few things to get done, but I'm going to give it a spin with a "timely" little application that I hope to release today. :)
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No vote there as I don't need a server for home use. Regular desktop OSes are just fine.

I work at home, and use servers for work, but that's another matter. For that, it all depends on the work I need to do.
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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos
« Last post by Renegade on January 04, 2011, 07:07 PM »
Renegade

Which program did you use - Photoshop Elements or some other ?

(and how did you get the above posted image to animate ?)

SKA

I used Photoshop.

For the animation, I just took screenshots then layered them in Photoshop, created the 3-frame animation, and saved the GIF for it.

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Living Room / Re: iPhone Alarms Don't Work
« Last post by Renegade on January 04, 2011, 05:46 PM »
BTW - Try posting that to Facebook from their link there. The Apple fanboys have all marked it as abusive so you can't. Nice. Social censorship in action.

Just post the original article at http://www.smh.com.a...-20110104-19e6b.html

That's a different article. Same topic, but different.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Mono for Android
« Last post by Renegade on January 04, 2011, 05:13 PM »
HIP HIP HOORAY~!

I joined the preview to have a look and keep an eye on things. And it's finally here~!

Welcome MonoDroid~! :D


(BTW - You will be VERY hard pressed to EVER find a better product in terms of support and whatnot. The IRC channel is pure gold.)
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Living Room / Re: iPhone Alarms Don't Work
« Last post by Renegade on January 04, 2011, 08:58 AM »
They still can't get it right...

http://www.theinquir...reaks-iphone-promise

BTW - Try posting that to Facebook from their link there. The Apple fanboys have all marked it as abusive so you can't. Nice. Social censorship in action.
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You may look at :
http://www.softveloc...onNet/ClarionNET.htm

SKA

$1,200 or $2,000. Ouch. Definitely not for playing with or starting out.
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General Software Discussion / Re: remove objects from photos
« Last post by Renegade on January 03, 2011, 07:50 PM »
OMFG~! That content aware stuff is insane!

This is a VERY quick example:

Screenshot---2011-01-04-,-12_35_06-PM.gif

I made a quick sloppy selection, deleted, and poof. That's amazing for like ZERO work.
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Developer's Corner / Re: How to program for all 3 platforms at once
« Last post by Renegade on January 03, 2011, 07:19 PM »
CodeTRUCKER, I'm interested in your experience.  Please report after you've fooled with it awhile :)  Also, I still think with your background in BASIC, the ideal next language for you would be Visual Basic .NET (freely available here).  You can do 99.9% of anything you can envision, programming-task-wise, perhaps with the exception of very intensive graphics programming (although .NET languages are supporting OpenGL and DirectX) and writing very low-level routines.

+1 for VB.NET. It's quite nice to use.

Quite right about the low-level stuff. You simply can't do it in VB.NET. No pointers. C# is a better choice because it is possible, but depending on the application, plain C or ASM or something would be better.

VB.NET is a very forgiving language as well. If you're coming from Pascal-based languages, it will look somewhat familiar. (In the way that C# is 'familiar' for Java developers.)


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I think you're in la-la-land.

The move to .NET was not MS "dropping" VB. It was MS moving to the new paradigm for the future. The old paradigm was outdated.

The CLI is a fundamentally different and better way to do things.

MS is usually very good with backward compatibility, so the break there says something that is inherently against their character.

I wouldn't say a ".NET-style takeover", but I would say a "CLI-style takeover", which I am hoping for. 









Let's beat that horse some more...







GO MONO~! :D
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Living Room / Re: Trouble with Google as the source of traffic
« Last post by Renegade on January 03, 2011, 03:43 PM »
Countless sites that pirate content from MSDN outrank MSDN. They have Google ads. Microsoft doesn't.

I think that's clear enough.

Putting Google ads on your site is the best SEO you can possibly do.
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My first question for the new year: what's up with svn?
To me, it sounds like DCupdater, except harder to use and with more geeky features.  When I say "geeky", I mean command line type of stuff with parameters and what not.  What are the basics of svn, how does it work?  Why is better than just downloading the latest installer and using that?  Is it easier?  Is it cool because it's command line?  What's the deal here?  What does a tortoise have to do with all of this? ;D

SNV is Subversion. If you search for it it will become clear.

