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Developer's Corner / Re: Programming Language Adapability

« Last post by wraith808 on December 07, 2009, 01:00 PM »

The problem with your question is that the previous paradigms (Print, Radio, Television) were so completely divorced from each other that pretty much nothing survived from one medium to the other in terms of technology intact.  If we're to take that approach, then the answer would be none.  Because it would be so completely out of left field as to be a different dimension of communication.

Look at print to radio.  How many operators in the field (press operators, etc.. not producers of media) transitioned using their same daily operations.  Zero?  Then from Print to Radio... Zero again, I'd hazard.  From radio to Television?  There might be some technological overlap- but not much...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Virtual Drive/Folder on computer that lets you run remote softwares?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 01, 2009, 03:25 PM »

Dropbox doesn't allow remote execution of files, though, and that was the primary question, I think.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Virtual Drive/Folder on computer that lets you run remote softwares?

« Last post by wraith808 on December 01, 2009, 09:03 AM »

Probably not, because it's a lot of work and quite complex, is the jist of it.

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Living Room / Re: TheGameCrafter: Cool new site to help you make and sell indie board/card games

« Last post by wraith808 on November 30, 2009, 03:30 PM »

I will send a rare DC Games Division mug to the first donationcoder member who creates a fully completed ordereable game on that site -- plus I will order your game and review it

-mouser (November 27, 2009, 03:41 PM)

I might actually take you up on that... I've had an idea for a while...

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What's the Best? / Re: What's the best Journal (Diary) software?

« Last post by wraith808 on November 30, 2009, 03:29 PM »

I never had a journal come anywhere close to 2GB in size!  I can't even imagine that...

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: (un)OFFICIAL BLACK FRIDAY Thread

« Last post by wraith808 on November 30, 2009, 10:38 AM »

The digital games sites are all having BF thru CM sales other than GoG.

http://www.gamersgate.com
http://www.steampowered.com
http://www.impulsedriven.com
http://www.direct2drive.com

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What's the Best? / Re: What's the best Journal (Diary) software?

« Last post by wraith808 on November 30, 2009, 10:35 AM »

It's definitely different- seems like he's going for a more standard commercial view.  But yeah- I like J4's appearance.

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What's the Best? / Re: What's the best Journal (Diary) software?

« Last post by wraith808 on November 27, 2009, 09:03 PM »

I didn't bother to get 5.  Now I'm glad.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Steam early holyday sale and Plants vs. Zombies for 5 bucks

« Last post by wraith808 on November 27, 2009, 09:02 PM »

Darn you Steam!  And Gog!  And GamersGate!  And D2D!  And Impulse!  And Didimatic!

(Hmmm... I need to update my reviews...)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Apple's App Store Mistake

« Last post by wraith808 on November 24, 2009, 03:38 PM »

^ I think it's more about what Apple's primary 'product' can be said to be- Marketing.  If you can eliminate X% of issues by making the loop closed, and then build upon that, then you have Apple...

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Living Room / Re: Microsoft decries standards grandstanding

« Last post by wraith808 on November 24, 2009, 12:55 PM »

If you look at it in terms of industry... that would be a no, IMO.  Mosaic launched the mainstream access to the web... but it wasn't really industrialized until later (ok... you could say arguably that Netscape did... and it's based on Mosaic.  But that wasn't really a systematic industrialization of the web, IMO)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Apple's App Store Mistake

« Last post by wraith808 on November 24, 2009, 12:52 PM »

Speaking as the Devil's Advocate, there is the flip-side of these artificial limits, that being a more stable platform in regards to interoperability and end user experience.  Or does that not matter?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Apple's App Store Mistake

« Last post by wraith808 on November 24, 2009, 10:17 AM »

But neither are they the devil...  Just a company like any other IMO.

-wraith808 (November 23, 2009, 11:12 AM)

Closer to the devil than the average company though. Others may aspire to their level of brutal monopolistic product control and fencing their customers in, but very few get anywhere close.

-Dormouse (November 23, 2009, 02:33 PM)

How is control of your own product monopolistic?  I say the same thing about MS and Windows.  Your product, your control.  When you use that control to squeeze into markets, or leverage your share, that's where things become shady.  Both MS and Apple have crossed into that territory.  But wanting control of your own product is just good business IMO, and makes for a better customer experience.  As for getting out.. well, let's just say that this is the reason that I'm going slow with the whole adoption thing, and why in any case that my data ends up in a proprietary or closed format, I'm very cautious in stepping in.  For the longest time, even though I had an iPod, I didn't use iTunes and I still used MP3s.

And +1 for FLAC and I'll raise you OGG. (The reasons I had a Karma... sniff.)

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Developer's Corner / Re: Apple's App Store Mistake

« Last post by wraith808 on November 23, 2009, 11:12 AM »

Lucky?  You can say a lot of things about Apple, but I don't think that luck entered into the equation.  I'm not an Apple apologist, but I do see that Apple is a pretty savvy company, and has made some pretty good moves.  They've made some bad ones too, but I think that can be said of any company out there.  I resisted iPod for the longest time, but when my Karma finally died (Rio Karma, that is- the best music player of its time, IMO), I took the leap... and though there are things about Apple that still irk me, I've been slowly using more and more of their products (iPod -> iPhone, and am soon to get a Mac of some kind).

Are they the saviour of the world as some say?  Not by a long shot.  But neither are they the devil...  Just a company like any other IMO.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Wanted: Comparison of code beautifiers

« Last post by wraith808 on November 20, 2009, 02:31 PM »

No comparison, but I've used SourceFormatX for a while, and I really like it.  Decently priced, a GUI with preview for tweaks to how it handles formatting, and a decent editor...

http://www.sourcefor...m/code-formatter.htm

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Coding Snacks / Re: What language is the best for a new programmer to start with?

« Last post by wraith808 on November 20, 2009, 08:32 AM »

Every time tinjaw mentions Python, an impoverished snake gets a free meal. 

-app103 (November 18, 2009, 10:03 PM)

Which means a bunny dies? 

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Living Room / Re: I'll donate $20 to Donation Coder if DC member PMs me a valid Google Wave invite

« Last post by wraith808 on November 19, 2009, 01:15 PM »

They are doing them in batches and slowly.

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your Programming Language?

« Last post by wraith808 on November 18, 2009, 02:07 PM »

There are some downsides to using it also IME.  I attempted to replace Delphi with Lazarus and VS with SharpDevelop for my personal use on my projects... and am now back to Delphi and Visual Studio.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Help with ASP.Net program

« Last post by wraith808 on November 16, 2009, 08:57 AM »

VS2008 uses an instance of IIS that is integral to it.  You just have to copy your deployment files to a virtual directory (or real directory) of your IIS server.  Three links that might help you.

http://msdn.microsof...ibrary/bb398992.aspx

http://msdn.microsof...ms178610(VS.80).aspx

http://msdn.microsof...aa719551(VS.71).aspx

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N.A.N.Y. 2010 / Re: NANY 2010 Pledge to Participate Here

« Last post by wraith808 on November 16, 2009, 08:49 AM »

I pledge to release *something* this year for NANY.

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Living Room / Re: Netflix might delay new release shipping by 1 month

« Last post by wraith808 on November 14, 2009, 09:51 PM »

Well, I don't doubt it- I don't know if anyone on here knows this, but they *do* restrict your viewing based on how efficiently you use them, i.e. I primarily use the online viewing, and have had the same DVD for 3 months+.  If I tried to rent UP, for instance, and you'd been renting 4 DVDs a month on a 1 DVD out at a time subscription, I'd get prioritized for the UP rental, even if I added it to my queue after you.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ideamason Tutorial Videos - any place to still get them?

« Last post by wraith808 on November 14, 2009, 09:48 PM »

One wonders if that was the cause or the effect of slacking sales, i.e. did they stop development because they needed to focus on other issues, then finally closed the doors when they realized they couldn't devote time?  Or was it the other way around?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ideamason Tutorial Videos - any place to still get them?

« Last post by wraith808 on November 14, 2009, 09:09 AM »

I'm just glad they put up the unlocked version on the site- they didn't *have* to do that.  In this economy, you have to do what's best for your bottom line- and though I'm not sure what their hosting plan costs, to keep it up after this long means they're aces to me...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ideamason Tutorial Videos - any place to still get them?

« Last post by wraith808 on November 11, 2009, 01:22 PM »

Not as far as I know.  I'm surprised they're still keeping the site open for downloads of the program after this long.  You could try looking at it through the internet archive cache and see if 1) you can get them or 2) you can contact the owner?

Here is some info I was able to glean:
- http://www.aboutus.org/IdeaMason.com
- http://web.archive.o...oducts/tutorials.htm

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Living Room / Re: Large hadron collider shut down by bird dropping bread

« Last post by wraith808 on November 11, 2009, 09:05 AM »

Imperial Officer: "We've analyzed their attack, sir, and there is a danger. Should I have your ship standing by?"
Grand Moff Tarkin: "Evacuate? In out moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances!"

"You're all clear, kid! Now let's blow this thing and go home!"

At least *I* think the parallels are obvious...