But man... Have you ever provided me with some rant material...

Yes. It's geeky. And more so than it needs to be.

It's version control software. Tortoise is a client for it. (Subversion is server-based.)

You use Tortoise to access SVN to get source code.
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Developer's Corner / Re: Any EASY Windows Forms Skin Kits for C#?
« Last post by Renegade on January 03, 2011, 10:04 AM »
Found something interesting here:

http://www.skincrafter.com/

Haven't tried it yet. I'll try to report back for anyone that is interested.

For custom controls, I have a decent library of them already. I just want a few extra things. It's like a cherry pie with no sugar. Need a bit of sugar...
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Living Room / Re: Anyone want to write an eBook in 2011?
« Last post by Renegade on January 03, 2011, 08:29 AM »
Actually, I think you're reading that wrong :)  Look at the bold part... and you are the 'publisher'.

You *get* 65% if your book is between $2.99 and $9.99, i.e. 5% less than Amazon.  So Amazon is a better deal since they changed their rules (I believe after PubIt launched), but not by much.

Are you sure?

If I write a book, I'm the author. I then take it to a publisher for publication. Seems like they're eating a lot there.

And for a more expensive book you get paid less? Huh?

Are they saying that this is "self-publication"?

Here's my book:

Part 1: $9.99
Part 2: $9.99
Part 3: $9.99

Who would ever publish a $30 book?

Seems a bit corky to me.
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Living Room / Re: iPhone Alarms Don't Work
« Last post by Renegade on January 03, 2011, 08:17 AM »
Well..."Time be time - but there be good and bad," as Bob Market said.

Wonder how de ganja is holding up over in Cupertino? :P

"It's all like just like relative man..." :D
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Developer's Corner / Re: Please explain FTP file permissions
« Last post by Renegade on January 03, 2011, 08:16 AM »
They're standard UNIX file permissions. Search for that and NTFS files permissions and things should clear up.

This might help as it's visual:

http://www.copyandwa...s-and-listdirectory/

And once again, MSDN turns up a big turd:

http://msdn.microsof...irectorydetails.aspx

They're probably server specific, so check that avenue.
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Living Room / Re: iPhone Alarms Don't Work
« Last post by Renegade on January 03, 2011, 07:50 AM »
Add in parentheses? What's the Difference signature? Maybe some parameters?

Think::Different(Arrogance** lots)

Not that? :P :D
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Living Room / Re: iPhone Alarms Don't Work
« Last post by Renegade on January 03, 2011, 07:26 AM »
Reason for being tardy: Thinking Different.

I heard about this on the news this morning, and was actually too shocked to laugh - I am chuckling now however, and will continue to do so for most of the day - How the hell does one screw up something that basic?

Code: C++ [Select]
  1. while(!ringing) {
  2.       if(timenow == alarmtime) {
  3.           Think Different. // <--+++--<<<<< Bugg!
  4.       }else{
  5.           ringing=FALSE; // ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  6.       }
  7. }

Silly buggers~! Let me fix that...


Code: C++ [Select]
  1. while(!ringing) {
  2.       if(timenow == alarmtime) {
  3.           Think::Different; // <--+++--<<<<< Colons and semi-colon~!
  4.       }else{
  5.           ringing=FALSE; // ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
  6.       }
  7. }

There we go~! :P
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Living Room / iPhone Alarms Don't Work
« Last post by Renegade on January 03, 2011, 06:08 AM »
This is just funny. Apple can't manage to get their alarms working.

Apple Late to the Party with Broken Alarms

But the reality of the situation is that it's not a bug in the iPhone/iOS. It's a bug in the rest of the Universe. Steve told me so.

People missed New Year's, church, late for work... It's not like an alarm clock is rocket science. BSD (the underpinnings of OS X and iOS) has a clock that works.

Baffling...

Must be a bug in the fabric of reality...
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